G'day Family
This week was very quick, um my companion fell crook so most of the week we didn't do anything. But I do have one hilarious story. On Saturday I went to another missionaries area for exchanges and while we were over there we got on the bike and were riding from appointment to appointment. We cut through this park to save some time and some legs. Then we pop back out on the busy road. Then the next thing I know is I hear an ear shattering screatch in my ear. and I turn around, and an Austrlaian Magpie is swooping and attacking me. And I can't defend myself because I was currently trying to not fall off the bike because of the noise it made and I was also trying not to be bashed my a car in the road from my swervy manuevers. To avoid this maniac bird hahaha. It swooped me like six times and my comp couldn't hear me cause of the traffic and wind so I was fighting this bird off all alone but it finally left us alone. Apparrently we rode through its territory hahaha. But the best part about all this is on our way back to the flat... sure enough that bird is there waiting for us and it swoops me again so I pedel really fast to get ahead of my comp so the bird can attack him and it worked the bird swooped and hit Elder Ianusi like four time and I was watching it all happen it was so funny. So they borught the packages down today where is mine I thought you all sent a tape! oh well I dont care. We have a baptism in less than two weeks. But were still now 100% but I hope we can get there. All I can say is...go cowboys! and I love you guys.
-Elder Ballard
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
September 06, 2009
G’day Family,
This week went really well the funny story for the week is when we were at the grocery store we were standing in line behind a trolley full of baked bean cans. And I just thought it was one of those things were they just throw things into a trolley to organize later because there is no way that some one is gonna buy all those beans but sure enough some bloke walks up and takes a hold of the handle. So I asked him “so You like Baked beans?” and he just starts talking and as soon as I hear one word out of his mouth I know he’s American. And he starts say “Ya man! Dude bro the world is gonna end the worlds ***king gonna end! On September 9th 2009, Dude go and look at Alex Johns on you tube!” okaaaaayy hahaha then I see that he has a Texas tech Jumper on. So I ask him if he went there he said yes he is apparently a biophysicist. Then of course I have to ask him if he is a cowboy fan, he isn’t but his brother is. Them he keeps going on about how the dollar will crash on this Wednesday and he’s been preaching it for 8 years he was nuts and he stunk. But it was funny so be prepared you all for the end of the world hahaha I can’t wait to see him on September tenth. Ya other than preparing for the world to end we were able to set a baptismal date with a girl named Hayley and she is solid as! So good we found her in the former investigators and she has family like cousins in the church all is going well. She’ll be baptized on September 26th. So that will be right before transfers so hopefully I’ll baptize right before I go. Also our other family is going well. We’ll see them tonight and re commit to be baptized so we’ll see. I’m well. I have my good days mostly but some bad but I’ve learned the lord truly does love me and I can call on him when ever he is great support for me and I promise he will be for you. Be safe family. I love you. Be safe especially on September 9th hahaha
-Elder Wesley Ballard.
This week went really well the funny story for the week is when we were at the grocery store we were standing in line behind a trolley full of baked bean cans. And I just thought it was one of those things were they just throw things into a trolley to organize later because there is no way that some one is gonna buy all those beans but sure enough some bloke walks up and takes a hold of the handle. So I asked him “so You like Baked beans?” and he just starts talking and as soon as I hear one word out of his mouth I know he’s American. And he starts say “Ya man! Dude bro the world is gonna end the worlds ***king gonna end! On September 9th 2009, Dude go and look at Alex Johns on you tube!” okaaaaayy hahaha then I see that he has a Texas tech Jumper on. So I ask him if he went there he said yes he is apparently a biophysicist. Then of course I have to ask him if he is a cowboy fan, he isn’t but his brother is. Them he keeps going on about how the dollar will crash on this Wednesday and he’s been preaching it for 8 years he was nuts and he stunk. But it was funny so be prepared you all for the end of the world hahaha I can’t wait to see him on September tenth. Ya other than preparing for the world to end we were able to set a baptismal date with a girl named Hayley and she is solid as! So good we found her in the former investigators and she has family like cousins in the church all is going well. She’ll be baptized on September 26th. So that will be right before transfers so hopefully I’ll baptize right before I go. Also our other family is going well. We’ll see them tonight and re commit to be baptized so we’ll see. I’m well. I have my good days mostly but some bad but I’ve learned the lord truly does love me and I can call on him when ever he is great support for me and I promise he will be for you. Be safe family. I love you. Be safe especially on September 9th hahaha
-Elder Wesley Ballard.
