Hey
Sorry about the last letter I never got a chance to send it. Wow its been 3 months that means transfers are coming up and I will probably get moved. I will let ya know what goes down and who my new comp is. Hey the Mt. Dew doesnt have caffiene here. :) Hey I was talking to my Ward Mission Leader and he served in Wellington, New Zealand. Then I got thinking and I told him my uncle (Neil) served there and he asked his name and my Ward Mission Leader said the he knew him and he trained one of his good mates. Shane Armfield. So that was pretty cool. Elder Brown is just out mowing the lawn. We are suppose to mow it often but this is the first time in 3 months. The grass is long as...
I think I have forgotten to tell you some of the slang over here.
mate= friend
Heaps = lots , bunch
Slash = pee
trash = rubbish
trunk = boot
hood = bonnet
ground beef = minced beef
They dont have good american candy here like Reeses or stuff like that. They dont have Dr. Pepper at all. All they have is Coke & Mt. Dew & a little Pepsi
I have told you that Dural ward is a rich ward and I just found out a bunch of families are going to SLC from here for General Conference.
My Ward Mission Leader is going, Brother Bennallack, Brother Arnold is going and a few others. Oh and Elder Sybrowsky the Area President is going. So if ya hear anyone talking funny ask 'em if they know me :)
(Blake drew a picture of the different rules missionaries are suppose to follow.)
There are bunch of rules but rules are good for us. If you obey with exactness then you will be happier, stronger, healthier, smarter, and be able to recognize and feel the spirit. So rules are good.
Well I better go and see if Elder Brown is done mowing the lawn.
Love ya Heaps
Elder Andreasen
Thursday, March 27
Letter from March 14th
(Elder Andreasen & Elder Warnock)Dear Family,
I am still loving Australia. It is sooo green right now. Everyone says this has been the wettest coolest summer in ages. I must have brought some moisture from Utah :).
Wow sounds like Utah got heaps of snow though. Wish I could be there to shovel it??
Wow there are so many birds here. I have gotten used to all the noise they make.
Last week I got to see Elder Davis Warnock when Elder Bednar came and talked to our missions. We couldn't talk long though because we were supposed to hurry and leave after the meeting. I got a pic with him (Elder Warnock) though. I also got to shake Elder Bednar's hand. That was an awesome meeting. He taught us that it is the Holy Ghost that reaches, not us, so get out of the way.
He is speaking again to all of Australia on Sunday so that will be good.
We had zone conference so that was really nice too.
Well that is pretty much all the excitement here.
Not much is happening in this area, but Elder Brown and I are trying and we will be blessed for our efforts.
Love ya Heaps!
Elder Andreasen
Tuesday, March 4
Letter from March 4, 2008
These past 2 weeks were pretty good. First I found out that Elder Bednar is coming to speak to the missionaries. Then I found out that he is going to talk to BOTH Sydney missions!!. So I will be able to see Elder Warnock. Man I am excited for that. He is coming Friday March 7th.
After I found out Elder Bednar was coming I found out that Elder Brown and I are getting a CAR!! Thats good cause Elder Brown is not very good at riding bikes. :) But I found out today that he is not good at driving either. But it is alot faster getting around in a car than on bikes.
I went on exchanges again with the zone leaders, but this time I got to stay in my area and I got to plan and do everything the way I think it should be done. So that day I planned was the best day of stats that Dural Ward has had in a long time. So that was fun to do.
We had interviews yesterday thats where you get interviewed by the Mission Pres. Then while he is interviewing there are lessons and activities. 1 of the activities was a desire activity. Whoever showed the most desire to do something won the competition. There were 5 different comps they were, Arm Wrestling, Playing a church style of Chubby bunny, eating as many wheat bix as possible in 4 min, stick your head in a bucket of water and hold your breath for the longest and the one i got chosen to do is to eat a chinese 1,000 year old egg. I am not sure how they get them but they are green nasty looking eggs. Well I showed the most deisre and finished my egg first :) but man did my breath smell bad after that. I was interviewed right after that so I tried not to breath too much in it. That was the first thing I ate that day so my stomach was rumbling after that.
