Week 74

Kia Ora!!

This week has been a good one we had a lot of things that kind of ruined our plans and had to do some exchanges to get things done. We had  an activity wihh another ward that ended up being really bad cause no nonmembers showed up so we spent 2 hours for two days doing nothing and practicing for it.. It was kinda bad.. I felt bad for the ward that put on the event.

Any way I'm just gonna do some catching up and what has happened here. So this week we ended up having two elders move into our flat because of their neighbor doing some stuff that was not good and had to move the Elders for safety concerns. It was nothing too crazy but just as a precaution.

We have been trying to get to know all the people we are "teaching" but none of them are truly interested so we are just trying to thin it out and find those that are really prepared for the gospel.

We are starting some member work as well and hope to get them involved a lot more. They are such great people and we hope to see them get some more joy and blessings from the work.

We did so much driving around with our car getting fixed and doing small exchanges to get some work in our area done while I go with another elder to fix the car. Also an elder was in the hospital so we had to  go around in a trio for a bit and what not. It was just crazy this week.

Hope you all had a great week!!

Ofa atu!

Week 73

Kia Ora Whanau!

This week has been a busy one. We had a lot going on and it went by pretty quick.

So to catch everyone up this transfer I have been asked to train a new missionary from Salt Lake City and his name is Elder Dansie. It has been pretty good so far and definitely different. He's a really good missionary already also. We also Whitewashed the area so we have no clue who anyone is. 

Tuesday we had District Council and I had to lead that for the first time in over 6 months so that was weird haha. We later that day we did a lot of finding trying to help my new companion get into the Grove of things. We spent a lot of time trying to get to know the ward as well.

Wednesday we had mtc exchanges and spent the whole day door knocking and helping them get into the work. We tried to visit some members as well that evening.

Thursday we got with some other elders and went to go and do some family History that was pretty good. We had to drive to another area to do a Baptismal interview. We got stuck in traffic so that kinda ruined the rest of our day. We did some tracting as well so that was great.

Friday me and some other district leaders had to go to a training with President. It was really good on counciling with the district. It was also helpful for other callings in the church if I ever get one later in life. We had lunch with all of them and then drove back to our areas. We than did weekly planning and other studies so that was pretty much our day.

Saturday we did a missionary prep trade off with the Tongan ward here and spent the whole day working with youth it was pretty fun. Heaps of door knocking and I hope the kids like it haha.

Sunday Elder Dansie and I gave talks on our first Sunday at church so that was cool. So our first Sunday in this area was stake Conference so we didn't really get to meet anyone in our ward so we had to go this whole week still looking for all our members haha. We got to visit quite a few of them Sunday so that was great.

This week was good. We didn't have anything too exciting but it was good.

I hope you had a great week as well!!

Elder Wilding 

Week 72

Kia Ora!!

This week was a hot one for sure. We spent a lot of time out on the streets knocking those doors trying to find people to teach. We were able to find a few people to follow up with and that was good we hope to be teaching them soon.

Monday we team ups with President Walker and that was really good. We had 2 hours of door knocking with him and had some pretty good conversations with him and with other people so that was great!

Tuesday we had District Council and set some goals for the month of February it was good to see that there was big improvements not only in the district but in the whole zone in finding new people to teach and we hope to see that continue into people coming to Sacrament and getting baptized! We did some door knocking and got into a house and taught a man named Shaquille and hope to see him again.

Wednesday we had ZLC and set more goals but this time for the Zone and like I mentioned our zone took a huge step forward in the month of January we had a goal of finding 60 new people as a zone and found 75 so that was great. We Councilled on how to continue to improve and so on and it was great. We than started an exchange with some elders and I was in a trio for the day with Elder Morrill and Elder O'Halloran. We spent quite a bit of time doing some finding and just did some talking it was great.

Thursday we ended the exchange and Elder Yardley and I got back to it. We tried to visit some people and didn't have much luck. Even the set lesson we had planned for that night was canceled so things didn't quite end up the way we wanted but it's all good.

Friday we had weekly planning and started the day with a bit more finding. That has definitely been the theme of this area, knock knock knock haha. I feel like I've done more in this area than any of the others. We tried to visit some of the people that said we could come back and we didn't end up meeting with them or they were too busy at the moment. We did have a lesson with a part member family that night though and taught the whole family part of the Restoration and we hope to get the man of the house baptized in a few weeks if all goes to plan haha. He is a really good guy who wants the best for their small family. We will be seeing them on Tuesday and finishing the lesson with them.

Saturday we had heaps of door knocking and man it felt extra hot that day haha but we went out and had two really good conversations with some people and got to know them a bit and share a little with them. None of them wanted us back but it was good to get to share a little bit with them and plant those seeds. We had a rally nice Thai dinner with the stake president and his family and talked about how members can improve in doing missionary work and help us so that was good.

Sunday we had some time to go and do some door knocking and we visited a few members sharing some short messages with then trying to help the kids learn and stuff so that was fun. Nothing too crazy that day.

This week was good. We had so much time out on the streets but it was really good. It's weeks like this that make you feel like you are living the old missionary life of knocking all day everyday haha it was good. Hope you all had a great week!

Elder Wilding