So Jesus Gave you everthing. ft. Gang members like brownies.. 😋

How are we doing..? Because I don't know about you but it's been a crazyy past lil bit because I got transfered to the Mt. Roskill area..and have a new comp sister kau shes from PNG. Our area is ward sharing with the elders which is actually a party but our AREA is like half of Auckland I swear. So we gotta figure out how to eat this elephant.. 🐘We are a walking now buss'n and bik'n area which is a party. My first day here we walked like 8ks or something crazy :) Also we are flatting with my mission mom and her new comp she's training ayye we sleep in the living room and eat breakfast in bed every morning. 🧇🥤 Something that was shared this week was that "Pain that brings us closer to God is better than comfort that keeps us away." I think this is especially true as it comes to missionary work but also life in general it won't be easy.. but that was never the intention it's supposed to be worth it! The Work: 🚲🚌💨⏩️ - tbh hard to say as of right now but I'm still adjusting.. ** we met a new friend my first day from a media refferal which is super cool. Alphin is so ELECT. Already came to church after we gave him a chapel tour and wants to meet with us every day. He texts us the sweetest messages and has a thick indian accent. He's enjoying the book of mormon and loved our "holy mass" ** So excited to watch his JOURNEY.. he's been more MIA though lately - accidnetaly meeting AMIR and waking him up ooops. So fun fact when I got here we had like x100 uncontacted refferals (they piled up so now we get to travel like the whole city.. but with refferals they are supposed to be responded to within 5 minutes and contacted until you make contact.. so that's been an exciting and hectic since we are backlogged like crazy) and we viisted one on the way only to get on the bus and have him call us and ask how he could convert to christianity! BEST WAKE UP CALL. We met with him the next day he has the most insane background.. essentially he's a refugee (he was shot and survived) now in uni here.. but he was just so open to everything we will see.. - meeting folks at church and getting to sit in and help with PRIMARY the kiddos were sooo funny and sweet haha - lil slow at the moment since apt the comp I replaced got hit by a car so not a ton was able to happen since I got here.. but that means TONS OF WORK TO DO - we met our neighbors.. and baked them 🍞 and side note they have the sweetest little indian baby named ARLO and everysingle day I see him is legit the highlight he's so freaking cute you guys - Having some awesome member FHE and dinners with play dough art, games, and fun! #ExhaustingJoy The Laughs: - getting to go back to the mtc so my comp could see her sister.. so surreal tbh. ahhhh! - almost twisting my ankle eeek - our zone getting called out AGAIN 🙈🤣 - doing my comps and the other sisters nails 💅 and having her taste a smoothie for the first time - scrabble night with the flat sisters BIGFITHAIR for the win - Getting to do some math with my companion I didn't realize I missed it but it was a party hehe - making a tik toc dance with the other missionaries 😂 - Trying our best to nuke alll the fruit flies... 🦟 - missing our bus again... but meeting some other cool people - walking past construction only for a siren to go off sayin we see you and are recording this and sending this to the police crazy stuff.. 🚨 - seeing some members from my time up north!! #Daynaisactuallythecutest The Lows: - emotional rollercoaster of saying goodbye and starting all over again 😅🫠 - having to CLEAN OUR FLAT AND CLEAN IT AGAIN AND AGAIN I don't know if it will ever be clean 🫣😶‍🌫️ - Grocery shopping taking like 3hrs because we don't have a car.. at least we got a good workout lol.. that's why this emails a bit late getting bashed like everday by the rest of our mission zone (for no reason they kept missinterpretting everything 🙄 lol) - I'm on island time now 🏝 - feeling helpless to help this homeless man named Shane. We walked past but got to offer him a prayer 😢 Prayer List: - Shane.. who wants to turn his life around.. - My dearest mother 🙏😘 - Opononi and Otaua area (that the elders will take care of my baby area) - Alphin and Amir please Spiritual Feed: We has some super amazing talks at church this week about serving missions so just food for thought.. No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God … and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven. People think being chastened has the same meaning as being punished. Elder Lynn G. Robbins of the Seventy explained, “The word chasten comes from the Latin castus, meaning ‘chaste or pure,’ and chasten means. Just ponder for a moment how the Lord might be purifying you through your trials and afflictions... because I know for me it's every single day. Sister Talbot xxoo