G'day, Family,
Well as you know the last week ended with a crazy finish and this one was just as nuts and thats why i love the city is so amazing everyday is off the walls so much fun. but as for my new comp it's Elder Zabriskie and i love him he is my best friend out here and we could only dream of being together to tear up this place and thats exactly what were doing. we have this kid he's 16 and he is the best last week he couldn't get a ride to church so he walked like six miles he is so cool he'll eb naptized next weekend and were plannign on having heaps in a few weeks. but as for the momentum stopper in the middle of the week this is the story that will be know for my whole life... ok so thursday morning we had finished our studies so i decide to go and wash the few dishes tha are int he sink. while over there i see that there is a brand new kitchen knife still in it's wrapper so i decide to pull of the wrapper and and wash it. so i pull off 90% of the plastic but the is a bit left and also a saftey tie on the handle so i grabb the handle and then the remaining plastic and in one motion pull in opposite direction. the plastic break a lot easier than i thought. and crack i slam the blunt side of the knife right on the ridge of my nose. OUCH MOther...! i thought it really hurt i checked for blood... no blood ok good... then the flood gate is opened blood starts pouring out all over the sink and dishes. i Call out to elder Zabriskie and he tell me to hold on because he is too busy photo copying his hand, i tell him he's gonna feel really bad for not responding quicker when he see's what has happened. he finally come and then gets tissues and we stopp the flow, i the go to the bathroom and see tht the tissues are not stopping the blodd cause it's not comming only out of my nose but also from a huge laseration down the ridge of my nose. i show Z-bo and he cracks some joke wich makes me laugh and i shoot blood all over my self. it was funny. we make it to the emergency room where they make me wait for three hours before they super glue my nose back together in ten seconds and send me on my way hahahah it's pretty funny there is a pic attached. my time is low but i'll tell you this other cool story in short form there are other detailes thats are pretty cool. we were just walking by some sports ground where they play somthing like bocce ball it's called lawn bowles it's fun as. they let us in and play with them and we found some guy who hasn't been to church in 20 years and he was a crying when we came so he's awesome and were gonna go back and play with them like twice a week. well thants it well not really i just have no time thank you all i love you all bye.
-Elder ballard
Monday, April 19, 2010
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January 10, 2010
G'day family,
This Week was Aweful, and super awesome and crazy all at the same time. so on monday we went to teach this family of five from a country called Karen, and i've been praying for this family like crazy and we get there and something just doesn't feel right, it's the same feelin i got right before that one guy peter freaked out in the middle of a super spiritual lesson. ya and we were talking to the daughter and she was all jazzed about coming to church, then the brother comes in and says they would not like us to come around any more, he said they were buddhist and thats their religion. it was so confusing because they go to a church and are total christians the only problem is JW's go over there all the time and i think they poisened them against us but hey i think thats the JW's sole perpose to do to us. they are my Lex Luther in missionary Work. Then after that the next day we went to colleen (our soon to be newest member of the church) we tuaght he about recieving strength through prayer and the spirit was so strong i figured she was gonna get over smoking for sure. she knows it's true and everything but then the next night we get a call from a ward member and they say she doesn't want us around anymore. What!! how could this be! we've spent so much time with her, she loves us ughhh!! The work is so tough. but eh that's why i love it. that was the bad part of the week then the next day we call this girl who had called the office to contact missionaries, she siad she wants to be taught and to go to our church and also her friend does too. how great of a blessing is that. then also we found a couple more investigators that are solid as!. Our Sri Lankin couple were teaching said they'd be baptized if they get an answer to her prayers, oh it was wonderful, our week just kept getting better from there. i Also spoke in sacrament on the Book of mormon and the ward is now starting to get moving. and then to bring this wonderful joyride to a firey ball driving off a cliff i got a call last night telling me to pack my bags i'm getting emergency tranfered out of bendigo, (thats the bad part) but my new companion will be Elder Zabriskie (thats the most awesome thing in the world) i'm in shock i don't know what to think. i don't want to go but elder Zabriskie (my MTC comp) is like my best friend out here i love him we'll have such a blast. so thats my crazy week. i'm going back to melbourne YAY!!! i'll miss BENDIGehttO. but thats about it HAPPY anniversery Chad and Christy. love you all take care
