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Week 63

Hi Everyone :D

Mum I'm in NZ nows my chance to enjoy the cold while it actually exists bc once I get back to Aus I'm going to melt..... It was 19 degrees on Sunday and I was sweating biking back from church :/ (mind you I did have a suit on, but still that's nowhere near where it gets in summer!) (I told him it should start getting warmer in some weeks to months seeing it's almost Spring, but he is in NZ!)

Well we did better than last week. Elder Brown is up on the board in the chapel. (Elder Brown is serving in Sydney North Mission)

H, N's moko (grandchild) hasn't been baptised and she's 11 and what's even better is she wants to be, so we're going to work with getting a baptism date for her. N is out of hospital, it was for something with her stomach we went to see here on Tuesday she asked if we could sing "I am a child of God" and as we we're leaving the other patient in the room started talking to her about it 'that's a nice song...' haha maybe we've planted a little seed.

J asked about baptism last time we met, I'm pretty sure the past missionaries have taught him the discussions but we'll probably go over them again, he has a concern with the Book of Mormon tho =.= and really the only answer to that is go read it and pray about it but the thing is getting him to read it!

We caught up with T again this week he had had a rough week and was glad to see us. and guess what!! We FINALLY got to see the V family (S and A) they fed us dinner on Wednesday and we shared a message about prayer and scripture study and they said to come again next wednesday for the same thing hahah S liked that I prayed in Tongan - Elder Fili wrote how to bless the food in Togan, and I keep it in my planner so I used that. - he was real happy about it.

We saw bro P this week hahaha so we knock on his door and his daughter answered the door and he came with cupcakes and the key to the flat "have a cupcake, it's W's birthday and here's the key" he was happy when we told him we weren't there to go to the flat but to see how they were doing "oh come in then" hahaha

I had an Exchange with Elder Nikau on Saturday, you can tell Pres Shum he's a good missionary haha but he doesn't like biking up hills HAHAHA (he usually has a car).

Me and Taylor had 'otai at Roy's for some YSA thing (they're still in the ward right??)

Oh yeah! finally off the hook for playing in Sacrament meeting haha a Filipino family moved in and their son plays :) hahaha last week they picked hymns no one knew so I just sight read the RH even bishop told me after he had no idea how to sing those hymns

hahaha everyone who sees the pic of them goes "are they you cousins?" they may as well be! haha so it's ok for Aunty Jilly to spoil me :P (Friends of ours from the country, and Reilly wanted a photo of them all to take with him!! hahaha)

Scripture

Isaiah 51:12 Here.

Alma 17:5 - even missionaries back then got tired hahaha Here.

and not a scripture but a good talk Glen L Rudd "Keeping the Gospel Simple" I think it was given at BYU. Here.

Love you all

Elder Cox