Kia ora everyone!
I had a great week this last week. Elder Powell and I were able to get so much more proselyting done in our area and a lot less zone leader stuff to deal with. The lady that we are teaching, Jane, is finally ready for baptism and we plan to have her baptized this upcoming Saturday. We were also able to meet with a different person we teach named Dean and have a really good catch up with him. I realized that he and I are into a lot of the same things and we got on quite well. He has such a strong testimony of the gospel and believes in it so much but his partner won't marry him until 2020 and he rarely is at church because the members make him feel like an outsider. We are working as best we can with him to make him feel more at home in the ward and trying to teach his partner as well. We also did a lot with a couple less active families we work with, the Thompsons and the Parkes. We got to work on the farm and go out to a duck shed on a small lake. We mostly just minister in little ways to the less-actives and do what we can to fellowship them. They both are not very fond of the members in the ward but they love missionaries and take very good care of us. We had zone conference on Thursday and we learned about this years #LighttheWorld initiative. It's really cool and we as missionaries will be a big part in applying it to the many people found in Te Awamutu. Other than that, just minor other things happened this week. Hope everyone else had a great week!
Arohanui,
Elder Green
Ps funny story.. Totally left my badge on my study table for the first time ever. I went to a dinner appointment with no badge! I put on a jacket to hide my naked pocket and the family never noticed. I felt so unholy and empty without the badge! Never again...
