Elder Calvin Cummings—Australia, Brisbane: February 8, 2018

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I don't know for sure where I left off on my last email, so i'll just start with the 3rd of Feb. That day was baptism day, since it was Saturday. We went to one down in Bellbird Park ward, and then came back to the office. Later that day we went to a couple baptisms in highly Polynesian wards. One of them had a huge feast and even a DJ. Sunday was our first day at church in Bunya Forest, the new ward we're covering. Lots of people were surprised to see Elder Sharma again, since he had served there before, but it took members a little longer to remember that I had served there before Elder Sharma. Welp, guess I just have a forgettable face, lol. Nah it's probably because Elder Sharma is dark, haha. We were joking about that afterwards.

We spent a large part of the day proselyting, going door knocking and trying to visit investigators and things. Unfortunately we didn't get any lessons in but we sure tried.

Monday we helped a member from the previous ward we covered move. As we were unloading the truck at the new place, me and Brother Jones were in the kitchen and Elder Sharma and Weed were carrying boxes in, suddenly we heard a huge crash and came outside to see Elder Sharma standing there with a box that

sorry, I meant to click the font button but accidentally clicked "send." Anyways, Elder Sharma was standing there with a box in his arms, but the bottom had split open and dishes and crashed and broken all over the ground. But the funny thing is not even 5 minutes later Elder Weed was carrying a box of pots and pans and the exact same thing happened. The only casualty from that box was a food scale. Later that day we had Thai food for lunch. It was pretty good. That night we sheltered Elder Stevens, an Elder who lives in our mission but has been serving in our mission for the last few months waiting for a visa to fly to Japan for his real mission. He had just gotten his visa so he stayed at our flat overnight and we dropped him off at the airport the next day.

Tuesday was Sister McSwains birthday, so us and the assistants made her a surprise breakfast. Wednesday we had a FHE at the mission home with Coomera zone, and yesterday we had our temple day. I only have one more session at the temple, and that'll be with President and the other missionaries going home this transfer. Oh my goodness. So hope everyone is doing well, I'm working on perfecting my Australian accent so prepare to be amazed. Cheers!

At the most food filled baptism ever.