General Conference Miracle

4/10/2017
Dear Everyone,

   

This past week was really good! very busy but very good!  Last p-day was pretty fun because we went out to a member's house for dinner who kind of lives a little out of the way and we helped them chop some wood and what not and then we had dinner. Then Tuesday was A LOT of driving.. haha because we had our zone meeting/ getting the flu shots but it was in Karawatha which is about a 2 hour and something drive... haha good fun though because we listened to a lot of talks and speeches. But after zone meeting we had a trade off so I stayed in Warwick and took the zone leaders Elder Song and Elder Haung (from Taiwan) so that we could teach some of the Mandarin speaking people in our area!! which we have been trying to do for a long time! So here in Warwick for a day and some we had in the words of elder Haung "Asian power!!" hahaha the only problem is that here in Warwick this past week it has been really cold! I had to buy a jumper (sweater).. And for the trade off neither Elder Song or Haung brought a jumper and all of the people that we talked to were like, where are your jumpers??? It was a very fun trade off and I learned some Chinese like how to say elder and hello good bye sorry and things like that. I won't attempt to write how it is all spelled because that just wouldn't work... But during the trade off we taught two lessons in Chinese where Elder Song and I just looked  at each other with puzzled faces the whole time! Very fun :) 

We also after the trade-off finished we had a lesson with our Filipino investigator and the bishop (who speaks Tagolog) and we set her on a baptismal date for the end of April so we will see how that goes.. she is a little hesitant but she has been feeling the spirit and reading and praying. Then this week again we went to see one of our sisters who is in the aged care place and we sang for the whole place and Elder Tewes played some piano as well and Sister Binskin really appreciated it! Then on Friday we had to go down to Stanthorpe, which is and hour and some drive from here in Warwick, because we had a church headquarters referral, a lady who opened up a book of Mormon add and requested a free copy. That was really cool because I have always wondered if anyone actually orders those free Book of Mormons.. haha 

Then on the Weekend we had GENERAL CONFERENCE!! which was amazing as always! I highly enjoyed all of the talks! Cool story too was that before general conference I made my questions to bring to the Lord and then when we came to watch the broadcast someone accidentally put on the Saturday afternoon session instead of the morning session first and everyone was like well.. oh well! As it turns out the first two talks answered like all of my questions!! So you can't say the Lord isn't looking out for us! Also we had another General Conference miracle of Sunday. So while we were having a Priesthood executive committee meeting before the first session started, half way through our ward mission leader left and came back and was like, hey there is this lady named Anne who is here for her first time.. Elders do you want to go talk to her?? and me and my companion turned to each other and were like uhhh... yes!  So we go out there and this lady (a little bit older) had just turned up and was looking at some of the pass a long cards, so we taught her the first discussion (pretty much) right then and there and we talked a lot about the Book of Mormon and modern day prophets and apostles and then we were like well it is actually your lucky day because it is general conference and we gave her a Book of Mormon and she stayed for the session. And who would guess it my main man Thomas S Monson was the first speaker and he spoke about the Book of Mormon! So ya that was awesome! Anne even came for the second session on Sunday as well! 

So over all a pretty awesome week! Also side note this weekend was transfers and  Elder Tewes and I are staying!! But ya that is about it I think :) I love you all and hope you have a great week!

ps. I don't really know if I will do anything on my birthday... probably just be a missionary! haha

-Elder Pierce