Making the cut‏

Hey everyone!

This has been an incredibly hard week physically.  As a missionary with a car every month we are given a certain number of kilometers that we are allowed to use.  For the last 5 months that I have been here in Golden Bay we have been allotted 1,800ks a month.  On the 19th of this month we got a text from the Zone Leaders that read, "1,400 ks. Sorry for getting it to you so late."  I was quite frustrated.  To be honest I really don't think I'm really over it yet.  By the 19th we had had mini missionary meetings, Zone Meetings and a Zone Conference up in Rockingham so we were already at just over 1,100 ks for the month and I was trying to be careful how we used the rest of them anyway.  I was judging it by 1,800 so getting 400 ks cut from us caused me quite a bit of discomfort.  We cover 5 suburbs.  3 of them we can walk to (we have to walk because Sister Tomaki just can't figure out this whole bike thing.  We devoted an entire p-day to it last week and she still hasn't got the hang of it.)  but the other 2 we have no way of getting to them except by car.  It just so happens that our 4 people with baptismal dates all live in those 2 suburbs.  I think it was Satan's way of trying to stop our work.  Let me tell you a couple stories about how we have traveled this week. 

Story number 1:

We had Zone Meeting on Tuesday morning up in Rockingham.  We got up and caught a bus at 7:35am to the train station.  We met up with the Elders at the train and took the train up to the Rockingham station where we got off and caught another bus to the chapel.  Our meeting went longer than expected so we missed our bus back to the station.  We decided to walk because it would be faster then waiting for the next bus.  About 45 minutes later we got on the train to go back to Mandurah station.  The Elders got back in their car there and we waited for the next bus back to Golden Bay.  We were on exchanges so Sister Ama was my companion for the day.  Since she can bike we spent all day on the bikes.  It was great!  I was happier than a fat kid with chocolate cake being back on a bike.  I missed it so much!  Sister Ama just laughed at me the whole day.  Tuesday came to a close and we went to bed.  We woke up and during personal study I realized that I didn't have my scriptures.  I started frantically searching the flat.  Sister Ama asked me what I was looking for and I told her that I lost my scriptures.  I kept pleading with Heavenly Father that I would find them.  Then Sister Ama used her awesome memory and told me that I left them at the train station while we were waiting for the bus back home.  I called the Mandurah Elders and asked them if they would stop by the train station before we saw them at 3 and check to see if someone turned them in to a lost and found or something.  I didn't hear back from them all day.  When we saw them all they said was that on there way to meeting us they bought us chocolate.  I was gutted because that in my mind meant that they couldn't find them.  Sister Tomaki opened the bag that they gave her and pulled out my scriptures!  I wanted to cry.  I just held them against my chest and said the most sincere prayer of gratitude I think I have ever offered.  It's funny how something as simple as scriptures can make your whole life fall apart if you don't have them.  I've had these scriptures since I was 8.  They are marked and have notes and everything from the last 12 years of my life.  I know Heavenly Father answers prayers!!  My testimony of that definitely was strengthened this week.

 

Story number 2:

Sister Tomaki and I had a meeting at our chapel with the Elders and our Ward Mission Leader.  We told them that we would be at the meeting and that we would be getting there by bus.  The Elders really didn't like that idea because the sun goes down here at 6pm and our meeting was at 7.  We finished a lesson at 6:10 and got to the closes bus stop at 6:25.  I checked the timetable and it said that the next bus was coming at 6:27.  I prayed that my watch and the bus time was the same.  I told Sister Tomaki that we needed to show our faith and I had her pull out her fare and I grabbed my bus pass out of my bag.  I figured it's one thing to pray that something will happen but you need to show your faith just as much and think you have faith.  Less than a minute after we made sure we had our stuff the bus came around the corner.  We made it on time to our meeting and everything worked out alright.  After the meeting we caught the bus home and the bus driver asked to talk to me.  I thought I was in trouble.  Come to find out he just caught my accent and asked what part of the states I'm from.  He is heading over in September and had heaps of questions for me.  It was kind of fun.

Walking everywhere has made me really sore but it is totally worth it! 

