Sister Maegan Bingham: March 1, 2015

Dearest Family and Friends,

This week has seriously been SOOOOOO amazing!!! Get ready for a long, but incredible letter!

So the week actually started off a bit rough. Sister Dere and I had to walk ALL around Griffith for two days because we found out that we weren't being given extra K's for the month and that we were 400 over. No bueno... So even though we didn't get heaps of work done for two days since it took forever to walk everywhere, we still had a good time and I realized how out of shape I am. :/

Thursday was when everything started picking up, though! We had exchanges with the STL's and Sister Dere and I both got to go with our trainers! :) Sister Maughan and I had an awesome day! We started it off teaching Amy, the new contact Sister Dere and I found tracting last week. She is great! We did heaps of finding (two hours and 45 minutes) and found some good new contacts that we will follow up with, taught a couple more lessons, and followed up with a couple more people. One of the biggest miracles we saw was that we were knocking doors on a street waiting for someone to get home and we knocked on this one door where a woman from England came out and started talking to us! Her name is Rebecca and she grew up Catholic, but is atheist now. We sat down outside her house for about thirty minutes and taught her about God and prayer right there. It was really cool because she was the first English person I have met in Griffith and of course we found her when I was with Sister Maughan!

Friday morning we drove to Wagga Wagga where Sister Dere and I dropped off our car and then we went with the STL's to Melbourne. We spent a couple hours in Tarneit and Sister Kruyer and I taught a couple lessons together. We also found a family for them to teach! They have cousins who are members and they went to mutual and church a couple times about a year ago! After our lessons we drove to Wantirna where we went to the temple to see Amber Jury (Glen Huon bishop's daughter) get her endowment!!! She leaves for her mission in Hamilton, New Zealand on March 11. I got to see bishop Jury, his wife Louella, Amber, and Brock and Rae Watson! It was SO great to see them again and I missed Glen Huon SO much! Haha I kept begging them to take me on the plane to Tasmania with them! One day I will be on that plane again though!

After staying the night in the city the BIG day on Saturday came!... ELDER BEDNAR!!!!!!!!!! We had such an amazing meeting with him! I can't even describe how wonderful it was and how much the spirit was in the room from the moment he walked in, until after he left. I didn't get to shake his hand, but I was in an aisle seat (row 5!) and he walked RIGHT past me! I never realized how short he is! He was eye to eye with me! We had a three hour Q and A with him and it was SO great! He asked us questions and we got to ask him questions. One of the biggest things I learned from the meeting is the importance of seeking, asking, and knocking. This is the pattern of revelation that each of us need to implement to gain the spiritual knowledge that we each need. I still have a couple questions that I had going into the meeting and I know that by implementing this pattern into my study that I will be able to find out the answer to those questions that is prevalent directly to me.

Sorry for the long letter, but this week seriously was so incredible! I could feel multiple times the closeness of the Spirit and Heavenly Father's hand directing me and helping me and comforting me. I love this gospel so much and I am looking forward to carrying this spirit with me into my eighth month as a missionary. The church is true! NO DOUBT!

LOVE YOUS HEAPS!

Sister Bingham

1. we wore our lava lavas to bed!