Lessons in Perseverance

                               Elder Pierce with the car that they get to use in their area now :)
08/15/2016

So it has been another good week still with its craziness because during snap gravity (our exercise program) one morning, Elder Siliili re-broke his toe that he broke playing rugby before his mission and he is going to have to get some surgery to remove a piece of bone that is not attached to anything but is just floating around.. haha, oops! But he has to be one of the hardest working missionaries in the mission because even while his toe is broken we were still out going door knocking (while he was wearing flip flops).

LUNCH!

So our teaching pool at the moment in the area is really small so we have been door knocking every day for multiple hours a day but it's been really good. :)  We have also been going through our ward list and checking who actually still lives in the places they say they live because our ward is really small. But we think when we are going to be done going through the list they are going to turn our ward into a branch... but we had a miracle while we were out checking one of the names.  When we walked up to the house it had turned out that the family had moved out like 3 years ago but the girl who lives there now had a grandma who was very active in the church and she was really close to her grandma and so now she wants to follow her grandmas example and learn more about the church! Which was really awesome like it says in the Doctrine & Covenants to find the elect souls of God! Just awesome :) 

But ya it turns out that my new golden* will come into the mission on this Thursday and he is from Germany. Not too sure what his name is yet but we think the reason that he is coming mid-transfer is because of his visa.  Thursday will be a crazy day because we still don't know where Elder Siliili is going yet... but ya it should be good. (* a "golden" is what they call a brand new missionary in Brisbane)

Elder Siliili is also a really good singer so we have been singing together heaps. I have some videos but I don't know how to send them yet but I will figure that out.  We also just got a new ward mission leader called after 2  transfers w/o having one... his name is Jeremy Atkinson (one of the three palagi (white) families in the ward). But ya that is pretty much the week. :) 

Love you all and I hope you have a great week!

-Elder Pierce