I got transferred and got a new companion. Well sort of new. I have been companions with Elder Eyring before, and I am back with him again. We do very well together. And I know someone is going to ask me this, so I will just say yes, he is Elder Henry B Eyring's grandson. Since we are both newer missionaries, we are studying the language super hard and doing tons of role plays to practice teaching.
We switch off a lot more since neither of us are . . . well . . . fluent. But speaking of the language, I feel my Chinese improved a ton with Elder Bassett. The biggest problem is still vocabulary, but I am much more comfortable street contacting and making phone calls in Chinese. Some missionaries from the Chinese zone went home during transfers.
Zhan Jie Mae and Hsu Jie Mae went home. They were really funny sisters from Taiwan. Everyone misses them. Also, the Lins went home. They were a senior couple from China. Apparently they were the first senior missionaries from China to serve a mission. They were so kind, and they always helped us with the language, and accompanied us for some of our lessons.
Our zone is a little smaller now, but we did get a couple more elders, including my MTC companion Elder Padilla! He had to visa wait for a little, but he is here now! We still laugh about things that happened at the MTC.
That member that I baptized moved into our area. She is opening up a small business, so she is going to be super busy with that and taking care of her daughter. We are going to visit her tomorrow and mow her lawn.
We had dinner with Niel a couple of days ago. He is a recent convert that got baptized right about the time that I came to Australia. He moved back to China. Last week he visited Australia for a few days. We had dinner with him at Dominoes Pizza. He just left back to China today, probably forever.
Since we got "doubled in" to a new area, we are calling all of the investigators and trying to set up times to meet with them. This week we only got to meet with one investigator twice. Her name is Bonnie. She is a College student. I remember her because she came to an activity once, and they shared a spiritual thought and asked some questions about the gospel, and she answered all of them like perfectly.
I don't know if I mentioned this, but in a few weeks we are going to have the privilege to hear from Elder Bednar. He is going to speak, and he asked us to prepare some questions to ask him. Super excited! On Thanksgiving, he gave a talk at the MTC. He is still one of my favorite speakers.
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