No time to email!

We got a new companion this week.  So we are in a threesome right now.  Elder Tomaliti!  He is my mission brother!  He was trained by Elder Godinet too.  He has like 5 months left in the mission.  We are having a blast!  Right now I am on exchanges at Wanganui and will be here until Wednesday.  I am with Elder Keller.  

It looks like you had a great week in Utah.  I seriously only recognized 2 people in that cousin picture that you sent me.  I am so glad that you got to meet Ryan.  I want to hear more about that.  

Here is the picture of Ryan, and us after we had a great visit.

We were able to get on family search for an hour this week.  Tell Mary that I was able to link up with Dad's family so that the fan chart is all filled in now.  I was so excited,  and if you go on dad's grandpa, you will see that there are stories and pictures and it is really cool.   I knew that someone on dad's side had things done!  Mom, you should encourage Dad to get on there and fill out all the info on there and do family history.  

I am sorry that I do not have time today.  I only have 30 minutes to email today, and I have to do my letter to the President.   

Love you,

Elder Tuckett

Friendly Feilding!!!

See, Friendly Feilding!!!!

It is so hot here!  We wear short sleeves all day too, and it's still warm.  Enjoy your trip to cold Utah this week!  I am excited that Bishop Garn is having you meet your neighbors!  I want to hear all about the neighborhood party next week!  Tell Bishop Garn he is doing good work by pushing you all out of your comfort zones!  I also can't wait to get Ammah's letter this week, we have a girl in the ward here that is going to the Phillipines!  Scary Stuff over there!

We have started a new way of journaling.  Our zones leaders suggested for us to try video.  So every night, we video each other and we tell about our day.  I am using my iPod to do this,  we will see how it goes.  I think it is better than a boring old book.

We found out this week that one of the ladies that we do service for has cancer!  That is so sad because she is like our grandma.  She is the best!  Then, we have another investigator that has told us that she knows the Book of Mormon is true just by reading the first two books.  She is re-reading  now, so that she can figure out the family tree of everyone in the book.  She knows more than me!  It is so amazing to see this one book affect so many peoples lives.  This sister says she knows it it true, "it just hit me!  It is a wall of spirit and it just hit me!"  She is going to be baptized this next month.  I just know it!  Her husband though, he stands in the door drinking and smoking every time.  He says he agrees with everything, but we have some work to do there.  

I am so excited for you to meet with Ryan this week.  He is just the best!  You are going to love him!  Tell him how much I miss him! [The young man Ryan baptized is now in Salt Lake City as a foreign exchange student, and we are going to get to meet him this week when we are in Utah, he also has a link to Ryan's cousin Holly who is serving in Germany, his host family has a son that is also serving in Germany and he and Holly are in the same district, and they put everything together from Elder Tuckett's letters, small world!]

Here is a great quote that our Mission President sent us this week:

Fix your fears.

Destroy your distractions.

Workout your worries.

Focus your faith. 

Rejoice in your referrals. 

Study your scriptures.

Prepare your planners.

Consecrate your covenants.

Sing your songs.

Motivate your members.

Select your sacrifice.

Serve your Savior.

Inspire your investigators.

Appreciate your area.

Don't you love that?  I DO!!!

Love you,

Elder Tuckett

Busy Week!

Here is the best picture that we could get on a Saturday night after a busy week.  Sorry for the bad pictures, but there is nothing to take a picture of in this town.  It is just another boring farming town.  However, it is the best place for missionary work!  

I feel that ever since I have gotten in this area, time has just flown by.  I don't know where the time goes.  It sounds like you have had a fun this week too with with lots of family visiting.  I can't wait to hear how the storm is in the Philippines and to hear from Ammah.  I hope she is okay.  I love getting to read my friends emails when you send them. But now I am so busy, it will take me longer to get them read.  
 

I am still loving my new area and new companion.  The people here are fantastic.  They are definitely more friendly. We do get fed more here during the week.  

If you get one of those family history books, will you send me one?  We only have 8 for our whole ward and the senior couple is hoarding them.  Our new senior couple has really been pushing family history so I have really gotten in the spirit of it too.  Our mission president wants us to become familiar with it so we can use it as a way of finding.  I forgot to tell you that I did that family history fan on family search too when I was stuck in Christchurch, and it was awesome, but dad's family has a lot to catch up with, there is nothing in there for them.   

This picture is from our backyard.  Nothing but little daisy flowers for grass.  One thing that I had a hard time getting used to here is that you can walk on the grass and it doesn't matter.  You know how at home, you walk on the grass and it is rude or whatever because grass is hard to grow?  Here, grass grows everywhere, and in cheaper neighborhoods, there are no sidewalks, just grass.  Anyway...Arizona problems!  

When we were door knocking this week, we knocked, and no one was home and we were pretty sure that we could hear a baa coming from the inside and getting louder.  We are convinced that the man living there has a sheep for a pet. I would love to bring one home, they are so cute!  That was the highlight of my week!  One investigator dropped us, and some came to church, but most did not.  We did find some new ones, so hopefully we will hit the nail on the head.  The work is going forward here and  everyone is still talking about the Hamulas visit.  I see quotes all the time from them everywhere now!  It is a great reminder of their visit.  

I think of you guys and pray for you nightly and can't wait until Christmas to talk to you again!

Love,  Elder Tuckett

Welcome to Feilding Ward!

I am happy to announce that I am in a ward again!  You know what that means?  MEMBERS!  Good, faithful members that help missionary work!  It is because of our members, and all of their help and everything they do that we have 12 investigators that are progressing and 4 baptismal dates that are set and that we are working for!  We are going to set a lot more this week too!  Our week is really full trying to meet with all of these 12 investigators, plus the meetings we have, plus the service we are doing for people, and we still must try to talk to 150 people a week!  This is why I have no time for writing letters or anything these days.  The time is flying by, it seems like I was just here emailing you.  I love this area!

This is Feilding!  That was the highest hill we could find last Monday.  This is a flat and windy place.  I like to call it "Friendly Feilding".   I can't believe that Mary got a blender for her birthday.  You wouldn't believe it, but I have been going to the thrift store here to look for one for the flat here.  We have a lemon tree and someone showed me how to make some fast and easy lemonade.  

Yes, I have got your letters that you have sent to the flat so you have the right address.  I also got a package from the singles ward.  It was really cool!  I don't have as much time here to write back to people.  I just don't have time like I had in my last area.  I am really loving my calling too!  I am lucky to have an amazingly obedient district (at least that I know of).  We need to be reminded over and over of the blessings that come from being obedient.
 

This is me and my companion.  He has only been out for 7 weeks.  He is basically running this area while I am still trying to learn all of our investigators names!  This is the biggest flat that I have been in.  You can see the kitchen in the background, and we have a garage, and 2 bedrooms.  Our laundry room is in a room outside.  Being larger means that there is more to clean with our busy schedule.

I am so grateful for all of this work that I get to be a part of.  This week I got so tired that I started to fall asleep in a lesson.  This is some hard work, and so much different from my last area where we were begging people to listen to our message.  The field is white here and over grown and I am loving it!  

I love you!  

Elder Tuckett