Week 78

Kia Ora!

This week has been an absolutely crazy one.. Corona virus is really taking a toll on the mission and on New Zealand as a whole. Everyone here is kind of freaking out (not quite as bad as American but still bad😂) and we are all just preparing for it to hit hard soon. 

We had transfers this week and on Wednesday I was to get my new companion but because he was coming in from American Samoa he came in Thursday night. I was in a Trio for a little bit and was waiting to see if my new companion, Elder Lotulelei, would have to do the 14 day isolation. He luckily did not so now we are back to work. But we also received an update that we as Missionaries are not to talk to people on the street or door knock so now we have to focus on those we are already working with and members.

It's been really hard not being able to do the normal things a missionary would but everything keeps moving. We had a few crazy days of sorting out stuff as Missionaries. We received extra funds to get some emergency food incase we get isolated in our flats. So we will be doing a lot of shopping soon.

That was pretty much our week. We had sacrament as a district and tried to make a few visits on Sunday but again things are getting wrecked because of this virus.

That's most of the updates really. I hope everyone is doing alright! Stay healthy everyone!!

Elder Wilding 

Week 76

Kia Ora Whanau!

This week has been a pretty busy one! We had some good success this week and it has been a blessing. We were able to find 4 new people to teach and hope to see them start progressing soon! Things will be a bit slow at first just to find out if they are really interested in the gospel or not but we think a few of them will accept it!

Tuesday we had an exchange and I was with Elder Peart from Virginia. We had a pretty good day. We went and did some finding and tried to contact a lot of the people we are trying to teach and didn't catch many of them at home but it's all good we had a few good conversations that day. Elder Peart and I are both training so we got to talk about each others companion and talk about how to better train. It was a good day.

Wednesday we spent a lot of the day driving and walking around our area trying to get in touch with people and trying to teach. We walked up to this lady's house and she let us in and we were able to teach about the restoration and we got a return appointment and she said she will read the Book of Mormon and pray about it. She seems pretty interested but we will see when we see her again.

Thursday this week was pretty weird we had to get the tires on the car replaced but we also had other things we needed to do so we pulled off a small exchange with a zone leader and another missionary he was on exchanges with haha so it was an exchange on an exchange😂 Elder Dansie and the Elder he was with found two new people in the hour they were together so that was great!

Saturday we held another exchange and I was again with Elder Peart and we got to teach someone in his area and he seemed pretty keen and hopefully he will progress. We did some other contacting in his area and visited some of his members to end the day.

Sunday was good we did a lot of contacting and no one was home. We had 3 people and church and also had a member call us and asked us to teach his niece on Monday! We are excited to do that and help her join the church.

This week had a lot going on and it was really fun. I hope you all had a great week!!

Elder Wilding 

Week 75

Kia Ora!

This week was so fun and it went by so quick! We had a bit going on and tried to get as much done as we could.

Tuesday we had District Council as usual. We set goals for the district and than we had an exchange with some elders in my district. I went with Elder Stoddard from Hooper Utah. We had a good day of trying to contact some people and talk to some others on the street. We didn't find anyone new to teach but we put in a good effort and hopefully with all the work we are doing we will see some miracles soon.

Wednesday we had interviews with President Walker and that was really good. I love interviews with him. He helps with so much and makes things way easy. We than went tracting and tried setting up appointments with some people that kinda fell through. Oh well haha we move on!

Thursday we had Zone conference and we received some great trainings on the restoration of the gospel and I definitely had my testimony strengthened after all we were taught. I'm so grateful for the gospel and all that comes from it!! The days after we had two people try to bash us and the restoration but we were able to get in a little bit to defend it we hope some day those people will accept it.

Saturday we had this big stake activity that took up must of the day and we were just meant to do Chapel tours but we didn't really do any because of other things getting in the way but it was a good activity for the whole community to come and get involved on the stake center grounds.

Things have been slow lately that's okay I'm used to it haha. I feel like patience is a big thing I've needed to learn. I hope you all had a great week!!

Elder Wilding