February 25, 2018

Guess I better

I actually wasn't planning on writing a group email today, but I looked in my sent mail and saw the last one was 10 days ago. So I should probably catch up! Time really gets away from ya when you don't have an established p-day to email. Starting from Saturday the 17th. There was a baptism in my first area, Bracken Ridge that I got to go to! Well the investigator wasn't someone I taught but me and Elder Weed, who also started there went with one of the assistants. We went to another baptism in a different zone and afterwards the Clyde senior couple invited us to have lunch with them. That was fun. That night was a baptism in Coomera. It's cool almost getting to tour the mission going to baptisms with the assistants.

Sunday was Coordinating Council Meeting, the meeting with all the stake presidents, the mission president, the temple president, and the area seventy. And us, of course. We ran the video broadcast for the district presidents up north. It's a five hour long meeting but surprisingly it's not too hard to stay awake because they talk about some pretty interesting stuff. Plus they announced the creation of a new stake - the Beenleigh stake! The last new stake created was right before I came into the mission, and now here I am about to go and another one is born! 

The next week, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday were zone conferences. We set up all the tech for that and run microphones to people when they want to talk. They were great. President talked about solemn assemblies when a new prophet is sustained for the first time, plus the doctrine of prophets and apostles. We watched a missionary broadcast from Salt Lake about the importance of reading the Book of Mormon with investigators as well, that was really good. 

Friday we did things like...pick up cars from the repair shop and take them to the temple parking lot...and some other things...but my planner page is blank because it was raining pretty hard that day, so I left it in the car and forgot to write what we did. Haha. Those are the highlights of this last little week and a half. We've done a bit more proselyting than we have in the past which is nice to squeeze in before I ship out. Cheers!

Elder Cummings