October 10, 2018

Dear Farmington Whanau!

Well, this is my last week with Elder Johnson we think, eveything is good here though. We are really giving it everyhting we have this transfer and We were able to set the Whetu family for baptism which was amazing! We also are teaching this one guy named Steve Parkinson, and man it was a week. 

As we have been talking one thing that we lewarned is that Steve is a massive as fisherman. like HUGE. We were talking and he said that he wanted to take us out Salt water fishing off the beach with either two types of ways, the first one is called a surf caster and you cast the line out past the wave break and fish for massive Kawai, but apparently they are power houses. 

The second way is called, get this, Kite fishing. What you do, is you hook 1 kilometer of line to a kite and sent the kite out  over the water and attach like 20 hooks on the whole thing and see what you get, for us, we went Kite fishing because Elder Johnson will probably leave next thursday we went last week. It was great, the only problem was that the wind was blowing the wrong way so we ended up having to call it and now we will have to do it next week, but still it was awesome! 

After, We went back to his house and had a Kai, one of his family members showed up and started talking and had this suprised as look on his face. Later the next day, we found out that he was his uncle, and he was talking to us about what we did going fishing with him, and he told us that no one has ever gotten this close to him on talking about the gospel and bring him back to church. not even his close family. We were shocked and we both just were blown away that this guy basically called us miracle workers, but man I must say, I am so humbled to be in this part of the Lords vineyard. I love this work soooooooooo much and i never want to come home sorry haha.

Elder Allart

October 1, 2018

Kia ora Farmington Whanau,

I did the impossible this week, I finished Jesus the christ, a 793 page book, in two weeks. Dude you have to read it. It has so much knowledge in that book it is not even funny. I love this place though. So this week I actually had to send my trainer home to  the air port! It was sad, but he had to go. I love ELder Olctott, he Taught me many amazing things for the mission and the rest of my life. We did have one unfourtunate thing though, While I was with him I actually went to go get some star fish for when he  goes home and I got a twelve fingered star fish, at the expense of my pants, It can be fixed, but the rip went all the way up the seam, it was crack up as, most star fish have 10 fingers, but the one my poants got done on had 12 fingers, in hunting terms, it  was a "toad" haha. As I was runing away, I got the water literally at my heels. It was epic. Another thing that we did this week is that some of the ELders iin the district had to cast a devil out of a home so we had to go help them, wasn't anything crazy  though, we just blessed the home. This past week we also lot the car, the sisters scratched it before us so now we have to get it serviced for a week, it will be wayy rough though because we coveer heaps of farm towns, like 10 cities, it is a huge area. While going though we managed to set up a dinner appiontment next thursday and we will hopefully start teaching a Part member family, the Fatais'. The are a tongan family and the helped me out with my first raw kena. Next we rode bike to a place way out of the way to 222 waiuku road at 6 at night to in vite the Fahina family to church. once we saw them the actually ended up telling us they could not come. I also was able to find out that they are feeding their rooster KFC. Freaking crazies. We are also teaching a family out of the opposite side of town.

Elder Allart!