Nov 2, 2014
Hello Barnett's!! Man 4 months down and 20 to go!! Can't
believe it! I feel like I have been out for ages but in reality I am still
brand new!
This week has been so good and I looked back in my journal last
night and realized that every single day I have wrote that I have been happy
and have loved my mission! Things have been going so well and that's what I
really needed to happen.
This week I have been focusing on being happy and finding
joy in everyday missionary routine which is really difficult because missionary
work is HARD and honestly its difficult to just stay awake during the day, let
alone be happy. Also I have been striving on working with my confidence and
trying not to dwell on the things that I cant do perfectly and focusing on the
things that I can do well. I have been able to see myself improve significantly
over this past week simply due to the fact that I'm not doubting myself and my
skills and because of that I am able to speak with more power and conviction
and also able to bear a stronger testimony because I'm not judging myself the
whole time I am speaking.
This week were able to find an amazing potential
investigator named Anna and she is a born again Christian and we just started
chatting to her on the street while she was about to walk across the road to
her sisters to have tea (tea means dinner here) anyway we asked her about her
beliefs and how she came about believing in God and why she gave her life to
Christ and then just told her that as missionaries we go around and help people
strengthen their faith in Christ and that we are able to provide more knowledge
to her. We told her that we wanted to come back some other time and have a chat
with her and talk more about our church and she said that would be great! She
is going on holiday for the next 2 weeks so if I don't get transferred I may be
able to get her as a new investigator!
Also really good news! We were teaching the Wirihana-Hawea
family last night and we were talking to Haare (ha-day) who is pretty much the
man of the house because the dad split. He is 19 and is dating Cerise and they
have a 3 year old daughter named huni (honey). Haare isn't even really part of
the family but he still acts as the dad haha but we were talking to him and
going over the restoration and he was really interested to learn more. He
doesn't really know anything about the church and was baptised as a Christian
but stopped going to church because he was being forced by his Auntie but the
whole family committed to come to church next week!!
Halloween is pretty much dead here and I only saw like 15
people trick or treating and that was really weird and it is just so freakin hot. It stays about 100 degrees
constantly here during the summer...
Also this week we were walking around and street contacting
and we met this guy named Travis watering his lawn, he wasn't really interested
in religion but as we were walking away from his house I saw in his driveway
that he had a Yamaha R1 and I freaked out and ran back up to him and started
talking to him about it and he ran and grabbed the keys and brought it out for
me and started it up and let me sit on it and get pictures!! Man that was the
highlight for my day!! I will send you some pics of Elder Tau and I and also
pics of the bike!!
Hahaha I thought I was tired before my mission.... You dont realize
how good you had it until you leave it haha!
Oh mom,btw, I am in the Choir for the Christmas program we
are doing here and our first practice is today!!
Ahh I love Sister Touli!! You need to do one other thing to
my facebook and make it so that anyone can friend me and that you dont need to
confirm who is my friend. After emailing I think Im gonna go get some KFC or
Hungry Jacks. KFC is SO big here and it is way different then KFC back home
cause its way modern and nice here and you get chicken burgers and chips and a
drink. It reminds me of chick fil a but way better:p I miss cheap food!! Let me
give you an example.... A 30 pack of coke here is 25 bucks....for 2 litres of
coke its 4.50. Plus the coke tastes different here and its not as good. Fanta
is massive here and there is another drink called Solo which is sparkling
lemonade and I love it!!
Anyways I gotta go but give everyone a hug for me!!
Love you so much!
Elder Barnett
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