So to the first part of the subject of my letter. Haunted Toilets. So first off the flat I live in at the moment is, for a lack of a better word, a hole. It is super old and ugly and now we are pretty sure it is haunted. The assistants, Elder Tou and I were relaxing in the lounge when all of a sudden we hear a loud clatter coming from the laundry room/toilet room. So being the curious people we are we went to investigate and to our horror, the only toilet in our flat had fallen over. Now we have no idea how this happened and there are many that do not believe my story but OUR TOILET JUST FELL OVER!!!! I know it does not make sense but it is a true story and was a big inconvenience! We had to make a few runs up to the office through out the week but as of late we have a toilet again but it was not a fun experience.
So last week we were busy cleaning and closing a flat. The first one we had to clean up was for a senior couple that was coming in. So Elder Tou and I were busy cleaning the flat up and throwing out a lot of the clutter missionaries aquire. I made my first trip to the tip! Tip is Australian for dump and surprisingly dumps still smell in the southern hemisphere. Beats me. But all last week we were getting that flat ready for Elder and Sister Lambarth from St. George. We also had to paint the flat with Elder Taylor. Elder Taylor is a service missionary. And he does not like fleet. Elder Taylor was part of the North Mission doing what fleet does and he doesn't like to have 20 year old kids intrude on his work. I am just going to leave it at that. I just love the office.
So I went finding in the city for the first time! Man was it intense! So like I said we have a teaching center in our mission and apparently there are only three teaching centers in the world and Sydney has one of them. Basically the church owns two floors of a high rise. One floor is a chapel and the other is a family history center and a bunch of rooms where they teach people. The atmosphere there is incredible and the missionaries there are always teaching and baptising there. I just love it, it is in down town Sydney right across from Hyde Park which I would say is the equivalent of Central Park in New York and there are just hundreds and hundreds of people passing you by. I have always been intimidated by this and the other day Elder Tou decided we would man up and give it a shot. So we talked to the missionaries there about what the best thing to do was and they said just walk down the street and hand out these flyers. They handed us a little flyer that said "Free English Class". So we hit the streets and anyone who was not white we talked to. It was fun because it was very fast pace. I actually ended up losing Elder Tou for a good 45 minutes but luckily we found each other and it is all good now. I love the city and I really hope I get to serve there at some point.
So enough rambling. Missionary work is going very very well! Since the last time I emailed you we have taught Peter and Nikki Lumsden twice and both times it has gone very very well. We were able to set a baptismal date with them for December fourth and they are both excited about it! I believe they are referred to as the elect in the scriptures. It has been a truly humbling experience and I am so happy I have had a chance to teach them and to be at the right place at the right time to be a part of their conversion! They are such a wonderful family! We taught them the "make or break" commandments the other night and everything went really well! I am excited to continue to work with them!
Peter and Nikki own a health product company called Lumsden Health Products. They just recently came out with a weight loss product called The Latin Seed and basically it is a seed that you drink with warm water and it helps you lose weight. Don't worry it is all organic. So Nikki and Peter hooked us up with a free sample. Basically it is a cleansing thing and it is suppose to just clean your body out. And I can testify that only being on it for two days, it CLEARS you out! But I am down to lose some weight. So we will see how that goes!
Anywho, I love you all so much. Congrats Jordan on the engagement. I am excited to be able to get to know another sister in law! I love you all heaps!
Elder Landon Brough
The "haunted" toilet
With Elder Taylor, a service missionary, and Elder Tou at the Chatswood flat
With my zone, the Greenwich Zone
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