Week 36

Kia Ora! Man has this week been a crazy one. We started off the week pretty normal and enjoying ourselves and enjoying the work as a trio trying to get better and better and than we get a pretty big surprise! But I'm gonna start from Monday. Monday we was elders pday and it was decided that we would be going to go fishing, which sounded fun and all but it was 3 hours away from where we lived. So we would've spent half of the day driving to and from that so we decided to skip that and just hang out on our own. So Elder Rogers, Elder Leatigaga and I went to a beach and got some pics and played catch with a rugby ball. It was pretty fun and than we did our shopping and typical pday stuff and than did some relaxing. It was pretty good. Tuesday we had our district council and this week we had to do it over a video call so automatically it was harder to control and run the meeting. So after starting about 15 minutes late because of technical difficulties we finally got going and then about 30 minutes the wifi for every Chapel in our distrcit decides to cut out for 10 minutes haha. So district council was kind of a bust oh well we must move on haha. The rest of the day we tried to visit heaps of people. Members less actives and so on. We had a meeting with the branch president and discussed the work within the branch and it was pretty good. Work is moving. Slowly, but moving. Wednesday we had exchanges with the zone leaders so if you can remember they live just over two hours away from us so we had personal study and than took off for their flat. We show up and they had a service that went way over time which they didn't except so our exchange started late and so most of the day was gone. And so we finally got going than we got a call from the AP's. So from this call we found out that elder Leatigaga was getting moved from our area to down in south Auckland and that Elder Rogers and I would be getting a new companion for the trio named Elder Tuala. So normally on an exchange you stay the night at the zone leaders flat but because of the transfer we had to drive all the way back to our flat that night so Elder Leatigaga could pack. Great day of driving haha. Thursday we went half way to Auckland to switch companions and than back to our area to plan out the day and get to work. Thursday was heaps of trying to get to know the new Elder and work with members. Friday we had some weekly planning and got to know our new companion a little bit better so that was good. We did some tracting and tried to visit some less actives. Not too much success but all goods. Saturday we spent most of the morning helping with a mother's day breakfast. That was pretty fun and great to see how close the branch is and how we can all help each other. It was great cause they didn't eat everything so we got food haha. Sunday we went to church and ended up having to give the lesson in elders quorum and I had to lead that so that was fun. We did a lesson on the talk by President Oaks "Where Will This Lead" it was really good. Than we had a lesson with a less active and her family and found out that they have been trying to read the Book of Mormon Stories with the kids. It's awesome to see that she is trying to get more involved and into the Book of Mormon. We than drove to the zone leaders flat again to stay the night to go fishing for pday. We haven't been yet so ill have to let you know how it goes next time haha We had a good crazy week, and I hope the rest of you had a good one as well. Happy Mother's Day ay to all the Wonderful Mothers out there I hope you all got spoiled and continue to get spoiled as life goes on. You are all amazing! Ofa atu! Love, Elder Wilding