Hospital Weekend.

Hello everyone!

Well, what a week aye. I'll start off now I am all good. Nothing is too wrong I'm still able to work and to keep goin! But let me tell you where this is all coming from.

Monday morning I woke up with a massive right elbow. Nice red and shiny. Not sure what from but very painful. So I called the nurse and continued with my P-Day kind of babying my right elbow. Some sisters and us wanted to go bowling. I tried two frames with the right, not the most comfortable thing, so I did the rest with my left and did awesome! Finally heard back from the nurse Monday evening and said she wanted me to go to the doctors. So from Tuesday to Friday I had to go to the doctors every day to get an IV with some drugs. Friday they tried some different drug that my body didn't like. My arm got very stiff, sore and hot. So the nurse freaked out and took it out and then my back started freaking out. Couldn't lay flat cause it was too stiff. So they gave me some pain killers through an IV and then the doctor came in and said she talked to the hospital and they wanted me to come in for a look. So we got to the ED at about 530, got looked at by the nurse at 730, got looked at by the doctor at 1210 am. They didn't even have a doctor on staff so we had to wait for him to come :) There were some very nice members and people there who looked after us haha. They admitted me to a room at 2 am and finally let us go to sleep at 230. Then I stayed there all of Saturday, and all of Sunday. And finally got released this morning at 1230 :) What a great weekend haha. Thats about all the news I have for ya!

Hope you all had a good week!

Love you heaps!!

Elder Maughan

Stonefields Round 3!

Hello everyone! Hope you all had a great week and are ready to keep on goin!

So we had transfers this week, and luckily my companion and I get to stay together for another transfer! Us and the whole zone have really high hopes for April so we are excited to see what comes our way :) As a stake we finished the month of March with 8 converts which is the best this stake has seen in a couple of months, so I was super proud of our zone of missionaries for all the hard work they put it. However we are looking to push ourselves this coming month with 10 new converts. The month is looking really good and we are excited to keep going hard with some of the best missionaries in the mission!

This last week was super busy with transfers and moving a companionship's house. We were lacking on sleep this last week and it caught up to us at the end of the week haha. But we are still super pumped! Lots of people are progressing and we are really excited for some families we are working with!

I'm gonna shoot now!
Hope you all have a good week and enjoy General Conference!!:)

Elder Maughan

Still Movin Along

This past week was pretty good. Lots of starting from square one again since the majority of our teaching pool was baptized haha. But we were able to build up our teaching pool this week and set some more people for baptism! This ward and area is so fruitful. It's a great time to be here!

We had zone conference this last week and we talked about a lot of new things the mission department wants us to focus on. One of the major ones was The Prince of Peace. Easter is coming up and it's a great time to think about the Saviour and His life for us! Keep it in mind as you start searching for those eggs haha! 

We have transfers this week so I'm excited to see what changes come to Panmure next! Not expecting anything too big but I know the Lord has a lot in store for these next 6 weeks. Lots of baptisms and new people will be coming!!

Love you all! Have a good week!

Elder Maughan

Flooding in Rain and Baptisms

Another Great week has come and gone. Time is so freaking fast it's crazy. BUT! Lukis, Katia, and Jacob all got baptized and confirmed this week! It was such a great service and a miracle that Katia even got there haha. She showed up with like 2 minutes before we started, but the Lord provided a way and we were all super super excited for it :)

We've had so much rain lately. I do my best to drive through all the puddles and splash the water haha. Auckland is getting so much rain and just flooding everywhere. It's not super fun to walk in it, and when both our rain coats pour water on our thighs haha, but it's still super fun and super worth it :)

The whole stake is doing really well. Lots of miracles came to the entire zone. One companionship got 3 sets after having nothing going on in their ward. We also got to go to the Glen Innes ward baptism yesterday for the Elders serving there. Lots of great things going on in Panmure!

Love you all! Hope all is well wherever you are!!

Elder Maughan

Workin all the time

Hello Everyone! We had a great week! Lots of good things are coming! The Lord has provide more and more people for us to teach. We have 5 total sets for baptism at the moment and its all from the Lord!

Lucas and Katia are doing awesome! Both excited for their baptism this weekend. Same with Jacob! Its gonna be good for the ward to see some baptisms coming in. The other two, Richard and Mata (new) are both really good as well. Just need to get the commitment up but are doing awesome!

Things in Panmure are looking great for March. We have a goal of 8, with 8 sets and 2 accomplished already. My companion and I are really grateful for the work that is going on in the stake and how hard everyone is working.

Life is good now. Couldn't be happier! 3rd quarter is coming to an end so it's crunch time now!

Love you all!

Have a good week!

Elder Maughan

Lookin Pretty in Panmure

Another week gone. I don't know how to start these anymore. I feel like it gets boring to everyone haha. But I hope you still enjoy them 

This week has been super good. My comp and I are starting from square one and have seen the Lords blessings in our work! We have found heaps of potential from the ward action list and unbaptized list. So many good things coming from it. And it has all come from just getting down and dirty in the Lords work and doing what He's asked us to do and He takes care of the rest! 

Vinny is the man. He was able to have a talk with President Balli this week and really felt the spirit in their meeting. He's still searching for his answer, but he's doing awesome and we love seeing his growth. Jane and Paula are also doing awesome! We really love their family and we always feel the spirit stronger and stronger each time we go there. They are awesome!!

We found 2 new investigators this week, and we were also able to set them for baptism! Lucas and Katia Percell. Both teenage kids who are very smart and open. They both came to church yesterday for the first time and both loved it. They'll be going to youth on tuesday and have plans to get baptized on the 11th of March! If all goes well maybe the mum will be touched by it too and want to start learning about the Gospel again!

Other than that, things are just the same aye. Wake up, study, work, eat, work some more, sleep, then repeat! I've come to really really appreciate my mission. It's a true blessing to be here and to be serving the Lord. I wouldn't change it for anything ever! :)

Love you all! Have a good week!!

Elder Maughan

Welp I survived the Transfer

Hello everyone! 

The subject of this email was made up by Sister Trull. It was a good transfer but I'm super pumped for this next one!!

I have a new comp named Elder Whalley from Melbourne Australia. He's been out since Oct. 2015 so we are ready to kill it in our time together!!!

Things are moving really well in Stonefields. Vinny was at church yesterday and things are looking up for his baptism. Maybe not this week but soon for sure! Jane and Paula also came to church for the first time this year. It was awesome cause they both really felt the spirit and were getting emotional during the talks. We are really excited to see where all these people go!

The ward has heaps of potential. We've got a lot of really really good potential. A lot of families to work with that are trying to come back to church and have their whole family come back.

Looking forward to the new transfer and all the miracles that come to Panmure!

Love you all!!

Elder Maughan