Letter and Pictures From Sister Keller

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On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 12:00 PM Morgan Keller wrote:
I made it to my area, Alive!!
Sorry in advance if this email is long, it's been 10 days and there's so much to cover

This was the last of my MTC experience, which I will remember and love always! My companion left a day before me (jerk) so all of Tuesday was pretty rough haha. Everyone kept asking me if I missed my companion and where she was. Silly Sister Lee. Then I said goodbye to Joseph district and that was super hard honestly. I love them all so much and can't wait to hear about all their missions!
 Wednesday I drove out to Hamilton! We met my mission president and that was way cool! He and his wife are super nice. I also met Sister Barker, who went to high school with Sister Lee! That was awesome.
I made it to my area which is (drum roll please..) Opotiki!! I encourage each of you too look it up on google maps because it is SO GORGEOUS. To explain, it's like four different worlds combined into one. When we were driving down, when I looked out the window to the left I saw green pastures with sheep grazing like I was on the outskirts of England. But when I looked out the window to the right, there were pine trees scattered across the lawns. Then we drove around the corner and I saw the beach with palm trees and rocky shores (which i get to visit today!) and was astounded. But then I looked to the right and saw thick trees like the depths of a jungle in Peru, with pine trees and palm trees (!?!?!). It is incredible. And I'm going to stop describing it or you'll all love it so much you'll want to come visit, which is kind of against mission rules ;)

I met my super cute companion/trainer, sister Ieremia!! She's from American Samoa, and is super super cool! She teaches a Samoan class on Sundays which I understand none of, and is way kind and supportive.

I'm trying to keep this email pretty positive, but one thing I"ll kind of complain about is the bugs. Before I go to sleep, we have to kill 1-3 cockroaches, which is disgusting. Sister Ieremia is a little more bold than I, so pretty much she kills them and I take a tissue and put them in the trash haha. Then before I shower, I have to kill 30 little gnat bugs and wash them down the drain. At least by then the water is all warmed up!!

We had a lot of amazing spiritual experiences! on Saturday we had an open house. We opened the church so that anyone who wanted to could walk through and see what we do at church each Sunday. We spent the two days before knocking on doors and passing out fliers, and just kept getting rejected which was mentally exhausting. But we had three new people come to the open house, along with 2 of our current investigators so that was amazing!! The members are so cooperative and that was also awesome because they took the investigators in and just loved them. Such an awesome branch!!

I've already written so much, So I'll just add some pictures I couldn't send these past few weeks. Thanks for all your support and emails!! Keep emailing me I love it!!

Sister Keller