Taranaki Travels

Well we are off on our travels again. Elder Saunders wanted to inspect the flats in Taranaki and get better acquainted with the missionaries there. We believe that we can serve them better if they know that we really do care about their physical and spiritual welfare and by personally visiting their homes, finding their faults (of which there were a few, ha ha ha) we hopefully can help them grow. By that we hope that their homes will be a lot cleaner in the future and that maybe we will have heathier missionaries. We can only hope. Of course most of the homes we saw this weekend were very good but they had not reported some of the faults or items that needed replacing or fixing. So we were also able to sort some of those things out.

We went to church today at the New Plymouth Branch and two of our missionaries spoke at our sacrament meeting, Elders Christensen and Mitchell our Zone Leaders. What lovely uplifting talks. Elder Christensen spoke about the importance of obeying our leaders or parents and shared a personal story of when he was backpacking as a youth and found out from experience the importance of obeying his father’s council.  Elder Mitchell spoke about the importance of reading the Book of Mormon and challenge us all to rededicate our lives to reading and studying this book.

We visited these Elders at their home yesterday and I must tell you about how excited they were about sharing with us what they had learnt about England. Every Thursday night there is a club that practises Morris Dancing. We explained to them that everyone in England is a Morris dancer and if they ever visit England they must learn how to Morris dance before they arrive. Well I’m hoping to be able to post their first lesson here. So, so funny, Elder Mitchell has a natural talent I think. Sorry video is too long so just take my word for it that its so funny.