June 23rd, 2013

Hello family. Another week gone by very fast. Love and miss you all but I am having a lot of fun while doing the work. This last week was very wet, windy, and rainy! We still got two new awesome investigators despite the weather! Also, the maori girl Shade is all set for baptism this Saturday. We have been meeting very interesting people this last week. Ill share an example of the different people we have been meeting. We just got done with a couple visits on and we were just about to bike around the corner and leave that street when we heard Elders!, Elders! from way down the street, so we biked back and we thought someone was dying or something, but it was just a guy stranding outside his house. He just wanted to say hi, we could tell he was a little bit special needs, so we just talked with him for a little and asked how he knew the missionaries. The best part was he had a bunch of food in his mouth and as he kept talking he got closer and closer to my companion and was accidentally spitting on him a little, and my companion kept backing up further and further, lol. Anyways I have to say it was a great week. It is good to hear what you all are doing back home. Well, time is short as always! going to go meet up with other missionaries and play some sports! Love you all and take care! also dad i got your last postcard of the castle in Ireland!

June 16th, 2013

Hello family, another week gone by quick. Anyway, first off Happy Late Fathers day to James and especially dad! Without whom I would not be out here helping the New Zealand people today. It is good to hear you are all doing awesome things back home and having fun. How is Grandma Williams doing? That is awesome about little Thomas getting a certificate to his first white sox game. Well This is transfer week and my training is over! A couple elders are leaving our zone, which is sad and exciting at the same time. 25 new missionaries are coming in the mission the next couple days! Well me and my companion Elder Kavea have a small teaching pool right now. The same maori girl who we have been working with, her baptism date is at the end of the month, the 29th. We have found a good amount of potentials through our street contacting and door knocking, now the trick is to catch them at home and have them feel the spirit and know what part of the gospel we share with them will help them. I know that comes as me and my comp. rely on the spirit. The other missionaries around me are awesome and help make it fun as we work hard. I do have the video on a disc of our happy birthday skits to President. I will ask the senior couple in my area (they are awesome) to see if they can send it to one of your e-mails. If not I will send it home later. anyway Love you all and I do miss you all, but I am loving it out here and have a great week! Love, Elder T Williams 

June 3rd, 2013

Hello Family!

So I am e-mailing on a Tuesday morning instead of Monday. Yesterday was the Queens birthday( public holiday)so a lot of things were closed.  Now that the boring stuff is taken care of I can write how things are. Well, My new companion is awesome. Elder Kavea. He is related to the Tongans I worked with! crazy but it is sweet because we are able to joke around a little and have fun, even though we are working hard. Had my first Zone Conference and that was awesome! We had an awesome FHE with one of our investigators, we reset her baptism date for June 29th! It is awesome to hear how you are all doing back home. The miracle for this week was that we caught one of our potential investigators at home. Tyson. He is a very cool, open to learn more samoan 17yr old. He is always busy though(Basketball,Rugby,school), but we had a first lesson and he said the Restoration is true. He also said when he comes to know the rest of our message is true he will be baptized! He is very active in his church, though. His father is the pastor, so that might be a concern. Anyway I am enjoying my mission and eating a lot and biking a lot! Love you all and have a great week!

May 26th, 2013

I will try to write very fast and all I can, I never have enough time, ha. Sounds Like everybody is doing awesome. Thomas looks like he is doing great and having fun hanging out with Kelli and Cami, and James. That is awesome you are in to Summer break now. Shannae will be a sophomore coming up? Woah, That is awesome Dad is helping out with the Cub Scout Day camp, I remember all the fun scouting activities. So I am getting a new companion this thursday. It is a mid-transfer, so kinda weird. A new companion will come and finish my training. I have received your postcard dad, it was about a week and a half ago, so thank you for that! Kissing the balmey stone in Ireland or something like that. There is a few investigators we have that we are working with and some less actives also. A couple less actives are coming to church again and are happy. A few others we are planning FHEs with that will be fun and really help them. Well I already got to go but Love you all and I am enjoying all my time out here on the lord's errand. Ofa Atu

May 19th, 2013

Woah another week gone by. This last week was very amazing. We helped a couple other elders in the next area over (Wainuiomata) to do a missionary fireside. We all put on Rugby jerseys and did skits about honesty and integrity for the youth! That was awesome, Then we bore our testimonies and sang "How can I be" with one of the awesome members playing guitar for us elders. After all the fun and joking with the skits, the spirit came strong to the youth and their parents, some were crying while we were singing the song. That ward has a big struggle with the youth falling away and into peer pressure, so hopefully we helped a little while also having fun and keeping the spirit there. Our baptism cancelled, but she is still coming to church, and still has a strong testimony. We are also still meeting with her and visiting her to support her and help her experience all the blessings of the gospel. Other than that I am just enjoying the work and being able to interact and talk with so many different kinds of people everyday. Well love you all and have a great week! Ofa Atu! time for some ping pong and b ball at the chapel!

May 13th, 2013

Hello Family!

That was awesome I was able to talk to most of you today. Happy mothers day! Mostly for Mom but Happy Sabbath day for everybody else. I am enjoying my time out here and starting to love the people(members and Nonmembers) The baptism last week was awesome I was able to speak on faith! Even though the little Saman boy named bryan couldnt understand me, I looked at him during the talk and he gave me a thumbs up! that was amazing The spirit can still affect between people who speak different languages! Well another baptism for saturday! Her nam is Shade and we are excited to see her get baptized. She has had a lot of family trials and it is awesome that she is turning to the gospel for peace! Well I miss all of you, but I am only out here for two short years(less now) So I am going to stay focused on this great work and work hard while I am here. Love you Mom and Happy Mothers day and happy mothers sisters day to you Cami. Ofa atu! (tongan=Love you/take care)

May 5th, 2013

Hello Family,

Woah another week gone by, It was fun though. I am getting adjusted to the missionary life and making the most of every minute. We have two baptisms coming up! One is a young boy this friday, and the other is a young women who is getting ready for the 18th of this month! I am starting to see that the Lord has a lot of work for me to do here and how he is preparing people to hear more of the restored gospel truths. Got a haircut and went on an awesome little hike with the zone. Our mission president let our zone do the hike because we had at least 10 baptisms this last transfer. i am one transfers old now! We were hiking right by the ocean it was awesome. We went to look for seals but they were all hiding for some reason, it was still a lot of fun.It is good to hear all the news about back home.I am already excited to see rory, i mean little Thomas. And you all get to see Kelli run that is sweet! So I will be calling monday here around 12. So it will be sunday there about 5 or 6. So i have an hour total, but I can call two different places. so i will call the house and also tylers house. I will try the skype if i can, but i am not sure if it will be available for me. I think it might be. I miss you all but I am happy to be able to give a small portion of my life to help this great work and build the lords kingdom on the earth. I am excited to hear all of your voices and possibly see a couple of you next week. Well have a great week! Love, Elder T Williams