Thanks
so much for the wonderful e-mail this week! Sorry I didn't e-mail
yesterday, it was another public holiday here (the Queen's birthday) and
so all of the libraries were closed. But I'm able to e-mail you today
instead so that's good! This past week was another really great one with
many blessings and miracles. The first of which actually happened a few
minutes after I e-mailed you last week. So as I told you last week,
Riannan's partner wasn't very accepting of her decision to investigate
and we were afraid she wouldn't be able to continue taking lessons.
However, as I said we had fasted for a miracle to happen we received a
very immediate blessing. After e-mailing we received a call from Jess
saying that Riannan would really like to receive a priesthood blessing
because she was facing a lot of trials and challenges. So we were very
humbled and excited to receive that news (that she wanted to receive a
blessing, not from the fact that she had trials). So we immediately went
and got ready to go see them at Jess and Rasta's house, and our ward
mission leader Luke came with us as well to help. Riannan was there with
several of her kids and was very happy to see us again. We explained
about blessings a bit since she'd only heard of a blessing that same day
and then we were able to give her a blessing of comfort and counsel.
The spirit was very strong and she really felt it. She said that
everything in the blessing was an answer to questions she'd had and
difficulties that she'd been experience which she hadn't even mentioned
before the blessing. She said she felt that a huge weight was lifted off
of her shoulders as soon as 'amen' was said. So that was a testimony
builder of the power of blessings to us and especially to Riannan who
loved the experience! She told us that she will still take lessons with
us as well as her son who turns 8 next month in July and she's
determined to help her family become more unified through the gospel. So
that was an awesome miracle and another testimony builder of blessings
that come from fasting as well. I love fasting so much after all the
miracles I've seen from it on the mission! Also, Tayah is going to be
baptized this Saturday which will be great! Rasta will be the one
baptizing her (I think I mentioned that last week?). Also on Saturday we
receive the next transfer news, which obviously isn't the main event
that day but still exciting. A lot of people have said that there will
probably be very few transfers since President Lifferth is finishing
just so that the mission can have a smooth transition with the coming of
President Maxwell. We were able to see Joel again this past week (twice
in fact) which was great. They're still doing really well and he's been
doing much better with his reading as the first time we saw him we gave
him a commitment to start reading daily again. He's started from 1
Nephi and is going to try to read the whole Book of Mormon and he's
going well so far. On Sunday we also had another great blessing. We were
finally able to see Jaryn again after a few months of not much contact.
If you remember he was the Chinese investigator that was really keen
that would come with the Wang family (who Candice Wang by the way comes
back to Australia at the end of the month). We only were able to visit
with him briefly because we'd had another scheduled appointment but we
were able to set up another time to see him this week and begin teaching
him again, which is awesome! He'll be really good to see again as he
has a strong desire to learn about Christ and follow Him. Last Thursday
for Ward Council we had the Wyndham Stake President come and train all
of us on the rescue effort and our favorite--missionary work! It was
really great and it was him saying that the members need to start taking
a more active role in providing the missionaries with people to teach
and also in going out on visits during the week with the missionaries or
with their quorums on the rescue visits to those members who have
fallen away. So hopefully that will help Geelong see even more success
than it already is having. Well since it isn't our regular day to e-mail
I'll have to cut it short today, but I'm really glad that you were able
to have a great week this past week as well! I hope that you have a
fantastic week this week as well and continue to see many blessings and
miracles! I love you heaps and I'll talk to you again soon!
Love,
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