So basically Mom is the best. I can't believe I completely forgot about Count Chocula til I went digging through my much anticipated package and found a box of Count Chocula. Even my companion was a witness of how excited I was.
First off, let's back track to the week before last. I can't believe I forgot to write about the Relief Society Christmas party we had in the Katikati Branch! Dinner was delicious, but we had a little variety show aftewards, Sister Perry & I did some songs (they love us two, I play, she sings, and everyone is in love with her voice). And then some of the sisters got up and did some Maori dances with a song and it was so fun! Sister Perry & I both agreed that it's pretty lame being white because we have no culture. We were trying to think of something American to do, uhh...Yankee Doodle Went to Town? It was just fun to see everyone loosen up outside of church and I fell more in love with that Branch!
Saturday we took two investigators to the Visitor's Centre again, and because the ward says there's no money for anything missionary related, they just put us on the bus that the Stake takes once a month on Stake temple day. So the bus left at 7, we got there around 8:45, but the VC didn't open til 10, and then were there til 3 because they were doing two sessions. It was a LONG day. So to change up the picture of my comp & I in front of the temple, guess what I did to change things up? Jumping picture! & this one is pretty funny. My hair just cracks me up!
So yesterday, we were tracting around the neighborhood of our dinner appt, which is also the street of one of our former investigators. So our dinner appt fell through, so we went back to the street we were tracting on before. As we were parking the car, we saw our former investigator, Redem, walking down the street. Long story short, she's living with her daughter in law, we were teaching them both, but the daughter in law ended up not wanting us to come to her house anymore, so Redem broke up with us. So we didn't know how Redem was going to treat us as she walked by (So Redem is this 60+ yr old lady from the Philippines), and she hung up her phone and came over to the car to tell us her son in Australia just got baptized, told us to text her so we could meet with her this week and asked if it's okay if she asks all her family in the Philippines to join the church. Kind of a miracle! Hopefully SHE wants to get baptized. She just needs to come to church one more time. It was just such a blessing that we happened to be in the right place at the right time. I don't really care that after tracting for 2 hrs, we didn't have any follow up appts, I'm just glad that we were able to talk to Redem! Hopefully things go will with her!
I have 25 more pages to go in the Book of Mormon. I have LOVED reading it so fast. I feel like I understand the stories so much better of how everything relates. & basically the biggest theme of the Book of Mormon is that life can be GREAT when you're trusting in the Lord and striving to be obedient, and it's amazing how quickly everything can go bad when you get prideful and forget the Lord and no longer make him a priority in your life. I also liked how it said that the Nephites brought these wars upon themselves because they were being wicked and naughty and they could have avoided them if they had just been obedient and remembered the commandments God gave them. Clearly that is something that relates to us today, life really is so much better when we trust the Lord and exercise faith and be obedient. Blessings are predicated on obedience to specific commandments! I love the Book of Mormon and I know without a doubt that it was written for us today!!
Another picture is of us and Sister Moka. She has every missionary who serves in this ward go to her house to make a rock with their name, home town and today's date. She paints the rocks black, we write on em with gel pens and glitter glue, and she paints them with a clear coat. & then she gave us each a rock that she did herself. We got the same design, it's a picture of Tauranga harbor with Mount Maunganui and Matakana Island.
That's it for now. Kind of a long letter. But I have plenty of time to write since I don't have to take much time reading emails :) Love you! Talk to you next week!
Love, Sister Mullen
PS Before I forget, I don't know if Lauren is reading these, but I tried L&P ages ago. It's alright. It takes like lemon flavored, carbonated water. I feel like it could grow on me, but since I hardly ever drink sodas anymore, it just burns my mouth and I think it's something I'll pass on, haha, but I tried it just for you! Also tried toffee pops, so good. But not sure why they're called toffee pops...As far as I know, there isn't any toffee in there.
Showing posts with label Second Transfer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Second Transfer. Show all posts
Sunday, December 4, 2011
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...oh wait
Hola!
Well, things are starting to warm up here and I love it! This transfer feels like it's been pretty slow, but it's crazy thinking we only have a week and a half more, and even crazier that we only have one week left of my training. Ahh, it's going to be weird only having comp study for an hour a day instead of two hours, an hour seems like hardly enough time! & who wants to talk to you at 10 am?
