2/8/2015
Goodaye everyone!! How are yous all goin?! So
hopefully you can tell by the subject of this email that we got transfer
information and I will be staying in Golden Grove and Elder Rawlings will also
be staying with me. Our DL is getting transferred so Elder Rawlings is probably
going to be the new DL -which means that we should get the car!! I seriously
hope that's the case because it has been as hot as balls over here. For
the past 2 days its been 35-38 degrees so right around 100 degrees
F. I am actually happy that I am staying with Elder Rawlings just for the
fact that I didn't want to lead the area just yet and have to take a new
missionary around to meet all the members and introduce him to everyone.
Yesterday we had church and it was probably the best
sacrament meeting I have ever been in. We had a speaker that was in
the stake young men's presidency I believe? Anyway he was the best public
speaker I have ever heard and he spoke on pre-earth life and the fall
of Adam and Eve and then talked about agency and how it is the
key to Heavenly Fathers plan. It really opened my eyes and made me realize
that even if I went the entire rest of my mission without teaching or baptising
anyone my mission would've been a success as long as I gave it my all and
served the Lord the best I could. At the end of the day everything that I do
and say can be accepted or rejected by the person that we are teaching and I
need to learn to accept that and be ok with it. I just need to give
them the best possible chance to hear the gospel in this life and if the
choose to reject it then I know I did the best I could and they are now in
Heavenly Fathers hands.
The area is still the same and our
investigators haven't really been goin anywhere but we are hoping
to get Roy (the Hell's Angel) to church this next Sunday. Bishop
Williamson is coming out with us to teach on Wednesday and we are trying
to get some more members involved with fellowshipping him into the ward because
he doesn't know many people and is struggling to find a desire to come to
church because he feels like he will be judged like he has in the
past with other churches. He told us his main concern that he felt was holding
him up which was feeling like he couldn't be forgiven for the things
that he had done and the type of life he has lived. He doesn't feel like God
could love a child that has stuffed up as bad as he has so we are really
stressing repentance and helping him realize that we can be forgiven of any of
our sins.
Other than that my week has been pretty much normal and
there hasn't been anything too crazy happening. Duffus has been emailing me and
telling me about all the stuff he is doing and the girls he is dating. He is
loving life and has sent me heaps of photos cause when he got home he got to go
to E.F.Y and be a counsellor and then after that went to convention which is
where all the Y.S.A from around Australia get together and have a massive
party/dance thing and they just hang out for like a week. He asked me if I
wanted anything for my birthday haha.
I hope all is going well at
home and that the renters were able to move in smoothly!!
-Elder Barnett
-PO Box 97 Marden, SA 5070 Australia
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