MERRY CHRISTMAS EVeryone!!!!!! :):):) Great to hear from you all!! What a wonderful Christmas it was this past year!! Oh the joy that comes with the season it's beautiful!!! My last Christmas on the mission but it was one I'll never forget it was so much fun!!! Thank you all for your support, love and prayers.. I really appreciate all that you do and am very grateful to all of you!!
As you can see I'm starting to do paragraphs due to a special request from Dad on the phone! haha So it's easier to read I guess! Well from the top of the week we traveled up North on pday and spent the beginning of the week with the missionaries in Kaikohe and also Kaitaia:) That was a lot of fun but also a sacrifice on our part! We were out of our area for a little too long! We spent some of pday with them, and on Monday night did blitzes in their areas. Went to their district meeting and than after that hopped in on the missionaries serving in Kaikohe. Went in threesomes and that was really fun. I got to work with our new district leader and his new missionary. Elder Ngalu and Lamb. That was awesome they're great missionaries! On the other hand the other two missionaries in Kaikohe are a bit of a struggle!! More stuff we had to work out. One of the missionaries completely denies listening to any of his leaders because he says he's out here alone and has things to work out. One morning he just wouldn't leave the flat! Just laid there not saying a word and than all of the sudden he freaked out at around 12 and started throwing things and ripping things off the walls! Crazy eh?! So President gave him a call, crazy missionary!! Interesting guy.. Anyways besides that the trade offs were really fun and we were able to learn a lot! I love trade offs and working with other missionaries! That's like my favorite part about this whole Zone Leader thing. So Wednesday night we drove back to Whangarei. On the way Elder Spence nailed a massive feasant! That was pretty funny!! So got pics with our kill. We've killed quite a few animals on the roads on accident of course!! haha All this traveling business!
So back in Whangarei we went right back to work! Got back our faithful Elder Singh to us! Brownie was set to be baptized on Christmas Eve so we tried our best to contact him right away! Called and texted him heaps! Went over there a few times, even got members to pop in every now and again and we were never able to catch him before the weekend! :( So that was the sacrifice about all those tradeoffs. Because now we are going to have to wait until New Years Eve to baptize him!! All good his soul will be saved and that's all that matters! Dec 23 was Joseph Smith's birthday so that was cool! ha Christmas Eve was fun because we were able to set up solid appointments that night which was lucky! I was a bit worried we'd have nothing to do because everyone was with their families. But Christmas eve was good! Some of the other elders had 3 baptisms so we went to all of those! Nothing like watching a baptism!! Especially on the Mission!! :)
Christmas day was so so so much fun!!!! :) We went to our ward at 9 for just an hour and had a Christmas program and everything. Than we had to stay for the next ward for Elder Singh. And it was scorching hot it's a joke!! Doesn't feel like Christmas at all!!! After church we went to Bishop McDonald's for lunch, our bishop. Heaps of family there that was a lot of fun!! They gave us quite a lot of presents as well so that was very nice of them!! Got quite a few presents from members and such so that was fun! After that we went back to the flat and talked with the family!!! :):):) Best Christmas present ever!!!! Nothing beats that!! It was a lot of fun the whole family was there!! Everyone sounds exactly the same!!! Even says the same sayings I swear!! Ben being a dork:) Krystal defending him as always! Brooke saying "very good". Amber proving she's the best at writing me! haha everyone was exactly the same it's crazy but it was so good to talk to them all!! Made me miss everyone that much more!! Oh how I love the family!!! And mom and brooke making it a tear jerker! haha And than of course Dad being strictly obedient and making sure the call didn't go longer than what we're supposed to! But it was wonderful to hear from everyone again!! :) All my siblings, spouses, and the new additions to the fam! What could be better?! After I pulled myself together we went to Moko and Yvette's for even more food!! They had a massive kai ready for us it was awesome!! :) I love them to death!!! They are recent converts of about a year and were not going to church much anymore so we helped them best we could! A few lessons, dinners, and blessings later they're doing great again! So it was fun spending time with them and little Zion!! :) Adorable little girl!! After that that was about our Christmas!! When we came back there was even more food left on our porch!! haha The members here are wonderful!!! It was a great Christmas!!! Guess it's still Christmas for you guys!!! So Merry Christmas!!!! Really cherish this time, especially with the family and please remember what it is truly about... Our Savior.. As our loved ones are near let us express gratitude, and give praise to he who loved us he even gave his life for all of us.. I love my Savior and I know with all my heart that he lives.. What a time of hope and peace, celebrating the birth of Jesus the Christ.. For he is the Prince of Peace, our hope, our salvation. May we never forget and remember and reflect upon these truths again and again...
I love you all and wish you a MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!! :):):)
Love Elder Devey
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