Feb. 16, 2014

Dear Family

Yes my week has been AMAZING!!! Wow, so much!!! Fantastic exchange with Elder Langi, I uploaded pics, so cool, so much good stuff. He's so powerful, and knows exactly how the mission life is, he's the man!  I also almost found my other street! It was Plassey instead of Passey though, dang...so close!! Maybe someday I will have my full name in Streets! We did have rain the beginning of the week, then it stopped and got super hot! I was dying all day, but then I came back to Hastings and got the car again, all good now :)  The exchange was in Havelock North, which is a rich little village like a mile out of Hastings. Kinda hard area, but hey, gotta do it,. and it was fun anyways.

 The next best thing this week was a leadership training we got to attend that had Russell M. Nelson there! It was a broadcast from Auckland, but so cool!! That was such a powerful meeting, and I gained and learned so much to use as a missionary, even when it was for church leaders, so powerful!! I hope we have more of those! 

Elder Nelson said this, three things we as missionaries do to help hasten the work.

1-Gather Israel using the Book of Mormon

2-Seal families in the holy temples, or get them there

3-Prepare people for the second coming. 

Loved it, the whole thing was so awesome! I hope we have more down the line. It was funny as well, Elder Hamula got up after him and started describing how Elder Nelson is almost 90, 90!! and Elder Nelson gets up again and says, you know, in the word of wisdom it says you can walk and not be weary, walk and not faint, and ski with your grandchildren! haha so great! They are just normal guys inspired of God.  

Behind us? Probably just orchards and paddocks, there is so much fruit in Hawke's Bay right now, so much, and it's all so good!!! Variations and breeds of plums and apples, delicious!

I told him about our Stake Youth Conference coming up this summer that is all about missionary work....

Wow that sounds great!! that should be good for the youth to do that, it helps prepare a lot when you experience it more back home. So nice to be able to have those opportunities too! The noble generation moving forward! well, all seems well back home.

The bishop here in the ward just gave us a challenge, well, the ward, to read the Book of Mormon twice this year, I'm already at one, so I'm going to surpass that by a lot. I love that Book now, so much. More than I ever have. 

Well, I'm a bit out of time now, well, we are heading out, Taufa has been done for like 20 minutes. I have too many emails haha :P oh could you send me the recipe for cow pies? I thought of that one this week. Love and miss you all, thanks for everything!! 

Love,

Elder Passey

Elder Passey and Elder Langi