March 29, 2015

March 29, 2015

Hey Family- 

It’s been a good week! I sent Sister Paulo home and it was sad I miss her heaps! Then we went to transfers which was awesome!! I got to see a bunch of people probably for the last time. My new companion is Sister Moore. We were roommates in the MTC! She is awesome and I can already tell this area needed her but it is weird being with an American they are really intense!! I think it must be to prepare me to come home because I have chilled out heaps on my mission. To many islander companions:) Things are good though.  I also got my flight information this week I will fly into salt lake at 7:40pm on May 5. Crazy!! 

Love you all! 

Love Sister Miggin

March 23, 2015

Malo e lelei Famili-

Oku i ai eku manatu koe! Things are good here. I am living in Rotorua this week with the Fairy Springs Ward Sisters because Sister Paulo catches the bus at four this afternoon. I am really going to miss her and it has been so hard getting her ready to go home especially knowing that I only have a little over a month left. We still worked super hard though this week and had a great time. I won’t find out who my new companion is until tomorrow though.

The sisters here in Rotorua are both pretty new and its strange being around them. It’s going to be a long few days plus I miss my area. I always do when I leave my areas.  You just get really attached and it feels like home! Plus, we set someone for baptism this week and now I am not going to see her for a few days and that is hard!

Oh well, Nofo Malohi right?haha I miss you all but the days are counting down now I hate it. hahaha I can’t imagine leaving New Zealand. A lot of my mission friends go home this transfer too though, so that will make it a little easier.  Pretty soon I won’t know anyone. I love you!!

'Ofa Atu! Vakai koe!

Love Sister Miggin

March 15, 2015

Kia Ora Family-

It was a really good week we had another conference up in Tauranga this week on Monday which I think I already told you because we emailed on Tuesday. We have had a lot of rain and wind they call Hurricane's, Cyclones here so that is what it is I guess. This is the second Cyclone since I have been in in New Zealand it’s not too bad though. I heard it hit Fiji pretty bad though.

This is Sister Paulo's last week as a missionary this Sunday I will be driving her to Rotorua and next Monday she will catch the bus to Hamilton I think! CRAZY!! That means I will be starting my last transfer next week! Only 5 and a half weeks and I will be home.

Things are good.  We found three new investigators this week and we have 3 progressing towards baptism and Tekiri is doing AMAZING since her baptism!

Anyway love you heaps!

Love Sister Miggin

March 9, 2015

Hey Family!!

It was an awesome week! We had Tekiri Morehu's baptism on Saturday and it was beautiful! We had more people at the baptism than that come to church on Sunday. She looked lovely and had such an amazing spirit there. I sang for part of it with Elder Noa Aiono so scary and public singing is definitely not my forte but anything for Tekiri!:) Also we had to speak in sacrament on Sunday and we only got asked like a couple days before.  We had the baptism and everything so all I had time to do was write and outline and that is the first time I havent written it out word for word but it went really well and everyone liked it I think.  So, that was a big step for me too!

The reason I am emailing late is we had another conference with Elder Neilsen of the seventy yesterday and it was so good! I learned a lot and I heard a lot of things that I needed to hear that will help me make some more positive changes in my life. It also helped me make some big decisions.

I love you all and hope you have a great week!

Love Sister Miggin

Road Trip

Malo e lelei Family!

It has been an amazing week!! We have seen heaps of miracles and we have a baptism this Saturday for Tekiri Morehu! She is golden and has been doing so well with the lessons. She is a single mother of 7 kids and even though she has had heaps of trials coming she is so calm about all of them. She is so positive and just loves the gospel it is so fun and such a blessing to work with her!

Also on Saturday I was getting out of the car and heard a horn beep and guess who it was!! AUNTIE SALLY and ZSARAYA!! It was so fun to see them they came down for a river float and had no way of contacting me but they just saw me by chance it is always so exciting to see my family in New Zealand!!

Sister Paulo and I had an awesome time at the conference with Elder Bednar. It was really amazing and I got heaps of answers to questions that I have had. And we got to see everyone and catch up. Elder Bednar said that we were really prepared so the conference that was supposed to be about an hour went three hours it was crazy cool but then he didn’t have time to shake our hands after so instead we got to catch up with everyone. I got to say goodbye to Elder To'ia who finishes this transfer and catch up with all my other Tongans and Sister Lamoureux it was heaps of fun! And then we had a three hour car ride back down to home long as and no music was allowed on the car ride so it was extra-long.  You know how I love music!!

Anyways I was glad to hear that Ryan did so well in his play and that my prayers are being answered and Dads work still hasn’t gone on strike!!

I love you heaps!! Oku ou fakafeta'i koe'uhi ko hoku Famili!!! Couldn’t do it without you!!

Love Sister Miggin

Leaving to see Elder Bednar

Hey Momma and Daddy

Sorry I am emailing so late we are in Rotorua today because we are headed to Auckland tomorrow for Elder Bednar's conference here with the Auckland and Hamilton Missions. It has been an awesome week we are working hard and loving it! I dont really know what to talk about today it has just been work work work all week long helping our investigators prepare for baptism and we taught Sunday School and Relief Society yesterday. 

So I will just send pictures:)

Love you!!!

"Dying"

Hey Mom and Dad!!

It has been such a crazy week! I got last minute shifted to Taupo because they needed a driver down here and I think God knew I needed to leave Redoubt! It was hard to leave because I was finally starting to love it up there. For some reason I feel like I was never supposed to be there which I have never felt before in an area and so when I got transferred and rolled up to Taupo it felt like home which was so nice!

When we left Redoubt it was just Vasi and I driving down and I got permission to stop in Ngaruawahia because it is on the highway to Hamilton and so I stopped and said hi to the Waters and Auntie Savoni. It was seriously the most amazing thing ever! I cant explain the love I have for them and how much I had missed them it was what I imagine when I see you it will feel like a little bit! It was so sweet and my heart felt so full!

Transfers were good but the drive was really long we are as far south as you can go in the mission its us and then wellington mission so I literally went from the top border of the mission in redoubt by Auckland mission to the bottom! Taupo is freaking gorgeous though! We can see the beautiful lake from basically our whole area and there are hot pools like Yellowstone all over the place. Heaps of tourists!!

We set someone for baptism the second day I was here and so next month we have almost a baptism every single Saturday the 7, 14, and 28! This area is on fire it is so seriously fun to be in an alive area I have never been in one before. haha Sister Paulo is amazing I get along with her like I did with Sister Hughes... So EASY!! She is Sister Training Leader right now so we will be going on exchanges and training the newbs which is so weird! She dies at the end of this transfer though and then it will be me dying! CRAZY!!

Next week Elder Bednar is coming to speak to us so we are driving all the way back up to Auckland to my Redoubt chapel for the conference it will be our entire mission and Auckland mission I might get to see Elder Katoa for the first time since the airport! We don't get to talk to anyone or take any pictures though so I will just tell you all about it!

Anyway love you heaps!!

Sister Miggin