_Edler Ballard
PS how Bout them COwboys
This Week was Aweful, and super awesome and crazy all at the same time. so on monday we went to teach this family of five from a country called Karen, and i've been praying for this family like crazy and we get there and something just doesn't feel right, it's the same feelin i got right before that one guy peter freaked out in the middle of a super spiritual lesson. ya and we were talking to the daughter and she was all jazzed about coming to church, then the brother comes in and says they would not like us to come around any more, he said they were buddhist and thats their religion. it was so confusing because they go to a church and are total christians the only problem is JW's go over there all the time and i think they poisened them against us but hey i think thats the JW's sole perpose to do to us. they are my Lex Luther in missionary Work. Then after that the next day we went to colleen (our soon to be newest member of the church) we tuaght he about recieving strength through prayer and the spirit was so strong i figured she was gonna get over smoking for sure. she knows it's true and everything but then the next night we get a call from a ward member and they say she doesn't want us around anymore. What!! how could this be! we've spent so much time with her, she loves us ughhh!! The work is so tough. but eh that's why i love it. that was the bad part of the week then the next day we call this girl who had called the office to contact missionaries, she siad she wants to be taught and to go to our church and also her friend does too. how great of a blessing is that. then also we found a couple more investigators that are solid as!. Our Sri Lankin couple were teaching said they'd be baptized if they get an answer to her prayers, oh it was wonderful, our week just kept getting better from there. i Also spoke in sacrament on the Book of mormon and the ward is now starting to get moving. and then to bring this wonderful joyride to a firey ball driving off a cliff i got a call last night telling me to pack my bags i'm getting emergency tranfered out of bendigo, (thats the bad part) but my new companion will be Elder Zabriskie (thats the most awesome thing in the world) i'm in shock i don't know what to think. i don't want to go but elder Zabriskie (my MTC comp) is like my best friend out here i love him we'll have such a blast. so thats my crazy week. i'm going back to melbourne YAY!!! i'll miss BENDIGehttO. but thats about it HAPPY anniversery Chad and Christy. love you all take care
_Edler Ballard
PS how Bout them COwboys
January 3, 2010
Hey Fam Damily,
This week a lot of stuff happened, some flippin funny stories, the fist one happened last monday, we drove to the train station to pick up the zone leaders who were coming for an exchange for the comeing day. and as we drove into our drivway i shouted "OOO Slanty Eyes!" (now i said this because i saw a person of aisian heritage and these people are humble and love to be taught so we scope out there houses to talk to them later, we love teaching them) but aparently my exclamiation distrancted elder merrell and he looked also instead of paying attention to the road and next thing we here is CRUNCH! hahaha he hit a two foot brick wall and knocked it over hahahaha i couldn't stop laughing it was so funny it made a huge dent but fortunatley it popped right out. but some scratches remain and also a pile of bricks on our driveway. but that'll be solved soon, oh also on Monday we went golfing and on six holes i got six bogeys which is way good for me. the next day Elder Fawson and i Went out to see this man named james. he was a little funny when we first met him but we jsut wanted to find out. so when we got there he had a fake microphone and the dvd concert of kiley Monogue and he sang us the concert word for word and movment for movement. hahaha it was hilarious i got photo's and videos i may send one to you all. hey Breaking news i am now officially over a year. ya hoooooo
