GLEN WAVERLEY - Week 57 - November 29, 2017

Hey fam!!

So we just had transfers and I am staying in Waverley! This is honestly a huge blessing to stay in this ward and this area. I get to be here with the amazing members for the Christmas season and into the new year! :)

I am also now with Sister Chen! She is from Taiwan and is so cute. She is the sweetest person I have ever met. She has been out for 14 months so she is into her last 2 transfers on the mission. She is AMAZING! I love her so much already and I know this transfer is going to be great!

This week was great! It was an amazing last week with my best friend Sister Cahoon.

It was so hard to say goodbye to her after such an amazing transfer. I LOVED getting to serve with her again. I am bummed we only got six weeks together this time.. but I get to see her heaps this month so it won't be too bad. AND we go home together so that is a blessing. 

Said goodbye to two missionaries last week, Sister Pratt and Elder Chen (he was my district leader and later my zone leader)

We were invited over to the Kerwin's house (the bishop of another ward and his family) to help them set up their Christmas decorations. It was sooo much fun. They had Christmas music playing and it finally felt a little like Christmas!... but it was soo hot and that was weird. this is the first Christmas when we will use an AC instead of a heater!!!!

Bishop Kerwin (from above) also invited us and all the missionaries in our district and our zone leaders to their Christmas party. It was so fun and man, square dancing with all the sisters was dope. I loooove serving in family wards. The Christmas season is going to be so fun!!! (oh and the members are soo nice and are always giving us sweets/desserts. here is hoping that I won’t gain 897824 pounds please..;);) lol) 

All the missionaries may or may not have gotten into a huge cake fight after the Christmas party and wow there was cake EVERYWHERE. Don't worry we cleaned it up.. but just so you know, mint cake in your nose really starts to burn ;) haha

We also have been meeting with a few of our investigators and they are going great!

We met with our investigator Kevin and taught the Word of Wisdom. He had no problems with it and totally accepted it. He is progressing so much and hopefully we can commit him to baptism soon. He is so prepared now!

I am excited for this next transfer.  Well I hope you all have a good week!

Oh, and go to mormon.org and check out the Light the World Christmas campaign.

it's way good and the videos are great. made me cry :')) But yeah go out and light the world.

love you all,

xoxo

张姐妹

Sister Johnson

New companion - Sister Chen

A little fun with some cake after a ward party

Helped to decorate the Kerwin's home for Christmas

Bishop Kerwin and his family

Sister Pratt 

Elder Chen

THANKSGIVING PLAY by Missionaries

at Ward Party

GLEN WAVERLEY - Week 56 - November 21, 2017

Not much happened this week, but it has been so fun here in Glen Waverley with Cahoon!

Happy news- it is finally summer here and is starting to get really hot!  Sad news- I am now constantly sweating so that's cool :):)

I got to go to the Temple and do baptisms with Jeff this week! Sister Li and I taught him and he baptized almost 8 months ago, and this past weekend he was FINALLY able to go to the temple! It was so fun to go with him and be a part of the special day :) 

Also we hiked 1000 steps again this morning with our flat mates. It was so fun and SO pretty! I love Australia!

Shout out to Cahoon for writing about our week.

I think she said it best (Alyssa just blocked and copied Sister Cahoon’s letter this week, oh boy)

Our ward put on a Thanksgiving Potluck this week though, which was weird since none of them even celebrate it here. So they had the American missionaries share about a typical Thanksgiving in America.. and we ended up getting all 6 of the missionaries to act out "The First Thanksgiving" it was actually pretty funny. 

Yu is not getting baptized this week because she decided to come to the Sunday Pot luck AFTER church instead of actually coming to church. So that sucked. But we went over all of the Baptismal Questions with her and she is super prepared!! She answered everything perfectly and hopefully we can push her date back to next weekend. 

We also met with Kevin again finally!! He is awesome!! It’s been almost a month since I last saw him but he said he has been praying and still seems really keen to learn/be baptized. Only slight set back is that he showed up with a bunch of coffees and had bought 2 for me and Johnson. So we had to give the entire lesson with these coffees in front of us..and then dump them outside right after he left. So we will probs be going over Word of Wisdom next week :) :) :) 

Also taught Allen (the super keen guy who GQed himself last week) we taught Plan of Salvation and it was awesome!!! Such a cool lesson! He asked so many good questions and he has such a sincere desire to learn. After we asked him that when he knows these things are true would he be willing to get baptized and he sat and thought about it for a second and then said yes! So we are going to give him a date for the end of December :) 

Those are probably our top 3 investigators right now.. but we have actually found a lot of pretty keen potentials this past week, so that’s been a blessing. 

Well hope you all have a great Thanksgiving!

love and miss you all!

xoxo,

张姐妹

Sister Johnson​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Olivia, a member friend

A favorite show from a few years ago

"Look Mom, I climbed a tree"

Going to the temple with Sister Li and Recent Convert Jeff (who did baptisms 

for the first time)

Beautiful Melbourne

Sister Johnson and Sister Cahoon at 1,000 Steps

Lots and lots of steps