August 30, 2009
Hey Family,
This week went well, I think it flew by honestly the days feel like weeks and the weeks feel like days. So it's going fast and the work with our families is going really slow due to the language barriers, but we are still working with them and also a Sri Lanken family they are being taught by us now and it's a lot of fun. hmmm i'm trying to think of something good that happened to me. Nothing really funny, but zone conference came and we got to see president and sister Lee which is always my favorite I love them so much I can't wait for you to meet them when they come over for the ruinion. but i've been able to enhance my study of the book of mormon and i'm in my favorite part and thats the stripling warriors and man if I didn't love to work so much I would read the book of mormon all day. So ya it's definately the word of god and I love losing myself in it and learning more than I ever thought and even somthing better is i'm finally being able to recall on scriptures easily while were teaching and alot of it is stuff I learned that morning so I hope that type of learnig and study will continue forever so I can always be able to call upon the words of god when in time of need. well I love you all and hope all is well. and don't forget me down here cause if you do I just may stay.
Elder Ballard
This week went well, I think it flew by honestly the days feel like weeks and the weeks feel like days. So it's going fast and the work with our families is going really slow due to the language barriers, but we are still working with them and also a Sri Lanken family they are being taught by us now and it's a lot of fun. hmmm i'm trying to think of something good that happened to me. Nothing really funny, but zone conference came and we got to see president and sister Lee which is always my favorite I love them so much I can't wait for you to meet them when they come over for the ruinion. but i've been able to enhance my study of the book of mormon and i'm in my favorite part and thats the stripling warriors and man if I didn't love to work so much I would read the book of mormon all day. So ya it's definately the word of god and I love losing myself in it and learning more than I ever thought and even somthing better is i'm finally being able to recall on scriptures easily while were teaching and alot of it is stuff I learned that morning so I hope that type of learnig and study will continue forever so I can always be able to call upon the words of god when in time of need. well I love you all and hope all is well. and don't forget me down here cause if you do I just may stay.
Elder Ballard
August 23, 2009
Hey Family,
This week was a good one. We worked our tails off, probably spent a total of 30 hours tracting and other finding activities and we found like two semi good people but through our diligent work the lord blessed us in other ways and with other poeple. We had this African family all come to church. It was great we filled a whole row in sarament meeting with investigators. So great! um other than that only two other things happened. One we got a new missionary and he is fresh off the plane from Provo, he lives in Alaska. He look just as scared as I was when I first got here he's not even over the jet lag yet. We also got another missionary been out six months and he is from New Zealand and he is Chad, not resembles Chad, not looks a bit like him, but he is exactly Chad. In all his mannerisms and speach hahaha it's so funny. But the only difference is he is Chad before the mission. He is a big boy like 6'7" and like three hundren maybe 350 pounds he is awesome I love the man. Then a funny story is we found some guy and he seemed keen on learning and so we went back in four days and when we got there his mom told him to tell us to get lost and he came out and we said hey Michael how you doing? and he said "who?" what are you serious dude we know who you are who are you fooling hahah he said his name was Mark and have never met us before hahaha what an idiot it was funny and he just look liked an idiot pretty funny. any ways family all is well in this stake of Zion. miss yall but only a little. Love you guys. bye
-Elder Ballard
This week was a good one. We worked our tails off, probably spent a total of 30 hours tracting and other finding activities and we found like two semi good people but through our diligent work the lord blessed us in other ways and with other poeple. We had this African family all come to church. It was great we filled a whole row in sarament meeting with investigators. So great! um other than that only two other things happened. One we got a new missionary and he is fresh off the plane from Provo, he lives in Alaska. He look just as scared as I was when I first got here he's not even over the jet lag yet. We also got another missionary been out six months and he is from New Zealand and he is Chad, not resembles Chad, not looks a bit like him, but he is exactly Chad. In all his mannerisms and speach hahaha it's so funny. But the only difference is he is Chad before the mission. He is a big boy like 6'7" and like three hundren maybe 350 pounds he is awesome I love the man. Then a funny story is we found some guy and he seemed keen on learning and so we went back in four days and when we got there his mom told him to tell us to get lost and he came out and we said hey Michael how you doing? and he said "who?" what are you serious dude we know who you are who are you fooling hahah he said his name was Mark and have never met us before hahaha what an idiot it was funny and he just look liked an idiot pretty funny. any ways family all is well in this stake of Zion. miss yall but only a little. Love you guys. bye
-Elder Ballard
