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Hey everyone!!!! How are you all?? 
Man, so first off, I want to tell you that calling home every week is the coolest announcement ever. Hahaha. I've been so excited to talk to my family again. It's been pretty much the only thing we talked about over the weekend. Just how excited we were to call home. 
So fyi, I'll still be sending out a weekly to everyone (I've heard they're pretty popular so, don't wanna disappoint my fans. Hahhaha just kidding. But I still will be sending them out). 
So this week was pretty awesome. I got to go on a trade off with an Elder in my zone this week. He's struggled with obedience throughout his mission but really turned around recently. It was a privilege to work with him and was probably my favorite trade off of the mission. I really really enjoyed it. He told me his life story and talked to me about how he's seen God change him and seen how the Gospel can change our lives. Its convenient that we studied John 2 this week huh? I loved talking about Christs power to change and heal us I've felt that in my life. He wants to mold us into something greater than we are, because He knows that we can become great. So that was a great experience. I'm grateful I had it. 
We also, on Sunday, had the chance to sing in the multicultural festival for Canberra. It was pretty cool. There was a pretty decent crowd even though we probably didn't sound very good. The cool part about it was that we were able to sing in Spanish, Samoan, Tongan, and Chinese. Then on top of that, our Hungarian missionary shared the Hungarian national anthem. So all of that was really really cool. 
It was a great experience. After we got to meet some really cool people and are now invited to teach our beliefs in a mosk. So that's pretty awesome! I'm excited for that opportunity! 

Okay. Love ya'll heaps! Sorry for the late email. 
Elder maxfield 

The festival. 

Sorry don't have any other pics from the festival yet. 

Temple sealings and Spiritual promptings

This week was a good one. I guess I'll get right into the highlights. 

So we hang out every week with the Macaso/Punzal family. They're the Filipino family that we have dinner with. But they're soooo cool!! I love them. So Mike and Donna Punzal got sealed this week and they invited Elder Jarvis and I to go. So Elder Tobler and I drove up Saturday morning, and I dropped him off in the city with Elder Jarvis' companion. Then we went to the sealing. The sealing itself was so cool! Its so amazing to know that we really do have the chance to be with our families after this life, and its because of that ordinance that we can do that. Its not just "til death do you part" but its for forever. So that's pretty awesome! 

After the sealing, we went to a super good Korean Buffet in the city. I've been before, but it was still way good hahha. There, we just joked around and had a good time with the family and with the missionaries that came. 

As for the Spiritual promptings, this week has been great! I've seen Gods hand a lot in the work that we're doing. Something that I'm starting to learn more and more is that as you follow what the Spirit is telling you, God will trust you more and more with more promptings. He will continue to give you things to do and people to check up on. Its incredible. I'm so grateful that God talks to us today. If you haven't felt, or heard, or thought that He's talked to you in a while (or ever) pray and ask Him what He'd have you do. He will answer. maybe not immediately, but He will. 

In other news, Elder Tobler got his foot sliced and diced this week. He has some ingrown toenails removed so we've been walking kinda slow these last few days. (He still wants to walk around even though he probably shouldn't do as much walking as he is haha). So that's made for an interesting weekend. 

Other than that, maybe some time in the future you'll hear from Kermit and Batman. Love ya'll heaps!!! Hope you have a great week!!!!! 

Love Elder Maxfield

Super awesome dope coolio as view! 

After the sealing. I love the temple. 

Heavy rain pours out knowledge from the mission department

So this week was hecka cool!!! We had a pretty normal week up until Friday. Lots of teaching and finding. Thursday afternoon we started heading up to Sydney for MLC. On the drive up, the most intense rainstorm that I've ever seen while driving occurred. I seriously couldn't see 10 ft in front of me. That was crazy. But we made it to Sydney safe. A little late, but safe. Friday morning we played touch Rugby with the boys and then went to our meeting. We knew that someone from the mission department was gonna be there, but we didn't know why. We were hoping it wasn't going to be a rebuke. Well, to our great delight, it wasn't!! He was on assignment from Elder Stevenson to come here and help us increase the effectiveness of our work. So that was very very welcome information. 

So as we started the meeting, he started dropping stats left, right, up down, sideways, etc... I have severe mental whiplash. It was way awesome though. He told us a lot of really cool tips on how we can do better and what we can really do to help these people come to know if the gospel is true. He also reminded us (as always) that the whole reason we're doing this is so that people have the opportunity to be saved in the Kingdom of our Father in Heaven. It was a great meeting. 

What was even cooler though is when we put it to practice. On Saturday and yesterday, we really tried our best to follow the steps that he gave us. It was so cool! From that, and from the help of the Lord, we were able to see a lot of great miracles. The Lord truly is looking out for us and He cares very much about the work we are doing; because its His work. I love being a missionary. Its awesome! I hope you all are able to find missionary opportunities. No, you don't have to refer your friends to the missionaries right now, but maybe make a list of people that you would really like to see receive the gospel at some point in their life. Then minister to them. Be their friends. The Lord will provide miraculous opportunities. 

Love you all heaps!!!  Have a great week!!!! Oh, and happy Superbowl. 

Elder Maxfield

Dinner at the macaso/punzal home. Blue tongued lizard hahah. 

"Wake up G"

"HEY, DEDICATE YOUR WHOLE LETTER TO ME." -ELDER JARVIS

Well, looks like I gotta do this now. So on Wednesday, Jarvis left, and Elder Tobler came in. I'm actually pretty stoked to be his companion again.  This will be our 2nd transfer together in 2 completely different areas. He was such a good missionary in the city, and is way good door knocking too. 

