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Elder Gardner: 4/27/25

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  Kia ora, its been a pretty good week. We had transfers and i got shot up north to whangarei. Im pretty keen to be here so it should be good transfer! Ill just do some highlights cuz theres no motivation for this email rn. https://photos.app.goo.gl/TQ33C4d8unDGQ4xA6 all the missionaries and catch up with them - drove 2.5hrs up to the area, this was my 3rd time driving here in NZ so i said a fat prayer and we made it all good - my comp is elder davis, we were in the mtc together so it should be a lit transfer - stake pres was so funny and hes so keen on getting a whangarei temple soon, ill attach a pic of his photoshop rough draft - weekly planning was good to learn about the friends in our area - got to give a blessing at a hosiptal - we went to a lesson with a members nephew. Turns out the member is brothers with one of the members that i know pretty well in my first area i served in. Also his house was crazy. It was right next to the beach - we finally watched conference. It was...

Elder Gardner: 4/2025

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  Stolen bikes 🚲, Hurricanes 🌀, and Bongs 🚭 Kia ora. Its been almost two weeks because we have our temple trip today, so there was a lot of things that went on... - tue we had interviews with pres. I think it was pretty rainy that day - wed i had an exchange with elder na nonkai from Thailand. We had a couple good lessons but while we were door knocking we got invited into a home for 20 mins and when we came back out our bikes that we locked up on the pole were gone... we turned the corner and saw a bunch of kids huddled around our bikes. We started running after them and elder na nonkai grabbed his bike from some kids who had taken the wheel off for some reason and i kept running after a kid who started biking away with my bike. Thankfully that kid was pretty trash at biking cuz i caught up and he got off my bike and gave it back while saying. So the kids left and we got our bikes back haha it was pretty funny. Classic south auckland. - thursday was easter zone con so we had so...

Sister Koger: 4/7/25

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  Happy fish day Or happy April fools as they say in the states  First update in a while but I moved!  I live in the east of France, a cute town called Colmar. It's next to Strasbourg!   I love being a missionary and this is the most joyful time of year.  Jesus Christ lives !  And because He lives, everything will work out :) Cool miracle of the week We were on a train coming back from Luxembourg and I started a conversation with the guy sitting next to me on the train, and he asked what I'm doing here in France and I told him about why I'm here. The man across the row told him, yeah they're the Mormons, and told him about the good things our church does. The original man who was sitting next to me got off and so I talked to the guy who knew so much about the church and asked him how he had heard about the church. 40 YEARS AGO missionaries came to his parents house when he was a kid and they left a big impact on him. His parents weren't that interested...

Elder Gardner: 3/31/25

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  Heaps of blessings this week! Kia ora wussup guys. Its been a good week. Im almost done w p day so this will be a short one sorry. Ill give some highlights - did some service and cut someone's lawn. That was nice - first meeting with the new district and we got some food after which was nice - i turned 20 this past week which was crazy! God gave us some nice blessings with our lessons and stuff that day - busy day teaching heaps of lessons on friday. Its always great teaching - went to the baptism of my comps friend in his old area. We saw jeff get baptized and he's the man - sunday we spent ages at the stake center prepping the font for baptism and then there was a family temple work devotional that night that totally guilt tripped the stake into doing temple work but also the music was really good and spirit there was awesome - p day was really good. The bro jeff who got baptized took us out to the driving range and then to the arcade. We ended p day playing sport at the ch...