so there is this word here it's called "busking" it is the same as pan-handling where just people play music for money, and so jsut the other day i went up to some buskers it was a boy and girl both 18 and they were jsut chillin so i sat and chatted with them for a while and i asked them to play me a song and so they played the song it was so good. that was really cool i loved the song i'm gonna get the cd. new years was great we stayed up and rang in the new year and then the next day we palyed sports all day with everyone in the mission. i finally got a lacrosse stick back in my hand and it felt wonderful ahhhhhh. as for people we are teaching we have Colleen she is gonna be baptized on the 16th she just has to get over smoking but she is a great lady. and we also have heaps of people from Ka-ren (a state in Burma) they are awesome. but thats about it for me i really have to pee so i'm trying .... never mind sensation releaved. well thats about it for this week and new years, it's weird to say i'm coming home this year but i am. love you all and we'll talk to you later, oh and actually write me i have only got four email in the last two weeks
-Elder Ballard
This week a lot of stuff happened, some flippin funny stories, the fist one happened last monday, we drove to the train station to pick up the zone leaders who were coming for an exchange for the comeing day. and as we drove into our drivway i shouted "OOO Slanty Eyes!" (now i said this because i saw a person of aisian heritage and these people are humble and love to be taught so we scope out there houses to talk to them later, we love teaching them) but aparently my exclamiation distrancted elder merrell and he looked also instead of paying attention to the road and next thing we here is CRUNCH! hahaha he hit a two foot brick wall and knocked it over hahahaha i couldn't stop laughing it was so funny it made a huge dent but fortunatley it popped right out. but some scratches remain and also a pile of bricks on our driveway. but that'll be solved soon, oh also on Monday we went golfing and on six holes i got six bogeys which is way good for me. the next day Elder Fawson and i Went out to see this man named james. he was a little funny when we first met him but we jsut wanted to find out. so when we got there he had a fake microphone and the dvd concert of kiley Monogue and he sang us the concert word for word and movment for movement. hahaha it was hilarious i got photo's and videos i may send one to you all. hey Breaking news i am now officially over a year. ya hoooooo
so there is this word here it's called "busking" it is the same as pan-handling where just people play music for money, and so jsut the other day i went up to some buskers it was a boy and girl both 18 and they were jsut chillin so i sat and chatted with them for a while and i asked them to play me a song and so they played the song it was so good. that was really cool i loved the song i'm gonna get the cd. new years was great we stayed up and rang in the new year and then the next day we palyed sports all day with everyone in the mission. i finally got a lacrosse stick back in my hand and it felt wonderful ahhhhhh. as for people we are teaching we have Colleen she is gonna be baptized on the 16th she just has to get over smoking but she is a great lady. and we also have heaps of people from Ka-ren (a state in Burma) they are awesome. but thats about it for me i really have to pee so i'm trying .... never mind sensation releaved. well thats about it for this week and new years, it's weird to say i'm coming home this year but i am. love you all and we'll talk to you later, oh and actually write me i have only got four email in the last two weeks
-Elder Ballard
January 3, 2010
G'day family,
well obviously this week was great because i got to talk to you all wich was so fun but now i'm super trunkie or as in the words of mikey trunka -icious but i'll be alright when january hits. so it's only been two days since my last update to you all. but something flippin crazy happened so e went out tracting the day i talked to you all and we saw this guy in his back yard havin a barbie, and so i walked up to his fence and began to speak, and he resoponed very angry so seeing that he wanted nothing to do with religion we offered service and he was all "Whats the catch!" and i said "no catch sir, we just try to be and example of christ at all times" then he goes off! screaming and yelling that god has killed more than he's saved. and then he wanted my address so he could harass me so i gave it to him just the callenge his word, and he won't come becuase he's australian wich means he's a coward. and this whole fit he's having he's been waving a knife around in our face, and to tell you the truth i got closer to him to see if he'd cut me, but he didn't so i didn't have an excuse to smash him. but that was about it for the week everthing went well we got one of our new investigators to church and he enjoyed it he knew like half the ward already. but it was very good, no miss haps i can't wait for 2010 i am super finished with these holiday. so boring and no work to do. well i love you all and hope your holidays are good. take care and be good.