Saturday morning we got a call from Phil Greentree.  He has been away at work this week.  We had 2 awesome lessons with his wife and kids this week.  I love this family.  Tia told me that we have to keep in touch when I go back to the states.  I told her that their family will always have a part of my heart.  It's amazing how much you can grow to love people.  When I answered Phil's call I knew something was wrong.  I asked if he was okay and he said, "Actually no I'm not.  We just got in a massive truck accident up here on site.  The driver of the truck shouldn't have made it out alive."  Basically they weren't even done figuring out what had happened with the accident when Phil called us.  I could tell he was still in shock.  He said, "I just felt like I needed to call you.  They keep trying to give me alcohol and stuff to calm me down and I told them to bug off and that I didn't need any of that stuff.  I just needed to talk to yous."  I got off the phone and burst into tears.  I texted Bishop and all the ward leaders, I called our Elders and the Zone Leaders who sent a text out to all of the missionaries in our Zone asking for prayers for their family.  Then I called the temple and put Phil and Tash's names on the prayer roll.  At our last lesson with his family cute little Georgia prayed that her dad would be safe at work.  She said that she always prays that he will be safe.  Tash also told us how not having Phil home makes it harder to do the right thing.  She still hasn't had a drink but the temptation has been a lot harder not having him home.  We talked about how the Savior is always there when Phil can't be and she said, "I know I think about that every time I'm tempted to have a drink!"  We explained that she is more converted than she realized.  Phil was flown home last night after they figured out all of the statement papers and what have you from the accident.  He will be home for a while before they make him go back up.  I talked to Tash at work and helped her see how this is a blessing in disguise.  They all pray that he will be safe at work which he was but Heavenly Father still created a way to have him home to help his family become stronger.  Heavenly Father is brilliant.  His plan is perfect.  We have no idea how incredibly mindful He truly is of each and every one of us.

I hope you all have a fantastic week!  We are making the most of it here!  Miss you all heaps.

Much love,

Sister Shayne     

Alma

49:27-28 Anger caused him to curse God because of the righteousness of others. Are we helping those around us or are we letting their blessings get us down and angry?

51:14 Even the best people get mad sometimes

53:13 Out of love when their brothers were in danger. . .

53:20-21 they went to help.  I want to be like them.

Chapter 54  This is what happens when men try to settle an argument with a letter.

55:31  What are we doing to avoid the poisons around us?

Pictures

The purple and yellow bracelets (Lakers colors!)  are from one of the boys in our ward.  Loom bands are huge here right now.  Every little kid has a loom and has been making these bracelets like crazy.  The heart one we made as part of our Young Women's lesson last week at church.  It is to remind the Young Women to pray for the Spirit to be with them.

 

Golden Bay!  I finally got a photo! :)

 

 

This is what a bus stop looks like.  We look for the little green posts and text the bus stop number to the Transperth people and they tell us when the next bus is supposed to come.  It's great.  This was us waiting for the next bus to show up. 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 This weekend we went and helped Aaron paint his house.  Alex came with us and Brother Light our EQP, who is a painter by profession, came and helped us as well.  It was great!  We all had so much fun. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Miracles!‏

Hey there everyone!

This week has been a powerhouse high of spiritually awesome events!  

Tuesday night we had a baptism for the Tutai family.  Little Memory was baptized on her 9th birthday.  Therefore it counts as a convert baptism and the Elders were put in charge of organizing the whole thing.  They had just over a week to get it all sauced out.  We got picked up by Alex at 5 and got a call from them.  They sounded pretty stressed.  Basically the musical item cancelled on them, the man who was supposed to have the key for the projector didn't have a key and they had no way to show a video to keep the spirit while we waited for the people to change after the baptism.  We hung up and Ally told us that she had her laptop in the boot and then called Nikau to bring a HDMI cable.  He said he would and we called the Elders and told them not to worry about it and that we would take care of everything else.  Indeed we got the laptop hooked up to the tv and shared awesome videos to keep the Spirit while they took care of everything else.  We invited our investigator Aaron to come to the baptism.   He set a reminder on his phone so that he could leave work early to make it on time :)  He met so many members and they all just sat and talked to him.  He really enjoyed it.  The mum gave the talk on the Holy Ghost and she said that she was less-active for a long time and that with trying to find happiness in the world she was just lost and selfish.  She said that coming back to church was the best choice she could have made for her life.  Aaron afterward said, "I feel like I might have just been lost for a long time."  I can't help but just smile every time I talk to this guy.  He has been soo prepared to hear the gospel.  After the baptism we texted the Elders and thank them for preparing such a great baptism.  They texted us back and told us that it wouldn't have worked out if we didn't save the day. And then we got this text.  I took a picture of it so that I would remember it.

