26 February 2018 Letter

Hello family and friends!

It has been a great week as usual here in Dapto. My new companion is Sister Namalo from Fiji! She has been out 6 months and is the coolest person! She is so easy going and is a wonderful teacher. I am already learning heaps from her so I am excited for the rest of the transfer!

This week we have a couple new investigators we are excited about: Tara and Colin.

Tara is 17 and has heaps of LDS friends, including her boyfriend and a couple of the YSA in Dapto ward, which is great! We met her a few weeks ago when her neighbor told us to visit her because she thought her family was Filipino and sister Monilla is Filipino. She is definitely not Fili, but Persian, so it is a miracle we even met her, and we have been teaching her weekly ever since! She has always wanted to know more about the church and has said that if she comes to find that it is true she will be baptized. She is so wise for her age and very spiritual. She is so great!

Colin is the neighbor of one of our members, Nana Tyson. On Tuesday, he miraculously accepted an invitation to come to an FHE at her home, and it went really well! He is confused by all the different religions in the world and wants to know how he can know what is true. It was cool to share the Book of Mormon with him, and promise that through searching, pondering and praying to know, he can know the truth not only of the Book of Mormon, but of all things.

Another investigator, Pamella (emphasis on Ella), is progressing. She is the mother of a less active member, but has seen great things come into his life from it, and wants to be baptized herself. She has been to sacrament the past two weeks and stayed for all 3 hours yesterday. She enjoyed it and had so much to say in the classes. She always does, lol, it is difficult to even take control of our lessons with her. She is so passionate and wonderful though.

It has been raining nonstop for the past couple days, but we were able to attend a recent convert fireside in Sydney last night and have safe travels even in thick fog on the way home, which was a miracle. Matthew spoke and had a good experience, so it was awesome. He is doing so good. Now, that he is baptized he really understands the significance of the covenant he has made and really wants to be obedient to God's commandments. We asked how he felt after receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost. He said that he feels good and that every time he feels tempted to drink coffee of tea, he feels like someone is telling him, you shouldn't be doing that. It is cool he is recognizing the spirit's guidance already!

Well, love you all, let me know if there are any prayers any of you may need. Have a happy week filled with gratitude!

Love,

Sister Pace

pics:
1) Above, new companion, Sister Namalo from Fiji!

2) my new district consisting of Dapto ward, Wollongong Ward, and Nowra Branch

3) Sister Sianava:)

4) The sisters in our district 

5)Sister Stetson, who used to serve in Dapto came back to visit and visited one of our investigators, Rebecca, with us!

6) Sister Namalo remembered that I hit my 16 month mark today and I didn't even know lol. She is the cutest!