Ummm.. whats going on?

So this week was crazy! 

We had 6 lessons in the last 3 days and had a bunch of people show up that we didn't expect to show up to one of the lessons. (Allen, a new investigator, brought a few friends with him) So we got heaps of new investigators this week. Also, in those few lessons we had, 2 people are now on date to be baptized!!!! Tommy and Michael!! Both for the 13th of January. We will be trying really hard to get them so that they can be ready for that date. We also have a few more people that seem like they will be ready for baptism soon. We will invite them to be baptized in a lesson soon. 

So, heading home form the baptism of Summer (the Sisters taught her) we got a call from President. Elder Tseng (our district leader and flatmate) was emergency transferred to my old zone to be zone leader! Now, we don't have a district leader, and I am in a trio with two people still in training. So I guess I'm training 2 people right now and will probably be called as district leader tomorrow. hahaha. I will give more information on that next week. lol. 

Other than that super eventful week, nothing else happened. Thank you all for the birthday wishes. Oh, that reminds me of a story. So, on Thursday we taught How. Nice guy from China. He was interested in learning about why we were different from other churches. So we taught him the restoration. At the beginning, he told us he wasn't willing to do anything like pray to know if what we teach is true. Then, as we related the message of the first vision, we saw a change in him. He then accepted the challenge to pray to know if our message was true. We teach him on Tuesday. MIRACLES!!!!  I'm excited to see how he progresses. 

Okay I love yall heaps!!!! Have a great Christmas!!!!!

Cool week at the opera house. 

We feasted wit bishop and all 14 other missionaries in the ward​

SUN DAN KUAI LU!!!

Merry Christmas!!! Don't try to google translate that subject line because I probably spelled it wrong. Either way, that's Merry Christmas in Mandarin. I made it one of my goals this week to learn a few more phrases in Mandarin. So I learned that and Happy New Year. So cool! I learned some other ones, but then people told me what they meant. So never mind. :0

This week was EPIC!!!! CHRISTMAS CONFERENCE!!! The whole mission got together for a conference in Hebersham!! It was so fun!!! I got to see my old MTC district and my old zone people! That was really fun. We just caught up and hung out the whole time after President and the Assistants were done with their training. So fun!! 

Otherwise, not much happened this week.Just some more finding and a few lessons. Nothing to really report on yet. It will get there. 

Love yall heaps!!!! Miss you tons too; but I know I'm here because I have been called of God and it is my duty and privilege to serve Him. I love this work. For those of you going out to serve, I'm proud of you. For those of you feeding the missionaries, thank you. For those of you whoa re helping in any way, you're the best! And for anyone who does not know of the truthfulness of this church, please, seek to find it. Just try it out. What do you have to lose from trying? 

Love yall

Elder Chris Maxfield

1) Christmas Conference!!! Old MTC district!

2)We got to watch MOANA!!!!!!

3) Book of Mormon in German..? Yes! Im gonna learn it. 

Hello everyone!!!

So UNSW is so fun!!! Its awesome being on a college campus!!! We aren't allowed to wear our name tags, so its a little weird. We need to stay under the radar. I think its pretty fun; cause then we can just make friends with people, and then tell them what we do. hahahaha They'll never see it coming! Just kidding, everyone knows who we are. But they're super nice and love to talk to us. 

We have so many investigators... I'm a little overwhelmed. We just need to organize though. Once that's done, we will have our heads on straight. 

So my companion is Elder Mcclesky. He"s from American Fork Utah. Hes pretty cool. We get along really well. He has a pretty big desire to do the work, so its just my job to show him how to do it. I have no idea what I'm doing as a trainer, so that's fun. HAHAHAHA I think it will all work out though. Just see how things go I guess. 

I love you all heaps. Have fun at home!! And school. And work. 

Love Elder Maxfield

32 Wallaby Way SYDNEY!!!!!

I'M GOING TO THE CITY!!!! SYDNEY!!! AND GUESS WHAT??? I'M TRAINING A NEW MISSIONARY!!! ITS GONNA BE SO MEAN!!!! 

I'm super excited if you cant tell. I meet my new greenie on Thursday. I might scare him and tell him he needs to soap box. I haven't decided yet. I probably wont do that though. That's mean. 

