Written by Sister B: Our mission has been very exciting with the bulk of it
concentrating on sharing the gospel through social media using the YSA as
trainers. Our "real" calling (Area Executive Secretary) began officially yesterday and boy have
we been busy! We began the day by moving to our new office upstairs and ended
after only 12 hours. Today (Saturday) will be another 12 hour day. 11 Area 70
will be here all weekend for training culminating in a sacrament meeting with
the Area Presidency and their wives, the A70, the DTA and his wife, and us. I'm
sure it will be a wonderful experience.
We
have also been assigned as the Area YSA Couple, which is a new position. We
will be the liaison between the Area Presidency and the Stakes and have been
developing a YSA template for conferences aimed at helping them maintain focus
on the area goals. In two weeks it's off to Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane to
train YSA leaders, then a week later back to Melbourne for a Mission Presidents
Training Seminar, then back to the three cities in Australia at the end of
September.
We
have been assigned two families in our ward to home teach and have not as yet
received our ward assignment. I look forward to serving in our Takapuna Ward
and can't wait it find out what our assignment will be. Already we have
substituted in seminary 7 times and that has been so fun! The youth here are
all in schools that require uniforms and boy are they polite and respectful.
They listen, read, and comment whenever they are asked to, and In between they
are so quiet. Their seminary is split into two age groups and we have taught
both.
We
have made many new friends and have learned a whole new way of speaking. The
people here are wonderful and we are having the time of our lives! We miss you
all very much and think of you individually often. Facebook has been our window
into the lives of our friends and it has been a blessing to see what
everyone's up too.
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| The Area Presidency and the Area Authority 70's. |
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| Ammet's daughter was baptized. |
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| Stopped by the bagel place after Seminary. |
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| The clean-up crew! |
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| After the Area Council meetings we went on a walk on the beach with Elder/Sister Nielsen |
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| Here's the view from their apartment ... the moon was beautiful! |
