Alex's adventures as he serves a two year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, blogged by his twin sister Ashley

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Another Week (March 4, 2013)

This week was Stake Conference, and the current Stake President is
moving to Saudi Arabia, so they had to choose an new one. The new one
is the Bishop of the Mindarie ward so it will be interesting to see
who the new bishop is going to be. I also had a flat tire for the
first time today, exciting. Not really because I had to walk for about
2 hours back to the flat after I was tired from P-day. This week was
good, still trying to catch up with some of our investigators. We had
a baptismal date, but we dropped it this week since I have not met her
yet. She has just been really busy and her kids sick. Hopefully we
will be able to see her this week. Besides that the area is pretty
much the same as last week.

This week I was thinking and there is someone I admire so much in the
ward. It is a 16 year old who lived in Heathridge but moved up
Mindarie ward the week before I did. He has been at church every week
but is not a member. He wants to be baptized, but is waiting until he
is 18 because is step dad is against it, and I don't think his parents
know he comes to church. It is amazing to see the effort he puts into
coming to church. Down in Heathridge he was a better missionary then
most members, and he is not even a member himself. He bore his
testimony one Fast Sunday, and it is amazing to see how the Gospel has
changed him, and he realizes that and wants to keep moving forward. It
has been so great to be able to get to know him, and it has really
made me realize how I cannot take the Gospel for granted in my life,
when there are those who need it and want it.




I am glad everything is all good back home. the picture is of my
district plus another companionship from the zone. Thursday we did a
blitz of all of the areas, and this is during our lunch break. My
companion is the one you can barely see, the one in front of him is my
last companion, and the one behind him is my companion two times ago,
the one you saw at Christmas






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