Kia Ora Whanau a E Hoa!

I hope that yous are all doing really great. It's exciting to hear good stories from some of you. It's good to see the really good changes that are happening all over. I hope everyone is well!

3 new sets!

So, this week has been good in some ways, and bad in some ways. Oh well. I will survive. We had 2 sets up until Sunday afternoon. then 0. We had a set, Rachel, whom we found just this past week, and she was keen as, keeping her commitments, and then Boom. We got a text right before church saying "Hi. Rachael here. Im sorry, i cant attend your church as it is against my family's religion." next text: "My family told me that i can only follow the holy bible. I have to listen to my elders of my family. So sorry."

So, yeah. That was not too great. 

Some More Baptisms, and Learning to Understand Tongan

Kia Ora Whanau ko Ehoa!

This week has been great! I have loved all of the work this Ward has. It has been great! We have 3 baptisms this upcoming week, and most likely 3 to follow in the coming weeks. We have 4 in total set for this month, but 2 more shaky sets. The district is also doing good! We have many investigators coming to church. 

Transferred! Jonelle's baptism, New district, E. Oaks!

Kia Ora!

This week has been really good!

I have been transferred to Hamilton East! (It's literally like 30ks from Ngaruawahia). I didn't get to see Jonelle's baptism, but one of the members of the bishopric emailed me and told me that it went through and that it was really great. 

Rain!!!!!! Jonelle & Keisha

Kia Ora!

"But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the [HUUUUUUUUGE amount of rain] which God hath prepared for them [in New Zealand]" (1 Cor 2:9... kinda. ;D). I have never seen so much rain in a couple of days in my life. 

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.