tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87854859672043955382024-03-05T02:53:23.721-08:00Elder ZealandThe amazing adventures of<br>
Elder Mason Seelos
serving an<br>LDS Mission
in Auckland, <br>New Zealand
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Elder Seeloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15804982578761714156noreply@blogger.comBlogger105125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785485967204395538.post-5950854498289809642017-07-16T21:03:00.001-07:002017-07-16T21:04:09.242-07:00On the countdown....<span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: , "segoe ui" , "segoe wp" , "tahoma" , "arial" , sans-serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 15px;"> Just saying, this is weird. This might be the last email that I send... So thats weird. I will return home next week on Tuesday. Still doesn't sound real. </span><br />
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This week was pretty normal. One thing that we did get to do was attend a baptism in the Zone Leaders Branch. They did the service at the chapel and then went and did the baptism itself in the creek behind the Branch Presidents house because they dont have a baptismal font. So thats cool. Thankfully Heavenly Father blessed us with a nice day for it! It was the first day of the entire week that it didnt rain... It was still cold as though. But thankfully it was overall good! </div>
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One person that we got to see this week was our Recent Convert Leilani. She was baptized in April right before we got here. She is really cool! Well we go over often to help grow her understanding. So we went over last night to see her and her 2 siblings and her 2 sons are here for School Holidays. So we got to do a bit of a lesson with her sisters who had a few questions. They are 16 and 12. They went to church with Leilani and so they had a few questions. So it was a good thing that we showed up! Really on to it girls. Too bad they will be going back to Auckland next week.</div>
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We also had Trade offs with the Kaitaia Elders. That is Elder Berger and Elder Ateo. I went with Elder Berger, he finishes in about a month, to Kaitaia. We had heaps of fun! Elder Berger is from Utah as well so we got to talk about home a lot. Heaps of fun! Ha. We got to meet their new investigator who they started teaching this week. She is really cool! Very prepared! Its amazing to see how Heavenly Father is always preparing people we just have to be ready to receive them! </div>
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I was given the opportunity to speak in our Branch yesterday as well. It was cool how easy it was. I spoke about how important our behavior is. So I talked about how we all need to be examples to others and how what we do can influence if others will accept the gospel or not. I shared a scripture from Alma 39:11. Alma is correcting his son Corianton for running away from his mission and told him that many people didnt believe his words because of Corianton's actions. Its amazing how impactful our actions and words can be on others. </div>
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Love yous all and see yous next week! </div>
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New Zealand is si beautiful. I’m going to miss it so much. </div>
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Elder Seeloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15804982578761714156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785485967204395538.post-35676324699562376962017-07-09T19:53:00.000-07:002017-07-09T19:53:13.868-07:00Digging, farming, praying, & meeting my new Mission President...<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> Morning everyone! </span><br />
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So this week was interesting. The big highlight of the week happened on Saturday. We had stopped by the Matene family on Thursday night and they had said that they had a funeral on Saturday for Sister Matene's Auntie. So they invited us. Well in the Maori Culture when they have a funeral their family will dig the grave before the funeral by hand... This one was partially culture and partially because I don't think we would be able to get a digger to the cemetery without a helicopter. The track to the cemetery was pretty intense. Wet as, and there was a stream that we had to cross about half way through that was about 10 meters across... Then up a huge muddy hill. The trucks that they had barely made it up. So they had to use a tractor to get the casket up there. Well back to the story. The Matene's asked us if we wanted to help dig the grave. So of course we said yes! It was pretty cool! Just imagine that your digging a hole about the size of a double twin mattress 6 feet into the ground... Then when you get about 2 feet down it becomes solid clay. Yep that was basically what we did. We started at 8 and didn't finish until just after 11. Then the casket came up they had the burial and then we filled it in about 15 minutes. So that was a mean experience!</div>
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So we got to meet our new Mission President this week as well. President Walker from Hawaii. He is a great man! His wife is full Japanese and moved to Hawaii during school and was baptized when she got there. We had Zone Conference with them on Thursday, we then got to have interviews right after that. He seems like a great guy. Definately different than President Balli, but will be great! He is really focused on the little things and making sure that we are following Preach My Gospel as best as we can. He has made a few changes but nothing really big. Mostly just reminders. Its weird to think that I will only be serving with him for a few weeks. I will get one more interview with him and then I'm done. Thats about as much as I will see him. </div>
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One thing that I really learned this week was about Prayer. President Walker talked about Prayer and how to get the Highest of blessings, & that we must ask for them. There is a law that is given which all blessings are given and a lot of times those blessings are based upon praying and asking for them. So that is something that I have been applying this week. I have been praying for an out pouring of the spirit in our area, for more love for my Father in Heaven, and for guidance. It has been a great experience. If you are ever wondering if Heavenly Father is really there then pray and ask. Its the best way to know those things!</div>
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We got to do some farming as well this week. When we went to Brother Matene's he was cleaning out a shed for the new calves that he just got and so we helped his clear those out. Then the calves had gotten out and so we started to chase them around. Well we got them all in the shed except one. So we were trying to chase in around and then Elder Taranaki ran up to him and just picked it up. Thats the Maori way. Just get in there and get 'er done! </div>
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We had trade offs with our Elders this week as well. I stayed with Elder Tuaputa in our ward. Its funny because I am the only one that can drive in those 2 companionship's. So I always have the car. So Elder Tuaputa and I went and did visits. It was fun to be with him. This is his 3rd transfer so he still has the Greenie spirit. So thats always nice to be with again!</div>
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Elder Seeloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15804982578761714156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785485967204395538.post-79454536258469332232017-07-02T20:11:00.002-07:002017-07-02T20:11:20.672-07:00Spitting wood & blessing babies...<span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 15px;"> This week went great! Its still so funny how insanely fast the time goes by. </span><br />
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We were able to do a good amount of service this week! Wednesday was basically service all day! We started with a member family to help them chop wood. So that started at 10. Elder Inglis was pretty sick that day so he went and took a nap in the car about half way through. So we finished up the wood around about 12. There was so much wood! It was fun though! Splitting wood is my favorite service to do up here. We then went to help our Elders Quorum President rake up his yard. There were quite a few leaves there. It was surprising. We then went with the Zone Leaders to help their member cut some wood. There is a tree that is in the middle of the bush just off of a logging road that he has been slowly cutting up. So he cuts branches off and we haul them to the trailer. So that went from about 3 until 4:30. We then got to go home and get a feed. So thats how we spent our afternoon! It was great!</div>
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P-day last week was really cool! We went to Cape Reinga. The Cape is the top of NZ and a very spiritual place for the Maori culture. It is known as the place where the Spirits jump off the land to go to Heaven when they die. It was really cool to be able to say that I have been to the top of NZ. Hopefully one day I will be able to say I have also been to the Bottom of NZ. </div>
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<span style="color: #212121;"> President and Sister Balli left the mission on Saturday. Its really weird to think about. Our new Mission President is President Walker. </span><span class="contextualExtensionHighlight ms-font-color-themePrimary ms-border-color-themePrimary ident_1527_1597" role="button" style="border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: rgb(0, 120, 215); cursor: pointer;" tabindex="0">We will get to meet him on Thursday at Zone Conference and Interviews.</span> <span style="color: #212121;">Its really weird to think about because he will be my Mission President for only like 3 weeks. It was sad to see President Balli go. It will be really cool to see what changes are made. I am really excited to see the effect that it will have on our mission. </span></div>
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It was exciting to get to see the Baby Blessing for the daughter of a Less Active member that we have been visiting the whole time that we have been here. She is a single mum of 2 kids and her youngest was blessed yesterday. She has been to church 2 weeks in a row now. So we are really proud of her! We stopped by the family house after church and they had heaps of family there. It was great to see everyone there. Sister Tait, the mum, was so happy to see everyone there! </div>
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Yea, verily I say unto you, if ye will come unto me ye shall have eternal life. Behold, mine arm of mercy is extended towards you, and whosoever will come, him will I receive; and blessed are those who come unto me.</div>
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This is Christ speaking to the people after the Destruction happens as the sign of his death. He has told the people that they have been saved because they are the most righteous ones in the land and then calls them to him. Christ calls all of us to Him so that he can save us. Even when we are doing the wrong His arms are still extended to us.</div>
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Sorry for the lame email. Don'<span style="text-align: center;">t have too much going on! </span></div>
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Elder Seeloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15804982578761714156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785485967204395538.post-18279873729648552502017-06-25T19:51:00.001-07:002017-06-25T19:51:19.715-07:00A baptism & a goodbye to President Balli.....<span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 15px;">This week as been awesome! I swear that the longer I have been a missionary the faster the weeks go by and the more people ask how much longer I have. I have to say that I was a bit excited and a bit sad that I was able to tell people that I only have a month left. </span><br />
