April 28, 2014

This week was hard but fun. As far as missionary work goes it was not the best. It's still school holidays so heaps of people are gone and the people who were around were not interested. Those weeks happen. President and Sister Lindsay came down on Friday. It was really good to see them. It was also ANZAC day which is probably the biggest holiday in Australia and New Zealand. ANZAC stands for Australia and New Zealand Army Corps. ANZAC day is similar to veterans day, but focuses more on WWI since that was the first war Australia participated in as an independant country. Albany is also special because when those forces left they left from Albany, so for many of them this was the last place they saw of Australia. On ANZAC day there is a dawn service which starts at 5:30.  Some members took us to it and we got up at 3:00 to get there before it was too packed. You would wonder if people would actually come to something like that, the answer is yes. Hundreds of people were on top of a mountain that overlooks Albany and the ocean, with people coming down from Perth just for it. This year was also special because it marks 100 years since WWI began. So we were tired when President Lindsay came down. We got back to our flat at 7 am and took a nap, woke up and went to a parade down the main street and then President and Sister Lindsay took us out to lunch and then we received training from them. So them coming down made it a good week, and hopefully as far as missionary work this week will be better.

Also sorry this email was written late, we went fishing with the sisters and one of their investigators, so I am hoping you are not worried.

Love,

Elder Cook