Hey everybody Happy Halloween!!! It's pretty lame here nobody really does anything for Halloween! Oh well! We were thinking if we door knocked tonight and people reject us we could just say it's a costume and see if they'll give us candy!! haha but no way we'd do that!! Well how is everyone?! I hope everyone is doing wonderful!! 

This last week was absolutely wonderful!! It was so much fun this last week:) We went and spent pday in Kaikohe and than went and worked with the elders in Kataia.  The furthest north you get in the mission.  Elder Pohahau up there is a Tongan who definantely is the biggest man I've ever seen in my life and he snoors like a troll!! He's the most humble faithful missionary I have ever seen though! As you get with most of the islanders! Speaking of which it's weird to not have an islander companion! So for pday what did we do? Of course we played touch all day! It was legit though there was heaps of investigators and members that came and we even had a ref so it was way fun!! Can't move like I used to and now the body is more wiggly and jiggly than ever!! haha Oh well!! Comes with the call! Especially here in New Zealand. After that we just have gone crazy in our area! It's fun when we haven't been able to talk to to much people because of lessons we'll drive down to the city and just go nuts chasing people and such!! haha That's always a highlight of the week. 

 So Raiha and Narissa-may have still been in Auckland so their baptism is "supposed" to be the 5th now.. It better be! Old man jibs keeps gettin in the way with his work!! So we'll see, but the Lord provided for us anyways! So last Sunday in Whangaruru those mean bay areas.  We found an 8 year old boy whose been going to church there for awhile who set up his own baptism!! haha so we meet him last Sunday, go talk with his mom.  The mom asks can we get him baptized next weekend? We're like of course!! haha We record check the mom because apparently she was baptized in a creek when she was young by she doesn't know who.. Turns out no record at all so the boy is a convert.. haha crazy eh?! We teach him sunday morning get everything ready as fast as possible and he's baptized and confirmed on Sunday!!! :) So we ended with 3 for the month which was a huge blessing!! Miracles are everywhere up here!! WE're loving it!@!!! :) Next weekend we have those two, than the next another one in Whangaruru which is really fun because they haven't baptized for awhile so these two months will be really good for them!! So weekends of baptisms! The Lord is just so loving and merciful!! We don't deserve all this but we're very grateful for it all!! I'll a send pic of the man Duncan:) 

What else?.. Hmm not to sure! Oh one day things just collapsed! a miracle set we had Adrian that I think I spoke of last week.. Suddenly the adversary got to him and he just dropped us!! It was really sad! It was hard he was so great!! Hate it when things like that happen on the mission.. Best of times and worst of times at some points!! I just don't think people understand how important our message is to their eternal welfare!!! That's why we're out here chasing people!!! The blessings are on their way:) Well I'm grateful for all of your support, love, and prayers from home!! I need them!! I miss you all and pray for you as well!! Have a wonderful week I love you all so much!!!!

Love Elder Devey

Ps pics of baptism, me with crayfish and kena on my head! Seafood favs they were all still alive and moving! E. Spence's 21st bday! And a beach at Whangaruru:) enjoy!!

Oct. 23rd, 2011

Hello there everybody!! :) Hope everyone has had a wonderful week and that everything is just going awesome with everybody as of late!! I am doing wonderful here!! Just giving my all to the Lord and I love it more than anything!! It's the best!! Who could complain?! 

This last week was really fun and we worked our tails off!! There's been a big concern with the holidays and the world cup! The last two weeks have been holidays from school and than of course the world cup has brought the entire country into pure chaos!!! So it's been hard to do our thing! Our two sets there just keep getting pushed back because they have been in Auckland for a Coon's age!! It's been rough but we definantely have faith for this weekend!! Things have been really fun! I really enjoy working with Elder Spence.  We get a long great and it's fun to be with someone that has that sense of humor and comes from my nick of the woods.  It's been really fun and we've been working so hard together I've just loved it!

We've really been able to have a lot of success lately.

 Lots of new people we have found and are teaching and they are incredible! And just yesterday we went to the most beautiful place on Earth my favorite Punaruku!! Found two children who are unbaptized and set one up for next weekend and also another next month!  So there has been miracles all around! Also one guy that we talked to ages ago on his doorstep and invited him to be baptized we haven't been able to catch up with him for a long time.  And than we finally did and turns out he's been reading heaps of the book of mormon, has quit smoking cold turkey since we talked to him and other marvelous things that we had no clue about! He's been progressing without us coming around so that was cool! :) There has just been many wonderful things this last week!! Nothing better than the mission that's for sure!!

The zones been doing really good! We've been on a lot of tradeoffs lately which i always enjoy working with other missionaries!! It's a fun calling that's for sure just very busy and stressful!! Haha but this is what I signed up for!! :) Besides that I don't know what else to update ya'll on! Just can't believe that it's already almost halloween!! What in tarnation?! Time flies and it's pretty scary!! Well I love you all and please pray for me as I pray for you all!!  Love yous!!!!!

Love Elder Devey

Oct. 16th 2011

Thought'd I'd say hello like our good prophet!! :) That was such a wonderful conference!!  Well I hope everything is still going wonderful for everyone! I love and miss you all very much!! This last week was a pretty funny one.  We were in Auckland basically most of the week! We had to go down for Zone Leader council and than also for leadership training. Which was absolutely just awesome!! They were very good meetings.  I was able to learn so much! I love going to those meetings they're just incredible! Being with those experienced missionaries it's just a great experience! So that was really fun! So coming back into our area we had a lot of work to do so we went nuts when we got back. And we just had an incredible week! It was a very fun productive week!

