Hit the Year Mark!

But that's really true about the bad days... I've already come to learn what "success" is as a missionary though... your commitment... not your increase... such as baptisms etc. So the only bad days that I'm usually prone to is when I'm not committed... and if that's the case... it's my own darn fault I'm having a bad day... so I toughen up and put on a smile haha. But anywhooooo

This week was legen wait for it..... and I hope you're not lactose intolerant cause the next part of that word is DARY!!!!! So #1.. Hit the year mark... it really wasn't that big of a deal to be honest haha... It was kinda scary cause of how fast it went... but we had a little celebration of MadMex (the best mexican in the Central Coast for Australia... doesn't compare with Taco Bell though -_-)... It was sweet too cause 2 other Elders in my district.. we came in together.. so we had that... And we didn't burn anything, that's banned in our misison haha. And then to top off my year mark day... We taught a Seventh Day Adventist preacher... like this guy was no joke.. He's preached in Phoenix to Fiji... So we went into the Lion's Den.. The only reason I wanted to go back there is because he was baptized LDS when he was 18... then changed religions... so I wanted to know why... And during the lesson he was being super condescending and trying to rip our religion apart... But I just smiled and told him "I'll tell you one thing you can't criticize or deny... And that's my testimony...".. Then bore my testimony and then we left haha. It was pretty dang legit. 

Another legitamusness... this member in our ward... GAVE US A REFERRAL!!!!! No joke that's like rare as here... the members are all so great and want to do missionary work but very few turn into referrals... so we went to the members house for lunch on Saturday and the investigator was there and we taught them a lesson using an object lesson... so I'll try to explain... so first we got legos and constructed 2 bridges over lava..  then we told a story of how you want to go to disneyland but theres 2 roads washed out... luckily you have a bridgebuilder... and he builds them for you etc..... And each pitfall where the bridge covered represented something... so the first pitfall represented physical death... but Jesus Christ overcame that through his death and resurrection... the second pitfall was sin... and Jesus Christ overcame that through his Atonement and providing us the 5 steps the gospel of Jesus Christ... so then we had the 5 steps of legos... and at the very end we had the gatorade bottle inside a lego temple... and we did the egg thing... where you put rubbing alcohol and a match and it sucks the egg in... well we did that and the egg went BOOM!!! Hahah, it splattered like all over the table... and our little lego God got thrusted across the table as well.... And the egg going in the bottle was to represent us going into heaven and this one guy was like.. "you can get into heaven but you'll lose your skin and a couple arms" hahaha.