I was reading in the Book of Mormon this week and I have to say Alma 41:14 has 3 specific things that can help us all heaps.  Deal justly, judge righteously, and do good continually.  Lets all apply those more into our lives.  I know I'm definitely going to try harder to do them.  

Now for the Greentree update!   I LOVE THIS FAMILY!  That's nothing new but I just wanted to make sure everyone knows that.  It's amazing how much love you can have for people that just a few short months ago you didn't know even existed.  We taught them twice this week.  When we got there on Wednesday they told us about how they had friends in town over the weekend that were all drinking but they didn't have anything to drink.   One of their friends only had like 2 beers and then put it down and said that from Phil's example that he didn't really want to drink anymore either!  We were so proud of them both!  Then they told us that they had a fight Sunday night.  Phil said that he left the house to calm down and on the way out he grabbed his Book of Mormon.  He went down to the foreshore to read and calm down.  When he came home he found Tash in their room reading her Book of Mormon that we gave her just over a week ago.  My jaw was on the floor and I wanted to cry.  I asked her why she picked up the Book of Mormon of all things.  With tears in her eyes her response was, "Because it just felt like the right thing to do." Kian is up to 1 Nephi chapter 4 and loves reading.  They are progressing leaps and bounds.  They all came to church on Sunday.  With all the money they are saving by not buying alcohol (~$1,500 a month) they went on a shopping spree and bought everyone knew dresses and outfits for church.  They stayed for all 3 hours.  While we were in Gospel Principles we were talking about how families can be together forever.  While hearing the blessings of being sealed the teacher asked Phil what his thoughts were and Phil said, "That's what we want."  I caught eyes with one of the Elders sitting on the other side of Phil and we both had tears in our eyes.  The Spirit was so strong.  You wait your whole mission for a family like this.  Hearing your investigators say that they understand where this path is taking them and that it isn't just baptism makes everything else we do worth it.   

We got to teach the Mai maid class this week which is good because that is the class that Tia is in.  We taught a great lesson on inviting the Holy Ghost to be with us.  We made bracelets at the end off the lesson to help them remember to pray for the Spirit throughout their days.  The girls loved the lesson.  We had made heaps of phone calls throughout the week to have someone sit with mum during Relief Society and the ward just took her under their wing.   It was beautiful to see the ward members and leaders just welcome this family in with big arms.  We got a text from the Elders during the last hour of church.  It said, "Brother Bennett just asked the men in Elders Quorum to help one of the elderly sisters with some service and as usual no one raised their hands.  Brother Greentree was the only one who volunteered.  He put the rest of the Priesthood to shame!  He is a miracle within himself."  

The other amazing thing that happened this week is that we had an incredible lesson with our friend Aaron on Saturday.  Alex went with us again and we planned on teaching him the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  We asked him his thoughts about church and the baptism.  He said that he really enjoyed the baptism.  He said that he thought the sacrament was a little cliche.  We started teaching about repentance and how that is the whole reason we come to church.  That really got him thinking.  He was quiet for about 3 minutes and then said, "Well that puts a whole new light on it doesn't it?"  Then he shared a special experience with us.  He said he was on the train and the song, "Temporary Home" by Carrie Underwood came on his phone.  He said that was the last straw for him.  He said it sent shivers down his spine.  I just smiled and said, "That is the Spirit!"  We just smiled and the Spirit was soooo strong!  We invited him to be baptized and he got really quiet.  He said, "You know I was thinking about you three coming over today and I was baptized when I was a baby but I was going to find a way to ask you if it was possible to be baptized again."  We freaked out inside just a little.  HE WAS GOING TO ASK US IF HE CAN BE BAPTIZED!  That never happens!!!!  We set the date for the 13th of September (my 18 month mark).  I'm so excited!  We were just ear to ear with grins.  He has always said that he loves having us come over because we are always smiling.  We asked him how he felt after we set the date and he said, "Well you aren't the only ones smiling anymore!"  It was so great :)  He came to church on Sunday as well.  The second speaker was the second counselor in the Stake Presidency and he talked all about baptism!  He also basically said to the members that if you don't know the people that your missionaries are teaching then you aren't doing your part.  Aaron looked over at us at the end of the meeting and with a smile on his face said, "That's another piece of the puzzle isn't it?  What are the odds that he spoke on baptism today of all day?"  It was so great.  The work is moving along and I couldn't be happier.  Thank you for all of your prayers and support.  I know that they are what have helped me get through the hard times and what helps these people progress.  I love you all and miss you heaps!  Have a fantastic week!