Well that was my excitement for the past couple of weeks. I am learning so much out here. We are finding people to teach buy they are not going anywhere fast. But Elder Brown and I have high hopes for them to progress towards baptism. I know that if we exercise our faith and help them feel the spirit then we can achieve our goals.
Oh I finished the B of M and I started it in the MTC. But just as i was reading Moroni 10 I got a call from the zone leaders saying that Pres. Scruggs has issued the Mission a challenge to start and finish the B of M in March - April. SO i have the opportunity to read it again. We are to finish 1 Nephi by the time Elder Bednar comes. I am really excited to read it again. I will learn more everytime I read it as Pres. Hinckley promised.
Well I gotta go. The church is true. Pray always! Love ya Heaps
Elder Andreasen
After I found out Elder Bednar was coming I found out that Elder Brown and I are getting a CAR!! Thats good cause Elder Brown is not very good at riding bikes. :) But I found out today that he is not good at driving either. But it is alot faster getting around in a car than on bikes.
I went on exchanges again with the zone leaders, but this time I got to stay in my area and I got to plan and do everything the way I think it should be done. So that day I planned was the best day of stats that Dural Ward has had in a long time. So that was fun to do.
We had interviews yesterday thats where you get interviewed by the Mission Pres. Then while he is interviewing there are lessons and activities. 1 of the activities was a desire activity. Whoever showed the most desire to do something won the competition. There were 5 different comps they were, Arm Wrestling, Playing a church style of Chubby bunny, eating as many wheat bix as possible in 4 min, stick your head in a bucket of water and hold your breath for the longest and the one i got chosen to do is to eat a chinese 1,000 year old egg. I am not sure how they get them but they are green nasty looking eggs. Well I showed the most deisre and finished my egg first :) but man did my breath smell bad after that. I was interviewed right after that so I tried not to breath too much in it. That was the first thing I ate that day so my stomach was rumbling after that.
Well that was my excitement for the past couple of weeks. I am learning so much out here. We are finding people to teach buy they are not going anywhere fast. But Elder Brown and I have high hopes for them to progress towards baptism. I know that if we exercise our faith and help them feel the spirit then we can achieve our goals.
Oh I finished the B of M and I started it in the MTC. But just as i was reading Moroni 10 I got a call from the zone leaders saying that Pres. Scruggs has issued the Mission a challenge to start and finish the B of M in March - April. SO i have the opportunity to read it again. We are to finish 1 Nephi by the time Elder Bednar comes. I am really excited to read it again. I will learn more everytime I read it as Pres. Hinckley promised.
Well I gotta go. The church is true. Pray always! Love ya Heaps
Elder Andreasen
Tuesday, February 19
Letter from February 19, 2008
Australia is so fun. All the members tell me I am lucky because its been a mild summer. Usually the temp stays around 40 degrees C but I think the 6 weeks i have been here its hasn't been 35 degrees C. Australia is in a drought and this summer they have gotten heaps of rain which is unusual. Yeah I have been drenched a few times, but I dont mind. Everyone says they more hours you tract in the rain the hotter your wife gets.
6 weeks are gone and 6 more to go until I am done being trained. Then after that I hope to get transferred out to the bush. Cause I think it'll be cool.
Dural ward is the richest ward in all of the Oceania area.
Elder Sybrowsky is in my ward. He is the Area President and he is in the 70, he is from Provo. Elder Hilbig is in my ward he is a counselor to Elder Sybrowsky and I think he is in the 2nd of the 70's. There is a guy in my ward that owns one of the biggest insurance agencies or something like that. But all the members are really nice. We get fed about 5 times a week. So thats nice :)1 of the AP's right now is from Pocatello and the other is going home tomorrow.
Yeah things are going good in Aussie land.
Love ya Heaps
Elder Andreasen
6 weeks are gone and 6 more to go until I am done being trained. Then after that I hope to get transferred out to the bush. Cause I think it'll be cool.
Dural ward is the richest ward in all of the Oceania area.
Elder Sybrowsky is in my ward. He is the Area President and he is in the 70, he is from Provo. Elder Hilbig is in my ward he is a counselor to Elder Sybrowsky and I think he is in the 2nd of the 70's. There is a guy in my ward that owns one of the biggest insurance agencies or something like that. But all the members are really nice. We get fed about 5 times a week. So thats nice :)1 of the AP's right now is from Pocatello and the other is going home tomorrow.
