Boys will be boys.....

Yes, there was a big storm in New Zealand this week.  On Thursday, we got a call from our leaders saying get your 72 hour kits and have them ready and cancel all service projects for the weekend, and prepare to help people prepare for the storm.  We were kind of freaking out.  So, we started doing all that, and then no storm came.  We did get rain, but not really that much.  I think they maybe got more up in Auckland, not sure, we are going to ask around today.  So that was the storm...we are starting to think that the stores just wanted people to hurry out and buy up all the food.  

We were able to go ahead and do our service on the weekend after all.  Friday, we mowed lawns and Saturday, we helped clean a lady's house.  

Our service on Saturday took up the whole day.  It was a blast!  We helped this part member family and they had so much junk it was ridiculous. There was so much rubbish!  We divided it into metal, bottles, wood, and trash!  The metals and bottles are going to the recycling center, but you can see what we got to do with the wood.  I was lucky enough to be the one to start the fire!  Playing with fire.... All day!  We really did work hard though all day.  

When we were cleaning we found this frog.  We are giving it to one of our investigators for his birthday today.!  He is so cool.  We have been feeding him insects that we catch in our flat!  We have named him Fredo.  

I found these goggles and cap at a members house this week.  I just had to put them on and remember the good old days.  I miss swimming so much.  It was awesome! 

 I also found out that one of our members has llamas.  They said that the next time I can jump in the pen and try to cuddle with them.  This time, there was a mean billy goat in there so I had to stay outside.  

I had an awesome exchange with my district leader this week.  We made tacos the night we were on exchanges.  It was great, but not as good as my mothers!  It was fake wanna be Mexican food.   But they tried!  We cooked everything from scratch!  I can't believe that I remembered how my mother cooked the mince!  Exciting times!  

Love you all -- I mailed you a birthday present Mom!

Elder Tuckett