I feel like my group emails haven't been as good lately because I always do the group email AFTER reading and replying to everyone's individual emails, so by the time I get around to the group one I don't have much to say. But let it be said: it was a good week. It was also transfers. So just in case you're wondering (because I'm always forgetting where my friends are serving, how long they've been in the area, etc.) I'm still in my second area on the mission. This is my 5th transfer in the area, and my 8th transfer overall. My area is in far north Queensland, far far away from where the rest of the mission is. The "northern" zones (there's two) are pretty isolated, both from the rest of the mission and each other. It takes over an hour's drive to the other missionaries' areas so we Skype for meetings and things. I'll attach a map. The place down south is Brisbane, and the circled place up top is our area. Sure, there's plenty of areas spread out in the south, they're not all in Brisbane. But yeah, ours is just isolated. Our zone leaders are in Cairns, which is just on the right there of Atherton.
ANYWAYS.
We had a fun week. Monday we had an awesome FHE with the Koses, and they invited the Clarks (the part member family) and the Alofis (non members/investigators we hadn't seen in months). That email last week I was talking about Andrew, the investigator we had the really spiritual lesson with after he said he decided not to get baptized, remember him? Well he was supposed to come to the FHE but he texted us saying he arranged to get baptized by immersion into the Presbytarian church his mom goes to :( That was major sad news and we couldn't see him the rest of the week.
Since it was the last week of the transfer we had deep cleaning the flat and we also had to get the car serviced and new tires.
Funny story: We were door knocking in a little shadier part of town, but we thought we would be safe because it was broad daylight, but after an hour or so we see 3 or 4 big dogs walking down the road going from house to house and barking at other dogs through the fence. We kept going because they weren't close but all of a sudden one of them is right there. Obviously I'm getting all these flashbacks to when I got bitten by a dog so I wanted to get out of there but we just stayed still until the dog looked around the yard and couldn't find anything to bark at so he moved on. As we started moving back to the car we see an aboriginal guy following after the dogs. So they were his dogs, but he didn't have them on leashes or anything so they were causing a lot of ruckus and chaos in the neighborhood among the other dogs. All he had was a shovel head. At one point one of his dogs actually got in a fight with another dog, so he ran over and started beating both of them with the shovel to separate them. So yeah we promptly left because it was no good.
Saturday was an awesome day. Door knocked in the morning and met a guy from Michigan. He's only the second American I've met since being up north. We're doing service for him tomorrow. In the afternoon we had a wedding! The Clarks got married so that the mom can get baptized! Ezias is the kid we baptized a couple months ago, his dad's a returning member and the mom isn't a member but she's been investigating the church the last couple months. But Saturday they had a really small scale wedding ceremony performed by the branch president and me and Elder Bullock got to be the official witnesses! So now the ol' Hancock's scribbled on several legal binding Australian wedding documents. Cool stuff.
We also talked to an Arab guy while door knocking too. He was fun and only the second Muslim I've met in Australia but we were talking about our different beliefs. It was really respectful and things but then he said to kill anyone who came to us and said they were a prophet because Mohammed was the final prophet. We explained and testified what we believed prophets were and we didn't leave with any hard feelings so that was fun. But yeah, there's our week. I'm getting the feeling this'll be my last transfer in this area which is REALLY sad but there you go.
Elder Cummings
SWAG
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