G'day everybody!
We had our temple trip this
morning. Woke up early to catch the train into the city. It was great. I
always love the temple so much, and I am so grateful that we have one
in our mission and are allowed to attend regularly.
I hope Grandpa is doing alright still. Send him and Grandma my
love! I always remember not being thrilled to go to Woodpile for the
holidays, but the time spent with Grandma and Grandpa Nuttall was
priceless.
I missed Thanksgiving! We did have a ward Christmas party this last
weekend and they had some little store bought mini pumpkin pies, but
that's about as "Thanksgivingy" as I got this year. I missed all the
mashed potatoes and gravy and pies and all the Aunties and Uncles and
Cuzzies! I hope yous all had a great one though!
We finally got our mail yesterday and I got to see all the XC pics
and results and everything! You boys did awesome. And that is probably
the most origami I have ever seen in my whole life. Chur bro! Thanks
Kenzie for the letters and I will write back but I won't tell you what
I'm getting you for Christmas! Thanks so much for all the letters. I
love hearing from you guys.
Well the new area is pretty good. It is a small area. We pretty
much just cover the suburb called Burpengary. There are lots of Aussies
here. Not quite as much of the cultural diversity as in other areas I
have served. We have been doing pretty well so far. The area is
relatively new. They only opened it the transfer before this one. We
have been teaching a few people we have tracted into. We have one girl
who has really started progressing as of last week. She is originally
catholic but is open to all religions. We took her on a chapel tour
and happened to schedule it the same time as the ward was having a
baptism, so she got to see that as well. It was great. The highlights
were when we showed her the baptismal font and the chapel. The Spirit
was very strong and she definitely felt it. She then came to the ward
Christmas party that night and Church the next morning (fast and
testimony meeting even)! So we hope she didn't get overloaded. She
really seemed to enjoy it and the ward definitely made her feel part of
the family. We hope to commit her to a baptismal date the next time we
meet with her.
There is also a guy that was tracted into a long time ago and thus
far the missionaries hadn't been able to catch him at home. my companion
and I decided to try him. Our hopes were not high. But lo and behold,
he was home, so we taught him the message of the Restoration and shared
the First Vision. It was quite powerful. The Spirit testified to him
that it was true. He told us it gave him a good feeling and gave him the
chills. We read him the part in Galatians ch. 5 that lists the fruits
of the Spirit and he said, "that's exactly what it was!" It was pretty
amazing. We plan to set a baptismal date with him soon as well but our
appointment fell through because he got called in to work! Ah!
out of time!
I love you all very much!
Elder Thieme
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