Hooroo
-Elder Ballard
well obviously this week was great because i got to talk to you all wich was so fun but now i'm super trunkie or as in the words of mikey trunka -icious but i'll be alright when january hits. so it's only been two days since my last update to you all. but something flippin crazy happened so e went out tracting the day i talked to you all and we saw this guy in his back yard havin a barbie, and so i walked up to his fence and began to speak, and he resoponed very angry so seeing that he wanted nothing to do with religion we offered service and he was all "Whats the catch!" and i said "no catch sir, we just try to be and example of christ at all times" then he goes off! screaming and yelling that god has killed more than he's saved. and then he wanted my address so he could harass me so i gave it to him just the callenge his word, and he won't come becuase he's australian wich means he's a coward. and this whole fit he's having he's been waving a knife around in our face, and to tell you the truth i got closer to him to see if he'd cut me, but he didn't so i didn't have an excuse to smash him. but that was about it for the week everthing went well we got one of our new investigators to church and he enjoyed it he knew like half the ward already. but it was very good, no miss haps i can't wait for 2010 i am super finished with these holiday. so boring and no work to do. well i love you all and hope your holidays are good. take care and be good.
Hooroo
-Elder Ballard
December 27, 2009
G'day family,
well obviously this week was great because i got to talk to you all wich was so fun but now i'm super trunkie or as in the words of mikey trunka -icious but i'll be alright when january hits. so it's only been two days since my last update to you all. but something flippin crazy happened so e went out tracting the day i talked to you all and we saw this guy in his back yard havin a barbie, and so i walked up to his fence and began to speak, and he resoponed very angry so seeing that he wanted nothing to do with religion we offered service and he was all "Whats the catch!" and i said "no catch sir, we just try to be and example of christ at all times" then he goes off! screaming and yelling that god has killed more than he's saved. and then he wanted my address so he could harass me so i gave it to him just the callenge his word, and he won't come becuase he's australian wich means he's a coward. and this whole fit he's having he's been waving a knife around in our face, and to tell you the truth i got closer to him to see if he'd cut me, but he didn't so i didn't have an excuse to smash him. but that was about it for the week everthing went well we got one of our new investigators to church and he enjoyed it he knew like half the ward already. but it was very good, no miss haps i can't wait for 2010 i am super finished with these holiday. so boring and no work to do. well i love you all and hope your holidays are good. take care and be good.
Hooroo
-Elder Ballard
well obviously this week was great because i got to talk to you all wich was so fun but now i'm super trunkie or as in the words of mikey trunka -icious but i'll be alright when january hits. so it's only been two days since my last update to you all. but something flippin crazy happened so e went out tracting the day i talked to you all and we saw this guy in his back yard havin a barbie, and so i walked up to his fence and began to speak, and he resoponed very angry so seeing that he wanted nothing to do with religion we offered service and he was all "Whats the catch!" and i said "no catch sir, we just try to be and example of christ at all times" then he goes off! screaming and yelling that god has killed more than he's saved. and then he wanted my address so he could harass me so i gave it to him just the callenge his word, and he won't come becuase he's australian wich means he's a coward. and this whole fit he's having he's been waving a knife around in our face, and to tell you the truth i got closer to him to see if he'd cut me, but he didn't so i didn't have an excuse to smash him. but that was about it for the week everthing went well we got one of our new investigators to church and he enjoyed it he knew like half the ward already. but it was very good, no miss haps i can't wait for 2010 i am super finished with these holiday. so boring and no work to do. well i love you all and hope your holidays are good. take care and be good.
Hooroo
-Elder Ballard
December 20, 2009
G'day Family,
This week was sick, lots of fun and lots of work. last monday we went to this place called hanging rock, the rock it self sucked but there were heaps of cliffs to bounce around on and we had a lot of fun, a really creepy thing was like 100 years ago like four girls and a teacher had disappeared from there and then like a week later one girl showed up unharmed and with no memory it is a nuts-o story and they made it a movie it is called "picnic at Hanging Rock" go buy it and tell me how it is. oh i also di something i'm proud of this week, i went to Subway for like the first time i've been out and when they asked what i want on it i said everything and so they did and the sandwich was the bomb. we also had our christmas conference with the whole mission (minus Tazzy) but it was awesome we did a girft exchange and also wathced a move it was the nativity some new movie but it was sweet as. i loved it, some weird part but over all best movie watched on the mission (only movie) then we also got our christmas package it was awesome i love everthing in it all the toys elder Merrel broke the yo-yo string already but eh. we played with the foxtail in the field this morning for morning exercise, it's the best. well i wrote some thing down about "alex-dissappear" i have no idea why but if i remember i'll tell you on CHRISTMAS!!! well i'll talk to you all soon i love you guys!!
