1/14 Hey everyone how are you doing this week? This
week flew by really fast up here in Darwin. We had the assistants and President
and Sister Parker fly up today for zone conference which was super exciting to
see them! We had trade offs with the assistants and they lived in our flat
for a couple of days which was very fun and learned lots from them as well! We
had the zone conference on Friday ,which was super cool to learn and receive training from the Presidents assistants. The big counsel we had from President, is to help the branch grow! Then on Sunday there was a big announcement
from President. Since he is in charge of the district in the northern territory, he announced the split of the Darwin branch into two branches. We now have the Darwin branch
and the Palmerston branch! That was very big news and he announced the
presidency for the new branch. The President of the new branch loves missionary
work, so the branch will be very missionary focused! They also announced a
new District Presidency. It was all just exciting news and brought me back
to memories of when our ward split a while back. I got to finish off the week with interviews with president which was
also very exciting :) I hope you all have a great week and I love
you all!!!
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| Picking up President Parker and his assistants for Zone Conf |
1/21
Hello everyone, I hope you all have had a great
week! It has been a busy week that has gone by very fast! We have
been working with our investigator, Ricky. He came to church and is
excited for his baptism this Saturday, so please keep him in his prayers! He has
been fighting addition and we had the opportunity to fast with him yesterday, so
that he could receive that spiritual strength! It was such a great opportunity
to be apart of. We broke the fast together and we made some Honey
Mustard beef with rice and took it to his house! A member gave Ricky
a kitten for free and we have been able to see the kitten every time we go over. We have been teaching him everyday. He has a dog that goes crazy every time she
sees us and we always leave with muddy paw printed shirts ha-ha! We also had a
member referral yesterday which was a member's brother and his girlfriend. They
have a desire to quit their addictions and be baptized. We will work with
them to be able to prepare them for that!
We also went to the hospital yesterday to give a blessing to a member from Katherine. That was a neat experience to be able to do that :) We also had a meal appointment with some members this week which was nice. It was only my 4th or 5th one on my mission ha-ha! We also got pretty soaked this weekend and my pants looked like spandex from all the rain that it soaked up ha-ha! I got a really nice soccer jersey on P-day for my Birthday. Unfortunately, it is from a team that I am not a big fan of, but the jersey is really nice. I will send pictures! I hope you all have a great week and I love you all!!!
We also went to the hospital yesterday to give a blessing to a member from Katherine. That was a neat experience to be able to do that :) We also had a meal appointment with some members this week which was nice. It was only my 4th or 5th one on my mission ha-ha! We also got pretty soaked this weekend and my pants looked like spandex from all the rain that it soaked up ha-ha! I got a really nice soccer jersey on P-day for my Birthday. Unfortunately, it is from a team that I am not a big fan of, but the jersey is really nice. I will send pictures! I hope you all have a great week and I love you all!!!
1/28 Hello everyone I hope you all have had a great
week! We just had transfers and both I and Elder Dickson are still here in
Nightcliff. We are finishing the training of a missionary in our zone Elder
Fiu from Brisbane! It should be a great transfer here in Darwin! It has been
raining mad hard non stop for the whole week and will be for like that the whole next month! The thunder and lightning are crazy especially at night! Two days ago we had like 10 inches of rain in one day! It has been different
for sure ha-ha! But other than that just have been doing a lot of teaching and
finding more people to teach!
We had two meal appointments on Saturday which was pretty crazy. I actually have never had that happen before ha-ha! We ate with the Brons family who I have been over before. They absolutely love the missionaries. We also ate with the Hazlet family who just came back from traveling for the holidays. They are both awesome! It was also great because it was my birthday on Saturday, so I guess in a way it was a great birthday gift! I can not believe that I am 20 years old that is pretty crazy! I mean honestly it's just like any other year. I feel the same, but it is weird to think that I am 20! I hope you all have a great week this week and I love you all!!!
We had two meal appointments on Saturday which was pretty crazy. I actually have never had that happen before ha-ha! We ate with the Brons family who I have been over before. They absolutely love the missionaries. We also ate with the Hazlet family who just came back from traveling for the holidays. They are both awesome! It was also great because it was my birthday on Saturday, so I guess in a way it was a great birthday gift! I can not believe that I am 20 years old that is pretty crazy! I mean honestly it's just like any other year. I feel the same, but it is weird to think that I am 20! I hope you all have a great week this week and I love you all!!!
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| We all have birthday's in January |
2/4 This
week went by really fast for me and that is because it has been jammed packed
with meetings! We had MLC this week , leadership training, and
combined district meeting this week. On top of that we made a very
long road trip! The elders who serve in Katherine were up here in
Darwin because one of the elders was transferred. Elder Justin who came with the Elder who was transferred needed to get back to Katherine. The problem was that no one could drive because their licenses aren't
valid and the bus that drives people down canceled all tickets for the week
because of flooding on the road. They had no way to get back to Kathrine and it is
a 3 hour drive from Darwin. So we made a big drive all the way down to
Katherine to be able to get them to Katherine in time for the baptism!
After leadership meeting I drove a car full of elders down to Katherine for 3 hours in a storm with slippery roads and big vehicles that splash water all over the place and I must say it was a fun drive ha-ha! I got to drive fast because it was the highway, but it was fun driving in those conditions and was an interesting drive! Katherine was cool. I was with Elder Fiu while Elder Dickson went to do the baptism interviews and we just contacted in the small town. The town is mostly aboriginals. There were interesting conversations to say the least! Some even asked us for money and we gave them pass along cards instead! Some also asked us to pray for them, and we did. We stayed the night then drove back to Darwin the next morning and had district meeting. It was a very busy week. The funny thing is that I am driving back down to Katherine this week again for tradeoffs. But other than that working in a trio is pretty fun and an interesting experience. Elder Fiu is a great missionary and it is fun being able help to finish his training! I hope you all have great week and I love you all!!!
After leadership meeting I drove a car full of elders down to Katherine for 3 hours in a storm with slippery roads and big vehicles that splash water all over the place and I must say it was a fun drive ha-ha! I got to drive fast because it was the highway, but it was fun driving in those conditions and was an interesting drive! Katherine was cool. I was with Elder Fiu while Elder Dickson went to do the baptism interviews and we just contacted in the small town. The town is mostly aboriginals. There were interesting conversations to say the least! Some even asked us for money and we gave them pass along cards instead! Some also asked us to pray for them, and we did. We stayed the night then drove back to Darwin the next morning and had district meeting. It was a very busy week. The funny thing is that I am driving back down to Katherine this week again for tradeoffs. But other than that working in a trio is pretty fun and an interesting experience. Elder Fiu is a great missionary and it is fun being able help to finish his training! I hope you all have great week and I love you all!!!
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Sincerely,
Elder Ethan Salcedo
