G'Day!
Thanks for another wonderful e-mail this week! This past week was alright, but definitely wasn't the most successful. This was definitely not the week for set appointments, because we had nearly every appointment cancel (and their were heaps of them set) after Tuesday. So we weren't able to teach as many lessons as we would've liked to, but we found other ways to do some work in the area. However, one of the lessons that didn't fall through on Saturday was really excellent. We were going to have another lesson with Cruiz and Chelsea (the less-active family, who are also getting married this week, which will be awesome!) but one of their family friends was visiting there, named Dave, who's a non-member. Several of his kids are members of the church however after they met missionaries, and his son is actually preparing for a mission. He still didn't know much about the church, though, and had heaps of questions for us. We were able to answer all of them really well and Cruiz and Chelsea actually helped answer a lot of them too, and Dave said afterwards he liked all of the answers that he'd heard and said he actually really likes Mormons now! After we finished answering his questions we had just a really brief spiritual thought which they all appreciated and the Spirit was there. Dave said after all was over, "I think I'm going to be coming to church tomorrow!" And low and behold the next day he was in a shirt and tie at church! He loved church as well, and he even got up in the Gospel Principles class (for the investigators, new members, and less-active members coming back) and told a brief life story, which was pretty amazing, and bore a short testimony! So that whole series of events was a huge miracle for us this week! Definitely made an otherwise slow week seem like a really great one. So since there were so many cancellations this week, we had plenty of extra time for tracting! YAY! Haha. But our finding went really well this week and we got heaps of potential new investigators, so we've got our work cut out for us this next week. We also were able to go back and teach that other new investigator (who's lawn was broken from last week), who's name is Falo, about the Restoration and at the end we committed him to read and pray about the Book of Mormon and he happily accepted! So hopefully he will be able to sincerely read and pray and then receive his witness of the truthfulness of the restored Gospel. So there unfortunately isn't much to write down this week because not too much happened. But this coming week is looking like it will be pretty jam-packed with exciting things so hopefully I'll be able to make up for the lack of stories this week in next week's e-mail. All the other investigators we have are still going well. The baptismal dates are still looking promising, however, Michael's will change from Nov. 17th since he and his girlfriend would have to be married to reach that day, but they're planning to be married in the early months of next year. Melissa and David are now planning on getting married between early January and February (it all depends on when David's mom can come down from Samoa to see the wedding) so that's really exciting news and then after that Melissa will be able to be baptized. Tracey is still doing really well and we should be starting the recent convert lessons with her this week. It's been pretty hectic for them lately because Tommy is on a really tight contract for the next couple of months that's been keeping him away from home for many days at a time. But anyway, there's still heaps of exciting things happening in Pakenham! Elder Hirata and I look forward to working hard this next week and continue to build up the Lord's kingdom in this area. Thanks for all the love and support you continue to give me, I'm so grateful to have all the support to keep me going through everything on the mission. Well anyway I hope you have a wonderful week and that Heavenly Father continues to bless you! I love you and I'll talk to you again soon!
Love,
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