March 26,2012

yah im undercover no badge no book of mormon just backpack and my planner it is sweet i have never taught so much on my mission yet. I have fire bum from all the korean food my comp is cooking. He took me to a thai restaurant and it was so hot i almost threw up my eyes were crying i am weak sauce now ya all we teach is students we just teach and if we dont teach we just find on the university we are finding alot of people it will just take some time to baptize them because they had no beliefs before. Its funny sometimes when i talk to the aussy girls, and i ask for their number then they get all flirty with me and i have to set them straight" mate im a missionary, so i can only teach you not go out with you..." yah i got some funny stories anyways i will go hard.

March 19, 2012

 it was a long journey but yah i got transferred to the university of new south whales to go hard for my last 3 transfers, it is hektek we wear our normal clothes? yep that right shorts and t shirt all day every day haha its almost like a vacation my new comp is a freshie from korea he is cool as though we will make for good friends. the work is very different here, we teach heaps and find heaps...no more member feeds dam im gonna miss that tarro. it is completely different way of doing the work so it will take me a while to adjust but it like its gonna be fun as. it was hard saying bye to everyone in the mt. druitt, i was there for about 7 months almost 8. i said by to all the fob islanders and say hello to all the chinese..i mean ni how. yah i have never seen so many chinese people in sydney the whole time that i have been here. things are really good and i am ready go hard these last 3. as for school i just want to start over i dont want to go to slcc. i dont know where i want to go i want to go but i want to start from scratch and build a good foundation i havent looked into universitys' because i didnt know how to do any of that. but i do need to go to skool i dont know if that helps everyone but yah. things are sweet i hit 20 months today wow look at that haha, keep it real back home catcha
> elder stoddard
>

March 4, 2012

 Howz it goin mateys, well god really is testing the patience again we
> have been struggling to find some new investigators were doing heaps
> of finding but nobody will take the bite. We are in the gold mine
> "henrys lake" but were getting skunked it will happen we just gotta
> keep doing our thang. oy the summer here has been hektek it has only
> had 4 hot as days the rest has been bucketting down rain nothing feels
> better then knocking on those doors in the pooring rain. I have been
> losing heaps of weight i have lost 15 lbs since last month oh yeauhhh.
> Our flat in cockroach infested, wasp infested, and spider infested it
> is great. My companion snores so loud i am about ready to slap his
> face. Im starting to only get about 4 hours of sleep because of it. im
> gonna give em a hiding. the area is still sweet im still in the dirty
> ghetto of sydney but president told me in the interview that i will be
> moving this transfer. We had some of our recent converts go through
> the temple and do baptisms for the dead it was awesome. the savusa
> family i dont know if you remember but it was the samoan family we
> found, well anyway, saifitti read the whole book of mormon he is a gun
> as member I realized that the mission is teaching me more than i would
> have learned in my lifetime. I always wondered who i was and who i
> was supposed to be...i finally figured it out. i am a servant of our
> heavenly father. the best way to send me funds is to just mail it
> because i have no debit card but yah ill pry talk more about it when i
> call in may for mothers da

February 12, 2012

D&C chapter 11 verse 7 powerful today in my personal study i was
reading this today and spirit hit me really hard. I love the first
hour of my studies, i am starting to know how to study the scriptures
and it is a big help i dont know how i survived 19 years of my life
without doing it. We have implemented this new plan to help with our
unity and our companionships and it is to share spiritual expiriences
with each other in our companionships and it has put the work on
fire!!! we had call ins last night and we have set 11 baptismal dates
for february and march that is unbelievable! there is a really good
spirit about the way we are working and communcicating it is awesome
and I know god is blessing us for doing this. Revelation is real i am
seeing it occur more and more with the missionaries and the
investigators that they are teaching this gospel is living it breathes
it is insane what has been happening. I will tell you of a cool
expirience we had this week. so a month ago we were visiting the
pules' a less active family, who is now going to the temple to be
sealed, they brought they cuzzy over and we taught and that was pretty
much that. Then 5 nights ago a missionary called me and said "elder
sto ee, you need to go and ask the pules about mele again..." i put it
passed me. the next day all of our plans fell through and we were next
too the pules and i said lets stop here and ask about mele... we went
in and of course they fed us. and i asked sam "hey where does mele
stay?" he put his food down and looked at me and said "who sent you
here?" he looked like he was going to smash me! then in his broken
english he said elders, you follow the spirit. Mele had just moved
into there house that week, she had family dramas because she wanted
to be a member.. we were able to teach mele soon after and set a
baptismal date for the end of this week. God leads us every day and
sometimes we dont even recognize his promptings things are awesome, we
also set a baptismal date with lana and she said yes to march 17
please pray for these souls. mele and lana. thanx heaps love you guys
hope the wedding goes well.