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The big highlight of this week was of course Ataahua's Baptism! It went so well! We had a few hick-ups at the start but overall it went well! It just shows that Heavenly Father is totally behind missionary work and wants these things to happen. He really will put his hand in these things! It was cool to see all of the family behind not only her but her family. They have heaps of family that are really great to them and awesome examples even when they are choosing the other roads. It will be sad to see them go in a week. We have really come to love that family. They are awesome!</div>
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Still doing heaps of service this week. We got to go and chop more wood with our members. Its starting winter now so everyone is just now deciding to get their wood for winter. It gets really cold here and so they are all getting ready. Most houses have fire places so they all need wood. Its great that they let us help though. Most times members wont let us help, but up here they do. Its great!</div>
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We got to have trade offs this week as well. That was fun! I went with Elder Taranaki to the Zone Leaders area. They cover 2 branches, Opononi and Outaua Branches. They are mean area's. It takes about 30 minutes just to get to their area so they are really in the bush! Elder Taranaki is from New Zealand. He lives in the Hamilton mission area, but still in the Ysa ward area. So I know people that he knows from back home and I know where his house is. Its really funny to talk about! </div>
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We got to go down to Whangerei this week as well. That was a pretty sad experience. We went down to have our last Conference with President Balli. He goes home on the 1st of July when our new Mission President, President Walker comes in. Its really sad to see him go! Its been so great getting to have him my entire mission and getting to learn from him. It will be great to get to meet President Walker, but will be hard that I will only really get to spend about 3 weeks with him and really only see him like 2 times before I go. It will be really interesting to see what he does with our mission. </div>
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My spiritual thought this week come from Matthew 25:14-30. This is the Parable of the Talents. The Lord in the story gives 3 men talents or money and then leaves them. 2 of the men double their money and one hides his so he doesn't lose it. The Lord comes back and rewards the first 2 men with them keeping their money. But the 3rd man he rebukes and takes the money from him. I imagine our conversation with Heavenly Father one day will be much like this one. He will ask us what we have done with the blessings and talents that he has given us. We want to come back and tell him that we have used it and grown it, not that we have hidden it and are still the same.</div>
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Sorry for the boring as email this week! Seems like everything every week is the same! But hopefully we will have some more good news next week! Love ya heaps!</div>
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Elder Seeloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15804982578761714156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785485967204395538.post-47395786512605863012017-06-18T20:32:00.001-07:002017-06-19T13:17:44.758-07:00Temple, Apostles, the flu, & lots of blessings....<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px;"> I just have to say that this has probably been one of the best and worst weeks of my mission! </span><br />
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Start off with the good. The TEMPLE! I was blessed this week with the opportunity to go to the temple. I got to attend a Sealing with Brother Malua Fatialofa. I was able to be a part of his teaching, conversion, and Baptism in May of last year. Elder Bass and I were able to go down on Friday and be with them. Well as we showed up to the temple at about 7 am we were waiting for another member to show up to be the Escort. Well another member showed up and said that Elder Anderson was outside... Like the Apostle. So of course we went outside. Well he was right. Elder Neil L. Anderson was walking around in his Track suit and a baseball cap exercising with the NZ Hamilton Mission President. He seemed a bit annoyed that we were asking for pictures while he was dressed like that, but he did it anyways. Then we told him why we were there and he switched right around. He was so happy for these two. It was cool. </div>
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Then we were able to go into the Temple and as we checked in the Temple worker told us that Malua had to wait for the 11:30 Session and that there was an 8:30 Session that we could make if we wanted to. So knowing that would be our last time in the temple on our missions we took the chance. So we got to do 2 Sessions that day. It was amazing. I learned to much. Then after that we went down stairs for the Sealing and that was just amazing. They were both crying and just so happy. I was so happy for them. Unfortunately the Sealing was done in Samoan so I didn't understand much, but I could defiantly feel the Spirit of it. Also on a side note. It was the Manukau Stake (my last area) Temple week, so there were heaps of members that I knew at the temple that day. It was another little blessing.</div>
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Now for the normal news. Ata'ahua is set for this Saturday. YES! Everything is getting set up for that this week. Just have to finish the lessons. Everything is pretty solid there. Just wish us luck that she will be brave enough to do the Interview. She is an extremely shy girl! So hopefully that will go through. Her Dad came to church yesterday as well for the first time in a while and so that was mean to see him there and he stayed the whole 3 hours and for the Shared Lunch afterwards. It will be sad to see them move in a few weeks.</div>
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We had our Branch Primary Program this week. That went well! It was fun to get to practice with the Primary kids a few times for that. It was awesome to see so many kids coming to church and so much of their family there. We had 56 in our Sacrament meeting and probably about 25 of them were kids and probably about 30 people were Less Active that came for that. It was so great! </div>
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Now for the Worst part of the week. I have been healthy just about my entire mission. Maybe a few colds. Thats about it. Well of course the week that has the most things and the most important things on is the week that I will be sick... I basically woke up with the flu on Thursday Morning. The day that we are suppose to bus down to Auckland. So I threw up a few times that morning. So my stomach was empty. So I just took some medicine and didn't eat. Well we took the bus ride at 1:50. Sat on the bus for about 4 hours then sat at the bus depot for 2 hours then took another 15 minute ride to our stop. We were picked up at 7:45 that night. Again I was sick the whole time. Thankfully I was empty so I didn't throw up that whole time. Well we then stayed in a flat in Auckland and went to the temple the next morning. Again just didn't eat so I didn't throw up. I was fine in the temple(Blessings). Then on the way home we stopped for food. So I ate. Thankfully I was able to sleep the rest of the car ride so I was fine. I haven't thrown up again but haven't really had an appetite the rest of the week.</div>
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Elder Seeloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15804982578761714156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785485967204395538.post-90157184688205979592017-06-12T17:11:00.001-07:002017-06-12T17:11:26.503-07:00Loving our branch, teaching lessons, & mini golfing.....<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> Starting off sorry we were late today. We decided to go Fishing with a few of us Elders. It was fun. Very unsuccessful but fun none the less. Lets just say that NZ is an awesome place!</span><br />
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GREAT NEWS!!!!! We were able to teach Ataahua (Wesley’s (LA) 9 year old daughter) a few times this week. We talked to them on Sunday after church and she is going to be baptized on the 24th of June. So we have to hurry up with the lessons but we can do it! She is going to be staying here with her Uncle who is on the High Council in the stake so she will be solid as when she moves. I am really excited! The Lord answers prayers. This will be the first Baptism in the Branch this year I think. So thats really exciting! </div>
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On that note. I honestly love the Awarua Branch. They are literally the best. We got to go to the branch on Sunday and the love that you can feel there is just so great! Its just a place that I want to be and I want to bring my Investigators! The members are great! They are all just like a huge family. Everyone knows everyone, they all do things together. When Sacrament started we had 26 people there. We were blessing the sacrament. Like its so small but full of spiritual giants! </div>
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We got to have Zone Conference this week. That was in Whangarei. Thats about an hour down towards Auckland. We had to be there by 8 so we left at about 6:50. As we were leaving Kaikohe the sun was coming up. There was fog everywhere. It was mean! Then as we were getting back the sun was setting. So it was a long day in Kaikohe. President Balli talked about using the Book Of Mormon to help solidify our Investigators. He promised us that if we could get our investigators reading the Book Of Mormon then they would not drop. So thats our focus!</div>
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I got a GREAT Phone Call on Friday. Elder Bass called and said that the Fatialofa's (Malua, the Guy that Elder Bass and I Baptized in May last year.) are getting sealed this Friday. A mission rule is that if one of your converts are getting sealed you can go. So I called President and he said that it would be fine. So I get to take a bus to Auckland by myself on Thursday and then go to the temple on Friday and then come back to Kaikohe on a bus. Again by myself. So that part is going to be weird but will be so fun! I am so excited! </div>
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Transfers are this week so that is a thing. I am about 99.9% sure that I am staying here with Elder Inglis, but Ill let yous know! </div>
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Elder Seeloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15804982578761714156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785485967204395538.post-7467396056377404262017-06-04T20:59:00.000-07:002017-06-04T20:59:19.034-07:00Birthday, Area 70, & lessons with investigators....<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> So to start off my email this week I want to give a great thanks to everyone who helped me celebrate my birthday! Thanks for the emails and just thinking about me. Special thanks to the family for the wonderful book that I was sent to be able to celebrate with all of yous this year! </span><br />
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My birthday was great! I got to spend some time with the elders and we went out and had lunch at our Branch Presidents house and played with his goats. We then got to go and visit families for a while and jsut have a normal day. We also got dinner with a member. Then we finished our night with the Clarke family. They are great. One of the families that get close to all the missionaries. </div>
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This week the Kaikohe Stake got to have Stake Conference. Elder Coward from the Area 70 came to preside over our Conference. One great story from our conference was about my companion. So we went to the Priesthood leadership meeting at 3. Well during that meeting Elder Coward asked a question about Elder Hollands talk in General Conference October last year. Well he just asked what it was about. Elder Inglis, My companion, stood up and said "Save Souls." This was a sufficient answer we all thought. All of us except Elder Coward I guess. So he said "You know, That reminds me of something. It reminds me of my kids at Family Home Evening when they were young. They would be falling asleep and we would ask them a question and they would wake up and say "Faith" Or "Pray." Now these answers are right, but not really helpful." So we all started to laugh and we realized that my companion got roasted by an Area 70. So lets just say that has been the recurring joke the last few days!</div>
