Elder and Sister Saunders Mission : Visitors

We have been really blessed on our mission by the visits of family and friends. To be able to share just a little bit of our mission life with them has been amazing. Lesley came during the week of the Couple Conference. Lesley is one of the missionary sisters who taught us the gospel 39 years ago. Yes we took her to Hobbiton and our favourite place Whakatane. I hope she enjoyed her visit with us because we certainly enjoyed her company. On Lesley’s last evening with us we shared the Maori stick game with her. All the mishaps really made us laugh.

Our most recent visitor was Marc our son. That was somewhat of a surprise. Marc’s wife Fe had given him an early Christmas present of his ticket over here and back. Again we took him to Hobbiton but this time I just waited outside for them. Again we took him to Whakatane where we stayed with Elder and Sister Clark. They are such lovely hosts and looked after us well. We also needed to go down to Gisborne to move the Zone Leaders to another flat. It was nice to share the long, long, journey through the gorge, one which Elder Saunders and I actually like travelling through. We also went to a Maori culture show. This was so good and enjoyable. Now we have to try and get Marc to practice the stick game. We did manage to get him to do that on his last night. We also managed to take some very interesting videos for future birthdays.