Transfers

Malo lelei! I hope you guys are doing all good! I hope everything back home is alright. Please if any of you ever need a prayer, just reach out. Anyways, this was a good week. Time has been flying out here. This transfer felt like a week long.


Alrighty, this week was pretty busy and also a great week. I'll start it off with a miracle. Our friend Gila committed to being baptized this week. The date is set for April 1st! Please keep him in your prayers yall. He is doing great but I know it's hard for people to follow through with big commitments like this. We had a lesson with him on Friday, we planned on teaching about baptism and reading Moroni 18 and then inviting him to be baptized. But, after we read the chapter he said "I'd be pretty keen on being baptized". It was so hard trying to hold in my excitement haha. I think I held it together pretty well though. I'm so excited for him and I know he is making the best decision he could make. He's got some things we need to work through before so pray for us please.

This was the last week of the transfer so we had to say goodbye to a lot of the district. It was a good run and I loved this district. Me and my comp are basically the only ones staying in the zone. Everybody else got booted. I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing that we are staying, but I'm glad.

We got go to Pasifika on Saturday, which is a cool event that happens every year where all of the pacific communities come together and have an event where they bring their special foods and do their specials dances. And it just so happened to be right across the street from our flat, so you know we had to go. It was a ton of fun and the food was so good. Got to eat some good Chop suey and pork and Lamb buns. Also got to see some cool hakas and stuff like that. I've learned most of one of the Hakas so far. It's probably not very good tho.

We had the wonderful opportunity on Saturday to knock the same street as a group of Jehovahs Witnesses. Not by purpose or anything like that. Just happened to both be knocking the same street at the same time. The rivalry was so real. I could just feel the competition building even though we didn't say a word to each other. Me and my hoa decided to just knock the street out and see if we could get them to leave this street to us. So we began to speed knock. And after a little, we got them to leave. So, I would consider that a win. The restored Gospel of Jesus Christ always wins!

Alright, that is all from me folks. I love you all and hope you have a great week. If there's ever anything i can do for you guys, just reach out to me. And I'll try my best to help. Stay sweet yall!

Ofa atu Elder Larson


                                                                    chop suey and a cup of Otai(so good)

        playing poker with fake money. The many dollars I lost in poker games in High School really helped me here.

                                                                     took some sick pics at Himitangi Beach

                                                                                        the Levin District!!

                                                    me, Elder Ta'ala, Sister Finau, and Sister Sesoni at Pasifika

                                                                                the Levin missionaries

 Sister Masima ran up to me speaking Tongan and posed for a pic, not sure what happened or why she wanted a pic but I guess I will never know

                                                                             the powerful palmy zone!


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