Some fun activities and the Area Presidency get back from Salt Lake (next week will be busy)!

We've been asked to be on an "advisory group" concerning Social Media.  Especially given Elder Bednar's recent talk, social media is getting a lot of emphasis.  The group includes missionary couples from: Hong Kong, Frankfurt, South Korea, us in New Zealand, and two people in Salt Lake. We did a conference call with all the groups last Wednesday evening. This will be a once-a-month call, where we share many of our activities. We talked our recent LDS Share Expo's. Here's a video of the expo in Brisbane.

On Thursday we went to the Temple and then a rugby game in Hamilton:

On Saturday we picked up the Pearson's and Bunkner's from the airport. They were returning from Salt Lake. We went on a walk on the beach later in the day and ran into Buckner's and the Nielsen's (who also just got back from Salt Lake).

Today we watched conference. We see it a week later here in the Pacific. We also had time to visit another beach and saw some kids going sailing.

Temple Assistance

Well, it's been quite a few weeks since we posted anything. Actually, life got busier and busier. Some days I start working on emails at 5am, we get to the office by 7am and then I don't get home until 8pm. Building up to General Conference is a very busy time. After the Brethren left for Salt Lake, we went to Australia for about a week to do more Expo's. Here's a link from facebook of some photos. This week has been a bit more relaxing.

Another thing we  do is help people to get to the Temple, especially if it is their first time or if they are traveling from a long distance. Here is the first temple group from the Solomon Islands to go to the Brisbane Temple.  Since the Fiji temple is now closed, we are routing people to Brisbane.