Pictures

The pictures include:

All the VC Sisters.

A few jumping pictures.

A little taste of New Zealand for you.

I love sunshine!

Kia Ora!

 

Hope you're all had a good week! Our week has been pretty good except for the fact that in one day, I got sunburned in the morning, and then that night winter and it's rainstorms moved in for the next 3 days, thankfully summer came back today and we enjoyed a lovely p-day at the Hamilton Gardens (pictures to prove) & some touch with the elders & some members from their ward. The gardens were a little disappointing, I was excited to see flowers b/c all you see is green here in NZ, but the flowers were in sad shape. PS Touch is touch rugby, no tackling. At first Sis. Clark and I were quite hesitant, but it ended up being a lot of fun, even if the guys are still way better than us. I'm slowly learning more of the rugby rules. Once again, Sister Clark and I were saying how we're glad we're in a different district b/c it was just a lot more fun playing with the elders today (even if they are quite dumb sometimes) as opposed to our p-day last week w/ all the sisters.

 

So this week has been good. Our friend Josh who is quitting the word of wisdom is doing great, even though he's getting so sick, he's still going so strong and still came to church for at least Sacrament Meeting. We're also working with a part member family (the dad isn't a member) & he's made a huge turn around since the first time I met him the first week I got here. He has opened u so much more and we're working towards him getting baptized on the 17th, just gotta help him & his wife have the faith b/c she's saying that no one thinks he'll be ready that soon.

 

Something I've been studying a lot lately is Peter denying Christ 3 times because I've been so confused about why he did that and how he didn't know what he was doing! But I read an article by Pres Hinckley about how we do the same sometimes in our daily lives, we say we'll be so committed to living the gospel, but then make mistakes or do things that deny our testimony. But we just need to follow Peter's example b/c he became the leader of the church and did so much after Christ died! Love you alll! Hope you have a good week!

 

-Sister Mullen

Pictures

I believe one is sunset at the temple...looks fake to me!

I think today is the first day my legs feel completely fine, they've been killing me all week after going up and down all of those.

I Wish It Were Summer Year Round...

Kia Orana!

 

...apparently that's what the say in the Cook Islands, which became part of our mission this year. Unfortunatley, I don't think they're sending any sisters out there.

 

So this e-mail is gonna be quick, we had to deep clean this morning and we're going out to Bridal Veil Falls in like 20 minutes. Last week was pretty good, we had Zone Conference and talked about the importance of lesson plans, we all had to bring lesson plans to ZC for the first four lessons. We also are having a mission fast on Mar 4 for our goal of 2012 in 2012 and we're all starting the Book of Mormon on Mar 1 and reading it in 90 days and I'm excited we're doing things as a mission and I think it'll really help unify us, especially working towards this goal. At the Conference I had ANOTHER confirmation that this is definitelyw here I'm supposed to be right now in my life. I really do love this work, and it's kinda funny thinking back about before I put my papers in and some of the concerns I had, thankfully nothing held me back because this is where I'm supposed to be! I definitely feel like it's part of my duty and wonder why I had any concerns.

 

February wasn't fabulous, but Sister Clark and I have some really good sets for March. We found this guy trying to contact a referral. We got a referral for Domain Rd, I'm not even sure if there is a Domain rd (my comp looked it up on the map) but we figured it was supposed to be Dominion, much more common street, and so we went looking for 2 girls, came across this guy Josh and he was quite keen! We can't set him with a date for baptism because he has a court date on Mr 16 that might put him on probabtion, meaning he can't get baptized, but he is SO ready, I definitely believe that he can be cleared of everything so he can get baptized on Mar 17. We taught him the WoW this week on Thursday, and he is decreasing SO much faster than we anticipated. He had like 15 cups (or more) of coffee a day, and yesterday he didn't have any, he was smoking like 20-25 cigarettes a day, and I think yesterday he had 3 (mostly b/c that's what he found--he's out and doesn't have money...whatever works!) Anyway, he's loving it all & it's great hearing his prayers because he is always praying for others, that they'll be able to do the things the Lord asks of them and yeah, he's great.

 

Love you all! I'll send you pics next week of our hike last week and our trip today! Yay!

 

Love,

    Sister Mullen