So it was another good week in Australia. Nothing too exciting has happened, just more door knocking and stuff like that. Slowly but surely our ward is starting to warm up more to us, so hopefully we can start getting more referrals, because those usually end up really well. Also, it's starting to get pretty hot. I'm not sure what the exact temperature is, since they measure it in Celsius here, but it's getting kind of hot, even when it rains. We didn't get to listen to general conference yet, because of the time difference they postpone it till the next week, but I'm really looking forward to that.
I'll keep this email shorter, since I'm running out of time, but one thing I learned this week was from our mission president. He taught us about something called the Gestalt Theory I think? He told us about how an experiment was done on these horses, I think they were called Clydesdale horses. One their own, one horse can pull 9,000 pounds, so they estimated that together, they could pull 18,000 pounds. When they yoked the two horses together, the horses ended up pulling a weight of 36,000 pounds. That relates to other aspects of life too, including missionary work. Ward members can do missionary work on there own, and missionaries can do missionary work on their own, and they'll probably be able to teach and baptize many people. But when you have everyone working together in perfect harmony, everyone pushes each other to work harder and do more, and missionary and church work becomes way more effective! So I guess what I'm trying to say is to work together, not just in missionary work but in our lives in general. Working together in unity, no matter what we're doing, is always better than trying to pull two separate loads, if that makes sense. Anyways, thanks again for all your support!
Sincerely,
Elder Ho
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