Week 8 FaceTime


Happy birthday to Dad today!

Highlights:

1. Meeting with the members

2. Getting a new Māori investigator friend, Ken, through a part-member family

3. Cutting a member’s 3-ft long braided beard

4. Teaching the ward members in the “mini mission” activity

Challenges:

1. Having some slow days

2. The rain

3. Appts falling through 

4. Crashing his bike in the rain

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