T-t-t-transfers!
Well today we're in Cairns, a city about an hour and a half drive from Atherton waiting for a new elder to fly in. Yeah things are definitely about to change, because our tiny branch of Atherton is getting two whole elders because President McSwain really wants the Cairns district (of which Atherton is a part) to become a stake. So there's a big movement to get member missionary work going, so they changed the meal policy to where we can have dinner with members any night of the week, but we have to teach them a full discussion and they have to critique our teaching to improve our teaching skills and get them excited for missionary work. So they kind of divided up our area into Atherton and Mareeba, and they gave the other elders Mareeba, but me and Elder Hausia are going to see if we can switch because all our best work is happening in Mareeba because the members and investigators really like and trust us.
Honestly I can't remember a whole lot of what happened last week. Hm. Well, I remember we had a really good lesson on Wednesday with a young family who has really good fellowship in the branch. The husband is Pentecostal and he's really interested in learning about the priesthood, the wife grew up Seventh day adventist and isn't as accepting as the husband but they both love the missionaries and are loving the lessons so far. We plan on setting a baptismal date with them this week, but they're in Mareeba, so I really hope we can get that figured out.
Friday night we were in Cairns as well for the senior couple's farwell, the Boyces. We did a skit about this hike the district had done before I got here.
Oh yeah, and it was my companions birthday. He turned twenty. We got like 3 cakes from members. I think that's about it. Sorry I didn't have any opportunities to embarrass myself so I would have a funny story to tell, haha. Have a great week!
Elder Cummings
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