Australian accents please!

Hello my wonderful family!

Im really missing hearing the Australian accent right now.. Weird hey but all these RRRRRss are obnoxious to my ears at the moment hehe. Well not really but I am just craving a little bit of Aussie! People here are still loving my accent. It really has been nice, well a blessing as people seem to warm up to me pretty quick. I hope I hang on to it!

Any way to the important stuff.. Last night we began teaching Paul! An 87 year old man who is sooo cute! I just love him already. He is really really lonely and misses his wife who passed away a year and a half ago. We began teaching him the Plan of Salvation and he was like... can you just skip to the part where you tell me how I will be with my wife again. Then we would be like.. well this is all important so that you understand that a little better.. then he would just keep interrupting like a little kid and Sister Krauss kept trying to keep going on the lesson. Then I was just like thats it, quit talking we are giving him what he wants (nicer obviously).. so I layed out the whole plan and described the three degress of glory. Then I explained the spirit world and told him where she is waiting for him and that he needs to help her be able to get baptised and make it to the celestial kingdom too. Then quite plainly I said" to be with your wife again you will need to get baptised for you, and then in the Temple baptised for her and them be sealed to her for time and all eternity. Then he was listening and we made progress. It was the weirdest Plan of Salvation lesson ever but the Spirit was still strong. He asked a ton of questions that I have never been asked before. We ended up explaining the war in heaven really basically, the millenium, when Satan will be bound etc and he looooved the atonement! That was a very spiritually strong part of the lesson. I got to bare testimony time and time again. It was awesome! We brought some of my most favourite people in the whole world as fellowshippers.. Brother and Sister Jacobs! They did a great job too! Plus! There was one part in the lesson that Sister Krauss listened to what he had said and found the perfect story in the book of Mormon to help him with that and then she described and applied it perfectly! I felt like screaming Hallelujah!!!! I praised her a gazillion times for that! It was what I have just spent the last two weeks trying to teach her to do! Ahhh happy.

We have been working with an excommunicated man as well and he is getting rebaptised this Saturday. It has been a really really rewarding process watching him change and build spiritual strength in this time. Everytime we have gone to his house the spirit could be felt so much stronger. He studies his scriptures for all his lessons is just super dedicated. This week I felt inspired to talk to them about the Temple. I found two talk side by side from this last conference. I forget who by now but one was the cute one from Richard G Scott about how cute he was to his wife. But we primarily used the other one. It was a teary lesson and I know that was what heavenly truly Father desires for him and his wife. They deserve it too.They have worked so hard.

We are teaching two Spanish speaking families that are so amazing! The one that we tracted into two weeks ago.. for their second lesson they got all dressed up and brought their daughter and had kept all of their committments! We have to hand them over to the Spanish Elders but I dont want too! hehe but it is the right thing to do and so I will.

Things have been going pretty good this last week. We are being richly blessed in this area and I know this will continue. I wish I could stay here forever!

I dont know if you can all tell but I am really really loving my mission. There have been some super hard times for me lately where I have just wanted to curl up in a ball and refuse to move. I can see the changes that are coming in the area and in me from these though. We truly should rejoice in our trails and I have sought to do that. I have not been perfect in that but I have truly been trying to do that. I don't think that I am the same person I was 5 weeks ago. It just makes me wonder what else God has instore. His tender mercies have flown here in abundance.

I have also been blessed with letters in this last week! Thank you so much!

Well I love you all and miss you all.

Sister Huckfeldt