2/11- This
week was very busy! On Wednesday I drove down to Katherine for
a trade off with the elders there and it was a fantastic experience! I was able
to work worth them in the area and it was fun biking around to the different aboriginal
camps and visiting with them. We got to eat with the branch
president down in Katherine! They made us spaghetti and it was very delicious! The next day it started to rain and we were biking in the red dirt and I got red dirt all over me which was really fun! We then drove up to Darwin
with the Katherine elders for zone conference. It was raining very hard and I only had the solid white line as a reference point
to see where I was driving, that was really fun ha-ha! The assistants to the mission president stayed
with us for most of the week. We split off with them and got the work done ha-ha! We then had zone conference on Saturday. We talked about an
operation that stared up here in Darwin. We are going to spread this operation to all of
the missionaries in the mission! It is called Operation Blue hand. It is the
complete use of the Book of Mormon and tying everything to that and giving it
out as a gift! It has proven very effective and has brought a lot of success to
the mission! The best part is acting devastated and surprised when someone has
never heard of or read the Book of Mormon. From their reaction they
understand how important the book is and they want to meet again which is
great! Then Sunday we had District conference and listened to a broadcast with
great talks from Elder Pearson and Elder Stevenson! This morning we also had
interviews with President Parker, it was great to be able to talk with him!
I hope you all have a great week and I Love you all!!!
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| Big day for Elder Salcedo he's known for not eating his fruits and vegetables |
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| Elder Dickerson, Elder Fiu, and Elder Salcedo |
2/18- Hey
everyone hope you all had a great week! Before I start I know that my brothers
birthday was this past Thursday, but I just wanted to wish him a very HAPPY
BIRTHDAY! He is the best brother anyone could ask for! Love you bro!!! This
week was a very good week! We found quite a bit of new people to teach one of
which is progressing so fast! His name is Mohamed and he has such a great
spirit! He has been meeting with us this past week and his testimony in the
message has grown tremendously. He has said that it just makes sense! He has
even brought one of his high school friends to meet with us and now his friend
wants to be baptized as well! We are just planning to baptize Darwin High ha-ha! We had a fun sports night on Saturday and we just played
basketball with quite a few people. It is a struggle for me because 1- I suck at
basketball and 2- I hate basketball ha-ha! But I try to have fun so that's good!
It still rains on and off a lot here in Darwin! There was a crazy monsoon in
the city on Wednesday while we there! The Lightning actually hit on the
same street that we were on and you just see a flash of blue light accompanied
by the loudest noise I have ever heard! It was like that for a good 20 minutes
and the rain was pouring! It was an interesting experience! We also saw that
the cafe shop was trying to close, but the workers were afraid. We ran out and
cleaned up all the tables and brought their tables and chairs inside! They
appreciated it so much and tried to offer us Coffee, but we told them that we don't drink Coffee. They then offered hot chocolate, but we still declined,
they were very persistent I must say ha-ha! Anyway that was my week, it
was very interesting for sure! I hope you all have a great week and once again
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my awesome brother and I LOVE YOU ALL!!!
2/25- This
week went by really fast for me! We just did a lot of finding
especially in the city! It was the Chinese new year last week. There were lots of Chinese and other people in the city for the events that were going on,
like the Lion blessing dance that they did at the different shops, that was
cool to be able to see! We also did some service this week. We were able to do
service for an aboriginal member who was baptized last week. We cleaned up
her yard and cleared out all of the trash! It was great to do that for her
because she is a nice sister who always dot paints missionaries scriptures for
free. We also went to a
members home to do service and it involved us preparing the soil for them
to plant banana trees. We pulled weeds and loosened the soil. The big
project was taking a tree out of the ground and I must say those trees roots
were far into the ground ha-ha! We eventually got the tree out and they fed us some
food which was great! I also went on tradeoffs with the elders in our flat to
see how they were doing, that was fun. Elder Fiu and I went with Elder Siaw and Elder Dickson went with Elder Mcdonald! It was a nice little trade off that
we were able to do! Other than that we just did a lot of finding and it took us
until Sunday to find 2 new investigators which was great! We are going to continue teach our investigator
Mohamed and prepare him for baptism next week! I hope you all have a great
week this week and I love you all!!!
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Sincerely,
Elder Ethan Salcedo
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