Talofa lava!
Heaps of updates for this week so here we go...
I finally had an actual district meeting on Tuesday. In the bush usually we do them over the phone since we're all so far away, but President Maxwell just made a new rule that we have to have at least two in person meetings per month. And the great part about it was that the rest of our district (from Wagga Wagga) had to make the drive to Griffith for our meeting, so we hardly had to travel at all! It was great!
We saw a couple investigators this week: Grace and Reno. They are mother-son and are Italian Catholic. Reno told us he is going to start reading the Book of Mormon because he is curious about it. They are doing well.
Stella told us this week that she knows the Book of Mormon is true!!!!! So exciting!!!!!! Now we just have to get her partner on board because he is Seventh Day Adventist, but huge progress with her this week!!!!
Sister Dere and Sister Best met a less active member, Judith, during exchanges the other week who had just moved here from Adelaide. She had a dream the night before that she had gone back to church in Griffith and met the Sisters there and the next day she saw them walking past her shop! So this week when Sister Dere and I were walking around town talking to people we stopped in and started talking to her. Then just a few minutes later we ran into the branch mission leader's wife, Sister Saipele, who we had already been thinking about as a fellowship for her. We took Sister Saipele over to meet Judith and they hit it off great! She now has met us, Sister Saipele, President Tia and his family, the Elders, and Sister Saipele continues to tell everyone to go into her shop and introduce themselves to her. The branch is doing really well working together right now! I love it!
Thursday morning right before Sister Dere and I were getting ready to start our weekly planning two Jehovah's witnesses knocked on our door. We proudly introduced ourselves to them as missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and then proceded to talk with them for a good hour. The thing that stuck out to me most from our conversation is that I feel really bad for them because they have no understanding about the Plan of Salvation, especially about the Pre-Earth Life and our divine destiny. I cannot understand why anyone would want to believe that they are anything less than a child of God and that they have an equal chance from anyone else on the earth to go back to live with God and become like Him.
Last thing. So the youth in our branch did a mini mission this weekend, and it was really great! They started on Friday night with a fireside where we did some role plays with them and got them as ready as possible to go tracting on Saturday. Saturday the forecast said it would be rainy all day, so we said a prayer that the rain would go away so that we could do our missionary work. Right at 10:30 when we met up the clouds moved away and the sun came out. We walked along for the next two and a half hours, all of us taking different routes to the park across the street from the chapel. I was paired up with three young women and an eleven-year-old primary girl. The second door we knocked a Hindi Indo-Fijian lady let us in to share a quick message with her. The next house a 30-or-so man came out and told us that he was Muslim, but that he would listen to what we had to say. He was very eager to accept a Plan of Salvation pamphlet from the girls so I went ahead and gave him a Book of Mormon, which he gladly accepted as well. We have another appointment to see him this week. After that we continued to go along with not much success until we made it to the park. When everyone was finishing up eating lunch a huge wind came in and it started to rain again, so we went to the chapel and had some activities for the next hour until everyone went back to their houses with their companions for dinner, studies, etc. and sleep. Overall, the mini mission was a big success and helped motivate a lot of the young men to want to serve a mission. It was so good that they even proposed in branch council to have it once every quarter.
Well that's it for this week. Sorry for such a long email, but the work here really is going great right now and I feel really lucky to be in the Griffith branch. I'm a bit nervous because every time I feel this way about an area I am in the next week I get transferred... and transfer calls come this week. But hopefully I will be able to stay up here a bit longer.
Love yous heaps!
Sister Bingham
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