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| Sister Tase (my gorgeous soa) |
This week was so good!! I'm so blessed to be right next to the ocean!!!! Okay so be outside of the VC and full-time proselyting is wayyyy different but I LOVE it!!!!! I want to stay in Whakatane forever and outbound cause you are truly able to get close with the members and the people you are teaching because you have more time in the area!!
So this week Sister Gase and I tried so hard to find new investigators and we were able to find 3 so we will see what happens! I'm excited to work with them and hopefully they are actually keen to learn about the gospel and not just interested because I'm the first blonde they have seen from California.. gotta do what you gotta do hahaha jokes!!!
So to update yous about the work in Whakatane! It's so good!! We talk to heaps of people that give us dirty looks and are so rude which makes it fun but we also are able to meet some a really amazing people. It's at the end of the day when you almost feel like giving up and all the appointments have been cancelled (because no one has a schedule and always flakes) and everyone is dodging you BUT then you decide to keep going and then that's when Heavenly Father will lead you to someone who is willing to listen! We had some pretty cool little miracles this week! We are teaching this lady, Ngapera, who has an 8 year old daughter that we are going to start teaching as well! She works on Sunday's but wants to be baptized so bad!! Before one of our lessons my soa and I decided to be BOLD with her and straight up if she is truly going to commit herself.. so we in a way committed ourselves to Heavenly Father to be bold and then during the lesson without us
asking, she told us she told her boss she needs time off on Sunday's so she can
come to church and be baptized!!
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| finally got to go to a marae! (I LOVE the Maori culture) |
We are also teaching an older man in his 70s Wharenui, he is an ex mongrel mob gang member and has come a LONG way! He wants to be baptized to! We knew the doctrine of the gospel wouldn't be hard for him to understand but the the different commandments would, so yesterday we brought a member who got baptized 5 years ago, Brother Morgan with us to his lesson. Brother Morgan is an ex black power gang member and has a gnarly past but this lesson we had about the Word of Wisdom was so powerful it was unreal and Wharenui is going to try his hardest to give up all his drugs and smoking! We are helping him and visiting him almost every other day to check up on him! He really wants this change and I am so excited for him!
The GOSPEL is for EVERYONE no matter who you are, what you have done it is for everyone and it also CHANGE your life for the better, I can see peoples lives around me changing because of their WILLINGNESS and ACCEPTANCE to follow the Lord but I can also see my life changing. missions are so hard but SO WORTH IT!!!! I am truly beyond blessed to be here! I LOVE each and everyone of you heaps!!! <333 Have a great week and remember you need to choose to allow this gospel to change you, it's up to you!
arohanui, xo
sister sughroue
ps we go to the beach every day for studies and we go on this gorgeous little hike for exercise that over looks the
ocean! (kohi point) and I basically take the beach back to our flat everyday because I cant stop picking up all the seashells! NZ is coming home with me!
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| Burger fuel!!! So yummmmmmmmmm |
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| My heart is so happy <33333333 |
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| Companion study on the beach! |
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