Nov 24, 2013 pictures!

G'day everybody! I've been about a full week in the area now. It's been a fun week. Every night I come home just exhausted and sweaty from the heat and the humidity. We've been working hard. Luckily this area is nowhere near as hilly as Nerang. It's pretty flat everywhere.

  There's not much happening here yet but we've got some great people to work with and we hope to see some good success here.

Here's a few pics

First one was in my last flat. One day we were tracting and this lady wanted to give us some baby berets to hand out. We weren't sure exactly what to do about it so we were just like, sure we'll take a couple. She grabbed four of them and held them out and told us to put our hands on them and then commenced to bless the baby berets by the laying on of hands. They had been sitting around the flat for about five weeks so we decided to do something productive with them and put them on and take a few pictures.  

This is just a huge moth that landed on our glass door. That's my companion's hand next to it.
 

Caught a little tree frog outside while it was raining one night. 

Next morning I went to take a shower and there was a big huntsman spider on the shower door. I reckon he was a good three inches across with his legs. Big ugly things. They can get massive. They aren't dangerous but they look like they can bite your toe off.

So my new companion is Elder Peacock from Tooele, UT. He's lived in Idaho for a little bit. He is a mad Tim Tam slammer. The Tim Tam (chocolate coated cookie thing: sort of like a large rectangular Oreo with chocolate filling and chocolate coating) slam is when you bite the corners off the biscuit and then stick it in your Milo and suck it like a straw until the middle is soaked, then you eat it, doing as many as you can. He slammed 36 Tim Tams one night. He likes singing and sugar. He is the oldest of ten kids.

We live in the flat with Elder Ottoson, the district leader, from Washington, and Elder Mahuinga from Tonga. He is still working on remembering my name and keeps calling me "Elder Smiff (Smith in a Tongan accent.)." It's a pretty fun group.

I hope all is well back home and that you know how much I love you all! Have a great week! Happy Thanksgiving soon!

Elder Thieme