Hello there family!
Well this week and last week were pretty tough. We have two of our good investigators drop us in the last two weeks so we have been doing a lot of finding this week. Yet we are still having little success. I am not sure what to do other than just keep working hard. I guess that is just part of serving a mission is that there will be ups and downs. I am just hoping the "up" time comes here quickly.
So Anzac day was on Thursday. It is a national holiday to remember those who have served in battle. This thing that most towns/cities do is a dawn parade/service. So we were all told we had to go to that. So we woke up at 4:45 to get to the town center by 5:30 when the parade up a little hill started. Then there was about a 40 minute service where a few speeches were given in remembrance of Anzac cove, where the Australia and New Zealand forces landed in Turkey in WWI. It was a pretty neat thing to do but it made the rest of the day seem pretty long.
Other than that, nothing really exciting happened this week. Just hard work and what seems like no results. We had a nice dinner on Saturday night with a less active member. He made a pork roast and then just cut it in thirds and gave us each a third. We had some potatoes and kumara as well. Kumara is sorta like a sweet potato kind of thing. I am really not too sure what exactly it is but it has the consistency of a potato.
Things are going well with my companion and I. We have very different personalities and upbringings but it seems to work out most of the time. Sometimes I just have to bite my tongue and let him say things that I don't quite completely agree with. He hasn't really had much of a solid family growing up so he is really used to doing things on his own. We have had a bit of communication issues but I think it is all worked out. Well at least we know that we are pretty different and we try to look at things through the eyes of the other.
Well sounds like things are going well at home. Sorry last weeks email was so short. Miss you all!
Love,
Elder Burnham
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