February 7, 2012

 um sweet no emails again thats great. jokes i know everyone is busy
> with the wedding and all that jazz we had a stellar last week for
> elder uelese he finished strong and now he is back home i have a new
> companion from america samoa, elder satele. he is awesome he served in
> the infantry and went to iraq before he came on his mission so hes got
> some good stories. we will work well together i am excited. our
> investigator lana is awesome she came to a recent convert fireside on
> sunday and then after she told us that she wants to be baptized and
> the scripture that made her want to change was Rev. 3:20 she was in
> love with it so she is making alot of progress. pray for her i hope
> everything is sweet back home everything is good over here. i love all
> of you
>
> elder stoddard

January 30, 2012

Mates no worries i am still alive and well. I got on the emails and
didnt have an email so i decided to withhold the miracles from
everyone and go play some basketball instead. Things are hektek right
now it is elder uelese's last week right now and we are going pedal to
the metal just tracting our guttz out. We had a miracle on saturday,
Funaki was baptized he had been learning the gospel for about 4 years.
He was so prepared to make the promise. He and i have a good
relationship, we understand one another and he asked if i could do his
baptism...hmmm i think yes! the spirit was awesome and i saw some
tears as that tough az tongan walked into the water. It was just
smiles and laughs after that. he was stoked about life we just told it
was about time. Such a blessing thing are looking up. Usually with
every companion that goes home we usually have one miracle that just
tops it all off. It was monday evening 8:05 pm on pine crescent: one
of the top two most dangerous streets in new south wales. yep i felt
safe though cuz im with my big as samoan brother. We were just about
to call it quits to go to some less actives but we kept going and we
Found Lana. she asked all of the right questions, and we set an
appointment for the next day. She told us that she had been looking
for the true church for about 5 years and just completely gave up on
god. She then told us that god couldnt forgive her for the things that
she had done. We brought a member and the sis had gone through the
same expirience as lana had gone through. And gradually from tears of
sorrow to a smile of hope she said alright i will give it a shot. for
the past week lana has been praying every morning and night, and
reading from the book of mormon we will be giving her a baptismal date
at the end of this week. God still has them miracles over here in the
dirty ghetto Mount Druitt. Things are awesome the miracles are off the
hook. Ps is jacki Blonde?

January 15, 2012

bro you sold out with the ipad! nice. we had a hektek week mostly
because we had 5 general authorities visit us last friday! oh cheahhh!
we had been struggling to build our teaching pool for the last couple
of weeks. but with the dilligence and the prayers and fast we were
able to find some elect souls and evena family so we are still being
blessed things are awesome. we had elder cook come to the mission it
was cool he told us a story on his mission where he went (england) he
had the opportunity to open an area for the first time and there was
zero members but on the third day they prayed for some leaders they
could find and they found six families that were all baptized and
confirmed. but the guy i really really liked was elder pearce! his was
hektek. he looked like this nerd with glasses but he threw down in our
sacrament i am always impressed at how much these people know about
the gospel it always encourages me to try to study and pray harder.
things were awesome this week. Your kids are becoming desciples its
amazing what they are becoming.