That's right folks you did read that right. Your favorite
missionary the one and only has been out for almost 100 days. Which really isn't
actually that long but my comp burned her bra yesterday for her one year
mark and I just want to feel cool like her so any ways 100 DAYS yay
*burns... hair tie?*
So life in the good ol' NZHM is peachy keen. Kura and the
boys (definitely going to petition for that to be their band name) GOT
BAPTISED. Wow it was incredible. Real quick before I tell her whole story I just wanted to shout out any return or current foreign serving missionaries who
are about to start quoting the church's national privacy policy yes I got her
permission first before I wrote this email again stop with the judging. So wow
the Leka whanau, they are amazing. So Kura said I could say as many or as
little details as I wanted but I'll try and keep it to a minimum.
But miss Kura
leka is just the sweetest lady ever. she was actually the first investigator I met in NZ. So my area Red Hills, Papakaura, has been closed for a long long
time and the mission has had occasionally elders just covering the area and
kind of just keeping tabs to make sure the members where still alright and one
day they had this crazy prompting to knock all the doors in this one street I won't say which one because you know privacy but its notoriously known as the
street where the main New Zealand gang is staying, and these elders had some
serious faith and trust in their Heavenly Father and decided to go tracting
down this craz dangerous neighborhood, aka may or may not be my neighborhood, sorry forgot to mention that mom, promise I'm fine, the gang is cool, don't
worry. Anyway the elders ended up knocking on Kura's door. It turns out that Kura
started dating her husband James (who's a member) when they were 13 and six kids
one wedding and lots and lots of trials and heart ache later, James ended up
going in active and never taught his wife and children about the church and Kura being the awesome person that she is mid crazy hard trial, decided to pray
even though that goes against everything she believed and prayed for help, and a
few hours later the elders ended up on her door step with a message about how
God answers prayers and the rest is history. Sister graham and I got permission
to finally reopen Red Hills and met Kura and along side the elders ( love them
) reactivated James and converted the whole family and baptized Kura and her
three oldest boys. I might have cried ... alot. Shocker. But this past transfer
(6 weeks) has been full of miracle after miracle after miracle. It's been
amazing. The Leka whanau was baptized and confirmed the weekend.
Sangeta our
other friend we are teaching is on date, and Maia, one of my closest friends we
just put on date for her baptism on the 7th. I have had the privilege to meet
SO many amazing humble people who are so full of love and have stolen my heart. These past 5 weeks my testimony has been strengthened immensely and over and
over again I have felt God's hand in my life. I love this work SO much. I dont
even want to think about how different my life would be if I didn't decide to
serve. I have come to a much clearer knowledge of God's individual love for his
children and a stronger testimony of the Book of Mormon and how it really is
the word of God. Wow this gospel, Christ's gospel, really is so good. I'm just so
happy to be a missionary. I'm sorry this weeks emails wasn't as full of dumb
stories as the past weeks, but I just really wanted to take the time to tell you
all that I really do love this work my Heavenly Father has allowed me to be
here and meet so many people that through out heir stories, have helped me draw
nearer to my Savior. because of the privacy policy rules for missions outside the
us we aren't allowed to state anything other then the names of those we work
with without their permission . So its been hard to share the stories of the
miracles I do see on a daily basis so my emails usually just do consist of the
usually dumb things I end up accidentally doing, but I just want to let you know
despite the lack of stories of actual missionary work it's all I really want to
talk about. In preach my gospel it talks abut how the closer you draw to your Savior the more you'll want to share it with others and its so so true. Anyway I'll step off my soap box now but wow I love being a missionary.
more stories and pictures to come soon, keep on praying,
love you all much - Tuahine Berrett
1) good ol sister Graham
2) the Leka whanau, the coolest missionaries ever, and the
elders :)
3) AUCKLAND SOUTH ZONE!!
4) the man. the myth. the legend.
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