13 months!

Mom, thank you for sending me a copy of your talk.  I LOVED it!  It is good to look back and think about those things. I haven't really thought about all those things and everything that I have learned on my mission, thank you for sharing it with me.  It is hard to realize I have been gone for 13 months.  Wow!  

Some cool masks we found while shopping on p-day!

Last Monday we went shopping and I was able to get a hard drive and it works great!  I will use it to back up all of my photos so I don't lose them anymore.  Tuesday, was just another missionary day!  Wednesday, we had a district meeting then that night we had member splits and I took a member to an investigators house and had a wonderful reading session with them.  Thursday, we did some great finding.  I found a new investigator who is from Arizona!!!  He does not want to be baptized, but we are having fun sharing doctrine with him.  That was exciting!  Friday, we did weekly planning then went to Featherston and asked a guy that we have been giving service to if he wants to hear our message, and he said YES!  Saturday, nothing too exciting.  

Sunday, we got a new Branch Presidency.  However, they can't find anyone to call as counselors.  The new branch president wishes he could call us to help pump the members up an motivate the ward.  Really, there are really only old men available to call.  The branch president is going to pray about it. We also had a fun class of preach my gospel and prophets.    Sunday night, we had a little FHE/fireside and told people how to be better missionaries and helped them with their fear of missionary work.  Hopefully we will be getting  some more referrals now.   

This week we are doing exchanges again.... I will be leading  in Carterton.  This weekend there is a helping hands weekend clean up in Masterton, plus we might have some baptisms that we are going to invite some of our investigators to.  

Valentines day wasn't too exciting for us....  My companion took me to the Buckhorn Grill for lunch which was a wanna be steak house, but they did not know how to cook steaks.  Then for dinner we had one of our investigators took us to an Indian restaurant which was fantastic!  That was about it for valentines day.!  

People have been telling me of the extreme cold weather in the United States. They say that this has been the coldest summer here in New Zealand. It has been raining a lot which has been refreshing.  I would rather have the heat though.

We are already getting ready for General Conference!  It is a great way of finding investigators!  

Yesterday, there was a lot of talk at church about, how much time do we devote to serving The Lord, and how much time do we spend with our families.  (Mainly fathers speaking). Elder Nelson counseled, as much time for The Lord as possible, and as much time for your family as possible.   One of the reasons I am serving a mission is because of all the service I saw Dad give to The Lord.  He was always gone serving on Sundays, and in meetings.  I knew there had to be something of worth and value of the church for him to do this, which made it important to me.  I love dad for always being such a great example to me!  I love you all! 

Love, 

Elder Tuckett

P.S.  We need Ephriams rescue!  Can you send it to me this week?