Happy New Year!

Fun fact of the week: I havent written an email for a month! Nice !

Hey everyone!!

I'm alive! Mostly... things that have happened (other than me falling off the face of the earth and not emailing anyone for a month straight):

1) sister Mariteragi and Meto went back home to Tahiti :( imma miss them soooo much they were two of my favorite companions.
2) I have a new companion from Alaska! Sister Tafao was born in American Samoa but raised in Alaska.
3) im a mom !!! Sis Tafao is my baby :))
4) the New Zealand  OTC shut down :( adjusting has still been hard, but its definitely been worth it
5) I ate wayyyyy too much for Christmas... #20kilo mission
6) I'm STILL in Rototuna Haha! I've been here for 6 months, I'll probably be here for another two if not my last transfer..

That's basically it Haha. I'm doing pretty good, here are some photos.

Much love!!

Kella

A week of laughter, burgers, and happily ever after

Fun fact of the week: even though most of the kiwis have never seen snow, they still consider a "white christmas" to be a traditional Christmas and hang up snowflake decorations Haha

Hello!!

So as the title stated, this week was great!

So on Tuesday through Thursday we had mission conference!! Basically our whole mission came together and we had devotionals, played games, ate delicious food, and laughed so so so much! I also played guitar (fancy smancy) and am actually significantly better than before the mission?? Watch out Grant I'm coming for you ;)

We also went on exchanges and I was with Sister Rome, this sweet sister from Papua new Guinea! For those of you who dont know, PNG is a very scary country with lots of violence and a corrupt government. Nonetheless she always had a big smile and a sweet spirit! I love her :)) we had  a member shout us burger fuel which is a super flash burger joint that has the MOST delicious burgers which make it so you cant eat for another 12 hours... so good!

And for the happily ever after... I had an online baptism!!! So I have been working with Aidan for about 8 months now, he came on as a book of Mormon request this March. When we called the number, his mom answered and said she wasnt interested, but then an hour later Aidan texted and asked if he could still have a copy. For the next six months me and three of my companions (Meto, Isabell, and Mariteragi) taught him online. We taught him all the discussions over messenger, and then in September he met with local missionaries. Earlier this week he just got baptized!! Hes so amazing I am so grateful for him and his testimony :))

I love love you all!! Have a splendid week ❤


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Pictures:
Mission conference where I got hella sunburnt
Aidan's baptism!! I wasn't there but still got pictures from the cute sister missionaries in Connecticut(:

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Fun fact of the week:
In New Zealand many people consider Hawaii outside of the US. for example:
"are you going to school in the states?"
"No, I'm planning on going to Hawaii!"

This week I'm just going to send lots of pictures which will probably be very out of order but probably go along the lines of:

- Some crazy sisters in a car with me
- The kids we are working with! Two have been baptized (also fun fact a lot of people pronounce it "bapatized" here and it's funny haha), and the younger girl we are still working with :)
- Me and Sister M after Zone Conference!!
- Me proving to Sister Raymond that I do, in fact, know how to roll my tongue
- Sister Mariteragi made more flower crowns!! This time with roses so it's so beautiful
- the view of Hamilton from a bridge
- We have been working on a song that will be on our Christmas album called "I'll be home for Christmas 2019" (Since my companion is going home in two weeks :((( haha) and decided to dress accordingly!