Yeah things are going good in Aussie land.
Love ya Heaps
Elder Andreasen
Monday, February 11
Letter from February 11, 2008
Things are starting to pick up here in Dural Ward. We have a few solid investigators and we have high hopes for them.
Yeah you are sending letters fine. They have to go through the mission office then they forward them to my flat. Our flats is a 2 story duplex its 3 bedroom, 3 toilet, 2 bath so it is huge. Its one of the biggest in the mission. Packages we get every transfer, but I got lucky I think cause you wrote Valentines Day on it they delivered my package early so thanks for that. Customs took the beef jerky out of it, so they sent me a thing saying that i would cost $40 to send just the jerky back, so I am no going to worry about it. Thanks heaps Elder Brown says you are the coolest.
Well i just wanted to write to tell you happy birthday and thank you for all your prayers and support.
Mom i was talking to some members and I noticed they had a sudoku book so I started talking to them about how good you are at it. They gave some names of fun games like that to give you. They are Addoku and Kakuro and they printed off a different kind of sudoku. I dont know if you've done it but i sent it to ya.
K I gotta go now
Thanks, Love ya heaps
Elder Andreasen
Yeah you are sending letters fine. They have to go through the mission office then they forward them to my flat. Our flats is a 2 story duplex its 3 bedroom, 3 toilet, 2 bath so it is huge. Its one of the biggest in the mission. Packages we get every transfer, but I got lucky I think cause you wrote Valentines Day on it they delivered my package early so thanks for that. Customs took the beef jerky out of it, so they sent me a thing saying that i would cost $40 to send just the jerky back, so I am no going to worry about it. Thanks heaps Elder Brown says you are the coolest.
Well i just wanted to write to tell you happy birthday and thank you for all your prayers and support.
Mom i was talking to some members and I noticed they had a sudoku book so I started talking to them about how good you are at it. They gave some names of fun games like that to give you. They are Addoku and Kakuro and they printed off a different kind of sudoku. I dont know if you've done it but i sent it to ya.
K I gotta go now
Thanks, Love ya heaps
Elder Andreasen
Thursday, January 24
Letter from January 24, 2008
Hey
I have some really cool stories already and its mostly within the first few days. The first day I ate some kanga, and it was covered in BBQ Sauce so it was really good, then for that night we tstayed in a place next to the temple for people who needed to say over night to go to the temple. Anyway the 20x30 bedroom had 10 beds in it and then there was 2 showers. 10 of us had to stay in there and we still had all our luggage that was a fun night and morning.
Another story is the next day when we got assigned our companions they were taking us all around to our different flats in this rental van that was a 10 seat van. Anyway there were only a few people left to drop off ( I was going to be the last one) and we pulled up to this apartment complex that the parking went under the second floor of the building kinda. Well we started to pull in and we found out the van was too tall, but we had already pulled in. The assistant to the president was driving and he had pulled in and hit the roof of the van. We couldnt back out cause the van looked (see pic)like this we had a trailer on the back for luggage. So we took off the trailer and tryed to do 100 point turn to get out because we couldnt go back through because we didnt want to hit the pipe on the other end. But after 90 points of the turn we found out we didnt have enough room. So we had to turn back the other way 190 points to get turned around. Then we decided to take the air out of the tires to try to get more clearance. After that a few of us got in the back of the van (1 of them being me) to weigh it down. And as we were pulling out you could see exactly where the beam was from inside the van. Wow!! cool story, for my second day in Australia I guess
Love Elder Andreasen
I have some really cool stories already and its mostly within the first few days. The first day I ate some kanga, and it was covered in BBQ Sauce so it was really good, then for that night we tstayed in a place next to the temple for people who needed to say over night to go to the temple. Anyway the 20x30 bedroom had 10 beds in it and then there was 2 showers. 10 of us had to stay in there and we still had all our luggage that was a fun night and morning.
