6/21/2017
Dear Everyone,
First thing, Sorry I forgot about fathers day because it is not Australian Father's day.... I think every country has their own Father's day but everyone has the same mother's day. Either way though... happy LATE father's day!
So I feel like heaps has happened because heaps has happened... But I will try and capture most of it in this email. I will get the big things First. So last Friday We had the awesome opportunity to have Francia's baptism! She was pretty funny because she kept saying that she would be baptized only if she would pass her interview with our district leader (who by the tender mercies of the Lord is a Filipino as well and speaks her native language) and she did awesome with her interview, it was a bit awkward though because we had to do it over skype so that the district leader wouldn't have to travel but it worked out pretty good still. Then We had to schedule everything like making programs, she wanted to be baptized on Friday and 2pm was about the only time that suited our bishop due to him being a police man. So it was a bit of a weird time but it ended up that we still had the baptism well attended. But the morning of, since our chapel has no baptismal font, we had to make our own! (pictures were sent) It was like this big metal sheet that we rolled out to make a circle then we screwed it all together and then we put a pool bladder in and then just filled it up with hot water so that by the time it was filled it would be warm (it look 3-4 hours to fill up) and we had to be there while it was filling because of Australia law. The baptism went pretty smooth other than the fact when our bishop was baptizing her he didn't mention she should close her mouth... so she breathed in a bit of water and came up coughing! But other than that it was really good!
Francia's Baptism Day (she was baptized by the Bishop)
Setting up the Baptismal Font
Elder Pierce filling the font with water
Afterwards the assistants of our mission had come up to see the baptism (they ended up being 30 min late) but they made it up to us by buying us lunch! Then on the Saturday We had a trade off with our zone leaders and I stayed in Warwick. And me and the zone leader made it a goal to re-invite Anne (one of our investigators who was going to be baptized) to be baptized and we found out she planning to move possibly at the end of this week and she was pretty stressed about it. When we finished teaching about the gift of the Holy Ghost to her the elder who was with me made her a promised blessing and said Anne you could be baptized as soon as tomorrow but we promise you that if you will be baptized that Your move will go a lot smoother! (now when he said you could be baptized as soon as tomorrow we didn't mean for it to be tomorrow..) But she sat there and thought about it and said,"Well, can I be baptized tomorrow??" and we were like uhhh... yes I think so. So BAM it was happening we called up everyone and made it possible and she was baptized right after church! But on that Saturday night we did a "Meet the Mormons" night that we put on and we had a fantastic turn out! We had like 7'ish non members and everyone loved it! Then on the Sunday we got our baptismal font re-set up ( since we took it down) and we had another awesome baptism of Anne!
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| Anne's Baptism Day! |
And then today (Wednesday) we got to go the temple! which was awesome and we also had our interviews! Which is the reason that we got to come down to the temple because usually they say that we are too far away... But since they were already doing interviews, they decided to let us come down to kill two birds with one stone! So we had a pretty good week :)
Love you all and have a great week!
-Elder Pierce
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