Sister Marlowe...Week #13
March 5, 2017
Malo!It's been a great week in Moooooooorabbin Australia!Last y'all heard from me, we were just about to go to the Melbourne Temple with Sheng Li!! What a great night. Two of our members, Mary and Peter brought him to the temple, and we got to come along and watch as well while Sheng Li performed baptisms for the dead. There aren't many things cooler than seeing someone progress so far with the gospel to be able to be in the temple and perform temple work for others as well. Thank you all for your prayers for Sheng Li!We've been doing a lot of working with members this week, trying to meet their families and encourage them to do missionary work! All of the advertisements in the city for the Book of Mormon have been taken down, and now there is a huuuge social media campaign starting up as well! We are working to help all the members post on social medias and in their circles of friends about their beliefs. It is so cool to see more and more people getting excited about sharing the gospel! Last week in a meeting with some of the other missionaries and our stake president, someone was saying how the members all think all of these Book of Mormon campaigns and ads have been "such a great opportunity for the missionaries..." hahahahahahhaha mannn we talk to people all the time regardless! What some of these people don't realize is that this is a great opportunity for the members!!! It benefits us because people have heard of the book of mormon, so that's one bonus for us, but these members are able to now talk to their coworkers and friends about their faith and lead by example, example, example!
This week was double good, because, yes, we got to go to the temple again!!! Our zone had our temple day, to go through and do work people who have died and it was oh-so wonderful. Wow. No matter where in the world you go, the temple will be wonderful and there is a spirit there that you can't feel anywhere else! The Melbourne temple is so little and tiny and I love it so so much.
On saturday, our stake had a big fear factor youth activity, and all the missionaries (12 of us) were invited to come participate so we could meet all the young women and young men and their friends! It was so funny as! All the companionships were the captains of different teams, so we had to recruit kids as they got there and we toooootally got the best team hehehe. They had to do all kinds of different crazy activities and at the very end, they did this crazy tug of war thing where 3 teams went against the three others. All the extra teammates who weren't on the rope were on the sidelines with water balloons, chocolate syrup, flour bombs, etc to bombard the other team with so they couldn't pull the rope and it was the most ridiculous thing to watch ever. Sooooooo we totally joined in the fight in our proselyting clothes and i got nailed in the head with a huge wet flour bomb. It kind of almost looked like someone threw up on my head... Hahahha badge of honor ay?
It was so cool though to get to know all the youth in our stake and we are so excited to get to know them better! The youth absolutely can be our best member missionaries and we're so excited to get them involved and get to know them better as they share the gospel with their friends!
This coming week is going to be soooo good! We have heaps of really great things happening in our area, and we're meeting with a few really awesome people this week that really seem prepared to learn about this gospel!
I am so grateful that I get to be surrounded by the joy of the gospel of Jesus Christ everyday. Sometimes it's tough when people say no (in nice ways and not so nice ways), but it never shakes what I believe! Some people wonder how we can know that it's true--Maybe our answers to prayers are just "coincidence"... but I know that's not true. I can say with an absolute surety that I know my prayers are heard and answered by a loving Father in Heaven. I've experienced it too many times in my life for it to be "coincidence". I know that I will keep having my prayers answered until the day I return to that same Heavenly Father who loves me more than I can even imagine. Take a little extra time this week to think about who you are praying to.
I LOVE YOUS ALL! Have a grouse week!
Your favorite Sister in Aussie Aussie Melbs,
Sister Mikayli Marlowe
76 Cathies Ln
Wantirna South, VIC
3152 Australia
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