Elder Matthew Ensign: Week 27: January 14, 2020: The Land Flowing with Milk and Honey

Wow what a week! Transfers were on monday, and not what I expected at all! They pulled me and a sister out of Sunnybank, we both have the most experience there and I thought we were going to stay for at least one more transfer and help some new people know how to do work there, but I guess not. The best part of this is I get to go to a place called Bundaberg! Fun fact, I was supposed to go there 2 transfers ago. We call it the land flowing with bundaberg and sugar cane, because that's basically all there is here lol. Bundaberg gingerbeer is a drink that's made here and is very famous in australia, I'd like to encourage you all to go find some at Maceys and try it, sooo good.

My new comp is elder Lin, hes from taiwan, so I'm very happy to be able to practice my chinese more. Monday started out with me dropping my trainer off to go home, and then driving 5+ hours to bundaberg. I can tell I'm going to really love it here, because the first visit was with an 85 year old woman who listens to rap hahaha. Bundaberg is also famous to all the missionaries in the whole mission because of a guy named Patrick- hes a nonmember that has been meeting with the missionaries for 6 years, but hes the nicest guy ever! He always hangs out with the missionaries and helps us do everything, and does super fun pdays with us here.

I'm really liking bundaberg though, because it has a really nice home feel to it, it literally feels exactly like cache valley, except for having absolutely no mountains at all- it's so flat here, not a single hill I'm not kidding. It's a lot bigger landwise than cache valley, but smaller city. It has tons of farms here, and chances are I'm going to be here for about 6 months just because of how long of a drive it is to get here. The members are super into missionary work, so I'm gonna be eating tons of food, and tons of fresh australian mangos which are so much better than the US. Fruit in Australia is better than anything in the US, trust me.

One funny story this week though is on sunday, me and elder hohneke were driving and looked out the window and saw this guy decked out in packer gear. (Elder hohneke LOVES the packers too). So I like swerved off to the side of the road and tried to find a place to park like a maniac, and then we literally sprinted in full church clothing to catch up with him. So yeah we had a nice catch up about how the packers are doing, Go Pack go!

Sorry this email was extra long by the way ha

Elder Ensign