The First Video Chat - 22nd July 2020

Elder East took the opportunity of video chatting with us during his first P Day (Wed 22nd July).

Here are a few dot points that provide some additional information to his weekly email.

• Their flat is a three-bedroom ground floor unit in the suburb of Klemzig. They all sleep in one room, and the other two rooms are done up for studying.
• The other new missionaries believe that the AAM Mission President is stricter with the rules than in some other missions.
• They've been busy undertaking the AAM MTC that the mission had set out for them. They have two Zoom Meetings per day - one with the Mission President & his wife, whilst the second one has had different people each time. 
• They got the chance to hold their own Sacrament meeting last Sunday.
• As a part of the AAM MTC, each of the missionaries will have to give three talks over the two week period.
• Seth is looking forward to trying to cook chicken stroganoff - his flat does have a slow cooker :) He helped one fo the other missionaries cook home-made hamburgers & chips over the weekend
• The three Polynesian Elders in the flat cover the three major Polynesian peoples - Elder Roberts is Maori, Elder Ma'a is Samoan and his companion Elder Nalesoni is Tongan.  
• There are apparently some Mandarin-speaking wards in Adelaide, so there's a chance he could end up serving in a language ward.
• He accidentally left his sneakers at home, but we've since mailed them to him (along with some treats.) He hadn't received them as of yet.

He did also text us later in the day for advice as he'd managed to burn his thumb and it was quite painful.