Kia Ora,

I just came across the list of the 58 new missions being created! http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/list-of-58-additional-missions-created If I could direct your attention to the one that starts with New Zealand and ends with Hamilton. Yup! That's right! The Auckland mission is full to capacity, and it cannot handle any more missionaries, so it is being split. This will really cause the work to Boom!

Concerning new investigators, great members, transfers, and stake conference

Kia Ora!

So, this week has been a pretty good week. I don't recall if I wrote about Dayna in last week's email. Anyways, she is a friend of the daughter of one of the member familes in the ward. She and her mom and sister were taught by previous missionaries, but these missionaries are the same missionaries that bribed that one girl I wrote about to be baptized with chocolate. So, it's no surprise that they had no success. Lol... 

Concerning Te Kauwhata, Tradeoff, New/Former Investigators, Cooking, Less Active, Blessings, and something that I will think to throw into this email. ;-)

Kia Ora!

So, as district leader, I have to conduct a tradeoff every so often with each of the Elders in my district. "Normally at least once every transfer cycle, a district leader works with each elder in his district and zone leaders work with district leaders in their zone." As it says in the Missionary Handbook. Anyways, I conducted one on Tuesday. I went with E. Jubitz, the senior companion in Huntly, and E. Peni went with E. Brown. It was an okay tradeoff. I say okay because really not too much happened. They are having a really big problem with having people to teach. They are great in the fact that they are teaching heaps of lessons. However, they have very few progressing investigators, and no one that wants to be baptized. Not their fault, just it is "their lot to have fallen into the hands of a more hardened and a more stiff-necked people; therefore they would not hearken unto their words," as it says in Alma 20:30.