Elder Tyler Larson Wellington New Zealand Mission

Malo e lelei everybody!! The work continues out here and life is good. My week was pretty busy but it was really good. I had one of the coolest experiences happen to me this week. Me and my companion drove up to palmerston north this weekend for some exchanges and for stake conference. This was a zone that I had served in about a year ago, so I was able to see a lot of old friends and members at stake conference which was awesome. One of the coolest things was that my friend Jhon that I baptized about a year ago was there as well. Then I found out that he was receiving the melchezidek priesthood that same day. After stake conference I was able to go and help confer the priesthood to him. It was such a special experience. A year ago, he was baptized, and now I just happened to be in palmy when he was receiving the melchezidek priesthood. This helped me realize that the Lord's timing is perfect. I know that he is going to be able to bless his family now with the priesthood, and he wi...

Kia ora whanau!! Hope you have all had a great week. This week was pretty busy. We had zone conferences in the south island which meant a lot of traveling. We traveled on Sunday night to Dunedin. We stayed there for 2 days and had zone conference and exchanges. Then, next we went to Christchurch and stayed there for 2 days and had zone conference and exchanges. Then, we traveled to Nelson and stayed there for 2 days and had zone conference and exchanges. So basically we repeated the same thing all week. It got pretty tiring and monotonous, but we made it through so that's good. I enjoyed it though. It was good to see Christchurch and Dunedin because I have never served there before, so that was a blessing. Other than that, not much else happened this week. Spiritual thought for the week: I was reading in the saints book the other day and I read about the story of Oliver Cowdery. He has such an awesome conversion story. He had heard about Joseph Smith and the golden plates, and beca...

Malo e lelei!! I hope you guys have all had an awesome week. This week was really good. It was super busy and flew by for me which is always good. We started off the week with a road trip up to the temple. Our mission is trying to get all the missionaries in the mission up to the temple. So, we took a small group of missionaries up there. It was about a 7 hour drive from Wellington to Hamilton. So, it was a long one. But, it was pretty fun. I haven't been on a road trip like that since home. Anyways, the trip was awesome. This was the 2nd time I've been on my mission which is a huge blessing. But, each time I go it is so special. I want to talk about an experience from the endowment session that i had. We were just finishing up the endowment video, and they began to turn on the lights and open the curtains to the veil. Right when they opened the curtains and turned on the lights I felt a very weird feeling. I felt that my grandpa who had died about 6 years ago was there with me...

Kia ora everybody!! Sorry for no email, I haven't had the time or motivation to write one. I've been good though, just been really busy which is awesome on the mission. We had transfers last week and I got transferred next door🤣. President called me 2 Thursdays ago and told me he needed me to be one of his assistants. I started laughing when he said it, but of course i accepted the offer. So, this last week has been a little different. We have gone to bed at about midnight every night and woken up at 4 or 5 every day. It's been super tiring, but it's been good for me. I’m sure it will teach me a lot. I'll just give a list of what we did last week: -picked up the intake and spent the whole day with them. -then had to pick up and drive missionaries for transfers -spent the day with the outtake missionaries and had a goodbye devotional. Then dropped them off at the airport the next day -had mlc on Friday. -had exchanges with the Christchurch elders Currently I am typi...

Good evening everybody!! This is a bit late so I'm going to keep it short. It was a good week tho. Here's a list of some things I did this week: - played in a touch rugby tournament. Our president allowed us to play because it is an annual event that missionaries usually go to. I got smacked up the whole time. All the Samoans were just running around me. - we are setting up a time to record a song in a studio. We are going to produce the song and then put it out on social media soon. So stay tuned... - had exchanges with Elder Hawkins. We basically did service all day and then had a lesson with a drunk guy on his front porch. - felt really lonely on valentines day as I saw all the couples in downtown Wellington😂 I'll just share one thing real quick that happened to me tonight. We were visiting a less active that served a mission a while ago. He talked about his mission and how he loved it. Then, we began to talk about the importance of conversion. I began to think about th...

Kia ora everybody!! I hope you have all had a fantastic couple of weeks. To be completely honest mine haven't been. But that's alright. Anyways, not much to report on for these last 2 weeks, unfortunately. So, me and my companion and the other elders in our flat were put in quarantine all of last week, along with other companionships in the zone. I was exposed to a bug called Scabies, you may have heard the name. I actually was infested by the bug. I had bites all over my back and arms. It really isn't that harmful of a bug, just feels like mosquito bites. But, it's pretty serious because it can spread really easily. So, we had to coop ourselves up in our flat for a whole week. We had to deep clean everything to help get rid of it. Other than that, we did nothing but sit around the flat and play card games. Safe to say we were all a little depressed, but we made it out. We got out of quarantine this last Monday and I was excited to just get out of the house and do some ...

Morena katoa! Hope you have all had a great couple of weeks. I know it's been a lil bit. Sorry we've been pretty busy.  Anyways, these last 2 weeks have been pretty wild. Honestly, it has been a lot of fun. 2 weeks ago we went on a road trip up to Dannevirke for a baptism. It's about a 2.5 hour drive. We were going because my companion taught the people getting baptized. I was just along for the ride. So, that was already pretty wild for being on the mission. The same day we almost got in a fight with this mongrol mob gang member. It was me and 3 other missionaries, the other 3 are massive islanders, and this one guy tried started a fight with all of us. He was getting up in our faces and we just stood there and tried giving him a hug🤣. He kept threatening us for like 15 minutes but he never actually did anything so we just walked away after we got our food. This all happened in the same day. That was a pretty wild week honestly. Then, just a few days later we had MLC. Whi...