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We finally got to sit down with Wesley this week. We saw him on Wednesday and then also on Thursday at the Kaikohe Markets. He was selling Hangis at the market. So a Hangi is a traditional New Zealand Smoker basically. They dig a hole in the ground and then put in Fire then Rocks then the food and then cover it. So the food is cooked. Its really good. Well we got that for dinner that night. Then we got to see him yesterday. We stopped by and saw the family. Well we are officially now teaching his daughters. Atahua, and Rangimarie. They are 9 and 8. He is leaving to Australia on the 4th of July and wants them baptized before he goes because Atahua is staying behind with his sister. </div>
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We are headed to play mini golf right now with President & Sister Balli! They are the best! We love them so much. They will be going home in just a few weeks.</div>
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Well sorry for the short email today! It was a great week though! </div>
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Elder Seeloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15804982578761714156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785485967204395538.post-61004058287966204602017-05-28T20:48:00.001-07:002017-05-28T20:48:28.365-07:00Cows, Wood, Horses, and Rolled Cars.....<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> So as you can tell from my title this was an interesting week! </span><br />
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We started the week off well! We had a great Trade off with our Elders in Kaitaia. I got to go with Elder Ateo from Tahiti. He was practicing his driving so I got to sit in the passenger seat the whole time and it was mean! Good to have a break from driving! Their area is huge and so its a lot of driving. It takes about an hour to get there from here so yeah. We had fun though! Elder Ateo is the man. He is still working on his English, but tries really hard. Fun guy!</div>
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Following that Thursday was a fun as day. Our Member, Brother Matene, asked us to come and help with some service. So we happily accepted! We went over around 10 and we started chopping wood. He had the Chain saw chopping up trunks so we could split it with the axes. We chopped for like 2 hours. Overall it was so fun. But I was so sore the next few days! I also have the blisters to prove it! Ha. Well the next day we went to go and visit his family nextdoor to him and his son was there and we talked to him and he said that his dad was in the back yard. So we went to say hi. Well he ended up asking us to help him move some of his cows down the street to a new paddock. So again we happily accepted and thew on our gum boots in our boot. So we then ended up driving 6 or 7 cow about a Kilometer down the street. Stopping traffic the whole time. That was pretty fun. After that his son asked if we had ever ridden a horse before. Then he let us ride his horse. That was fun as too! Just an average week her in Kaikohe! </div>
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Last week we got to do some Bone Carving with a Less Active member in the other ward. His name is Graham. I started on a pretty mean carving. I am going to make a necklace out of it. I am pretty keen to try to get into that when I get home. Its pretty mean and is a better hobby then Xbox all day! Ha.</div>
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We got to meet with a few investigators this week. We finally caught up with Wesley yesterday. He told us that he is moving on the 4th of July. So its set. Well we talked to him for a bit then we asked him about baptizing his daughters. He is going to talk to his wife about it cuz one of them is staying in New Zealand with an Auntie and Uncle when they move. So we might get her baptized before they move away. </div>
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We also got to go to our branch yesterday for church. Got to bless the Sacrament for the first time in ages! It was funny when we sat down after the sacrament our Branch President came down to us and said that they were short a speaker so asked if we would talk. When he said it we couldnt tell if he meant just me or both of us. So thankfully we both started to prepare. Well the 2nd councilor then announced that Elder Inglis will speak to us. Then never called me up! Ha. So I missed that one. Well 2nd hour we basically did set up to try to teach a kid that came with one of our members. His name is Holden. He has been coming off and on to church for a few months. He has been pretty regular at seminary as well, so there isnt really much holding him back other then the fact that he is a 15 year old boy and they are all stubborn and just do their own thing. So we are going to hopefully teach him this week. We then got into combined Elders Quorum and Relief Society and no one had prepared the lesson. So they all just said to have us do it... So we did. They gave us the book and we taught just straight from nothing. Just a solid testament that the spirit help us when we need it! </div>
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So last crazy story this week. Sorry this is huge. So we got a call on Wednesday around 3:15. The assistants told us that the tracker on the Zone Leaders car had sent into the office that their car had flipped. They tried to call but were not answering. So they wanted us to go and see if they were okay. They gave us the street they were on and we found it quite easy. They are in the bush. So just heaps of farm land and dirt roads. So very little cell service. Well we got to the street about 30 minutes later. We drove the entire street... No car. So we drove about half way up again and got cell service. So we called the mission office to ask again where they were. Well they told us that the car had moved..... My question was how does an upside down car move? Well they had moved about 20 K's up the street.... What? So we drove there. We found them about another 30 minutes later and they were fine. They had just hit a bump and drifted a bit and they just didnt have cell service so they didnt see us calling... So yeah. We then got back at about 5 just in time for dinner! Ha. </div>
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Thank you for all the birthday wishes! I had over 30 emails to open this afternoon! Love my family. </div>
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Elder Seeloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15804982578761714156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785485967204395538.post-406239520883246232017-05-21T19:05:00.002-07:002017-05-21T19:08:26.316-07:00Muddy work boots & loads of work...<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px;"> This week was honestly so fun! It rained heaps this week so Elder Inglis and I spent a good amount of time in the mud! Good thing for Boots! There is HEAPS of less active work to do out here! </span><br />
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We were able to have Trade offs with our Zone Leaders this week, Elder Frew and Elder Taranaki. I stayed in the area with Elder Taranaki. It was cool because Elder Taranaki started his mission in the same area that I started. So we were able to talk about all the people that we know from that area. We actually had heaps to do that day! We had Rescue night with our ward, we had an appointment with a Less Active member, Kerehopa Tait, and then we had a lesson with our Investigator Troy. Gotta Love trade offs!</div>
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We got to do another Service on Tuesday with our Member, Sister Tait. This is Kerehopa's Sister. Well she has a goal to paint her house for her Land Lord cuz the Land Lord is letting her live there for pretty cheap. Well she is trying to paint it and there is a lot of prep work to do. So we started to help her sand the house. We got about half of the first wall done and then had to leave to dinner. So we are going to go back and try to finish up the job soon so that we can start painting. We announced it in Priesthood Yesterday that we could use some help with it so hopefully that will work out.</div>
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We truly LOVE our Branch. We are trying to spend as much time out there as we can. We have a less active member out there that we started to visit this week. His name is Westly. He is a convert but has fallen away. He is alone right now with his 4 kids cuz his wife is working in Australia to make more money to build the house that they want. So he has one girl that is 9 that our Branch President wants us to try to get baptized. He also has a daughter that turns 8 today. So we are really going to work on getting them active and Baptize them! </div>
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One fun thing about our Branch is the fact that it is just farming land. Its just a big long street with houses on either side and a few small side streets with a few houses. So that makes addresses easy. The only issue is that they are terrible with addresses over here. Like way bad. There will be houses with no addresses. There are always numbers skipped. We will see number 6547 and then the next one could be 6503. No houses in between. Just fields. We also found this week a house that is number 34 on the odd number side of the street. Like what the heck? Gotta Love New Zealand!</div>
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What I get out of here is the fact that Alma got revelation from the Lord only after he Poured out his WHOLE SOUL unto God. Are we willing to work that hard for the answers to our questions?<br />
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Elder Seeloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15804982578761714156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785485967204395538.post-85052123732962522572017-05-14T20:32:00.001-07:002017-05-14T20:32:40.987-07:00Service, splits, and skyping....<span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> Hello family!</span><br />
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On Saturday we got to do a service with one of our members. They had cut a good amount of trees in the bush behind their house and they needed to trek them out of the bush into the trailer and then unload it at their house. There were 2 trailer loads. It wore us out! Then after that a member called asking if we were busy and if we could come over and help him mow an older sister in our wards lawn. So we went right over to his house and helped him. So we did service from about 12 until about 4:30 then we went to our dinner appointment at 5. It was a fun day! </div>
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So our area is covering a ward in the "City" and a branch in the bush. The missionaries before us didn't do too much work in the branch and the Branch has been kinda neglected so Elder Inglis and I have made it a goal to work there. So we spent all day Wednesday there and visiting. We didn't get to see all that many people but the branch was so happy with what we had done when we reported at Rescue night that night. There is a whole lot of work to do there and I am so happy to be able to be the one to do it!</div>
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I want to wish a Happy Mothers day to all the Mothers out there! Hopefully it was a good one! I was happily able to skype my family today and talk with them. Its crazy to think that was my last skype session for my mission. For Mothers Day both our ward and our Branch did a Linger Longer after church so we all stayed after to have a feed. Because we cover the ward and the branch we can only go to one of them on Sundays. So we went to our branch Yesterday at 10 and stayed the whole time. Then because the Ward starts at 11 we left the feed with our branch and went to the one with the ward and we had heaps of food! It was a good day!</div>
