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 finally did some door knocking 🙌 
- the bro Cliff from my english class in my first area also came up to whangarei to take us out to dinner and he told me that he's moving to hamilton :( im lowkey gutted but he said he will make his way back to auckland eventually. Cliff is a dawg tho

- saturday we worked on cutting this huge lawn and it was fun. 
- we had stake conference session that night. It was kinda boring ngl but i still learned and felt the spirit 💪

- sun was stake conf and we sang in the choir lol that was clapped nah yeah but it was good tho
- we had a fun comp study with a senior couple and they made us lunch too yum
- had a lesson with our boy kylan. Hes getting ready to be baptized so were keen as for that
- we did some fam history with the family that was feeding us dinner. So now im basically a family history pro

- today we went to the driving range and then called fam and played some games at the chapel. 
- we also had some really good visits this evening so things are coming together here in Riverside

Oh yeah i also cut my hair this week and its kinda clapped so the spiritual thought today is Mosiah 14:2

"For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground; he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him there is no beauty that we should desire him."

A beautiful chapter and i always love reading it.
Thats abt it from me tho. Hope yous are all doing well. Im keen for this next week cuz we should have a good amt of lessons. Ka kite!

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