Letter from June 24th

(the email beats the postal service) :)
Hey Family,
Sorry todays letter is going to be short. We just got back from playing touch rugby. We dont have much time till we have to be out of the flat.
Hey Elder Vogel and I have a baptism coming up this weekend. Her name is Katelyn she is 10 years old. She is way excited.
Transfers are in a week so next letter I will tell you if anything changes. Hope everything is going well. Everything is going awesome in Toukley. We have a couple of investigators that look promising. Alot of them are from less active famlies, so Elder Vogel and I are trying to baptize and reactivate it is a hard process but I know that with hard work and prayer it will happen.
I have some bad news though. I was on an exchange in Toronto with Elder Miller (DL) and we were waiting at a train station for a train. I had 2 bags, 1 with clothes and 1 with church material. I was solving a rubiks cube (which i know how to do now :) )and the train came so I grabbed my bag and walked on to the train and just as we started moving I saw my bag (the one with materials in it) it was by the bench I was sitting on. We exchanged back and I asked the other Elders to ask the station for my bag. The station found my bag in a bathroom and they stole my camera from it. So... that kinda stinks.
I will look around at some shops and see if they have Sonys that can use the same memory card.
Well everything else is going awesome in Australia, Love you heaps!!
Elder Blake Andreasen

PS I will email next week, I just got my address so next week I'll email you. I can only email family!!

Email from Monday June 23rd

Well i don't want to write too much if this is the wrong address, but Australia is going good. It is they start of a new transfer, but nothing changed same comp, same area. I bought a new camera it is a sony so it will take that 1 card that I have left so that is good. The camera was on clearance at Dick Smith, so it wasn't too bad. I will just have to put pics on a DVD to send them home or something, maybe I will look for a cheap card?

Well that all I will put 'till I find out if i guessed the Email right.


Elder Andreasen

Letter from June 13th

Mom,
G-day! It's Monday the 9th of June, its a public holiday (Queen's Birthday) here so good thing it's prep-day. There are a lot more holidays here because Australia is a lot more laid back so they just come up with things to get off work. No one even cares about the queen here. Elder Vogel & I went & played ball at the church with the Mclelland boys, they are like 22 and 26. They are pretty funny.
Katelyn, the 10 year old is going to get baptized on the 22nd. So that's exciting! Her Mom, Kylie is LA & she is struggling financially right now. She has 2 kids Shannon (13), Katelyn (10). We have had to try to find ridws for them to church cause she doesnt have petrol in the car.
Sorry to hear about the kidney stones again. :( I hope that all goes well wtih that. It's good to hear that the "BU" is doing well. Did you get it a bright pink furry steering wheel cover? :) To match the bright pink floor mats Jeff got for it. J/K she wouldnt like that.
Well things are going good down under in Toukley ward. Sorry I don't write much. But hey I get to email next week:)! Well its about time to go
Thanks and Love you heaps
Elder Andreasen

Letter from June 6th

G-day,
Hi! Everyone I just want to write and tell you a little bit about Toukley & Central Coast.
Toukley Ward covers over 30 suburbs. Pretty Crazy huh? Our zone is pretty small it only has 5 areas, and 10 missionaries. My zone leaders are Elder D'fahulu (New Zealand) and Elder Frame (Boise, Idaho). We have the youngest zone in the mission. 3 trainees are being trained in the zone. There are 4 that are under a year and only 3 that are over a year. Although the zone is young it is an awesome zone. This past week everyone in the zone had a progressing investigator. That is the first and only time that has happened to a whole zone. That's pretty cool.
Well now a little bit about the area. It is heaps different than being in the city. Everyone is a lot more relaxed and slow paced. Typical Aussie style. The other main difference between here and Dural is the money$. Most people here are pretty humble. The ward is good too. There are heaps of less-active that we are trying to work with. Most of the members are either old or young families. We are trying hard to work with a few (LA) Polynesian families that their children haven't been baptized because they don't go to church.
Everything is going good here in Toukley with Elder Vogel. Thanks for all your prayers. Wow it's been over 5 months. Well thanks
Elder Blake Andreasen

Elder Andreasen in Toukley

How Tall is Elder Vogel

Apparently Elder Vogel is quite tall and the two of them walking down the street together is pretty funny.

Letter from June 4th (Pictures and Videos coming soon)

Mom,

Hey! Well its been about a week here in Toukley. In the Toukley Ward the members are pretty cool. The area is really nice as well. My comp., Elder Vogel is from Orem. He is pretty cool. He is reall tall. He is 6ft 5in. So it looks pretty funny, us walking down the street together. haha

Driving is fun. The area is pretty big, so that means more driving. Driving was easy to get used to it only took a couple of "close calls" before I got the hang of it. :)

I just found out the mission is getting e-mail back, starting in June. But it will probably take awhile after that to get everyone's account set up. That will be cool so now you wont have to try to read my beautiful handwriting.

I have been blessed with another big flat. 2 showers, 2 floors, 3 bedrooms. Living the high life in Toukley, or maybe President Scruggs think I am high maintenance or something. :)

Toukley is going good the investigators we have are all under 15. Most of them are from less active families that hopefully start coming back to church before their kids get baptized.

Well you probably looked for the memory card before you read this (he must know his mom pretty good), but I will explain the pictures:

* Elder Harrison & our Flash as new car

* HAHA Home Brand

* Some Scenary

* The tennis rackets on the far left is the best in the world, Bro. Ken Degan designs them (he is from the Dural Ward

* Zone Activity by the pool :(

* Elder Stott, Moffitt, Harrison & I having some fun

* Cool family from Dural ward with Elder Harrison and I

* Elder Vogel and I in Toukley

* My tattoos I recently got

I sent Tim-Tams they are really good. I am thinking about bringing back a suitcase full of them :)

Well thanks, Love ya Heaps

Elder Blake Andreasen