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

THE SKY IS FALLING THE SKY IS FALLING

Que pasa everyone????? Hope you guys are doing well!!!!

So this week was an interesting one. a lot of random stuff happened, and I cant even remember most of the week. So, highlights. Tuesday, we had interviews with President, I love that man. Hes so awesome and he is super helpful with any problems or questions that we have. We've called him a few times with questions because the zone leaders and assistants didn't know the answers to them. Don't worry, we're not bugging him, its been like twice. 

Umm, we met with Joseph twice this week. That was really good and hard. Tuesday, we talked to him about the importance of the Book of Mormon. Hes reading it every day, so that's really good to see him. He believes that its all true, so that's even better!!!! Thursday, we taught him the rest of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He was receptive. When we asked him to be baptized, he brought up his baptism that hes already had. He explained to him that baptism must be done by proper authority, otherwise it doesn't FULLY work (for lack of a better term). He said that he'll really have to think about it. He's not in a good head space right now because hes not sleeping at all, so we will see where everything goes with him. We are praying every night for him to sleep better, and to have energy. We meet again this Thursday. 

Also, Jack (19-20ish) came up to us on the street the other day. "Hey. Where do I learn more about you guys?" "RIGHT HERE!!!!!! PLEASE!!!! TALK TO US!!!!" hahahaha (Something weird must have been going on that day or something) So we are meeting with him on Thursday this week and will see what comes out of that. 

Otherwise, Not much is going on, just continuing the work, and working hard every single day, all day long. I love it. I love this gospel and am just really stating to discover what it means to me. So i encourage all of you to discover that for yourselves. If you know nothing about the church, I invite you to learn. Test it out. What's the worst that could happen? So try me. 

I love you all heaps!!!

Elder Maxfield

1) Ready for district meeting (giant Book of Mormon)

Oh say can you see?

So last Monday was awesome. We went to Milsons point with basically the whole zone (we didn't plan to have that many people but word got out) and sent Elder Wright (our AP) home. We got some party popper things and the noise makers and gave him a good farewell. We also gathered all the American missionaries that were there and we sang the Star Spangled Banner to him. Just to remind him of what America was like. As soon as we started singing, there were about 50 Asian tourists that came and started watching and recording us. It was so funny. Elder Wright will be missed. 

Dong will also be missed. He went back to China on Friday, so that's really sad. But he promised to read the Book of Mormon every day that he was gone. 

Otherwise, this week was a lot of hard work, but it was good. I had a good time and still have a ton to learn. We are going to invite Joseph to be baptized tomorrow so be on the lookout for a response next week. If I don't write you guys next week, you know what happened. HAHHA Just kidding I'll still write. 

So the pictures... Elder Peterson loves his protein more than life itself, and we had a big party. Elder Warth and I are pretty good friends, as you can see, and Dong is now gone.. Sad day. 

Love ya'll heaps

Elder Maxfield

Still in Chatswood

This week was alright. Not much going on besides a whole lot of doors closed on us. That's alright, we're gonna find those people that have been prepared to receive our message. 

So, updates on investigators: Amy (the crazy lady from Malaysia) she moved to Campsie, which is in the city. She still calls us every now and then for an update on her affairs. Shes interesting. 

Dong is moving to China on friday and we are only able to meet with him one more time. I guess he's been super busy these last few weeks. So hopefully when he comes back next year, he'll be more ready to receive the message. 

Joseph is progressing well. He shared a dream he had a long time ago that was very similar to Lehi's dream in 1st Nephi 8. So we shared with him the dream and he seemed really excited about it!!!! We have another lesson with him tomorrow and we'll follow up on that as well as teach him the gospel of Christ. We're really excited for the lesson tomorrow. We're going to invite him to be baptized! Hopefully hes excited and says yes!!!

Not much else this week. We had zone conference and transfer calls. I'm not moving and everyone is staying in my flat, so no changes there. 

Oh, the birds here (except magpie) are super chill, so you can handfeed them! I dont know how good of quality this picture is, sorry. 

Love ya heaps guys!!!

Elder Maxfield