The Great and the Terrible

I can't believe that it is almost time to hear our Prophet again at General Conference!  Our President is telling us to get ready to invite people to General Conference in our buildings.  So, it is coming.... Who are you going to invite?

Yes mom.....  I was just thinking this week that I need more people to write me.  Thank you for getting Kylie and her family to write a random missionary who they only have met a couple of times!  I hope they and everyone else that I sent postcards to this week gets them and I hope they don't get lost in the mail.  I would love to know when you guys get them.  

So, this week was both great and terrible!  Bad news first, the baptism didn't go through.  The husband of the lady getting baptized was not well enough to take the long drive (2 hour) to Gore, so they cancelled it the morning of the baptism.  So, we pushed it bak to the 31st of August so hopefully he feels better.  So that is good and bad news.  Reset the date, but missed the first one.  We also got a portable baptismal font, so we might be able to have the baptism in Queenstown.  [I asked him what a portable font was, and he said to google it -- he said they use them at the "rocking out" churches, where people just come up to the front to be baptized.]  It would be better for them if we can do it here.  

Yesterday we also had the District President at church and there were like 15 people at church and it was wonderful!  it actually started feeling like there is a branch there!  Most of the seats were taken and I loved it!  Until I had to teach the Sunday School lesson -- more people means more pressure.  But it was wonderful!

Next week we have our President coming.  He is coming Tuesday/tomorrow.  I have been freaking out getting read for him to come to town!  Then the rest of the week we will be on exchanges with the Zone Leaders so I will be running things in Queenstown this week!  So things are going great hear in beautiful Queenstown.

Last P-day, we hiked up that Queenstown Mountain so we got some crazy good pictures of the city.  This is downtown  Queenstown that we pass through a lot.  It is a big city for New Zealand!  We hiked up which took 45 minutes but it was straight up so we were dead tired after that hike so we took the Gondola back down.  It cost $15 but was totally worth it -- It was a terribly hard hike up.  

I feel so blessed to be serving in beautiful Queenstown!  It is the best area in the south!  Many missionaries have told me I am so blessed!  I believe it!

I love and miss you --

Elder Tuckett

Excerpt from Mary's letter:

I made some awesome cookies like as good as Mother's cookies -- [they made them for the baptism that didn't happen]  So we had to eat them all -- it was great, but now I am so fat!  Everyone loved the cookies and kept asking where I bought them! But, nope there was and American cookbook at our flat that had snickerdoodles and chocolate cookie recipe so we took like an hour making those 2 cookies and they were great -- So proud of myself!

 

Coming down on the Gondola.