Social Media Work in TONGA!

During the month of July, most of the Area Presidency are gone. So, we are available to pursue some other assignments. Since we arrived (about 13 months ago), we have also worked on training people about the positive uses of "social media". This includes:
 - Showing members how to share the Gospel using social media
 - How we can increase LDS visibility on the internet
 - That social media can allow us to “Go where no missionary has gone before”
 - Plus, we teach about the importance of balance in our lives (don't spend too much time on social media) and how there are many things to avoid on the internet

Our training this week was done at the Liahona High School on island of Tongatapu in Tonga.

We shared numerous positive websites with the students besides just lds.org and the mormon channel. Ones like:
  - lds.org/youth
  - pacific.lds.org (the site for the Pacific Area)
  - create.lds.org (for creating content)
  - items on Facebook (like the "myfamily15in15" group)
  - and several other websites

We also had the kids make a meme of the temple (which they post) and we encouraged them to use a picture of the Tongan temple. Here are a couple:

The kids in our classes were great! We taught 7 different classes (some of them where done more than once). Here are some of our group photos:

Working on projects was very fun too:

They have a great campus:

We also did some videos:

We had plenty of time for fun too!!!  Going to the market in town, attending the temple, and we went to the island of Pangaimotu (where they have a shipwreck from many years ago)!

I got my haircut and after he learned we were missionaries we ended up with this kava bowl with our names on it!

Right off the island there was this shipwreck.

I got some great pictures with my underwater camera.

We had a great trip!!!