What up what up! 1st week of transfer 5 finished and it's been going well. First off just wanna say that 1 year ago tomorrow (thursday) is when I got my mission call to this beautiful country! Shoutout to all those getting their calls soon, it will be the best 2 years of your life, and you are called to a specific mission for a specific reason! Make sure to shoot me an email letting me know where you're going! Also want to give a shoutout to all the boys on the Ridgeline Tennis Team, season is starting soon!
Also want to tell you guys to go visit a website called thankstohim.org - in sunnybank we coordinated with a high counselor to make it, and I kinda forgot about it until now. It has a sweet video with yours truly featured (not as a missionary, there were too many missionaries so I get a spot at the end where the missionaries are talking to me as a random person on the street hahaha.) Its awesome because sunnybank was a really hard area when I was there, but right when I left it started getting good, and now it is doing very well. That website is bringing heaps of interested people and referrals in. Also speaking of sunnybank, one of the people me, elder hohneke, elder gan, and elder breinholt found when we were in sunnybank, Abby, just got baptized! Me and elder hohneke taught her heaps, it's awesome to see cool things happening in past areas, I love that the work is still going well there. I really do miss sunnybank so much and I am hoping for a chance to go back.
Elder Seve and I set some high goals for the transfer because we were looking at the goals/actuals for when the sisters were here last transfer, and it was not exactly great haha. So we are going to be working extra hard to build up the area again, and I'm honestly excited for all the stuff that is in store. We are definitely going to be getting very creative with the missionary work this transfer. It's annoying because all the missionaries who hear I am in Windaroo always tell me it's a dead area, but I totally disagree. I think a problem with this area was that missionaries were treating it like a normal area, and that doesn't work! Luckily I had a lot of experience in Sunnybank so I know how to work outside of the box. Let's just say I'm so hyped for the next 5 weeks hahaha. I've been focusing a ton on a scripture found in 1 Corinthians 9:19-23 which has been my guidance this past week. I've loved being with Elder Seve this past week, honestly everything the man does is so quirky and funny. He's so humble though and I'm learning a lot from him. The other day, me and him spent some quality time in a storm drain saving a baby duck with a member, never a normal day in the field haha. Sorry I should've had someone take pics but I was caught up in the moment lol.
Really awesome highlight is I finally found a Chinese person to practice with. We saw him playing basketball by himself and he was super open to just talk with us, but not really towards the religion. I had prayed the night before asking for more opportunities to speak Chinese because I could feel my chinese starting to get worse, and now I can talk with this guy! His name is 陳 and hes from Malaysia. Super cool guy and balls out. Our plan is to play ball with him every saturday night. So hyped! There really is so much power in prayer and it's a blessing being able to communicate with our Heavenly Father so frequently.
Worst part of this week though was we were about to leave on sunday, so I went into the garage to move my laundry into the dryer. I looked up at the wall and there was a huntsman spider no joke the size of my hand on the wall, man I almost threw up. Luckily elder seve was there to kill it for me but man I hate spiders. I tried to take some pictures of it but my samsung camera wouldn't focus oof. Biggest one yet, hopefully none bigger hahahaha. It was so big that I thought it was fake when I first saw it. My flat is apparently notorious for finding snakes and spiders in it, a couple months ago some elders woke up and found the eastern brown snake under their bed.... pretty sure that's the second most poisonous snake in the world. Please pray for me hahahaha
Aside from that not much except trying to teach and find some people! One of the people we are teaching is going to teach us how to crochet so that'll be way awesome Haha. General Conference is in a month and honestly I've never been more excited, even more excited than watching the 2017 Australian open final if you know what I mean hahaha. Study up!
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A very short video of the spider climbing down the wall and me shrieking
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| One of those "little free libraries" my mom loves, unfortunately we didnt have any book of mormons at that time so we did the next best thing- pictures of Jesus with our number on it. |
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The view from a members house in windaroo!
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