Livin' in a Land Down Under: Another week in the Pimpama Ward

The Beautiful Australian Countryside

A picture we took while driving through one of the rural parts in our area

11/7/2016

Dear everyone,

Halloween

So this week not too much happened only a couple of things. Monday of course was Halloween! which like I thought was not very big at all... haha There were like a few little little kids coming around to get candy but only a handful of houses were all done up. On that day we had a good lesson at Sister Tapaito's house and she brought 2 different investigators which was awesome and we taught the family the first lesson and watched the restoration video (the 20 min version) and that turned out to be really good.

Surface Paradise- one of the Gold Coast's largest cities

Then on Wednesday we had a crazy adventure because about 3 weeks ago Elder Meyer hurt his knee by just standing up from his chair and it has been giving him pain and he has been limping the whole 3 weeks. We had originally got him checked out 2 weeks ago and they did an x-ray and all said that there was nothing wrong with his bones.. but the doctor said that there was probably a meniscal cartilage tear (which the knee doctor has said he has never really seen in someone that is only 21). But he said that we had to go to get an MRI done to check things out further... so we got an appointment in Surface Paradise which is only about 30 k's from us but it took forever to drive there and that was the dumbest traffic I've ever driven in.. haha! But ya, so that was pretty crazy to go all the way down there. and also we only have got the test done and we don't really know anything yet because it has to be inspected by the specialist.

Sadly this week as well we haven't been able to see Tenielle and her family because they had a pretty bad family emergency (by the way she has like 17 siblings...) but we are keep trying and moving along with her. Also it has been pretty hot around 30 c to 33 c (86-91 degrees F) which is pretty hot especially for it being only spring here. We shall see how the summer goes... nice thing is when we are out door knocking some people give us water, they say that they aren't interested at all but that they have pity on us and give us water.. haha but overall a pretty good week!

Also pretty cool while we we eating at a member family's house they were talking about their son, Elder Samuela, who was serving in the Kobe mission Japan. I was like I think I have a good friend serving there as well-Elder Bellows! And cool enough they were showing me some pictures to see if he was in any of their son's photos and sure enough in one of his zone photos there was Elder Bellows! haha Kind of cool how the world is so small when you are a member!

But anyways have a great week everyone!

- Elder Pierce