March 15, 2010

G'day Fam Damily,

Man this week was good, it seems since i got Dear John'd by Merrill (new name) I've actually been opened up to have all the awesome expiriences missionaries are supposed to have I felt as if i was missing them or maybe just not noticing them but i Definately like it way better now... ok so first off coolest part about his week, and man there were a lot to choose from, but this one was just the best. It's always been my dream to baptise a Fijian and a Peruvian, because jordan and mikey are serving there. so on tuesday we decided to walk to a meeting we have. and on the way some lady just walks right beside her, Z-bo starts to talk with her and he say she is Fijian and i Perk up and jus in the conversation, we get her info and go and teach her on saturday. on saturday, we teach her and it went beautfully. we taught with such a strong spirit, and when i handed her the Book Of Mormon she gave a kind of nervous laugh smile thing and so we asked her how she felt, and she said "When you spoke to me on te street i felt reallly good and i needed to talk to you and now that feeling is back, and i know his is what i need to be doing." So we set a baptismal date for her and her daughter on the 27h of march, and later she told us that she had gone to a catholic preist to get her daughter baptizd and the priest was too busy to see her, and that day she met us... hahaha how great. then we also Met another fijian girl and we taught her sunday she wants to be baptised and we'll do it on the 10th of April, and the funny part is her Dad is Jehovah Wittness and she had a JW calender and so we had her write in her baptism o that and we took a photo hahaha sooo funny. but hey i wanted to just baptise one fijian in two year and we found three in one week hahaha how great. we are truely blessed. Another great thing that happened this week was Daniel To'omata Was baptized. Daniel is so cool he's twenty three he met the missionaries a year a go when he was involved with drugs and crime and he really wants to turn his life around. and he did, we've been teaching him and it's been a struggle but he had a court hearing and he excaped jail on thursday so he was able to enter the waters of baptism on saturday. he was baptised by Pai, the blind man and good thing Pai is the strongest man in Victoria (not a joke he has a Medal, he's massive) because Dan is a big boy and i couldn't have done it. and with this baptism i tripled my baptism for my whole mission, pretty exciting. also Dan rocked up to his baptism in an Emmit Smith jersey how FREAKIN COOL, there are few things more beautiful than seeing a ex-criminal bearing his testimony in an Emmit smith Jersey, with a blind man beside huim supporting him. ahhhhh my life is complete. Also Transfer news came in yesterday, and Finally i get to stay in Glenroy ward for six more week. i'm so happy Elder Zabriskie and I get to stay together, i honestly think the key to bing a successful missionary is having that bond with your comp because when you have that your able to teahc with the spirit ten fold. Oh ok so the funny story for this week happend this morning. so We decided to have a Root Beer Mile, Where we Skull (chug) Root beer and then run a lap drink another can and run a lep and so on... so we set this up as a grudge match of Me and some ohter lame missionary wgho's been talking smack, no he thinks because he LOOKS fitter than me then he is. and so we set this up, and the root beer mile is there to test your strenth and endurence it's suppose to hurt. so we do this and buy a whole heap of root beer (which was ver expensive cause they don't sell it here and you have to go to special shops) and we Start. We drink two cans to start, and then all start at the same time. Elder Zabriskie finish the first lap first but then somebody drinks fast than us and leaves before us but w finish and catch and pass him then basically it's all over from there we leave these poofs in the dust, no don't get me wrong i was hurting and throwing up everywhere, and there was like 60 crosscounrty kids there wathcing us. but Elder Zabriskie and I Lapped everyone he beat me by 20 seconds i smashed the other homo missionary. it was so fun and aweful at the same time, i don't recomend it to anyone but if you want to test someone's guts take them to the track. I thinks thats about it i got a package, it was so awesome i'm writing responses today thats for the love and support i love you all, take Care, Hooroo


Elder Ballard