Hey y’all!
The weeks are just flying by. I feel like I just emailed yesterday.. x) Hope you’re not getting too tired of hearing from me all the time haha

This week was pretty good! We went and visited one of our investigators, Anna, in the morning on Wednesday and she is doing well. Sometimes it’s hard to know whether or not she invites us over because she likes us or our message. But either way, every time we go she tells us how much it means to her and how she knows God loves her because we always come when she needs us. So we’ll keep going back. 🙂 After we visited her we went over to a member’s house and spent some time with them. It was really great because they invited their niece over, who is not a member. We shared a message about Easter and it was really nice and low key. It helped everyone involved and it wasn’t that hard. It made me happy knowing that member missionary work can be so simple and can touch so many lives in a matter of 10-45 minutes. I love being a missionary! And so can you! 😀 We wrapped the night up by teaching the Young Women’s mutual activity which was SO fun. So look out Canberra because the Woden Young Women now know how to make Thai Stir-fry and No-Bake Cookies. haha 🙂
On Thursday we went and visited Kate. She is so great! She has so much potential but so little support. It’s sad, but great things are in store for her! Then we went and visited a less active sister. Oh my goodness, little old less active ladies are one of my favorite parts of missionary work. They are so funny!! So much spunk and tenacity! so, WHY ARE YOU NOT AT CHURCH? x) haha maybe one day! Then that evening we went with Sister Edwards to visit the Dempsters (a part member family where the 3 kids are members but the parents are not). It was a really great evening with a fun Easter message. I love Sister Edwards and the Dempsters! It was a great day and great to see members of the ward bond with those who are struggling and who aren’t yet members. Which was fantastic because as a result Sister Dempster (not a member) and her daughter Isla came to church on Sunday and had an incredible time!! 🙂 I’m praying that things go well for them(: the whole family is planning on coming next week for Easter. Pray for them please!

On Friday we had our district meeting in the morning as usual and then we had a very interesting lesson. A member had invited us over for service but when we got there, she was stressed. So she simply asked us to sing hymns with her and share scriptures about the hymns. It was a really neat and calming experience. I adored it! Then we went and saw our beloved Amanda! She’s doing SO great! We reviewed the baptismal interview questions and she seems to be really confident and excited for her baptism in a few weeks! Please keep her in your prayers that her desire will continue to grow and that she’ll be able to enter into this covenant! 🙂

Saturday was pretty good. We went and saw Yvette and she’s doing well. After last week, she is kinda hesitant on the whole baptism thing but she’s still keen on learning about the gospel. She’s progressing, slowly but surely. 🙂 We also went and visited a family in the Ward that has had an absolutely crazy past few months. They’re a fabulous family though and I’m so grateful that as we prayerfully prepare lessons to share with them, we always hear the mum say, “Sisters, how did you know?!” It’s always a testimony builder that the Lord is here working with us. I love this gospel!

Sunday was quite an adventure… We got yelled at by an angry member, our investigators that we were planning on seeing at church disappeared even though we had been talking to them that morning, Sister Teahe (our flat mate) left to go back to Tahiti so that was hard… yea, it was looking like a pretty rough day. But when “our hearts were depressed and we were able to turn back” (Alma 26:27), we went back to the chapel after we said goodbye to Sister Teahe and talked to Bishop Seumalu. Well, there is a couple in the ward that has been coming for a while, they’re just dating but pretty seriously. He starting coming back to church a few months ago when they started dating… but there’s a twist. We all, including himself, thought he was just less active and then started coming back. BUT HE WAS NEVER BAPTIZED!!!!!! 😱 So yea, we’re going to hopefully start teaching him the lessons this week so he can prepare to be baptized SOON. what a MIRACLE! And then after we talked to him, this less active lady from another ward and her nonmember friend just walked into the chapel and we met them and they invited us over.  So it’s okay for days to totally stink, because the silver lining is always thicker than the cloud. 🙂

Being a missionary is the absolute best thing in the world! Sometimes, okayy.. a lot of times, the struggle is real and being home would be a lot more enjoyable and a lot less exhausting…. But it’s only about ten minutes after those moments that something happens and I realized how blessed I am to be where I am doing what I am doing. Being a member of the church and my testimony of how I know Christ because of it is the biggest blessing of my life and it’s such an honor to be able to try to help others experience the same! The church is true(: Have a blessed week, and endure to the end!
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​Love y’all heaps!

Sister Swan

​Pics:
the District!!! haha we’re weirdys..
and saying goodbye to Sister Teahe (on the right end..) man…. who am I gonna speak French with now?!?! 😞​
Hot air balloons!!! it’s been Canberra’s balloon festival at the capitol hill and we can see the balloons from our balcony!! 🙂 with Telstra Tower in the background on Black “Mountain” haha