Transferred!

saying goodbye to the Gore kids

saying goodbye to the Beckmans

This week has been awesome!! My second area Wainuiomata has lots of good opportunities. Members feed us here often and we also have lots of people even non members that let us in to their homes! Much different from Gore!

The first day here was fun! My Zone Leaders actually forgot about me coming in at the airport so I was stranded for an hour and a half until they came and got me. When I got to Wainui I met my comps and we went out the door visiting! We walk everywhere which is awesome. Very tiring though. Especially when you walk 8 kilometers to set an appointment but no one is there and you have to go walk somewhere else haha. We saw some kids playing basketball and they called us out! "Mormons vs the Rebels let's go!!!" Annnnnd so we walked over to the courts and played some ball. They were amazed with how I can dribble well and I can easily get passed them and my flashy passes hahaha. They would fall over on the ground laughing if I got someone to trip up while they were guarding me! One of the kids was like "how are you so good??" Another one was like "he's from america cuz.. that is just how they are" So it was pretty funny. Toward the end I went to make a move and completely ripped my pants though. That was nice.. But the Elders Quorum President showed up and told me to hop in the car and he'd run us to our flat to change. So we did but I don't have any sport shoes so I played in my church shoes still! Turned from 6 of us playing into about 20! And it was lots of fun! My legs actually felt really good and I dunked it for my first time in a game! But my feet started to hurt really bad in my church shoes. The president, Brother Sau said he was gonna buy me shoes cuz he wants me to play all the time with him now. He said I remind him of Magic Johnson haha. Everyone here is so loving and nice!!

We had a dinner as well that night which was my first on my mission!! I loved it! It's so nice not having to stress about food or cook any..

I'm very excited about all the things I could learn from this area!! it'll be an awesome experience!

Elder LaMunyon