Another story is the next day when we got assigned our companions they were taking us all around to our different flats in this rental van that was a 10 seat van. Anyway there were only a few people left to drop off ( I was going to be the last one) and we pulled up to this apartment complex that the parking went under the second floor of the building kinda. Well we started to pull in and we found out the van was too tall, but we had already pulled in. The assistant to the president was driving and he had pulled in and hit the roof of the van. We couldnt back out cause the van looked (see pic)like this we had a trailer on the back for luggage. So we took off the trailer and tryed to do 100 point turn to get out because we couldnt go back through because we didnt want to hit the pipe on the other end. But after 90 points of the turn we found out we didnt have enough room. So we had to turn back the other way 190 points to get turned around. Then we decided to take the air out of the tires to try to get more clearance. After that a few of us got in the back of the van (1 of them being me) to weigh it down. And as we were pulling out you could see exactly where the beam was from inside the van. Wow!! cool story, for my second day in Australia I guess
Love Elder Andreasen
Thursday, January 17
Letter from January 17, 2008
Hey Mom,
Australia is awesome. My companion is Elder Brown, he is from Western Australia in a town called Rockingham. He is really cool. We live in a suburb called Cherrybrook. The area is called Dural Ward. I have met a few members for dinner and stuff and they are way cool. Whenever we are over at a members house they ask me to pray cause they want to hear my accent, but I dont mind.
My zone leader is Elder Bagley he is one of Jay Bickmore's good friends. We went on exchanges today so we talked alot.
Yeah everyone talks faster here it takes a little to get used to but not long.
Sorry I didnt write you on Tuesday (that's my P-day) we were just so busy with stuff. We went to the temple so that took most of the day. Then we had to get a tube for my bike, cuase it popped the first day I rode it. So I am just writing in the time I have after I eat.
Well it is really hot here, so I have to drink lots of water. There are no investigators in this area at the time so we are tracting alot. So when we go tracting people always offer water. So I am staying hydrated pretty well. Oh yea that bag that the Tolberts gave me is pretty big to tract with, so can you send me my camelback I think its in my closest in the container with the green lid. If ya would that would be awesome.
Anyway how are things at home? Anything exciting happening? How is Kim doing?
I will send a card with pics soon its not full but I have all the pics from the MTC on it and stuff.
Well Pres. Scruggs said that this is a hard area. He said its like the "bible belt" of Sydney cause everyone goes to church. But he did say that it is possible to baptize it will just take hard work and lots of faith. So thats what I plan to do. Thank you "heaps" for everything that you have done for me.
Pray always, Love ya "heaps" Elder Andreasen
(Heaps : aussie slang: meaning lots or abundance)
Everyone says it all the time!
Australia is awesome. My companion is Elder Brown, he is from Western Australia in a town called Rockingham. He is really cool. We live in a suburb called Cherrybrook. The area is called Dural Ward. I have met a few members for dinner and stuff and they are way cool. Whenever we are over at a members house they ask me to pray cause they want to hear my accent, but I dont mind.
My zone leader is Elder Bagley he is one of Jay Bickmore's good friends. We went on exchanges today so we talked alot.
Yeah everyone talks faster here it takes a little to get used to but not long.
Sorry I didnt write you on Tuesday (that's my P-day) we were just so busy with stuff. We went to the temple so that took most of the day. Then we had to get a tube for my bike, cuase it popped the first day I rode it. So I am just writing in the time I have after I eat.
Well it is really hot here, so I have to drink lots of water. There are no investigators in this area at the time so we are tracting alot. So when we go tracting people always offer water. So I am staying hydrated pretty well. Oh yea that bag that the Tolberts gave me is pretty big to tract with, so can you send me my camelback I think its in my closest in the container with the green lid. If ya would that would be awesome.
Anyway how are things at home? Anything exciting happening? How is Kim doing?
I will send a card with pics soon its not full but I have all the pics from the MTC on it and stuff.
Well Pres. Scruggs said that this is a hard area. He said its like the "bible belt" of Sydney cause everyone goes to church. But he did say that it is possible to baptize it will just take hard work and lots of faith. So thats what I plan to do. Thank you "heaps" for everything that you have done for me.
Pray always, Love ya "heaps" Elder Andreasen
(Heaps : aussie slang: meaning lots or abundance)
Everyone says it all the time!
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