Mar 5
This Pday we had about 0 time to email since the library was packed. I had about 3 seconds left until the computer timed me out when I hit send on my last email. After emails we went to the recreation centre and played some basketball while Timaru was here. The rest of the night was spent organizing and cleaning up the flat for our inspection coming up.
Mar 6
This morning Elder Katoa woke up sick so we spent a good part of the day at the flat. We only got in a few appointments today and that's because they were set in stone times. Otherwise I just spent most of the day cleaning the flat and studying.
Mar 7
Elder Katoa was sick again today and we had our flat inspection this morning so again I was left to clean the flat on my own (it was a pig sty when I got here and these past few days have been me deep cleaning it to get it back up to shape). The Ward's and the Robison's came to do the inspection and this was the Ward's last week so we got to say our last goodbyes to them. We had a few other set lessons today and that's all we did except drive up to Timaru tonight.
Mar 8
This morning was our District Meeting. I had the training which was really all we did at District Meeting. We exchanged afterwards and I stayed with Elder Crouse in Timaru. We had quite a few errands to run so that took up our afternoon until our dinner appointment. It was with the R's and they are just about the most interesting people I've ever met. She is just super prideful about everything (especially her not so good cooking) and he is just loco. But we were grateful nonetheless. We traveled out of Timaru to see a less active but he was a bit busy with his needy sister (idk, welcome to NZ)
Mar 9
So the water in the Timaru flat wasn't working this morning so Elder Crouse and I traveled down to Oamaru a little earlier than planned to actually get ready for the day. When the other Elders got to the flat they told us that the shower was leaking onto our downstairs neighbors again, so we just soaked them a little bit more. We then exchanged back and Elder Katoa and I made a few last visits before Sports Night.
Mar 10
This morning Pres. Kaufana asked us to help out with a Rugby event in town. It was for the young kids so we were tasked with helping out a small group do some drills. From there we started proselytizing and our day was packed.
Mar 11
Well it finally happened, I fell asleep in church today, man is it hard to stay awake for 2 wards. We had 2 dinner appointments tonight for some reason so I was beyond dead. We traveled up to Timaru tonight for Pday tomorrow
Mar 12
So for Pday today we were told that we were going to a BMX track but when we actually saw it we decided against going home early for injuries. Our Pday just turned into Ping Pong and church movies.
Mar 13
This morning we took the car in to replace the tires and we went over to the AA (DMV) to schedule Elder Katoa's driving test. After lunch we had another packed afternoon/evening of visit after visit.
Mar 14
This morning we got a call from Elder Miller telling us that our neighbors complained about the mountain of trash in our garage (?) that the past missionaries left for us. So we had to spend all day asking members to use their bins because there isn't a dump to throw it all away here. We ended up having to go up to Timaru because we just had too much to give out in Oamaru.
Mar 15
We had our District Meeting this morning which was centered around a very interesting discussion about the Great Apostasy. We had another exchange right afterwards and I stayed with Elder Davis in Timaru. We had some really good lessons tonight but we had dinner with the R's tonight and it somehow got worse from last weeks meal.
Mar 16
After the typical morning routine we traveled down to Oamaru to exchange back. P spotted us all lunch which I was grateful for since we don't have anything in our flat right now. Afterwards Elder Katoa and I made the typical rounds before Sports Night.
Mar 17
Today was a pretty low key day. I finally got Elder Katoa to do language study with me since I'm approved to start learning Tongan (Tongan badge is on it's way). Other than that we really only had our splits this afternoon. We made a surprise visit to the S's tonight and they invited us in for FHE and kai. She had made Tongan doughnuts which are basically just fried balls of dough (amazing).
Mar 18
After church we went over to the S's to pick up our dinner (they loaded us up again). After dinner we went to the choir practice that the ward was holding to practice for Stake Conference. We stopped by to see T (even though we didn't have time for it since we needed to be in Timaru tonight). They invited us in for a feed and we accepted so we were just about both dead from all the food tonight and we just barely made it to Timaru on time.