February 19, 2012

Sorry I have been slack about the blog, and I can't quite remember where I left off so I will just give an update of recent events.

We had another transfer on February 5th. Transfer meeting was Tuesday the 7th. We live a fair bit away from the Maroondah Stake Centre so we left our area (in Geelong) quite early. To make what could be a very long story very short, Sister White got transferred to Lynbrook and I am training a new missionary (Sister Harkness) in Geelong. She is an awesome missionary and works very hard. She also has heaps of good ideas for this area to help the ward. Geelong is the largest ward in Australia so it is quite a project to get everything together.

We also had a Zone Conference this last Wednesday (15/2/12) with the Deer Park and Wyndham Stakes (I'm in the Wyndham Stake) and Elder Watson of the 70, and his wife came and did the training. It was on the Doctrine of the Father. Very, very good :) He said that we truly need to understand our divine potential as heirs to the Kingdom of God and that will help us become more fully converted. Missionaries should not go home and become inactive members of the church if they truly understand the doctrines that they are teaching on a daily basis. He's right. How can we teach people about their potential as children of God and yet not realize it ourselves a few months later.

We had lunch at the Deer Park ward as well. Just as a side note..... the Deer Park ward has a Tongan ward as well and it was the Tongan ward that provided our lunches. Wow. I will post a picture later. They had a whole pig, and a basket of fruit the size of a small bathtub. And heaps of food in addition to that. They fed us more than we got at Christmas :)

It was crazy as. Sister Harkness and I sat next to Elder and Sister Watson and got to talk to them for a bit. They are lovely people.

That's about it for now, Sister Harkness and I found 9 more people to teach this week and we will start working with them as soon as possible :)

-Sister Edmunds