******* LANDON J. COOK ******* Melbourne, Australia Mission April 2015

SOOOOO This week has been NUTS with stuff and again another action-packed and fast paced week. I woke up pretty sick this morning and my back aches like nothing, but it's probably because we've worked ourselves to death this week. Ugh, it sucks but hey that's the mission! You sneeze and it's already three days later it feels.

Let's start off with Monday. So Monday was just a normal-ish P-Day of cleaning, shopping, and lifting weights in the flatt. Gettin' buff-as or at least trying to. We also took pictures next to the tanks and stuff and that was pretty fun as always.

Irene Spagnolo ALWAYS feeds us snacks when

we go to her house. She's such a doll love her to death

Wednesday we did a TON of service. That was practically all we did that day. It was crazy. Moving houses for an inactive member for about four hours, and of course NOTHING was put in boxes so we had to help her out with that. They hay fever was real and kept punching me in the face repeatedly over and over again. I've never suffered from allergies or hay fever, but man here in Seymour it's insane. THEN after that we went to go pull some more weeds for that lady in her 80's named Irene Spagnolo, and she's just a doll. Love her to bits.

service for the Robinson's up on their farm

Thursday we had Zone Meeting and I gave a training which was pretty fun. Elder Halsey, one of the ZL's, finished his mission just a few days before the transfer ended, so we got a new ZL named Elder Lawler who's the man. I also went on exchanges with Elder Chen which was pretty fun, and he's a 26 year old convert to the church who's from China….The man.

Saturday we went to go and do service for the Robinson's up on their farm, and they showed us around their farm a bit. They've got these horses that are pretty cool, and although I'm not a fan of horses (because they're massively powerful and if you spook them and they kick around you're a dead man) these ones are pretty cool. You could pet them, sneak up on them and hug them, no worries.

One cool horse... soft too!

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So Sunday morning we got a call from President Vidmar right before studies. So I pick it up and he says he's got a special assignment for both of us. He talks to me first and says that he needs me as a Zone Leader up in Wangaratta (which is fetching BUSH-AS) with my other mission brother Elder Van Wagoner. It'll be pretty fun, and I'll have Elder Wi Neera from New Zealand as the other ZL companion. It'll be kinda weird because it'll be three ZL's in a companionship, AND we'll have another missionary in our companionship who's been struggling a bit if you know what I mean, so not two companionships, just one 4-man companionship. They'll be pretty fun. And Vaiouga's going back to the Samoan program with the missionary he trained, and missionaries WON'T be returning to Seymour for a good while which is GREAT!!! Literally it felt like we were kids getting EXACTLY what we wanted for Christmas when transfers were announced!!!

When transfers were announced!

And yes, I am fully aware that Trump is in. People won't shut the heck up about it. Honestly it's so annoying, so I'm just gonna work harder on my accent to fake that I'm from Perth like Worsencroft did. I'm sick of the same five repeated words "What's your opinion on Trump?" Absolutely sick of it considering I haven't the slightest idea on what his plans are.

Sickness/Hayfeever does wonders for me...NOT!

There's a lot more to what happened this week but I feel pretty sick as a dog right now and I'm not in What kinda sucks though is that today we've got to prepare the flatt for hibernation, which means we've gotta clean it up really well and make sure that it's ready for sleep mode for the next “who knows how many months”. Plus I've got to give myself a haircut and pack my bags and clean the car. Blegh, I just feel sick. But that's my life and I'll be up in the bush. I hear that Shepparton is a branch with about 110 active members, half of them Poly and half Aussie. I hear it's more like Melbourne out in the bush, and it's a huge city with about 200,000 people living there. But that's it everyone, I love you alls, take care, and as always God be with you till we meet again ♥

the mood to be on the computer for longer than I need to because I'm just really tired.. Not sure why, but my body's sore and achy and my back really hurts. I took some pain meds but they haven't really helped. No workout P-Day today.