Hey everyone! Crazy good week.
Fun thing was we did a ton of service on saturday; we helped someone move from 8-11:30 and then right when we got back to our flat we got another service call, and ended up mowing someone's lawn and cutting trees for another 2 hours haha. It was fun but I started having flashbacks of tennis season because I started cramping up when I was sawing the tree down haha.
Another cool thing was the bishopric in bundaberg assigned me to a talk this last sunday, and it went really well! I gave a talk on president Nelson's talk in the april 2019 conference we can do better and be better, and despite what you all are thinking I didnt talk super fast and didnt have to write everything down, it was mostly by the spirit despite a couple quotes and scriptures. It's really nice because I think they are starting to trust the missionaries more (some dodgy stuff happened in the past). Last second the 1st speaker didn't show up so I ended up going from a 10 minute talk to like a 20 minute talk so that was fun haha.
Which I guess is good but also kind of sad because I got transferred two days ago to a small area called windaroo in the gold coast. It's only about 40 minutes away from sunnybank as well. They completely whitewashed bundaberg and it is a little bit frustrating because I had really been starting to turn the area around, had almost tripled the teaching pool and had a couple people we were planning to put on baptismal date soon. However, it is still the Lords work no matter who is there so we left bundaberg in good hands. But I know that there is a reason for everything and I am where I am supposed to be! So now I am whitewashing into a sisters area! We have a car so that's a plus haha. My new comp is elder Seve, hes from Samoa, hes really big and he snores SO LOUD AT NIGHT. I think I've gotten like 2 hours of sleep the past 2 nights, but luckily thanks to damuni05 and the all-nighters I'm used to it hahaha. his English isn't too great, so it's been good experience for me to get to lead the area though and I've really enjoyed my 2 days here even though I lowkey have no idea what I'm doing haha. I'm excited to go to work here though and get to experience the new places all over Queensland! I've also seen 1 or 2 Chinese people here so I hopefully will have a couple opportunities to practice chinese. On our first day, on Monday, we visited a chinese member but when we got there he made it very clear he didnt want to see us again, kinda sad but it was cool to see a crazy old man yell at me again in Chinese, haven't had that since sunnybank haha. Unfortunately there are no other chinese members but that is ok, I will have to change that. It has been a pretty dry area for the past couple years but it's all the attitude that everyone has about it. Hoping I can start building up the teaching pool like I did in bundaberg, we only got 1 person to teach handed down to us by the sisters haha oof. #makewindaroogreatagain
I'm also very sad because bundaberg was lowkey my home. It had a nice cache valley feel and I was expecting to be there for like 4 transfers at least but I guess not. I'll always miss the bundaberg ginger beer at most of the dinner appointments and of course my man patrick! Despite only being there for 1 transfer it was the hardest for me to leave. I really did have a special bond with the people there. Hope you all have an awesome week and keep in touch!
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and a video of some kangaroos in bundaberg (couldn't upload video)
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| the view in windaroo |
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| The man patrick |
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