Elder Brandon Perkins

Conference, Transfers and Spiders

G'Day everyone! Im staying in Park Ridge with Elder Seely! We already assumed that we both would stay. However, what we didn't guess is that they would split our ward and make us car share 😂. So yeah now we have 2 sets of missionaries assigned to park ridge. Were also car sharing and possibly flat sharing, which means we take turns driving the car with the other Elders and when were not driving were biking or walking. It will be pretty brutal in this Aussie Summer 😂. Last Monday we had a district p-day! It was so fun to hangout with my district and learn more about them before transfers! Elder Seely and I also had to drop Elder greaves off at the airport and say goodbye. He's got transfered to north Queensland and they just needed him up there a week early, sure gonna miss that Elder. This week we were able to watch the funeral for pres nelson. I knew president nelson was awesome but hearing everyone speak about everything he accomplished opened my eyes, he will definitely be missed.

I love how every mission is different, here in the ABM, President Gomez has told us to make our main focus member work. Because the members are so strong in this ward, we've got so many referrals from them. We have a couple friends right now that want to get baptized but are hard to contact and set lessons with, so hopefully we keep progressing with them. Our friend Lachlan is progressing really well! He was on date for the 11th and then kinda ghosted us for a week and half. So we rocked up on him, and he still wants to be baptized so we changed his date for the 25th and we're back to teaching him consistently!

I had my welcome to Australia moment last week. We did service for our friends Luke and Ruth who are sadly moving out of our waes. We helped them move all this stuff out of these horse stables. I probably saw over 50 spiders 🕷 and there was webs literally everywhere. It was really hard work to be honest. One of the things we did was load all these battery's into this shipping container. Each of them weighed around 130 pounds and there were probably 30 of them. After we loaded them in, Luke told us that he didn't want them in there 😭 so we had to take all of them out. The service was over 5 hours, which I'm not sure if that is even aloud but he kept telling us it was okay cause his wife was a legit investigator. We also mowed 2 members lawns on Saturday, so we did heeps of service last week.

I got to meet a really cool Elder this week named Elder Rollins, he came in the same intake as me and guess where he is from? Cedar City funny enough! He is the man, I hope we're companions one day. One of the highlights of my week is that I bought a ukelele😁, I love playing it. Because Australia is 17 hours ahead, this Sunday was our conference Sunday. So we were able to go to the church and watch it with some of the members. After,we had a feed with our senior service missionary and some of the members. This week was a roller coaster of things happening, but I'm so grateful to be here. I love Australia and the people here. Love you all heeps🙏

Spirtual Thought

This general conference was so amazing, truly. Kevin G. Brown had a wonderful talk about testimony's. One of the parts that stood out to me is when he said "Your testimony will be a joy as you see it replicated in your children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren and in those you love and serve. It will be powerful when you share it and use it to testify."

I hope my parents and grandparents have seen how there testimony has replicated my own. Because it has so much. They have definitely paved the path for me, and they are what keep me going. I hope my testimony will not just impact the people here in Australia but my future posterity as well.