Miracles and pumpkin pie

Wow! What a great week!!!!! So this week was awesome. I'm gonna keep it brief today.

This week was awesome!! First off, it was Thanksgiving. For Thanksgiving we were able to go over to an American family's party. We went over to one of their friends house and there was sooo many people there! And they were all so nice. We had really good conversations with them and got to know a lot of people in the community. Now if we knock on their doors they'll be nice to us because they know us! Yay! Progress!

Okay on a really really up-note, we had some super cool miracles this last weekend. I'll start with the smaller one and then we'll go from there.

So. We've been chasing this guy for a bit now. His name is Kai. He's one of the member's cousin and is super super nice. He's been really busy and hasn't been home for the last few months, so we haven't been able to catch him. However, this last Saturday we stopped by and he was home! He let us in and we chatted for a bit just getting to know each other. He said he'd taken all the lessons before and had been in date, but something happened so he wasn't baptized. However he tells his friends he's a member when they ask. So I'm excited to see him progress. He's a really nice, cool guy.

Another huge miracle was Matt. Matt is the boyfriend of one of our members. She invited him to church a while ago and he's been going with her in the mornings for about 2 months. He says he loves church, especially fast and testimony meetings. So, his girlfriend just moved out of the ward recently, and he had no one to go to church with. He asked us to come with him and of course we said yes. (btw elder jarvis had taught him before but Matt's been super busy recently). So we went and I got to meet him. He is the nicest kid ever! He's 18 and plays baseball for some locals teams!! And he's a giants fan!!!!! Woah!!! I'm gonna get along with this guy really well! Hahahhaha. So we were talking and he asked a few times how he could get baptized. And we explained. We'll. Meet him on Wednesday, so we're really excited for that. Oh and BTW, his girlfriend texted us a few days ago and told us that Matt told her he wants to be baptized and has since the very beginning!!! Woohoo!!!

So those were some awesome miracles from the week. 

Hope yall are having a great time wherever you may be. And hope you had a great Thanksgiving. 

Oh ps, I had pumpkin pie for the first time. It was way good. 

Okay. Love yall heaps!! 

Just bought some golf clubs today. Super super super cheap so it's all good. We'll leave them at the flat.

Practicing in the Samoan choir. #noteasy.hahahaha so fun though. 

what a week!!

Hey what's up everyone??? Well I'm gonna try to make this fast cause it's 10pm here and I haven't emailed President yet. Yay!

So today was crazy! We woke up at 4am and left at 5 for Sydney. Got there at 8:20 for our 9am temple session. Wow, that was a few times thrown in there. Haha anyways, it was a good drive. The temple was amazing as always. I love the temple. The spirit can be felt so strong there! I love it.

On the way home we hit up little Caesars!! Woohoo!!! I haven't had that in a year and a half (well just under) lol. It was so good! And guess what? It's still $5 here!! That was the best because that's actually cheaper than America's!! No tax, and the dollar is worth less here!! Woohoo!!!!

Umm yeah. This week was good. Maybe one point from this week is, it's no good planning something if you're not gonna execute. I have found that myself and many others plan for things, and then never do anything after the plan. And it's frustrating when nothing happens. This goes for a lot of things, events, parties, trips, self-improvement, etc.. So if you're gonna plan something, stick to that. If plans change, that's fine, but don't leave projects unfinished. That's something that I'm learning. Cause I love planning, but sometimes my execution isn't quite up to par. Although, I'm trying really really hard, so that's a positive! 

I'm loving life out here. It's a great place to be, the work is good and I just got a text from someone we're trying to set appointments with saying "I want to come [to church] still" woohoo!!!! I'm excited to meet him. He seems so cool! 

Short email, but I love yall heaps!!

Love elder maxfield. 

Trying new approaches

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." - Albert Einstein

This week we tried to take Mr. Einstein's advice and try something new to get different results. Over the last few months, knocking just hasn't worked. There hasn't been really anything that's come of it. So we wanted to take a new approach. In trying to find this new approach we listened to the advice of President Hinckley; "[Missionaries] succeed best when members become the source from which New investigators are found." Well that sounds pretty dang good. I like succeeding! Who doesn't?