So this week, we met up with this guy that we taught one lesson to a couple weeks ago, and it turns out that the day after our lesson he got an email about the Mormon beliefs, and of course it was wrong and written by a non-member. He gave it to us and we just glanced over it, it had a lot of true stuff, but plenty of false stuff. Especially the last sentence that says that Mormons are led by a distorted view of God's nature and whatever else. Anywho, the lesson we taught him was about the Restoration and about reading and praying about the Book of Mormon to receive an answer, but he took this email that he randomly got the next day as his answer, so we talked about how the only way he can really find out if the Book of Mormon is true and if this is the true church of Jesus Christ, then he needs to sincerely read, ponder, and pray to receive an answer. We asked him if he had, and obviously he hadn't. Hopefully we'll be able to go see him tomorrow and we'll see how he's been going. It's been so hard to get our investigators to read the Book of Mormon lately. Like this one man we are teaching, he's married to a member and has been to church several times. Last week, as in October 30, we went over the Book of Mormon intro with him about reading, pondering, and praying, and then yesterday we had another lesson with him (he lives in Katikati, so we only get to seem them once, maybe twice a week) and he hasn't read at all, and we asked him if we had gone over the intro with him, and he said no, so we went over it again, and then afterwards I realized we had gone over it with him. Ugh. So we also talked about how as you pray and come to know the Book of Mormon is true, you can also come to know that Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world, that Joseph Smith was and is a prophet, and that this is the true church of Jesus Christ, and he said he really wants to know if this is the true church, so I hope he really does read this week! Things have been a little slow this week, we're trying so hard to know what to do to get things moving.
Oh! So last week I had been talking about how I just want to read the Book of Mormon super fast for once, so on Wednesday we decided to start reading and finish it by transfers on the 17th and it's been so fun! Every meal we eat at home, we eat super fast and read the rest of the hour and come home and read at night, I said it's like reading Harry Potter, haha, you just get sucked in. And it's cool because it just gives me a different perspective of the Book of Mormon and is helping me see how all the people and all the experiences relate to each other better, even though we were talking about how we want a family tree of the people of the Book of Mormon so we can know how everyone is related.
Well, I think that's about it for this week. Hope everything is going well with everyone. Sounds like Dad had fun in California last week. I still can't get over how big the primary is in your ward, Kurt and Jenn. And feel free to send me Halloween pictures anyone!
One more thing, so Saturday was Guy Fawkes' day here, and Guy Fawkes' apparently tried to blow up some government/parliament building (I'm not really sure) in England...so now people in New Zealand have bon fires and set off fireworks. Doesn't really make a whole lot of sense, but that's what they do! It's been fun to see fireworks all weekend.
Love you all!
-Sister Mullen
Well, things are starting to warm up here and I love it! This transfer feels like it's been pretty slow, but it's crazy thinking we only have a week and a half more, and even crazier that we only have one week left of my training. Ahh, it's going to be weird only having comp study for an hour a day instead of two hours, an hour seems like hardly enough time! & who wants to talk to you at 10 am?
So this week, we met up with this guy that we taught one lesson to a couple weeks ago, and it turns out that the day after our lesson he got an email about the Mormon beliefs, and of course it was wrong and written by a non-member. He gave it to us and we just glanced over it, it had a lot of true stuff, but plenty of false stuff. Especially the last sentence that says that Mormons are led by a distorted view of God's nature and whatever else. Anywho, the lesson we taught him was about the Restoration and about reading and praying about the Book of Mormon to receive an answer, but he took this email that he randomly got the next day as his answer, so we talked about how the only way he can really find out if the Book of Mormon is true and if this is the true church of Jesus Christ, then he needs to sincerely read, ponder, and pray to receive an answer. We asked him if he had, and obviously he hadn't. Hopefully we'll be able to go see him tomorrow and we'll see how he's been going. It's been so hard to get our investigators to read the Book of Mormon lately. Like this one man we are teaching, he's married to a member and has been to church several times. Last week, as in October 30, we went over the Book of Mormon intro with him about reading, pondering, and praying, and then yesterday we had another lesson with him (he lives in Katikati, so we only get to seem them once, maybe twice a week) and he hasn't read at all, and we asked him if we had gone over the intro with him, and he said no, so we went over it again, and then afterwards I realized we had gone over it with him. Ugh. So we also talked about how as you pray and come to know the Book of Mormon is true, you can also come to know that Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world, that Joseph Smith was and is a prophet, and that this is the true church of Jesus Christ, and he said he really wants to know if this is the true church, so I hope he really does read this week! Things have been a little slow this week, we're trying so hard to know what to do to get things moving.