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We had rescue night on Thursday with our ward and so Elder Inglis and I did splits with a few members. I went with a member of the Elders Quorum Presidency Brother Maxwell. We went to visit a guy named Sam. Well first off it was raining hard out and then he had a steep gravel driveway and so I was just glad that we made it up in our car. Then we started talking to him and he told us that he didn't like the church and had all of these issues with it. Well then right before we finally left Brother Maxwell shared his testimony with this brother and then we left. Brother Maxwell said afterwards that he has visited that man for about 5 years now and every time he goes his goal is to share his testimony and so for 5 years he has shared his testimony with this man. That's persistence. </div>
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My spiritual thought this week comes from a lesson that we had this week. We were helping one of our returning Less Active Part Member families explain what the Atonement was to their 6 year old daughter. After much testing and trying we got her to finally understand why Christ suffered for us when we asked her if she liked being sad. When she responded with a no we told her that Jesus did that for us so that we don't have to be sad and so we can be happy! It was a really sweet spirit when we saw it click in her head!</div>
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Elder Seeloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15804982578761714156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785485967204395538.post-80971660731952346052017-05-07T19:40:00.002-07:002017-05-07T19:40:40.072-07:00Saying goodbye & headed up north....<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> Well Kia Ora Whano! As you all know now I have been transferred to the Northland. I am in the Kaikohe Zone. Kaikohe is the most North Zone in the mission and in New Zealand. So we have the top of the country here! It took a 3 and a half hour bus ride to get here. Nice long day! It was totally worth it though! The northland is so nice! Heaps of fun! Its the biggest Zone in the mission because its just full of Bush. There are a few small towns here and there and other then that its just bush! Fun though! Haha. My companion, Elder Inglis (My son from October 2015), and I were double shifted into the area and so we both new and trying to get to know everyone! We are covering the Kaikohe 1st ward and the Awarua Branch. So there is a lot of work to do!</span><br />
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It was defiantly hard to say goodbye to the YSA ward. I honestly loved it there and was super sad to leave. There were quite a few people there that I really loved and enjoyed working with. I will miss them! It was a slow area and not much really ever happened but the ward was fun and it was nice to get use to that environment before I have to go to one!</div>
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One of the hardest parts about leaving was saying goodbye to the missionaries. I will most likely finish my mission up here and so I probably wont see a lot of these missionaries again. At least not until I come home or they come home! So that was kinda hard! Ill get to see a lot of them back in Utah though! So that will make things easier! There are quite a few missionaries that are going home in 6 weeks and so that is sad that I wont get to see them before they all go.</div>
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Kaikohe has been fun to be in the bush and in a tiny little town, but it has been FREEZING! It is so cold here. There are no big buildings generating heat, very few cars, no smog to trap the heat in... So it gets cold as! Thankfully our flat stays warm at night and we have a heater that we use to keep it warm. We have a car, so that stays generally warm during the day. So we never really get too cold. One issue about New Zealand is that its not considered an extreme weather country so they dont really ever insulate any buildings. So it will get really hot in the summer and really cold in the winter. They are just a bit behind...</div>
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So far the area has been good. It was nice to get to meet the members Yesterday at church. The Elders seemed to have some good work going, but we have to start all over with everyone because they kept Zero records... Like if you were to look into our area book you wouldn't even know that they were here. You would think it was October of 2016 because those are the last records in the area book... So we are starting over basically. We will see how it goes. The flat was fine when we got here. Thankfully the Zone Leaders cleaned it while they were waiting for us on the bus so it wasnt too dirty but it was still pretty nasty. So we have been cleaning it for a while. Its almost there! </div>
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That has basically been the week so far! Nothing too crazy going on for us. Love yous!<br /></div>
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Elder Seeloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15804982578761714156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785485967204395538.post-42003020380571062172017-04-30T19:46:00.002-07:002017-04-30T19:46:21.497-07:00Anzac day, investigaor updates, & speaking in sacrament....<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> Well its been another week.... Wow. Man it goes by so fast!!! I honestly don’t even know what we have done this week. It seems like it was just Monday yesterday!!!</span></span><br />
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Tuesday was Anzac Day! So its basically like Memorial day in the states. So they make it a huge deal and have services and such and they all have work off and everyone goes to the park or the Beach and does a BBQ. So we had a Ward Council activity at the park. We had a big feed and played some fun as games! So I will have to teach yous those when I get home! We then had an appointment with one of our members who lives about an hour from the Chapel. That was at 7 so we left at about 6 and got there just before 7. It was such a fun as drive! It was dark most of the way there cuz its through the forest and there arent many street lights. So it was honestly just so fun! I love long forest drives!</div>
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We got to have Trade offs with our Tongan Elders again this week. That was super fun! I got to go to the Tongan Ward with Elder Neifui. We got to go to a lesson with one of their Investigators named Noa. She is 16 and is friends with one of the Members in the ward. She is doing the lessons at the friends house. So we got to teach her about the Importance of CPR (Church Prayer Reading). The lesson overall was totally awesome and great! It was so fun to get to teach with Elder Neifui and teach a real normal lesson! Just because of how slow the ward has been it seems like forever that I have gotten to teach that!</div>
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On that note though. We got a new Investigator named Miriam. She was born in Iraq and came here when she was 4. So she is Kiwi. We found her when we were looking for a Former Investigator in the area and she didnt live there but Miriam did. That was a few weeks ago. We saw her last week and were finally able to sit down with her and talk. She has a Boyfriend who is Less Active. She went to a baby blessing with a friend once to our church. So that time we just got to know her and did set up to start teaching. Then on this past Friday we saw her again. We got to teach the Restoration. It was an ok lesson. She didn’t seem to interested or I guess engaged... She was listening when we answered her questions which was good. So we left her with a Plan of Salvation Pamphlet and are going to see her tomorrow and see what she liked! So please keep her in your prayers!</div>
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My spiritual thought this week comes from my Sacrament Talk on Sunday. Our Bishopric asked Elder Clark and I to speak this week. We also had 2 of our ward missionaries speak with us. We all had the topic of becoming a Disciple of Jesus Christ. Then we were all given talks from General Conference to relate it to. I was given the talk by Elder M. Russel Ballard titled "Return and Receive" I related it all to goals and how important it was to set goals in our lives. Elder Ballard says: "Wise goal setting includes the understanding that short-term goals are only effective if they lead to clearly understood longer-term goals." Our goals everyday can and will effect our long term goals. We have to be on top of it all. Its really important to look at the little things cuz they will effect the big things! </div>
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Elder Seeloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15804982578761714156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785485967204395538.post-51166127455056452742017-04-23T20:17:00.002-07:002017-04-23T20:17:34.593-07:00School holidays, beautiful beaches, & a packed sacrament....<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> Hello all!-</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> I just wanna say that the best thing to ever happen to the Ysa ward is School Holidays. We have had school holidays all week and we have them all next week as well. So I am super happy! People are actually home and are fine to have us over! Like I'm not use to this. Its so great.</span><br />
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We got to have trade offs this week with our Tongan Elders. Elder Neiufi and Elder Tutu'ila. I stayed in the Ysa ward with Elder Neiufi. We actually had a great day! Not much going on but still fun! There were a couple people in the ward that he knew from his old area's so we went and visited a few of them. Overall it was good! Made me realize how well/terrible I know the area... I know some places and how to get to some people but I am still not good at figuring out how to just find people around us when plans fall through. It’s a work in progress.</div>
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Probably the biggest perk of the ward is the area. There are some mean as places in our area. Elder Clark and I went for a drive/visit run on Saturday. We decided to drive to some really cool as places and some far away beaches and things and then just spend some time in the little towns around there for a few hours. Lets just say that it was great! We started at a place called Maraetai Beach. From there we drove to Kawakawa bay. The drive there was breath taking! Rolling hills of pasture and then the beach. After that we found ourselves in Orere Point. That one was lame. It was basically a small town with a little point into the water that people just used for fishing.</div>
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Now lets just say that last P-day was amazing! We took our Zone to the Museum and walked around there. I love museums. This one was so mean! They had old Maori and Pacific Island artifacts and things. They had a whole floor just for NZ and World Wars. Lets just say that I was in Heaven. Heaps of pics to come today! </div>
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We had a miracle this week! There were HEAPS of people at church yesterday!! Like it was Packed! More then I have seen in the ward the whole time I have been here. They were basically all members but it was good to see people coming cuz most weeks we just hear about all the people leaving and its just good to see new faces every once in a while! There was a new girl that has come a few times but we talked to her and she was there with her nonmember boyfriend. So thats exciting! We got her number and she said that we can come over and have a lesson with them sometime this week! So thats exciting! Finding new people is always fun! </div>
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My spiritual thought this week comes from 1 Nephi 10: 19 "For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost, as well in these times as in times of old, and as well in times of old as in times to come; wherefore, the course of the Lord is one eternal round." This stuck out to be because right after this Nephi gets his vision of the tree of life. Just picturing my self in Nephi's place hearing this are really wanting to know these things enough to go through the work to do it and hearing that God will give us the Mystery's of Heaven if we are diligent. Just reminds me that we can have to same mystery's unfolded to us if we are willing to work for it!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More beautiful beaches</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">& even more beautiful beaches</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our P-day Museum field trip was so awesome! </span><br />
