Hello
all, Happy November!
It
feels weird that I have been in Australia about a year now and came to Canberra
last November, and am here again! Time flies pretty fast here.
This
week had lots of miracles as usual. Sister Haretuku, and I, and the elders
decided that Tuggeranong needs a little more love to unify them more. We
decided to text all the members an uplifting text every day (us and the elders
take turns). We got good feedback at church so we think it is doing some good.
Sister
Haretuku and I also decided to start something we like to call Cookies and
Compliments. Where we are going to try to go around to all the members in the
next couple weeks and bring them some homemade cookies and a card with a few
compliments for them or the family.
Yesterday,
at church, there was almost double the amount we have been getting in the last
few months! It was amazing and felt so much happier. Not saying it was because
of us at all, but I feel like our show of love helped bring that about in a
small way. We have also received a couple referrals from members this week that
we are excited to follow up on, and our ward mission leader is really on board
now, and coming up with good ideas to help the work and the ward to progress.
It has truly been a great week:)
Also,
on Friday and Saturday, we went to Cooma and Nimmitabel. We stayed at Sister
Sledge's house, an older woman in our ward who lives in Nimmitabel, on Friday
night. On Friday, we spent most of the day following up with heaps of former
investigators in Cooma. Then, on Saturday, we did some service for a potential
investigator in Nimmitabel and more finding.
We
were a little disappointed when Desi (our 10 year old investigator on date) and
her parents cancelled on us twice, when we were supposed to see them 2 times
while there, to help them progress. She is not on date anymore because they are
just having trouble committing right now, but want to fully commit in the new
year. Hopefully they just need a little time.
It
was still a productive trip though, because we found several potential
investigators that we will be following up with next Saturday.
No
new investigators this week, but we had a few great first lessons with two 18
year olds actually, one named Bevan, one is Jess. They are friends so maybe we
will teach them together in the future. They both had great questions though
like: "If God is really there, why does he let bad things happen to us and
make things so hard?" Bevan asked
that right off the bat, and we had a really good discussion about the plan of
salvation/happiness. I will let you know how it goes! Have a great week
everyone!
Love,
Sister
Pace
Photo above: Keeping track of
what scriptures we share with the members.
Next 3 photos: Random pictures from Sister Haretuku's camera:
We rescued a lost dog on Friday. His name was Red :) :
Sister Sledge's front room where we stayed. She basically
lives on a farm and it was so cold. Personal study was a struggle. It kind of
felt like camping though, which I liked :)
A beautiful lake we passed when our ward mission leader, Brother Arnold, took us
to a place called Crackinback (that is really what it's called) in our ward
about 2 hours away. Apparently a family with some members lives there. That is
how huge our area is and why it would be great to open up a branch in Cooma
again, so they would only have to drive one hour to church instead of two.
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