1st Transfer Finished

So I have completed my first transfer here in Australia, and it went by pretty fast! I still have the same companion and I'm in the same area though, so not too many huge changes. Anyways, nothing super exciting has happened this week. We were able to go on splits with some of the members this week, which was kind of cool. The member I was with was awesome and shared a pretty strong testimony at the house of one of the people we were visiting. We did some service this week though, which was really awesome! And not just because I got to take a little break from door knocking... but really, it was a good experience. We were able to do some gardening for a member family, and it was nice to be able to just pull weeds and talk. We were also able to help one of our investigator's family move, and we got to know them a bit better. I think they really like having us over to teach their son, but unfortunately they are going on a trip to New Zealand for a month, so we wont be seeing them for a while.

Another thing we did was, you guessed it, more door knocking! I meet more and more interesting people every day. In just one day I met a guy who opened the door, said he didn't want our 'religious nonsense' (with a few different words), closed the door, and as we were walking away, he put in the effort to open it again and tell us to not come back again. On that very same street we met a lady who sat us down outside, gave us water, and talked to us about what we believed in and asked us to share a message with her. We were even able to offer a prayer for her before we left. It was awesome because we were able to have a really nice, spiritual experience just from door knocking, and it was out of the blue and something we didn't see coming.

I guess the only other thing that was exciting for us was deep cleaning. We had the 'privilege' of taking four hours out of our day to spend our time cleaning the flat. It was really satisfying though to see how clean it was after. I guess we can relate that to missionary work. We didn't really see the flat as dirty or messy. We kept it fairly organized and clean. That's kind of like the life of an average person. It has its ups and downs, and your comfortable with it. When we do a deep clean, we convert that house, we change it, we make it a little better. That's kind of like someone recieving the gospel in their life. Although they were probably comfortable with life before, they realize how much for satisfying and joyful life can be after that 'deep clean'. And that's why we do misisonary work, because although most people could live a perfectly normal life without the gospel, they won't see how much more beautiful life can be with the gospel unless we help them see that. Hopefully that makes sense.

Sincerely,

Elder Ho