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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....