On Wednesday, elder Tobler got to the train station at around 10:30, but there were still missionaries on the way (not arriving until about 2:45) so we took some luggage with us and dropped it off at the flat and came back. We talked about the area and just caught up overall in those 2 hours of driving. It was fun. Then we got back a little early, so we went to the Big Merino. If you don't know what that is, it's the biggest attraction of Goulburn. Look it up on Google. Pretty cool stuff hahahaha. Then the other missionaries got here and we went home. 

I guess the main thing elder tobler and I have been trying to work out this week is how we are going to work with our schedule and drive the other elders around everywhere. It's been pretty frustrating. But that's okay. It hasn't taken tooo much time. Just a bit. One thing that's cool though, is that elder tobler is super positive about everything, so that helps a lot. 

Overall, it's been a good week. Very busy, full of meetings, running around and such, but not too much to really report on. 

Just want to let you know, elder tobler is the man and he wanted me to dedicate this letter to him. I think he deserves it because he gave me a really great compliment this week. He said "one thing I really appreciate about elder maxfield is how much hes grown since the last time we were companions."  I'm glad the only thing he complimented me on was the fact that I was trash before but I'm not as trash now.  I'm just kidding. I know what he meant. Lol. Hes a great guy. 

Well, love y'all heaps!!!!! 

Love Elder Maxfield. 

Ps. On a more serious note, I just want to testify that Jesus Christ is there to help you in any worthy cause. I've seen Him change and improve me, and others time and time again. He is there to help us become the people we were meant to be. Let Him shape you and mold you. Although it's tough, and we usually fight it, when we let Him shape us, we will see how beautiful the workmanship of His hands is. 

Love y'all. 

Elder tobler 

Actually a super cool picture of the sunset

C is for cookie, and cookie is for me!

Whats up party people??? So this week was wild! Ill start off with the subject line. So its like a bajillion and a half degrees right now, so we have been trying to be creative so we don't have to knock doors in 100+ degree heat. Its been fun. So we decided to make cookies for heaps of members and bring them to them. But there's a catch. With the cookies, we issued the Chocolate chip challenge to them! WOOOOOO. Basically, we gave them the cookies, a pass along card, and a copy of "The Living Christ" and challenged them to give one of those out (or do some form of other missionary work) and text us about it after they finish. We're hoping that this can generate some excitement about member missionary work in the ward. Hopefully it works. If not, at least the cookies tasted good. 

So, other than that, we just had transfer calls. ELDER JARVIS IS GOING TO THE CITY!!!! I'M SO STOKED FOR HIM!!!! Hes served mostly bush his whole mission, so this will be a completely new experience for him. As for me, Ill stay here for a third, and Ill be comps with Elder Tobler again. hahahaha. That'll be way fun. I'm actually super excited. I loved serving with him last time, so serving with him again could be a lot of fun. 

Other than that, not much else is happening.  We got a new investigator that seems really promising this week. I was on trade-offs so I wasn't at the lesson, but Elder Jarvis said that he was really keen. So that's exciting!

Well, love yall heaps! Hope you have a great week! Stay warm! 

Love Elder Maxfield

Just another day out here

What's up everyone!!! 

So my email today will probably be a bit shorter, but we'll see. 

So to start off with, mission basketball is over. We haven't gotten final results yet, but as of last week we were sitting in 2nd place with many zones just on our heels. However, we DESTROYED the work this week as a zone, so we'll see what happens. 

In other news, this upcoming week is week 6 and I'll most likely be staying next transfer and Elder Jarvis will go. He's been here for ages so he deserves a transfer. Hahaha. 

So I think Friday and Saturday were the coolest days for me. Both because of the things I learned. Fridays DTM was great. We learned about consecration and being obedient. It was great! Saturday we were filling up the baptismal font for the sisters baptism so we had a bit of free time. I read a talk called "The Fourth Missionary." It was super good. It just talked about the difference between doing good things because you're supposed to and doing them because you know it's the best thing and you want to do that. So it was really good. It helped me out a lot. 

Other than that, not a ton happened this week. Just your average week. No real news on any of our investigators. They're all pretty busy, so we haven't been able to meet with them. Hopefully this week. 

Love yall heaps! 

Elder Maxfield

ELDER LI!!!! hahahaha

"If you were a horse, Id shoot you all"

Well I'm not gonna explain who that quote was by or who it was directed towards. Just know it wasn't to me and my comp or anyone in my mission. Just thought it was a funny thing I heard this week. Hahaha. 

So this week was slow as!!!! Elder Jarvis basically rolled over and died on Monday night after our legendary ascent of the not-so-peaked slopes of Australia. He got really sick. I'm not sure how, but he did. On Monday night he had zero energy, Tuesday he had fevers that would spike, and then drop, so he spent the whole with massive temperature changes. Then Wednesday he got strep throat and has had that since. Fun times. 

Despite the death being had in my flat, we had some cool miracles. Yall remember Matt? The super keen guy? So he texted us and told us that he wanted to meet Tuesday. He then described some struggles hes going through but he really wants to follow God. Hes the man. We'll meet with him again on Wednesday this week. So excited for that. Hes a great guy. 

Thursday the Narooma Elders came over early cause zone conference was the next day. So i spent the day doing two-half-day tradeoffs with them. I would go out while someone stayed with Elder Jarvis and then come back and they swapped haha. It was fun. I feel bad for Elder Jarvis though. Hes getting better. 

Zone conference was great and interviews after were great too!!! President and Sister Runia really have a lot of love for us and I'm so grateful for them!!! After interviews we headed back home and stopped at Little Caesars on the way for dinner. We bought soooooo much!!!!!! Man, it was delicious!!! 

In the words of Marty Mcfly, "That's all folks." Love yall heaps! Hope you had a good and safe new years!! 

Elder Maxfield

PIZZA!!!!!!!!