Christmas Conference 2016
(Just now seeing this amazing pic from the mission website. Play a game of find Elder Pierce: **hint**directly to the right of the smaller palm tree within the group shot )
4/26/2017Dear Everyone,
First off, sorry that I am writing from a different day because of some things that were happening in the mission and also yesterday being the Australian public Holiday ANZAC day (to remember war veterans) so now I am writing from Wednesday here in Australia. So yes as the title suggests lots of stuff happened! haha
Alright so everything since last Wednesday.... haha So on Wednesday last week it was like our service day! We did three service projects for different people in the ward and some random people we've met and offered service for. Needless to say that was a really busy day because we also had some other teaching appointments. Then Thursday we finished up all of the missionary lessons for Anne and also we had her interview with President McSwain over skype (because we are too far away from Brisbane) and yes all of the rumors of there being a mission tour with President Nelson were true.... I just forgot to mention that it was happening in my email last week. So because the mission tour was happening for us on Friday (they actually had two different meetings they split the mission into two different meetings) So Thursday night we left down to go to the zone leaders flat so that they could drive us down for the meeting on Friday (because from Warwick to where the meeting was in Karawatha is a little more than a two hour drive). We had about 6 hours of trainings and it was soo awesome! Elder Tewes and I also did our musical number "Did Jesus Really Live Again?/ To Think about Jesus" and it went better than I could have hoped for!! Lots of prayers that it would go well, so I know that I was just being a instrument in God's hands to bear special testimony of our Savior! Hopefully I can get an audio recording of us doing it but we shall see... It was really cool afterward Elder Nelson thanked me for using my talent to bring the spirit! WOOHHOO haha
Elder Nelson is really a crack up and very charismatic. So Elder Tewes and I ended up staying down in Ipswich from Thursday night to Sunday afternoon. Because it was stake conference here in the Ipswich West Stake! It was really awesome because Elder Nelson also came to our stake conference so we got to have a x2 dose! On Saturday Anne's baptism was postponed to a further notice date.. but since we were with the Zone Leaders we went to another area's baptism and then we all went and blitzed their area which was fun. Then during the Saturday night session of stake conference Elder Nelson was doing his thing and afterward one of the member's children in our ward asked their mom, "were we in the right church??" haha because he was going up and down the aisles and getting people's opinions- very fun! Then Sunday was good because we had another session of stake conference which went really well ( Also our Warwick ward choir did the musical items, two songs: "Come Thou Fount" and "Come Come Ye Saints" arranged by none other than the man himself Elder Tewes! haha and I even got to sing alto for one of the songs!)
Then it was a bit crazy because when we got back to our area on Sunday we realized we had locked these doors that we didn't have keys to...... haha so funny enough after a lot of phone calls and no success my companion was like, well let's go do some missionary work to our neighbors. So we were talking to this guy who is the boyfriend of the lady who lives next to us and he was asking us a lot of good questions like how do you know the Book of Mormon is true?? so we were like well... and then as we were teaching him his girl friend came out and was like, well I actually used to work for the company who owns these units and I know someone who is in the office who can help you out! We were like YES! so she was like do you want a ride and of course in our missionary rules we can't accept rides from non members and so we told her and then she was like hey! Alec (the boy friend) you are a member of their church.. and he was like ya I was baptized when I was twelve back in NZ and we were like YUP! that is good enough! So he took us to the place and we got the keys and it worked out really well! So never doubt that the Lord is not looking out for us!
I love you all and hope you have a great week! (more details about Anne next week when we figure some more stuff out)
Alright so everything since last Wednesday.... haha So on Wednesday last week it was like our service day! We did three service projects for different people in the ward and some random people we've met and offered service for. Needless to say that was a really busy day because we also had some other teaching appointments. Then Thursday we finished up all of the missionary lessons for Anne and also we had her interview with President McSwain over skype (because we are too far away from Brisbane) and yes all of the rumors of there being a mission tour with President Nelson were true.... I just forgot to mention that it was happening in my email last week. So because the mission tour was happening for us on Friday (they actually had two different meetings they split the mission into two different meetings) So Thursday night we left down to go to the zone leaders flat so that they could drive us down for the meeting on Friday (because from Warwick to where the meeting was in Karawatha is a little more than a two hour drive). We had about 6 hours of trainings and it was soo awesome! Elder Tewes and I also did our musical number "Did Jesus Really Live Again?/ To Think about Jesus" and it went better than I could have hoped for!! Lots of prayers that it would go well, so I know that I was just being a instrument in God's hands to bear special testimony of our Savior! Hopefully I can get an audio recording of us doing it but we shall see... It was really cool afterward Elder Nelson thanked me for using my talent to bring the spirit! WOOHHOO haha
Elder Nelson is really a crack up and very charismatic. So Elder Tewes and I ended up staying down in Ipswich from Thursday night to Sunday afternoon. Because it was stake conference here in the Ipswich West Stake! It was really awesome because Elder Nelson also came to our stake conference so we got to have a x2 dose! On Saturday Anne's baptism was postponed to a further notice date.. but since we were with the Zone Leaders we went to another area's baptism and then we all went and blitzed their area which was fun. Then during the Saturday night session of stake conference Elder Nelson was doing his thing and afterward one of the member's children in our ward asked their mom, "were we in the right church??" haha because he was going up and down the aisles and getting people's opinions- very fun! Then Sunday was good because we had another session of stake conference which went really well ( Also our Warwick ward choir did the musical items, two songs: "Come Thou Fount" and "Come Come Ye Saints" arranged by none other than the man himself Elder Tewes! haha and I even got to sing alto for one of the songs!)
Then it was a bit crazy because when we got back to our area on Sunday we realized we had locked these doors that we didn't have keys to...... haha so funny enough after a lot of phone calls and no success my companion was like, well let's go do some missionary work to our neighbors. So we were talking to this guy who is the boyfriend of the lady who lives next to us and he was asking us a lot of good questions like how do you know the Book of Mormon is true?? so we were like well... and then as we were teaching him his girl friend came out and was like, well I actually used to work for the company who owns these units and I know someone who is in the office who can help you out! We were like YES! so she was like do you want a ride and of course in our missionary rules we can't accept rides from non members and so we told her and then she was like hey! Alec (the boy friend) you are a member of their church.. and he was like ya I was baptized when I was twelve back in NZ and we were like YUP! that is good enough! So he took us to the place and we got the keys and it worked out really well! So never doubt that the Lord is not looking out for us!
I love you all and hope you have a great week! (more details about Anne next week when we figure some more stuff out)
-Elder Pierce
Another picture from the mission website:
Zone Conference held in March ( Noah is in the Ipswich West Zone) sorry it is super blurry!
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