Our first Sunday

MAY 2, 2010 Sunday

Yay! We both got a good night’s sleep last night. Jet lag is for the birds. This morning I thought I’d start a crockpot dinner for us, but discovered the old crockpot here in the flat doesn’t work. So I just cooked some chicken so we could have a salad after church. Another great news thing is that our ward meets at 1 pm. I love it!
We started a companion study session this morning. We read about five minutes out of Preach My Gospel about contacting people. That led to a discussion of what we would take with us when we meet people, and we ended up spending the rest of the morning organizing the 2 bookshelves full of pamphlets, pass along cards, media, and Books of Mormon in at least 5 different languages.
Church was wonderful. We are assigned to work in the Jandakot Ward. It’s a new ward, created just a month ago, by combining 2 small wards. Testimony meeting was awesome. The people here are truly converted, at least the ones who come to church and bear testimony. And that leads us to our assignment here. Bishop Palm called us to his office, gave us a binder with the ward list and a bunch of “Contact Follow-up Forms.” He wants us to contact the 400 or so inactives in the ward and report back to him at Ward Council.
I really enjoyed Relief Society. The President taught and did a wonderful job. She teaches at the “uni.” A bunch of people greeted us and welcomed us to the ward. We came home, ate dinner, and just hung out here. Orson wasn’t feeling good.