Thanks
for the e-mail! Sorry I'm starting the e-mail later in the day today
because we had a service this morning helping one of the members move
some things from house to house. So I won't have as much time today as
usual because it went longer than expected but that's alright, you will
have all the time you need to talk to me in a short time haha. So first
off as you mentioned about Skyping, I will probably try to Skype about 2
pm here. We have Stake Conference from 10-12 and then a teaching
appointment at 1 pm so 2 pm is what we'll shoot for, possibly plan for a
range of anywhere between 1:30 and 2:30 p.m. Australia time though. It
will certainly be an interesting Skype this time around and might just
consist of "Are you coming to pick me up at the Airport?" "Yep" "Ok talk
to you soon" haha. Anyway, we had another good week this week and
another great attendance at church. Our part-member families we're
teaching are all progressing well and all have marriage plans which is
great, they wont be for when I'm still here but that is of course
alright. Another cool experience we had this week was we got to have a
Zone Conference from Elder Hamula (he's in the first quorum of the 70
and is the Pacific Area President). So that was a great opportunity to
listen to him and receive heaps of inspiration from his messages which
he directed specifically to our mission's needs. His wife is also
actually a fantastic speaker as well. I don't have time to really write
any notes on what he said but I did really like a comment he mentioned
during his talk (the whole theme was knowing who we really are and
having the faith to succeed). It was along the lines of "When we know
our heritage (Which house of Israel we're part of from our Patriarchal
blessings) their stories then become our stories and become additions to
our patriarchal blessings." I thought that was an interesting thought
because one thing he said off of that is how some people complain how
their blessings are only short while others' are long, but said how when
we turn to their stories in the scriptures we have a lot more material
that then also applies to us. One last thought before I have to finish
is a cool miracle that happened to us the afternoon after this
conference. We were tracting on a street and hadn't had too much success
but we eventually got to a house where a young guy named Ben answered
the door. We gave a little introduction to us and to the message and he
said, "Ya I think I have some time, come on in." Rarely do we ever get
let in a home straight away so that was already a miracle. We proceeded
to share about the Plan of Salvation after finding a big of background
about him. He felt really good about what we shared and said how he has
always had a belief in God but knows he needs to be doing more in his
life to follow him and that this could be the way he could do so. We
have another appointment with him next Sunday (actually our appointment
at 1 that I mentioned) so hopefully we have a great lesson with him
there. Anyway, I'm out of time unfortunately but I'm glad you were able
to have a great week as well! I hope you have another good week this
week and I love you heaps! Talk to you soon.
Love,
Elder Hopkins
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