2 letters and some photos

AUGUST 21-

Hello! Its been a week and a half since I last wrote so I'll just let you know what happened.

Tuesday Aug 12 was trade off day with one of my zone leaders named Elder Dos Santos. He is from Brisbane, and very short. He kinda looks like lord farquad from Shrek! It was a good day, we started off the morning with an Indian breakfast at these people we met. They aren't interested but we got to know them better. It was delicious! We then had a lesson with Andrew Shore, our only investigator (Ya I know, rough...) which went well. We then had a lesson with a man named Russel who was trying to force us to "go to Vegas, meet some nice girls, and drink some Jack Daniels." He said that our lives are too narrow. It's true, the strait and narrow is where its at :)

Thursday Aug 14 we had Zone Training which was really inspiring, then we had ministering night with brother Miciliwetz in our ward. He's kind of a strange guy. We pulled up to his house and he was standing outside and we went to go say hello and he wouldnt respond to us, he was just staring off. He has epilepsy so he mightv'e had a mild seizure. I told sister Mikiliwetz about it so at least she knows. We had the chance to visit some members in the ward so that was good.

Friday Aug 15 I had a trade off with the other zone leader Elder Bush. It went well, I was in his area and we had a lot of lessons which was good because we only have one investigator at the moment so basically all we're doing is finding. Door knocking and street contacting all day, ery day.

Sunday Aug 17 I'm proud to announce that after 5 months in the mission I have finally had an investigator come to church! Andrew Shore! (Took awhile, hey) It was really good to see him there though.

Monday Aug 18 We're having a problem with the members in our ward. We have 3 companionship's in the ward and the members aren't keen at all for doing missionary work. With the exeption of Whitrods and Watts. I'm sure they do want to do missionary work but they aren't showing it. Like this week we called 3 memebers to ask if we can come over and the first question that they all asked was "why do you need to come?" Really shows the way our members feel about us. We need to all understand that hastening the work of salvation is not just for missionaries, we can't do it without the members.

Tuesday Aug 19 we decided to make treat bags for each member in our area so we went to the grocery store and bought some lollies and wrote a little note to everyone. Hopefully that will soften their hearts.

Wednsday Aug 20 Did Family History today! It was pretty surprising and quite sad at first to see "Thomas Francis Acker- deceased" It kind of just hit me that he isn't here anymore but I know that he's closer to all of us than ever before. I definitely felt the spirit of Elijah as I did family history.

Thats pretty much what happned this week. I love you all and I hope everything is going well.

Elder Acker

AUGUST 24-

Transfer Announcements Today! For transfer #4 I will be... staying in Trott Park, still with Elder Tau!

We've still got some work to do ;) One of my best friends in the mission Elder Matekohi is packing :(

i just wrote you all a few days ago so I don't have much to share but I'll run you through anything that has happened!

Well for starters Andrew came to church again! He just walked in and sat right next to Brother Whitrod. We hope to invite him to baptism this week so please pray for us that we may be able to invite powerfully and spiritually! He's our only investigator at the moment so we're having trouble finding people to teach but we're going to "hunt" (Jer 16:16) We helped a new family named the Butlers move in to the ward this week and man am I excited to hae them here. They are from Idaho and they love having missionaries over. Brother Butler is a convert and he has an amazing dream conversion story. he dreamed of his baptism and it happened exactly the way he dreamed. We helped them move in then they took us to Hungry Jacks which is the equilavent of Burger King. Thats about it for those few days.

D+C 100:4 gave me a lot of comfort this week. It says "Therefore, I the Lord, have suffered (allowed) you (Elder Acker) to come unto this place (Trott Park). for thus it was expedient to me for the salation of souls." Sometimes I may not feel good enough to do this work or that I'm not qualified enough but this scripture let's me know that God trusts me to work in this part of his vineyard. And this goes for all of us. We have been placed in the places and times we are today because Heavenly Father knew that these places and times were right for us to be a part in the work of salvation.

Love you HEAPS!

Elder Acker