This last week has been so busy! Tuesday was very interesting, we went to contact people in Dandenong Plaza and talked with a man named Glenn who was sitting in his car. He is an Aussie and is Lutheran but he has worked with missionaries from the Church before and has actually been to Utah before-random :) We gave him a copy of the Book of Mormon and he said he would read and pray. As soon as we were done taking with him my companion saw a lady named Shadia that we were going to go visit, just standing in the Plaza with her 2 children. So cool! If we had gone to her house at that time and had not been in the Plaza we would have missed her. While my companion was taking to her I had 2 different people walk up to me, one of them was a young man who asked for 2 dollars for the bus, I gave him 2 dollars and talked to him about the gospel. He said he was looking to get his life in order and thanked me. We walked along the plaza and met another man named Luke. He was very interested in our message and told us that he had just overcome a Heroine addiction and was looking for direction in his life. (He is currently being taught by the Elders). This experience made me realize that by being where we should be we will placed in the path of those who need the Gospel. Meeting Luke made me think too, that the Gospel is not for perfect people, it's for everyone. For people looking for direction, for families, everyone :) I love that!

On Wednesday we went to our District meeting in Narre Warren, while we were there I felt like we should visit a girl that we had taught named Ragina. The last time we met with her she had said that she would not be around much the next few days so we were not really sure if we would see her again before they moved us to Geelong. We decided to stop by later that evening and tracted around our flat in the meantime. Almost right across the street from us we met a man named Reese. He had grown up Catholic but doesn't really practice. He was very interested in the restored gospel and how the Spirit testifies of truth to us. We asked him to read Helaman 5:30 and Moroni's promise and he really liked it. When I say he really liked it it sounds kind of lame to me-his eyes lit up and he could feel the Spirit. He said that he has felt it at times but that it never stays for long. We told him about the Gift of the Holy Ghost and how we can always have that to be wtih us. You can see it in their eyes when they understand and want to learn more :)

Later that evening we dropped by Ragnia's and she was home!! We talked with her about concerns she had. It was really nice.

On Thursday we met with Jess and Naite and their children Sama and Jaemin-the family we started teaching. Jess asked us when we first met him what the next step was, what was that link. We talked with him about covenants and how they bring us closer to God. We talked with him about prophets because they came to General Conference last Sunday and Jess said that right now it was easier for him to believe on our words that there are prophets until he comes to that knowledge for himself. He has placed a lot of trust in us. We had the Elders with us for this lesson and it was interesting that Jess said, if we had been young men he would have never let us into his home. He has gotten to know the Elders and knows that they are good and trustworthy. But I really thought about what he said, it is true that there are homes that are more open to Sisters than to Elders. We also talked with Jess's wife Naite while the Elders talked with Jess and talked to her more about the BofM. She understands Moroni's promise and is very excited to pray and know for herself if it is true. When we talked about covenants with them and baptism and the Gift of the Holy Ghost Naite's eyes lit up. She is always telling us that she sees light in us and through us and we told her that it is the Holy Ghost and it is something that we are blessed with when we live according to our covenants. She wants that light :)

This last Saturday we moved to Geelong. We were sad to go but we will be here for a while. The office told us that we would not have electricity until Tuesday but we really wanted to be down here for Sunday so that we could meet the members in the ward. Because it is a new flat for missionaries we had to move everything out of our old flat. The AP's brought the mission van and trailer and loaded our stuff up. We went to the zone leaders flat and dropped off the GPS............and headed to Geelong just using our map. Ummm, what should have taken 1 1/2 hours took about 2 1/2. We got lost in Koala country.......no, I did not see a Koala. Thankfully we were not as far out as we originally thought we were, but we had to stop in the middle of nowhere at a winery to get directions and figure out where on earth we were.

Geelong is right along the bay and we can see it from the chapel which is a 10min walk from our flat. We don't have electricity but a member from our last area let us borrow some emergency flashlights and a candle so we've been okay. We have running water and thankfully gas becuase that means we also have hot water-something that would really be difficult to live without. Also, I love Australia, I really do, but I have never seen more spiders in my life! Never. We squished like 20 around our flat yesterday and one of them fell off my bed.......I keep all my sheets tucked in very, very well now. The members told us that there is really only one kind that you don't want to get bit by here-the whitetail. They told us what it looks like and if I ever seen one, it's dead.

Well that's all for this week, the ward here is awesome and they are very excited to have sister missionaries. I really like Geelong. It's close to the country and supposedly there are Koalas around here-I will keep my eyes open.....

-Sister Edmunds