So this week actually wasn't the most exciting week of my
Australian life, but it was still most excellent to be a servant of the Lord.
Monday after P-day, we went and had Family Home Evening with Simone (a recent
convert) and her family. And her daughter just turned eight so we're working on
a baptismal date for her! And we gave her her own copy of the Book of Mormon,
and she was so excited. She and I had a good little chat and we went through
all of the pictures in the front and she wanted me to tell her all of the
stories. It was pretty fun to see how excited she was and how much she loves
the Book of Mormon! I love it too.
Tuesday was Zone Conference! Oh my lanta, it just always gets
me so excited to be a missionary! So many things were said, so many lessons
learned, and so many prayers answered. I'm excited to work to
increase my faith so that I can help the Lord bring miracles to the
Aussie people. After Zone Conference we went and saw Kathy and had
a Family History lesson. I'll be honest, Family History was not my cup of
tea back in the day, but I am so obsessed with it now! Everyone
should be involved in Family History and be learning about their
ancestors. We can learn a lot of things from their stories. We also went on
rescues with Sister Feinga and Vika. I really, really like them. It's so great
to have members involved in the work!
Wednesday was good as well. We started it off right with
another Family History lesson with Bronwyn! And this is the first time she has
actually showed more interest in a lesson than her cat, so that was nice. We
had a lesson with Lin Lin too but she's leaving the country for two weeks, so
that's lame. But she promised to bring us Filipino snacks to apologize for
missing our weekly lessons. Haha. We really have some of the coolest
investigators I have ever met. We had a member lesson with the Feingas as well
and they're great. I learned a lot about Tongan culture as well, so a lot of
interesting things I've seen all make a lot more sense to me now. Then we went
on splits and Sister Laufoli and I went and saw Julie and it was a really great
bonding experience for them. Julie is ready to be baptized, she has a great
testimony! She just needs to know that people besides the missionaries care
about her. And Sister Laufoli is just full of love, so it was a good match up.
Thursday was great. We went and saw Maureen and Rose in the
morning. They think we should be teaching more Muslim people rather than
people that are already Christian. So they decided that they're going to start
inviting Muslims over so we can teach them the lessons in their home. So
they're still investigating in a sense, but they think they're
missionaries too. Haha. It's a crack up, but hey, they say that you learn by
teaching! So we'll just give them the lessons before hand so they can
help us teach, and let the spirit take care of the rest. We also had a lesson
with Mike, and he is soooooo fantastic! At first I thought he was just trying
to Bible Bash us, but this was our third lesson and he said, "Why have I
been missing this for so long?" So cool! He's prepared, he just needs good
friends in the church to make him feel welcome. We have a lot of YSA that want
to meet him, it's just getting schedules to match up...
Friday was good. We met Craige! He is really cool and seems
interested, so we're going back next week. We also had a lesson with Martha,
but it's hard to teach because she doesn't know much English, and there are no
materials in her language. :/ So we teach really simply, and it's taken about 5
lessons to get through the Restoration of the church. We also had a lesson with
our new investigator, Salima! She is so awesome! We just talked about the Book
of Mormon and missionary work, and she wants to put her papers in when she's
19. Hahaha. She also started reading the Book of Mormon before we even left the
house. So to say she's anything but golden would be a lie. Unfortunately, she's
15 and she's moving next week, so there are a lot of factors into play. We also
went over to Bishop's and had a lesson with him and his family. It's really fun
getting to know them on a personal level. Their family is really young
and so he and his wife still remember how important it was to have the Bishop
on your side in the mission field, so they're working hard to help! It's
awesome, and I'm super grateful for them.
The weekend was pretty low key. We had one lesson on
Saturday and one lesson on Sunday with less active members. No one was
interested and it was a lot of aimless walking and talking. Haha. But it's all
good because Julie and Ofa (Simone's partner) came to church! And that's what
matters! So even if the hours surrounding church weren't shining and
exciting, seeing them in the chapel made up for it.
The work is going great. It's moving forward and I'm just
happy to be a part of it. I know I said it wasn't an exciting week, but
looking back, it was pretty fantastic. There doesn't need to be any crazy
miracles to make it a good week, just the little tender mercies every day.
Love,
Sister Danielle Laree Stott
Pic: EVERYONE deserves the Gospel. ;)
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