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Transfer updates! August 17, 2009
Hey Family,
Transfer news came yesterday and the big new this tranfer is!........... I'm am going to be going back to the flat and not packing up cause i'm still staying here in Tazmania hahahahahahahahahahaha Wow am I ever gonna change hahaha it's ridiculous. Five people changed down here and they were all younger in Taz than me haha, but I like it here. I want a change so bad there are 80 other missionaries i've never met and i'm kept from the temple and all that but man my ward is gonna freak when they see me rock up to church this sunday they were convinced i was gone. hahahahaha so funny. Well i'm glad i'm staying cause we have three African families that were working with. One family of six yes six we got to come to church this sunday they are looking so good. Also another African family we taught the daughter about the book of mormon and gave her one like a month ago but rmom took it from here cause she wanted to read it instead and she has never even been taught about it yet. Things are going really good me and Elder Leota are gonna work our tails off this transfer so I can leave Tazzy on a good note cause i'm deffinately going in six weeks. Weather is slightly better but getting better, tracting is going great. Well thank you all everything I love you we'll see ya
-Elder Ballard
Transfer news came yesterday and the big new this tranfer is!........... I'm am going to be going back to the flat and not packing up cause i'm still staying here in Tazmania hahahahahahahahahahaha Wow am I ever gonna change hahaha it's ridiculous. Five people changed down here and they were all younger in Taz than me haha, but I like it here. I want a change so bad there are 80 other missionaries i've never met and i'm kept from the temple and all that but man my ward is gonna freak when they see me rock up to church this sunday they were convinced i was gone. hahahahaha so funny. Well i'm glad i'm staying cause we have three African families that were working with. One family of six yes six we got to come to church this sunday they are looking so good. Also another African family we taught the daughter about the book of mormon and gave her one like a month ago but rmom took it from here cause she wanted to read it instead and she has never even been taught about it yet. Things are going really good me and Elder Leota are gonna work our tails off this transfer so I can leave Tazzy on a good note cause i'm deffinately going in six weeks. Weather is slightly better but getting better, tracting is going great. Well thank you all everything I love you we'll see ya
-Elder Ballard
Aug 09, 2009
Hey Family,
This week was a good one it went very fast but we had lots of good fun especially the last couple days. We had president interviews and everything with me is good. But after the interviews he came and checked our flat hahahaha oh man he wasn't pleased. Now let me get this straight, our flat is clean... very clean. It was just not to missionary standards or something. The curtains were on wrong and we had cut things out of ensigns and put them all over the walls with sticky tack, and he asked us to take them down and move our beds back into the bedroom but the worst thing about it all was he took my pull up ball. I'm so bummed I loved that thing I bought it back in America now it's gone :(. And I tried to plead with him telling him how i've gone from one pull-up to 15 but no dice. Oh well now I have a boring old flat but... plenty of room to wrestle. Then saturday we ate at Margrate's. She gave us Christmas Pudding which is like fruit cake (fruit?...good...Cake?...Great!....Fruit Cake?... Nasty Crap) but this christmas pudding was like fruit cake that has already passed through sombody. Oh man YUUUUUUUUUCCKKKK i'd rather eat Balute Egg. See as a missionary i've become a robot I eat everything in front of me and it's easy but this was the worst thing ever. Oh man Elder Monty and I were gonna throw up big time. That was that day. Then sunday, what a day. First church was good I love Glenhoun, then Glenorchy when we got there, there was a german girl looking for us she said she was a spy (investigator) and was just visiting. She was smarter than any of our converts even she was awesome. And her story is sweet. A missionary on his way to frankfurt from Dallas talked to her for ten hours and got her very insterested. Man good on him. I was scared to death to talk to anyone on the way out to Australia. She also has taught religion in a Catholic school which means she would have questioned that missionary a lot so even more props to him. But it just was the coolest thing, I want an investigator like her so bad. we'll get one don't you worry. Then another thing happened later that night. Elder Ianusi and I went out tracting and we tracted a very small court and it was chokka block full of accepting people but then we get to one house and this lady come's to the door but doesn't open it and says "are you trying to scare me?" in a very high pitched voice. We tell her no we are missionaries then she just starts to hyperventalate like really bad. So I ran next door to see if she has a condition they said she is an alchoholic and skytzo. so we go back and she is like dying infront of us, i kinda laughed but was concerned too. then when we talk with her a while she invites us in but we don't go cause we gotta go. Then we finally tell her we'll be back later in all her hysterics but she says while bawling "i'll be dead by then" wowzer ok so we don't know what to do Elder Ianusi said we should go so we did but it was crazy. We did find lots of other sweet people, we'll see them this week. Thanks every one for your support I love you all.
