Feb 22...with pictures!! Finally!

Its going to be a boy mate, sorry to break it to you, bro i am not near the floods and im still on the northern beaches. we had a way cool week Were are working both wards now on the northern beaches. We found heaps of miracles this week a leboneze family a brazillian surfer chick and a chinese kid Zheng. It was a miracle week. I have a strong testimony of ask and you shall recieve the past weeks i have been asking for people to teach and it has been happening. I realized the the first 5 months i wasnt even asking for them. We found a baby ringtail possum on the street riding our bikes home and we got to hold it and play with it we got home a little late because of it but we felt it was a tender mercy from the lord they are way cool so look at some pictures of baby ring tail possums. Indy is what i was going to name my kid, so tough luck. im sending some pictures, on pday we went to long reef look out point and looked in the tide pools and found jelly fish and crabs so we are gunna send some pics with this. Oh and just so you know it right by the water..and no we are not apostate so no worries about that. Elder Brough is my comp the big one with glasses, and Elder mcconkie yes...bruce r'z grandson and elder branco a brazillian elder.

February 13, 2011

We had a crazy week, Elder Monson my son got emergency transferred and i have a new companion named Elder Brough he is from Arizona hes been out here for about 16 months he has some depression anxiety problems at the moment and almost went home 2 days ago because of it... i think they stuck him with to work his butt off so he doesnt have time to get depressed. We have some good potential but we havent had a baptism for about 2 months now and its making me frustrated. but its been good im still in the northern beaches and i will pry be here for a longer time seens how this Emergency transfer came out of nowhere, i know this area now like i know murray so thats pretty good. We had a insane tracting week we got in 4 houses and taught 2 familys it was hektek. We have a guitar at our flat...finally. and no its not apostate to have them here. They even play guitar at the pulpit here in aussie. But its been really good having music again alot of my stress is just gone because i can play again. Im wearing out of the brown mercedes benz shoes i got and my black ones are keeping up alright i had to buy some "church" shoes that i only wear at church so they dont get munted. i lucked out only 15 dollars, and if i got at a store that wasnt like D.I. they wouldve been like 300$ so pretty much everything is expensive as, all my clothes i have to wear em and wear em out mate! Everything is sweet as we just gotta get a baptism and then all will be good. One Love too everyone back home and what is the Babys Name gunna Be??

February 6, 2011

Sweet az man you are the man, your lucky you get to make friends with general authorities... man i cant get my head over this, but i told myself that i could never get into the gospel...mate im in it and i love it. it is hektek we had a really really good week we taught 7 member presents this week our zone got twenty. Our investigators are pretty much at the point where if they dont get baptized then they are going to have alot of explaining to do. Carol is our stubborn one she still thinks that there is not one truth but all is true no matter how much we explain to here nothing seems to be working haha i guess patience is the key matey. It was really good though, Watches...if your on the lords time you know life is taking its course of who you are and where you are going, with your own watch plus the lords watch...it can get confusing. Humility is the answer and complete trust in the lord obidience is the key. Man my suit is officially drowning me and falling off me i think im going to send to youz with the family aussie gifts because it is just taking up space. anyways im lost in the work and i am falling in love with it keep it real on the roo! elder stoddard

January 20, 2011

Man This week has been the worst week since ive been here so
far...Elder Monson is starting to think that he is the man and was
complaining the whole week about how lame our week was, but i just
told him too suck it up and to grow up! we are dropping investigators
with the hope of finding some new ones that will start progressing we
are teaching an old lady named carol she has come to church 4 times
and she is doing real well she just needs some time because she is
older and thinks she knows too much to give it all away. Elder Monson
has a foot fungus and i cant stand it anymore i told him that if it
doesnt get fixed then im going to have to call president and get him
to the doctor. We are getting super skinny because we dont have time
to eat dinner because were on foot and we have to find some people to
teach.
were in a 3 way right now with the district leader because his tongan
fob companion jumped off the balcony and jacked up his legs. I
finished the book of mormon for the 2nd time and right when i finished
i just felt the spirit confirm to me that it was true. im trying to
just stay positive and be consecrated because that is pretty much all
i can do right now. Elder Monson is getting a little too comfortable
and is slacking, slobbing and making us late...i dont know what to do
i tried being nice but that wasnt getting through his head. I dont
know what i should do to light the fire under him again i love the kid
but oh my! grow up. Im still in freshwater starting the 4th transfer
here everything is good in the neighborhood.

