This week we had to say goodbye to all our students at Ranui and such! It was hard! But they were so good to me. They all gave me a fairy costume to parade around the school with, with 2 fairy helpers. It was so cute! Then people signed a card, and Pani and I provided the morning tea food. We got NZ chocolate from our teacher friend, Chris! The kids all sang a Maori song to me and the school song. Margot read a book to me and gave me the book! I read the whole class a book I bought them. I will miss those kids so much! I loved working there. I can't wait to be a teacher even though somedays I came home discouraged and with a headache.

This weekend we went to Coromandel! It was fun! Beach, sun, glowworms, hikes, Cathedral Cove (where Prince Caspian was filmed)! Man I am sure going to miss NZ beaches. I got sunburned as usual. Hey, its a souvenir right? We stayed in a cabin that smelled like grandparents and had a huge scary deer head. haha it was a fun experience though!!

Today we had a friend from our neighborhood come with us to church. He asked us if he could come. He came to church then to the baptism. He is a druggie, does meth and drinks and all those things! He's trying to clean up. He's going to rehab soon. The missionaries are gonna visit him on Tuesday! They gave him a Book of Mormon. I love missionary work. And the missionaries here are really good missionaries. I feel like they've become our friends. They're way cool! We stole their cameras for a bit and took pictures of ourselves so they'll never forget us! haha! Then we came back and went over a neighbor's house with 2 cute Samoan girls that we're getting really attached to! But we came back and our host mom was upset a little I feel. She said we had stuff to do and we shouldn't favor some neighbors over the others and we shouldn't get too attached. I told her I don't mind getting attached. If it hurts when you leave somewhere, it means you left a bit of your heart. I'd rather leave bits of my heart everywhere then keep it all to myself...cheesy but hey its me!!