"This is the true church. It's the same everywhere because Jesus Christ is at the head of it."...week 41

Hey everyone! 

This week has been awesome it was also a weird week though cause we were out of our area for a while. But I had a great time. It's been a little hard for me not being in the city anymore where everything happens so fast and there is so much work to do. Out here it's a lot slower, I thought I would like it but I miss the work. We still work hard out here but we don't see as much success haha. 

So we had to leave Monday for Coffs Harbour to go up to my companions great grandmas funeral. We left Monday and stayed there over night. The funeral was Tuesday morning and it was nice. My companions family took us out to dinner and bought me new shoes! We got back late Tuesday. I thought it might make me homesick but it really just reminded me how important it is to be out here doing the Lords work.  He didn't get homesick either though so that was good.

On Wednesday morning we went out and just did the normal stuff and then my companion and I realised we had some appointments we needed to get to in Kempsey so we went back to our flat and realised we had no ks left to drive for the month and so we both slowly looked up at the bikes in the back of the garage. And looked at the each other and nodded our heads haha. So we biked from port to Kempsey and it normally is only like 55 kilometres if you take the highway but the highway is all under construction so bikers aren't allowed! So we had to take the old Maria river road which is like 80 kilometres to Kempsey and it is all dirt and pot holes and mountains. We smashed it though.  We did it in like 5 hours so we wouldn't be late. Our legs literally bruised we went so hard haha. We were fine by morning.,........,. Kinda when we had to bike back home. Our bums are so sore. It was a good experience though! I think we set a record for missionaries of the farthest bike in one day! 

So Thursday morning we got picked up by some elders from down past Taree as they were driving up for our zone training meeting. So that was all Thursday and Friday. They were good meetings though. It was nice to see the other missionaries. We all slept over at the zone leaders place so there were 14 missionary's packed into one small room hahah. It was fun though. I started this like volleyball dodgeball type thing and we did it for like an hour haha. 

On Saturday we went finding in the missions which is like our government housing. Here is where most of the aboriginal people live. We played with the kids and stuff and they all started following us around.We would knock on the door and the little aboriginal kids would say, well aren't you gonna let em in? And so we actually got a lot of return appointment thanks to them! It was a fun time. 

Sunday was hilarious! There is a lot of drama going on and it all came out on Sunday we were just sitting there like what the........ But we stayed out of it and just left cause it was getting way out of control. But ya they are all awesome people. I love all of them.

It's been a great week. I love you all and hope you have a great week. This is the true church. It's the same everywhere because Jesus Christ is at the head of it. Being a missionary is the best thing in the world. You don't need a name tag though. Reach out to your friends and share with them what you have. We don't ever need to fear because God has promised to always be with us.

Elder White