GLEN WAVERLEY - Week 58 - December 5, 2017

Hello family and friends!

Wow this past week has been extremely long. It feels like it has been ages since I last emailed!! Probably just because soo much has happened this past week. 

So last week was the week of transfers and it was pretty crazy, to say the least. Our flat is about 3 minutes from the mission office and the mission home, so we usually are roped into helping a ton with the transfers. This past week we had all the sisters that were training/going down to Tasmania AND all the Goldens. So on Wednesday night, we had 14 sisters sleeping in our flat! Our flat is pretty big.. but even that was a lot of people. 

Because we live close to the mission office, we have been able to go in and help Sister Kennedy (the mission secretary) and the office missionaries a couple times. We helped them set up for all the Goldens coming in, the trainers lunch and running errands to get what is needed (and much more. We are also busy with our own stuff to do, so we can't help them a ton but it is always fun to go in and help. They are SO busy and they do so much for all of us missionaries, so it is nice to be able to return the favor in any small way that we can. 

Also our ward has started to do caroling to less-actives, non members and investigators. Not many of the members signed up, so that means that they signed up all the missionaries in the ward (lol yay). On Sunday we went out and visited 5 families and it was....painful. I am not a good singer and at the first house I was biting my lip soo hard to keep myself from laughing. We had a rough go of it and it turns out that singing acapella with 6 other (mostly tone def) people is a bit hard. Good thing we visited some very nice people and they kindly listened to us absolutely butcher the 3 Christmas songs. After each house, Sister Chen and I would get in the car and just laugh and laugh. Good thing it is only a once a year kind of thing ;)

This past weekend it has been a bit cooler and we have had so much rain. There have been some cool thunder storms that came through, and because we were stuck inside (Sister Vidmar didn't want us out in the storm) my flatmates and I went out and played in the rain. It was fun on Friday, but ever since then it has just been annoying. Mostly because all of our Chinese investigators are afraid of rain (not even joking.. they don't leave their house when it rains) so they cancelled all our appointments to a day with "better weather". So that is cool. But it has given us time to catch up in our area book, and to do some DEEP cleaning in our flat. We have desperately been needing a good clean, especially after having soo many people in and out of our flat. 

We were able to meet with a new investigator Michael this week! I GQ'd into him on the street last week and we were able to meet with him & share a little about God and prayer. He seems promising!! He has a desire to know about Jesus Christ and believes that having a religion will help him and bless his life. We will meet with him again this week so I will keep yous posted :)

Yesterday, we met with our investigator Allen! In our last lesson with him, he really wanted to know about the commandments and what he needs to do in order to  make it back to live with God. Yesterday when we taught him, he had heaps of questions (really hard ones...(糟糕)) but he was able to understand and accept the commandments (for the most part). It turns out that he has a huge problem with the Word of Wisdom (pretty much every part of it (double糟糕)) so we will be working with him on that. He is still awesome and he totally has a real desire to change his life and be better! keep him in your prayers :)

That is pretty much our week.

Thanks for the love and support!  Miss you all heaps.

oh and don't forget to #LightTheWorld

xoxo

张姐妹

Sister Johnson

Text from the state

Play day in the Rain

With all the rain, the slugs came out - gross

Zone Conference - Maroondah Zone 

Americans - Sister Patchell, Sister Cahoon,

Sister Johnson and Sister Fong