MOORABBIN - Week 41 - August 8, 2017

Good week here in Moorabbin! but sorry I don't have much time to write so this might be all over the place..

This past week we had our Zone Conference and holy cow it was soo good! We talked a ton about finding, our missionary purpose and about the Holy Ghost. Wow I learned soo much and I was able to get direct answers to so many of my personal prayers which was incredible. It helped strengthen my testimony that God truly does hear and answer every single one of our prayers!

I also haven't been sleeping very well recently which has been really strange. I am absolutely exhausted every single night, but when I get into bed I can't seem to fall asleep. Then when I finally do fall asleep, I wake up several times and just lay awake. It has been a long couple nights and I guess other people are starting to notice because a few of the elders in my zone ask why I always have "panda eyes".. so that is nice. BUT my companion said that if I sleep with oranges (yes the fruit!!) by my bed that I will be able to sleep better! So last night when I went into my room she had put heaps of oranges on my bed and I ACTUALLY SLEPT BETTER! I mean.. it was probably the placebo effect or something but hey.. I'll do what I gotta do! Also the senior couple that serve in the branch with us gave me a cute emoji pillow saying that it might help me sleep :) so yes I really am taken care of here!

This week while I was GQing, I had an interesting (and VERY long) 40 minute conversation with a guy. He came up to me and got very close to my face and asked "are you American?" when I said yes (I'm not sure how he knew I was American..) he then asked me, "are you a spy?" I thought that he was joking but turns out he was completely serious! He then started going off about Donald Trump, about how America rules the world and he just kept asking me "are you part of the CIA?!" well in the end, I finally convinced him that I am NOT a spy from the CIA but he left our conversation thinking I am KGB and asked me to spare him and not kill him? haha gotta love GQing!

We are still meeting with our investigators and they are all slowly progressing. They are honestly awesome. :) We also have been doing a ton of finding and everything in hopes to meet with new people and get new investigators! We have set up some lessons for this weekend and for next week and we are both super excited! So here is hoping!!!! 

Well I love you all and thanks for the support and love! 

Oh and thanks for all the birthday wishes I have already received!! I have the best friends and family. I am too blessed to be stressed!

have a good week

xoxo

张姐妹

Sister Johnson

Zone Conference 

Melbourne City

The sister on the far left is Britney (a recent convert)
She got the birthday cake for Sister Zhang and I (see below).
I love her sweater.

Chinese remedy to help me sleep better at night????

Frosting for the cupcakes we made
for Elder Mourino's Birthday.  Had to stir the food color in
with Chop Sticks (so Chinese)

I dropped the first batch as I was getting them out of the oven - oops.

Finished product.  Kind of sad looking cupcakes but the
Elders will still eat them.  We ran out of cupcakes (maybe because
of the batch I dropped) so we just had to write "Elder" on the pan.

Shrine of Rememberance 

A bit windy.

Birthday cake for Sister Zhang and I who share the same birthday.
Thanks Britney