Life is good! Things are getting a little more repetitive, I
don't think I have as many crazy stories. But that's not to say I am not
enjoying myself. Because I am. IMMENSELY.
We went back to Mount Manaia. It was still sketchy, if not more
so. But I loved it. Both times we went we were on there too long so we had to
run down to save time and there is so many stairs. It really does a number on
you. But it is cool. Haha! And when you run down, you feel like you are in one
of those Nike commercials where the person is just running on a trail in a super
green jungle. Then cue logo and "just do it". One of the other
Elders, Elder Palmer, and I really like to climb on all the rocks and trees. We
just go and find a bunch of awesome places. It's so cool. This last time we
went I finally brought my camera, so I will have pictures to send out
eventually. :-)
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After we did Mt. Manaia,
we went and did a service project for a less active member of our ward. He tore
his Achilles tendon, so he is pretty limited right now, so we mowed and
weed-eated his lawn. He was very grateful and it was nice to be able to do
something nice for someone and see his gratitude.
We have a person we are
talking to named [Tanya] and she is very interested. Right now she is living
with her less active partner who is named [Richard], but they both are feeling
like they need the church in their lives so we have been able to teach her and
we even were able to give her a Maori Book of Mormon. Both of them are actually
fluent in Maori and they are only about 21-22ish, but they are so mature it sometimes
feels like talking to 30 year olds. But they are awesome and lots of fun.
They weren't at church, but a LOT of people were there
yesterday. It was the fullest I have seen it. It was so awesome and it just
made me smile. Other than that, we have just had more of us getting to know
people and helping out everyone we can.
But there is something
you will probably find interesting. First: some background. So New Zealand has
two big chocolate brands. Cadbury and Whittaker's. Cadbury is Australian and
basically an equivalent of Hershey's. But Whittaker's is only in New Zealand. I
don't like their white chocolate that much, but their milk chocolate is
AMAZING. Now New Zealand also has a drink called L&P or Lemon & Paeroa (I
think that's how you spell it), but it is fantastic. It is like lemonade but
not even close and so good.
But a while ago Whittaker's teamed up with L&P
to make L&P flavoured white chocolate. I have tried it and I think it is
good, but apparently when it first came out, it was HUGE. And now, Whittaker's
has done it again. They have teamed up with, apparently, "New Zealand's
best milk" to make a Whittaker's chocolate milk. And people are going
crazy over it. It reaches shelves at 11, and when it first came out, it was
gone by 11:30. It never even reached the shelves. They had to limit the
amount people could buy to 2 containers a person. And people have been trying
to trick the system. It costs 6.50 for a container that's not even a quart, but
people are still trying to get as much as they can! I also heard that people
have started selling it on-line for a ceiling of 1,000$, and it's getting
BOUGHT!!!! So we are going to have to try some and I will tell you how it is.
Because everyone who has tried some has said it's very much worth it. So yes we
are very desirous to try for ourselves. There's three main supermarket stores
here: Countdown, Pak'n'save, and New World. It is only at the latter two
because Countdown is Aussie owned. It will get there eventually, but not yet.
So it's so weird how big this is!!
Anyways, on that note of amusement, have a good week and stay
the awesomest!!
-Elder Clayton-
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