But this week was good. We had like 3 lessons and found a few new investigators. Of course right as Elder Graffe and I are leaving... hahhaha Merry Christmas new missionaries. 

It was cool though. Yesterday we said goodbye to Wayne. He almost started to cry when we told him we were leaving. I love him. Hes so sweet and really wants a friend. We will make sure people still visit him and I'm going to write him occasionally. 

I'm really happy to leave the area. I'm not going to lie, there's no point in that. I liked it, but its time for a change. Doing the same thing every day was getting old. So I'm super excited for the new!!! Ill be going to UNSW, A college campus!!! Ill miss parts of this area, mostly Wayne, but I'm so excited for the new area and new companion too!!! It'II be awesome. 

Love ya'll heaps!!!

Happy Thanksgiving from a land of no Thanksgivings Days

Lots of rain this week. And also a lot of sunshine. The weather here is nuts. It was a good, fast week though. I cant believe transfer calls are this Saturday!!! Who knows where I'll go or if I'll stay...? It'll be cool though. 

So this week we had trade offs. I went out with Elder Phimphan. He's hilarious. Hes literally always singing and its never dull with him. Funny dude. 

Wednesday was full of training and English class, so that was super fun. I'm starting to get better at teaching English. A skill I thought I would never need to develop. I'm going to be really sad if I don't get to teach it anymore. Its so fun!! My students are doing a really good job too. The class is growing a ton. We should have like 10ish people next week that are coming. Thatl'l be super fun.

Thursday was a day full of finding, but everyone was really nice and we got lots of potential investigators. Saturday was the same, lots of potentials and we got a return appointment!! Anthony seems like a super nice guy and we're excited to meet with him. He called this morning and said he couldn't meet with us today but wants to meet tomorrow instead. He's from the Hillsong church. I literally know like one thing about that church. So it'll be interesting to learn about his beliefs. 

Anyways, love ya'll heaps and I hope you're smashing it back home. Remember that God loves all of you. Christ suffered for you so that you could one day return to Him. He loves each one of you and wants you home. I love Him and am so thankful for all He did for me. 

Love yall

Elder Maxfield

IT WAS MEAN!!!!!!

IT WAS SO MEAN THIS WEEK!! SO MEAN!!!  

So this week, we kicked it off right. Monday was mean as. We took the ferry to a secluded beach that we didn't know was there and then climbed on all the rocks there. It was super fun. All of the pictures this week are from that. 

We taught a lesson with Joseph on Tuesday and wanted to re-establish our purpose as missionaries with him. Brother Setu (the man) came with us and helped out. The lesson was going downhill and offtrack really fast. Then Bro Setu came in and saved the day!! That was the most intense lesson that I've been in so far. We still need to see what will come out of it, but we hope its a good thing. 

Also, on friday Elder Graffe and I were just doing our usual rounds of finding, and we went to Milsons point, the lookout with the opera house, and WE FOUND A NEW INVESTIGATOR!!!! YEAH!!!! Hes a cool dude form Indonesia. He in still in uni and probably is just looking for friends, but he seemed really nice. Hopefully hes interested in our message. If he is, we will transfer him to the city Elders. 

Today, I have no idea what we're doing. I think just cleaning the flat and all that good stuff. Probably will go play some sports too with the district. 

Well, I love ya heaps and I hope you keep smashing it back at home. Remember, always make sure that your life is mean as!!! 

(btw mean means that its like fun or exciting, stuff like that. Australian lingo. Maybe New Zealand... I don't know) 

Love ya heaps!!!

Elder Maxfield

#ASNM 

Australia Sydney North Mission

Rain aint a good thang here in Chatswood

So, this week was honestly a bit rough. The rain makes it really hard to go out and find. So we tried our best all week but got nothing. No return appointments, no meetings this week. So this week was a test of our faith. We will continue to work hard and baptize everyone in the nation of Chatswood!!! Then, Australia!!!!

So not much to report on this week. Joseph came to church!! That was definitely a highlight. We are going to go back to square one with him to see what his real desires are. Cause we can't tell anymore. We'll get there. We are excited to continue.

Love you all heaps!!!

Elder Maxfield