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Elder Seeloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15804982578761714156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785485967204395538.post-26277301160790691252017-04-16T19:53:00.001-07:002017-04-16T19:53:06.917-07:00The weeks are flying by.......<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> Just starting off I want to say that it literally feels like I was emailing like yesterday. This week just flew by! Which is good! Its amazing how fast things go!</span><br />
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Elder Clark and I were able to go on 2 trade offs this week! We had the first one with the assistants. I got to go with Elder Bass to the North Shore. It seems like I am always the one going to the shore for trade offs. No complaints though! I really enjoy leaving my own area! We had heaps of work to do that day too so that was super nice! I got to meet a few of their Investigators which was fun! We went with one of their members who just got home from his mission like last week. That was really fun! He is the man! It really makes me want to be a good RM to the missionaries when I get home. Hopefully I will get to see them! It stinks that we have to share the missionaries around the stake. I love getting to be in a ward and get to know the ward and members. You can actually get close to a lot of people. </div>
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The 2nd trade off we had was with our Elders. I stayed in the YSA ward this time! Lets just say that this was probably one of the most productive days that we have had in a while! It was Saturday, The day before Easter, and the beginning of school Holidays. So everyone was home! It was so fun! We got to see heaps of people! We caught up with Lima and Arlene our 2 investigators that have been MIA for the last few weeks. Then we were able to meet a guy named Tai. We have been trying to catch him home and meet him for weeks now. We also saw a few members that aren't usually home and set up a time for them to come out with us. It was funny though...Afterwards I was thinking about how great of a day it was when Elder Del Rosario said to me that he didn’t realize how hard the YSA ward is. He said that he thought it was all just fun and easy, but now he realizes how much driving it is and how hard the work is. So that was kinda funny! </div>
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So now for everyone and anyone who heard about Cyclone Cook, or as I like to call it "The build ups Cyclone." We were warned about this storm that it would be hitting Auckland and there would be feet of rain and 150+ Kilometer winds. It would go on for like 2 days and just destroy us. It was said to be the worst storm in like 50 years. So pretty intense. Well to make a long story short. It came and it completely missed Auckland. It hit Tauranga. Thats about a 2 hour drive down the line. All we got were weird random rain down pours for a few minutes a few times the last few days... We were SOOOO gutted! We were super excited for something actually cool to happen in our mission and we got nothing. So yeah. We were pretty annoyed.</div>
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Our Easter was great! We had Church at 2 like normal and then we had our Come and See Fireside at 6:30. So that honestly took up most of our day! It was really nice to stay busy! Our Fireside was great! We got a referral for a guy named Ralulu that other missionaries met and he was keen to come to the fireside to we just had to get him a ride. So we got our Ward Mission Leader, Darren, to come and get him. He is Fijian and came here on a Rugby Scholarship 3ish years ago and so he is huge! He doesn’t work.... he just trains Monday to Thursday and has games on Saturdays. We are going to hopefully see him again this week and really set up with him and ask if he wants to take the lessons! He is honestly the man!!</div>
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My spiritual thought this week is about Easter. So the thing that I have been thinking about this week is the real meaning of Easter. Not only that but how it got to be what the world thinks of Easter now. The world just thinks of chocolate and eggs and bunnies. The thing that I think is cool is the representation of the Easter Egg. When we go and find the egg it is full and has things inside of it. But unless we open it and take the things out it does nothing for us. The same is true for the seplicher that Christ was in. Originally it was full with Christs body. He was laid in there for the 3 days. But as we know like the eggs the tomb was opened and the prize or Christ was taken out and that is why we care about the tomb. That is why we looked for the eggs. Was for the prize inside. Christ rising and being resurected is that prize for us if we will look for it and use it. We can all partake of this wonderful present that Christ has given us. We just have to search out the Tomb to understand it and really get all that we can from it.</div>
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This week overall has been pretty slow though. We have been going through heaps of old records and trying to clean out all the ones who have moved or are not interested so that we can better see what it is that we have to work with in our area. People in Auckland move so much... Like so often. Its amazing how many of these people don't live at these houses any more. We have been able to find some less actives that we are going to start to work with that we didn't know before so its semi productive.</div>
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We had trade offs on Tuesday. That was fun. I stayed in the Ysa ward with Elder Tuaputa. He has been out for 2 weeks now and is from Australia. We had a pretty productive day! We had a dinner with our Ward Mission Leader. That was great! Doesn't happen too often. That day it was literally raining cats and dogs. Like there was so much water everywhere!!! The streets had like inches of water on it. There were huge puddles everywhere. So Elder Tuaputa and I got Drenched. We were happy that we were in the car though because our Companions were on bikes all day. So we felt lucky! </div>
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Saturday Elder Clark and I got to go to the city. We have gotten permission to meet our members and Investigators outside of our area if we need to because its so hard to meet with them at their homes. So we drove out to the city to see a Potential investigator. His name is Brian. He is a Filipino guy that works at Mad Mex in the City. So that is where we saw him. He told us that he has been reading the Book Of Mormon and has really been liking it and wants to understand it better. So we are going to hopefully meet up with him soon to help him understand it better! So we are going to be doing some mean drives all over Auckland now to see people at their works and schools!</div>
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Conference really took a lot of time on our weekend. Our weekends tend to be the best times for us and so it was kinda stink to have it all taken up by Conference. We were happy with everything that we were able to do this week though. But my spiritual thought comes out of Conference. It is from Elder Mark A. Bragg. He said “This refers to the tendency in all living systems toward positive energy [light] and away from negative energy [darkness]. From single-cell organisms to complex human systems, everything alive has an inherent inclination toward the positive and away from the negative.” That is something that I want to improve in my life is positivity. People are attracted to light and positive people have more light. So I want everyone to keep that in mind. How can we be more attractive and radiate the light of Christ though us better.</div>
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Elder Seeloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15804982578761714156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785485967204395538.post-38448521231586296462017-04-02T22:04:00.001-07:002017-04-02T22:04:23.281-07:00Working hard at school, one year as a Zone Leader, loads of work to do, & an April Fools joke...<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> This week is great! We have had a great time trying to visit and see all of our members and not have much success with our Investigators.. We had a Potential tell us yesterday that she wasn't really interested so that was pretty stink. But all goods! Today is a new day!</span><br />
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We had a mean ward activity this week. We went to Rowendale Primary School and did a bunch of outside work for them to help their school and clean it up a bit. So we did some digging to make trenches for water in their garden, then we filled in holes in the ground and we built edging to their flower beds with wood. It was a really mean activity! We then had a beach activity. We went to a place called Maraetai Beach. There was a huge grassy field and we kinda took it over and had a feed and played some games. It was overall really fun just to be with the YSA. Elder Clark and I have started a Capture the Flag craze in the YSA ward activities. We played it with them a few weeks ago and now they always play it at the activities!</div>
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We had probably the best feed on Thursday. We talked to the Member who was feeding us (Pearl) and he told us that we would meet at the Food Junction (Basically an international food court). When we met him there he came with another member Junie. After that 3 other members showed up Dose, Masio, and Camille. So that was heaps of fun. We got buttered chicken... then they wanted to take us to dessert. We went to Denny's. When we got there another member, Sio, showed up. We all got Lava fudge cakes. Then we gave them all some of the Easter Pass Along Cards that we got and they are all suppose to give them out! It was heaps of fun! </div>
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We had MLC this week at the Mission Home. It was great to be with the MLC group. This MLC marks the one year of being a Zone Leader for me. It was a weird realization for me. I still cannot believe that I have even been on my mission that long let alone a Zone Leader. We talked a lot about the Easter Message and how to use/share it. We talked about all of the great things that are coming up in April and how fast it really will go by! We have Conference and Easter and its a 5 week month so we have 5 chances to Baptize. This month is going to be awesome!!! </div>
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So for April Fools day we had a mean as idea! So we texted out to the whole Zone that it was my birthday. They all needed to meet at our flat just before 9 so that they could surprise me for my birthday. Well, as you know it isn’t my birthday. So Elder Clark and I were hiding inside the flat. We had a big white board that said "April Fools" on it. We put that in front of the door on the inside then closed the curtains. So they all showed up and were waiting for us. They were taking a picture and then we turned on the lights and opened the curtains and they all just stood there looking at the camera & no one turned around. So I yelled "April Fools" Really loud and then they all turned around and were pretty annoyed at us. So it was totally funny as but now I think a few people are mad at us... Oh well! Worth it. </div>
