June 26, 2011

Alright mateys! We had a Baptism Woo! bout time. Peter Jang was baptized on saturday and was confirmed a member of the church. He did it all on his own and went against his parents will he said that he had to do it or his family would never except the gospel in this life he knew that god would soften their hearts for his decision. Peter bore his testimony in elders quorum about how when he prayed and asked god about baptism that he knew it was the right thing to do because of the way that he felt. Solid mate, now we just gotta find some more, teach some more and baptize some more. Things are going good im really stressed out though but hey that is the mission lifestyle. I learned that i have to read my scriptures everyday or else i will go crazy out here. I hope all is well things are chilly down here. Peace.

June 19, 2011

Hey thanks for that champ everything is going awesome we have a miracle kid name peter he is from korea but he is kiwi- a new zelander. He has only been meeting with us for two weeks. his family is completely against him getting baptized and think the book of mormon is false scripture. I asked him well if the say yes you'll be baptized, but if they say no what are you going to do? He said i cant deny what you have taught and i asked god if this was what i needed to do to be saved and he answered me through the feelings i have felt so i am going to do it anyways. He told us last night that he is gunna do it an undercover baptism so that they wont know. I thought about this and i wondered could i do that? Could i go against the family i have for something i knew was true or good for me it was a scary situation. It is amazing what the spirit can do to people. Also porschia and nikki committed to be baptized and so amazing things are happening right now pray for peter jang and the epiha family.

June 14, 2011

Mate you wont believe it but i can invite someone to here about the gospel in chinese...and they understand me. I had a cool expirience this week with a kid named ricky. we were contacting i said hi to him and he looked at me and gave me a sour crusty. being me i was a agrivate i said Hey!! in kind of an angry voice, he stopped i pulled out a picture of christ and said Ni Shing yesu Ji du Ma? and he started smiling and said yes yes! i said we teach of christ and we want to tell you of his church, he said i want to join your church we taught him and he said i feel god i feel peace and we asked him to be baptized and he said huh? then we showed him a picture of christ being baptized and he smiled and said of course. it was awesome. Mate this is really cool being on the mission just waking up and serving and surviving everyday for god and these people. sounds like everything is going swell i cant believe school is going to be out time is going. mate i need some ideas for visual lessons for people and i know that you have heaps up your sleeve so let us have it. sweet as love everyone, elder stoddard

June 5, 2011

mate we are having ensign moments this is incredible. We have been teaching this Maori family from new zeland weve been teaching since me and elder tehei were together from the beginning she invited us over to teach her little kids, because she wanted them to have a sense of god and direction in their life so that they would go through what she went through so we have been teaching them and they are pretty much members now. Nikki 9 she says that she really wants to get baptized, but before we ask we want the whole family to get on board. So when we have been teaching Porschia- the mom she always distanced herself while we were teaching her kids and it wasnt till the 4th lesson after the kids went to make us some oranges and apples Porschia started asking some questions....haha got her. So now we are best friends with this family they come to church on there own and great things are happening i can see their family coming closer together because of this gospel. Porschia still thinks that it isnt all cooked up to what we say it is... but now for the good part, we taught her on sunday and we just said ask your questions and she didnt really know what questions she had.. i then asked "do you not see the change in your family and the warmth that is in you home?" Then she just broke down and told us all of the spiritual witnesses that she has been having since we have vistited her and told us that she has been feeling the spirit. She told us that she wants to keep rolling with this and see where it takes her family. we just listened the whole and she just resolved her own concerns and truly realized all the simple miracles that have come from the gospel the only thing she needs to do is read the Book of Mormon. And get married dun dun dun mate this is the biggest worst problem in australia, people have familys and still arent married yet. We simply said mine and elder richards job is to help you and your family live together forever. it was awesome. well that is the miracle of the week

May 30, 2011

we had the Coolest week ever we have found 20 new investigators in the last 3 weeks! we taught heaps last week and are hoping to do the same this week we had transfers on monday, and elder tehei got the boot, i am still in the beaches haha they call me king of the beaches. right now im with elder richards a samoan elder from new zeland and we are going to baptize this transfer. Well we had a couple of hektek things happen this week we found this guy name adam who look like he wanted to kill himself and we started talking to him and he said his life was at a low that he had never felt before, and he was actually catching a bus to go do some drugs at his mates house. We said no way your coming with us we took him to the chapel and gave him a tour and committed the bro to get baptized and he said he really wanted it so hopefull we are going to be able to get down to some business now. We also got a hold of yasmin for the 3rd time finding her haha I said well if we find her for the third time it is meant to be and we found her. Found out that she went back to brazil but now she is back and wants to continue learning more. I am loving this right now i dont think im going to come home it is hektek. we are out of food like always and are just praying and fasting for more people to find and teach. keep it real my niggys.

May 15, 2011

thats right mate whip that body into shape...GOTTa LOSe a MILLION Pounds!! haha we had a sweet week this week we found 6 new people. it was awesome the lord really blessed us on this. my patience was running slim and i thought i was going to go CRAZY!! We met up with a maori family that we were teaching the Epihas. And the mom invited us back just to teach her kids and little did she know that we were teaching her as well. they went back to new zeland for a couple weeks and came back and met up with them again. One of the best lessons on my mission so far The mom Porschia just opened up her soul to us she said that she really likes the church and wants to see her family get involved with it. she said that she could see herself becoming a member in the future it was sweet and then we got her to say the closing prayer that she refusablly rejected on 5 other occasions and it was a great moment...priceless we have the perfect fellowship for them its sweet as. this family will partake of eternal life it was really good. well im sick of writing now but i hope you have a sick week keep skux in the 801.

May 3, 2011

man that fish is awesome man good on ya guys. abe sounds like the man at everything haha we can talk on the phone this weekend. well we had a ward spit roast, where they turn a pig on a stick over some coals, did some finding. The members have really picked it up. i know the god really does inspire people. Elder Tehei and me made up family mission plans for everyone. The lord gave us the idea in studies and all the members are on board. and we have about 20 referrals that will come in probably next week because of it. I went on a trade off with the tongan elder. It was really good heaps of miracles you get more miracles on foot than in car i figured. we were able to teach a man from china and his friend was their to and he said his first prayer those are my favorite. We got out of the appointment and it was raining and freezing and no umbrellas or coats so we made our walk back about 2 miles and it wasnt a good idea..i thought to myself you are so stupid! Ooooo Man....... I got the flu really really bad and was out from thursday till tuesday throwing up, having, diaherra, and bloody noses. i litterally thought i was going to die we almost went to the hospital but i said no. i havent been able to eat for the week but i started working again man its harder than ever now...well its mothers day so i will you guys on sunday from sometime between 12 and 2 pm australia time. and i will call both familys so i can talk to everyone for a little longer than last time. but for the mean time always wear jackets when its rainy and cold, and trent get on a treadmill, please mom and dad wouldnt be happy.