Sept. 22, 2013

Malo!

Hello in Tongan, (you learn all kinds of stuff out here)  yeah the area is nice, small town to get used to out here, pretty neat little place. Yeah the mission president is way cool, super nice people. 

 We're on the back flat upstairs, and the neighbors mangy cat keeps hanging around and coming in to our flat when we open the door so we always have to kick it out. I have a picture. it's skinny and looks sick, we've fed it a little but we don't have cat food around. 

 Yeah we have a car actually, and we bike sometimes, limited K's, but my pedal actually got stripped so we need to get a new one probably today. Food is good, you get everything out here, so expensive though. but it's good. We eat tons of bread, its cheap and delicious! Then members will feed you anything depending on where they're from. We got invited to a member family's party for the mom, the Zarria's, they're from Argentina, and they are so cool! we go over there every Friday to have food and teach them English using the Book of Mormon or other church books. Legit Argentinian food at the party, empanadas and tacos and such, so good! Even if Elder Medley and I were the only ones that spoke fluent English, it was cool.

Yes the members love to feed us, but we do have many nights where we eat at home, there aren't tons of people out here.

 I'm also trying to finish Jesus the Christ, powerful book that one, I love it. yeah and the talk from Elder Hamula was great! Apparently we have a really low number baptizing mission, and they want us to up it up a bit, it's hard though, you can't make people want to learn. It's a hard area in Timaru, but we're managing. I love hearing from you guys too! We have a lesson and service with a  potential investigator on Wednesday when I go on exchanges with Elder Bearnson, and that should be great, she seems really interested, and wants her kids to have it too. Hope it  goes well. Love and miss you! The pictures are the cat, I pet a cow at the Zarria's farm, and my new shirt from jayjay's. It's unique and aawesome!

 We invited a ton of people to church for our special sunday yesterday, and only two showed up. Disappointing, but we press on. Talked to over 170 people last week, mostly not interesteds, but we go on. I love the mission field, unlike anything else you will ever do, but great! Oh yeah, we saw this weird car up in Ashburton, and there's a store here called Cameron's!

Elder Passey