Elder Nelson's Mission in Perth Australia

 This has been a really good week. Last week when we had our zone conference with Elder Ardern of the seventy he challenged us to reach the goal of every companionship finding 2 new people to teach in the next week. That meant we were shooting for 106 new people as a mission. Recently in the mission we had been struggling to find people to teach. In the past 2 weeks we had only found 40ish people. So we had to exercise a lot of faith and work hard to reach our goal. In the end we found 161 new people to teach. I thought it was so cool to feel the urgency and desire to find as many people as we can to teach the gospel to. It reminds me of a quote from preach my gospel about setting goals....  "I am so thoroughly convinced that if we don’t set goals in our life and learn how to master the techniques of living to reach our goals, we can reach a ripe old age and look back on our life only to see that we reached but a small part of our full potential. ...

This past week and a half has been pretty awesome. I try to remember all the cool things that happened since it has been a while. Last week it was really hot. There were a good number of days in the 40s and two days in a row where it hit 44. The people here in Kalgoorlie are really nice and I remember while tracting on one of the really hot days we got 15 bottles/cups of water in a matter of a couple hours.  On Tuesday we were walking around later in the evening and the person we had planned on visiting wasn't home and as we were trying to figure out where to go, a car pulled up and the guy driving told us he was Lehi and asked us if we wanted to come to dinner. We'll of course we said yes. He turned out to be a member who hadn't been to church in a while. His partner was a nonmember. She had met with the missionaries in the past and had been close to being baptized but never had. It was cool running into then and hopefully we can start working more with ...