The Pacific Post

 Week 67 Messaging the Good Word 30 November 2025 Our walks to work and home from work have become very memorable. This is our walk to work. We usually talk about what meetings we have and how we are going to prepare for them. We talk about who we are going to minister to and help. Then we pass by the French bakery and commit to one day stop and buy an almond crescent for breakfast. We talk about what we are posting on Newsroom Facebook that day. Lastly Kelly tries to tell me my badge is straight when it is crooked.  Next week we will tell you about our conversation walking home. This was by far the best part of the week. We figured how to watch a BYU basketball game was during lunch.  We walked down the street to Scotty's Sports Bar and ask the owner if he could put up the game.  He was happy to when we order food.  So a two hour lunch produced a BYU basketball game victory.  Now that is what I call spreading the GOOD WORD, bringing the Church out of obscu...

 Week 66 Attitude of Gratitude 20 November 2025 Hello Everyone! A couple of valuable lessons learned this week. 1st lesson-- When posting on the Church social media pages, you need to make sure everything goes through correlation unless it is word for word from CHQuarters. Correlations takes forever!! I learned I don't have to correlate what has already been correlated from SLC. That sounds obvious but the Church takes this stuff seriously. If it has the Church logo on it, it has to be approved. I wouldn't trust me either!! So many great announcements lately!!! 2nd lesson--C heck google maps to see how far your AirBnB is from the town. It said 5 minutes. By road is was an hour but by a little tiny skiff boat is was 5 minutes. 3rd lesson- -Others are waiting of their temple work--During our sealing session as we were working through the names, Elder Jaggi slowed way down for one name and was so meaningful in how he handled one sealing.  At the end, he simply said, "I was im...

 Week 65 Young Adults Add Spice and Sugar to Our Mission 16 November 2025 Dear family and friends, What a great week! It has been busy and eventful.  Tonight we meet to pack up three digitial Giving Machines and get them shipped to locations.  We have the Giving Machine launch this week in two locations in the Auckland area.  In our previous blogs we talked about the 30 second advertisement we helped with. It will show at the location of the Giving Machines in the movie theaters before every movie. They will also release the advertisement on our Pacific Instagram and Facebook page.  We will share the link. The production team did a great job.  Chiara is one of our interns from BYU.  This week we shot a video of her for Facebook content.  She does video editing and creates great content.  We hope she learns something from us because we certainly learn from her. These two pictures come from FHE with the YSA. We helped with a family history FHE ...

 Week 64 Tonga's HS Graduation & YSA Baptism 9 November 2025 We hope all is well at home.  It is odd again to have the days becoming warmer and we are starting to hear Christmas music played in stores.  I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas takes on a whole new meaning in New Zealand. The YSA ward we serve in has two sister missionaries assigned.  We took them to dinner on Tuesday.  Since they serve in the YSA ward, they don't often get meals during the week. They both were so happy for what they called, "real food."  They are great sisters and have a baptism planned for today after Church and another one on date for next week.  They are doing a great job. Meet El Alomine, the newest member of the Church here in Takapuna. Working in a Church office building, we don't get the chance to be apart of many baptisms. El and his twin, Duane, just joined the Church and it has been great to see their excitement and ward's support. The young adults have been ver...