My last transfer

Email #97
Area: Alice Springs
Companion: Elder Richard

Excerpts from Mom's email:

Hey Mom!

Yes I am doing great! So yes, my final transfer will be in Alice Springs! The interesting thing is that Elder Olsen got transferred to Adelaide! Really sad to see him go, he was a awesome companion! Well my new companions name is Elder Richard's from... Holladay Utah! Yeah he went to Olympus High school, but I've never met him before. I guess he was good friends with Matthew Hansen and those guys! Small world! He seems really excited to be here as well, so should be a fun transfer!

This past week has been so awesome! Just loaded with fun things and yes Uluru was awesome! We spent Christmas together and that was so sweet! Went to members homes, had multiple meals each day which killed us haha, but so much fun! We even cooked some kangaroo tail the proper aboriginal way and it was pretty good! We also went to the Clark's Christmas day and made gingerbread houses, ate breakfast for dinner, and watched Beauty and the beast along with the Incredibles 2. Was a fantastic night!!!

The next morning we woke up and drove to Uluru at 5am. We stayed the night over at the other Elders Flat and carpooled the whole way alternating drivers when needed. Got there at around 10:30 and went to see all the cool sights. It is crazy how big this thing was! It is literally in the middle of nowhere and is just this huge rock with amazing features. We walked around it and saw some awesome rock formations and cave paintings. No we didn't climb it though. It was a pretty amazing place to behold!

Getting to know the other missionaries is always such a great time especially in outlying zones! This is such a small zone, so we all have got to know one another this past week! Unfortunately we had to say goodbye to Elder Olsen and Sister Standage who we will miss here dearly! Crazy thing is it was Sister Saoloto and I's last time seeing them because both of us go home end of this transfer. I know both of the places they are serving now, so was able to explain where they were going and even Elder Olsen is going to be with Elder Siaosi! We said goodbye to them this morning as they boarded the plane and it was really sad for sure!

I'm really curious how this next transfer will go being the last one! I hope to be the best! A lot of the members are now out of town for a few weeks which is to bad, but besides that I hope there will be more success that we can find! Want to go out working my hardest!

I'll try to go into more details of things in dads.

Love you heaps!!!


Excerpts from Dad's email:

Hey Dad!

This week was as well with everything else a really hot one and this one is supposed to be even hotter! Hitting 42° every day! We will servive!

Man it is so strange, but I have come to really care about the other missionaries here! We've become like a family! Even though all of us come from different backgrounds with different personalities, we all get along so great! I'm so glad I got to stay, but to bad others had to leave. It will be cool to finish with Sister Saoloto though, she is really cool. We will most likely fly back to Adelaide together at the last week of the transfer.

I'll kind of explain the pictures and videos. So some of those are photos and videos of our meals such as trying the kangaroo tail and things like that. Thought that I would video the sisters reactions to it, but wasn't even good reactions haha. We got a selfie at these members house randomly that's in there. Hope you like the Uluru photos! We spent all day there so there was a lot and more photos to come because elder Clark has to give me all the ones he took. The ties in our head was for this music video that we all made, but I will show you that when I get home haha it's pretty funny. Oh as well we got a video after we set up these kids trampoline for a service. It took us a while and was very hot, but chillin with them after for a bit is always fun.

Just waiting to see where we go from here. We have some people we are teaching and the one I am always working for is Mack. He just has so many health complications not it is getter harder. We care about him a lot and the Clark's are working with him to to see what we can do about it all.

This week we also put on date one of friends whose name is C..... It was a cool experience because it was elder Olsen's first time honestly leading a lesson and even he invited him to be baptized! That is one of the most rewarding things is watching someone you are training grow so much! Elder Richards, my new companion, is the same intake as Elder Olsen. He has been telling me so far today that he has a lot that he wants to learn from me. I look forward to this one and see not only what I can teach but what I can learn!

Going to have to work my hardest this one to get any further! I want to make a difference her in Alice all that I can!

That's awesome to here about Jackson! He will do a great job!!! The best advise I can give is to find joy in the work because there is a lot to be found there!

Love you heaps!!! Have a great week!

Kangaroo tail

Kangaroo tail ready to eat :-)

Our Christmas tree