Dinky Di Aussie

- Tradeoffs with my Soa Sister Mariner! She's in the Samoan ward and we went to a Samoan Birthday party at the church building. Soooo fun. Oh my. One day President will let Sister Mariner train me in the Samoan program. They also made me eat heaps because I was the only palagi in the room haha. Elder U (From Thailand, don't know how to spell his name) and Elder Foa'i (from Samoa)

-Our less active's son Sempre. Half Indian, half Filipino. He is a monkey! We were teaching his mom in the middle of a lesson and next  thing I know he's on top of my head hahah. He calls me Tita Becky, Tita is auntie in Tagalog. 

-Finally he would do a nice picture with me. You should see the other 50 tries. 

-My soa made me try Balot, I almost vomitted. If I look scared out of my mind, you are correct. It's a premature baby chick. I've repented since.

So it's Australia Day this week and boy am I PUMPED. Dinky di Aussie is a phrase the Aussies say which means like "Die hard Australian" or "Forever an Aussie" or "I would die for Australia" you get the picture. Everyone everywhere has been sporting their Australian flag and apparel, it's awesome. 

Yesterday in sacrament, one of the speakers spoke about my favourite movie 42, which is about Jackie Robinson in 1947. They watched it as a family and the little girls had heaps of questions for their parents. Like why they kept picking on Jackie and such. But that was 1947, fast forward to 2017 and look at us now. How lucky are we to live in such a time as this in a place where freedom prevails and we have great opportunities to serve our Heavenly Father. I read my patriarchal blessing this morning and those beautiful words stood out to me as I pondered about this great country that I'm living in where there's a big blend of many different cultures living peacefully together. It's unbelievable. We come across heaps of refugees and immigrants who tell us their stories about their lack of freedoms in their homeland. They are the most humble and happy people I've ever met. And it's because they aren't taking this freedom they've been given for granted. So take some time today and appreciate all of your many blessings, and exercise your freedom by sharing the gospel today :)

Love you all! 

Sister Beck

-So fetchin hot it's been 43 degrees Celcius all this week which is like 108 F?

-Not allowed to swim as a missionary...I don't even like swimming but in this heat, never have I felt more tempted to swim haha

-My soa is so cute I could just eat her up :)

-Our investigator's grandkids from Vietnam, they're sooooo cute