Eventful Week!!!!

I really didn't read your letter this week, because I am so excited to tell you about my last three days! [hope he printed it out and took it home]  Saturday was Ryan's baptism and I had to conduct the meeting because we weren't sure our mission leader was going to make it [he's 86 years old].  He is really sick right now and Elder Dorius doesn't think he will make it through but I have faith in him and that his work isn't done!  Anyway, I got to conduct, and Elder Dorius baptized.  Ryan didn't bend his knees so he was like a plank going into the water so I am happy my companion did it because they are both so tall.  It was a wonderful day!  That night, Ryan came to our flat and we had a great talk with him and took a walk with him and we talked for a long time.  He is so humble and nice, and very loving. I love that he is so straight up and there are no hidden parts to him.  I hope that I will be able to see him when I come home as he is planning on going to BYU - UT.  He is the best!  He still has a lot to learn about the church and he still is learning English, so we will see!

Sunday we had ward council.  They do ward council all wrong here, and we just got a new Relief Society President, and she totally told everyone in the room how to do things, and that they were doing it all wrong, and they need to do it how the church tells us to, so hopefully things will change for the better because she spoke what was on her mind.  We need to get more work done effectively.  

When we went to church, we noticed that the person that was to bring Ryan was not there and neither was Ryan, so we got another member and we went to pick him up and we got back right before the sacrament.  Everyone bore their testimonies, including Ryan.  He just said how he met the missionaries and told of his strong testimony of the Book of Mormon.  He is a beast, I just love him.  He spoke very humbly, in his broken English.  When they called him up for the confirmation, which I was going to do, the second counselor in the bishopric just started saying it, and confirmed him.  He did not do it right and the bishop had to whisper in his ear the whole time.  I later found out from the Bishops wife that the 2nd Counselor is new to the church himself, and he thought that whoever conducted the meeting did the confirmation.  I didn't care, what was important was that he got the Holy Ghost.

I taught Gospel Principles class that Sunday, and it was on spiritual gifts, and it was very good and going great until the end when a lady who had just been coming back to church started saying that God was talking to her and wanted her to be in a gang.  My companion put her in her place nicely, however she ended up leaving.  So you see, my Sunday was pretty eventful.

This week we also went to a less active members home and she read our palms.  She told me I am only going to live for 50 years, but it is OK, because palms change a lot, so the reading doesn't really mean anything.  

Monday was eventful too.  We played a hard core soccer game with all these Chinese people from 9-12.  It was a real soccer game, that was so much fun.  Then we biked up to the Napier ward to meet the Zone Leaders, and played 4 hours of basketball.  While we were there a drunk lady came in and interrupted our game.  So, do you see how eventful my week was.  After yesterday and all that exercising, my legs are dead and can't even move them without hurting.  But it was so fun and worth it!  

Things are great here!  I love my companion.  He is just great.  We are so close and we tell each other everything!  Hope you enjoyed all these stories and pictures!  My hand hurts from so much typing, I am sure this is the longest email I have ever sent!  

Love you! 
Elder Tuckett

This is a picture our investigator drew of me!

My New Zealand Sky Picture this week!  I love the skies here!