WEEK 5! Time goes so fast!

so we just finished up week five of being in perth its pretty crazy its already been five weeks but cool at the same time but i still feel like i don't know anything and i don't like that to much but i'm still learning lots just like every missionary says i wish i would of studied more before the mission. so ya it makes ya feel very inadequate but thats what makes ya wanna learn more and continue in studyin i suppose ha but its been great this week is the same as any other ya got the good with the bad. but yesterday sister smith and damien came to a musical fireside about pioneers with us. which is a huge step for them cause there not to big on bein in public but they are great people its crazy how ya get to love them they are awesome and we invited damien to be baptized and he said he'll pray about it so its great we are goin over to see them tomorrow and have tea(dinner) with them. so there great and we'll talk with him more about it tomorrow and they said they would come to the cottage evening next saturday so i'm really excited about that too. so its general conference this week for you guys ay? its not general conference for us til the 8th and 9th cause otherwise we would have to watch it in the middle of the night ha so they record it and rebroadcast it for us. so i'm pretty excited for that and hopefully we can get some investigators there as well so as for other investigators damien is the only really serious one jake is still doin pretty good but he is goin to uni so he gets caught up in that and doesn't focus on the scripts much but he said he would read 2 nephi 31 which is all about the doctrine of christ and so hopefully after that he'll want to take it more serious and hopefully baptism. there the only two that are really progressing and we have a few less active families who are doin well the best one is the jackmanns they are abariginal a single mom with five kids we see them every week and we play heaps of games with them and then share a lesson with them its hard to get them to sit still for to long i was thinkin we should teach about reference next time with them ha. so ya things are great here the week has been a little bit sunnier but its rainy again today i actually quite like the rain its just on bikes sometimes the rain can get a bit annoying but the days like today when we are in a car and then playin touch i like the rain. ha so we did heaps of service saturday it was great we painted a fence in the park for like 3 hours then we went to a less active families house and they were cleanin up the yard so we helped them for 2 hours it was great i love service it feels good to get to do some work like that. it was real good but i never told you guys when i was doin some service awhile back i was mowin and i ran over a lizard it was huge it was like the size of a rabbit and it had super hard skin it was pretty nasty it freaked me out so random but all the dirt here or what they call dirt is just sand there is so much sand its all so lose the ground like doesn't pack down its weird as. hmm so i think thats it for all the random stuff so how is everything back home? so i think i may of already told you but if you get the time look up mormon messages they are great and if you can watch the infinite power of hope one and any givin by holland or monson or the football player who had the wheely chair at conference til he passed away i can't remember his name now but they are all great i watch them everytime we eat there are heaps of them we have like 100 on cds its great. i've been readin the new testament and i really enjoy it mattew is a great book i really like readin about the savior its the best. so the fireside we had yesterday was great the songs were awesome i love the hymns and church songs in general they are so powerful they made me think of mom last night tho i'm so thankful for the parents that we have on this earth they are such good examples for us in all that they do. i think of mom and dad often and everything they taught me it makes me sad sometimes cause of course i would love to get that letter from mom but thankfully i have a great family and i still get to hear from dad and the family often thanks heaps. and even tho i don't get the letters from mom there are times when i think about her that i know she there with us helpin us out like she always did her and the savior the two best guardian angels you could ask for no doubt. i'm so thankful to be a member of the church and to of been blessed with the best family and friends in the world the church is true the book is blue and i'm so happy to be apart of it. i was thinkin about it the other day ya know how cool it is to have apostles and prophets its the best the stuff we learn about is amazing and so many people don't take the time to listen and see what they could have in there life another challege for us is what mom challeged us to do a few years ago is to sit down every day and take time to notice the hand of god in our lives or the tender mercies of our heavenly father its crazy to realize it all the little things he does for us i've been tryin to do it but its somethin i'm gonna do better at so ya love you guys your the best livestrong oh and guess what i'm finally learnin the articles of faith took me 19 years but i have one through 8 memorized already and i use them in contacting its very powerful its a great way to have the spirit there from the beginning. anyways love you guys your the best hope all is well love Elder Dalton