Oh! So last week I had been talking about how I just want to read the Book of Mormon super fast for once, so on Wednesday we decided to start reading and finish it by transfers on the 17th and it's been so fun! Every meal we eat at home, we eat super fast and read the rest of the hour and come home and read at night, I said it's like reading Harry Potter, haha, you just get sucked in. And it's cool because it just gives me a different perspective of the Book of Mormon and is helping me see how all the people and all the experiences relate to each other better, even though we were talking about how we want a family tree of the people of the Book of Mormon so we can know how everyone is related.
Well, I think that's about it for this week. Hope everything is going well with everyone. Sounds like Dad had fun in California last week. I still can't get over how big the primary is in your ward, Kurt and Jenn. And feel free to send me Halloween pictures anyone!
One more thing, so Saturday was Guy Fawkes' day here, and Guy Fawkes' apparently tried to blow up some government/parliament building (I'm not really sure) in England...so now people in New Zealand have bon fires and set off fireworks. Doesn't really make a whole lot of sense, but that's what they do! It's been fun to see fireworks all weekend.
Love you all!
-Sister Mullen
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Cooked Avocados
Kia Ora!
So a couple weeks ago we got heaps of avocados from one of our recent converts. She just moved into a new house and lives pretty much right on an avocado orchard, so she gave us bags of avocados. And in the past, we would put our green avocados on the windowsill and they would ripen up and would be perfect, but now that it's getting warmer and the sun is becoming more deathly, it ended up cooking all, prbly 20 of our avocados. I wanted to cry and was depressed all week. We opened a couple and they just smelled awful. Thankfully we got some more this week, so it's all good. Just remember, don't put your avocados on the windowsill. I heard that putting them by apples actually help them ripen up.
Last week had a rough beginning, but it ended up flying by. First off, the most memorable experience I've had with a dog. So we were going to see these boys we haven't talked to in weeks (they're ready to get baptized, but their dad,who is hardly in the picture, isn't okay with it, so we were giving them time to breathe from us) anywho, so here, there is almost always a house behind every house you see on the road. So they live in the house in the back and you have to go down a little hill, we've been there several times, but this time, the front house had this beast of a dog. I started walking back there, but then the dog came running after us, so we ran back out to the street. We tried one more time, failed, the dog came running out again. So we decided to try to go around the other side. Worst idea ever, there's a wall on the side we first tried, but this other side, there isn't a wall around the back porch, so it was like running into the dog and he came BOLTING after us, I was so scared! & it's not easy running in flats. Then their neighbor heard us kind of screaming and running and said over the fence, "yous okay?" & I just lost it and busted up laughing at how ridiculous the situation was. We tried one more time, on the other side, but the dog still wanted to eat our faces, so we finally knocked on their door (their grandma is a less active who we've met before, who lives in the front house) and the grandma started laughing when we told her we had been running from the dog & she said she would hold the dog. & then we FINALLY made it back to the house, but they weren't home. But Heavenly Father knows we were trying! (PS like the first week we got here, I had a spider in my room and was FREAKING out and made Sister Perry kill it for me, now, I kill spiders all the time. They have a serious problem with spiders, especially daddy long legs here. But I was thinking how it's funny that I could hardly kill a spider that is a million times smaller than me, but I was so much more willing to try to face the dog that could bite my face than Sister Perry was. I'm so weird)
So this week I feel like we've had a huge emphasis on the Book of Mormon, maybe because Sister Perry & I both read the Ensign all about the Book of Mormon (PS if you haven't read it, you should, it's awesome. PPS At the end, they have pictures of like YSAs for this question part about the Book of Mormon, and of course the red head is the not-as-cute one, she has glasses, hardly no make up and her hair isn't that cute and she has a dorky face...Sister Perry was NOT happy that they were contributing to the bad reputation red heads have, while on the other had I was dying laughing about it). We also had a fireside last night with some musical numbers by the missionaries, some testimonies from recent converts (the two recent converts ended up taking up 30 minutes, where I'm sure the plan was 5 min at the max each), our mission president spoke and so did our stake president and they spoke about the Book of Mormon. & I've just really had it emphasized to me this week the importance of the Book of Mormon and how it really is the foundation to our whole church. If the Book of Mormon isn't true, then Joseph Smith wasn't a prophet, this isn't the true church, we don't have the real priesthood authority from God and everything else is a joke. & I know without a doubt that if anyone reads the Book of Mormon and prays with a sincere desire to receive an answer, they WILL receive it! & I know that when anyone receives that answer, it is just natural to have that desire to be baptized! So that's really what we've been working on this week. We had a lesson with this lady in Katikati who we met like over a month ago, but have had a hard time setting up a time to see her, and we taught the Restoration and gave her the Book of Mormon and I'm SO excited because I really think she is going to start reading it. I'm so excited to work with her! She seems so ready! A nice breath of fresh air because things have been rough lately. We had this guy getting ready to be baptized this weekend (he lives with a couple where the wife is a member, but the husband isn't) but found out that the husband is a horrible influence for him. The husband was coming to church at one point, but now he is quite against the church and has pulled Tao away from the church as well when we was doing so good before and reading the Book of Mormon all the time. But we're still holding on to him! We're trying so hard and hoping that we'll see some miracles soon! That's it for now, love you all! Enjoy your Halloween enough for me too! Halloween is not a big deal at all here, and hardly exists. I'm so sad.