Much love, 

Sister Shayne

Alma

All of 38 - 5,9,12, and 15 especially

39:15-16 That is the same purpose as now

41:3-4 Agency is simple and yet it has huge effects

41:10 Scripture Mastery :) It will always ring true!

42:5 Adam and Eve's fall was part of the plan

Why was the Atonement necessary?

What is the point of us being here? 

What are there so many trials in life?  

See Alma 42 for the answers.  

44:3-4, 10, 12-14 Take that Zarahemnah!

46:14-15 Are you Christian? 

Chapter 47  Tricked, poisoned, and lied to.  What are the influences of that world that have a hold on you? 

Photo of the week.  Elder Teuira has a sticker of the St. George Temple on the back of his badge from when he served around Elder Tidwell from Santa Clara.  It made me really happy to see it.  I had to take a picture :)

Change‏

Hey everyone!

This has been an incredibly emotional week.  I loved having our mini missionary.  We learned soo much from her and I pray that she learned a lot of good things from us.  We had a meeting on Wednesday night where we gave her back to her family.  It was a great meeting.  They opened the meeting and then gave the time to the mini's to bear their testimonies.  It was amazing to see the change in these youth in just 5 days of living the gospel.  Their was time left over and they told us that the full-time missionaries could go up and share our testimonies.  I don't normally stand up at meetings like that but my heart was pounding out of my chest.  I can only think of one other time in my life that I felt the prompting that strong to stand up.  I just bore my testimony about how everything in the gospel is completely inspired.  Taylor was our mini because she needed to touch the lives of those she met here in our area.  She may only be a member for 3 months but there is absolutely nothing mini about her testimony.  We were gutted to give her back.  Lots of tears were held back.  We had the amazing privilege after that meeting to have Sister Hadlock and Sister Tukuafu stay the night at our flat.  Sister Hadlock and I stayed up way later than we should have.  For 2 sisters who spent a good 30 hours getting to this country together we haven't really seen each other for the last 16 months.  It was good to just sit and talk with her.  She is going home early for school.  She is starting up at SUU the week after she gets home in August.  She only has about 3 weeks left.  We were able to share similar feelings about going home and what have you.  She mentioned how the next day was going to be our last Zone Conference as full-time missionaries.  I hadn't thought of that until she said it.  That was one heck of a way to prep me for the next day.   

Thursday there was no holding tears back.  President Lindsay started the meeting with telling us about how the mission is doing.  It's been incredibly humbling to be a part of the massive change that this mission has had over the last year or so.  Then Sister Lindsay got up.  She gets me every time but I was not prepared for her talk this time.  She shared the life story (with permission) about one of the Sisters from our mission that just left to BYU-Hawaii.  It was touching because I served with the Sister and hearing about the change she experienced through her mission really touched me.  Then Sister Lindsay had us all think about how we have changed over our time on the mission.  With Sister Hadlocks preparation the night before I was deeply reflective of everything before I even heard her question.  I was pretty deep in thought when she asked Sister Tomaki and I to come up to the pulpit and tell everyone about our experience of taking Sister Tomaki's family names to the temple.  I just stood by the side and let Sister Tomaki do all the talking.  I was so proud of her being able to just share her feelings and have that moment.  Then Sister Lindsay turned to me and asked, "Sister Beckstrand, how has this experience of serving with Sister Tomaki and going to the temple changed you?"  That took me off guard I answered her question with tears in my eyes.  As soon as I sat back down in my pew I couldn't hold it in.  I just cried and cried.  Then there were musical numbers and testimonies as well as a video of all of the baptisms and recent converts at the temple over this last year.  I don't have words to explain the feeling that I had in that chapel.  That is one of the holiest places I have ever been.  We really can just create holy places when we are focused and the Spirit is present.  I won't forget that.  The changes that I've seen in my life are precious to  me.  I won't ever go back to the way I was before I came to Australia.  The Lord works in mysterious ways.  His plan is perfect.  The gospel brings us happiness and it will never lead us the wrong way.  If you question that try it out.  Make it an experiment.  You can not prove it wrong.  I've seen it change lives.  This week we had a lesson with our investigator Aaron.  We took Alex Mutu with us at the last minute.  We were at her house and I felt inspired to ask her to come with us to his lesson.  She was able to say exactly what he needed to hear.  There was no denying the Spirit in his home.  We pointed it out and told him how much Heavenly Father wants to hear from him.  Alex invited him to come to church and offered to save him a seat.  Sunday morning at about 8:45 we got a text from Aaron saying that he was on his way to church.  It is incredibly humbling to have the Lord's trust to help these people come back to Him. 

