Zone leader conference

March 12, 2012

March 12, 2012

Hi everybody!! :)

 I hope your all doing well as always!! Feels like I was just here talking to you! Well here I am again! First of all I love you all very very much and am so grateful for your love support and prayers! You're all awesome and I'm grateful for all that you do for me and for everything that you continue to do!!

 

This week was another great week!! The missionaries in this part of the vineyard have been on fire! I love working alongside them and am so grateful for the hard work that they put into this work. So this week was just like any other week I guess! haha it's amazing how similar everyday is! But I love it! :) On Tuesday we had a trade off with a companionship as always and that was a lot of fun! And while on the trade off Elder Dyumthi came up from Gisborne again for Zone Leader council on Wednesday.  That's always fun having him around I love him to death! So that was a really fun trade off! Than on Wednesday we had our Zone Leader Council again.  They come so fast it's crazy! Just come and go! It was a really really good one! We went to this place they call the big guns:) It was a lot of fun and was basically a testimony meeting which is always special:) Learned a lot of things as always, especially what I'm not doing!! haha Oh my goodness how the mission has been so much fun to help me realize how weak I am! But the most important lesson how strong I can be with the Lord on my side!! :) But ya I saw and still see a lot of my weaknesses this week! lol But that's all good! I think I really did need a lot of humbling especially compared to how I was before I left onto the mission.

 

So that was a lot of fun! And the next day we had a city-wide conference with some general authorities again which was really good! Elder Watson of the seventy, Brother Beck, Brother Osgothorp, etc! It was SOO good!! Learned heaps at it! I love having conferences with the mission! I always learn so much and it's just so much fun to be around all of the missionaries!  Than that same day I got to go on a trade off with one of our district leaders Elder Whipple back in my old area of Papatoetoe! :)  That was a great day! Got to see and run into a lot of old investigators, converts, and members! It's fun going into old areas! They've been having a lot of baptisms lately so we get to keep going to the chapel to watch those and that's fun running into everyone! Especially when we get to see Junior and Allison always good! :)

 

Besides that this weekend there were a lot of baptisms throughout the zone! Not for us though but for all the other missionaries.  Especially Elder Falepapalangi who I came out with from West Jordan he had 8 baptisms this weekend! And that baptismal service was insane!  Just heaps of tongans and food! It was incredible!! :) Nothing like getting to see all the baptisms happen it's the best! So this week was really good! Things are fun! I love serving the Lord! Nothing really new to report just grateful to be out here! My body just feels so tired all the time now though and I don't know why! I don't think I"ll ever get ''trunky'' just very tired! haha But it's all good it's for the Lord and I gotta give my all because I won't be out here for forever! Well I love you all and wish you the best!! My prayers and love is with you! Hope you all have another wonderful week!! Love you!!!! :) Arohanui!!

 

Love Elder Devey

March 4, 2012 Kia Ora!! Kia Ora!!

Hello everybody!!!! :)


 It's Elder Devey once again! hope ya'll remember me!! haha But it's good to be back talking to you guys!! I definately miss you all very much!!! Oh life is good.. Nothing better than serving I'm telling ya!!! i never want it to end!! Thank you all once again for all your love support prayers and all that you do for that matter! You're all amazing in your own way and I appreciate who you are and especially what you've done for me.. So i love you all what more can i say?!  :)  

This last week was super good so we'll start from the beginning!  Pdays have been non-existent since i've been here but that's all good! Just more to sacrifice for the Lord!! :) But monday evening was really good! Our stake president is the man and what happened monday night is we just stayed at their home for the 3 hours while each hour a new investigator would come and we'd have a lesson! The ideal situation it was so much fun!! lesson after lesson with them coming to us haha so ya our stake president is really onto it that's for sure!! :)  on tuesday we had a trade off with the assistants!! That was way fun! I got to go with Elder Kaufusi who is close to where we are in Utah!! He's the man! It was so SO much fun we went hard!! i'm still sore from this week! haha we actually tied the record for most lessons in a week in the NZAM.  Lol! That doesn't even matter though! It's just because our ward is way legit! We have an army of young men preparing for missions, some with calls in hand! So we go on splits all the time and just pound our area! Way fun!! So it was a super good week but very very tiring! It's hard to keep a consistent effort! The years are starting to wear me down a bit! But it's all good because the Lord is my strength!! And time now is just flying... It's really scary actually!! But I'm gonna give it my all to the end!!

So we've been working very hard! Elder Byam is the man and is unstoppable! So it's been super fun!! on thursday we had a zone training with president with just our zone! That was really good! Always enjoy meetings, in fact I love them!! Never did before but now I can't get enough! This week I've had to take heaps of missionaries to doctor appointments and such! The errands oh how that's fun! Um what else.. Well I guess nothing up until this weekend!! :)

We had Ruth's baptism!!! :) She has worked so hard for this!! It's amazing to see her come this far! That was such a fun baptism! Really good turn out.  There's even members in the ward that play the violins so they did some musical items that were mean! Great service, the spirit was very strong.. She gave an awesome testimony but she's so funny!! haha half maori half tongan.  All her kids were baptized last month and now since she has finally overcome word of wisdom issues she could enter in by the way!! :) So ill send pics of that and also nancy's again because I don't think that they worked last week.  So Elder Byam did the baptism this time and I was blessed to do her confirmation.  I love serving so much it's so fun to see miracles and God's hands each and every day... It has been very special.. I love my mission so much..So it was another great week! Can't believe it's March already!!! Yeehaw!!! I miss and love you all so so so much!!! Hope you have a wonderful week!! My prayers are with you!! Love you all!!! And congratulations once again a shout out to Amber and Russell!!! Love you guys!!! Love you all very much!!! :)

Love Elder Devey