Te Awamutu Week 2

Kia ora everyone!

This has been a good week! My new companion, Elder Powell, and I have been working hard to get up to speed on the new area and what not. This week we also had to attend MLC (mission leadership conference) which is for all the zone leaders and Sister Training Leaders together together and discuss new upcoming changes and how we can help the missionaries in the mission. It was a little nerve wracking for me because I am the youngest (in mission age) zone leader in the mission and I felt like I had no right to be giving any form of advice or input. But I learned a lot. The entire meeting was actually focused on a quite large upcoming change for our mission. We will be getting smartphones! They are only going to be Samsung Galaxy J-4s but it is quite an improvement from the small brick Nokias we use. The day that it is finally implemented is a day that our mission president has been dreading but our mission is one of the many that was chosen by the missionary department to have smart phones. I think it will be good for us and we will be able to accomplish quite a bit with it. My companion and I will activate our phones at the next MLC in 6 weeks and the rest of the mission will follow soon after. 

Other than that, we had to drive down to Taranaki to run a district meeting because the district leader down there got emergency transferred out for disobedience. Its about a 3 hour drive and is very VERY twisty and windy. My stomach suffered quite a bit. I usually do fine for car sickness when I'm driving but my companion loves to drive so I let him drive. I didn't throw up at all but I do remember throwing up all the time when I was a kid and we did drives in New Zealand. My mother can testify of that. But it was good, the poor missionaries down there are kind of stuck on their own from now on. But this week has been good. I am still getting used to it all but I think I will settle in quite nicely here. But that's it for the week!

Arohanui,

Elder Green