Love, Sister Mullen
PS I'm in New Zealand. I'm a legit missionary. Both of those facts still blow my mind.
PPS the pictures attached are from our hike up Mount Maunganui again last week. & some sheep we saw walking down the mount. I actually feel like we see cows way more than sheep, but it's still more sheep than I've seen anywhere in the states.
So a couple weeks ago we got heaps of avocados from one of our recent converts. She just moved into a new house and lives pretty much right on an avocado orchard, so she gave us bags of avocados. And in the past, we would put our green avocados on the windowsill and they would ripen up and would be perfect, but now that it's getting warmer and the sun is becoming more deathly, it ended up cooking all, prbly 20 of our avocados. I wanted to cry and was depressed all week. We opened a couple and they just smelled awful. Thankfully we got some more this week, so it's all good. Just remember, don't put your avocados on the windowsill. I heard that putting them by apples actually help them ripen up.
Last week had a rough beginning, but it ended up flying by. First off, the most memorable experience I've had with a dog. So we were going to see these boys we haven't talked to in weeks (they're ready to get baptized, but their dad,who is hardly in the picture, isn't okay with it, so we were giving them time to breathe from us) anywho, so here, there is almost always a house behind every house you see on the road. So they live in the house in the back and you have to go down a little hill, we've been there several times, but this time, the front house had this beast of a dog. I started walking back there, but then the dog came running after us, so we ran back out to the street. We tried one more time, failed, the dog came running out again. So we decided to try to go around the other side. Worst idea ever, there's a wall on the side we first tried, but this other side, there isn't a wall around the back porch, so it was like running into the dog and he came BOLTING after us, I was so scared! & it's not easy running in flats. Then their neighbor heard us kind of screaming and running and said over the fence, "yous okay?" & I just lost it and busted up laughing at how ridiculous the situation was. We tried one more time, on the other side, but the dog still wanted to eat our faces, so we finally knocked on their door (their grandma is a less active who we've met before, who lives in the front house) and the grandma started laughing when we told her we had been running from the dog & she said she would hold the dog. & then we FINALLY made it back to the house, but they weren't home. But Heavenly Father knows we were trying! (PS like the first week we got here, I had a spider in my room and was FREAKING out and made Sister Perry kill it for me, now, I kill spiders all the time. They have a serious problem with spiders, especially daddy long legs here. But I was thinking how it's funny that I could hardly kill a spider that is a million times smaller than me, but I was so much more willing to try to face the dog that could bite my face than Sister Perry was. I'm so weird)
So this week I feel like we've had a huge emphasis on the Book of Mormon, maybe because Sister Perry & I both read the Ensign all about the Book of Mormon (PS if you haven't read it, you should, it's awesome. PPS At the end, they have pictures of like YSAs for this question part about the Book of Mormon, and of course the red head is the not-as-cute one, she has glasses, hardly no make up and her hair isn't that cute and she has a dorky face...Sister Perry was NOT happy that they were contributing to the bad reputation red heads have, while on the other had I was dying laughing about it). We also had a fireside last night with some musical numbers by the missionaries, some testimonies from recent converts (the two recent converts ended up taking up 30 minutes, where I'm sure the plan was 5 min at the max each), our mission president spoke and so did our stake president and they spoke about the Book of Mormon. & I've just really had it emphasized to me this week the importance of the Book of Mormon and how it really is the foundation to our whole church. If the Book of Mormon isn't true, then Joseph Smith wasn't a prophet, this isn't the true church, we don't have the real priesthood authority from God and everything else is a joke. & I know without a doubt that if anyone reads the Book of Mormon and prays with a sincere desire to receive an answer, they WILL receive it! & I know that when anyone receives that answer, it is just natural to have that desire to be baptized! So that's really what we've been working on this week. We had a lesson with this lady in Katikati who we met like over a month ago, but have had a hard time setting up a time to see her, and we taught the Restoration and gave her the Book of Mormon and I'm SO excited because I really think she is going to start reading it. I'm so excited to work with her! She seems so ready! A nice breath of fresh air because things have been rough lately. We had this guy getting ready to be baptized this weekend (he lives with a couple where the wife is a member, but the husband isn't) but found out that the husband is a horrible influence for him. The husband was coming to church at one point, but now he is quite against the church and has pulled Tao away from the church as well when we was doing so good before and reading the Book of Mormon all the time. But we're still holding on to him! We're trying so hard and hoping that we'll see some miracles soon! That's it for now, love you all! Enjoy your Halloween enough for me too! Halloween is not a big deal at all here, and hardly exists. I'm so sad.
