How is everything going stateside? Tassie is still good; its warming up here! We also went to Mello this last Thursday for a meeting and it was HOT (We have been up to Melb so many times in the last few months. By mid-Nov I might have enough frequent flier points to ride business class from Melb to the USA haha!) the meeting we went to was really great though. They shared a recording of a talk by Simon Sinek called "Why good leaders make you feel safe." (Approved by Pres Maxwell because he is not a member of the church :)) It was really eye-opening; it make me realize how important it is to really care about the people you work with. Sinek shared a story in the speech about a company that was in heavy debt during a financial crisis and needed a couple million dollars. Some of the leaders of the company discussed laying off people, but the head of the company refused to do so. He instead announced that everyone in the company would have to take four weeks of unpaid vacation sometime over the next few months. He said they could take it all at once or a bit by bit over the period of time. His reasoning it it is better that everyone go a little without than for anyone to lose their job. The response from the company was enormous. The company made twice the amount of money they needed to cover the debt. Many of the worker who were more well-off took extra days of unpaid vacation so others could go to work. The point of the speech: when you provide a safe environment for those who you work over or around, people will respond with trust. Jesus Christ is of course the best example of this. He was bold in his defense of truth, but still responded with forgiveness and compassion to the repentant. His motive for everything He did was LOVE and it made all the difference.
Other than the meeting, we have seen a lot of progress with a lot of our instigators. Especially Harry. We shared with him about the temple this last week and he was really into it! We asked him if he would like to go to the temple with the ward on November to do baptisms and he said "YES!" Not sure how it will work though...Because his date for Nov. 9th and he would still have to wait a week to get the gift of the Holy Ghost and get a recommend...oh well. We will work it our somehow if he really wants to go up to Melbourne for it.
Sister Chan just said to me this morning, "You're going home in 3 weeks. Hash-tag" Weird to think about. Got to use every moment!
Love Sister Bennion
Before Russell Falls....
Nice and soggy after Russell Falls!
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