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Elder Gardner: 9/8/25

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 Bike Problems Kia Orana Sorry i got no time for this email. This week was awesome as always. We found lots of new people which is always exciting. We had lots of bike problems this weekend and i also crashed on the bike lol. Anyways, in keen for this next upcoming week. We are gonna be pushing yo get a lot of ppl at sacrament so they can see the blessings that come from it! I'm loving my area, the branch is awesome, everyone is so sweet and God is good! Ka kite!

Elder Gardner: 8/25/25

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  Kia Orana!  This week was amazing! Even though nothing too crazy happened i still felt very grateful for what we had done and more importantly what the lord had done for us and for our friends! Some miracles: Teaching a girl jahzara, she doesn't know anything about Christianity so we started from base 1 and that's my favorite. We talked about the Godhead and then later in the week her mom canceled the lesson cuz she got sick and she said this:" Thank you for understanding. She's in bed with hot n cold chills atm... she said to me.. I can't feel the holy spirit right now... hilarious." It is so so cool to see how Jahzara is thinking about the things we taught! Sad that she got sick tho haha Had a very powerful lesson about the restoration with our progressing friends Danielle and Mila. They just always work on sunday so please pray for them that they can come to church Our members are so awesome. They are always so willing to come to lessons at the last minut...

Elder Gardner: 8/18/25

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  Kia Orana! E inangaro au kua meitaki kotou! I hope you all have been doing well! This week was very busy and full of miracles, but i will just highlight one. So a few weeks ago i was on a mini exchange with one of the Elders who usually serves on Mangaia (which is another island in the cook islands). We were going around knocking doors and came across a piece of land that had a big house and a little shed type house in the back. We knocked the big house and no one was home and then we tried knocking the shed house, because you never know what someone is living in out here lol. Well no one was in the shed house either and so we juat assumed it was a shed and moved on.  1 week later as we were biking by i saw that there were people walking in and out of the shed house, and they had cars outside the house. I had a feeling that we would have to go back sometime later. Yesterday we went and picked up some fish from a member and on the way back home i saw 2 cars parked outside the...

Sister Johnson: 8/19/25

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  Happy Tuesday morning!! ☀️☀️ it’s a lovely day so far:) Ok! So here’s an experience I have been feeling like I want to share with you all: Maybe a week ago? Ish? I was in the temple for to do initiatories. I can’t remember if I had an appointment or I was just walking in… I think I was just walking in.  The PCC temple has a really good system for helping people who walk in w/out an appointment be able to do initiatories. However after they got my name and all that jazz they asked me to sit in the front area where the desk is instead of in the back near the booths bc the benches back there were full. This was sorta upsetting to me, I had gone that day really hoping to be able to feel the spirit. But being up there near the desk meant I had to try and tune out all the happenings and chatting there. Recently I’ve discovered that when I’m anxious I can get pretty sound sensitive. So if there’s any noise going on it can completely overwhelm me with anxious thoughts.  I start...

Elder Gardner: July & Aug 2025

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  7/21/25 Sorry i dont have much time tonight. This week was amazing.  - temple on tuesday was awesome - healing from my infection in my leg and im cleared to still go to raro on thursday - lots of lessons this week - exchanges with the APs - lots of spirit felt and testimony grown of the saviors atonement  - ward conference - amazing lesson to set a baptismal date with your friend nate - district FHE with mission president and his wife to celebrate us winning in our challenge this transfer As a mission we just hit our baptismal goal for 3 transfers in a row now. With the goal increasing drastically each transfer. It is amazing to see the Lord progressing his work here in auckland and i feel very blessed to be a part of it. I gave had a strong testimony building week and i am on a spiritual high. I really want to keep this going and keep relying on the lord in all things! I have loved this transfer and the many hardships have made it a very special transfer in my mission....

Elder Gardner: 7/14/25

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 I HAD TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL THIS WEEK Yo kia ora whats up. This week was rough as but we made it thru the week and today we are at the temple which is sick. This is my frist time going through the new auckland for endowments so im keen - Last monday i was sick and my infection was pretty bad but we still had a good p day  - we had some waffles with other missionaries in the morning and then went shopping and took a nap, that night we did some work and then the area office medical advisor checked my infection and signed me up for an ultrasound the nxt day - tuesday morning we had a bunchbof trouble with the ultrasound place, but we got in and i had my ultrasound. I wasnt allowed to go pee before the scan so i was dying lol i needed to go so bad - after the scan we had a meeting and then did some visits and then we went to the doctors to review what was on the scan. The doctor said that i needed to go to the ER to get the infection drained asap so we headed straight for the hos...

Sister Koger: 6/9/25

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  A Mission of Miracles Oh hey it's been a great 19.5ish months This last week has been beautiful and so bitter sweet Finished off my last couple hours in my area with a beautiful baptism with a couple of my most favorite people in France.  Definitely a highlight of the mission.  I've learned so much over the course of my mission and I've written down 50 things  1. God loves us infinitely. 2. God wants us to find Joy. 3. Marking your scriptures will help you to have an effective study  4. The rain brings me joy 5. How to shut the water off 6. How to speak french 7. God answers prayers  8. The Gospel of Jésus-Christ is the path to eternal happiness.  9. The book of mormon truly testifies of Christ 10. Gods servants are called and really have the power to receive revelation 11. The spirit is NECESSARY for conversion 12. New members are the best missionaires out there 13. Personal revelation is realllll 14. Following Jésus-Christ = Joy 15. The temple is w...