Mission Report No 46

The last lunch - l to R Chadburn, Black, Spackman,
Ricks, Schick, Hamilton, Ceff and Ceff

Monday 15th February 2023

Apart from an early bike ride/workout in the park/bike ride home, I think today was pretty much an at home day with probably lots of rain. Most days for the last week or two it seems, it has rained an inch or two.

Tuesday 14th February 2023

Today, being the last P-day that we will all be together as a District (most likely anyway) we had all the Elders to our place for lunch.

After lunch we took our new friend Lois to a medical appointment. Lois is indigenous lady, originally from Palm Island, and has lived all around Queensland but has just in the year or so moved to Cairns. She saw an advertisement the Church had on Facebook and has been taught by the young Elders and has been to Church twice. She has also been to dinner at the Ziegelbauers and the Mitchells with us. Both of those families (who are very closely related) are Torres Strait Islanders, so she has felt at home with them, even though the TSI people seem quite different to the aboriginal people, and have different cultures.

Wednesday 15th February

This evening I interviewed Kcee Udonsi who lives in Nigeria. It was a real pleasure to interview this young returned missionary who is a very committed member of The Church.

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This evening we taught the Temple Preparation class, with the Wilferts attending in person at our place and the Eruetis attending via Zoom.

Thursday 16 February 2023

Today we were excited to meet Sue, the Fijian lady that we met while shopping last week. She is not a member of The Church, but she has two children who are, and one of them, her son, is about to serve a mission. We invited Elders Hamilton and Schick along too, and she enjoyed meeting them. We met down at Muddy's Cafe, on the Esplanade, overlooking the Coral Sea. It was really nice until the weather blew up a bit - that's the wet season in Cairns!

Friday 17th February 2023

Early start today with breakfast at the Kimi'ias, then flat inspections with our young Elders, and then a visit with the Atherton Elders, Black and Chadburn, to the Cashmores. It turned out to be that last time we saw Elder Chadburn as he is being transferred down to Brisbane. It was a good visit with them all. One thing that really seemed to impress the Cashmores was that we told them that there is a 92 year old lady that the Elders are teaching who is getting baptised soon. We told them that we will come to Church up in Atherton this coming Sunday, and then they said that they might both come, so they can meet her!
Looking down from the top of the mast of
John's yacht, that I was up on last week,
helping to fix it. Yes, that's my foot. It's 9 metres high.


Saturday 18th February 2023

Busy day!

Tai Chi class at 8.00am.

10.30am Helping a Church member clean his flat that he and his daughter are moving out of. 

3.00pm Deidre's baptism, which was a really special occasion for all involved. We have been helping the young Elders teach Deidre for almost a year. Elders Dollery and Pemberton baptised her son, Gregory, and the family have been taught by every set of missionaries covering the Gordonvale area since then, so it has been a long time coming.

L to R Elders Spackman and Ricks, Deidre.


Sunday 19th February 2023

Attended both Cairns branches today and I spoke in 1st Branch. Only got to give half my talk as there were two previous speakers who took up most of the time, but they were both very good.




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