G'day,
How ya goin mates?! Sounds like there are a lot of crazy happenings!
Congrats on your mission call Brittani!! Thats so exciting! If you
ever get to meet President Uchtdorf tell him I said hi okay? And tell
him my name....and where I served....and what my favorite things to do
are. Haha just kidding. I just realized though that If you do get to
meet him then that would be so cool because you could speak to him in
his first language. I met a few German people this week actually. One
of them was really nice so dont get discouraged that it might be hard
Brittani! That just means you'll see heaps of miracles. Australia is
known to be a "hard" mission too. Just trust in the Lord and watch him
work! But you know that and I'm excited that I'll get to see you
before you leave.
Thank you for the great emails! Let me tell you about my week.
We had a great week. We had a few great teaching appointments. Our new
investigator Ananda is from Brazil. She's really cool. She's a surf
instructor. In Brazil she was apart of the Christian Science church
but now that we've taught her the Restoration she's committed to
reading the Book of Mormon and praying to ask Heavenly Father if its
true. I'm excited for her.
Elder Vaivela and I found a miracle this week. The night before in
planning we prayed and asked Heavenly Father to guide us on where we
should go to do our finding. We decided that we would tract in
Brookvale on Consul street. We biked across our area and while we were
traveling we noticed a huge rain cloud coming our way....ohh no. It
was crazy because it came in fast and it was like we were watching
"the end of days" happen. So we got to our street, locked up the bikes
and it was like someone just opened a massive hatch in heaven. Boom!
instantly soaked. But! Also as soon as it started raining we heard a
voice crying out to us. Elders! Come inside! This guy at the first
house was calling out to us and inviting us in. I was thinking to
myself "Who is this guy? is he crazy or what??" No one has ever
invited us into their house when it was raining. But we went in
nonetheless. It was a great visit! His name is Johan Dupreez(said the
French way: Yohan Dupria) and he is an excommunicated member! WOOOOAH!
haha yeah I was tripping out! And also...he served a
mission!...ha...ha...uh oh. But he also told us that he wants to get
back in to church...AND INTO the church. I'm excited! He also has a
non member wife that we can work with too. Miracle!
Its Elder Vaivela's 20th birthday on Sunday!
Another amazing story that I'll mention quickly is that ALL of the
Reilly family came to church this week! wooooo! the Reillys were a
less active family that I was working with last year when I was here.
Me and Elder Bills helped their son Kingi to be baptized. But they
still had a hard time coming to church. Now they are working on going
to the temple! They both shared their testimonies this fast sunday and
they were so powerful. By the way I want to mention that Bro Reilly is
coming back to church after 35 YEARS of being innactive! Its never to
late to come back to church. Miracle as. I was on a huge spiritual
high yesterday.
Well I better go. Elder Vaivela's english is slowly improving. I'm his
english teacher! I'm learning a little tongan too. Its pretty fun. I
really want to learn another language. I'll probably learn spanish
though because It will be way more useful in the States. I love you
all heaps. Catch yas lata.
Elder Nelson
How ya goin mates?! Sounds like there are a lot of crazy happenings!
Congrats on your mission call Brittani!! Thats so exciting! If you
ever get to meet President Uchtdorf tell him I said hi okay? And tell
him my name....and where I served....and what my favorite things to do
are. Haha just kidding. I just realized though that If you do get to
meet him then that would be so cool because you could speak to him in
his first language. I met a few German people this week actually. One
of them was really nice so dont get discouraged that it might be hard
Brittani! That just means you'll see heaps of miracles. Australia is
known to be a "hard" mission too. Just trust in the Lord and watch him
work! But you know that and I'm excited that I'll get to see you
before you leave.
Thank you for the great emails! Let me tell you about my week.
We had a great week. We had a few great teaching appointments. Our new
investigator Ananda is from Brazil. She's really cool. She's a surf
instructor. In Brazil she was apart of the Christian Science church
but now that we've taught her the Restoration she's committed to
reading the Book of Mormon and praying to ask Heavenly Father if its
true. I'm excited for her.
Elder Vaivela and I found a miracle this week. The night before in
planning we prayed and asked Heavenly Father to guide us on where we
should go to do our finding. We decided that we would tract in
Brookvale on Consul street. We biked across our area and while we were
traveling we noticed a huge rain cloud coming our way....ohh no. It
was crazy because it came in fast and it was like we were watching
"the end of days" happen. So we got to our street, locked up the bikes
and it was like someone just opened a massive hatch in heaven. Boom!
instantly soaked. But! Also as soon as it started raining we heard a
voice crying out to us. Elders! Come inside! This guy at the first
house was calling out to us and inviting us in. I was thinking to
myself "Who is this guy? is he crazy or what??" No one has ever
invited us into their house when it was raining. But we went in
nonetheless. It was a great visit! His name is Johan Dupreez(said the
French way: Yohan Dupria) and he is an excommunicated member! WOOOOAH!
haha yeah I was tripping out! And also...he served a
mission!...ha...ha...uh oh. But he also told us that he wants to get
back in to church...AND INTO the church. I'm excited! He also has a
non member wife that we can work with too. Miracle!
Its Elder Vaivela's 20th birthday on Sunday!
Another amazing story that I'll mention quickly is that ALL of the
Reilly family came to church this week! wooooo! the Reillys were a
less active family that I was working with last year when I was here.
Me and Elder Bills helped their son Kingi to be baptized. But they
still had a hard time coming to church. Now they are working on going
to the temple! They both shared their testimonies this fast sunday and
they were so powerful. By the way I want to mention that Bro Reilly is
coming back to church after 35 YEARS of being innactive! Its never to
late to come back to church. Miracle as. I was on a huge spiritual
high yesterday.
Well I better go. Elder Vaivela's english is slowly improving. I'm his
english teacher! I'm learning a little tongan too. Its pretty fun. I
really want to learn another language. I'll probably learn spanish
though because It will be way more useful in the States. I love you
all heaps. Catch yas lata.
Elder Nelson
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