Hello
So I don't have much to tell since it's only been a couple days since I last emailed but it has been a good couple days. 
So on Friday we had exchanges and I was with my friend from Kiribati again, Elder Tiikana. We did a lot of finding and then later that night we had a dinner appointment with one of the part-member families in the ward.
The next day we had a blitz with the district and the other three sets of missionaries came into our area and did some finding for two hours. We found a lot of nice people and one was a lady who was super keen to read the Book of Mormon. 
On Sunday we had 3 people come go church. It was awesome. One was the partner of a member who is trying to start coming back. They had their baby blessed in church. Then there was a youth that brought his friend to church and wants to have the lessons. Then there was a family that just moved into the ward. The husband isn't a member but came to church this week with the kids while his wife is away and told us that he is going to try to make more of an effort to join the church so that their family can be sealed together in the temple. So we are pretty excited to see the work going on here.  
Then during the testimonies two members got up and shared about how they really enjoyed the 21 day challenge the missionaries gave and have seen miracles from it. It was so cool. Then the stake pres got up and said that the 21 day challenge sounded great but he and the rest of the bishopric had no idea what it was and so we missionaries were like " oops how did we forget to tell them" the rest of church was good. In the 3rd hour we had a presentation on pathway by the self-reliance missionaries. 
Then after church we biked to the highest part of our area and visited a couple that just got married who were super keen to do missionary work. 
Anyway that's about all for the week. Hope everybody was a great week.

Love
Elder Nelson

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