December 5, 2011

oy mateys sounds like everything is hektek back home! eli you sounds like you are skuxxing it up back home. abe you sound like the athlete of the year, i did get a door one year...to keep all you little craps out! haha jokes mate. Does sammi speak now? that is hektek i freaking miss all of the little ones. me and elder comfort today look at the family photos we had and his is just brothers and sisters...but mine in brothers and sisters and nieces and nephews. he was jealous as...Jaxynn you can just use the money for someone else make someone else happy for christmas cuz mate i am full of joy already. Mrs morgan was one of my favorite teachers, she was da ish. im sorry that i havent written you back i havent written anybody back i feel bad as i hope nobody will have any hard feelings when i get back haha it just not the first thing on my mind im sorry. i plan on just bringing things back with me when i come back so i will have somethings for everyone when i get back it is just so expensive out here that i dont really have the funds to get everyone gifts. sounds like the perfect christmas tree. a little shabby on the outside but a story behind it. That is one thing that i have learned is to respect everyone because everyone has a story. never judge the book by the cover you got to read it first. This week is going to be awesome the sevusa family is going to be baptized this weekend it is going to be hektek it reminds me so much of home with 8 little kids jumping all over us when we are teaching the gospel of jesus christ. if i can sum up the mission in 1 word gratitude it has been everything i wanted for others and for myself and even more. I am so glad that heavenly father picked me to be able to do this and that i am able to do this. I am now becoming a desciple in thought, word, and action. hopefully one day i will stand before god and he can say, "My beloved son in whom i am well pleased" Im loving this all too much ive got alot more in me and alot more time to go so i am pumped. we were on an exchange down in bidwill we were tracting this little punk 16 year old boy just came and swore up a storm at us and the missionary i was with just walked away but i kept talking to him and was able to calm him down, he had a mouth like a sailor, i was to find the he had no belief in god because he felt if he was there he didnt love him at all he started swearing and i testified of gods perfect love...this was on friday. then on sunday morning i saw him walking with his head down through this pathway. i yelled out Josh! he said how you goin mate in a very sorrowful voice i said whats wrong...he said my nan passed away last night and almost started crying...i was able to invite him to learn and he said "ILL give you One Shot Bra!" the happiness i felt was tremendous i was able to act in place of the savior to represent him to be a light and the end of joshs walk of shame. I said well josh one shot is all we need! keep it hektek back home. ps just put about 20 lbs on mitt romney and then my face and then he will look like me fo sho you did send me my stocking but woopsy i dont know where it is.

November 6, 2011

Jaxynn i got your letter last week i am going to make sometime this week to write you back its hard because we are only allowed to write on pday and we dont get that much time with all the things we have to do on pday. haha sounds like everyone is doing good this last week. We had another baptism....hahahahaha! it is going crazy out here. Shane tareha, so the family of 8 is now almost complete. We just have to teach one more of the kids and he is a tough one 18 year old clubber, so he is pretty into the world but after the baptism he said well looks like im up! it was sweet as. Shane was pumped he is 17 a massive rugby player and his dad lance recent convert of one month was able to baptize him. Shane said, " when i went down into the water my mind went blank, it feels good...it feels like someone hit the delete button of all the wrong things in my life. Things are hektek! we are teaching this family we tracted into 5 weeks ago, Sa Sevuga, Sa Sevuga- the mom and dad have the same name...weird. this is all their children Sina, pou, bev, leki, jerry, jai, jennea, jalinna. A massive family and they made it to church on sunday. better yet, all their kids are under the age of ten. these islanders are crazy all they do is have babies and eat food haha. It was so cool to see them come to church and the moms and dads hearts have been softened because their children are falling in love with the gospel they always want us to come over and teach them and play games with them. things are really going good the power of prayer, fasting, and fast offering. we were at our recent converts house and there are these little twin samoan boys they are 3 years old and one of them started coughing and it turned to nonstop barfing for like 2 minutes hahaha. i said o my gosh it happening and the little boy cornelius just started mocking saying in a little voice it happening its happening, while his little brother was puking his guts out. by this time elder comfort was gagging i was laughing it was crazy. after he threw up he wasnt even crying he was making battle crys and was laughing it was nasty haha. we went home that night and the other missionaries at our flat, elder dade and elder larsen they always want to fight us everynight and prank us so we grabbed elder dade and we threatened him with a swirlie we locked him in the bathroom while in the meantime i filled up a massive water balloon, we opened the door and drenched him it was classic. I have gone on a diet because i hit 200 lbs. oh crap.... the thing is i dont look fat just my butt is getting huge. so now i dont eat until dinner because the members feed us till we hurt every night. the work is going sweet i am loving it im never coming home. love you guys.

October 2, 2011

Well well well we had a meetingon monday and we just talked about how influence of others had changed my mission. and it just made me realize what other missionaries had done for me on my mission and how they showed me how to work and to get things done. this week was a slower one for us we didnt get to teach much but i had an expirience that made up for it. me and elder comfort were a bit down and so we took our dinner break and just started driving and i brought up the fact that i had been here for a year and still hadnt seen a kangaroo. he said i know where some bush is we kept driving we got to the bush and it was the end of the road. the sun was setting we got out of the car and our eyes were peeled and their was nothing... so we just sat on the boot of the car and talked about how we could help our investigators get more invovled with the gospel...still no kangaroos. dinner break was coming to an end and so was the sunlight. so we got in the car and right as we started the engine elder comfort says look! and there it was the kanga mate. it stood up and looked at us and then hopped away boing boing boing. i am sure that it was a tender mercy from heaven. I have come to have a greater appreciation for nature on my mission..for life in general and how good we have it. sure we have rough times but we have gods creations all around us to create moment that wont vanish like cash but moments that will last forever like the smile of a single mother coming out of the waters of baptism with the hope of living with her husband who had passed on to the other side. That is what makes the mission small moments that make us step back and breathe the fresh air. peace. we have been seeing miracles and we will continue seeing miracles because of the faith we are developing in the savior jesus christ.

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.