Adventures of Isaac the Great

  Just so you know whitewashing is when a Companionship of missionaries who have not been to an area go to a new area. In our case, there used to be Sister Missionaries here in Eltham. This week was sort of diffucult because so many people were out of town for easter we weren't able to meet as many people as i would have liked to. We were able to meet with the Coupers and both Elder Chesley and I felt like it was a good interaction. Coming from a much older area it fekt like i was actually avle to talk to the coupers and start to build that much needed connection. I've also been really trying to be up at 6.30  every day this transfer and so far ive been able to do that. We also had lunch with the second counsellor Brother Stuart. He is the father of a less active member in Seymour and because of the holiday he was going to be there at lunch. AND both of us have been in Seymour trying to visit him. Also while elder kimble and I were there the branch president had really been wan

  (The week prior to the 18th of march) A good thing that happened this busy week was we were able to contact O'Ryan Miller who's been drastically overwhelmed with extra pressure from people like family and his pet dog. With his goal being, to keep them quiet. He told us that he'd be available in a few weeks so on our end we just have to remember him and keep in contact to set a time later to meet with him. Mostly we were focused on our new friend Erin. She was very open to learn more, as things pertain our Church. She asked questions such as are we required to not have tatoos. We shared a couple of scriptures talking over how God loves both us and every person. We used a variety of scriptures with her and we feel we should focus some xtra effort on so we aren't over zealous and too forthright. Although, regardless we want to be a good influence in her life. On Friday, one thing that we often do is play volleyball with the Tongans. This week however I felt like it was s

This pertains to the week of march 3-10 We, did a fair bit of finding this week, and while we were tracting we weren't able to find any new people that way. But on Saturday we were able to join the Seymour community page and made a short post about us. And just yesterday (Sunday 10th) got a response that holds some potential. We have set a time to meet and were able to briefly explain some of our beliefs. We were also able to meet with the mother of a part member family in Killmore and we talked with her and learned the reasons for why her daughter had not been taught recently (as she had been in the past). It seems that they just needs some nurturing until they are ready. They need to be supported until they do decide she's ready to be baptised. Tuesday we had interviews with President Thomas They went fairly well. I learned how important it is to make sure you treat everyone with respect. Although their behaviour may not make much sense to us, it does to them and we don't

  I know it's been a long time and unfortunately i just don't really like writing. But still, I will try and do better. For anyone who hasn't heard yet, I've moved to a place called Seymour which isn't too far from where i was before. The first week I was here in Seymour we got a call at about 10.25 at night and we found out that it was a person who would really like to meet with us. We are really trying to get a time to meet with our friend who lives close by and we were able to see him on Friday. But very recently, he moved away from, and is no longer living with his partner. And from what he said on the phone he doesn't have anywhere to stay. He still said that he would like to come to church but because of his living situation it Is now much harder for him.  We were able to meet with our new member who was baptised before i came to the area and share some scriptures of comfort because she had to do something at court in relation to the custody of her childre

  This week the rains came down and the floods came up, apparently it's rare to have this severe of Weather here in the summer but this week there was a pretty heavy storm that passed by. So much so that we had to pull over because we couldn't see anything other than the road lights.  We are starting to pick up teaching again with GX., And he is really appreciative of us coming by. The last time we met with him was just this past week we had to cut it short because his dad stopped by for a visit and because of that we weren't able to set another time to meet with him yet, but we will continue to work with him. We were also able to meet with XX  in BXX.       One struggle we have with him is he enjoys talking about the gospel but he also likes to go on tangents which have minimal connection to the topic. Because of this Elder Taimi and I really need to focus on keeping the next discussion focused and to the point and avoid tangents ourselves. We have a lot of inactive member

  Our friend down in Benalla, Michael still seems to be quite interested. We were going to invite him to church this week but he is down in Melbourne for a couple of weeks. We also had a lesson planned with our friend Robert but for some reason he won't answer phone calls or texts and we were unable to see him this week. On Friday we were able to meet with Geoff although he is having a hard time medically we were able to say a few words on the atonement and how he is not alone in his pain.  After meeting with Geoff we ran into an older gentleman who had some questions regarding the relationship of the Bible and The Book of Mormon which we were able to show a few scriptures that helped to show the Importance of having both together.  Last Monday we were driving to Wagga on for our district council on tuesday and everything was going smoothly. We were about 30 minutes from the flat in Wagga, when another car flashed his lights at us. It was at about 9.00 so it was really dark and the