Warwick part 2

3/9/2017

Dear Everyone,

So I didn't know what to put for the subject title so ya... first sorry I am emailing late because today is our zones temple p-day, but we don't get to go here in Warwick because we are too far.. (about a 2-3 hour drive to the temple) But this past week has been a pretty good week! it feels like I've been in Warwick a lot longer than I have but then again it also feels really short. Just funny how our perception of time works. But today is Thursday here, and coincidentally it is my one year mark! which is pretty crazy it feels like I've been out for ages while at the same time it feels like time has flown by SO fast. But i'm really glad and grateful that i am still here serving the Lord :) 

But I'll get into the email. So About Elder Tewes, Warwick is his first area and I am his second companion. He has been in the mission two transfers so he still has what we call that golden spirit! haha He is 19 and just came out on his mission right after high school. but ya he is a cool Elder and we get along pretty well. But the week like I said was good it was so weird because Elder Tewes is driving and leading the area because he knows all of the people which is different where I was running the show pretty much in Pimpama.

The master at work- Elder Tewes is an excellent piano player

Warwick is a pretty small town kind of place and the chapel is in an old house in downtown Warwick they call the type of house a Queenslander (maybe you can look it up on google because I forgot to take a picture of it) We have about 60-80 people that come so it is very similar to my first area Camira in that sense. And everyone is Australian which is much different.. haha big change to see none of my Polynesian people.. haha But we have been doing lots of door knocking (even on the farm houses because it is very rural in some parts) but we have already had some cool miracles and tender mercies. Such as we have an investigator couple who want to join the church but they have to be married and we were worried for the lesson.. but when we got there they were like ya we want to be married but we had no church to do it in.. so we married ourselves in our backyard between us and God. haha So they are keen to have our bishop marry them. And then one morning after a lot of trying to follow up with potential investigators and what not and former investigators we stopped by one more and of course he wasn't home but I felt impressed that we should knock on more of the doors on his street, just after we had been talking about how there was no one home and lo and behold a Chinese lady answered the door and let us teach her a short lesson and she said that she wanted to know and believe in God but it's hard because in the schools in China they teach them that there is no God. But it was really cool to follow a prompting and it work!! :)

I love ya all it has been awesome and I hope things start to clear up back home it sounds like a lot of crazy stuff is happening.

Love you all and have a great week!

-Elder Pierce

A really big spider we saw!

This is district meeting.. we live too far away so we Skype in using a members i-pad.