June 24, 2012

alright well you are the only one that has emailed me for the last 2 weeks so i am going to only

email you congratulations. Well we are just pushing along trying to help these people progress

in the gospel we are working hard and having fun so we are coming close to some more baptisms

but at the same time it is a little bit hard. There are two people that i have met since i have been

here in this area One of them is helene and patrick both of them i see ocasionally on the street

sometimes they dog me and sometimes the listen. for about 14 weeks this has been going on

i am really tired of talking to the people and i am pretty sure they are annoyed with me...but on

sunday as we walked back to church i saw helene and i put my head down and thought to myself

i am tired of talking to this girl...but then the still small voice said you need to talk to her again

but i really didnt want to so against my will i submitted to the spirit and proceeded to invite helene to

hear the gospel for probably the 18th time not joking....and she agreed haha. Next patrik he always

sets up appt. and then never comes but when i see him on the street he tells me he wants to know

his purpose in life? so i saw him sunday night after he rejected our calls and failed to reply to our txt

messages and i was no longer elder stoddard i became dj stoddard and i just said patrik what is your

problem and gave him a reality check and told him how it was...and he said i want to learn right now! haha

so me and elder seok were able to talk to him about the plan of salvation. the miracles never cease in the

work of the lord even though we are not worthy for his glory he always blesses us with tender mercies every

day that keep us thriving in this work...we just gotta find the one.

June 17, 2012

The week was good we had a baptism the dudes name was dexter

he is definately a kingdom builder for sure. we have had a very good

week lots of spiritual expirences and we have had alot of fun as well

we have alot of potential coming up we are looking to get about 5

people dunked before i leave this australian soil.. President Simmons

leaves next week its a bit stink that i will have a new mission president

for my last 3 weeks well you cant win them all right?? Elder Seok is

is really good it is amazing that you can make friends with people that

make little to no english with a completely different culture, that is the

beautiful thing about the gospel and the beautiful thing about australia.

things are good i am happy

elder stoddard

June 12, 2012

Well well well i survived another transfer in the busiest area

of the mission one more to go ladies... Elder seok is killing

me off that little dirty korean elder. I think he is more excited

for the things i will leave for him. this week has been awesome

I have really felt an added measure of the spirit the week

because i prayed and fasted that these next 6 weeks will be ones

to remember...Elder seok and i recieved special permission to go

to the temple today, it was awesome. we both recieved some really

good answers to direct us. It look like i have time for another miracle

to share with you all. We have been teaching a phd student named rick

he is from china we have been teaching for about three months now

and he really has a testimony of revelation and the book of mormon,

he is ready for baptism right now all he is lacking is coming to church

we taught him the sabbath day holy, he was a little doubtful so he told

us that he would pray and ask god if he needed to go to church on sunday

the next lesson he explained that he got a very strong answer from god.

The only problem is it can jepordize his apprenticeship for his PHD!! that he

only has 1 more year to complete... we testified that god would provide a way

that his supervisor would allow him 3 hours on the sunday. Rick accepted the

committment to talk to his supervisor but he was very scared because his

future was on the line.. that night we got a txt...He talked to his manager and

his mananger said that it was unbelievable that he believed in god(both of them come from buddhist background)

his manager tried to persuade to stop believing in this nonsense but rick

on the otherhand stood strong like nephi and told his supervisor how he really felt

and his supervisor has given him permission to attend church yes....

June 3, 2012

The week was good i had a lot more energy this week
we had alot of miracles we were able to get some more

people to church and i think a good story for the week is

our friend dexter. This week he came to church and he

had a new suit....dexter what kind of suit is that, dont

worry about it so i looked on the inside and it said HUGO BOSS

haha Dexter spent 2,000 dollars on a suit to come to church

in and we found out that he drives a ferrarri back home in china

as well...who says the rich dont accept the gospel...anyways love

everyone talk to you next week.