January 20, 2013
Whanua,
Okay mom, here are some answers to some of your questions.
Elder Denham is Aussie. He has been on his mission for about a year and a half.
We are driving a car and it took a little more than 6 hours to get from Auckland
So I have a lot to say! The area is great! I can see why it
gets the rep that it does and a lot of the members have some bad feelings
towards missionaries, but with all the missionaries serving in Gisborne at the
moment I can see it starting to lift. Me and Elder Denham of course have very
little people to teach or had very little people to teach, but we had a great
week! We knew that in order to find people, we were definitely going to have to
talk to everyone that breathes. I will
admit I hate jumping out of a car and running people down and I prefer tracting
a whole lot more, but it just makes sense to talk to people who are already in
front of you rather than guessing if they are home or not. Anyway, so I told
Elder Denham that I hate it and I need help with it. It turns out he hates it
as well. So we started a new game where we just take turns and we pick or dare
each other to go talk to people... It's really affective!!! Even the people
that might be drunk or littered with tatoos that we would normally pass, the
other missionary dares the other to go talk to them! So the first day I brought
the game up, two bone thugs were walking down the street and elder Denham said,
“I will start. I pick them...” When I saw who he was pointing to, I just let
out a moan and said, "Oh Elder don’t make me do it!" So yeah… that’s
our story. It has definitely helped me overcome my fears and make talking to strange people a little more fun.
Lets see…what else…I am a little jealous of the volleyball.
That sounded pretty dang awesome. Trevor, let me know about home teaching
Jessica Barney. That is really weird. Also, Collin giving a talk?! I hope he
puts in the not being worthless part. He will make an outstanding missionary
and I am sad that I missed out on hearing his talk. Tell him I felt the spirit
coming from the church building in Gilbert all the way to Gisborne…his talk was
that good!
Lets see…miracles that happened this week…our ward mission leader’s
girlfriend is preparing herself to be baptized. She has been waiting for a long
time and she has been going to church the past 3 months pretty consistently but
the previous missionaries weren’t really teaching her. We met with our ward
mission leader this last week and he was actually pretty on top of things in
the area and what not, and he asked us to start teaching his girlfriend. So yes
we do have some baptisms coming up for the month of February already, so that
will be AWESOME!!!
Me and Elder Denham are getting along great. He is a great
missionary and works hard. He is a bigger guy and he is half Tongan. Mom, you
can rest at night knowing that I am going to be protected with him.
We had interviews with President this week as well. He was
really sympathetic and he explained to me why he put me here. He feels that me
and Elder Denham really needed to be together and also he needed two
experienced missionaries who wouldn't quit in the missionary graveyard of
Gisborne. It was a really good interview especially too because he started with
us first out of 230 missionaries. After interviewing all those missionaries, I would
imagine it would get a little hard to be unique and exciting. He also showed a
VERY GOOD VIDEO CLIP, “Missionary work and the atonement of Jesus Christ”. It
has Henry B. Eyring and Jeffrey R. Holland on it. COLLIN you HAVE to watch this
NOW!!!
That is all. I will see you in a year! Love you guys heaps!
Elder Ward
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