MOORABBIN - Week 38 - July 18, 2017

Hello Family :)

This week was really good (and also a little hard because no phone.. but we will get there) and it is the last week of the transfer! We find out on Sunday about transfers and I am super excited to see what happens!

So Friday night we had a lesson and game night in the city. We went to the city like normal... but soon realized when we got there that we didn't have our phone. I suddenly remembered that I used the phone on the train and had set it on the seat next to us because we were watching videos and looking at pictures on my camera while we waited. Well when we got to the branch and realized that we had left the phone, our awesome zone leaders quickly went down to the train station to see if someone had turned it in. Turns out the lost property station is closed on the weekends (you're joking me..). So we had no choice but to wait until it opened on Monday to go back and see if our phone had been turned in. SO we had no phone Friday-Monday. SO we weren't able to text our potentials to confirm our lessons on the weekend so they all bailed. SO we got to GQ for hours on hours this weekend because no lessons. SO we went to the church early Sunday morning for choir because we hadn't gotten the text saying that we didn't have choir this week. SO we weren't able to call any of our investigators which means no lessons and no one at church :( SO we were very out of the loop and alone all the way out in Moorabbin. 

So after a very long weekend, we went to the train station on Monday to ask about our phone and no one had turned a phone in yet. We were crushed (mostly me because I am dumb and feel soooo bad). We had to call the office and it they had to give us another phone. Luckily we have the same number and everything, but we lost all of our contacts and old text messages! I have never been so grateful for our area book (that has all of our investigators and potentials names & numbers in it) before. It has been so hard as we have contacted everyone saying sorry they hadn't heard from us in a while, but we are finally back on our feet and still plugging along doing the the Lord's work. :) also happy to finally have a phone again because I had no idea how hard it is to do missionary work without a phone.. I don't know how they did it back in the olden days! 

I mean you could say after all this that I learned a lesson--you know to not leave the phone on the train and to be more responsible...but I thought I had learned that the first time I left the phone on the train back when Sister Fong and I were companions!...also yes I feel even more guilty/dumb because this is the SECOND time I have left the phone on the train. AND this time it is so much worse because no one turned it in. 

BUT after all this and not being able to contact anyone, we still had 2 miracle lessons. Two of our potentials that we had contacted earlier in the week, came and met with us even though they hadn't heard from us! They were both awesome lessons and both want to learn more and continue to meet! (but of course the girl we taught, Christine (who is super keen!!!) lives in the city so we have to refer her to the other missionaries.. bummer!) but all is well and this truly showed me that Heavenly Father is aware and is always there to help us when we are doing His work :) 

Today one of the couples from our branch invited all the missionaries that serve in the branch (our entire zone.. haha) to come to their house for lunch! It was so fun to spend the afternoon with our zone, especially because 3 elders finish their mission this transfer! Elder Feng and Elder Yang (2 elders from China) taught me how to eat a chicken wing the Chinese way. so pretty much you just eat the entire wing.. you can eat the bone too if you want. Chinese people are awesome :)

I am so grateful to be here in Australia as a missionary. I love everything about this place, these people and my mission. 

thank you all for the constant love and support. I love you all :) hope you have a good week!

xoxo,

张姐妹

Sister Johnson

Teaching Sister Zhang to the play the piano,
funny thing is Sister Johnson also doesn't know how
to play the piano - small detail

Lunch at a member's home - the whole Zone.

Sister Zhang made Sister Johnson an Oreo
Shake, one of her favorites.

Selfie of the week

From Nikky:  I added a few pictures of a Book of Mormon that Sister Johnson marked, with answers to common questions that the Book of Mormon can answer.