_elder Ballar
This week was sick, lots of fun and lots of work. last monday we went to this place called hanging rock, the rock it self sucked but there were heaps of cliffs to bounce around on and we had a lot of fun, a really creepy thing was like 100 years ago like four girls and a teacher had disappeared from there and then like a week later one girl showed up unharmed and with no memory it is a nuts-o story and they made it a movie it is called "picnic at Hanging Rock" go buy it and tell me how it is. oh i also di something i'm proud of this week, i went to Subway for like the first time i've been out and when they asked what i want on it i said everything and so they did and the sandwich was the bomb. we also had our christmas conference with the whole mission (minus Tazzy) but it was awesome we did a girft exchange and also wathced a move it was the nativity some new movie but it was sweet as. i loved it, some weird part but over all best movie watched on the mission (only movie) then we also got our christmas package it was awesome i love everthing in it all the toys elder Merrel broke the yo-yo string already but eh. we played with the foxtail in the field this morning for morning exercise, it's the best. well i wrote some thing down about "alex-dissappear" i have no idea why but if i remember i'll tell you on CHRISTMAS!!! well i'll talk to you all soon i love you guys!!
_elder Ballar
December 20, 2009
G'day family,
this week was normal with it's handful of fun things , well first thing happy 50th on the 8th mom! thats fun what did you guys do? also this week i bought a set of golf clubs for 20$ so awesome i got them from a DI sorta shop i am pumped i'm gonna go pro. also while elder merrel and i were trackting we saw this huge lizard it was like a baby alligator it was massive i thought it was fake so i poked it and sure enough it was real and it got mad at me it had a tonuge the size of mine and it was bright blue it was so cool. except for it was about to pounch on me so we left got my camera and came back and it gapped it. oh and another encounter with wildlfie i was mowing these people lawn and i was just standing there and all the sudden my legs stared to burn and i look down and a swarm of ants had taken my leg and were bitting me it was crazy it was jsut irritating didn't hurt to bad but quite the funny expirience being swarmed by ants. it seems to be somebody wants me dead. i seem to brush with fatality every week. but i'm protected so thats good. oh hahahaha yesterday we went to visit a less active man and so we knock on his door and he answers with just a sweater on no pants or underwear , but i didn't figure that out till he walked away and his saggy old man balls were dangling out the back. kinda hilarious but the man put on pants and he was very nice but just lonely so were gonna visit him on christmas. oh and also this at church yesterday a guy just showed up his name is dan and he jsut wanted to come to church. it was so cool but he was a very opinionated guy he mad me think a bit and challenged us but nothing he asked we couldn't answer it was pretty cool but we'll see him again i'm sure and i'll up date you it was pretty cool. also at church this guy that use to live in Riverton UT he asked me if i had anything to send home for christmas so i gave hime some things and he is flyi9ng back this week so he'll drop off a poackage soemthing soon his name is shane chipman he is really cool. well fam thats my week. my christmas cards are on ther way, have a good week and welcome baby collier to the world. love you guys
Elder Ballard
this week was normal with it's handful of fun things , well first thing happy 50th on the 8th mom! thats fun what did you guys do? also this week i bought a set of golf clubs for 20$ so awesome i got them from a DI sorta shop i am pumped i'm gonna go pro. also while elder merrel and i were trackting we saw this huge lizard it was like a baby alligator it was massive i thought it was fake so i poked it and sure enough it was real and it got mad at me it had a tonuge the size of mine and it was bright blue it was so cool. except for it was about to pounch on me so we left got my camera and came back and it gapped it. oh and another encounter with wildlfie i was