Video Chat - 09th December 2020 - "Melt your mum's harry"

 Elder East started off the day by sending through a bunch of photos of his district to us. They were farewelling two missionaries - Sister Davie and Elder Platon - who were finishing their missions and had taken these photos at the district farewell on the Monday.

Elissa was so happy to see so many photos of Elder East sent through ...as you can tell by her response.

A summary of some of the other things discussed during the chat:

• Elder East got to do his first baptismal interview the previous Wednesday. It was of a nine-year-old child of a member who hadn't yet been baptised because of the pandemic. Seth said he enjoyed doing the interview.
• Elder East enjoyed his trade-offs with Elder Onekawa, one of the missionaries from the Onkaparinga Ward. He said that their area is one of the strong baptising areas in the mission.
• Elder East thinks that the mission rules are more strict now than they were "back in our days."
• He received a Christmas present from Dannielle, but he's been good and hasn't opened it yet.
• Elissa was trying to get suit size details from Elder East so that we can get him a new suit for Christmas. (FYI, pants are 34, jacket is 40.)
• They've been speaking and working with the Ward Mission Leader a bit.
• They had an investigator at Church today that they taught afterward. He's receptive but has some challenges. They're trying to keep daily contact with him.
• One of the Sisters from Brisbane was going to head home early due to some health issues.
• Transfers is in the coming week (16th Dec). He knows that they'll have at least 3 Elders and one Sister going home, and unsure of any new missionaries coming in, so it looks like the mission will be contracting again.
• Elder East was surprised to learn that missionaries are heading out from the US to other countries again. It's likely to be a long time before any are allowed into Australia.
• We spoke about how Damon R from his home ward is getting his mission papers ready. Damon and I had joked that it would be funny if he ended up in the AAM and was trained by Elder East. Elder East thought it would be funny too.