Better Week (October 7, 2013)

This week has been better, mostly because we have been kept busy. P-day was really good being able to go to the temple. I realized it was 10 months since I was able to go, so it was really nice and hopefully we will be able to go at Christmas again this year.

We did have an interesting experience on Friday. We have been visiting a recent convert almost every day to visit her son since he is turning 8 soon. We are giving him the lessons because he does not have that Primary background. She lives at a caravan park. The first time we visited we could tell the manager did not really like us. Then on Friday he came up to us and told us that Mormon Elders are not welcome and told us not to come back. We were just in shock and didn't know what to say, and he walked off. I probably would have said something if there were not other people around, but mostly I was just stunned. A Christian group owns the camp, and I was thinking that it was not a very Christian thing to do, and I am pretty sure it is illegal. I would have understood if we were proselyting there, but we were just teaching this kid. It was even weirder because we were wearing normal clothes because we had service right after it. I am used to people being rude at the door, or yelling out as they drive past, but that was the first time that I have been told not to go somewhere because of my religion. It felt so strange.

Also on Saturday we got a mini missionary. He is with us for five days so we drop him off on Wednesday. One of the stakes did it and it was really cool to see so many do it. It seems like almost half the mission has a mini missionary, which was cool to be able to see missionaries I haven't seen for a while, and meet new ones. There are so many missionaries that I have not met, it is really weird. It is also weird when I am with large groups of missionaries because I do not know many of them and I am still not used to being around so many missionaries. Karratha made me socially awkward. It was weird when I first came in because there were only 4 missionaries that I knew in the zone, but now I know them all better.

I think that is all for this week. This next week should hopefully be busy, and hopefully we will be able to find some people to teach.

Love,
Elder Cook