mowing these people lawn and i was just standing there and all the sudden my legs stared to burn and i look down and a swarm of ants had taken my leg and were bitting me it was crazy it was jsut irritating didn't hurt to bad but quite the funny expirience being swarmed by ants. it seems to be somebody wants me dead. i seem to brush with fatality every week. but i'm protected so thats good. oh hahahaha yesterday we went to visit a less active man and so we knock on his door and he answers with just a sweater on no pants or underwear , but i didn't figure that out till he walked away and his saggy old man balls were dangling out the back. kinda hilarious but the man put on pants and he was very nice but just lonely so were gonna visit him on christmas. oh and also this at church yesterday a guy just showed up his name is dan and he jsut wanted to come to church. it was so cool but he was a very opinionated guy he mad me think a bit and challenged us but nothing he asked we couldn't answer it was pretty cool but we'll see him again i'm sure and i'll up date you it was pretty cool. also at church this guy that use to live in Riverton UT he asked me if i had anything to send home for christmas so i gave hime some things and he is flyi9ng back this week so he'll drop off a poackage soemthing soon his name is shane chipman he is really cool. well fam thats my week. my christmas cards are on ther way, have a good week and welcome baby collier to the world. love you guys
Elder Ballard
December 12, 2009
G'day Family,
My week was quick but full of a lot of fun and exciting work in the city of Bendigo. so first off the zone leaders (elder Hathaway, from tooele, and Elder Toolson from sand diego) drove up to go on exchanges with us, we golfed for p-day and i got the top score, Watch out chad and Rob!! then Elder toolson and i went to work. and here is the deal elder toolson has been sick he has problems with his adrenal gland so he can only work like for two hours at a time then he's dead tired. so we nap and read and just rest all day then we go out... our appointments fell through so we decided to know this one house i saw a couple days ago where i saw aisians out side (missionaries like aisians cause they are humble and love to learn) so we go, they don't speek much english and it was tough buyt they want to learn, then as we are going to our car we find three more burmese people, we schedule an appointment, then we drive around the corner se another group so we pull over hop out and get them, we set up appointment to teach them, then as were walking a old investagator pulls over and says come over friday for a BBQ then after that we see two more people and get their info and address to teach them and this all happened in like ten minutes it was insane. we were laughing so hard cause it was just so easy. hahaha also this week we have mowed so many people's lawns we helped the retired minister lady she was crazy funny stories on her i killed a spider the size of chloe. then later on in the week Elder Tongsumrith and Elder LEausa came over to exchange. i was with leausa he is awesome he just took all the american candy and talked to poeple on the street offering pixysticks and what not hahaha it was funny and i also met my fisrt full blood aboriganie. oh and we got fed by these investigators from Sri LAnka and it was just an old couple so funny they fed us all this weird food and we ate with our fingers it was fun. for dessert they fed us this jelly called Agar Jelly look it up it's like eating a really weak earaser. a bit weird. ad last thing i almost died last night we were having burgers at a members last night and as i went to swallow my bite i felt my throut being sliced in half. so i just flipped and jammed my hand to the back of my throut to catch it before desended to my stomach to wreak major havok down there. and when i pulled it out it was a two in spiral peice of sharp sharp metal it was aweful. but i got it before it tried to shred my insides. it wasn't gracful but i got it. well family thats it for me this week christmas is coming and my christmas cards will be sent off soon so be on the look out i'm just sending a stack to mom and she'll sned um cause that'll save me heaps. well i love you all take care.