Love, Sister Mullen
PS I'm in New Zealand. I'm a legit missionary. Both of those facts still blow my mind.
PPS the pictures attached are from our hike up Mount Maunganui again last week. & some sheep we saw walking down the mount. I actually feel like we see cows way more than sheep, but it's still more sheep than I've seen anywhere in the states.
Monday, October 24, 2011
Go All Blacks!
Oh heyyy!
I'm sure you've all been wrapped up in the Rugby World Cup, oh wait, I didn't even know that happened til I got here. & I also didn't know the US even sent a team to the Rugby World Cup. And so I'm sure you all know the All Blacks won! Woot woot! The game didn't start til 9, so it finished after we went to bed, and like 10 min after we were in bed, we heard 3 gun shots, and we figured the All Blacks won. And they did. 8-7 against France. Dad informs me about what's going in the states, so I'll inform you all about what's going on in NZ. We called some members this morning and they were all singing in the back around and cheering because the All Blacks won. Also, almost everyone here has All Blacks flags are their car too. Kinda fun how excited everyone is/was!
So this week has been good, the weather is warming up and feeling really nice & I love it! It's been hard finding people to teach and being able to set up a second appointment with some of our investigators, but we're trying! That's in Tauranga, but things are going great in Katikati. I wish we could stay out there for like a week. The memebers are awesome as well! There's this TOngan family out there who I just absolutely love! & their mum served a mission as well, so we loves us too and is so willing to help us out! Friday we had a bunch of appointments set up and it just feels so good when we have a productive day. We have this one investigator that we met knocking doors and she is so ready. After teaching her about the Restoration, she said it all makes sense. She was also so excited to get her own copy of The Book of Mormon and said how she had been wanting to read it. The struggle is getting her to church, and also how she doesn't like to give her cell phone number out. So we can't call her, and we only go out to Katikati twice a week, so things are moving along very slowly with her. We also had 2 appts with some Indian ladies, & I don't know why, but those appts made me really nervous. I think because I dont' know what to expect, and it's hard teaching people who arent' Christian, but all Indians are so willing to have anyone come in and talk religion with them and will agree with anything you throw at them. We taught a mum and an 8 year old daughter. & they're actually going/learning from Jehovah's Witnesses at the same time too, haha, but they're not practicing it hard out I don't think. We showed up Sunday morning to see if they were coming to church, the mum wasn't coming, so she just sent her 8 year old daughter with us. (Who does that??) Thankfully they're just down the street from the chapel so we could walk there since we can't give her a ride. We had a lesson later that afternoon with the mum and clarified a bunch of things. I don't know much about JW's, but I know they're not Christian, but they make it sound like the understand more about Christ and the Atonement than they really do. And saying that Christ is the son of God, but obviously they call God Jehovah, and it came out that the mum really just believes that Christ was a good person who taught good things. Anywho, it's hard unteaching what they believe so we can teach them the truth. But they're both so sweet, and I think there is lots of potential with them!
So I read Alma 26 this week and just absolutely loved every single verse. It's where Ammon is going off about how much success they've had, but Aaron calls him about for boasting of himself, but then Ammon goes off about how he's only boasting about his God who has given them so much success and I just love how he truly recognizes how everything good that has happened to them has come from the Lord and he is so ridiculously happy that he can't stop talking about how amazing God is and has been to them. I know I can definitely work more on recognizing the Lord's hand in my life every day.
Hope things are going well in "the states." I love you all!
Love,
Sister Mullen
Oil Spills=Not Cool
** This was her letter from last week. I was just a slacker and never posted it.
Oh heyy!
