Charles Lomu

So I started getting, just joining the local community at volleyball games up the road.

So I'd turn up every afternoon.

playing volleyball, you got all these big island men jumping up and spiking the ball at little kids, you know.

So I was learning, I had to, I felt like it was a training, I had to learn to be confident.

Eventually got to know the guys, then felt like a little brother to these guys and I really enjoyed the experience and

But through that experience, it made me want to sort of develop more of a spiritual side.

And that's where it all started in New Zealand for me.

Right.

What kind of spiritualism are we talking about here?

So I actually wanted to get back to what my grandma used to do and read in the Bible.

Go to church?

Yeah.

I started going to church and just visiting and trying to rebuild my relationship with God.

And I remember one of the most popular books

accounts that my grandma used to read to me was about a young person who was lost in the woods and God called him back.

And I thought to myself, I'm that young person at that time.

I need to be called back.

So I ventured out on my journey then.

And I was in New Zealand for a little time.

I started working in the strawberry farms, which was beautiful for me because it was all other Tongan workers there.