 I've really enjoyed being with Elder Spence.  We've been working very hard and we're so excited for the things coming our way!! The Zone is doing great right now! We have a lot of awesome missionaries here! So can't compain about circumstances! Tommorrow we'll be having interviews with President! I love interviews and it's been a long time so looking forward to that!! And those two baptisms that were supposed to happen are going to have to be pushed back unfortunately! The grandpa randomly took them all to Auckland over the weekend that goofy old man so that's postponed until further notice! Besides that I don't know what else to update you guys on! It's been a good week and i'm just enjoying and reaping the blessings of serving our Master!! Nothing better! I hope that everyone has a great week this week and I'll be praying for you all!! I love and miss you guys so much!!

 

Love Elder Devey

October 9th, 2011

It's hard to think up titles each week but the famous 'kia ora' always will do:) Well how is everyone?! Is that so?! That's what I love to hear yo!! So everyone is being blessed what's new?! Well so are we!! This last weak was awesome!!! I just love missionary work so much!! I don't know if you knew that but I do!!! More than anything it's the best!! Well we were finally able to watch general conference this weekend! And for those of you who have served missions you know what it's like to watch it in the field! It's like 110 times better than the super bowl, prom, wingers, all of it i tell ya!! :) And this one, well each one i watch, just gets better and better.  This one was so amazing It pumped us all up like noone's business:) So what do we do? Well we do how we do and we save souls!!

So back to the top! This last week was good I'm back to my healthy self.  I was up in the North for awhile doing their meeting and helping the missionaries.  We had a lot of success up there it was a lot of fun! Than came back down to the best Whangarei where we got things all worked out for transfers on Thursday.  And that sucks as a zone leader! It's just pure chaos! haha Our zone has completely changed it's insane! Every single companionship except for 1 is a new arrangement.  Transfers was really fun though! Getting mail, seeing other missionaries all that good stuff.  And now I'm with Elder Spence and guess what?.... Believe it or not but my FIRST yes you heard me my first UTAH companion!!!! :) Haven't had a white companion since... The beginning?! Choice eh?! He's from Oak City and goes home in 12 weeks apparently, he won't say it but I found out.  He's the man! It's been fun working with him.  He's definantely a hard urgent worker that's for sure!! So excited about that! Hard to see my Mauri go away but I love change and it's awesome to be with him!! He has a lot of the same sayings I used to say back in the day and it's funny to hear them again.  So things are going awesome here!! :) 

This coming weekend we have 2 more of "Jibs" Mokoz.  Raiha and Narissa-May:)  Raiha is 17 and NM is 10!! So we're pumped about that!! This month has been a fruitful month due to hard work, the mercies of the Lord, faith and good ol Jibs missionary work!! W're really excited and just so very greatful!!! Well as of late it's basically impossible to write in my journal so mom you better be holding onto all of these!! By the way my mom's the best!! :)  There's so much potential here we just need to get to work and many more souls will be entering the kingdom that's for sure!! This week we have zone leader council and leadership training.  So we got to make the drives down to Auckland once again!! Just driving like always! haha Road trip!! Let's see what else?.. Not to sure!! Our zone is doing awesome!! Great missionaries it's fun to be working with them.  Well we're gonna go to Burger King now ha We'll chat next week but thank you all for your prayers and for your support and love.. It makes a WORLD of difference trust me!! Please pray for us here and I'll pray for you!! I love you all and miss you very much and hope the best this upcoming week!!! Love ya'll!!!! :)

 

Arohanui Kia Kaha!!! Elder Devey

October 2nd, 2011

Hey everyone!! :)
Hope you all had a fantastic week this last week! I know in my last email I sounded like I was going to die! haha Well good news I'm a lot better now! So that disease or sickness that has been spreading that apparently a few people have died from is called Meningitis I think? Anyways when I went to the doctor he thought it was the beginning of this sickness so that was pretty scary!  He said at least it would be influenza.  Which it was I'm pretty sure because I'm better now.  If I had not gotten better but got more sick they would have had to rush me to the hospital! So that was pretty scary! haha The doctor would call everyday to see if I was feeling better or if other symptoms started occurring.  But things are good now so no worries!! :)

Most of this week I was really really sick though.  I haven't been that sick in a long time it just destroyed me!! haha but no worries now I'm back to my old self!! :) So the awesome things from this last week is that we baptized two of Brother Ngawaka's Mokos(grandchildren)!!! Ibeneze and Demarsio and yes they're named after the guitars! They're such cute kids! Brother Ngawaka baptized both of them and my companion and I did the confirmations on Sunday! It was a real blessing to be a part of all of that!! Nothing better than baptisms on your mission that's for sure!! :) The Zone is looking really good this month! We're on target for our personal best!! Which was like a year ago with 21! We have 20 solid sets right now in the zone and this last weekend we had 4 baptisms! :)

So this month is looking very promising and we're so excited about that!!  We haven't been able to see conference yet that will happen this weekend so no baptisms than.  But the weekend after that hopefully we'll finish off these Mokos!! They're all so awesome! :) Can't wait for General Conference!! Feel like it's the Prom or the Super Bowl or something!! Absolutely pumped about it! We've already found out a few changes going on! We already know that Elder Whaanga my comp will be going back to Auckland as a District Leader.  So I'll have a new companion this Thursday! Change is always fun!! Our two district leaders are going home today actually!! Pretty crazy I know!! So my companion and I are going to have to split up and do district meetings tomorrow for the missionaries.  So back up to the North I go!! :)

I love it up there! So this will be a very busy hectic week that's for sure!! God will take care of everything so it's all good! Well things are going great here as always I can never complain it's the Lord's work I'm a part of so I have to be happy!! haha The gospel is a happy thing!  Well I love you all very much and hope you have another wonderful week and that the Lord is blessing you all greatly at this time! Keep up the hard work and know that this kiwi down here misses and loves you all!!! :)