September 25, 2011

well this week was bomb az. we started off with a p day playing basketball, and none of my shot would go in the basket. Doing wrestling and taking off 4 years of basketball really destroyed my bball skillz. that night we went and taught the tareha family its a maori family from new zeland the kidz and the mom were just recently baptized and now we are just trying to get the dad and the two older boys baptized...but their desire really isnt there so i guess we gotta be patient and put it into the lords hands. That night we did an exchange and i went with this little kid elder dade from johannesberg South africa, he is a hektek missionary. we saw miracles left and right it was good as. we also found this guy that told us to come back and when we went he just looked up anti mormon things and just started throwing down... so i said that is enough did you even read the book of mormon we left you with...then he tried avoiding the question. and the he said that he hadnt. We both testified of the truth and how he would be judged out of both books whether he likes it or not. Then he said we were going to hell. and elder dade started laughing and then we just invited him to church and were killing him with kindness. It is sad how rude some people can be. We found like 20 people that said they were interested that day it was insane. We had this family the Yeo/Norman family. we have been teaching them for about a month and they got baptized this weekend. it was awesome they were so prepared the mom gave up smoking the day we taught the word of wisdom and now they are members of the church...well not yet we were supposed to give them the holy ghost on sunday but kerry had some back problems and so she went to the hospital..so next week they will be members. we found this mom named stephanie she had just recently split from her husband she has two kids and we knocked on the door gave are pitch and she invited us in. but we couldnt go in cuz there was no male so she got some chairs and we taught her on her porch and then we went back and did some service for her and basically won her heart. so we are in good standing and hopefully she will recieve the gospel. definately a kingdom builder fo sheezy. we had and investigator Funaki Tuitupou, and he had committed him to church because he really wants to get baptized. we were pumped waiting for him to show up...but he never came we a call during elders quorum...funaki. He said elders im sorry i couldnt come i had an accident..What was it funaki?....oh nothing.. Nah mate tell us whats up?..My son rovy pooped all over my church clothes so i couldnt come today. We felt like that was a legitimate excuse. anyways this one was legend i love all you but i dont miss anyone except the nieces and nephews. happy birthday to maya and ethan good on ya mateys

September 19, 2011

well the week started out good we went on two tradeoffs this week. i went with a tongan elder from auckland new zeland elder uele. he used to be a professional rugby player and came along ways to get on his mission. we had heaps of fun i love islanders so care free and so happy all the time. lots of good things are happening right now we have been teaching an aussie family and they will be getting baptized on saturday it has been really cool watching the change from "Im Catholic, well in the catholic church they do this..." to " I want to be baptized so i can be washed clean and be with my family forever." we are still struggling to find people that are elect we talk to everyone we see, so just patience and dilligence and faith will give us some hopefully. Me and elder Comfort are having a blast still just doing the work but laughing at the same time. It is hektek. i went on a trade off two days ago with elder wang foo- a tahitian elder who just learned english he has only been a member for about a year now. When he would teach he didnt speak the best english but he had the purest teaching and the spirit was pumpin. we were driving back and he was teaching me some french because they speak that in tahiti. and i just thought how much god loves me to give me such cool as expirience riding in a car in wester suburbs of australia with an elder who speaks hardly any english from tahiti teaching me french and bringing the most important message to the world. We talked to each other about it and just laughed because it was too crazy. we had heaps of fun, now he calls me crazy utah boy. I was reading in the doctorine and covenants the other day i dont know where at but it was talking about how the reward comes after the tribulation. and it got me thinking about choice and how everything in life comes down to a choice. Our becoming is determined by our desire but desire is acted by our choices. we can either choose freedom or captivity, no one but ourself can interfere with with the outcome either good or bad. Me and elder comfort were tracting the other day and we found a dead dog on the side of the road. so of course i waited for the cars to stop coming and grabbed it and got a picture with it. so now i have a rat, a possum, and a dog. all i need now is a kangaroo. I havent seen one yet and this it is the national animal freak. maybe one transfer i will get sent to the bush.. who know.

September 12, 2011

Freak time gets going faster and faster, and im getting fatter and fatter. i hate food with a passion now we have about 3 tongan feeds everyday and it is catch up to my butt. i think i might go belimic. we are having the hardest time finding investigators. It has been about three weeks and we havent been able to find new investigators too teach. We have alot of good investigators right now but we need some new people to teach. this week we are really trying to focus on our goals but also charity me and elder comfort decided that we needed more of the pure love of christ in our life. im reading the new testament in acts and the apostles were the man! all of the apostles and prophets at that time were hardcore they were getting smashed thrown into prison and they still pressed forward in proclaiming the gospel to the world. we went to the temple today and it was sweet i always find it so hard to stay awake at the beginning i dont know what it is... elder comfort and i are having a blast we are and awesome team. we just gotta come up with some new ideas to get some investigators. we gotta think outside of the box. so i have started running everyday, i am slow as and i can feel my fat jiggle as my feet hit the pavement. freak i dont know what to do the just give us too much bread and KFC. but i love it at the same time. Australia is hektek, im not coming home alright bye.

September 4, 2011

 this new area i am in is da bomb i love it! we are having good success with the area and the people me and elder comfort are having heaps of fun. we are teaching this aussie family who is scheduled to be baptized this month. they lost their pops about a year ago and they are on fire ever since they have heard the gospel. We just have to help the mom get off cigarettes. We saw this maori lady get baptized. So now we are just waiting on the dad and the two younger boys to get dunked. We have been finding but we havent been able to find anyone leggit for a while but we keep on keepin on. we had a miracle this week we went to go print off some paper and one of the computer guys was asking elder comfort questions about our church. We left and while we were getting in the car one of the other employees came running "my friend wants one of those book of mormons." he told us that when we left he just kept asking questions. So this guy...mr Talmege? whos great great granpa was james e. told him to just read the book of mormon, and pray about it. a nonmember did missionary work for us. it was a pretty cool miracle for the week. we have got good things going on and we are just praying for things to get better.

August 30, 2011

hey so this week has sweet as we are trying our best to do this work to work it hard and to work it smart the ward i am serving is really good just heaps of islanders i may not know my scriptures by the end of my mission but i will know how to eat... we got a chin up bar at the flat so i can get stacked again. we have had some sweet miracles this week and i am loving every moment of it. I got put in this area president said, You are good at helping people who have had crappy lifes and that is why he put me here. Trent what is something that you can let me know that worked for you so that i can apply it out here. how did you get the members and the missionaries pumped?

August 22, 2011

well well well, look what we have here... i left my trainee elder watkins and got transfered to hebersham aka the heberstanki. We are right in the thick of it, the ghetto. But the coolest thing is i am with my Mtc Comp Elder Comfort. So im stoked its gunna be good. We have alot of things goin on in the area i dont know much and so i cant write anything really.. except i have a testimony on cleanliness. we deep cleaned our flat because it was filthy and we re dedicated it.. and it then felt like the celestial kingdom in there and so now for the rest of my life i have decided to clean up after myself. until next time hoorah for israel.