Sister Marlowe....Week #19
April 18, 2017
CAN'T STOP THE WORK FROM PROGRESSING HEY
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Crazy week!! We had a companion switch-up this week, and I am now with Sister Ete! She is a golden, been out for 3 weeks, and now I'm a trainer???? (Sometimes I feel like I still need to be a trainee hey) I stole her from being trained by my own mission momma, the fabulous Sister Schaub. Hehe. Sister Ete is the AWESOMEST! She's from Adelaide, visa-waiting here in the AMM until she can go to Temple Square! I'm in the process of trying to learn Samoan. So far, I've got how to say 'hello' and 'I'm hungry'.. The two most important things. :) Wednesday we went to the mission office for her Golden Review, then headed straight to Dandenong for a day of exchanges with the STL's! I always love exchanges, they are the best!
Ah funny story, so Wednesday morning, we woke up and NONE of our water would turn on in the whole flat. So we called about it, went to review and on exchanges and someone came and fixed it while we were gone. So then fast forward to Thursday night, we get back and our water's working, Friday morning, still working, then stopped working again Friday afternoon!!! Then we go out to do some finding, and we parked at this house to visit someone. No one was home, come back to our car, make some Peanut butter sandwiches because we're out in the woods so we obviously came prepared, and then voila. Our car wouldn't start. Kept trying, kept trying, nothing. SO. Obviously we knew it was a sign that we needed to stay on that street a little longer, soooo we started tracting! Not really anybody answering the door, then finally about 10 houses away from the car, this lady answers the door and she was deaf! Just in the last few years, so she started talking to us and telling us she met missionaries a while back, then she says "Wait I have you show you my favorite record I used to listen to before I lost my hearing" and she comes back with a record of a Christmas album of Mormon Tabernacle choir from 1963. Coolest ever! We wrote on a pass along card that we loved her, and shared 3 Nephi 11:10-11 with her. She loved it! Ah her name is Linda and I just love her. We gave her hugs, told her we loved her and left almost in tears hahaha. Long story short, our car didn't start again after that so we got a jump start and switched it in, but I know that our car broke down so we could tell that cute little deaf lady we loved her!! I also told Sister Ete that our water keeps shutting off and the car broke down because the adversary knows she's about to do some maaajor missionary work up in the hood of M'Bark hehehehe. HE CAN'T STOP US!
Sunday (HAPPY EASTER) was good as! I got asked super last minute to sing in sacrament with one of the other girls in our ward, so we just practiced before church but ah it was so fun! I miss singing. I'm hoping it sounded okay! Ay speaking of the adversary trying to stop us hahahaha besides the water and the car, I also started getting sick the day before I was supposed to sing in church! Dang Dang. Oh well can't stop us hey!
AND we taught relief society! What a day! Ah man nobody had signed up for a feed on Sunday, and the Relief Society and the Priesthood were hardout guilting people and it was sooooo awkward hahaha I felt so bad!!! I was like noooo don't guilt people hahaha I would have been fine eating some Samoan fried rice but hey. We finally got a feed hahaha. Man. Our ward is the best!!!!!
AND NOW! We are in the process of putting together a map of our GIANT AS area! We're not done yet, but at the rate this is going, it's going to be taller than me and I'm guessing about 6 feet wide hahaha. We've got some maaajor bushlands out here in M'Bark. Most of the edges of our ward boundaries are just where they stop making street maps.... because there are none..... It's awesome hahahaha.
MIRACLE OF THE WEEK! We popped by to visit our investigator Mica this week and she has read 20 chapters of the Book of Mormon since we last saw her last week! She is wonderful. Wow!! The Lord is preparing people to receive the gospel. She studies the Book of Mormon with her Bible every day and she is so keen! She wants this gospel to be true, she is just waiting to be able to receive an answer from God! She also really wants to be baptized, because she feels like when she was baptized before in Tazzie it didn't mean anything to her.. She committed to prepare for baptism on May 6!!!! Please remember Mica in your prayers!!!!
I hope you're all having a fantastic week and had a great EASTER!!!! Love yous!
Alofa atu,
Sister Marlowe
76 Cathies Lane
Wantirna South, VIC
3152 Australia
(JUST A LITTLE SIDENOTE...OCCASIONALLY SISTER MARLOWE RANDOMLY THROWS IN THE WORD "AS" AFTER ADJECTIVES...WE WONDERED WHAT WAS WRONG WITH THIS GIRL(HA HA)...TOTAL AUSTRALIAN SLANG, USED TO EMPHASIZE THE WORD IT FOLLOWS. SWEET AS! ENJOY...)
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