Wednesday
was a pretty sad day... one of the sister missionaries has a stomach
disease and had to go home because of fighting illnesses and depression
from being sick all the time so we through her a little surprise
gathering and gave her some gifts to help her out with her hard times...
Sister Ericson lives in Utah and absolutely loved being here it just
wasnt what our Heavenly Father had in store for her and she knows that
she needs to be home for a reason. Other than that we spent heaps of
time trying to find new people to teach. Its been really slow with
finding people but I know we will find someone to teach if we keep
trusting and having faith!
Thursday was pretty
fun, since Elder Baasansuren is the district leader they had a big
meeting so i spent the day with Elder Faatoatoa who is serving in the
Samoan ward and he talked to everyone in Samoan and I didnt understand
anything haha. But he had a huge miracle!! He recieved a referal from 3
years ago and we went to their home and they talked for about 10-15
minutes and he committed a family of 10 (all non-members) to go to
church yesterday and that was a huge accomplishment for him and his
companion. Even though i had no clue what they were talking about the
Spirit was so strong and was an awesome experience!
Friday
we spent just about the whole day talking to less active members and
trying to walk the streets to find new people to teach. Nothing else
really interesting went on that day haha
Saturday
was pretty long haha we went and helped the sisters with a service and i
cut down a 5 inch tree with a shovel haha... Im sure you can guess how
that went... it took about 10 minutes or more. and then i used a little
hand saw to cut down even more trees in there yard that they no longer
wanted. My arms were so tired after cutting down their forest haha. i
probably couldnt have lifted my hand to hand out any Books of Mormon
even if i tried! To talk to people we tried using a survey method but
apperently people here dont like to take surveys so that didnt really
work haha
Sunday was awesome! Since we dont
watch conference until next Saturday and Sunday we had fast sunday this
week and the members in this ward have the strongest testimonies!
Testimony meeting was so great and I didnt want it to end! The members
are so nice and will do anything for us its great!
I
hope everyone had a great conference week end and loved hearing all the
new and exciting changes to church but SSSHHHHHHHHH dont spoil them for
me!! I'm a week behind but ive been Told about two changes.... 2 hour
church and a TEMPLE IN AUCKLAND!!! thats so exciting and i cant wait to
come back here and go through both of the temples here!
Love
Elder Wilding
oh and ...
Today we went to the Piha Beach for our District
P-day and man is it so beautiful here and the water is so clear! The
sand is black in some areas because of the volcano eruptins from years
and years ago and it just adds to the beauty of the beach! The two other
elders with us are the Zone leaders and they are so awesome and kind of
just invited themselves to come with us because they knew how awesome
the beaches are haha. Our district is really small with a now trio for
the sisters and then Elder Baasansuren and I are the only elders but we
have a lot of fun so thats great! Zone P-day is coming up this next week
or the week after and that should be super fun! i hope you all like the
pics of the beach and the big rock we climb I know I sure Loved it and
hope you guys arent too jealous;)
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