So, missionaries now have a new meeting called Leadership Training Meeting and it is over a two day period and Elder Hill was invited down to it so I worked in Cessnock with Elder Roberts. He is from Canada and we worked while his companion and my companion were down in Sydney at the meeting and not much happened. We tracted a lot and the highlight of our exchange was an ice cream cone from Mackers (that's McDonalds in Aussie) For mutual that week they had some guy teach self defense so we decided to go since we live next to the government housing refered to as Sin City. It was a fun activity and I am able to take out anyone now.
Once Elder Hill came back we just did the norm of work, work, work with the highlights of going to bed! Saturday night was Brother Brian Hill's birthday and he invited us to his birthday dinner because he found out that both Elder Hill's and my birthdays are in August so we went to a nice resturant called SSS which is a wanna be Texas Roadhouse but it was nice because I got ribs out of it! What more could you ask for! But I really was not in the mood to eat because it was transfer calls that night so you could guess what I was thinking about and the call came and..... they told me to pack.... and that was it! I had no idea where I was going, which, you could guess, was eating me alive. But I packed and got ready to leave Cessnock, a ward I love so much! So the following Sunday they asked me to bear my testimony and yes, you guessed it, I bawled my eyes out! It was in those few moments that I actually realized what my service in Cessnock did for me and how much I have grown! I am so sad to go but my work is done in Cessnock. So, Sunday I said goodbye to everyone and got some pictures with them. It was cool because Ryan and Robert blessed the sacrament. That was my favorite part of Church. Robert, Aly and Ryan gave me a card and a picture of them and us at their baptism. It is my most prized possesion from Cessnock!
So, the following Monday Elder Hill and I traveled down to Sydney. We had a meeting where the Assistants read where everyone is going and I have been moved to an area called Pendle Hill, in the Doonside Ward in the Hebersham Stake/Zone. To all of you that might not seem like anything special but it happens to be the area right next to Winston Hills where I was trained, like at this instance I can look out the window and say, "Oh, I knocked on that door!" I think it is funny and actually hope I might run into people I know and of course by still being obedient, don't worry, Mom! I am also the district leader of the Blacktown District. There are three other companionships in our district and one of them is a companionship of sisters...I know! I was disappointed, too! No, I am just kidding! Calm down, Mom, I am not a sister hater! I am actually excited to work with them because it seems they know what they are doing a lot more than most of the elders and we share Doonside Ward with them so I will work real close with them... but not too close. My companion is Elder Shearer from Boston. He has just finished being trained by Elder Brooksby from Glendale, AZ. I don't know if you remember me talking about him before I left. Elder Shearer is a straight arrow kid and he knows what he is doing and I am way excited to work with him and to shake Hell in Pendle Hill.
Basically that is it from me. I am still getting settled into my new flat. Mom I have not seen a map of the Sydney Mission. But if you look in the booklet I got with my call letter it is basically in there. They just merged the North and South Missions exactly how they were. I am happy you made it to President and Sister Scruggs homecoming. And, yes, I know I have told you that they brought their children out with them.
Well, I love you heaps as I just straight up love you!
Elder Landon Brough
With Elder Hill on his way out of Cessnock to new area
With new companion in Pendle Hill, Elder Shearer from Boston
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