January 17, 2011

WEll i just wrote a big az letter and noone responded....? So anyways we had a special suprise last friday Elder Anderson from the 12 came and spoke to us?? out of nowhere, it was hektek! he taught us heaps of cool things Elder Callister was there and Bishop Edgeley from the presiding Bishopric. When elder Anderson taught us he Said that were not out there to show people how to be saved instead of hell but how to bring them closer to Jesus Christ and feel the Love of God then The spirit will take care of the Rest. Elder Anderson Bore Testimony, and it was incredible...i thought this guy really really knows. we went home woke up, and found 6 new investigators the next morning its awesome. Elder monson Faith and my Faith went up and so the Miracles went up it is sweet az.we taught a lady at her house but the rule is you cant teach them in there house without a male. so i sat on her porch and taught her through her screen door it was awesome. Elder monson fell on his bike saturday, it was a tender mercy from the lord for me. We met a born again christian he cooked us dinner and was way nice...once dinner was over he opened the bible and started bashing...uggggh. I said well lets read from the book of mormon and you can find out for yourself. we started to open up and Elder Monson started bashing with him, i was going to kill the kid. we found a less active who is from new way islannds who hasnt been to church for who knows how long. ITs crazy this week we plan our finding hours, and then we dont get time to find because within the first couple houses they let us in and we start teaching i dont know what happened but the lord is blessing us and i have no complaints.

January 9, 2011

Alright ill try too write more, but man i just dont like emailing or writing and i know that you were the same way, because we are pretty much the same. Alright morning too sundown...630 wake up depending on how groggy i am i either sit and think, or slide right on too my knees and say my morning prayer. Depending on whether the night was hot az or chilly decides whether i am sweating perfusally. I get up and take my morning pee, i always drip on the seat. And both elder goodrich, and elder monson get mad at me for it. Because they both pee sitting down. i go in and make the bed, and look at my self in the mirror. By now Elder Monson is still saying his "prayer" but the spirit just told me that he actually fell asleep on his knees. I Slap his but and tell him to go exercise, He Then gets mad and says he was praying.... but i just asked him and he said he is asleep. Elder monson smells horrible his sweat is awful and he has a foot fungus. So i make him put his socks and shoes on the patio. After he goes in the other room to exercise i pull out the push up bar and do 50 the i use some rusty az dumbells and do some other exercises. Im so much smaller than when i came out. I get in the shower and our shower head almost pierces my skin. It leaves welts on my back. I get out and shave my face, im getting quite a bit of face hair now.. I go and pick out my tie for whatever i am feeling and pull out my wrangler dress pants. Get my white shirt and go iron it. so it is crisp. Depending if im hungry or not i cook some food or just do cereal. I go slick my hair put my glasses on, Which some old dumb man told me i needed new glasses because im a nerd? Man thats why some people become less active. 800 Comes and on the knees when my watch beeps to do personal study i Start with something in Preach my Gospel and then either plan for my investigators: Carol, Anjali/Akash, Casanova, Sakiasi, Ramhuri,Chris, Jacob, Sandie, Charolette/ Wendi. Then i read some new Testi or some BOM.Get down at 900 and start some comp study. We read white handbook, discuss personal study, and then depending on who the companion is we do different things. Elder Goodrich just talked to me about life usually, but since im training Elder Monson, we always role play either the lessons, or giving committments to people. We usually practice giving baptismal invitations by using the doctorine scriptures in the book of mormon, 2nephi31 alma7 3neph11 mosiah 8. We always plan to give the baptismal committment every lesson we go to. Sometimes the spirit tells us to wait to give it to them though. 1000 end personal study with a prayer. Elder Monson does language study for spanish for an hour and i usually clean or read more. 1005 or 1105 depending on companion. put some pass along card in my pocket. We Kneel down and say the prayer to go out an work. Right now our mission goal is 111 by april so we always prayer for that. We stand up and i always try to pump myself up like it is a sport or a crazy mission, because it is time to rage. then we get on the bike or get to the bus depending. and slap the 111 sign and fun down the stairs.


That is the typical beginning of the morning, Ill finish the rest next week. because we got to go shopping for food. keep it real famo

January 3, 2011

Oy mates! yes elder monson and myself have been blessed with some new investigators a 60 year old english lady named carol who is probably the smartest person i have ever met she is the best at reading scriptures, never messes up. i could listen to her read all day. Also a tongan kid saki 20 years old taught him the restoration and he wants to be baptized. we were out of book of mormons so i had to let him borrow my quad. another tongan man named casanova, he cried when we taught him the atonement. Our teaching pool has filled up. we have about 8 pretty good investigators that we are working with right now. we had a crazy week though every day got crazier and crazier. there was a man on the bus swearing at us calling us a colt and saying we should die and was making fun of garmets and what we do. We took it for a while, but he kept talking and talking. I told him to shut his mouth. but he kept talking... i said listen if you dont stop talking your gunna have a hurt day. He said by who you!? i said no by god. And he did say anything after that until we left. some people make me angry after that me and elder monson were furious and we knew we couldve handled better but its learning expiriences. Its hot az up here its around 40 degrees! we got flashed on the street the other day...there was a drunk lady at the bus stop that just told us jokes that made no sense at all it was funny az. went tracting and one guy thought we were the coolest people ever because we dont get payed to go on a mission. had a man tell us about how the bible has hidden messages about how jews are taking over the world. Amongst all of the confused people the work will go on, and people will come unto christ. Thanks heaps for the christmas presents they were bomb hope everyone had a good new years. Ours was good we had to be home at 5..party! Keep it real in the 801, Kamille Australia is cool, but im not sure if i want the family coming here...