Dear Farmington Whanau,
Elder Allart here, so last week was really hectic. We had a Elder get into some trouble with his companion. So, as their District leader, I got a phone call from the Assistants and they told me that one of the Elders was over reacted during their weekly planning and they got into a little argument and the elder called our mission President, which is something you only do in emergencies, over a little thing. So they both ended up coming to me and we had to do a mini exchange.
It was wild. Later though, we had Transfers. So, this time Elder Johnson is getting shifted to one of the coolest areas in the mission, Gisbourne. For me I am getting to train, again. I was so happy and excited because my son or trainee is not from America or Canada. He is from Papa new Guinea. He is amazing! I was honestly humbled so much when I came and picked him up, he only had one small Suit case. He has almost nothing, and he comes from a country where they have heaps of Poverty. He is extremely Humble. His name is Elder Lokani and when we do missionary work, it is crazy how much he trusts me and how great his English already is. We visit everyone and he hasn't seen all of these things that I just take for granted all the time.
On Sunday, I had to show him how the microwave works. He said that back home, they use Umbrellas to spear fish. It was amazing, in my interview with President Cummings, he talked with me about Elder Lokani. He said that where he comes from, he had nothing and he told me that he really trusts me to train Elder Lokani because when he goes home, he will be the future of the church in PNG. He already knows that when he goes home he will be a branch President because the church is so new in PNG. He said that he really had to think about who he could really trust in this mission to take care of Elder Lokani and he said that he felt that I would do the job. I honestly felt so honored to be able to help out President with this and told him that you can trust me I will take care of him. When he first came in he did not have a winter coat, so we went and got him one from the missionaries up here in the zone, everyone pitched in. I gave him two of my sweaters and our Zl gave him 3 other coats to choose from. I just love how much we as missionaries take care of each other and how we are like a Family.
The other day I was thinking, I have little bits of words and phrases in about 23 languages on my mission, a lot of them this last week from a south African Family in the ward. But there is different phrases in each language that there is in no way English could ever put it more perfectly. In Samoan, the word for our brotherhood is Uso moasa uma, or "brothers every day"kind of. We really do take care of each other. I learned a little bit of the click language this week or Torsah (click your tongue on the T and you do it with the roof of your mouth) it is insanely cool I learned some Swahili and Malagasi and Zulu this week Haha it is insane how many languages are out there in the world today.
Some really good news this week is that we finally got the Whetu family set for Baptism on December 1. We are also trying to hit this area hard this transfer and to go away from focusing on LA so much to just actually finding more people through tracting. We also got to go to a baby blessing this week and I tried to practice my Tongan with a lady from the Tongan family of the baby. Holy moly they speak speak so fast!! I got talking with her about little small talk and eventually it just came to the point in the conversation that I would just say io or e-o which means yes and Tongan and I would just laugh if I didn't understand her Haha. I still have heaps to learn a phrase for you guys is Tau Alo or let's go. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY DAD who finally turned 25 and my mate Nick Bell and Ed Baker who just started their mission!
Ofa atu