-Elder Ballard
My week was quick but full of a lot of fun and exciting work in the city of Bendigo. so first off the zone leaders (elder Hathaway, from tooele, and Elder Toolson from sand diego) drove up to go on exchanges with us, we golfed for p-day and i got the top score, Watch out chad and Rob!! then Elder toolson and i went to work. and here is the deal elder toolson has been sick he has problems with his adrenal gland so he can only work like for two hours at a time then he's dead tired. so we nap and read and just rest all day then we go out... our appointments fell through so we decided to know this one house i saw a couple days ago where i saw aisians out side (missionaries like aisians cause they are humble and love to learn) so we go, they don't speek much english and it was tough buyt they want to learn, then as we are going to our car we find three more burmese people, we schedule an appointment, then we drive around the corner se another group so we pull over hop out and get them, we set up appointment to teach them, then as were walking a old investagator pulls over and says come over friday for a BBQ then after that we see two more people and get their info and address to teach them and this all happened in like ten minutes it was insane. we were laughing so hard cause it was just so easy. hahaha also this week we have mowed so many people's lawns we helped the retired minister lady she was crazy funny stories on her i killed a spider the size of chloe. then later on in the week Elder Tongsumrith and Elder LEausa came over to exchange. i was with leausa he is awesome he just took all the american candy and talked to poeple on the street offering pixysticks and what not hahaha it was funny and i also met my fisrt full blood aboriganie. oh and we got fed by these investigators from Sri LAnka and it was just an old couple so funny they fed us all this weird food and we ate with our fingers it was fun. for dessert they fed us this jelly called Agar Jelly look it up it's like eating a really weak earaser. a bit weird. ad last thing i almost died last night we were having burgers at a members last night and as i went to swallow my bite i felt my throut being sliced in half. so i just flipped and jammed my hand to the back of my throut to catch it before desended to my stomach to wreak major havok down there. and when i pulled it out it was a two in spiral peice of sharp sharp metal it was aweful. but i got it before it tried to shred my insides. it wasn't gracful but i got it. well family thats it for me this week christmas is coming and my christmas cards will be sent off soon so be on the look out i'm just sending a stack to mom and she'll sned um cause that'll save me heaps. well i love you all take care.
-Elder Ballard
December 6, 2009
G'day Family,
My week was quick but full of a lot of fun and exciting work in the city of Bendigo. so first off the zone leaders (elder Hathaway, from tooele, and Elder Toolson from sand diego) drove up to go on exchanges with us, we golfed for p-day and i got the top score, Watch out chad and Rob!! then Elder toolson and i went to work. and here is the deal elder toolson has been sick he has problems with his adrenal gland so he can only work like for two hours at a time then he's dead tired. so we nap and read and just rest all day then we go out... our appointments fell through so we decided to know this one house i saw a couple days ago where i saw aisians out side (missionaries like aisians cause they are humble and love to learn) so we go, they don't speek much english and it was tough buyt they want to learn, then as we are going to our car we find three more burmese people, we schedule an appointment, then we drive around the corner se another group so we pull over hop out and get them, we set up appointment to teach them, then as were walking a old investagator pulls over and says come over friday for a BBQ then after that we see two more people and get their info and address to teach them and this all happened in like ten minutes it was insane. we were laughing so hard cause it was just so easy. hahaha also this week we have mowed so many people's lawns we helped the retired minister lady she was crazy funny stories on her i killed a spider the size of chloe. then later on in the week Elder Tongsumrith and Elder LEausa came over to exchange. i was with leausa he is awesome he just took all the american candy and talked to poeple on the street offering pixysticks and what not hahaha it was funny and i also met my fisrt full blood aboriganie. oh and we got fed by these investigators from Sri LAnka and it was just an old couple so funny they fed us all this weird food and we ate with our fingers it was fun. for dessert they fed us this jelly called Agar Jelly look it up it's like eating a really weak earaser. a bit weird. ad last thing i almost died last night we were having burgers at a members last night and as i went to swallow my bite i felt my throut being sliced in half. so i just flipped and jammed my hand to the back of my throut to catch it before desended to my stomach to wreak major havok down there. and when i pulled it out it was a two in spiral peice of sharp sharp metal it was aweful. but i got it before it tried to shred my insides. it wasn't gracful but i got it. well family thats it for me this week christmas is coming and my christmas cards will be sent off soon so be on the look out i'm just sending a stack to mom and she'll sned um cause that'll save me heaps. well i love you all take care.
