Elder Nelson's Mission in Perth Australia

We had a really great week. On Monday we visited with one of the counselors in the bishopric and his family. He asked for a book of Mormon to give to his boss who came with him to a session of general conference. Then throughout this past week we have been doing heaps of finding and knocking on doors. We met a couple Filipinos and Africans that were pretty keen.  Then this week we met with a member who the bishop asked us to visit. She has been going through a lot of hard trials this past couple months. But it was awesome to meet with her and see how when people start keeping the commandments God blesses them with greater peace, joy, and comfort in the midst of their trials. It strengthened my testimony of the blessings that come from obedience and trusting in God. On Friday we did more tracting and met a couple  nonmembers who had relative that were missionaries. So that was a small miracle since most of the people here don't know too much about th...

This past week has been pretty awesome. So at the start of this week we had our zone conference with President and Sis. Bennallack and the rest of the missionaries in the zone. The focus was on the doctrine of Christ and helping those we work with to become converted to Christ's gospel through keeping commitments. We also were able to discuss some of the things from conference and as part of that our mission President gave us the challenge to finish the Book of Mormon by the end of the year just as President Nelson gave to the women of The Church. I have definitely been enjoying the challenge so far. On Tuesday night we had a lesson with one of the part member families in the ward. We were able to share the restoration with him and it was a great lesson. I love when we teach and people talk about how it makes sense. It reminds me of when my calculus teacher used to say "of course it makes sense, it's math." Except now it's "of course it makes sense, i...