Everyone keeps reminding me how much time I have left.  I asked President Lindsay for a blessing today during an interview with him because I'm not coping well with the idea that I'm heading home soon.  It was exactly what I needed.  He said so many things in the interview and blessing that I desperately needed to hear.  I was just stressed, worried, and afraid of going home.  It's a transition that I don't want to make but I know I have to make it soon.  I love the power of the priesthood.  It is like nothing else in this world. 
The scripture of the week comes from Romans 10:11-17.  I stumbled across it during a personal study and it hit me hard.  I love being a missionary.  I love being here in Australia.  I love being a member of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  I love knowing that I am a daughter of God.  I hope you all are doing fantastic and are growing each and every day.  I love and miss you all heaps.

Much love,

Sister Shayne

Alma

24:16 What are we hold on to?

24:22-23 Do we praise God when it is the hardest?

25:16 Yes!  This is what I want a lot of people to learn.  There is a difference between the Law of Moses and the gospel that Christ brought when He came to the earth. 

26:12, 16 This is how I feel

26:35-37 Love his testimony of God's love

28:8 We will have sufferings, sorrows, and afflictions but they will bring incomprehensible joy :)

29:10 But really all of chapter 29 is good

30:16  I've heard stuff like this a lot over my mission

30:39-42  What has given you your testimony?  Everything denotes that there is a God.

31:5 How powerful are the scriptures?

31:31-35 My favorite part of Alma's prayer

32: 6 People are prepared.  Did you share something with them today?

32:13 Humble = repent = saved

34:11-12 The atonement is necessary

34:33 Choose ye this day

37:6 Small and Simple things.  I quote this scripture daily!

37:9 The scriptures are important.  

 
 Taylor Jade Lehmann :)

We had to fit three beds in one room.  This was complicated. 

Elder Faitua from Samoa

Sister Brown from Cottonwood Heights

It was really cold the other morning.  This is what I was wearing during our studies :)


 They destroyed the house that burnt down.  I took like 20 pictures/videos of them tearing it down.  It was the most exciting thing during our weekly planning.

Sister Hadlock and Sister Ellsworth - my plane buddies on the way here. 

 

Elder Taylor Hall from Brisbane

Elder David Baptista from Brisbane
 

Sunsets! :)‏

 Sunday Selfies and the sunset from the Mandins

 We were with the Elders this last week at a meeting and the Elders asked Sister Tomaki how to say, "I am a child of God" in her language.  Elder Teuira said, "I know that Heavenly Father in your language is pronounced Papa God."  She said he was right to which his companion Elder Wihongi said, So is I'm a child of God 'Me kidkid papa God'?"  We all laughed soo hard.  It's been an ongoing joke ever since.  For those of you wondering it is actually "Mi pikinini blong God". 

Miracles!‏

Hey everyone!

This was such a good week.  :)

Monday we had a Nerf gun battle at the church for p-day.  We set up all of the tables and chairs we could find to make a battle field.  Then we divided the 6 of us to 3 on 3 and each team had a ball.  It was basically capture the flag but with Nerf guns.  It was great.  We had soo much fun.  Then we pulled out the ping pong table and played a bit of that. 

Wednesday we had transfers.  Sad to see Elder Eti go but Elder Hereaka is going to be great for the Hall Head area.  He has fit in to the district family pretty well. 

