Murdocks In Tonga: Start of Harvest in Veitongo

On October 26, 2015 we headed to our Veitongo Farming Project as they are starting some of the harvest of the crops that we helped them to get planted. In the project we paid for the preparation of the ground and the people then planted their crops. This Project has been a great success, we are so proud of the people how they all worked together, members and non-members to get their crops in.
Since the start of this project in March 2015, the Veitongo Ward has had 36 baptisms because all doors were open to the missionaries because of what the church was willing to do to help the community. It was a wonderful day, especially that we had Elder Haleck, Councillor in the Area Presidency, and Elder Tukuafu, Area Seventy. We also had the media there to interview, Elder Haleck. He was very impressed as well with what the people were able to accomplish.

This part of the project is the Relief Society Garden. They set off certain rows for certain families that are in need. It is a very beautiful garden.

This is some of the people in the project getting ready to start the harvest of the potatoes that they grew.

Here are some of the potatoes. We know that they are not Idaho potatoes, but they are very nice little potatoes and they do taste like a potato!

Here is Sister Murdock holding one of the potato plants. We are sure that Levitts would think these are not real potatoes!

Here they have built an umu and are cooking some chicken, manioke, and lieu for the celebration of the harvest!

Here are some more of the people involved in the project with their little children. We are all enjoying the feast, it was delicious!

Here are the two sisters that was doing the cooking enjoying some manioke. As you can tell they always have a wonderful time no matter what they are doing!

Here is a little one enjoying the sweet watermelon we had!

Here are Elder and Sister Murdock enjoying the delicious food! They are so good to us here!

Here the media is interviewing Elder Haleck, Councillor in the Area Presidency. He is one of the committee that approves our projects here. He was between flights and came to see our project. He was very impressed how the people of the community had come together!

Here is Elder Murdock, Bishop Huni, our Champion in the project, Elder Tukuafu, and Tui, another Champion in our project.

Here we are visiting another section of this project. Here they grew peanuts. In the center you can see a pile of peanuts they have pulled from the ground. We all enjoyed the taste of the freshly harvested peanuts!