The kingdom of Tonga

Malo lelei! How is everybody? Hope you are all doing good. I'm doing great out here. Loving life, absolutely can't complain.


Anyways I'll keep it short. This week was transfers so it was pretty busy and really hectic. All of Tuesday and Wednesday we were busy trying to get the missionaries to their areas in the zone. It's tough in this zone because everybody is like a 2+ hour drive away from Nelson. But, we got it all figured out. I was able to pick up my new comp Elder Tucker. He's a stud. We served together in Kansas as well so it's pretty nice getting to talk about the KWM with someone. We get along well and he's keen to work so I'm excited for the transfer.

Here's an update on the work. The work is going great. We are trying to pick things up. We found a good amount of new people to teach which is always great. Hopefully they will progress. We had some beautiful blessings while knocking this week. We were knocking a street and we walk into the backyard of this Tongan families house. They were super cool as always and they were cooking up a mean feed. Me and my companion did our thing and tried to share the gospel. They said we could come back and share more, and they gave us a massive bucket of chicken to carry around with us. Man I love the kingdom of Tonga. God bless those people. Anyways, keep praying for us and for the work. We could always use the help.

Alright that is all from me folks. I love you all.

Ofa lahi atu Elder Larson


                    the bucket of chicken we got from the tongan family. Never has chicken tasted so good in my life

                                                                                            cool sunset

lil grub with the elders on transfer day. This is 100% why I'm gaining weight out here.

the district doing some role plays at DC

the Blenheim elders


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