Opotiki

Well this week has definately been a really good one! Many blessings were given to me! First we had a very hectic P-day trying to get things sorted and stuff for the transfer. It was a very busy one. I wrote many letters.. haha.. I still got about 8 to write today.. But then on Tuesday we had our last district meeting and it was pretty good. We then started a trade-off back here in Whakatane. I was with Elder Manscill and we went to Kawerau and just rocked it. We had a sweet day there. Many good lessons were taught. Then we carried on the trade-off until about 2 on Wednesday. We went to a wedding of one of our L/A's and that was fun.. On Thursday not much happened.. haha.. I"m still in Whakatane!!!! Elder Bridge has.... stayed with me.. Crazy.. We'll be together for 4 1/2 months... Friday we had a really good planning session for the week. Saturday was an awesome day as well as Sunday.. We set Koreen for baptism on Sat. We set her for 17th of Jan! Coool eh? hahah! I was so excited. I asked her if she'd prepare herself to be baptised on the 17th and she just got the biggest grin and said yes with no hesitation. Minus her smile.. haha.. It was sweet. On Sunday we had 3 investigators at church! Koreen came of course but also Ros and Elly came too. It was sweet. They called Sat night to ask what time church was. They stayed for the whole block and loved it. I taught the Gospel Principles class and it was a very simple and basic lesson about Heavenly Father, Elly was in tears. It was awesome. We visited them after church and they were just so happy. They asked where they could get the quad scriptures from and they are going to order some for themselves and yea.. just awesome!!! so wonderful!!!!!!!!!!

We are really excited for this upcoming transfer.. So excited. Things are going really well. Francis is just nearly there. We've been having really good lessons with her lately and it's just been so spirit filled. Dani will be coming home on this upcoming Sunday. We haven't gotten to call her since she lives out of the mission right now. But we've gotten updates from Alisha. Dani's starting to get annoyed by Adam.. So that's a really big plus for us. And everyone who wants her to be baptised!


The picture that I sent is one from our trip down to Te Kaha. It's taken about 30 minutes outside Opotiki. I dont' remember the little towns name. But it was beautiful!