4/3/2017
Dear Everyone,
So this week was a pretty awesome week! On Tuesday we had our interviews with the mission president and the assistants asked me and Elder Tewes to do a musical item for a mission tour that is coming up. So we will be singing a mix between the children's hymns "Did Jesus Really Live Again?" and "To Think About Jesus". I came up with the idea to do those songs but Elder Tewes is the one that makes it work because his amazing masterful piano skills, so that will be pretty fun. But after interviews we had to rush back to Warwick because we had the funeral of the recent convert, Fred, and me and Elder Tewes sang "Where Can I Turn for Peace?" which was pretty good.
We also are teaching this Filipino lady whose name is Franka (french-ah) and since our bishop served his mission in her part of the Philippines he has been helping us teach (he does most of it since we can't speak Tagolog) which is pretty awesome!
Then on Thursday it was pretty crazy because our mission president told the whole mission to stay in their flats all day past 11am because of some really big cyclones that are hitting Australia (Tropical Cyclone Debbie made landfall on March 28, 2017 in northeast Australia's Queensland state) . Luck enough Warwick is pretty far inland so we were not that affected but we did get quite a bit of rain and lots of flooding! But no damage really which is really good!
Here in Australia there has been some massive flooding and what not (not as bad for us in Warwick because we are pretty inland..) but here are the pictures from all of the rain and flooding
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| If you see the parallel line of trees, well that is where the water is suppose to be in between. |
Elder Tewes and I now found a new way to do language study since his English is already perfect... what we do is I read words from his German English dictionary and he has to a. guess the word I'm saying and b. translate in English. It has been pretty fun and my German pronunciation is not that bad! haha Also we have been doing a lot of service for this older guy helping him fix up his house and paint and what not and he recently let us share the restoration with him and he said he really wants to read the Book of Mormon which is awesome!
My investigators that
wanted to be married, Robert and Shonna have been having some big trials. But ya Robert has been having some really bad health issues
with his blood pressure because he has a blocked bundle in his heart. So we
were just able to see them this week finally after a long while. His faith is
still strong but his body is a little weak. He was telling us about the
difference about saying we have faith and then actually having to have faith.
We were able to give him a blessing and watch the Mormon Message (which highly recommend you watch) "Mountains to Climb" about trials in this
life. But ya that is the go with them. and again things with my companion are
awesome :) We have a lot of fun with music and what not and doing the Lord's
work. He is a little more bold than I am.. maybe that is the German in him
though.. haha
Other than that in our ward choir practices since there aren't too many (meaning no) altos who can read their part I get to sing alto with them and the men's part as well! haha which is fun. In this upcoming week we will be having trade offs so that we can bring this Taiwan missionary to teach our Chinese investigator which will be really cool I bet!
But that is about it I guess. I hope you all have a great week!
-Elder Pierce
Also I got a new bag from the recent convert because my old bag looks a little worse for wear.. haha
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