Well, we went to the members this week. Something I saw another missionary do was go into the homes of each member in the ward and share a 10 minute restoration lesson. Then simply the invitation at the end was to share a restoration pamphlet with a friend. We decided this could go well in this ward. Hopefully they can jump on this and get what we're actually trying to do. Cause if missionary work from the members increases here, baptisms will definitely follow! I'm confident that is the same for at home too. So if you're at home reading this, get your thinking cap on and try to think of a friend who you can prepare to meet the missionaries. It doesn't have to be a referral you're giving right now (although that would be great) but even if you can start to talk to someone about the gospel, that's a huge win for the work! The church I'll only grow if we ALL open our mouths.

In other news this week, I'VE SEEN SOOOOO MANY KANGAROOS MATE!!!! IT'S BEEN MEAN!!! Like seriously, they're everywhere! So if we drive in the evening past certain fields, id be able to probably count 75-100 of them. Sooooo cool!!!! But yeah, that's pretty dang fun!

Also the assistants came down and we did trade offs. We did two half day trade offs with them so we started on Tuesday at 3pm and ended Wednesday at 1pm. It was fun though. Wednesday morning we went on a hike for exercise time. It was wayyy cool!! And then we smashed the work the rest of the day. But I was sooo tired haha. Oh well.

Well, it's been a good week filled with lots of cool people and nice members. We also went street contacting for a bit. That was fun to do that again!

OH! ONE FINAL NOTE!!! I'M GOING GOLFING THIS MORNING!!!!!! WOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! I'M SO EXCITED!! I'M GONNA DO SO BAD!! Hahaha! 

Well, in the words of Porky Pig "that's all folks!"

Love yall heaps!

Elder Maxfield 

From the hike

Kangaroos!! 

The legend himself. RIP 

HELLO PARTY PEOPLE!!!!!!!

Hi people! Happy Halloween from your not-so-Aussie friend!
Well Canberra is awesome and my companion is pretty dang cool too! I love it here. The ward is super cool and we have a lot of super nice members who are willing to help us out! I'm stoked!
As for this week, not a ton of work got done because we've been crazy busy running errands. It's a busy life down here. Thankfully we'll have plenty of time this week to smash the finding. We're also hoping to get into a lot of members home and teach them too! Just to get to know them better. #nofoodrequired

Some quick events from this week. Sister Roberts missed her train coming down here, so we hung out with Sister Min all day in a place called Goulburn... yeah.. the biggest attraction in Goublurn is a giant sheep sculpture at a gas station... so that was exciting. hahahahaahaha. Also sister min fell off of a playground spinny thing. That was soooo funny, but I cant send the video cause its too big. My mom has it, ask her if you want. Umm We also had all day service moving some elders into a house... its such a nice flat, I'm super jealous. Oh well, my flat is good too. Oh! And I'm finally running again!!!!! It feels soooo good to be getting into shape again!!!!!! Woohoo!!!!! 

Well, since not much happened, I'll just go to my studies this week. I've been studying a lot about God's plan for us. I won't go into the details, but it's amazing how intricate, yet simple His plan is. He truly does have a plan, and He truly does have a place for each of us prepared at home with Him if we follow His teachings. God's plan is fair, it is just. It allows everyone to have a chance. Although some may say, "eh, I'll 'live' now and follow God later" they really don't know what they're missing out on. God is not there to control us, to make us have boring lives. I'm in Australia for crying out loud! I'm having the time of my life! Yet I'm still following His plan for me. God wants us to be happy, and as we follow His plan, we can receive happiness and blessing in both this life and in the life to come!

I love you all heaps! Keep being awesome!
Love Elder Maxfield.

Trio!! 

Elder jarvis and me! 

I FINALLY HAVE A HIGH PLACE TO SIT ON AGAIN!! 

Just your typical thing you'd find while door knocking here