Elder Tyler Larson Wellington New Zealand Mission

Kia ora whanau! How is everyone doing? I hope all is well wherever you are reading this. This week was a good week. The work was very slow but it was a good week nonetheless, I cannot complain. There was a couple of interesting things that happened this week. I got to try the infamous vegemite and marmite. Let me just say I will never eat that stuff again. I don't know why on earth it is so popular here. If you know me, then you know that I eat almost anything that is put in front of me. But, you could not get me to eat vegemite or marmite ever again. That stuff is an abomination. Anyways, that was cool. I'll just give yall an update on some of the foods that i do love here. First is Coco Samoa, it's a hot drink made from a seed that is crushed up. It's really good. Then, there is otai which is a fruit drink that is made with crushed up fruit and milk. It's really good. Brother Taufe'ulungaki told us that you crush the fruit by squeezing in between your toes, an...

Kia ora whanau!! How is everybody doing?? I hope yall are doing good and enjoying the winter back there. It was a good week but it was really long. Had some good fun. We had an awesome lesson with a friend. We are teaching a couple named Calum and Victoria. They are super cool, and super interested in the gospel. We taught them the resto and then gave them a Book of Mormon. Calum said that he would read 100 pages of the book a day. So that is incredible. Respect to that man. We are excited to go back and teach them! We also have been working with Gila to get him ready for baptism. He really wants to be baptized and even had a dream about falling from a waterfall into water. Then, when he looked back at the waterfall, it opened and Jesus came to him in a red robe. This is why he wanted to be baptized. Such a cool story. But, we have some things to work through with him to get him ready. Please pray for him guys! Anyways, we were able to have some fun this week for the Relief Society 181...

Malo lelei! I hope you guys are doing all good! I hope everything back home is alright. Please if any of you ever need a prayer, just reach out. Anyways, this was a good week. Time has been flying out here. This transfer felt like a week long. Alrighty, this week was pretty busy and also a great week. I'll start it off with a miracle. Our friend Gila committed to being baptized this week. The date is set for April 1st! Please keep him in your prayers yall. He is doing great but I know it's hard for people to follow through with big commitments like this. We had a lesson with him on Friday, we planned on teaching about baptism and reading Moroni 18 and then inviting him to be baptized. But, after we read the chapter he said "I'd be pretty keen on being baptized". It was so hard trying to hold in my excitement haha. I think I held it together pretty well though. I'm so excited for him and I know he is making the best decision he could make. He's got some thi...

Malo lelei!! How are you guys doing today? I hope all is good and I hope you guys had a good week. This week was a good one. It flew by though. Times been flying lately. Anyways, this week was a good one. Nothing crazy happened. Some cool things that happened with our friend Gila which is pronounced Needa. He's from Tuvalu. We've been teaching him the whole time I've been here and we haven't been able to get him to church until this week. We took him on a chapel tour on Saturday and that was great. Then, he came to sacrament the next day and he loved it. It was fast and testimony meeting and one of our members named Sister Tafa got up to bear her testimony. She's from Tonga and doesn't speak English very well. But, she went up to bear her testimony in English. It was powerful and she started crying because it was scary for her to bear her testimony not in her native language. During that testimony I looked over at Gila and he was crying and wiping away his tears...