Vindy Vellington

June 22, 2014

Well, here in Wellington there's a big old sign on the mountain like the Hollywood sign saying Wellington. But this week it has a makeover so it now reads Vellington. Probably for an upcoming vampire movie or something, so now I saw I'm from Vellington in a vampire accent ha.

My companion and I on top of old barracks looking out to the ocean between the north and south island.

This week we were fasting for a miracle. We've had a lot of great investigators that just kind of fell of the rails. That happens quite a bit here.. so we were praying for a miracle. I mention the little boy Tomai last week and he is doing great! We were teaching he, his little sisters, and 2 member cousins the Plan of Salvation this week. We have these little visuals that we use to show the plan and kids really love it. His mum, who always sits in the lessons just started asking us all of these great questions! She told us about a time in her life when her prayer was answered and she knew God existed. She asked pretty much all the questions we answer in the Restoration lesson, and she even said that maybe one day she would be baptised and become a Mormon. Ha we were just so stinkin happy! We hurried to the car, wrote in a Book of Mormon and gave it to her. It was so great and we really believe great things will come from this family and the faith of this young boy.

On Wednesday there were transfers and a whole heap of missionaries left for home. We were so happy to be able to spend the afternoon with Sister Alcock before she flew home to Canada. I met her on my first day at the airport, so it was fitting that I take her to the airport on her last day. We got to stop in to see some of her favourite people and it was nice. But also terrifying to see missionaries go home. Ha it just isn't real!

It's getting real cold and windy here. I'd say that the best thing about our area is that it's getting more steady. We are so lucky to be teaching a lot of lessons in the week, working with many less-actives, and we're are lucky to have great members who feed us:) In this ward we are really lucky to have supportive Relief Society members who come on splits/rescue visits with us each Thursday night. That way we get to help the Relief Society and they help us as well.

We stopped on our bikes to pick up this balloon ha.

That's it. It was a pretty boring, and consistent week ha. I love the area I'm serving in, we get our new President on Sunday, and I'm working on a presentation to show and tell the new president all about the Wellington Zone so it should be a fun week!! I love you all heaps and hope you have a great week:)

Love, Sister Kennedy