AY MATE!
Sister Marlowe...Week #7
January 22, 2017
Alright! What a week!
So my dad asked a few questions about the ward and the memebers, my companion, and the work!
Our ward is pretty small, partially because lots of people are out of town right now but school starts up again next week, so hopefully our numbers will go up! We have one of the smaller areas on the East side, but the members are wonderful!! Most of our area and members are Australian, but there are a few filipinos, one samoan family and lots of others in the mix! We cover an area of 22 suburbs, so very different to my ward in idaho which consists of half of the neighborhood :) My companion, Sis. Schaub got here in August, so she had one transfer after she finished training, before she started training me! Shes fantastic and from Pheonix! We do a lot of visiting members, less actives, finding former investigators and a little door knocking a few days a week! Sadly we don't get to talk to loooots of people on busses and pubtranspo since we drive, but we still get to see lots of great people!
MONDAY we had a sister's p-day with all the sisters from the east side! WOW! I love them all so much. soooo Many of them are Samoan, a few filipino, some fijian, so me and my companion and one other sister are the only white ones..... It's fantastic. I'm actually starting to get pretty (relatively) tan, but stand next to those ones and I'm back to square one :) ALSO the other white sister from the East side is SIS. FRAEDRICH. so funny story. i got here and eeeeeveryone was asking if I was related to her.. NOPE. so I finally meet her and we look sooooooo SIMILAR. but even more freaky. we act the same, laugh the same, and come to find out, she went to BYUI the year before me, lived in the same complex as me on campus, and on the same floor!! Kinda creepy weird but we're hoping we can be companions sometime.. Would be a blast!!!!
TUESDAY we had interviews with President Vidmar! What a great man. He is so kind and wonderful and amazing! It's just really cool to me that he actually didn't serve a mission as a young man.... He was a little busy winning the olympics :) but it just is so cool to meet with my mission president and know that he's new here too, and I'm not the only one learning how to be on a mission! Everybody can have the chance to share the gospel sometime in their life, whether you're 19 or in your 50's or 100 years old... Speaking of 100 years old. Molly from our ward is coming with us to some lessons this week! She is the 96 year old lady in our ward and she BEGS at church to come... I think she thinks she's about to whip some people into shape hahaha. Everybody calls her Treasure... I think you can guess why :) her husband was converted by a man from Idaho by the name of Satterfield and she never fails to remind me of that fact and she's wondering if any of my family knows him???? Honestly he could be 120 years old for all I know but I still told her I'd ask hahahaha.
WEDNESDAY we had golden review for all the new missionaries, AKA me, and guess who was asked to give a training by the good old AP's! me and my companion *rolling my eyes*. It went well though. One thing I really loved that President said is that "Repetition brings mastery--mastery invites the spirit." he talked about how as a gymnast, he couldn't work on perfecting his routines, until he had repeated all the movements so many times that they were muscle memory. Once we get really good at the things we do as missionaries, we can invite the spirit in so it can enhance the things we've already mastered!
THURSDAY we had exchanges in Dandenong with our Sister Training Leaders and it was SO FUN! Ah the missionaries here are fantastic. We made it a goal to go out and talk to lots of people out on the street (which I was so scared for originally) and it was SO FUN! Some people are just funny and look at me like I'm an alien about to beam them up or something but I'm like noooooo I'm just here to tell you about your Eternal salvation.
Sometimes I think about working at orange leaf and I just miss when my life was so simple and I just stirred frozen yogurt and clean up the floors and worked at the register and smiled and worked the register..... and people would get mad at me about coupons... Now I just go around and try so hard to tell people about their eternal salvation... Easy peasy right? Nope hahaha. But so worth it.
FRIDAY we went and spent a few hours at a Hong Kong market and train station and just talked to sooooo many people and it was so crazy! Some people are nice and some people look at me like I'm like some disease and they like run away. Hahahaha. us dang missionaries right???
On a more serious note, there was actually a huge accident in the city Friday! There's a street in Melbourne that's just for pedestrians in one of the business districts, and some crazy guy drove his car down two blocks through this street, just bull dozing people and swerving all over to hit people with his car. Last I heard yesterday, 5 people have died and about 25 more are in critical condition and my heart just breaks! the first thing I wanted to do when I heard about all this was CRY. and Second, find all these families and talk to them about the Plan of Salvation. Wow. I am hoping and praying the missionaries can find those families who are hurting. There are some kids in our ward who were witnesses and were standing in the street when it happened. Pleeeeaaase please remember these families in your prayers!!!!!!!
SATURDAY we got to go to a baptism, (so awesomeeee) of a guy my companion found a few transfers ago, and we met with one of our investigators, Jose! He is the COOLEST. dad he looks like the guys in TSO Ghosts of Christmas Past, and he is my favveeee hahahaha. Long, curly black hair, and sooo open and receptive about religion. He thinks we're so "rad" because we're out here as mishies and we're reallly hoping and praying we can make more progress this week with him! Please pray for Jose!
One thing our president told us this week is that we have no excuses!!! With all the mormon ads going up in Melbourne right now because of the Book of Mormon play, he said our mission is receiving a huge majority of church resources. He said we have no excuses as missionaries to make the most of the resources we've been given to teach the people!
Later I read a scripture that I LOVE: Mosiah 14:3-5. with Christ's stripes we are healed. and I realized,
The atonement has already happened people! Christ already paid the price and we have no excuses! We have to accept the Atonement, put it to use in our lives and live to embody Christ. We don't have excuses.
I am trying harder this week to be a no excuses missionary.
I AM A NO EXCUSES PERSON.
Love you alllllllllllllll,
Sister Marlowe
Kur kur Bug Mikmar
#blessings
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