Thjs week full of meetings and teaching!
Monday we had pday and just played sport with the missionaries because it was moves day. then we taught louise and her fam that night as always :)
This tuesday we had the opporunity to have all the new missionaries come in, greet them, have lunch with them and instruct the new trainers for a couple of hours on how to be a trainer. We did this while the assistants and president took the new trainees to climb pratts hill. This meeting usually takes all day so it filled up our day. It was a great time as always lol. We are now having a lot more out of the US missionaries because of the whole garda card situation. so we have missionaries from all over da world comin in! Its sick.
Wedsnesday we had New Leadership Training. So, for all the missionaries that are called into missionary leadership assignments, us, the assistants and president instruct them on how to be in leadership. We do this this over skype. It usually takes up our whole morning. but it went great! Then later in the day we taught our friend sarah who is getting baptised at the end of this month! we taught her about the word of wisdom, even though when we sat down she was drinking a latte. i took it away from her and she was sad. man does she love her coffee. BUT she agreed to stop and wasnt even sad about the latte anymore, and didnt even want it! It was awesome. Then we went over to Jessicas home and she fed us dinner! Her food is always so goooood. And then we talked to her about baptising her 9 year old daughter Ashley and she was so down. so we are starting to work with them on that :) they came to church on Sunday and when everyone went to second hour, me and my comp went to the bathroom. we found ashley in there and i was like yo dude what are you doin in here? And she said i dont want to go to primary. so i had a juice drink with me and said if i give you this juice will you go to class and she perked up and said yes! So then she was happy lol. Then we taught nathalie. we had one of the most spiritual lessons i have had on my mission. she is so in tune with the spirit and feels it whenever we come over. well, i am not one to really feel the spirit with my feelings, mostly with my thoughts and when I talk (it’s hard to explain). but when i started testifying about jesus christ and His atonement and the power that comes from that, the spirit was so strong and started crying and so did nathalie and sister belliston. It was so amazing. I love teaching with sister belliston. she brings such great vibes with her. She is such a good teacher and friend :) we have lots of fun together.
Thursday we had some good finding time on the streets and we taught our friend grant. he has lots of good questions about God and is a very interesting man, but cool. Then we went to dinner with the office staff. they took us to a chinese buffett which is my favorite! i started talking with one of the chefs who is from portugal and sister belliston started talking to the chinese chef. the man i talked to said he was interested in what I was saying and wanted to meet and learn more about christ, but was moving to england in the next few days so i was able to refer to the missionaries there :)
Friday we had one of the missionary leadership meetings, but it was over skype and it wasnt too long. it was about how to use facebook and online proselyting. So dont think i am being apostate if i friend you on facebook lol. The night before, we went chapping to this super posch flat thinking it was a house because i stopped this one dude a few months back saying he lived there. it was beautiful! I'll send pics. well it wasn’t just one flat it was apartments. but we ran into this one chick with this huge dog and one thing led to another and she asked if we could wallk her dog for her. we said yes, of course. so we walked her dog on friday. she is two years old but is huge! It was so much fun. Then we went to alec and susanas house and they made us so much food! They are from argentina. we taught susana, who is getting baptised later this month. we were able to skype in my girl sister linco because she is from argentina as well. It was great. Oh, also they make the best banana bread. i had 5 pieces lol. Then we just had finding the rest of the day :)
Saturday we had Zone Leaders Council, where us and the zone leaders instruct some missionaries in the zone on things we think we can change and be better at this transfer. We instructed on achieving goals. i think dad would be pretty proud haha. Then this one chick i met on the street agreed to do language study with sister belliston because she is from china. so we did that in a cafe later in the day. then taught our friend sean, who is awesome! He totally gets it and whenever we ask him questions his answers are so good and he understands why God asks us to do certain things. Its so amazing teaching these people who are preparing to be baptised and feeling the spirit with them. Then we taught a first lesson to this man, fernando. when i met him he seemed very kind. we taught him about the godhead. he is from spain and speaks very little english, but it was amazing. that night we taught nathalie again. she is amazing. She wants to be baptised, but it is going to take a little while longer, which is totally alright. But man is that chick awesome. We taught her the law of chastity and she had so many questions, like sooo many. and there were a lot of times where i had no idea what to say. but I was just praying and testifying and opening my mouth. i know for sure that God was the one putting the words in mine and sister bellistons mouth. The spirit was so strong.
Sunday was a normal day. we had "find a family day' where we go and knock on peoples doors who havent come to church in a while and we found a family! Miracle! seriously! her name is mel and she invited us back next sunday. it was great :)
pics…
Us and nathalie with our capri suns…
Walking lulu…
Where we found lulu. The flat we chapped on…
MLC online hahah…
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