Wow, what a packed week and a half it's been! Some super cool stuff has been going on. First off, we had a baptism last weekend! We baptized three kids-two boys, Thaw and Su, and a girl, Sanda. They're three of the six kids of a family we've been teaching. I was really worried we wouldn't be able to work things out in time, but fortunately we have a ward mission leader who is SO on top of things, we sat down with him a few days prior and got everything for the program organized. Thank goodness! It was a super awesome baptism too, because half the ward came to support, since the ward hasn't seen a convert baptism in years. But it was all thanks to a member who reached out to a friend and asked if the missionaries could visit. See, people? It works! Go figure!
Most of this recent week was transfer deliberations, so we spent most of the time in the office while President and the assistants were holed up in President's office deliberating. They still haven't finished yet, because besides deliberating we (the office elders) were busy making a training presentation for President about Mission Leadership Councils which he has to give at a mission president's seminar in Fiji. Actually that's where he is right now. So it's up to the assistants to keep the mission running while President and Sister McSwain are gone for about a week.
One night one of the Chinese branch members took us to a Chinese "yum cha" place where people come around with food carts and you take whatever you want. I tried some chicken feet! I haven't had that many weird foods in Australia so when I have the opportunity I try to take it.
Wednesday was the ush-wings at Burrito Bar with President, the assistants, and an investigator Jeffrey.
Thursday we ran heaps of errands running desks to flats, buying paper, and of course my part time job lately has been repeatedly fixing errors on the printer/scanner in the office. Every time I come up with a solution, the solution stops working by the next day. Wahp. That night there was a serious hail storm warning so we did some emergency moving of cars around to take them under cover since there's various mission cars sitting around at the office and the mission home. That was fun.
Oh, of course something I should mention is that we got a new assistant. The two that are already here, Elder Smoot and Fukofuka, have both been my zone leaders at different points in my mission, but this last week they brought in a third assistant since the other two are going home soon-and it's Elder Hymas! Elder Hymas was my companion right before I myself came into the office! so that's really cool because it's almost like being companions again since we're with the assistants so much of the time.
Saturday was fun too, there was a stake Mormon Helping Hands project at a Buddhist temple. It was the first time I've been to a Buddhist temple so that was cool. One of the other Elders who was there is from China and he used to be buddhist so he filled us in on a lot of their beliefs, which are pretty cool.
So that's how things have been going, which I would say are very good! Transfers are a week from today, so even though they're not done yet, I'm safe because that's what being is the office is like-I've only been here for 2 transfers and office elders stick around a lot longer than that-but there's a very high chance we'll be getting a new companion to train him in the way of the office elder. Deuces.
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