Kia Ora from the Land of the Long White Cloud!: 09/25/2016: Helloooooooo!!!!

Kia Ora Whanau,

So this transfer will be ending soon and it once again has been awesome. I love my area and my companion. He is so - he calls himself the prophet because he is "soooo consecrated" lol. This was an awesome week. Not to much on teaching, and we weren't being dodgy at all, we just haven't had too much days this week to work in Wairoa.

So on Monday our P-Day we spent the day with our district and the Zone Leaders adn that was heaps of fund. We went down to Te Reinga Falls. It's a massive water gall. Then we hike down to the bottom of it and walked the river. It was cool. Nice landscape and all. It was fun! We worked on Tuesday. We went out and helped one of our investigators move to his new place right across from the chapel so no excuses why he can't come to churc and went and visited with some less actives. Wednesday we were busy getting our things together for Zone Conference. We packed up to stay at the Zone Leaders flat that night up in Gisborne and we also washed our cars that day as well because we had car inspections. When we got to Tauranga where conference was we went on a mini exchange that night as well. To be honest, the Zone Leaders area is on to it as they have 3 baptisms set and heaps of investigators all keen to learn about the gospel. Thursday morning we all got up at five am and met at the chapel and 5 Toyota Corolla missionary cars all drove for four and a half hours to Tauranga. It was long but it was fun too because we all went together. The conference was way good as well. President Cummings answered all of my questions that I went to conference with. "How do we help our investigators progress?" Teach repentance! We broke the word down from the Bible and it explains to us what our purpose is. It is to "Teach repentance and to baptize converts." It was really fun and good to see other missionaries all at once. That went on for 3 hours. Then it was another long drive back that same day. We got back in Gisborne at nine. It was a really long day. We went back to Wairoa the next day and went straight to an appointment we had at a rest home that we were singing at. Again, the elderly women there were just drooling over my companion lol. That day was really slow because the holidays just started here. School is out for two weeks and no one stays in small Wairoa. They all go off to the big cities like Wellington and Hamilton. Saturday was slow as well. No one in town. Sunday we were late to church because daylight savings started and we forgot to move our clocks an hour ahead. It was a careless act. We then went to a Tangi, a Maori funeral where we tayght a lesson in the program about the restoration and sang "O Lord That Glorifies the Son" then we go on a mean feed after that. All and all it's been an awesome week. Really tired but that is how everyone's lives should be or else we get into trouble. I hope all is well with you whanau. Stay cool. Don't forget the scriptures and your prayers.

Love you all and ka kite ano.

These photos are of us at Te Reinga Falls