Sister Marlowe...Week #21
May 1, 2017
WOW! What a week. I am exhausted.
We started off the week by meeting with a younger couple in our ward, (the husband is a Returned missionary) and we were able to roleplay teaching the first lesson with them. It was so cool!!!! It was great to be able to practice working together, and Sister Ete is awesome!! It is so fun to be able to share with everyone, members and nonmembers, about the gospel in its simplicity. What a wonderful thing to be reminded of always!
On wednesday we got to go visit quite a few awesome people! We found this cute girl named Honey whose brother was actually investigating the church a few years ago, and she is so kind and wonderful! It is amazing to see the people here who are religious (especially the Burmese). They are SO strong and convicted in their faith. All of their children are so mature and even in talking to a 13 year old can seem like I'm having a serious conversation with a person my own age! They LOVE God. I love one thing Honey said, in response to my asking her how her faith in God has helped her:
"It's simple. When good things happen, I can thank God. When bad things happen, I know it's okay because I've got God to rely on." Yes this came from a 13 year old girl!!!!! Wow I just love her and we've only been able to meet with her once. So far. :)
Thursday morning, we took a nice (VERY early) train ride into the city to work on Sister Ete's Visa! She had an interview at the US Consulate, andddddd she will be leaving me in a few weeks to come to Salt Lake!
[Side note: If any of yous are ever visiting Temple Square, take a look for my favorite Samoan Soa Sister ETE!!!! She is the best. She's probably going to be the one with the biggest, brightest happiest smile of all of them. :) Love her love her love her]
WHICH LEADS ME TO SAY! I wouldn't be much of a missionary if I didn't have a companion! Sooooo..... We will be in a trio for a few weeks, seeing as this week is the beginning of a new transfer! hehehhehe and I'll take a minute of suspense before I reveal all the transfer news.
Friday, we got to go on splits, and I went with Natasha who is a YSA in our ward and I LOVE HER SO MUCH SHE IS THE BEST!!!!!!!!!! Ah. Natasha is the coolest. She wanted to go tracting so bad, so we totally went tracting and found two more people to be able to go back and teach more!! God answers prayers. After that, we headed down to my birthplace, Braeside, and had a mini MTC with our youth who would be serving as our mini missionaries :) They played a video about the age change of missionaries a few years ago, and a huge compilation of missionaries opening their mission calls..... WOW! I cried like a baby. I still remember that day like it was yesterday! I sat in the front window for hours and hours just waiting and praying and hoping and wishing with all my might that the mailman would be bringing me a special envelope.
Ah I'm getting a bit teary-eyed as I'm typing this, but I just realized that exactly one year ago today, May 1, is the day that I sat down with my wonderful, fantastic, outstanding bishop, Bishop Murri, and we started my mission application papers.
What a year it has been.
I graduated high school, attended a semester at BYU-Idaho, worked 3 different jobs, and last but surely not least, I am now currently doing my favorite thing I've ever done, in the best place I could have ever dreamed to be.
WOW!!!!!! A very big, quick thank you to all of you who have helped me get to where I am today!!!
Now back to Saturday :) Saturday, Sis. Ete and I got to work with two laurels from one of the other wards in Braeside and we got to work in my old stomping grounds, Moorabbin, for the day! It was AWESOME!! It was so funny to see how completely terrified they were to talk to people hahahaha. They were scared that people might say "No" to them. [can you imagine the horror???] Ahhhhh hahahah the number of times people say no to me in a day is ridiculously way too high. I actually really want to try this week to count the number of people we talk to in the week. I'm going to try my best! More to satisfy my own curiosity than anything else, but we will see!
Aaaaaaaaaanddddddddddd of course of course I have to now share transfer news. On saturday while we were GQing with our little mini baby missionaries, I GOT A CALL FROM PRESIDENT.
SISTER ETE AND I WILL BE STAYING IN MOOROOLBARK (until she goes to Utah in approx. 1.5 weeks) aaaaaaaaaaaaandddd I WILL BE TRAINING A GOLDEN!
I'm gonna be a mom, folks. (Just the fake missionary kind, don't worry)(And yes I already have step-daughter, but I will be double-momming! Scary.)
Ah. It's all I can think about. I'm so scared. I'm nervous. I know there must be a reason I'm being trusted for this, but I'm very very good at feeling inadequate. I know though that I'm not alone, and I've got a calling from God to do this work! I will be praying. HEAPS.
I LOVE YOU ALLLLLLLL!!!!!! Ou te alofa ia te oe! Mahal kita! Wo ai ni! Etc.
Maybe one day I can dream of being multilingual. And polynesian. 
Sister Marlowe, the woman, the myth, the legend, the soon-to-be MOM. Hehehe. Jokes Jokes.
76 Cathies Lane
Wantirna South, VIC
3152 Australia
PS. we totally had a miracle and got to go to Cape Schanck for the Braeside end of transfer sunrise devotional. 
PPS. My mission mommie sister Schaub, Scoop, Scrub, Shobbie Dobbie Doooooooo is going to TASMANIA!!! Tazzie Tazzie Tazzie. Banished from all of us mainlanders. I will miss her so much!!!!!! It was so so awesome to be able to work with her in the mini mission!
Our Neighborhood
My lovely lovely daughter/sister/cuzzie cuzzie Sis. Ete
Cape Schanck with da bestest
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