First week on the field!

Temple with my MTC Companion

Met my Mission President and his wife: President and Sister Cummings. "President Cummings is a great man and a lot of great things are said of him but he's Aussie so it's expected lol."

Hey everybody,

It's been a while but it's finally P-day lol yay. For reals though it's been a hectic week transitioning from the MTC to the field. Saying goodbye to everyone at the MTC was sad (a happy sad though) with everyone making build up plans lol but we got picked up by the traveling AP and went to Hamilton to meet our Mission President - President Cummings and his wife. There are 16 missionaries from our intake that are serving in Hamilton so it's was a pretty busy transfer. President Cummings is a great man and a lot of great things are said of him but he's Aussie so it's expected lol. We got told who our trainer was and where we're serving and then stayed the night for the trip the next day. Hopefully I get to be companions with the 2 elders in my District - Mate we'll kill it!

My first area is the Alfriston Ward of the Manurewa Stake... Yep back in South Auckland lol. Oh yea we got white washed and are opening this area 😐 Don't know what president is thinking lol but I'm enjoying it though met some members on Saturday at Bishop's daughters baptism and they were so welcoming and friendly and the support of the ward with each auxiliary is gangster. The love from the Bishopric is real and the feed is next level lol majority of the ward are Cookies with a couple of Tongans and Samoans so yep Island feeds are gonna make me fat for days.

 

First Sunday on the field: Elder Lewis (from Rexburg, Idaho) and Elder Purcell.
 

 

 

My companion is Elder Lewis from Rexburg, Idaho. I've been lucky so far with companions cause he's the man, knows what he's doing and gets things done without beating around the bush. We spent the last couple of days cleaning out 3 flats cause they closed down the area's so we had to clean 3 flats before we could fully move into our flat, which sucked cause the amount of mess in them, man the sisters are messy 😂 Our flat is nice and small, easy to maintain and pretty modern, our neighbors though both are black power lol had a lil talk with both and mate pretty darn good people... well beside the fact they BP. Church was well....... church, meeting everyone was the best part as well as doing a gangster as testimony in sacrament lol. 



My Trainer: Elder Lewis

This week is when the real work starts we had a meeting with the Ward Mission Leader and got some referrals of less actives as well as potential people to teach which is great it gives us a place to start and at the same time try and focus on getting to know the members more and building that missionary-member trust that we feel is lacking. I know I'm going to love my time here and the people here as well, NZ weather sucks though just saying. Hope everyone is well. Miss you all, sorry it's short even though it was a hectic week but short sharp and sweet is the way.

 
Well it's P-Day now and yep I'm going to play ball lol. 'such is life'




Elder Purcell.