G'day!
Hope all is well up there in
Canadia land and England! All is swell down under. I met one of our neighbours
yesterday contacting!!! He lives in the neighbouring suburb back home and knows
the stake center I attend back home as well! It was crazy! It is a small world
even though I am on the other side of the world!
This week has been really
great. It was the first week of a new transfer! My just previous companion
Sister Maea is still in my last area and is training. So this week while she
waited for her new companion to come in from the MTC she stayed with us for a
few days! That was cool. The weather has not been good. It has been teasing us
with a day of 20 degrees and then it drops straight back down and rains for a
week.
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| Got to hang with Sister Maea |
On Sept 15, it was Moon Cake
day! Now you are probably wondering what that is. It is a Chinese Lunar
Festival, they have these things called "Moon Cakes" and have big
parties to celebrate the "most round" moon of the year. (These are
just things I was told by some of our Chinese investigators). Sister Townsend
and I found out about this festival about a month ago and suggested we have an
event in the City for all our Chinese recent converts and investigators. It was
approved so we did! We had an amazing event, it was very successful and we will
continue to do one similar to it each month. It was over 3 hours, we had a
video presentation where we showed a series of selected Mormon messages IN
CHINESE, then we had dinner (Chinese food and moon cakes of course), then we
all played ping pong and "mingled". All the Senior couples were there
as well as the mission President and his Wife. It was great fun for all that
attended. We definitely had miracles! We were able to find two new
investigators from this event and one of our investigators that did come felt
really touched (felt the Spirit) while watching one of the Mormon messages
about the Plan of Salvation.
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| It isn't really cake |
We had a temple tour with Dana,
our recent convert which was beautiful! :) Loved it! She loved it as well, we
walked around the gardens and sat in the waiting room and discussed the
importance of temples and how they bless our lives. How they can seal families
together forever. Something I am grateful for.
Another miracle from the Moon
Cake festival, we had three more people at church than usual. Our investigator
Niki, who is going to be baptized in a couple weeks, was a mini missionary! She
embraced these new people and did her best to make them feel welcome, she sat
with them in sacrament meeting and classes and interpreted and explained what
was going on. It was awesome! She isn't even a member yet and she is already
doing missionary work. What an example!
I have had a few things on my
mind recently and came across a scripture that really spoke to me.
"Sanctify yourselves, for
tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you." - Joshua 3:5
Ponder what that means for you
in your life. It reminded me of the scripture that says, "Think not for
the morrow, for the morrow will think for itself..."
Hope you all have a great week!
HEAPS OF LOVE,
Sister Coultrup
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Sister Bethany Victoria Coultrup
Australia Adelaide Mission
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
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