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New Zealand Wellington Mission Blog SEP & OCT 2020

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New Zealand Wellington Mission Blog  Kia Ora to our friends and family.  YouTube Video about the Meaning of Kia Ora   . Please Click to follow the hyperlink to see and hear what that means (2.5 minutes). We do mean it when we say Kia Ora. We do love and appreciate you, our family, and our friends.  Elder & Sister Hurdman at the Tawa Chapel where we go to church We hope that you are doing well through this COVID-19 Pandemic. We do follow what is happening in Canada and the USA and you are in our thoughts and prayers. We also feel so blessed that we were able to come and serve our Mission here in New Zealand and for all the experiences that we have enjoyed as we serve our Lord and Saviour here among the Maoris, Samoans, Tahitians, Tongans, I-Kiribati, Fijians, Filipinos and Pakehas (New Zealander of European descent). This is a land of many cultures and languages. Even the English is a New Zealand English, and we are loving it.  Here in this Blog post we will...

New Zealand Wellington Mission Blog JULY & AUGUST 2020

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New Zealand Wellington Mission Blog July and August 2020 Well, it has been around two months since we last posted (26 JUL) on our Blog, and we have heard that different people are asking when our next one will be coming out. Well, here it is and we will give you our post for JUL through AUG version. (Here it is early OCT so we will try and get SEP and OCT out closer to the end of OCT). These are indeed exciting times that we are living in.   President & Sister Thomson July was a very interesting month as we had our new Mission President and his wife, President and Sister Thomson, come into the mission and our previous Mission President and his wife, President and Sister Soloai finish their mission and head home. They did the exchange on Wednesday 01 JULY 2020. For those that don’t know, Mission Presidents and their spouse serve for three years and they always change on 01 JULY. Every mission President and his wife have their own unique characteristics and it is nice to se...