G,day everyone,

This week has been awesome. So at the start of this week we had exchanges and I was with Elder Tiikana again. It has been raining pretty hard lately and we did heaps of tracting in the rain which we loved.
The next day our district leader called us and asked if we had visited one of the members in the ward and we hadn't in a while so we stopped by the her parents house where she lives. The mother was super excited to see us and we found out that the father was at a hospital in Perth recovering from a heart surgery and they had been gone for two weeks and this was the only day she would be back in a while. It was a tender mercy. 
On Thursday we had our last zone conference with Pres and Sister Fife before they head off on the 30th of June. It was a really great conference. It started off with Sister Fife reading us a children's picture book about pirate Jim and using good manners. Then Pres. Fife told us what he would have talked with us about during our final interviews if he was still here. So we had an awesome discussion on marriage. Following the zone conference we headed to a meeting with the north coast stake and had a farewell for the Fifes. 
On Friday we had a chapel tour with our investigator George. Then on Saturday we had service for one of the neighbors of our elders quorum presidents. We were pulling out the fence after part of it had broken in the wind. As we were doing that the other elders received a phone call from a man that lived about 20 kms away. he had just backed into his fence with his car and broken several of the pieces and had seen a card with the missionaries number offering free service and had felt to give them a call. It turns out that the fence pieces he needed were the exact same pieces that we were pulling out of the ground and so the nonmember we were doing the service for dropped off the pieces to the man and they were able to fix his fence. The other missionaries were able to talk to him and start teaching him the gospel all because he broke his fence. It was cool as. 
On Sunday we had a baptism for one of the girls in the ward and we invited George but he didn't come because he was sick so we visited him after and gave him a blessing. 
On Monday we didn't have pday because we went to the temple today. yesterday we tried to walk one of the members dogs so we could talk to people but the dog didn't like us. It was sad. 
Then today we had our temple P-day. It was really great. I love the temple and the Spirit. One of the best parts was that there were heaps of members of the ward there and also Pres and Sis Fife. 
Anyway I hope everyone has a wonderful week 
Love 
Elder Nelson

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