Sunday, March 25, 2018

Ngaruawahia Week 23--My island roots


Kia ora everyone! 

This week has been quite the week! I was able to do a lot and make quite a bit of progress with Brandon's partner. She has invited us and the sister missionaries in the area to come back and talk to her! Not necessarily to start teaching discussions but the invitation to her home was made by her and not Brandon for the first time ever. With her and Brandon, we had a family home evening activity where we were able to go bowling and go to a confinement room. It was quite fun! The relationship we were able to build with them is something I look forward to fostering and growing t oa point where we can get them married and both into the waters of baptism. Along with the activity, we went to an all you can eat restaurant and I tapped into the islander in me and ate 4 and a half whole plates of food and 4 scoops of ice cream. I'm half convinced there was food piled up to the bottom of my throat and if I ate any more, it would just get stuck in my throat. But my oh my was it good food!

This week I was also able to go on an exchange wit hone of our zone leaders, Elder Allen. I learned a lot from him and it was fun! He was the last person in the mission that started his mission in Nga and still remembered a lot of the town! Other than that though, not much else has happened. I hope everyone else has had a wonderful week! Kia kaha!

Arohanui,
Elder Green

Ngaruawahia Week 22

Sorry I never posted last week's letter.  Got busy then forgot . . . Nevertheless here it is!

Kia ora Everyone! 

This week was a good week. We had our Zone conference and then I was able to attend the temple. This may be the last time I go to the Hamilton Temple for a long time because in a few months, it will be closing for 3 years for pretty much a complete remodel. I was also able to go on an exchange with an Elder who just barely got to the mission field and that was pretty fun. As we finished up our exchange, we were able to go to a dairy farm to help a member milk all his cows. It was a pretty fun week.  This weekend just past we were able to go to the big marae in town to see a big celebration event. We were able to see a lot of cultural significance and it was really fun. Other than all that it was a pretty standard week. One of our investigators is going to medical detox and then starting rehab for his alcoholism and we hope to see a good improvement with that. Brandon and his partner are still in the same spot they are in and it has been hard to keep trying to progress them. This weekend we are going to go to have a large family activity with him and hopefully a few elders quorum members. We are going to try and use a few tactics to get Renae to want to get married sooner rather than later. Anyway, that's me for the week! Kia kaha! 

Arohanui,
Elder Green