Ok well things have been pretty good the last week. We've been up to the same ol office stuff. A lot of helping senior missionaries with their computers. One bought a brand new Macbook Pro because her old one crashed and I was having heaps of fun setting it up for her. Every few minutes I'd find some new feature that I would get really excited about and forget what I was doing in the first place. We had a FHE at the mission home with the Eight Mile Plains zone, which was fun, and then the next couple of days were golden orientation.
Thursday morning we set everything up at Kangaroo Point chapel (the one next door to the temple) and the rest of the day kind of runs itself. The first several hours are just full of training and stuff. In the evening we normally GQ (street contact) on the way to this restaurant, but last g,o. the food was nasty so President just asked the senior missionaries to do it. It turned out to be really good! The next day, rather than doing it at KP like normal, we had to move everything to Chermside chapel, because they were having a funeral at KP. But we still got to stay in the hotel, which is fun and the rest of golden orientation went mostly well. The Chermside chapel didn't have an HDMI cord to connect the laptop to the tv so some of the senior missonaries could do their trainings, but President saved the day when he found one in his bag.
Right after golden orientation we had to take the McSwains and the assistants to the airport. Saturday we went to a baptism down in Coomera, in the morning, in the afternoon we were helping one of the new senior couples connect their computer to their printer (it turned out to be really difficult) and then went to a baptism at KP in the YSA ward, and had a sausage sizzle on the Kangaroo Point cliffs right across the street from the temple. They have a really nice view of downtown and the Brisbane river. Sunday we had to leave church early to pick up the crew from the airport from their trip up north and had dinner at the mission home. Monday our zone had a FHE at the mission home. For those we have a barbeque and play some games and we shared our thoughts about President Monson. We actually found out right as we walked in that night Sister McSwain told us he had passed away. Tuesday we had to take a bike to a missionary, had dinner with some cool members and we met a few of the Chinese program missionaries (including my previous comp Elder Morris) at KP to give them some supplies and we ended up GQing with them for a while. We talked to some Iranian people for a while, they were pretty interested and we also talked to some Samoans doing some exercise. Wednesday we spent hardly any time in the office because we were helping out at President's interviews with the Coomera zone at KP, and then right after they had a FHE at the mission home (though it was in the afternoon) and after that we had dinner at a members. So things have been going really good. Had a lot of fun times. But it's sad to see President Monson gone. I'll always remember his selfless sacrifices and his willingness to listen to spiritual promptings. Pictures of of the Brisbane FHE, the Coomera FHE, and me and my comp Elder Sharma at golden orientation.
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