week 59

On Tuesday it was our p-day, due to the public holiday, we spent the most part of the day traveling from place to place, but it was a good p-day. A cool moment was while we were waiting at a train station to make it back home, a man came up to us to talk to us. He asked if we were from Utah which we denied and told him where we're from. He then told us that he considered himself a "mormon/jew" and told us one thing he didn't like about the church was the fact that we teach plural marriage. We then told him that we haven't practiced it or taught it in a long time. We then asked if he was interested in taking the lessons which he agreed to and gave us his number. We got in contact with him and hopefully we'll be seeing him soon. 

Then after p-day the rest of the week was packed full of service. Last week we scheduled with someone we knocked to come by and do service for them. We arrived on Wednesday morning and begun the service. It started with digging a hole. Then we cleared out a area, and broke up some concrete slabs. Then I was put on painting to allow a friend of theirs to work on a different project. So I spent the rest of the time painted a fence white. Throughout the service we answered questions and talked with the kids as well as the adults. It was a great time. Then we had to come back another time because we couldn't finish. So we came by the next morning to get more of it done, but hopefully we'll finish it all this week.

Then we had exchanges with the Subiaco elders and I was with elder Maksimov from the Ukraine. It was pretty good. We had a service with them and the sisters in the ward in the morning, working at a garden. It was good fun, and someone the sisters are working with came along for it. The rest of the time I was with elder Maksimov and we talked about a lot of stuff. We were also lucky because that night there was a baptism of one of the members children, The Bytheway family (Like John Bytheway). It was a really good service with the spirit throughout. The sisters were able to have the person from the service, Ryan, come to it as well. It was pretty awesome.

Then on Saturday like always we didn't some service at the nearby salvos. On this day there was a big event going on in western Australia, it was the grand finals. Which is similar to the super bowl, but not American football. The grand finals is for the AFL which is the Australian Football League, which is a sport similar to rugby. It's hard to explain. The big thing was that one of western Australia's AFL teams, The West Coast Eagles, made it to the Grand finals. So a lot of people were focused on that. So much so that we were advised not to go finding during the game. So that was fun. The good news was that the Eagles won, so go eagles!

Then it was the Sabbath and it was a beautiful Sabbath day. The day started out like any other with us making our way to church and greeting people, and waiting for people to arrive. So to set the scene the chapel has two entrances one is the front doors, then the back doors, also were the some stake offices were and family history is located. So we were greeting people then the dianella elders arrived and we started talking to them. Then I saw someone pass by from the back entrance with a cello with several other, with them was the stake President and one of his councilors. Then one of the group members went over to us to shake our hands. By this point elder Higgins knew who it was and he started freaking out, "oh my gosh its the piano guys!" And just so it happens the piano guys were dropping by for sacrement meeting. They played a musical number 

"The Mission/ How great though art" which was awesome, and is also a favorite of mine. Then they all shared their testimonies with us which was awesome, they each had strong testimonies, with wonderful messages in them. I wish I could prove this to you with pictures but sadly we weren't able to meet with them afterwards. None the less it was an awesome experience.

So for me this was quite a highlight week of the transfer. It was just awesome throughout it all. Hope y'all have a wonderful and awesome week.

Love,

Elder Boren 

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