Kia Ora, Kia ora!
Greetings from the Pit of Despair. I mean the Pit of Prosper-ity. Wainui is
great! We've been seeing a lot of great success. Even though we just got
dropped today by our recently found golden Investigator. But these things
happen, and we carry on.
Sorry, by the way, for not writing yesterday. It was "The Queen's
Birthday" so it's a holiday they have every year and they close everything
down. I used to think that New Zealand had so many random holidays just so they
could take a day off of work. But then I realized we do the same thing in
America, but just with different names for the Holiday.a
The week has been good though. I had the opportunity to go to Wellington for
what was probably the last time, but it was cool to be able to go even though
I'm not a zone leader. Elder Finlinson, one of the Assistants who's going home
July, started his mission here, so he pulled some strings and did an exchange
with us, and I got to enjoy the hills and views of Wellington again. I've
decided, when I get a new home for the first time, I've got to live on a hill.
With a great view of the city. Preferably of the ocean, but that's not much of
a possibility in Utah.
Wainuiomata is a great place, and it's a lot more exciting being in an area
when you actually know your way around. I feel a lot less like a little child
following around his dad, and more like a missionary companionship endowed with
power. I was in Palmy way too long that I still feel sometimes like I'm just on
exchanges rather than actually being in a new area. Though I already know my
way fairly well around the place, so that just shows how small it really is.
The ward here is really good. Everyone loves us and is happy to feed us. I hear
a lot of missionaries gain a lot of weight in this area. I'm determined to
fight that though. Elder Maas and I have been going running in the mornings. He
runs a lot faster than one might expect, but I beat him on the hills.
We had a really great night last night as we taught the grandkids of a sister
in the ward. The kids' parents are less active, so none of them have been
baptized, but all six of the kids usually come to church. We taught the Plan of
Salvation, though they already seemed to know quite a bit about some of the
parts of it. We had each of the kids draw a different part of it on their own
sheet of paper, which was basically just to color in a circle. And then we laid
them all out in order and taught them about the picture they drew. Eleven-year-old
Wairere drew a pretty detailed picture of the spirit paradise and the spirit
prison. We had to explain to them afterwards that people won't really be
burning or on fire if they go to spirit prison. The best part of the
lesson though was after we had taught about the resurrection. The kids were all
really excited about the idea of Resurrection, and getting a perfect body, and
what we'll look like. We then said, "After we get resurrected we then get
judged." Right away, nine-year-old Renee asked, "Are they going to judge
us on our looks?!" So we had a good laugh about that. I hope that sounds
as funny as it really was, because she seemed really concerned about it.
Well I gotta go. I love you so much and hope you have a wonderful week!
How is
school already over?! Time is flying!
Love,
Elder David John Rowe
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