I Love New Zealand!

Yep. That's it. I love it here.

 

FINALLY did something fun this p-day! Yay! We are blessed with k's this month because our car is getting fixed after it got swiped during one of our appts, so we're using another car and it doesn't take away from our total k's, so we went to the Elders' area in Ngaruawihia (I think that's how you spell it) and went and hiked some mountain up there, don't know what it was called, haha. Some members just told em about it, so we decided to go out there. Pretty steep climb, with heaps of steps (they heard that there was 1000 steps or something). Anyway, it was beautiful, So many trees and plants you couldn't see out of them. The sign said it would take an hour to get to the top and we thought we might be short on time, but thankfully we went to the top because it wasn't that long and it was gorgeous! I forgot my camera cord, so pictures will have to wait til next week. Hopefully we're going to hike up to some waterfalls next week too! It feels good to have a good p-day.

 

Let's see, what happened this week. We have two pretty keen investigators in one ward. One is a member referral, she's 14 and so cute. She came to Stake Conference yesterday, and after talking to her after church when we asked her how she felt she said, "It was indescribable." Thankfully a good indescribable. We set her for baptism on the phone, she didn't know a whole lot about it, but after teaching about baptism and he Holy Ghost and how the feelings she had at church were from the Holy Ghost, she said she would LOVE to have more of those feelings. I'm excited to teach her more! And the members that picked her up told her about mutual as well, ahh! Dream come true when the members help out so much!

 

We have another girl who is so ready to get baptized, but has some family concerns. We're praying to know how to help her. We found out some more information from a member, like if something happens with her visa here and she has to go back to Samoa, her family isn't happy with her going to our church, so she would have to do everything undercover to be able to go to church. Something our district leader has been pushing us to do is to exercise our faith as a principle of power, which is really going to help me to exercise my faith and to make it stronger. Praying for a miracle so that we can have another baptism this month! Our mission goal for the year is 2012 baptisms! Yay! So this means we have to like 167 per month, and we were all invited to pray about it, which we did and know it was an inspired goal from our mission president, so we've got to do our part to help reach that goal and I know that people are ready! We just gotta find them! Something I need to work on is just really, truly, believing that we can have those miracles that we ask for. I was reading Enos today and in there it says, "Whatsoever thing ye shall ask in faith, believing that ye shall receive in the name of Christ, ye shall receive it." We really do just have to have faith! & serving a mission in New Zealand has really opened my eyes to the fact that miracles still happen today all over the place! At the end of last year, we were asked to email in our favortie miracle and they made a "Book of Miracles" with a miracle from each missionary and it's been a good reminder to read it and to see how we never know how miracles can happen! So keep your eyes open for the miracles!

 

Love you all! Hope you have a good week!

 

-Sister Mullen