I Moved Again

Hello,

As you can tell from the title, I moved areas again! lol, I am now in Gulfview Heights, it's still in the same zone as Playford and pretty close to Adelaide.  I have been emergency transferred to be a Zone Leader with Elder McBride. That's three flats and 3 companions in the first 9 days of being in Aussie. Pretty crazy, right?  I'm getting really good and packing my suitcase, lol. As far as the flats go here, they are all nicer than the ones I had in California.  Right now I am living in a house instead of an apartment.  The heater is broken, so it's pretty chilly in the morning when I wake up.  We have a space heater, so we are using that to keep us warm.  The winter months are upon us here in the Downunder. 

I had to say goodbye to my last companion Elder Hannant; I'm going to miss him.  He is a great missionary from Brisbane. We did a lot of good things! We put a whole family on date to be baptized!  We were teaching them over zoom because they don't live in our area and they don't like the missionaries that are currently in their area. Very exciting! I am now companions with Elder McBride, he is a great missionary from Utah! President Johannson put both of the Americans together! But it has been so good!  He's one of the hardest working companions I've had in a while. We found 2 more people to teach in our area just a couple days ago, they are quite interesting people, but we will see how it goes... haha. 

I love the mission I am currently in, but it has it's challenges. A lot of the missionaries here are struggling on how to do missionary work. The Covid shutdowns have not been super helpful out here. The AP's are working with us and other Zone Leaders to help change the mission culture. Most missionaries here have the mindset that the work here is just too hard to find people to teach and baptize, so we are trying to help the missionaries change their mindset to think that the Lord's work is the same wherever you go.  There are people in every area to teach and baptize, we just have to work hard to find them. It's going to be a good transfer and I'm excited to let you guys know how this transfer is going to go!

Love,

Elder Bishop

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Elder McBride and I

Elder Hannant and I

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