Wow i have so
much to tell you. Last Preparation day after i email we got calls for
transfers, so if i would've waited i could've told you where i was going
then, but oh well. So the big news
is that i got transferred. I am in Papakura, which is south Auckland
where all the polynesians are. It's is so cool! I am in an area called
Pukekohe (poo-keh-koe-ee) first ward but it's so big that there are
three sets of missionaries in that ward. 2 sets, elders and sisters in
the pukekohe main town and me and my companion are on the outskirts and
in the town of Tuakau (too-uh-cow). It's a great place to be, i love it.
My companion is Sister Samataua (sama- towa), she is samoan and very
beautiful and a very good missionary. She has been out in the mission
field as long as sister Prince, so like a month less than me. We get a
long great.
But the biggest news of all this change is that i have been
called to be Sister Training leader. This is the equivalent as a zone
leader. However, i am just over the sisters in my zone. I watch over
them and help train them . I take care of any concerns, conflicts,
problems, and disobedience that may be occurring. This
position is quite difficult but it has definitely already brought me
closer to the Savior. I care so much about all the sisters that i'm
over. It's scary thing to deal with disobedience,i am bold but this is
hard for me to confront someone and tell them that they are doing wrong
and need to change. i need some tips on how to handle this please! My
companion is a great strength to me, i am so grateful for her. She gives
me good insight and keeps me positive and helps me remember all the
things i need to do.
I miss sister Prince but i
know i am where i need to be. She is seriously like my best friend. We
were so close. I think the hardest thing about getting a new companion
is not being close like you were with someone else and starting all over
again. But it's doable. :)
I am happy! i absolutely
love full time proselyting! the VC was great but to be honest i was so
ready to get out. i felt like i was not progressing and now that i am
here i have so many ways to push myself to progress. Being the STL i
find that i need to EXACTLY obedient. i am the example for my sisters
to look to. I need to be working extra hard so that i can reflect a good
missionary but not just a good missionary, a consecrated missionary. I
have been studying lately how to be a consecrated missionary and it's
going to take some work, especially because i see all my weaknesses and
things i need to be better at but i know that i am willing to work on it
and try my very hardest to be it., so that makes it easier. Especially
with a companion who supports me and does her best to do the same as me.
It's amazing. If you can look up and find the talk "becoming a
consecrated misisonary" by TAd R. callister and read it you will see
what i am trying
to become. It's an amazing talk. I am trying to inspire the
missionaries around me, my sisters and district and zone, to become
this. We all came out saying we wanted to be the best missionary out
there, however, things change when that actually happens. Disobedience
creeps in, satan creeps in, and big things that are wrong don't seem
wrong anymore so we don't change it. Many things are happening in our
zone that are not good, so with our example as leaders we hope to help. i
must stay positive about them.
I am excited to have this
position. i am honored that the Lord has called me here. i am excited
to learn and grown so much more:) it's exciting. i push myself so much
harder so that i can be what the Lord wants me to be for him and the
other missionaries.
We have had so many
miracles happen out here in tuakau already, it's amazing! Just yesterday
we were going to contact this lady, a former investigator, and she
ended up not living there and we met the new lady that lived there. She
has been so prepared to hear and accept the gospel. she had just gotten
into a bad as car accident like 3 months ago. She fell asleep when she
was driving. She died. when the ambulence got there she was dead but
they were able to revive her. she died two more times after that. She is
now alive and well. part of her skull is missing, so if you touched her
head you would touch brain not bone. it's really neat. But she now
see's life differently than ever before. she does not take anything for
grantid, she hard out believes in God and wants to do anything to follow
him! she is so excited to learn from us and wants to come to church
hard out! it's so exciting! the Lord is preparing his children.
Well, i love you all. i
love my mission. Most importantly i love the Lord. That is my motive
for everything now.:) hopefully it stays! ha
Wow, you are in the very best mission ever! Here is a FB group your family should join.
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Vickie Hunt, mum to Elder Porter Hunt