-Elder Ballard
My week was quick but full of a lot of fun and exciting work in the city of Bendigo. so first off the zone leaders (elder Hathaway, from tooele, and Elder Toolson from sand diego) drove up to go on exchanges with us, we golfed for p-day and i got the top score, Watch out chad and Rob!! then Elder toolson and i went to work. and here is the deal elder toolson has been sick he has problems with his adrenal gland so he can only work like for two hours at a time then he's dead tired. so we nap and read and just rest all day then we go out... our appointments fell through so we decided to know this one house i saw a couple days ago where i saw aisians out side (missionaries like aisians cause they are humble and love to learn) so we go, they don't speek much english and it was tough buyt they want to learn, then as we are going to our car we find three more burmese people, we schedule an appointment, then we drive around the corner se another group so we pull over hop out and get them, we set up appointment to teach them, then as were walking a old investagator pulls over and says come over friday for a BBQ then after that we see two more people and get their info and address to teach them and this all happened in like ten minutes it was insane. we were laughing so hard cause it was just so easy. hahaha also this week we have mowed so many people's lawns we helped the retired minister lady she was crazy funny stories on her i killed a spider the size of chloe. then later on in the week Elder Tongsumrith and Elder LEausa came over to exchange. i was with leausa he is awesome he just took all the american candy and talked to poeple on the street offering pixysticks and what not hahaha it was funny and i also met my fisrt full blood aboriganie. oh and we got fed by these investigators from Sri LAnka and it was just an old couple so funny they fed us all this weird food and we ate with our fingers it was fun. for dessert they fed us this jelly called Agar Jelly look it up it's like eating a really weak earaser. a bit weird. ad last thing i almost died last night we were having burgers at a members last night and as i went to swallow my bite i felt my throut being sliced in half. so i just flipped and jammed my hand to the back of my throut to catch it before desended to my stomach to wreak major havok down there. and when i pulled it out it was a two in spiral peice of sharp sharp metal it was aweful. but i got it before it tried to shred my insides. it wasn't gracful but i got it. well family thats it for me this week christmas is coming and my christmas cards will be sent off soon so be on the look out i'm just sending a stack to mom and she'll sned um cause that'll save me heaps. well i love you all take care.
-Elder Ballard
November 29, 2009
MY week has been good but to answer some of you inquiries...Ya ok so i figured somthing out you can send me for christmas, i need a couple whitew short sleeve shirts, some dumb missionaries took mine. and also if you can send a couple mesh garment bottoms that would be great. oh man i miss that huge christmas tree but our puny charlie brown tree is awesome i love it we set all up this week and it was great were working on a christmas card now but zero ideas now. have dad hop on and tell me all about the dallas trip, how was the new stadium and all that jazz. so guess what i actulally wrote down things to talk to you all about so yay you'll actually here some good stories form my week. ok so first off big news i have recently found out that i'm mildly lactose intollerant, so yeah i eat cereal most mornings and have milk and my poo hasn't been hard in like over a year so we bought heaps of soy milk and oat milk this week and since i'm drinking that instead, guess what... Hard Poo hahaha sorry you had to endure that story but you wanted me to share about my week. we had zone conference in Melbourne so as you heard from last week we were down there. it was good and it was president lee's b-day and we got him a pink tie and he swore he'd never wear pink but we got him to wear it, it was great. then we rode a noce long train ride back to our area it was fun, and when we got back we went to this part member families house and they had been having stange happenings with spirits and they wanted us to dedicate there home, so they asked me to do it, so i did and it was very spiritual and it is the dad who is not a member and after the blessing we asked him if he wanted the Priesthood to protect and bless his family and he was blown away he said no body has ever asked him. but he said he'd talk mit over with his wife but i think he will want to recieve that it was such a cool expirience. so my area has been very hard we havn't found any new investogators in the three weeks i've been here, which is weird cause i usually get a couple a week. but just satuday night we knock this one door we saw a couple days previous so we knock it and behind the door is a burmese family they invite us in we teach them and it was tough but i feel they understood, and we got four new investigators it was great, some success finally. that was great, so thing funny that happened was we were talking to this girl on her doorstep for like 45 mins and the whole time this song was playing over and over and over in the background. so i wanted to guess what it was all about so i guessed " is it the title menu for a dvd of the show "third rock from the sun"" and i weas exactly right, how stinkin random i was so proud of my self. anyways my week was good and after being here for three weeks they finally got me to introduce myself in sacrament, after i'd already met 90% of the poeple there. but i think thats about it i love you all thanks for the love. talk to you in 25 days.
-Elder Ballard
-Elder Ballard
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