Talofa, malo, alo, bulu good morning and kia ora my
whanau :)
Well its been a while sorry about that my dudes, but its
been real crazy since I talked last, I don't even know where to start.
So here's a couple main points so I can catch y’all up
1) Well Carol decided she didn’t want to get baptized she
left us a voicemail at 1 am the morning of her baptism. But you know
everyone has their agency.
2) I got my visa... that was hard to hear. Like don’t get me
wrong, I was so excited to go the the fetchin bomb mission the NZHM, but the
small town of Minot North Dakota really stole my heart. It’s funny when I got
my reassignment call I was a little annoyed I was like “Um, I’m pretty sure
there isn’t anyone other than buffalo in North Dakota and all my pals were getting
cool reassignment calls to like New York City, and the gorgeous state of
Washington and crazy Colorado.”
And I was a little annoyed. I think heavenly father new I
needed to take my ego down bit, and good thing beccause I’ve never met a kinder
people in my life than the humble people of the Minot 4th ward. I honesty cried
when I found out I got my visa. It was hard. My mission president and his wife
were some of the kindest most inspirational people I’ve ever met, and my
companions became my best friends. I honestly just can’t thank my Heavenly
Father enough just to allow me to be part of the ND,BM family. Anyway sob story
over. But I dipped out of ND and I might have cried but it’s okay no one needs
to know.
3) NEW ZEALAND IS WILD
4) I flew from Minot to Denver to LAX and then to Auckland
it was crazy. And somewhere in the wild mess they lost my luggage,
one of the planes broke down, I was three minutes away from missing a flight,
and I got 0 hours of sleep but its was actually a blast 12/10 would do
again.
7) I landed in New Zealand and I’m gonna be honest I might
have definitely thought New Zealand was gonna look like Moana with everyone
singing and dancing in perfect tropical weather and like dancing palm trees I
don’t know. Well turns out its not.... ITS LITERALLY SO MUCH BETTER! So fun
fact New Zealand is like the cooler version of London. It literally has
everything anyone could love about London, the food, the lack of preservatives,
the funny terms, their obsession with having to do everything opposite of
America, like driving on the wrong side of the road and using things like
kilometers and Celsius, like gosh who does that? Because obviously we are
the best and everyone should be like us. (so that parts a little annoying) and
really kind people. And then take all of that but then put it on an island full
of Polys and funny Europeans. It’s amazing. And then give them knock off
Australian accents and an obsession with rugby, like four different Polynesian
cultures intertwined with the London culture and the BEST FOOD AND dairy in the
entire fetchin world!
8) Fun fact there are more sheep than people in New Zealand,
also another fun fact there are twice as many cows then sheep and then last fun
fact 65% of all dairy world wide comes from New Zealand so basically we are
cool and I want to be a Kiwi now, okay moving on.
9) I got the cutest companion in the world Sister Graham
from the very small very unheard of state of Utah. Ya I know I’ve never heard
of anyone especially missionaries from there either.
10) I’m actually serving in Auckland which is weird because
there are three missions in New Zealand the Hamilton, ( aka the coolest and
best one cough cough mine) the Auckland mission and the Wellington mission and
I guess my mission president took one look at me and was like “Ya I’m sending
her to the other mission”. So rip. But yes I’m still in the Hamilton mission
but for some reason part of our mission actually covers Auckland. Ya I
don’t get it either. But that was cool. OH also President and Sister Erekson
are amazing and I feel so honored to have them as my mission president and
mission mom.
11) (sorry didn’t mean to write this much) so I’m serving in
the Red Hills area, which covers the Princess ward (the Tongan ward)(cool I
know, right?)(ya I don't think any of the Tongans like being in a ward called
the Princess ward but I think it’s hilarious) and the Red Hills Ward. And
well long story short, the poor members have ahad a really bad experience with
the past five or six sets of missionaries who actually all got sent home after
serving in the area so it’s been closed for a long time because the people
really dont like missionaries, so me and Sister Graham are white washing
(opening an area) and just trying to gain the trust of members yet. And I
really appreciate the experience because I don’t think I have ever worked
harder in my life and I’ve only been here for a hot second but I’m already so
in love with the people and the work and im just so grateful for the
opportunity to be a missionary. It’s amazing.
12) I’m learning Tongan so that's super cool! It’s not my
main language it’s just a side language we were asked to start studying so
it’ll make the work a bit easier and ya also I started learning Russian and by
learning I mean I started it on duolingo and I think its been like two months
since I've been on there but basically I’m a pro so.
13) Sorry for the long email I’ll try and shorten it down
next time anyway love y'all so much thanks for the support keep on
writing.
Arohanui,
-sister berrett
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