Country Elder

In Australia it is 10 AM on Sunday and the middle of winter. Because I am a country serving Elder at the moment the only way we can email is if we rock up to the District Leader's flat Sunday night and spend Pday with them which kinds sucks.

Narrogin is doing good. We have one baptismal date and that is for this upcoming Saturday. His name is Manny and he is 13. We are hoping there are no complications with his parents. They have signed a consent but he wasn’t able to attend church because of vacation and family issues so we hope it hasn’t complicated the baptism There are a lot of people in our area, less actives.  They seem to pop up out of nowhere.  We are also trying to track a lot of them down in the farther areas of where I am serving such as Kattaning, Darkan and Boddington.

The islanders are cooking up a big Lu and BBQ feed for the Senior Training Leaader’s because they are leaving this transfer and one next. It should be good; man I am excited. This week we had octopus and Otieica which is raw fish with cream, tomatoes and chives. It wasn't too bad. I ate a couple of scales though.

When all of the Elders get together we play a lot of touch. I am getting a little better at it. I think the first souvenir I will get is a cool super rugby jersey we found at a kiwi (New Zealand) shop.

I was able to go to the temple this past week and that was awesome. The Perth temple is small but the workers are super nice and the garden area is pretty. Following that I had my last training as a new missionary called follow up training. We ran through a couple of role plays with the Assistants to President Fife.

The food was uber good. We got free fish and chips which is like a staple of good food here in Perth. Also Burger King is called Hungry Jacks and the KFC here is pretty good ha-ha.

We have been doing a lot of exchanges because we had to be up in Perth so much. We are doing the best we can in our area. Hopefully we get to interact more with investigators and less actives this upcoming transfer.

We find out about transfers in about a week or so we will see if one of us gets transferred. I will most likely finish out the first 12 weeks with my trainer but who knows. I will most likely stay in Narrogin though Elder Paongo has been there for upwards of 7 months now. President Fife likes to keep missionaries in certain areas for ages.  Elder Paongo is awesome and I am going to be sad if he leaves. He is funny and a hard worker. He is also really good at following the spirit and knowing how to help people which is awesome to see. It is helping me to get better at it.