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Now for my Spiritual Thought about the Easter Message. The message honestly is awesome!!! It really is so cool. It is called the Prince of Peace for those who havent seen it. It is about how Christ is the Prince of Peace and how we can learn about gaining true peace from Him! If you havent seen the Video I want you to go to <a href="http://mormon.org/">Mormon.org</a> and look at it. It is so cool! I love the fact that it so clearly shows that Christ didn't conquer anything that most would. Didnt take any spoils that most would. He conquered Death and took nothing but us with Him. Its amazing! </div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> Transfers left me here where I was! Elder Clark and I stayed the same and we are both still in the YSA ward! We had heaps of changes in our Zone though! We had quite a few changes in the Zone. Which were good! We are now calling our Zone the Perfect Zone! We had a lot of the Missionaries that we didn't get along with too well left and we got some new missionaries and 2 brand new missionaries in the Zone so we are on a huge buzz! Its great to see everyone working harder! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> It was so great!!! It was honestly so great walking into the chapel and everyone was there! Like I was just smiling from ear to ear. We just sat in the back and everyone was surprised as to see me! It was so awesome to see her finally get baptized. She walked into the font crying and one of the YSA that she was close to baptized her. It was just a great time! It meant so much to her. I was just happy that it all went well! Dora was there too and I talked to her and she is getting a lot stronger! She is coming to church and is really coming to understand everything. I am so glad that she is progressing! She will be baptized one day!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> We finally caught up with Lima this week. She canceled her appointment on Monday. So we tried a few times this week but finally caught her on Sunday. So she was on her way to work so we didnt get to teach anything but she told us that her next day off is this Sunday. So thats stink that we have to wait that long but we are excited to get to see her then and hopefully get her to Church on Sunday! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> The ward here is really good! Its full of great people and I honestly love it! Its really sad though because it is really changing.. Its amazing how the Ward Leadership can really change the entire feeling and atmosphere of the ward... Its sad to see when things go down hill because of the Leadership... This ward is hard because if they dont like it they can just go back to their home wards... So there is nothing really forcing them to be here. We are really just hoping to help the ward to create that warm and welcoming feeling so that when people visit or investigators come they want to stay and come back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> "Now ye see that this is the true faith of God; yea, ye see that God will support, and keep, and preserve us, so long as we are faithful unto him, and unto our faith, and our religion; and never will the Lord suffer that we shall be destroyed except we should fall into transgression and deny our faith." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> Here Moroni is telling Zerahemnah the Lamanite leader that they are only going to fight if they have to protect their selves, and if they have to fight they are going to win because of their faith that they have in God. They only way that they will lose is if they fall into transgression. The same is still true to us today. If we keep our faith then the Lord will protect us and if we chose to fall into transgression then the Lord will not protect us. We are all in a spiritual battle everyday and we cannot afford to lose them! We need the Lords protection. </span></div>
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<br />Elder Seeloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15804982578761714156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785485967204395538.post-11611262036959812502017-03-19T20:58:00.001-07:002017-03-19T20:58:21.346-07:00Getting a trunky call, a baptism, and some cracker jacks....<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, Segoe UI, Segoe WP, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"> Hello family and friends!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #212121;"> One great thing that happened this week was our New Investigator! His name is Nick! He is half Fijian Indian and half Indonesian. He went to the temple with his friend who is a member and the missionaries at the temple sent him to us! He is agnostic. So he believes in a higher power just not necessarily a God. He is totally open to learning though! He wants to understand what we are all about and he felt a big pull towards the Christus statue at the Visitors Center. So he is really keen to understand what is it that we believe and what he needs to do</span>! <span class="contextualExtensionHighlight ms-font-color-themePrimary ms-border-color-themePrimary ident_913_1013" role="button" style="border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: rgb(0, 120, 215); cursor: pointer;" tabindex="0">We have our next appointment with him Tomorrow at 5 and we have a member coming out to that with us.</span> We are very excited to see what he thinks. He also said that he wants to try out our church soon but was going to wait until we talked to him a bit more about it!</div>
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Biggest news of the week probably happened on Saturday. I am still buzzing out about this. So usually about 3 months before a missionary goes home they will get a call asking how they are planning on getting home and where they are going to. We call it our "Trunky Call". So one of our senior couples is leaving....Well now left I guess. They left on Sunday. Sister Jackson was the Mission Secretary. So she would do all that kind of stuff. So we got a call from her on Saturday and we figured she was calling to say goodbye and to tell us to get in touch with her when we got home... Well nah. She said "Elder Seelos, this is your Trunky Call!" I almost died... Seriously. They did it early and so I still have like 4 months but I was so surprised!!!! So guess I am coming home soon... My Release date is the 25th on July. <span class="contextualExtensionHighlight ms-font-color-themePrimary ms-border-color-themePrimary ident_2001_2070" role="button" style="border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: rgb(0, 120, 215); cursor: pointer;" tabindex="0">I will be put on a flight leaving Auckland that night at around 7:30.</span> Just so you know.</div>
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<span style="color: #212121;"> Remember Grace from Henderson? Well she is getting baptized on Wednesday and I am going! I am so excited!!!! So that is super exciting!</span></div>
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We were able to meet with our Investigator Lima on Wednesday. She forgot that we w<span style="color: #212121;">ere coming over and was just waking up. She still sat down with us though. We went through the Restoration Pamphlet with her because she hadn't read through it yet. She was great with it all until we talked about how Joseph Smith saw God and Jesus and that he brought the only true church back on the earth. So she basically asked if that meant that her church wasn't true... Well we told her that it kinda meant that but not fully. So we tried to help her understand but then she had to go so we are seeing her tonight. Fingers crossed it all goes well!!!</span></div>
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So my spiritual though comes from an article that I read last week. I just looked to try to find the article but it is nowhere to be found. It was on LDS.org last week. So it was about how to make our prayers more meaningful. They talked about how after asking God for everything we think we need we can follow the example of Jesus Christ and tell God that not our will but His be done. If we truly mean this it will make a huge impact on what we see and the trials that will go on in our lives. I have been doing this for the last few days and it really has helped me to see why we go through what we do. I really would love to invite you to think about this and making it a part of your prayers. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just because I was thinking of my dad, I went to a huge Botanical Garden the other day. These are a couple of their aloe plants.</td></tr>
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Elder Seeloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15804982578761714156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785485967204395538.post-5717970302388959262017-03-12T21:04:00.003-07:002017-03-12T21:05:30.155-07:00Ward conference, FHE, and last minute birthday party....<span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: , "segoe ui" , "segoe wp" , "tahoma" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> Lets just say that YSA ward is Bomb. We had Ward Conference all week this week and so it was basically activities every day. Monday we had 2 FHE's. Tuesday we had Rescue Night. Wednesday we had Institute and games. Thursday we had a Cottage evening. Friday there was a Ball (We didn't go to that one :)). Saturday there was games at the chapel. Sunday was church and then a linger longer feed after church. So overall it was a great week!</span><br />
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So to start with our 2 FHE's. 1. A new member in our ward, named Gups, invited us over for an FHE with some of his neighbors who were former investigators. So on Sunday night we went over and invited them to the FHE. They seemed really cool and keen to come over. Well Monday night came and we showed up.... and they didn't. So eventually we had to leave and go to our other FHE and then after we left that family home evening we got a text saying that they came like and hour and a half late... So all goods. We will try again. Our next FHE was with a member in our ward. Her name is Lose. Interestingly enough she was actually one of my MTC teachers. She was the one that seemed to not like my comp and I. Well she likes me now! Ha. So she had a less active friend coming to the FHE and so she invited us to come and meet/get to know her better. That also went well. </div>
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So Saturday was heaps of fun! The games started at 6 so we went over and there wasn't very many people there so we were kinda gutted... But then as the night went on the place got packed! There were so many people there! There were heaps of new faces there and then it was great to get to see them come to church yesterday! We had so many people at church yesterday!!! It was awesome! Again. Tell them there will be food and they will always be there!</div>
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On Thursday around 3 Elder Clark randomly asked me if I wanted to know a secret... So I said yes. Well he then told me that it was his birthday... It was 3 o'clock... I was kinda annoyed... So then I told him that I had to go to the bathroom and so we went to the chapel that was close by and I had the phone so I texted some of our missionaries and told them and so they set up a surprise for him when we got home. Then I texted our Relief Society President and told her and so they all sang to him at the cottage evening. He was so mad. He was trying to keep it a secret and not tell anyone. (he had told everyone that his Birthday was in July) So no I am not the worst companion ever. But I figured it all out and then we had a party. #winning</div>
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Our investigators this week were pretty build ups! One hard thing working with YSA is that they are never home and they have crazy schedules. That makes them very hard to catch and hard to set solid appointments with. So most of our appointments fell through this week. It was also really stink that none of them made it to any of the ward conference.. So we have a lot of work to do. Although with Salote we will be seeing her this week. She kinda fell off the radar becuase her partner came back to town and he kinda tries to keep her from us.. Which is annoying. Well he left yesterday for 5 weeks. So that's 5 weeks that we get free from him where we can teach her! She is keen herself and loves us coming over but he isn't I guess... idk. Please pray for her!</div>
