.... Fearlessly extraordinary, working right just harry carry, in our humble way!
What a great week! So many good things happened this week. Well, I don't wanna over exaggerate, but lots of good things happened this week. We're so close to setting a baptismal date with Angela. We taught her on Tuesday and committed her to be baptised. She told us she would, she just has to talk to a few people and figure out which day is best. So we're trying to keep in real close contact with her until that happens because we know that now that she's told us that she'll be baptised, the adversary is going to start working really hard on her. So that was on Tuesday and we also saw her on Saturday, and she and her husband cooked up a barbecue for us. We almost had to call the fire department though, it was crazy. But we also got to help them with some service which was nice. "Big Trash" week is coming up and they only have it twice a year so we've been helping a lot of people clean up and get some stuff out to the verge. We're helping at least 2 or 3 people with that this week as well. Mostly less actives and investigators too which is way good.
We had a lesson with Arturo's wife who I'm pretty sure I told you all about last week. We found out her name is Evelyn. She's slowly but surely warming up to us as well. The lesson was pretty tough because Arturo has been a member for 30 years but we basically have to teach him and hope he will tell his wife what we are saying. We wanted to watch the restoration DVD in Tagalog with them, but the DVD remote didn't have batteries so we couldn't change the language. But our next appointment with them is on Friday and we are going to be bringing batteries so we can watch it this time and we're also going to be bringing all the pamphlets in Tagalog as well. So hopefully she'll have a read of those and ask her husband some questions while we're not there. She doesn't really ask him anything while we're there. But we know that he wants her to get baptised, we just don't know if she wants to get baptised, and it will be hard to tell. I think I'm going to learn to listen to the spirit really well while teaching her. I mean, I've taught people that don't speak much English before, but this is different. Mostly because she doesn't speak ANY English and we know that Arturo wants her to get baptised but we want to make sure we do it right, and that she understands what she's doing. We did leave a Tagalog Book of Mormon and committed both of them to read 2 Nephi 31. So hopefully they do that as well. We'll just have to pray extra hard for them.
The temple this week was really good. There were lots of people there, well actually, mostly just missionaries. But you could tell that the temple workers were thrilled to have a full session, they must not get that very often. We were talking to one of the workers from one of my old wards and she said "she wishes the missionaries could come to the temple every day, then they would have Salt Lake calling them and ask them what's going on in the Perth Temple? Why's there so much work getting done?" Well that would be easy enough to figure out, because there would be no missionary work getting done haha. But I really enjoyed the temple. I try to learn something new every time I go. Oh yeah! Shay and Ruth got to go to the temple on Wednesday to do baptisms for the dead. That was both of their first times going and doing that. They said they loved it. It was so pretty inside and they want to go back. They said they're going to try and do baptisms as often as they can before they get endowed so that they can just go back. We were so happy for them. They were able to find a babysitter last minute in order to be able to go. They were really happy too. When we saw them on Saturday we had a good discussion about temples and read about temples from the True to the Faith book. So we taught them about temples and then Shay taught me about AFL. Their team (St. Kilda) is in the Grand Finals this week. They gave me a St. Kilda scarf as a gift so I could let people know who I'm cheering for this Saturday, haha. that is going to be one of my favourite scarves for the rest of my life, because it's from one of my favourite families in WA. I'll attach a picture of me wearing the scarf, just so you can see what it looks like.
I had an interesting experience this week that I wanted to share. Earlier this week Elder Jack and I were studying from Jesus the Christ and it made reference to Mosiah chapter 15. I read Mosiah 15 and it really confused me. So I wanted to ask someone that was smarter than me to explain it to me, so I just left that question on my mind all day. With that question on my mind, the adversary started to attack me. It's not that I was doubting my testimony, just had a really major question about a gospel topic. That was a really tough day for me. We had people yelling profanities out the window at us (more than the usual), people telling us they didn't want us to come around anymore because they were going through a really hard time and didn't want any religion right now, it was just a really tough day. It was after someone yelled at us right in front of an investigator around 4pm that I decided to go home and answer that question myself. I figured the best person to ask would be the Lord. I almost immediately found D&C 93:3-4 and it was like I could see clearly again. From then on the week was just amazing. Not a single person yelled at us, and we had two amazing lessons with 2 people that want to get baptised and it was just so good. So lesson learned, if you have a question about anything, don't just let it sit in your mind for ages. Ask about it in prayer. "Ask and ye shall receive, knock and it shall be opened unto." duh!
I hope to be able to tell you next week that we have a baptismal date set with Angela, that's our goal for this week. But until then, I hope you all have an amazing week as well. The church is true, the book is blue! Never forget that.
Much love,
Elder Tanner
P.S. 6 More weeks in Kwinana with Elder Jack starts today. woo!
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