The First Week in Pimpama

                                                         Didgeridoo- The real deal
9/19/2016

So ya this week has been a little crazy full of getting lost and meeting heaps of members and such! But me and Elder Meyer are super keen to get out here and be working.  It is a little hard at times because I feel like I'm being disobedient for not working harder or something but the only problem is that we don't know anyone so we have no set appointments to go to. 

The ward seems pretty keen to have us in the ward and they are excited that they have missionaries again. We have received a lot of referrals from members and such so we are excited to be following up with all of them. Also are ward is a pretty young (in terms of a lot of the members are young families). The ward is also pretty islander mostly kiwi's with really hard names to pronounce and such.. hahaha but I'm kind of used to that by now. It is also pretty cool because I have been able to see the lord strengthening my abilities like right before my eyes. Because usually I am really bad at remembering people's names, but it has been cool because everyone's names are just sticking in my head! Really cool, I guess it's just the small and simple things by which the Lord does His great and marvelous work. 

It is also pretty cool because our ward mission leader is like on fire and he is super keen to do the work and he has already had us over for dinner on that first Monday.  He also has been helping us heaps to get to know the area and the people quickly. 

We also have been having some success with a single mom and her 5 kids who have been taught all of the lessons in the past and the only thing keeping her from progressing was church attendance and she came this Sunday so pretty cool! 

But we are loving the new area and the new ward and we are just trying to be as diligent as we possibly can be so that we can help souls come unto Christ!  

I love you all and hope I answered some of your questions!  Everyone have a great week!

-Elder Pierce

So the wife of the bishop, Sister Mategna, is part aboriginal (Bishop is Maori though from New Zealand) so she has a real didgeridoo and she wasn't teaching us how to play it.. (because in their culture only men can play the didgeridoo) but the family was teaching us how to play it a little- it's a lot harder than you think to play!