G'Day!
Thanks
so much for the great e-mail this
week! I'm glad to hear about all the great things happening back home.
This past week was alright, it was pretty busy with cleaning. A couple
of days we had to spend several hours cleaning and on Wednesday we spent
most of the day cleaning and having some of the missionaries assigned
to help with maintenance come and fix some things in the flat as well.
When I got to the flat first it wasn't in very good shape and before
Elder Rua it was even worse, but now the flat looks very good and clean
so the key now is just to maintain the nice state of it for the rest of
the time we spend here. So during the week we weren't able to get as
much proselyting done as we had planned (can't seem to catch a break in
Geelong, can we? haha) but the week still turned out alright. It's been a
huge blessing since we found Candice Wang because it couldn't have come
at a more perfect time. Her mother and also her friend (Jaryn) from
last week came to church again
and loved it so much! But also we had 2 new Chinese investigators
referred to us by some missionaries in the city who we contacted and
also came to church by getting a lift from Candice (their names are
Brian and Cuben) and they also really enjoyed church and are very
interested to learn more. We'll definitely have to get some other
members to help as well to fellowship and give lifts for them because
Candice had a very full car this week, haha. So that's proved to be a
big miracle to find her and also these other investigators who we'll
begin teaching this week. With Noah, a bit of sad news, his grandma has
been in the hospital the past few weeks and is now in a very critical
state and will likely pass away within the next couple of days. So
amidst the stress and worry of that, Noah's mom has decided she wants to
postpone the baptism and the lessons as well until after funeral
arrangements and what not have been made. So that was unfortunate to
hear
and we'd hoped that the baptism would still go forward because we felt
(as well as President Lifferth) that it would be a blessing for the
Grandma to hear about the baptism and also Noah if he could go and tell
the grandma himself. So who knows at this point when the baptism will
happen, hopefully still within the next few weeks because Noah is very
ready and wants to be baptized. This week we were also able to find
another unknown member on the ward list named Nancy who invited us to
come back this week, so we're excited for that as well! At that moment,
we're obviously struggling not necessarily to find people to teach but I
guess to hold onto investigators when we get them. So we'll continue to
work very hard to try and find new people to teach as well as do our
best to help those investigators that we do have continue to have a
desire to investigator and not to be influenced by the adversary. This
past Wednesday night was also the first night that
we did splits with the ward. I think I mentioned in another e-mail that
when Elder Pearson was here he said that every ward needs to go out
once each week on splits with the missionaries as part of the 'rescue
effort' and this past week was the first we were able to do that. This
week was the bishopric's turn to go out so I got to go with the 2nd
councilor to visit a few names Bishop had selected while Elder Matuu
went with Bishop. We were able to have some great experiences and met
some really great people that hopefully we'll see some miracles from in
the near future. The 2 families we the 2nd councilor and I visited, the
people we were hoping to catch weren't there but at the first house we
met the partner (a non-member) of one of the less-actives in the ward
who ended up being very nice and said that we can come back another time
so hopefully we'll see some good from that. Also, Elder Matuu and
Bishop had a great experience with another less-active
family who have several non-members in their family that will hopefully
generate some blessings soon as well. So we're excited for the next
splits tomorrow as well, this week with the Elder's Quorum. Well I wish I
had more to write to you at the moment but unfortunately due to the
above mentioned cleaning this past week we weren't able to accomplish
too much. This week I'm sure we'll be able to see many miracles though
from the time we'll have to go out and work. I'm grateful for all of you
love and support and prayers and I know that it has been the key to a
lot of the blessings I've received personally and we've received as a
companionship. I hope that you're able to have another wonderful and
great week this week! I love you and I'll talk to you again soon!
Love,
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