Good Week (August 19, 2013)

This transfer has been flying by. I cannot believe that it is already half way through it. It seems every transfer the first three weeks go by really fast, but this one especially has gone by fast. It is a little sad because I know there is a good chance I will be leaving Karratha at the end of the transfer. At the end of last transfer I was a little tired of Karratha, but now I am enjoying it and am a little sad at the thought of leaving it. 

This week not much has happened, but it was good because we had more member present lessons. Our ward mission leader started to bug the members to have us over for dinner because it was pretty much the same people feeding us. So it has been good to go to different members houses, and they started inviting over our investigators. It has been cool to see the difference that a member present lesson can have. It is really just a better environment to teach a lesson in. Through the first year of my mission I have struggled to get members at lessons because most of the people we teach do not set appointments, we just have to drop by. And it is a pain to set it up and then have the investigator cancel or not be there. So the really nice thing has been the members setting up the appointments for us, and we are getting fed more, so teaching more and eating more is always a good combination.

I did not do too much special for my year mark, we just went to KFC for dinner. Also we are a little sad because all of the young men are going to Port Hedland this weekend for a combined thing since that is the closest branch and we were hoping to tag along and go on exchanges with the missionaries there, but they do not have room for us. The good thing is they are planning on coming here at the end of the transfer because it will be a new month so the will have the km's to do it. It will be good to see other missionaries.

We also had a cool experience at church yesterday. We were in the chapel before church started and a deacon came and told us there were two people in the carpark that wanted to talk to us. It was a lady who is a member but hasn't been to church in ages and her partner who is not a member. I think she wants to start coming back to church, but she wants to meet with us this week, so that will be good.

I think that is it for this week, hopefully this coming week will be more exciting.

Love,

Elder Cook