Week 40

Kia Ora, This week has been a pretty good one. We've been doing our best at trying to find new people to teach and help those that we are teaching. Mostly less actives in hope to get them back and be able to get some of their kids baptized as well. So let's start off with Tuesday. We went to Whangarei for district council and had a pretty great council. Great participation from everyone and that really helps with revelation and more chances for each of us to learn from each other. After we went back to Wellsford and did our studies and than did some door knocking for a bit. We were able to get permission to go the community Maori classes every week so we went to that again and Elder Vakaudekoro was able to have a pretty good conversation with a guy so that was good. Everyone else seems to be comfortable with us being there. Normally when people see us they avoid us haha. Wednesday we did some door knocking and then went to go visit a less active. We are really trying to get him to come back and be active. His daughter needs to be baptized and he really wants to get it done. He wants to come back to church and be super active so that's good. We then went to go do some more tracting and little to no success. But we will keep going haha. God blesses us for our efforts I know it! Thursday we went to see the same less active. He wants us to visit him heaps so we might be seeing him 3 times a week if we can. He's super motivated to get back he just needs to keep working at it. We saw another member and than we had to do weekly planning. Friday we drove to Kerikeri for exchanges with the zone leaders. It's about just over 2 hours to get there. It was pretty fun. Me and Elder Hsu from Taiwan were together and we went to go visit quite a few people but they weren't home so we saw some other potential people or less actives and just tried to get to know them a little bit. Quite a bit of driving was done that day haha. We stayed the night there and than did a little more work and we left for Wellsford at 1. When we got back to our area we did studies and than went to a members house for dinner and tried to help them with the people they are working with to invite to church. That's was pretty fun. Sunday was pretty good. We had quite a few less actives come to church for the first time in a long while. Things are moving here in Wellsford it might be by the inches but things are happening! We were able to go to a less active family with the De Lora's and they had a great lesson on being children of God and how we can be just like him. Than we took off for another less active and taught his kids about reading the Book of Mormon and how it will truly bless their lives and bring them closer to our Loving Father in Heaven. It was a great day for visiting people and I feel like they are progressing pretty well. I'm so thankful for these families and their desire to come back to church. It won't be easy for them but I know it will be the best decision they've ever made! I just want to take a moment and send my appreciation to all those wonderful fathers out there, taking time to teach us kids how to play in the dirt, hook a worm, hammer a nail not our thumb, ride a bike, bug the heck out of our moms and whatever else we might learn from them. I'm so thankful for my Dad and how much he's influenced my life and also all the other dads out there that have a part of my life! Happy Father's Day Dad, you're the best! Ofa atu! Love, Elder Wilding