Thursday was the best day I've had in a really long time.  We had dinner with Alex Mutu.  She made these awesomely massive chicken sandwiches for us.  Then we went and visited the Greentree family.   I love this family more than I have words to explain.  We started off by following up if Tia, Kian and Georgia had been praying about the decision to be baptized.  Kian said, "I've never been so sure of something in my life.  I'm ready to give me life over to God."  Tia said, "I'm not as sure as Kian but I know that its a family thing and as you teach us I will understand more."  She has incredible faith.  We set baptismal dates with all of them for the 2nd of August!  We left their house more excited than I've been in months.  It was a huge miracle that we have been fasting and praying for.  We went home and got a text message from them that said, 

 Needless to say this was the best night sleep I've had in a long time.  It was soo good in fact that we didn't hear any of the commotion that happened to our neighbors house during the night.  I woke up to do morning exercise on the 4th and I saw flashing lights outside.  I went over to the window and peeked outside.  The whole street was blocked up with fire trucks and police.  I saw some people standing in the street and went out to talk to them.  The girl said, "Did you hear the big explosion?  We are from the other side of the road and we came to see what happened."  I looked at our neighbors house and it was completely destroyed.  Apparently there house caught fire at 3 am.  By the time I finished talking to the people outside it was nearly 7am and they were still hosing the house down.  It strengthened my testimony that Heavenly Father is really watching out for his missionaries.  We didn't hear any of it and no other house on the street was affected or evacuated.  That's another miracle in my eyes. 

At Zone Meeting on Friday the Elder conducting the meeting started with, "Good Morning Elders and Sisters and Happy 4th of July to everyone!"  He is from Provo. "It's save to say that the independence of a country that allowed religious freedom played a big part in the Restoration. Soo yeah. It's important to all of us."  The non-American missionaries just rolled their eyes but I thought he had a good point.  I have one tract on a cd that has the US National Anthem and we listened to that all day long.  That was the extent of our 4th of July celebrations this year.

We got a mini missionary on Saturday.  The youth in the stake meet together and spend 5 days as a full-time missionary living with, serving alongside, and getting the full experience.  Our mini missionary, or M&M as the Elders call them, is Sister Taylor Lehmann.  She is a recent convert of only 2 months.  Her sister joined the church shortly after her and now her sisters partner has also joined the church.  She is a powerhouse.  We are trying to help her have the best experience possible.  We went and had a lesson with our friend Aaron right after we got her and she shared exactly what he needed to hear.  It was an incredibly powerful lesson.  She got in the car and straight away wrote it down in her journal.  I'm excited to keep in touch with her and hear about where she gets her mission call to in a year from now. 

I'm sure we will have more stories with her next week.  We have her for 2 more days and we are expecting miracles.  

 

Sunday the whole Greetree family came to church!  While on a blitz in the Mandurah Elders area on Saturday night the Greentree's pulled up next to the Elders while they were driving and told them that they would see them at church.  We had been telling everyone are their dog about this family.  We had gotten a hold of everyone is ward council, people we thought would be good fellowship for each person, and the ward leaders.  When they came everyone said hi!  They were just so instantly welcomed.  Kian after testimony meeting said that he wanted to serve a mini mission!  We were so excited to see his excitement as he heard the mini elders bare their testimonies this week.  They only stayed for Sacrament but that was all they needed to have everyone know who they are and make connections to the best ward in WA  :)   

 

That's all for this week.  It was such a powerfully and up lifting week.  Heavenly Father really does hear and answer our prayers.  He is soo mindful of us.  It never ceases to amaze me how brilliant His plan and timing really is.  I love you all heaps.  Mum's blog about swim meets made me really miss swimming.  It's been nothing but rainy, cold and gross here.  Wind speeds today are supposed to reach 125km/h.  Please send some St. George sun this way!  Hope you all have an awesome week. 

Much love,

Sister Shayne

Alma

14:26 Power of a faithful prayer

15:16 What have you given up to be a part of the church?

17:16 Bring unto repentance, then teach the Plan of Salvation

18:8-10 Our righteous example can be quiet

18:34-35 The Spirit is the teacher

19:9-10 Talk about faith!

19:17 Abish is like the first Sister Missionary in the Book of Mormon.  She is one of 5 women mentioned by name in the Book of Mormon.  Do you know the other 4?

19:35-36 The gospel is for everyone

21:9 The atonement is everything.

21:17 We will always be blessed through our trials.

22:7,15 I want investigators to be like this.

23:6-7 We should have conversions like theirs so that we will never fall away.   

                                              

 

 

This is the house that mum said she liked when you Google earthed our house. It was my favourite one on the block.  We don't know what started the fire but we know that the lady and her pets made it out safe.  She lost everything though. 

We were all so sad that Elder Eti got transferred that we met up with the Mandurah Elders and Aeronny to get hot chocolate and chocolate cake.  It was kind of like district therapy haha :) 

I had to take a photo of Alex's massive chicken burgers.  They were sooo good :)