This past Week has been amazing and overwhelming at the same time. I Really love this new area, its just crazy. The south Island I have found is a lot like europe, it is very victorian in some places and is heavily influenced by english and scottish culture. The North Island is like a whole new place, it is seriously like walking into the belly of a beast haha. I love it though. In Oamaru, I probably saw one or two moari people every now and then, but Porirua is full on, it is like everyone in the ward I am serving in is Moari. We do get fed heaps here apparently, but we bike all over and there is nothing but hills so I will work off the food hopefully. Surprisingly I have not gain any weight but I have lost weight on my mission. Knock on wood.
So My new companion is from Keribus. It is a SMALL Island near Fiji. I dont think it was hit by the storm. He Pretty cool. He is fresh off training so we are both pretty new. This is much different than my last companion, because Elder Tekiera is Staunch. I am grateful for this because, being staunch helps you be a more effective missionary. You cant really teach when you are being disobedient. He speaks pretty decent english so I am grateful for that. We do Language study which is new. The flat that I have moved into is very nice and Clean compared to the last one. Apart from the possibility of bed bugs here. By the way family, I might have bed bugs. Awesome. I just hope that we can get rid of them. This district is notorious for bugs being sent around during exchanges. I hope that we can change that Because there is nothing worse than having bites all over in the morning. Other than that I could not be happier with this transfer. I keep having to remind myself that I haven't been here for long and that I cant expect myself to have the area memorized. It is very big.
This area is a great area. The work here is flourishing. It really is pretty good. We get some quality lessons with people and we hope to see some great success. It is tough to be lead sometimes by my companion because of his broken english but its Ok. He has improved a lot since he first came out. The district is really cool as well. I love it. It is an all elders district and they are all really experienced great elders. We have two sets of Samoan elders and they are hilarious.
This weekend we did a service at this thing called the creek festival as a district, it is like a county fair or something like that. We set up this stage for them. It was like a full on Stage that Was for concerts and such. It took us 7 hours. It was heaps of fun. We also had a tent at the creek fest where we got tons of new investigators and referrals. It was a lot of fun to talk to everyone and see the culture. Afterwards we took down the stage which took 2 and a half hours haha they said we smashed there previous record of 5 hours. We had a prayer afterwards and they were very grateful for our help.
On Sunday we got to go to the new ward and meet everyone. I really loved meeting everyone. I bore my testimony and talked about sharing the gospel with friends and getting out of your comfort zone. I think a lot of people just get caught up in life and dont bother sharing what makes them so happy with there closest friends. I am hoping to work with this ward to get them to share the gospel with everyone. I also had the opportunity to call the elders in Oamaru to see how Zacks baptism went. He said it went well and that Zack bore his testimony at the baptism. I was really grateful to hear that. I wish more than anything to have been able to see it. I was so worried that something would go wrong. But I love hearing that it went Well. My first Baptism. I love this work. I am overall doing really well. I am hoping to learn this new area really fast. I know that Obedience is the key to developing faith and strengthening your testimony. I love you all in bountiful. I pray that you are doing well and that everything is ok. I love you all.
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