Hey everyone!
This was such a good week. :)
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 :)
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