Training

This week was super awesome though!!! So as you know I worked in the city from Monday-Wednesday which was HEAVEN!... Then we went to Carlingford Wednesday to meet all the new missionaries... We walked in and there were 6 elders and 11 sisters and we had orientation and got to know them.... We then sat in a circle... and they started assigning companions one by one.... then it came down to 2 last people.... and 1 got assigned and so me being the last I obviously knew who it was... So I ran across and hugged him hahaha, then President Howes was like... "Now now... don't jump to conlcusions...."... So I went and sat back down.... "Elder Ball... You will be training.... wait for it...... Elder O!".... Then we went and reenacted scene 1 hahaha. It was such a cool experience going through the new missionary meetings... It's gross though thinking about 10 1/2 months ago I was sitting in their shoes.... (throwup). So after we got our new companions we went to a random families house in Baulkham Hills Stake to have dinner and have the new missionary teach them! Twas really nice! Then after some more meetings for all of Thursday we finally got back to our area about 9pm haha. But here's where the miracles come in... There's this special assignment we got from our Ward Mission Leader... this Part Member family.... They had been Less Active for about 3 years... and the 3 months I've been in this area we met them only twice and the mum was never home... and so we took a member to go visit them after I felt a prompting to go.... lo and behold... THEY WERE HOME!... And we hit it off really well and she said to us... "You know it's funny you came by... Just on Monday I was thinking we needed to go back to church"... And she has 2 un-baptized children... one of them that wants to serve a mission...and so she finally committed to let them go to church and then we're going over next week to have FHE with them and teach the kids! It was indeed a tender mercy from the Lord! There's a lot of progress going on so we'll see what happens in the future!