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My Spiritual thought this week is from the beginning of the Book Of Mormon. As I was studying from Preach my Gospel this week a sentence really stuck out to me that I haven't taken notice of before. It says "Encourage them to read the Book of Mormon from the beginning, including the testimonies of the three and eight witnesses and the testimony of the Prophet Joseph Smith." The part that I really loved was how it shows that the testimonies of the 3 and 8 witnesses and the testimony of Joseph Smith are really important and impacting passages! We need to read them and they can teach us and help us feel of the spirit just as much as the rest of the Book can. So I want to invite yous all to read those this week and to read it wanting to learn something and I can promise that you will learn and strengthen your testimony of the Book Of Mormon.</div>
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Elder Seeloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15804982578761714156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785485967204395538.post-60780991153432856032017-03-05T20:10:00.001-08:002017-03-05T20:10:08.713-08:00Bricks, ice cream, and 3 new investigators!<span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols; font-size: 15px;"> This week was great! I felt like so much happened and so little happened at the same time! I know that there is so much to talk about but I can't remember what it all is! </span><br />
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So first off I will start with one of the things I am going to miss the most about NZ! The Ice cream. First off on trade offs with Elder Hixon, I went to the Shore and he told me about a place that had a sign for the Biggest Ice cream in Auckland. So of course we had to try it! Well... we went and we got 2 big scoops for $3. Pretty good deal. I have to say that it just might live up to the title of Biggest Ice cream in NZ! I got 1. Choc Nana 2. Orange Chocolate Chip. Best 2 flavors. So that was my first round. Then Elder Clark and I on Saturday had a service in a place called Waiuku. So this is about an hour and a half from Mangere. Gotta love the YSA ward! Well after our service we decided to go to a place called Pokenoes. This is the famous ice cream place that everyone stops at on their way back to Auckland from the Temple. Its just about half way back. So we had to stop there. Now this ice cream was bigger than the first! 2 scoops $3. 1. Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough 2. Pineapple Chocolate Chip. The other 2 best flavors! Haha. Lets just say that the ice cream in NZ is to die for. Its great! </div>
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Now to talk about the service. So imagine someone calls you and asks you to help move some bricks that their dad is using to make a wall. What do you imagine?? Just a big pile or stack of normal red building bricks right? Well we were wrong. So we showed up and we saw the bricks. There was 3 palettes of 45 bricks each. So this makes 135 bricks. BUT each brick weighs 40 Kg's so 5400 Kg's of bricks. That is 11,904.96 pounds... and there were 3 of us... And I was the biggest one. We had to carry them about 20 yards. If even that. It took us just over an hour. I was exhausted... My arms were shaking, my back hurt, my legs hurt, my arms and legs were all cut up from the bricks... It was a long hour. But I can now happily say that we did it!</div>
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Now for the great success of the week! We found 3 New Investigators! 1. Lima 2. Sinta 3. Arlene. So they were all Potential Investigators that we have been trying to make our Investigators for a while now. It just seemed to never work out until this week! We were able to teach all 3 of them real proper lessons this week and we are seeing them all again this week! So Lima is a 20 something year old Samoan girl. She has a lot of bible knowledge. She is keen to learn more and is really open to truth. She is great! Then there is Sinta. We took Sinta to a Come and See Fireside a few weeks ago and she liked it. Then we have tried to have lessons with her for a few weeks now and it just never worked out. So we finally caught her home. She is a 19 year old Samoan girl. Last but not least Alrene. She is a 19 year old Maori girl. Her sister Jane is a member in a family ward but she is Less Active and so we are trying to get her back on and in our ward. But she is also been hard to catch but we just sat down and did a lesson this week! Gotta love Missionary work!!!</div>
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Something that I have been sharing with people this week comes from 1 Nephi 5:9. " And it came to pass that they did rejoice exceedingly, and did offer sacrifice and burnt offerings unto the Lord; and they gave thanks unto the God of Israel. " So this is right after Nephi, Lamen, Lemuel and Sam get back from getting the Brass Plates. Lehi and Sariah have to show their faith in the Lord to trust that their sons will come home safely. Now that verse is the first thing that they do when they finally get back. They immediately thank the Lord for the safety and guidance in their journey. I have been encouraging people to remember to be more Grateful to the Lord for everything that He has given them and I want to extend the same invitation to yous! By doing this I know that the Lord not only will help you see all the great things that you have to be grateful for but will give you even more things to be grateful for! </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mission Leadership Conference last week. President and Sister Balli sent this picture to our new incoming Mission President!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seriously the BEST ice cream in the whole world!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All the missionaries that are going home on the same day bought these ties...they are sweet! We bought about 20 of them!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elder and Sister Bath, and Elder and Sister Jackson took Elder Clark and I out to lunch for helping them clean out a senior missionary flat. Totally worth it!</td></tr>
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Elder Seeloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15804982578761714156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785485967204395538.post-70966897928651549432017-02-26T20:10:00.004-08:002017-02-26T20:10:41.277-08:00Voices from above, setting goals, and jammin with my YSA peeps....<span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols; font-size: 15px;"> Let's just say that today has been a long day... We had interviews at 10ish but then they were behind. After that we had to take some bikes into the bike shop. Now we are done and get to email... We were thinking about just doing pday tomorrow but we have appointments during the day! So we are just doing it today.</span><br />
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This week was great! I feel like this week just started! It was insane! P-day last week was with the Tongan Elders. Elder Neufi and Elder Tutu'ila! We went to a place called Clark's beach. In the Hamilton mission. So that was actually really fun! Pics to send!</div>
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We had MLC this week with President. It was very fun to get to be at the Mission Home with all of the Zone Leaders! I always love getting to talk to and be with the MLC group! Heaps of great friends there! We talked about the new schedule and about how we can use it more effectively. There is heaps that we can do better! We also talked about goals and the importance of setting goals and using them effectively. We talked about how even thought there is only one thing that we count every day we can still set goals and work to achieve them! An example is working on Christ like attributes, or Book Of Mormons you can hand out, or even getting rejected so many times a day! We still need to be setting goals but its about how effective we can use our time to share the gospel!</div>
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We are working with a returning less active in our ward named Oliva. He is Niuean, about 23. His Partner, TK, is not a member. She is so cool though! He is really into music and is studying music. On Saturday he had a "Beats Battle". So he went and showed some of his beats that he had practiced in was in a competition. So we went to support him. (Example of how we have to do things in a bit of a different way here in the YSA ward!) He got our in the first round just cuz he was put with another guy who was REALLY good! The judges loved him! I feel like he could have gone on further if it was a different group, but he still did really great! The judges loved his style! Oliva just loves his music and it really shows that he has a different less edgy side then most of the other guys there... His music really showed that. But his partner is really cool. She is totally a potential in our ward. She would be a great member if she would commit to living it!</div>
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We were asked to participate in a Stake Activity for another stake on Thursday and Friday. It was really fun! They had a Plan Of Salvation Play. Each part of the Plan of Salvation was a different ward so they had to go from room to room to see the whole thing. We were suppose to be guides just taking them all through the rooms but the Samoan ward asked us to help them and be the voices in their room. So on Thursday I played the voice of Heavenly Father and Elder Clark was the voice of Satan. Then on Friday I was the voice of Adam and Elder Clark stayed with Satan. Obviously we were "The Fall" room. It really was so fun! It was so spiritual as well! We got to go through the whole thing at the end and lets just say that the Celestial room almost brought me to tears. I just want to tell you all about how true this gospel really is! Its amazing how true this all is and how Heavenly Father has done it all for us! I can promise you all that if you truly study out the plan that God has for us all then you will know for a full surety of 1. The truthfulness of it. 2. Your part in it. We all have a part to play in this plan!</div>
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Elder Seeloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15804982578761714156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785485967204395538.post-43715305417664202922017-02-20T19:11:00.002-08:002017-02-20T19:11:32.851-08:00YSA, Weird members, and my ward newsletter...<div style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">
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Man, this week has just flown by!!! Like it has just been so fast! I have loved serving in the YSA ward. Its been great to get to know the members better throughout this week! <div>
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We had the Come and See Fireside yesterday and were able to take 2 investigators. One of our returning Less Active members has a Non-Member girlfriend and she is cool as! She is always over when we go over to his house and will sit in on the lessons and just listen. Her name is TK. She is honestly so cool. They both came to the Fireside. Then we had a new investigator that we picked up on Wednesday. She is keen to learn. Her name is Sinta. We invited her to the Fireside and she said she would come but needed a ride. So we asked a member at church and she was keen to come and take her. So Jaden (Our Member) picked her up and we went to the fireside! It was all around good. The speakers were on point. They were great! We will see them both this week and follow up on the fireside! </div>
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We got to have a lesson with Salote. It was interesting. We took a member with us, you know for fellowship... Well he was weird. He is good friends with the Partner, John. So he wanted to come, but John is out of town. So it was just kinda weird. He started by giving her (a perfect stranger) his scriptures. Then he just kept saying things in a weird way. He kept doing these weird object lessons and they were just weird and didn't really make sense... I'm sure that she was just weirded out... But she said that we could come back next week... So that's good! We are going to take a Relief Society member this week and hopefully that will go better! Please keep her in your prayers!</div>
