Week 33 - A Trip To The Zoo!!

Trip To The Zoo! Thanks Mandla Family :)

Week 32 Pics

Oh Christmas Tree!

Logan being cute? 

Birdies!

Week 32

December 12th 2014

More mission craziness! Monday night we were driving back to the flat and hit a possum! Then when we got back we almost had a fire so that was fun. Not too bad but now a small portion of carpet is burnt. Tuesday morning we woke up to go to district meeting only to find we had a flat tyre. So we quickly put on the spare (Elder Higham was a Diesel Fitter so he was pretty quick) and rushed to the meeting and were only 5 minutes late! After the meeting we go to lunch together and when we go to leave from lunch the key breaks as Elder Higham starts the car! So, nervous about running out of petrol, we head off to the mission office to get our spare key! It was a fun little road trip as we got to go over this massive bridge that cruise ships go under then through a tunnel that goes under downtown Brissy and the Brisbane river! Hopefully more miracles draw near as we are in the season of celebrating Christ's birth!

Week 31 Pics

They're Angels? Free Food...YES! 

QLD Hoodie

Result from the Sunshine package we sent him which included yellow play-do!

Week 31

December 8th 2014

What a crazy week! There used to be two companionship's in the ward but because of a lot of Sister missionaries going home, it's only us now. So our teaching pool has almost tripled! Plus we have to visit the whole ward now! Saturday night was the ward Christmas party. They were missing a couple people for the Nativity so myself and Elder Higham filled the gaps. Higham was an angel and I was the narrator! It was a pretty cool experience. IT STILL DOESN'T FEEL LIKE CHRISTMAS!!!

We had a huge miracle yesterday. Two weeks ago, we got a call from a woman who said she got our number off the side of the chapel and wanted to know the details for our Sunday service. She said she would come last Sunday but no luck. Yesterday, a woman walks into sacrament meeting and I didn't recognize her. So I walked up and asked her who she was etc. She said that her brother is a member and she wants to start coming to church and be baptized A.S.A.P!!! Miracles are happening!

Week 30 Pics

Off to the beach!

Road trip! 

Sisters following us on the way to a meeting!

Mom mailed my advent! 

Train ride in the wrong direction...time for pics!

Week 30 - Transfers! (6/18)

November 28th 2014

Happy Christmas mate! Tis the season but it certainly does not feel like it... AT ALL! On p-day, we go to email and shop at a shopping center and over the past 2 weeks they have put up Chirstmas decorations and are playing Christmas music. It's really nice until I walk outside and it's 35C+ and the sun is blazing. I am being told that this is an extraordinarily hot spring and that 

it doesn't get much worse so that's great. The good news is that I am adjusting fairly well. On top of it all we have been getting the nastiest wind, rain, electrical and hail storms. I really enjoy them! Although they do bring a lot of humidity. We went over to Bro. Mandla's house today to prepare and put together some member-strengthening Christmas packages. He is the man with the plan. With the kind of initiative and leadership Paul Mandla has, we are definitely going to see some miracles. I am getting pretty excited for my first Christmas on my mission!

DECEMBER 2nd 2014

Not to much going on lately. We did however have a crazy as day yesterday. Well, more like my companion did. Elder Higham isn't really afraid of much so he will just walk into yards with dogs in them. So at one door I stayed back and the girl that answered was naked! #onlyinaustralia A few doors later he goes into another one and these dogs were big! 2 German Shepards. He walks past them the first time no problem and heads up the stairs to knock on the door. The dogs stay at the bottom and as soon as he heads down they go berserk. They start barking and nipping and lunging at him. He moves very slowly to the gate being careful not to turn his back on them and I open the gate for him. He managed to survive. I do not know how but he did. Then we later manage to get on the wrong train that took us half an hour in the opposite direction we needed to go. We ended up in a completely different city. It was a fun trip.

Neither me nor Elder Higham got transferred so I get to stay here for Christmas! YAY!