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Wednesday, November 9, 2016

So this week has been pretty fast and slow at the same time. The members have suddenly taken a 180 degree turn when it comes to doing missionary work, which is good, but to be honest Elder Vaiouga and I are both really hopeful that we leave. Neither of us wants to spend Christmas here to be honest. I mean, the branch is good and all, but... yeah... It's just weird here! Elder Vaiouga and I doubled into Moe and SMASHED the place (in a positive way of course) and I was really hopeful and optimistic that we could do the same again, especially since we're now much more experienced. I've always known that even if you're in a not progressive area and you're doing your hardest, smartest, and best you're doing the right thing and that you should never ride your hopes on transfers and instead try to work out the situation with the cards you're dealt, but I'm being not good and hoping for transfers to be honest. But things are still so slow. I think this entire transfer we've found like, maybe two investigators? And only one is keen to meet with us again. But only on an every other weekly basis. The other one's just kinda keen to listen but has a mindset of "I believe what I believe, you believe what you believe, and we'll call it goods". So we have one solid investigator. I dunno, it just feels like a drag sometimes. It's a good thing that our District is huge because we get to do a lot of exchanges, and if we're not teaching people then at least we're spicing things up with exchanges on a more-than-regular basis.

Quick selfie with Elder Wilson and I
As far as this week has gone though, it was pretty good. We did a lot of service for some elderly people this week (as we tend to do every week), and we had Zone conference. I went on an exchange with Brother Cheyney (who's a member in the Wantirna South ward and was on a month-long mini mission) and that was pretty fun, and we went to go teach the recent convert who was baptized last year. I also went on exchanges with Elder Wilson, and if you remember him he's the one from the MTC with me.

Me, Elder Vaiouga, Elder Swenson, Elder Summa, 
and Brother Cheyney at the very bottom




To be honest there's not really much to talk about this week. Work is slow and a tad stagnant, but this week we've got a lot of member appointments to help them further their missionary work efforts. It may be a few months before we start to see fruit of that coming up, so I'm sure that I won't see any of the fruits of it and the next missionary after me probably will. Isn't that always the case with missionary work it seems?

So that was my week, and hopefully yours was all a bit better. Hopefully this next week goes good and has a lot of production in it, so we'll just have to prayerfully see what happens as we work our hardest. At least Heavenly Father has stayed the hot weather around here, because on average it's about 50 degrees Fahrenheit when it should be at about 90 Fahrenheit this time of year. And working outside, tracting, and doing service with no progress in those circumstances would send Vaiouga and I absolutely nuts. But I love you all, take care of y'all'selves, and and always, God be with you till we meet again.
-Elder Landon Cook

Ponderize: Psalms 25:10

Doin' some more service with Elder Wilson 
(we did a bit of service for people this week, 
just for an older non-member lady Irene Spanolo 
and a lady named Kim)

Say Cheese Elder Wilson



Using the weed wacker at Sister Shelley's place 
and they call weed wackers here whipper snippers. 
HOW FREAKING HILARIOUS IS THAT!

      All the Zones in the mission made separate
     cloths I Sister Vidmar stitched them together





This one was ours for our area.  I was not the artist :)





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