Hello all!
I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! It's not a holiday
in Australia but some people celebrate it anyway because its such a big thing
in America. The Clarkes (the senior missionaries in Canberra) got permission to
put on a thanksgiving dinner for us on Friday (Thursday in America), right
after our zone training meeting (ZTM). They are the best! Elder Clarke reminds
me of my dad, it’s the best. The pies
weren't as good as my mom's but it was still amazing. I'm excited we’re getting into the Christmas season! Has everyone seen the Christmas service initiative
on lds.org??? go watch it! I'm so pumped. They
give you a different ideas for service every day until Christmas so we can
LIGHT THE WORLD like Christ did. We're sharing it with everyone we see. I also
really liked a training we got from Sister Rollins and Sister Mariner, the sister
training leaders at ZTM. They talked about how the main question this season
is: "are you ready for Christmas?" meaning do you have everything planned out and gifts ready? But the question should
be: "Are you ready for the coming of
the Savior of the world?" Christmas is about Him so we should be preparing
for Him. I invite you all to think of what you can do better to be ready for His coming. Some of the things I thought of to do
are:
-give thanks more often
-serve others before myself
-forgive always
-smile more
I know that this season will be even happier and more
meaningful if we are preparing for Him to come again.
We had lots of opportunities to give service this week. We
cleaned this one sister's house that was really messy. She
struggles with mental illnesses and her kids are addicted to video
games. I feel really bad for them every time we visit. It made me really grateful for all that I have.
Serving always makes me feel good, and hopefully them as well.
I started driving this week! I'm still getting used to
driving on the wrong side of the road. I hit the windshield wipers instead of
the turn signal at least once a day, but I'm getting better at it.
The work here is going pretty good. We have a lot of less
actives in our wards so we spend a lot of time visiting and strengthening them.
We had a sports night the other night with the missionaries in our district,
our investigators, and some members. It was really fun. Our investigator Wyman
came. He is so good. He is the one who said that he wanted to learn about what
we were teaching when we were talking to someone else on the street. He has a
baptismal date for January 7th! We had to pass him over to the Chinese elders
though because he doesn't know English well enough to fully understand when we
teach.
I am getting to know the ward members of both wards better
now so things are good. I spoke on how the Book of Mormon is another testament
of Jesus Christ and why that's important in the Ginninderra ward on Sunday. I’m
glad I was given that prompt because I
learned a lot about how everything in the Book of Mormon was written by a
prophet for the purpose of bringing us closer to Christ and guiding us on our
journey back to him. The book of Mormon is so important. By reading it
everyday, we can get closer to God than by any other way or book. God wants us
to read it so that we can know how to get back to Him someday.
I'm thankful I get to be out on a mission. It is hard being
so far away from home sometimes, but it is such a blessing to be able to meet
the people I am meeting and help improve the quality of people's live by
helping them come unto Christ.
Love,
Sister Pace
Pictures:
1: Sister Rollins, who leaves next week :(
2. the huge spider that lives right outside our flat
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