Sunday, October 21, 2018

Te Awamutu Week 5

Kia ora everyone! 

So big news for the week, we actually set up our phones early! We have been using the phones since yesterday and they are super flash! It feels really weird to swipe to answer calls and to finally be able to send emojis and better mass texts to the zone. The phone we have been using is a Nokia 100 which is quite honestly the worst phone. Its options are so limited but now we have Samsung J4s which just came out in May. It will be good for me because now its a lot easier to take photos! My camera actually sort of broke not too long ago so its perfect timing! It is very exciting to have technology in our mission because when I first came out, I never would've thought that technology would have ever made it to the Pacific missions. 

We also had to go to Taranaki again to do some baptismal interviews because the district leader who was down there got sent home at the beginning of the transfer. It makes things harder on us as zone leaders because we essentially have to be both a district leader and zone leaders. But it was good to go for a bit of a roadtrip. I also found out that we have to do that road trip again this week to set up the phones for the missionaries down there. So it will be a hectic week travelling the whole zone this week teaching the missionaries how to set up their phones! 

Funny story for this last week, so we went to a district council on Wednesday and we heard that it was going to be the district leader's birthday so we ran to the store and I bought a small sponge cake. We walked up to the room and all the lights were off and it looked like no one was there through the door window but when we walked in, about 8 Sister missionaries and 2 Elders yelled surprise and jumped out. It scared the living daylights out of me because we were 5 minutes late and a surprise not meant for me was the last thing on my mind. No one told us they were planning on surprising him because they didn't know we were coming to their district council. But the best part is that when they scared the crap out of me, I ended up dropping the cake and jumping back. Everyone laughed for a solid 5 minutes and the district leader walked in about 2 minutes after us. They didn't surprise him because everyone was too busy laughing while I was trying to salvage the cake that hadn't touched the ground but stayed on the plastic tray. It was a sad wasted cake but a really funny moment after thinking about it. But if you get anything out of this, just always be prepared to be surprised even if its not your birthday.

Arohanui,
Elder Green

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