We have a catch phrase in our mission called "hard yakka." "yakka" apparently means "work" in Aussie slang but I've never heard anybody actually use it except in the mission culture. So it's one of those funny things where we THINK something is Aussie but in reality it's not. Haha. Man, this week was pretty busy. We didn't do much proselyting for reasons I will explain...right now, in fact:
Mission Leadership Council was this week, so Mon-Wed we spent a couple hours a day working on what President wanted to prepare for that. Mostly it was about the mission vision for 2018. The goal we have is 600+ convert baptisms, but the other part is we're going to start tracking families and individuals who are reactivated from less-activity. Our goal is 1200+ families/individuals. So in total, we're calling it "2018 in 2018." Yaaaaaay But on a side note do any of you have any actual suggestions on how to track what counts as someone being officially "active" again. We've discussed temple ordinances, consistent sacrament meeting attendance, but nothing really seems a concrete way we can do for everyone, since every situation is so different.
Tuesday I got an interview with President for the first time in a few transfers! In the normal world we have them every transfer but being in the office we don't get the chance since we're with him all the time. But we had a personal one and it was good. He asked me if I was okay with dying in the office since time is short to train a couple new office elders before I meself go home (yes I spelt it that way on purpose).
On Wednesday some mid transfer new missionaries came in. Two from the Phillipines, one from Samoa, and one from Tahiti. None of them speaks a lot of English but our mission has a 3 week English training school taught by one of the senior sisters.
Thursday: MLC. Long. But interesting. President talked about putting a stop to some of the disobediences in the mission, such as Elders OR Sisters "sleeping over" (not together of course) with other missionaries in their zone for unapproved reasons, zones emailing together at the same place, stuff like that. I didn't even know that stuff was going on but I guess it is.
Friday was TEMPLE DAY HOORAY. We didn't get a temple day last transfer because the temple was closed. But we returned to provide salvation for those across the veil. Good stuff. That night we went to a ramen place for dinner. Elder Sharma tried the "giant ramen" challenge, where you have to eat all the ramen out of a bowl the size of....a toilet bowl. Or maybe a mop bucket. A very large mixing bowl. It was big. He's a big boy but he hardly got through half of it because he said it tasted nasty. Fortunately he only threw up in his mouth a couple times so we didn't have a full on projectile vomit episode.
Saturday we went to a baptism in one of the Samoan wards and our ward had a Christmas activity, which was really fun. That's pretty much this week. No pictures. That's my fault, I oughta remember to carry my camera around more.
Cheers
Elder Cummings
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