Elder Tyler Larson Wellington New Zealand Mission

Kia ora yall! How's everybody doing? This one is going to be short, it's late and I don't got much time. Anyways, I'm getting transferred to Lower Hutt. I've heard it's really pretty and the ward is good so I'm excited. We'll see how it goes. I'm going to miss Levin for sure though. This place feels like home and I don't want to leave it. But I'm sure Lower Hutt will turn into my home. I just hope I stay there for a whileI'm tired of moving. This will already be my 5th area in the mission. It's crazy. Alright I love you guys and we'll catch up next week. Stay safe and have a good one. Arohanui Elder Larson                                                                                                 ...

Kia ora!! How is everybody doing? I hope things are starting to warm up back home. It's kinda sad seeing you all headed toward summer and we are just heading to winter. It's whatever. Anyways, this week was good, it was a pretty busy week. Alright, well we spent most of the week moving out all the things from our other flat into our new flat. That sucked. But it's mostly done for now. Shoutout to Elder and Sister Grant. They are the senior couple in our zone and they helped a ton with everything. Best senior couple out there! The work this week was good and we had some good success with finding and all that jazz. But, we got some kinda sad news. Our friend Gila, who we had on Baptismal date, is now moving to Auckland. His dad visited and convinced him to move to Auckland within the next week so that sucks. But that's alright, he still wants to be baptized but we will just have to pass him to some missionaries there. Also, our friend Jhon that we have on date is really e...

Well good morning yall! I hope everything is alright and you are all doing good. There's kinda a lot to talk about so I'll try to make it quick. First of all, we have good news. We put our friend Jhon on date for baptism. He will be baptized on April 29th so we're super excited for that. Keep him in your prayers pls. Also, we have to probably push back Gila because we still need to work with him on some things. Also keep Gila in your prayers as well. Other than that the work is going all good. Alright, now for the big news. It's a bit of a story so I'll just tell it to yall how it went down. It all started yesterday (P day) at 7:30 in the morning. I was exercising doing some sprints and push ups and all that jazz out in the front yard of our flat, trying to cut off some of the mission fat. Then, I hear an alarm going off at like 7:45. I didn't know where it was coming from, I thought it was a house by us. But then I hear screaming so I run into the house and the...

Malo yall! How is everybody? I hope you are all doing good. This week was a good week. We had some cool things happen and got to have some fun.  Sadly, we were not able to watch conference. Nobody gets to watch it here on time unless they want to stay up and watch it at 3 AM. So, I was a little bummed when I knew it was going on and I couldn't watch it. So, please don't tell me any spoilers or anything. I still have to wait 2 weeks to watch it so just hold on for 2 more weeks. Anyways, I hope it was wonderful and super spiritual. Alrighty, a little about the work right now. We are teaching a couple of people. We are still working with Gila through some things to get him baptized on the 15th. We made an action plan with him by giving him tons of gum so that he can chew on that instead of vaping whenever he gets the temptation. So, we are hoping that will help. Also, we are trying to get another one of our friends baptized. His name is Jhon, he is from Colombia. Him and his famil...

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...