Sunday, August 11, 2013

A leaky boat and Tongan ice cream sandwiches


HEY EVERYONE!!!

This week has been awesome and super fun!! SO,  two out of the four people we were able to baptize and that was a really good week for us!!

So,  basically this week just consisted of preparing our investigators for baptism by visiting them frequently!!! That was our week plus the two baptisms. But now for the really cool part of this week!

SO yesterday I had the opportunity of going out to Motu (Small Islands) Which was way fun!! I went with Elder Uakona and basically this is how the day went! WE started off early and got to the dock at about 8:00 and then we waited for the boat for about an hour! When the boat finally arrived it was this little wooden dingy! I kid you not!! This boat looked like it was made of drift wood!  haha So we jumped in and started on our 40 minute to an hour boat ride to the small island of Ofu.  Which is beautiful by the way,  I have a ton of cool pictures from it! But the whole time on the little boat the guy who was driving was wringing out a sponge because there was a hole in the bottom of the boat! ha-hah The whole time we were sinking on the way out but luckily it was a small hole so it didn't let in too much water but still! haha it was crazy! So after the we finally arrived at the little island of Ofu where the church is literally on the beach! We went in had the baptism.  Elder Uakona,  finally after 23 months of serving did his first and final baptism in the ocean! How cool is that! We got some cool pictures! Then right after the baptism we went to Sacrament meeting with a massive ward of 15 people.... wait,  wait,  sorry,  now 17 people! That was awesome! We stayed and they finished their meeting! Church was only an hour! Right after we had ourselves some Tongan ice cream sandwiches and those are pretty much a loaf of bread hollowed out and a scoop of ice cream in it! haha They are way good.  When I get home we have to have that!

The whole week was way good though we retuned form OFu and then finished out our other wards!!!

SO all in all  good week!

LOVE YOU ALL!
Elder Sheppard!

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