Kia Ora from Auckland

Happy happy January where does the time go? At this season of my mission I am 🤏 close to hitting 6 months and that is mind boggling and also so devastating to know I only have 2/3 of my mission left. I"VE ALREADY TAKEN EVERY SECOND FOR GRANTED. Especially this week because it's counting down till transfers and this was SERUIOUSLY a good one. So much happened I can't even include it all. There was more rain than ever but also the most breathtaking RAINBOWS ever. So... I'm learning that more rain == more rainbows and more trials == more growth. We have to be tested and tried or else we would stay the same person and not given a chance to learn and for opportunitites we wouldn't have otherwise. This whole week was full of them.. https://photos.app.goo.gl/btkDY6hNfKPBTj3Y6 highglights -> and many more not listed - We finally got a media refferal that wasn't a new FRIEND. GOD IS TRULY HASTENING HIS WORK and it's a struggle in the best way to keep up with al...

"the greatest reward is not what we RECIEVE for our labor but what we BECOME of it by it " https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/gordon-b-hinckley/caesar-circus-christ/ bit of a different week things are still a little slow but lots of crazy stuff still happened.. highlights: - kids singing a song to us about hearbreak after I promised they could sing one next time they saw us :) 🥲 - op shopping! - Whungeri adventure for car servicing finding a cowboy mural and getting some sushi + running into a cute member getting to help this old lady jump her battery! only to have the peeps we saw from Toyota come help because we didn't know what we were doing ya know? - celebrating when we got 1000ks for our car from the office elders (still gonna be tight if we want to get thigns done) - lerning more abot the culture here - BIKING for the first time!! 🚴‍♂️ sooo surreaallll - our friend Arthur maybe getting on date for baptism here soon..?? ** Someone kindly tell our frien...

Okeee so this week was somethn.. how are we this far into January???? MY COMP GOT TRANSFERED. Sheeesh ok so that means I'm not training anymore.. but I GET TO BE WITH SISTER EBARB that's right I'm comps with BARBIE Highlights: - playing with our members new FREAKING ADORABLE KITTEN named cookie 😽 - trying yellow watermelon for the first time and getting shouted a lunch after driving for ages 🤑 - making the elders a famous smoothie :) 🥤 - exchanged with sister Kana!! And fresh meat up north - meeting the senoior version of tom cruise no joke - meeting KING DAVID 🤴 the 90 yr old puzzle legend 🙌 - exploring new parts of my area that I hadn't been to before.. - benny boiii gave your girl a kiwi tat (it already washed off) he's a heart melter at the young age of 8 - we made a epic video filmed and directed by yours truly's companion Lowlights - leading the area for the x3 time is kinda rough ngl.. - transferr newssss - things are still slow with the h...

Okey dokey where to even begin..?? This week mainly just consisted of FHE's, follow up lessons with our friends who were still around, and invites / planning / putting together the stake girls activing.. on top of our unplanned service ops everyday (answer to prayers) * helping a brother get gas after being stuck * Cleaning the sisters car that was broken in * moving things from a trailer for our friends All spur of the moment last minute or could have passed it by very easily.. moral of the story is they are always there we just have to look, notice, and act. 💖 Highlights: - getting to talk to so many other returned and active duty front line missionaries and recieving advice, love, support and comfort (shout out) 🗣 - our morning beach pilates 🏖 - members spoiling us with their yummy food 😋 - having some of our friends back from their holidays!!! whooop whoop 🥳 - the spirit helping us know where to be :) 👻 - getting to wish our neighbors a happy new year and after some inte...