This week was a LONG week. So since the goal of the new training program is to have the new missionaries were ready to train by the end of the 12 weeks, so Sis. Perry has been putting me in charge of more things so that if, and probably when, our mission president asks me if I feel like I'm ready to train, I can say yes. Sometimes I really don't like it when we sit down in a lesson and she whispers "you're in charge" and I start freaking out about what to do, but practice really is the best way to learn how to do everything. I'm quite content to not be the one in charge, Sis Perry is doing a great job, but I'm not always going to be the new missionary, so I really am thankful for this training program and the opportunity we've had to study for 2 hours everyday for comp study and will be sad when it's over! So speaking of throwing me in the deep end a little bit, haha, we were having a lesson with this less active family yesterday in the Katikati branch, and after having an opening prayer and talking a little bit, Sis Perry told me to go for it, ahhhh! I was freaking out! (Sis Perry asked me today if I was mad at her for throwing me in the deep end since we hadn't figured out what to teach them before hand because they have such young children, I wasn't mad exactly, mostly just freaking out about not knowing what to talk about). But we had talked to the 8 year old about how she had learned about prayer in primary, so I went off on that and we ended up talking about family prayer and how they've been trying to have it morning and night recently and came up with a plan to help them remember better and to also work on reading the scriptures as a family together and it ended up being perfect. I didn't realize til after personal study was over, but that experience related perfectly to my personal study about how we're not supposed to be led by the Spirit in every single decision we make. Heavenly Father gave us agency because that's part of the growing process, and I didn't have this huge revelation to know what to talk about with the Tupou family, but as I just started talking, it ended up being the perfect topic. Thankfully it didn't end up a disaster! haha
So I don't know if you've heard much about this in the states, but there was a ship not too far from the harbour here in Tauranga that had crates (or whatever they're called) of oil on the boat and the captain was trying to turn around or something and waves ended up pulling the ship over, so there's been a big oil spill and the beaches are all nasty and the parks are slowly closing as they're getting contaminated by the oil since all the parks are right on the beach and it's so sad how much it's affecting the Bay of Plenty. We were planning on having ward summer kick off bbq thing in a couple weeks at one of the parks, but now we're going to have to have it at the chapel, and now all the fish is contaminated and the saddest thing is that the beaches are all not going to be accessible for the summer. Not cool, even though I can't go to the beach. Hopefully we're going sometime this week to help clean up the beaches.
So I'm pretty sure I talked about our Samoan investigator, Tao, last week. We took one of the Elders here in Tauranga with us to Katikati to have a lesson with him since he speaks Samoan as well and even though I had no clue what was going on most of the lesson and the Elder didn't do the best job of filling us in on what was said, I could definitely feel the Spirit there and came out loving Tao so much more. He is such a good guy and really does want to change his life around (we found out he quit smoking and drinking the day he met us even though we still haven't mentioned the word of wisdom to him, umm, awesome!!) and wants the best for his family (living in Aus, but hasn't seen them in 4 years. They'll be here in Dec). He called us and left a message yesterday before we got home saying how much he loved the lesson today and how he was just lying on his bed feeling so good about everything we talked about. We've just got to help him recognize those answers he's receiving to his prayers and the feelings he's getting from the Holy Ghost.
One more thing, Glenn, who got baptized 2 weeks ago. The one who would show zero emotion & whenever we asked how he was doing, "yeah, I'm alright." or whenver we'd try to get him to committ to anything he'd say, "yeah, I suppose." My goodness, he is a completely different person now! Even on the phone he sounds SO much happier. & he came up to Sis Perry and I individually at church yesterday instead of trying to sneak out without saying anything to us and was just so happy! & before, he would NEVER have approached someone at church. Ahh, it's so exciting to see how much his life has changed since he's gotten baptized!
So the picture attached is of me getting some ice cream after we had a lesson with one of our investigators by an ice cream shop. Like I said, NZ is very proud of their ice cream and they had signs all over about being the best, freshest New Zealand ice cream. & they even put a little NZ flag in it, and I loved it, haha. Not a very exciting picture for this week, but that's what you're getting. I should have better pictures next week because we're driving to Whakatane tomorrow for district meeting and heard that there are some really pretty beaches along the way. (PS, here, I'm assuming it's in the maori language, "wh" makes an f sound, so Whakatane=Fakatanie). Love you all! I heard Kurt 2 lost a tooth, feel free to send me a picture.
Love,
Sis Mullen
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