Concerning my new and incoming son (mission terminology, don't panic), temple trip, Sets, Thats it!

Kia Ora Whanau!

I got a surprising phone call from the Mission President this past Friday, "Hello Elder Staheli! How are you? Good good. Well, as you probably already know, there are a lot of changes happening in the mission. As such, we would like to extend the invitation to you to train a new missionary. You will remain as district leader in Ngaruawahia. There will be a conference call to let you know more about it, but will you except the call?" Well, I was very shocked to receive this call from President, but I accepted, so I will have my very first son. 

Concerning Drops, transfers, Temple trip, War Wakas, lack of investigators at church, conditional acceptance of money from members, etc!

Kia Ora!

This week has been up and down, but that's missionary work for you!

So, we started out this month with four sets for March. We are now at 0. But we picked back up one of those sets for April. So that's good. Sometimes you just need to push past all of the disappointments that occur on your mission, because discouragement does no one any good. So, we will easily pick back up Jenelle and Keisha. We will have a little bit more trouble with Vernon, because he doesn't want to get married, or something like that. We shall see.

Concerning Quite a lot of things. Surprise! Read on. ;-)

Kia Ora!

There are a few things that I thought I would write about! First off, there has been a new rule change! Missionaries are now allowed to email priesthood officers in their wards. Well, the next thing they said made the first statement unnecessary. Lol... They said that we can email everyone. (Within reason). The only stipulation is you need permission to email members of the opposite sex living within or close to mission boundaries. And not to focus too much on emailing. So, even though I suspect that this will only slightly increase the volume of communication that I have, you all have no excuse to not write me. Lol... Oh, and missionaries can email missionaries, just as long as they are not in the same mission boundaries or close to it. The purpose of this is to provide easier uplifting support to everyone to encourage missionary work. So, yeah. I will get on that. :-)

Changes to the scriptures, new set, visitor center trip, hangi, increase in lessons, and the dreaded (bum bum bum) Jehovah Witnesses! Oh, and Zone conference.

Kia Ora!

I was looking on lds.org to look for a talk. And lo and behold! I found out that they are releasing a new edition of the scriptures! Woah! So, Mum, Dad, that's your gift to me, since I'm just a poor missionary. ;-) Lol... I wonder how that will effect the mission. All of the copies of the Book of Mormon might have to be changed. So that means, I don't know! I wonder how much this will change things? :-) Pretty nifty.