Week 51

HELLO EVERYONE :D

How big are your strawberries then HAHAHA 

Yep looks really cold hehehe should be fun

We see Elder Cook on Saturday 30 May and yes same as last time apparently Auckland will be there too. I think it was in 2007 when he was called that I got to meet him before.

This week we met Sister Inia's Uncle!!!! A, we're going there tonight, H is set for baptism on the 13th of June, he's cool and N is sure for the 26th of June. and Sister A loved "Ayo" and "Ayo ayo" when we went for dinner :D (Taylor told him to say that because she is a Filipino sister, and speaks the same language that he learnt.)

We've been working with N this week, even tried to get him to church, didn't work but we invited him to our P'day today - ping pong bc that seems like the best way to get him back, reminding him about his mission, bc he's always happy when he talks about his time in Japan.

The E family are Samoan and everytime we visit them (they're LA) they feed us pork buns, I think I've had enough of the pork buns hahaha 

No I haven't gotten my box yet, probably tmrw at Zone Conference and guess what we all get there, A flu shot, Sister Rudd is sick of missionaries getting sick hahaha :P so i should be warm for the rest of the week.

And we did a heap of service this week stacking wood, helping someone move, mowing a lawn but not actually mowing it haha so we told the person who we were doing their lawn to get petrol for the mower and we would find a mower so we came and there was no petrol so we left; thought it was a good teaching opportunity about being prepared and doing your part that you're responsible for. 

We had a trade off this week too with the DL and he got all the jokes for the day, (the DL is still a Tongan, he's just been out a year and a half so his english is pretty good) made me realise how important language study is for Elder Niu'unga 

 

Elder Glass says 'shot bro' haha

@DAD Welcome to my weather minus the traffic hahahah (Stoo had to go to Melbourne for work and the weather and traffic were awful)

@ TAYLOR the protocols said we couldn't wear a jumper without our suits and he changed the rule so we could wear our jumpers anytime.

Love you all

Elder Cox 

Playing Ping Pong for P-day.

Week 50

Hey Everyone

This week was good it was funny hahaha. I fixed another flat tyre sheesh I don't know why we missionaries get so many either.

 Sis R's (a semi active) son R (yes his name is R R) is a crack up, we rode past on our bikes and 3 of her kids were outside (R is the youngest) and we asked if they were coming to church tmrw and one of the girls says "maybe" and R turns around and goes "NO! We ARE going to church tmrw!!" HAHAHAHA he's probably 5 or 6 it was so funny.

And Sis D our investigator we asked her to read Nephi chapter 1 so we follow up and she goes "I haven't finished the reading I've still got a few pages" she had read up to 1 Nephi chapter 20!!! haha she was trying to read the whole 1 Nephi so we went with it and finished reading 1 Nephi with her hahaha. 

and some tracting responses;

"who are you, what do you want?!?" "we're missionaries" "missionary somewhere else!!" 

and then

*as we hop off our bikes in the driveway* "Harae Atu!" (go away) hahahaha 

We met H this week he's good, came to church once and says he felt drained bc it was so long but that he enjoyed it and wants to keep coming we're looking at setting up a FHE with him bc he knows the P's :) 

haha and at MCM with D K he looks at our progress record with J and S on it; "You're just going thru my family aren't you" hahaha He's good though, still has a strong desire to do the work. 

President said they allowed sweaters again and the next 2 days were absolutely FREEZING (wind from the south off the mountain) so guess what, I wore a jumper hahaha 

(It must have been cold if he thought it was and actually wore a jumper!!)

I was reporting some referrals to Sister Marsden so I said hello from you and Ma and Poppy she says she misses you're happy voice on the phone Dad haha.  

No change with N but she loves to tell everyone that she's joining.

So we're privileged enough to get to hear from another Apostle the end of this month. Elder Quentin L. Cook, I wonder if he would remember shaking my hand all those years ago as a kid. 

Did Taylor end up composing some stuff? music I presume, could he send that if its finished idk what else to send. the more you send the harder it is to fit in in a suitcase haha

Photos

That's not a feijoa, THIS is a Feijoa 

Zone photo

nice view

Scripture:

1 Nephi 21:14-15 Here.

Love you all, Have a great week!

Elder Cox

That's not a feijoa, 

(I've only seen them as big as large strawberries here)

THIS is a feijoa.

The zone.

Nice view.

Week 49

HI ALL :D

Yep good to see you yesterday :)  (We got to Skype with Reilly for Mother's Day, and because of that this week's email is really, really short!!...... But lots of photos!)

bc yeah I'm like Taylor I said everything yesterday. don't know what to email today..... We pretty well ate the same thing you did at the B's; roast pork, chicken  and veges mmmmmm and yes apple sauce and gravy. The B's are cool always fun to go to their house. 

Heaps of photos for you this week tho :D

my hand hahaha  (He cut his hand on an open window frame and needed it stitched/taped together - photos below.)

LOVE YOU ALL

Elder Cox :)

Last week's p-day activity - bowling.

He got a strike, and of course needed to show us!

Reilly and Elder Glass that he knew 

from Sydney before he left. 

Reilly and Elder Gilmour, from England.

They were in the MTC together, 

and keep getting moved into the same district or zones.

Some walnuts.

Elder Niu'unga thought he could take 

a short cut under the bars instead of getting off his bike.

Don't think it's working!

The cut!

Close up!

Taped together!

Week 48

Hey everyone :D

We went to Mamaku (the back of nowhere) to tract last week Tuesday hahaha is was pretty fun (and cold :P) this little dog followed us around (just like in the video games bro is it Zelda with the dog that would follow you?)  anyways so after it followed us for a while and made our shoes dirty and annoyed the other dogs at the doors we knocked Elder Niu'unga got sick of it and put it over the fence hahahhaha

On Monday after P'day we went to see one of our LA (I won't say who, you'll see why) and it was around 6 so it was kinda dark and so we knock on they're door and the ask us what we're doing out so late but they invited us in anyways and it was clear they had been drinking anyway so after talking and all we went to leave and they said you better get home and get a few hours sleep before you have to get back to work. hahahaha They thought it was 6.30 in the morning, not night HAHAHA and that we had been out all night too hahahaha

We met S last night, he said come back tonight bc he had visitors coming but he's keen to listen and has cousins who are members.

N is thinking of a date, but we feel it's getting quite close. 

C was just visiting and he was the other elders investigator but I knew him well enough.

Did I mention the K's came last week, J is cousins with the C's in Hamilton.

that's not a feijoa mum :P to small hahaha they almost get to tennis ball size here, i'll have to see if I can get a decent size one and take a picture. (I told him I saw some feijoa at the fruit shop after he told us his story last week, and they were the size of large strawberries)

no... didn't see anyone running or Mee-Eun or Jake how long are they staying?? (We have friends who were running in a marathon in Rotorua, just asked if he'd seen anyone running!)

we were going to do laser tag but it was booked so ah well

sorry if this is rushed, we only paid for an hr today bc of p'day activity (we aren't at the chapel, too many people up for p'day) but hey, we'll talk sunday :) (We get to Skype for Mother's Day!! YAY)

Photos:

chocolate orange thing we used to get - I found it :D

Love you

Elder Cox

The dog that kept following them.

Chocolate Orange bar he loves!

His zone.

A funny sign, that's all I know. 

When he finds funny signs he sends us photos of them.