I am in Tasmania!

Tasmania!!!

So a few days before transfers I got a phone call saying I have to pack super light. Everyone knows what that means. I was getting transferred to Tasmania, an island south of Australia.  What happened after that phone call all went by super fast. Everyone was saying goodbye to me at church. People who get transferred to Tasmania usually stay for 4+ months. I said goodbye to everyone, and had dinner with some friends.  Then we went to transfer meeting which was super sad because a few missionaries that I was close to went home including Elder Wang, one of the missionaries who trained me.

I stayed the night at the Assistant to the Presidents’ house. It is a pretty big flat. The next morning we woke up at 4:30 and went to the mission office, ate breakfast, and then got on a bus to the airport. All of the missionaries returning home were also on that bus, so we got to talk.  We said our last goodbyes, and then we went to our terminal. There were a few other missionaries going to Tasmania with me, but I did not know any of them. The plane ride was an hour.

I met my new companion at the airport, and we drove home and got settled in.  Our apartment is super nice (because it used to belong to the sisters). It has a nice view of the ocean. I will send a picture.

So most of the work we do is at University of Tasmania. There are a fair amount of Chinese students. We have some good investigators.  My first week we had a baptism. His name is Duke. So setting up the baptism was a little stressful, but it all went well. Elder Xiao and I sang because I have been given much in Chinese. Duke is cool. He is a student from Guangdong. He is kind of quiet and likes star trek.

I do not have much time left to write. Today we will try to go to the city for our p-day, or just look at the ocean. This morning we helped one of our investigators enroll their daughter in school. My Chinese is still not good enough to be an interpreter, but we were able to get her enrolled. There is a ton of tourism here, but we are still not sure what we want to do for the rest of our p-day. 

Until next week.