Email from June 28th

G'day Things are going well here in Australia I Have another companion with me just until transfers. Next Monday I will tell you what is going on with transfers I will find out on Sunday. MY new comp for this week is elder Qualls from Texas. After thinking about it has been awhile since I have had a comp from America the last one was with Elder Vogel and we left each other in September wow. I think I have lost almost all the American in me; I am probably more Chinese than American ha-ha.
It will be weird coming home, oh and about that I am not too sure how many classes I should take. Because I am not sure how much money I will have when I get home so maybe I will need a job? I don't know maybe I will just bum off you for the first semester? Tell me what you think; I don't know what 15 hrs means how many classes is that? I will probably do that if that is what you suggest? OH and about a car I don't know or really care as long as it is good at getting me place to place good gas mileage easy to take care of, ask Brian what fits those categories. I know he says Honda’s are good?
OH and about the didgeridoo the mission sends out a thing when your mission is coming to an end about how to take them back, I think you can just wrap them in bubble wrap and just tape it to your suitcase?
Hawaii!! You should wait until I get back ha-ha/k, I would like to visit Hawaii some time. Elder Ucunibaravi has 2 brothers going to school at the BYU there. And I think a couple of the missionaries here are going to go there?
Well things here are going well we are starting to find people that we can work with and we are working on finding more.
Thank you for all of your support and prayers Love you heaps!!
Love Elder Blake Andreasen
Oh I got you package by the way. They brought it to interviews and I opened it there and the Swedish fish were a big hit I haven’t opened the Reeses yet and I try as hard as I can to savor the jelly bellies. Oh and thank you so much for the shirts

Email from June 21st

G'day
Sorry about last week I just thought that you didn't want to write to me anymore so I decided not to write you. HAH J/K I didn't get your email though and I was really busy last week as well. Today I am emailing late because we were helping a family move into the ward. One of the boys just got off his mission. He served in England he said he knew Elder Jeff Wilson, so that was cool to be able to talk a bit about him. But the boy that returned from his mission is from South Africa and his family moved here to Australia when he was on his mission, so his home coming was not really a home coming. But he is really keen on doing missionary work so hopefully we can work with him and get the ball rolling here.
We are not teaching too many people right now just trying to find, and the people that we are working with are going a bit slow. Things will start to pick up though.
Tomorrow we are going to the temple as a zone then we are going to have a zone activity. I will try to get a pic to send you next week of all the missionaries; we have Tongan, Samoan, Chinese, Aussie, and Americans, pretty crazy.
On Thursday we have interviews with President Scruggs.
Oh and next week Elder Ucunibaravi is leaving but it is a week before transfers so I will not know who my new comp is for a little bit. In the meantime I will probably just be with the Chinese Elders. We will see what happens.
I will try to answer some Q's
Elder Ucunibaravi is from a place close to Suva Fiji he says I have to come visit Fiji because it is paradise there.
He is excited to go home.
That dance is from New Zealand it is the one BYU does before their games; I don't remember how short the Chinese Elder is he got moved to Newcastle a couple months ago.
I don’t remember offering that sweatshirt to him but if he wants it I will give it to him when he goes home if he does I will tell you so you can send me one. Because he will go home before it gets here.
Sorry again for not writing much last week. And if you have that stuff from SLCC send it again because I think my mailbox was too full last week.
Thank you, Love you heaps!!
Love Elder Andreasen

Email from May 31st

G'day
I don't have much time this week, We are playing volleyball again hopefully i don't get smashed in the face again. And elder Ucunibaravi needs to get a hair cut. He has the natural curly hair and he is getting a little afro so we are getting his cut. This week has been good the lady we have been teaching came back from China on Wednesday and we had a lesson on Saturday and she also came to a baptism in Ryde were this Chinese uni student was getting baptized. Hopefully after watching the baptism she will have a stronger desire to get baptized. Hopefully before Elder Ucunibaravi goes home.
Oh before i forget I want to ask about school. When does the tuition discount come into action at the U. I want to try to go to school in January probably just at slcc though until the discount kicks in. Can you figure some things out for me??
Thank you for everything
Thank you for your prayers
Love you heapss!
Love Elder Andreasen