Hey everyone, sorry forgot to tell y'all but today is my pday since my district is having a pday together and tomorrow is my zone conference... which meant I had to drive 5 hours down to brisbane yesterday in some of the heaviest rain and the longest storm I've seen ever. It rained super heavily the whole way down. It was actually really scary but I've driven in worse (the utah snow) so it wasn't bad. My comp was really scared of how I drove though haha because despite the bad vision and occasional hydroplaning I had to keep myself going a steady 100 kmph.
Last pday I got to go to the bundaberg ginger beer factory for a small tour, then I tried all 19 flavors! Not much people can say they've done that so yeah pretty big accomplishment hahaha. Super good so once more I'm going to invite you all to try and find some to drink.
A highlight this week was playing tennis with some Filipinos that play every friday night. They challenged me and my comp to doubles, and I get really competitive in tennis, especially with all the smack they were talking. Unfortunately elder lin doesn't play tennis so we took a nasty 1-5 deficit in games, but I carried us back until we lost 4-6. They were gloating but when I called them out in singles they got too scared haha. Still working on trying to teach them though, hopefully can get some progress.
Another highlight is that the other day me and elder Lin made lunch, but used some hotpot to cook some vegetables. I've grown to really love super spicy food on my mission, given I was with a sichuan comp my first transfer, and a member in sunnybank would always take us to the spiciest places in town. So naturally we finished lunch but I was craving more spicy so I straight up drank the hotpot haha. It was soo good though, and felt really good for the rest of the day, but man, the next morning was rough. My stomach was so upset and let me just say I let the toilet have it. I guess that's the downside of really spicy food but hey, it tasted really good. Then later for lunch we ate more hotpot and I went through the cycle again but what can I say?
We just barely found a guy named warren this week and he is awesome. His parents are members, and he is really into listening to what we have to say. It is cool to see the Lord work and prepare people to be able to meet with the missionaries, especially in a place like Australia lol. The people can be really cold here sometimes, the members here are always telling us how bad they feel for us getting sent here, but honestly I like it a lot. I can really feel how much this area has changed when I first got here to how it is now. Hoping I can stay here for a couple more transfers because I can really feel the work starting to progress here. We've doubled the friends we've been teaching just these past 4 weeks I've been here so I'm stoked to keep working hard on that.
Elder Ensign
高长老
澳洲布里斯班
Couple other small highlights-
just hopped on the Taiwanese bandwagon this week, my comp is from taiwan so I'm learning a couple of phrases now haha.
Knocked on the wrong door, a person opened up and let us in (the first time anyone has EVER let me in their house while door knocking), but proceeded to make us flip through the bible with him to all these different scriptures with the word "kingdom" in them, and "jehovah". Needless to say we got bashed.
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