Week 38

Kia Ora! This week has been a pretty crazy one. Things have been going pretty quick but kinda slow at the same time haha weird how that works. In the end we were able to see some amazing blessings! So Monday night we got a call from President Walker and he gave us our transfer news. Elder Rogers went down to South Auckland, Elder Tuala went to Dargaville which is still in my district up here in the north lands, and I stayed haha. And well I'm training now so that's gonna be fun and my new companions name is(good luck pronouncing it😂) Elder Vakaudekoro. Tuesday we had District Council and the other two elders got to say good bye to those that were staying and the sisters in the district said goodbye as well. They both got moved and two elders took their area. So the district is all elders now. We than went back to our area and tried to do some member visits. Then that night we had to drop off elder Tuala at his new area. Wednesday Elder Rogers and I took off for Auckland early in the morning to go to transfers. I sat through some training on how to train and then I got my new companion and got lunch. We had another training for the new missionaries and then had a quick visit with some other missionaries and than took off for Wellsford. We had dinner that night with a family as well so that was good. Thursday we did heaps of door knocking and didn't have much success. We visited the senior couple and planned out a lesson we were going to have with a less active family on Sunday with them. Friday we had weekly planning and heaps of more door knocking trying to get my companion right into it. It's hard but I hope it all pays off. We had other plans but they fell through so we had more door knocking. Saturday was pretty much the same.. I feel bad all our plans fell through again and we did more knocking this time it rained on us pretty good. Sunday we had a pretty interesting sacrament meeting. The YSA from South Auckland had a camp out up here and they decided to come to our branch for church. So if you can imagine 105ish people in a room that is only really supposed to fit 70ish it was crazy haha. We had a less active show up with her kids and during the testimonies she said she started to cry! She felt the spirit so strong! Later that day we had a lesson with her and the kids and we talked about what she felt and the blessings from being a member. She felt so strongly that she needed to get back to church and said she will be coming back the next week! This is great news because she has 4 kids that need to get baptized! We hope to be teaching them soon! This week has been kinda hard, I've had a 4 new companions in the last 2 transfers so it's been hard trying to adjust so much but I know that the Lord will strengthen me. With all the door knocking we will probably run out of doors here in a few weeks haha. But we must go on! I hope you've all had a great week. Ofa atu! Love, Elder Wilding