The Second Saturday

It's hard to believe that we've been here over 10 days now. We visit someone new everyday. Yesterday we were hailed by our first heckler, a man just getting on his motorcycle not far from our home. We tried to just be kind and refute his claims. And then we left him to roar off on his cycle. Oh well, not everyone is going to be nice to us. Today we had a meeting with the young Elders that live about 45 minutes away. After today, we will have district meetings with them every Tuesday but today we wanted to just talk about Branch Conference that is in Coromandel town tomorrow That's where our Branch president lives whom we have not yet met (though we have talked to him on the phone). This is where I get to experience not only a dirt road but a windey dirt road- should be fun! I did stop at the chemist (pharmacy) to get something for motion sickness that's called " sea-legs" so here's hoping. Now to some pictures: I love these evergreens here that are called Norfolk pines (I think I've seen them as house plants in the states)

  They are really tall and the needles on them are huge and shaped like pipe cleaners. Then yesterday, we finally found a good place for meat pies. They have a philo type crust and different fillings. We tried the mince and cheese (like hamburger) and the steak and cheese which is chopped steak. They have a filling like thickened beef bullion and then a little cheese melted inside. So yummy!

 Tonight we went grocery shopping for the week but they don't have grocery carts here. Instead they have:

Isn't that cute?!
Kia ora, Elder and Sister O'Neal