Well this has been another great week. Nothing super out of the ordinary but just a good week. In fact, as far as the progress of the work is concerned, it is probably the best week I have had in this area. We just were able to teach a few more lessons than usual so we were pretty excited. We have a new man we are teaching named Mike. He is a little bit lonely so he likes to talk heaps when we go over there but he also will listen when we go to teach him. We shared with him the Restoration and he seemed to be pretty excited to learn more about Joseph Smith. We had three lessons with him last week and have another appointment with him on Wednesday. So we are hoping we can continue to help him move forward.
We did a bit of service this week, like always. Mostly we just weeded and turned over people's gardens. The first one we did was for an older man named Graham. We do service for him pretty much every week. But this one was cool because I got to use a rotary hoe! That was pretty cool. It did make my arms/shoulders really tired though, trying to control it in the hard dirt. Then later in the week we helped out a less active lady with her garden. We spent about an hour clearing weeds and turning over part of her garden as well. There is probably another 10 hours of work to do in there though! Just weeds every where. But she gave us some cake afterward so that was cool!
Good news! My camera is not broken! I just took it to a photo shop and they did something and it works now! I actually think what happened was that the battery just got really really dead and so it looked like it wasn't charging but it really was and I just needed to be more patient and let it sit and charge over night. So that will save us all a couple bucks!
Well that is about all for this week. Pretty exciting! We also had the Assistants to the President spend a night with us and work with us for a couple hours Saturday morning. They are just going around to the areas and I think trying to meet with all the new missionaries. They traveled about 2200 km in 5 days driving around the south island in a brand new car. Sounds like fun! Hope you are all doing well!
Love,
Elder Burnham
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