Greetings from the New South Wales bush!!! So much has happened this last week! Tuesday we had transfers and I found out that I was being transferred to Griffith, a small town in New South Wales with a small branch of about 90 active members. I am also still training which I am happy about as well! My new companion is Sister Dere (sounds like Derek without the K) and she is from Fiji. She came out with Sister Tuhod so I am follow up training her. So because it takes six hours to drive from Melbourne to Griffith (and only five from Griffith to Sydney) we drove a couple hours Tuesday night to Wangaratta to stay with a Senior couple and then drove the rest of the four hours home the next day. Then on Friday we had zone conference in Shepparton, which is four hours south of Griffith, so we made the four hour drive there and back that day. So basically I'm really tired from driving over fourteen hours this week!
I don't really know heaps about my area so far. It's a fairly small town with heaps of Polynesian members, so don't worry I won't be losing any weight this transfer! We have two Elders here as well, a Samoan and a Canadian. The people here are nice and we have some good investigators we are working with right now. So far I have met two of them, Michael and Wade. Michael is a 20 or so man who is progressing really well right now. He has been reading the Book of Mormon and praying for a baptism date. He came to a fireside we did last night at the chapel on the Plan of Salvation and really liked it. Wade is a 20 or so man with ADHD and Asperger's, but he is really high functioning. His main concern is just that he feels like God doesn't hear him and show himself to him.
I am really excited to be back in the bush. There's something about small towns that I just love! I have felt really calm this whole transition time and I am really excited to get heaps of work done in Griffith! One more exciting thing. I found out that we still get to go to Elder Bednar in two weeks so I am super stoked for that! Enjoy your cold winter weather and I hope yous all have an awesome week and remember how much God loves each one of yous!
Love ya heaps!
Sister Bingham
1. saying goodbye to mum #2
2. daughter #2
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