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Kia ora yall!! Hows it going? I hope all is good. I'm doing pretty good. This email might be a bit short because it’s been a busy p-day since it’s Elder Tidwell’s last one before he heads home this weekend. Here's an update on the work. We are still working with the same people except one of our main friends dropped us last week after he got into some anti. All of our friends right now aren't really progressing. I won't go into details on them, but please pray for them and us to know how to help them. We are trying to find new people to teach right now but all the people cancel on their return appointments, so it's a bit frustrating right now. We'll get it figured out tho. We had exchanges with Blenheim this week which was all good. They are cool and it was a good couple days of exchanges. Nothing crazy really happened this week,  but we did get to make our own Pakohe necklaces with one of our members. A Pakohe necklace is a popular necklace in the Maori culture...

ZC with the new President

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Manuia le aso(good morning in samoan)! Hope you guys are doing good. This week was all good. It was unbelievably busy though. Which is always good so I'm not complaining. We got caught with a lot of random things. We had to go get my license converted to a NZ license. So I'll be getting one of those this next week. We also had flat inspections which took way longer than it should have. Then, we had exchanges with the Westport elders which was awesome but a lot of driving. Then, to top off the week we had zone conference with the new Mission President which was awesome. We finally got to meet President and Sister Clark, and they are so cool. Honestly they are probably my favorite out of my mission presidents so far. They are super cool and driven which is good. I know they are going to do a lot of good for this mission, and I'm so glad I get to be here for it.  Anyways, the work is going alright. As I said earlier we didn't get much time to work in our own area. But the ...

Vacation

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Kia ora yall! I hope you guys are doing awesome. I hope this week was fantastic. Mine was alright. Nothing too special. But it's always a good week here in Aotearoa. Anyways, the work this week was a bit slow. It seemed like we visited every dot in area book and they were either gone or just weren't interested. But, we'll keep going. We also didn't get to work in our area much because we were on vacation in Greymouth. Nah I'm just kidding. We went on exchanges there but it basically felt like a vacation. It was a 4 hour drive down, and then we were there from Monday til Wednesday. It took us 7 hours to get back though because we missed a turn. We were driving and showed up in another town on the west coast called Westport and that's when we realized we had been going the wrong way for an hour. So, we turned around and finally got home after 7 hours. But, I'm not complaining because I like going for a drive and this was possibly the most beautiful drive ever....

UFC

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Kia orana everybody. Hope your doing good. This one's going to be short because I'm super busy. Anyways, a little update on the work. It is going good out here. We've found a few good friends and we're excited to teach them. We found the most golden investigator through Facebook. Kinda crazy because that was the first time I've found somebody through Facebook. I'll tell yall more about him next week. So, the work and area is awesome and I'm loving it. We got a new president on Saturday and I got to meet him over a call on Sunday. He seems super cool and I'm excited to meet him in person. It was definitely sad seeing the old president go home though. That's alright, the work goes on. Alright, to explain the title of the email. This week me and my comp were out visiting some people. We were in kind of a sketchier part of town. So, we're pulling up to this house and I see these 2 girls and a guy standing on the corner of a street talking. We pass th...