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The YSA ward is a bit different in the regard that we cover 7 stakes... So tracting doesn't really work... Its weird because we are looking for such a small group of people. Single people between the ages of 18 and 30. So we just try our best! We get referrals from other missionaries, people in that age group that they meet and so that's helpful! We are really focusing on making real friendships with the Members and getting out there with them to help them to see us and feel more comfortable bringing their friends to us and letting us teach them! That is the biggest way that we can see the work moving forward in the area! </div>
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Sorry but no real funny stories this week... Love yous heaps!</div>
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Its been great serving here in New Zealand! I feel like I have just left my Ward Family but it has actually been so long! Thank you all for the love, prayers, notes, and emails! There have been many huge miracles and many small miracles that I am able to see every day while I am serving the Lord! I have just been called to serve in a YSA ward here in Auckland and everyday is different! </div>
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I am in South Auckland which is known as the Polynesian capital of New Zealand! Every house is a different nationality! We get to meet people from Samoa, Tonga, Niue, The Cook Islands, Fiji, Tuvalu, and every other island in the Pacific! Its amazing to see how the people here have taken the Gospel into their hearts and into their lives where it radiates out of them in everything that they do! Its a blessing to get to serve around such loving people! That is one thing that I have been able to learn from these wonderful people! </div>
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One miracle that I have been able to see is in the lives of my investigators. Many of them have gone through many long and hard changes. They have had many different challenges that they have had to overcome to follow God and Jesus Christ. Whether it be family issues, commandment issues, or addictions they have been able to overcome the issues in their lives that are keeping them from following God through using His power. They have truly felt blessed and strength added to them as they sincerely pray and plead with God for the help that they need so that they can take the right steps into the waters of baptism. What a great reason for God to rain his blessings upon them. </div>
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I taught one girl for the entire 6 months that I was in my 4th area. She has been an investigator for about a year now. She is 17 and completely involved in everything, but could not be baptized because of her father not liking the church. I was able to see her at a missionary fireside and she told me that she told her dad that this is what she wants. So she is getting baptized in the next month or 2. What a blessing it was for me to be able to hear that. </div>
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Heavenly father is truly behind this work and loves each and every one of his children. That is why I am here, to help Him by being an instrument in His hands to bless those of His children that do not have to blessings and happiness that I have. What a blessing for me to be His instrument! This is a great work! Miracles are real, and they can happen to each of us. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.</div>
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Elder Seeloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15804982578761714156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785485967204395538.post-8054446300350832532017-02-12T17:17:00.002-08:002017-02-12T17:17:41.319-08:00Good Bye and Hello...on to another adventure!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Leaving Henderson was kind of bitter sweet! I love the area and I really love and will miss the people, but I was ready to leave. 6 months in an area is a long time. There were heaps of memebers that I said goodbye to and heaps of people that I really grew to love. Henderson has really grown to be a big part of my mission and a big part of my heart! It is a place that really is special and sacred to me from all of the miracles that I saw while I was there!</div>
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We have a few Investigators here. One that we have is named Salote. (Just to name drop here and show you how cool this ward is.... Salote's partner is Joseph Parker's Brother. He is Less Active in our ward. If you don't know who Joseph Parker is... look him up, he is a Kiwi heavy weight boxing champion.) She is keen to learn and to talk to us, the only issue is that her partner John is kinda almost keeping her from us. Like they will pretend to not be home. But its good cuz he left for the states last night for training before a fight in a month. So he will be gone for a month. So we will get to start to teach her more!</div>
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I was able to see 2 of my favorite people this week because I have Penrose in my area! I was able to stop by at Mama Lynn's house and surprise her which was heaps of fun! Then I saw the Mafi Family when they came to visit one night at my flat! </div>
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Not heaps of stories this week. Sorry its been kinda a boring email. Transfer weeks are pretty boring always. I promise it will be better next week! Love yous!</div>
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Elder Seeloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15804982578761714156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785485967204395538.post-77747330412998854062017-02-05T20:09:00.003-08:002017-02-05T20:09:47.957-08:00Unexpected ups and downs....<span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: , "segoe ui" , "segoe wp" , "tahoma" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Hello everyone! We had a great week, we had some unexpected ups and downs... overall we are just trying to stay motivated past the trials that come our way.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: , "segoe ui" , "segoe wp" , "tahoma" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"></span><br />
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On Monday we got a text from Shelby and she basically told us that with everything that she is going through she just needs some time off. She has been going through a lot mentally and she is feeling bad and pressured that she isn't married and she isn't ready yet. So she said that she is grateful for us and everything that she has learned but needs a break. On Friday we went over to her house with a picture of the temple and just told her that we will give her space but we want her to remember the goals that she has talked about and never forget what she has felt and what she now knows.</div>
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Also on Monday we had a miracle. We had decided to go and try a semi active family in the ward. We went there and no one was home.... So we knocked a few doors. Nothing happened. Then as we were walking back to the car a car pulled up and it was 2 Tongan girls that were visiting from Tonga and they were living with their family on that street. Well they told us to come over. They are all members but we talked for a bit and they gave us a drink. Their neighbors kept looking at us weird and they called us over. Well their son (Toni 15) just came back from Australia at FSY with his cousins, and he was keen as to learn and so was the family. We went back the next day and saw/taught them. The Mamea family. They are so great! That turned into 3 New Investigators this week. The 2 sons and the mum. They dad is apparently Less Active. We also saw them on Friday, sadly though they were not at Church though.</div>
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Pday was great! We went to a Waterfall called Karekare. This country is BEAUTIFUL! Its just so green and beautiful! That is one reason that I love Henderson. It has the beaches, mountains, just a bit of everything! </div>
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On Tuesday we have Youth. Because we have so many youth investigators we usually will at least stop by youth night to see them. They were all combined and were playing Volleyball together. We had Grace and Dora come and play with them all. Its great to see them fitting in with all of the youth and just getting along. The youth in this ward is so strong! Honestly the best missionary's in the ward! They have such great opportunities to share the gospel and its so awesome to see them just take in new people and make them feel totally welcome in the ward! </div>
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It was a good week but has been hard to think that I am most likely leaving in a few days, transfers are this week. I love the area and the people to much but to be honest I am ready to leave at the same time. Its been a long time here in Henderson... Great area, but I've been here since August, so a long time. Thanks to everyone for the ideas that were sent on how to find more investigators! I think that over all the best thing that has worked is prayer. We were just in the right place at the right time! Heavenly Father works miracles!!! Just ask for them!</div>
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Elder Seeloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15804982578761714156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785485967204395538.post-62431924814111063762017-01-29T19:47:00.002-08:002017-01-29T19:48:30.602-08:00Changes in the mission and the weather...<span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: , "segoe ui" , "segoe wp" , "tahoma" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Overall this week has been just heaps of news... We had MLC this week and a Worldwide Missionary Broadcast. The Missionary Department of the Church came out with some big news and has changed the missionary schedule and the Key Indicators that we count. Its pretty crazy. Its been this way since Preach My Gospel started and now they have changed it. It will be really cool. Its all based upon D&C 58:26-29. All about agency and not having to command in all things but really give us the choice on heaps of things. So I am happy about it all! It starts today! Also, P-day is now from 8 to 6. So I could be on emails earlier than normal from now on. Just depends on where I am I guess... Just so yous know.</span><br />
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Shelby has been good and bad this week. She is still working through some personal issues and is trying to figure things out... She is still happy when we stop by and we ensure that she has a spiritual experience when we are there to keep her knowing that God is there and that he wants to help her! We are trying to get some of the members involved and just stopping by and texting her so she can have people there for her when she needs it. We just keep praying for her.</div>
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With this new change in the Key Indicators that we count we have really been focusing on getting new investigators. We spent a lot of time this week contacting and tracting trying to find some new people to teach... So far not too much success... But we keep going! So if anyone has any suggestions that they did on their missions we would appreciate it!</div>
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Dora has been making some major progress the last few weeks! Idk whats up but she has been to church the last 2 weeks now. She texted us asking if we could teach her more about the after life. She is so great! We were getting close to just slowing down cuz she just wasnt seeming too interested but now we will see what happens!</div>
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Last week for Pday we went to Muriwai Beach. This will be about the 10th time I have been there! Its a mean beach. Huge sandy beach and then rocky cliffs of the other side full of birds (Gannets). Defiantly a place to stop by if you ever make it to Heaven!</div>
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No real funny or stories this week! Just for anyone in Utah asking where the heat went... Well it came to NZ. It has been so hot here the last week. We are finally starting summer and I am so happy! As much as I hate dealing with the heat and all of the sweat... I am happy that its not raining so much! But it also brings flies.... Flies are the worst. They are everywhere. Trade offs I guess!</div>
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