Papakura Week 2

I have considered on multiple occasions actually looking at the day countdown but I can't bring myself to it. The time is flying too fast.. It doesn't help transitioning from a young missionary to a seemingly old missionary. In the last 6 months the entire mission has completely reshuffled. I'm ages away from going home but my intake is now seen as the second oldest essentially. I kind of don't like it.. Especially as a zone leader, we kind of get put up in a pedestal and we really shouldn't at all. We're just the same as the other missionaries. It puts a lot of pressure on us to really be in top of things and being a proper example to the newer generation of missionaries. But yeah.. I'm getting a little scared thinking about taking on life. It seems like on a mission a lot of walls are put up protecting us from the world but after I'm released those walls will come down. It scares me quite a bit.. But it's good, I'll take those challenges on when I come to them. 

Well I hope the Rams win! Never seen them at the Superbowl before. Sounds like Caleb is getting hasty. I hope work doesn't hate you for having two sons that worked there for a short time just to quit. Sahry.... 

I live at XX Grove St in Papakura. I looked for the house we were in but I wasn't willing to go down the long driveways. It is in our area though so we did use to be in Papakura 1st ward eons ago. A bit strange.. But yeah we would be keen to see Nanny. Transfers are in about 4 weeks but either way I'm 99.9% sure I will still be here. My companion Elder Thompson is the man. He's the first Arizona companion I've had and him and I get along really well. He's a very good leader and missionary. He's been here for a while though so I feel like he'll probably be gone after this transfer. But it's good. So far my experience in South Auckland again was similar to the first time I was here but I feel like this week we're going to change that. We've got a lot planned we only hope things go as planned. 

This last week we tried to get a few visits in to a family I've recently met that the missionaries have been visiting for a while. They're very kind and very Maori. The father has the strongest accent I've heard in a long time. The son is not a member and the parents are returning less actives. We also had quite a few errands to run here and there but things are looking good for this upcoming week. I hope you all have a great week this week! 

Arohanui, 

- Elder Green