Plenty to write about this week. First off, we had a p day with President and Sister McSwain! It was our first official p day in...4 or 5 weeks I think?? Anyways it was our first this transfer (week 3). We went to Australia Zoo, it was sooooo fun. They also call it "the home of the crocodile hunter" because it's where Steve Irwin worked. His parents founded the zoo, but now his wife owns it, and their kids do a lot of stuff for it as well. While there I basically learned just how much Aussies revere Steve Irwin, and I don't blame them. That guy was a boss. We saw crocs and stuff but also other Australian animals like wombats and koalas, and I hadn't seen any of those before. Plus there was an area where you could go up to kangaroos in their natural habitat and pet them.
Tuesday and Wednesday were golden orientation. We had a HUGE group, like 15 or 16 new missionaries. That's always fun because we get to stay in a hotel overnight.
Thursday was thanksgiving, and probably the coolest senior couple in the mission, the Clydes, invited us over for lunch with President and Sister McSwain, the senior couple Briggs (the mission doctor), and the senior couple the Bells (who are also the cooliest). I didn't have a thanksgiving dinner last year (or the year before, now that I think about it) so it was really good to have some good ol turkey which I haven't had much here in Australia. We played two truths and a lie as well.
Saturday we went to baptisms. My first area, Bracken Ridge, had a baptism for the first time in months so I got to go to that. Unfortunately hardly anyone I knew was there and the investigator was one I never knew. But, yeah anyways! That night our Fijian-Indian companion Elder Sharma made us some sweeet Indian food.
Today we had coordinating council meeting which was like 5 hours long. But it's interesting to listen to the kind of topics the area seventy, the temple president, the mission president, and all the stake presidents discuss.
As for proselyting this week, we visited our recent converts the Mahns. Thaw, the oldest of the three that got baptized, got the priesthood this last Sunday and we're helping him get to the temple. Today we went to contact a couple member records move-ins and a referral and it was surprisingly successful. We got a commitment to come to church and a return appointment out of it. Hooray! Anyways. That was our week. Cheers!
Elder Cummings
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