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Elder Gardner: 5/12/25

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  Kia ora! This ones gonna be short lol - mowed some lawns - had a lesson w our 2 new friends - super spiritual member dinner and gave some blessings - found some new families to teach - our friend greg came to church and loved it - sent out heaps of txt messages to all our members - went to a sick little beach today and had heaps of fun Super good week! Keen for all the lessons set up for next week! Love ya mom!

Sister Johnson: 5/5/25

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  Me encanta ser misionera de servicio. mucho. ¡MUCHO! Though it's been about three weeks since my last email, I honestly don't have much to say😂 so it might be a little short. But I am moving forward with faith that though I might not see the importance of sending an email today, God can still use me for good:) If you don't get anything else out of this then at least know this:  I have a testimony of Christ and that He lives. I have a testimony of His great Atonement and gospel and I know that it blesses me and can bless you every day. I know that only through Christ can we return to live with our Heavenly Father and have a fulness of joy. So think Celestial! Because Christ is life eternal.  I also know that life is life. And by that I mean sometimes life can be hard and sucky. And sometimes life doesn't go the way you think it should. Hopefully I can share with you in that. And as you read I pray that something I write will stand out to you and help out with all the ...

Elder Gardner: 5/5/25

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  Byu soccer, the bro Cliff, and my haircut is clapped Kia ora fam. This week was nice. It was good to get settled here in Whangarei and the work is starting to move forwards!  - tuesday we had some nice visits in the morning, i felt extra blessed from the lord that day - this was also after conference weekend for us so i was so keen to get out and actually do missionary work instead of sitting in the chapel all day - also met our newest member whose a dawg, he's having some issues getting a job and staying afloat financially so send some prayers to Connor - Wednesday we had our district meeting. Our district is small but super fun, we have some sweet missionaries in it. - we had a good resto lesson  - the womens byu soccer team came to do a youth activity for our stake, that was pretty crazy to see the most Americans ive seen in a long time haha but it was fun - did some nice service in the morning on thursday, thats abt it lol - friday we had some good visits and finall...

Sister Koger: 5/5/25

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  3 Nephite elevator scandal Oh hey i just had a great long transfer that went by really fast because sr. Hann is incredible and colmar is so cute.  A little transfer overview: Limited edition Sauce:  we ate so many good sauces but our fridge was limited on sauces and we'd make our own, Sr. Hann meant ro say that we had limited options but she said limited edition and that's way better. What tribe are you ? We spent 6 days outside of our appartement because of something that happened, we spent the first night at a members house, so kind of them but it was lowkey so awkward. We then went to the closest sisters area to us for the next few days and one of their members was CONVINCED I came from an island.  He then asked me if I was native American... I resorted to showing him my family tree lol... 5 minutes later he asked me what tribe I'm from. Bruh I just showed you my family tree but then he was like, no like what tRiBe.... like your lineage. He had me tell the entir...