MOORABBIN - Week 36 - July 5, 2017

This week has been an amazing week but has gone by soo fast. 

Hope you all had a great 4th of July in America! this 4th of July was definitely different here in Australia. It was not your typical day in the pool with family, friends and a good BBQ. This year it was more like sweaters, tights and standing in the rain trying to talk to people on the street.

We moved to a new flat this week!! It is actually more like a house and it is new so it is superrr nice. It was a HUGE move because they are closing the flat we were in so we had to take everything out and to our new flat. Elder and Sister Grey who work in the office helped us and 6 elders who serve around us all came to help as well. They rented a truck and 6 hours later we had our stuff out of the old flat and into our new house :):) We are soooo spoiled in this new house. This house is so big, it HAS A WASHER (no more nasty public washing machine-- @sister fong!!!) and it has CENTRAL heating and air conditioning. It has been soo nice because it is starting to get really cold here in Australia, but now our house is super warm and we don't have a dodgy heater anymore! yeah if you couldn't tell I am super happy.

Also after we moved in, our zone leaders came over and dedicated our house as a house for missionaries and such. Long story short, the power of the priesthood is real and the way prayer invites the Spirit is amazing.

This week we had interviews with President Vidmar and wow I love him so much. I write about him so much in my weekly emails, but he is one of the most encouraging, selfless, coolest, inspirational, spiritual, funniest and happiest people I know. I seriously look up to him soo much!

We met with our investigator Victor again this week and wow he is sooo amazing. Every time we meet with him, I am blown away at his testimony and his desire to learn more. He is such a miracle and I can't even begin to write how incredible it is as a missionary to see someone learn about the gospel and see the change it makes in their lives. It is so amazing. 

Yesterday was one of the funnest days ever! We had sisters' breakfast in the morning with all the sisters in the Chinese program (plus the 2 English sisters that serve in the city) and it was so yummy. We ate and had our little birthday love for the sisters who had/have birthdays this transfer. I love the sisters so much! Then we went hiking at the You Yangs (look it up!!) and it was honestly one of the funnest days on my mission. The whole time we were hiking it felt like we were back in Utah and I was soo happy. (side note--sorry Mom & Dad that I used to complain about hiking before my mission. yesterday my zone leader Elder Feigleson helped me realize that hiking is super cool and is actually fun!) haha but I love my zone so much so it was fun to spend the day together and make so many fun memories. I am so blessed that in the chinese program we don't move around so I get to spend my entire mission with these people! <3

This week my awesome mission president shared a video with me and I LOVE IT.  It is called "The Savior Understands Me" so everyone please go look it up on youtube and watch it!! It is a short video from Elder Jeffrey R. Holland and it is soo powerful. I want to add my testimony to Elder Holland's that I know that Jesus Christ's Atonement is for everyone. Jesus Christ is ALWAYS there and I can't explain how, but I KNOW that He understands what we are going though. I know that He is my Savior and Redeemer, and I know that He is yours too!!

Have a good week!

xoxo,

张姐妹

Sister Johnson

Companion Sister Zhang from China

Jumping for Joy to be a Missionary

Nice Selfie

A few Sisters from the Sisters' Breakfast
Sister Cahoon, Sister Patchell, Alyssa and Sister Lee

Happy 4th of July from Australia
Sister Patchell, Alyssa, Sister Pratt, and Sister Lee

Saying Goodbye and Good Riddance to the old flat #3

Community Laundry Room in the old flat

Won't be missing this sink

The bad bad furnace that burnt her hand so badly

Zone on P-day hiking You Yangs

Sister Johnson and Elder Feigleson doing the Dab

Another Jumping Picture with Elder Young - why not