-Elder Ballard
This week was a good one it went very fast but we had lots of good fun especially the last couple days. We had president interviews and everything with me is good. But after the interviews he came and checked our flat hahahaha oh man he wasn't pleased. Now let me get this straight, our flat is clean... very clean. It was just not to missionary standards or something. The curtains were on wrong and we had cut things out of ensigns and put them all over the walls with sticky tack, and he asked us to take them down and move our beds back into the bedroom but the worst thing about it all was he took my pull up ball. I'm so bummed I loved that thing I bought it back in America now it's gone :(. And I tried to plead with him telling him how i've gone from one pull-up to 15 but no dice. Oh well now I have a boring old flat but... plenty of room to wrestle. Then saturday we ate at Margrate's. She gave us Christmas Pudding which is like fruit cake (fruit?...good...Cake?...Great!....Fruit Cake?... Nasty Crap) but this christmas pudding was like fruit cake that has already passed through sombody. Oh man YUUUUUUUUUCCKKKK i'd rather eat Balute Egg. See as a missionary i've become a robot I eat everything in front of me and it's easy but this was the worst thing ever. Oh man Elder Monty and I were gonna throw up big time. That was that day. Then sunday, what a day. First church was good I love Glenhoun, then Glenorchy when we got there, there was a german girl looking for us she said she was a spy (investigator) and was just visiting. She was smarter than any of our converts even she was awesome. And her story is sweet. A missionary on his way to frankfurt from Dallas talked to her for ten hours and got her very insterested. Man good on him. I was scared to death to talk to anyone on the way out to Australia. She also has taught religion in a Catholic school which means she would have questioned that missionary a lot so even more props to him. But it just was the coolest thing, I want an investigator like her so bad. we'll get one don't you worry. Then another thing happened later that night. Elder Ianusi and I went out tracting and we tracted a very small court and it was chokka block full of accepting people but then we get to one house and this lady come's to the door but doesn't open it and says "are you trying to scare me?" in a very high pitched voice. We tell her no we are missionaries then she just starts to hyperventalate like really bad. So I ran next door to see if she has a condition they said she is an alchoholic and skytzo. so we go back and she is like dying infront of us, i kinda laughed but was concerned too. then when we talk with her a while she invites us in but we don't go cause we gotta go. Then we finally tell her we'll be back later in all her hysterics but she says while bawling "i'll be dead by then" wowzer ok so we don't know what to do Elder Ianusi said we should go so we did but it was crazy. We did find lots of other sweet people, we'll see them this week. Thanks every one for your support I love you all.
-Elder Ballard
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Monday, July 27, 2009
New member! :) July 26, 2009
G'day Family,
This week was hecktic. Just one big thing we focused on and that was Peter Green. He was Baptised and confirmed this weekend as a member of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. It went so well, I was asked to perform the ordinance of baptism again and it was great! Other than that, we did nothing else this week. Be ready for two more baptisms soon. Love you all. I don't have much time. We went hang gliding with our district and for Elder Ianusi's (ya-noo-see) Birthday. It was fun!
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Continuing success July 19, 2009
G'day Fam Damily!
This week went quick and not much else happened other than President and sister lee came down and there were no letters for me. Sad story haha. The zone conference was really good. Me and my comp are doing wonderful. We have a baptism this saturday. It is a 100% this guy is awesome and our ward is wonderfull they are
This week went quick and not much else happened other than President and sister lee came down and there were no letters for me. Sad story haha. The zone conference was really good. Me and my comp are doing wonderful. We have a baptism this saturday. It is a 100% this guy is awesome and our ward is wonderfull they are
fellowshipping him like mad, man it makes our job crazy easy. And also another couple we have set up for baptism is getting ready, we had to get Robert to stop smoking after doing it for 48 years and with the lords help and after seven days he has zero desire to smoke now all they gotta do is come to church and they are getting in that font haha. They are so fun they love us coming by and the things we teach. Last night we were driving in the bush and there were wallabies every where fair dinkum I had to dodge them ever thrity meters.
But as you could have guessed I finally hit one so I backed up to see if I really hit it and it was still moving so I decided to put it out of it's misery so I ran it over again hahaha. I actually feel really bad about it. Well family I love you all and take care. and write me. :)
But as you could have guessed I finally hit one so I backed up to see if I really hit it and it was still moving so I decided to put it out of it's misery so I ran it over again hahaha. I actually feel really bad about it. Well family I love you all and take care. and write me. :) -Elder Ballard
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Scheduled baptisms! July 13, 2009
Well Family this week was a pretty good one. We have been working really hard on a hand full of investigators. We have Peter he is getting baptized this weekend but we might just push it back a week due to hecticicity (ya i made that word up) but just so things run very smooth we're giving ourselves more time to make this day very special for him. Then we have two older couples preparing for baptism... yes family that equals 4 people thats big for my mission hahaha. These people are grear they recognize us as the lords servants and are willing to better themselves to come unto him. So cool, but we have to get over smoking with one of them. But i'm confident in him. Fasting will help i'm sure. Yesterday we went fishing in the ocean it was sweet we caught nothing but I had a blast i'll get the pics by next week. Funny story... Elder Leota and I broke into the zonne Leaders flat and stole there three heaters and left all their windows open and then just left, hahaha and then we got a knock early in the morning and they come in shivering and we are warm and surrounded by seven heaters ahaha it was so funny. Weather is cold still but I love it here. Thank you all for your support. I love you guys.
-Elder Ballard
-Elder Ballard
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