Sunday March 27, 2011

Alright we had some miracles this week it was a week where we really saw the lords hand in the work. The Coolest one that i will right about is Tom Waggs, a 20 year old American kid i met him at the bus stop and started talking to him. He asked me for a cigarrette, and i said what are you doing with your life? he said he didnt even know i said what is something good your doing tonight? He went on to tell me that he was just going on a camping trip with his mates and was gunna do drugs and all that jazz i told him that god loves him and if he didnt do that,that night that he would feel better about himself. He said he would do his best, i got his number and i said i would give him a call. I called him the next day and he said on the phone that he gave into the peer pressure. he said we could go and visit with him so we went there and taught him how he could be clean. and it got on the topic of the word of wisdom, he said that he would never be able to give up smoking and drinking. I said tom do you want to change your life around he said yes, i said go get your smokes. With a sad face he grabbed his pack of stogies. i told him to smash him, there was silence and he crushed them. It felt like the spirit just hit all of our hearts right when he crushed them. He came to church on sunday and said he felt the holy ghost at sacrament so much that he wanted to get fresh air, we taught him in a room while sacrament meeting was happening and he was just saying how he like the christian church but feels something here that he has been looking for. we asked him to pray right then and after his 3 second prayer he said...ope...uuahh..its happening ahhh the burning is stronger, yep the church is true. "I want to deny it... but it wont let me!" haha it was awesome but just so everyone knows god answers the prayers. It was awesom as.

March 22, 2011

Man, That make me miss good old utah. Fishing sounds good, abe looks like he still has the gift of catching all the fish and eli just looks like he is freezing his little ones off. We are fishers of men, every day we are finding and ocassionally we are getting to teach some lessons. It was another good week for us we taught alot and got people to church. good things are going to happen in the northern beaches i will tell you that much. Me and Elder Tehei and me work very well together because we both try to talk to everyone so we contact anyone who is in our path. but sometimes they arent interested but lately we have been finding alot of good people who are actually looking for something in life. We have an investigator named robert he is russian he lived in lithuania when he was younger in a school with 150 other boys and the german gesstappo came in and killed everyone, he was the only one o survive. He has no family and he feels all alone. so right now the church is all this man has. Hes really good we have been having alot of success just no baptisms yet, That is sad that bishop fackrell is gonskyz he was the man, what does that place you at what is you calling in the ward? Anyways keep it real back home and let me no what else is happening. anyways laterz

March 8, 2011

Alright dude you are the man and Im not worthy. but i am stoked for
your new baby, ps that will be my year mark. I have had a crazy
mission so far president wont let me stay with a companion for more
than 1 transfer. My comp elder brough had way bad depression last
week to the point that he was having suicidal thoughts. So they had
him talk to the head psycologist of the church and they got his butt
on a flight home. It was sad because he wanted to finish but his mind
wouldnt let him. But he was honorably released which was good. I got
moved this transfer to manly which is right next door to our old area
haha president just wants me on the beaches my whole mission i guess,
my new comp is Elder Tehei he is a mauri from new zeland but they call
them "kiwi" his accent is whack az but he is the man we are going to
get some real work done in our area because i dont have to be
babysitting anyone anymore, I still love elder brough but his attitude
just put downers on everything but this new guy is really good the
ward is bomb az they already got some referrals for us. anyways this
week was crazy so the work was slower so i dont have much to report
but this next week looks more promising.

March 1, 2011

Whats up matey, we have just been finding and teaching we had to drop alot
> of our investigators this week with the faith that the lord will fill the
> empty spaces. But we were working with wendy i tracted into 5 months ago
> atheist and she was progressing to the point that she read the book of
> mormon, bilble, came to a baptism... and we went back and she said that she
> wouldnt ever be able to make a committment of being baptized but she said
> that she is grateful that we installed a belief in god for her and admitted
> to feeling the spirit. I then told her that we wouldnt be around very much
> more and then we got in the car. I wanted to cry, i felt like the biggest
> poofter in the world it was like someone punched me in the face, There was
> nothing else i could do. and it hurt me pretty bad. Marvin is a 16 peruvian
> that we have been meeting with but his family is baptist and wont let him
> come to church. We asked him about the book of mormon and he said it makes
> his heart burn when jesus christ speaks and believes that it is true but
> there is not much we can do because hes only 16. we just set a date with a
> brazilian surfer girl named yasmin who is very sincere and wants to get
> baptized but her visa will end shortly and we might not have enough time to
> teach her everything so that she understands. Alot of good things are
> happening but it just seems like the world is smashing down on everything.
> Still at the northern beaches, and it has been a while i want to see
> something new, its almost too the point where i have talked to everyone i
> see haha. We taught a man named rob last night and we taught about the
> apostacy and restoration using buckets instead of cups, and then when it
> came to the apostacy, he took his beer bottle and killed the
> apostles/prophets and so the church fell. We taught him of joseph smith and
> he thought it was amazing and said we touched his soul but he said he
> couldnt make a change like that. We have a goal that every companionship
> baptizes in march and its march and we havent been able to find anyone solid
> yet investigators are dropping like flies, and potential investigators are
> few and far between. My companion Elder brough has depression and they put
> him with me? he was telling me how he is just trying to survive for the next
> 7 months. he is doubting his testimony and feels like he brainwashed to go
> to the temple to make covenants... is was pretty crazy and then its me just
> like alright elder lets go find some people to teach and that is probably
> the last thing on his mind. He has mental problems, but president doesnt
> want to let him go home because he has made it this far so i have alot of
> responsibillity on my shoulders, anyways Keep it up back home.!
>

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