Goodbye Trondheim
13 years ago
Sunday, October 31, 2010
"Somebody help me, I'm being Spontaneous!"
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Good day family and friends,
How are you this fine day? Mum, i appreciated the Email. Please don't talk about the snow on the mountains; i want to go snowboarding soo bad! I'm sure it's beautiful.
Happy Birthday MAX! Hope you enjoy it! Are you doing something special on your special day? What did you get for your Birthday? I still remember the day you were born, back in Detroit. You went from being Marilyn to being David Maxwell just like that. Haha. You're 9 now, eh? Don't grow up too fast, i would give anything to be 9 again! Enjoy your youth! Every day is a new adventure!
How was Angel's Night and Halloween for everyone? Did anyone do anything for 'Angels' night? What did everyone do for Halloween? John & Sierra, what did you dress up as? You have to send me some photos of your costumes.
As i mentioned last year, Halloween is a fairly new thing over on this side of the sphere. There are still a lot of old members who are against it. It was interesting to see the reaction of some members as this year the Mudgeeraba ward had its first ever Halloween ward activity.
..."Well when i was a stake president in Sydney i tried to put a stop to it.. I don't think it goes along with the standards of The Church. I don't see why the church just goes along with it..." RahRahRah Buncha party poopers i reckon. O well, more lollys for us believers in the "American tradition".
The Ward activities coordinators asked me what we would do for Halloween activities back home. So i introduced the Trunk or treat, bobbing for apples, cake walk, and several other games to the Mudgee ward for the 1st time. The Trunk of Treat was a huge success and we had a lot of less actives and non members show up. There was also a child of record baptism just before the Ward Activity so it was good to have our investigators the Pagels, come early for that. The Pagels went all out decorating their car and actually won the award for Best Decorated Vehicle. (they invited us to be the judges for costumes and vehicles). It was a lot of fun for the whole ward and a great opportunity for people to bring their nonmember friends so they can see we are just normal people... well, almost normal.
The work has been slow this week and we are struggling to get people to hold appointments. But we have a few part member families we have made some head way with. Violet, Craig, Jesse, and William didn't come on Saturday or to church yesterday. We will visit them again soon; please pray for them. Also please pray for the Prasad Family we will begin teaching Brother Prasad's nonmember wife (Annie) and 9 year old Daughter (Zinia) on Saturday.
Our 2 recent converts Hilita and Kelly are going really well and are soaking up everything we teach and they learn at church. They are both even excited to do family history and temple work. Hilita's real Dad is coming down from Brisbane next week to come to church with her for the 2nd time and we are teaching him a lesson after wards. She also offered to take us out to dinner after the lesson for my Birthday, but i explained to her that we don't eat out on Sunday (I swear we taught her about that already, haha).
Matt-did you get my information to Mike Brett? I'd love to visit with him. Just for his information the Chapel I go to is actually on Caloola st. Not Kaloola st. Matt, what are you doing for your Birthday?
My companion and I, Elder Christensen, are getting along great, and the active members love us. I'm just concerned right now about finding new people to teach, so keep us in your prayers in that regard.
I greatly appreciate all of your prayers and see them answered through our many 'tender mercies' of the Lord.
Mum, my Birthday Package arrived safely. Did you check out www.missioncards.com?? it would really be nice to have something that i could give to the people i have a chance to work with on my mission to remember me and be able to keep in touch with me. ;)
Many thanks to the Jensens and Johnsons for the sacred funds (CA$H FLOW) I have received from them for my birthday.
That is interesting that you mentioned Stan Manning. I was just thinking about him like 2 or 3 days ago and how he was such a great home teaching companion, and i really enjoyed going out visiting with him. I also was thinking about him Saturday at the Halloween activity because there was a person there making Balloon animals and stuff. I was thinking "i reckon Bro. Manning could show her up"
Say Hello to Bro. Lyon, Freeze, Chamberlain, and the Lee family from Aussie land for me. Oh and tell Mike Stewart whats up for me too. He is the coolest guy. We need more young mens leaders like Stewert. Tell him i said that. Oh, and my companion, Elder Christensen, from Portland Oregon, Says hello to everyone.
Did Kyler or Ellie get dressed up this year for Halloween? Did the 'Summit' Ward have a trunk or treat this year?
Tell Elder Derrek Stobbe I say Hello and Congrats on enduring to the End and returning honorably. Which ward did he speak in? how was his talk?
Well, sorry this is getting a bit long, and my time is up. I want you all to know that my testimony continues to grow in individual gospel principles and this week my testimony had definitely grown in the power of fasting and paying fast offerings. I guarantee that the Lords promise that he will pour us out a blessing greater than we can receive is certainly true. You don't have to worry about me too much Mum, and Dad; I am well taken care of by the Ward and even more, by the Lord.
Love ya mates!
-Elder R.A.Prina
Enjoy the photos of the Mudgee Ward trunk or treat
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Good day family and friends,
How are you this fine day? Mum, i appreciated the Email. Please don't talk about the snow on the mountains; i want to go snowboarding soo bad! I'm sure it's beautiful.
Happy Birthday MAX! Hope you enjoy it! Are you doing something special on your special day? What did you get for your Birthday? I still remember the day you were born, back in Detroit. You went from being Marilyn to being David Maxwell just like that. Haha. You're 9 now, eh? Don't grow up too fast, i would give anything to be 9 again! Enjoy your youth! Every day is a new adventure!
How was Angel's Night and Halloween for everyone? Did anyone do anything for 'Angels' night? What did everyone do for Halloween? John & Sierra, what did you dress up as? You have to send me some photos of your costumes.
As i mentioned last year, Halloween is a fairly new thing over on this side of the sphere. There are still a lot of old members who are against it. It was interesting to see the reaction of some members as this year the Mudgeeraba ward had its first ever Halloween ward activity.
..."Well when i was a stake president in Sydney i tried to put a stop to it.. I don't think it goes along with the standards of The Church. I don't see why the church just goes along with it..." RahRahRah Buncha party poopers i reckon. O well, more lollys for us believers in the "American tradition".
The Ward activities coordinators asked me what we would do for Halloween activities back home. So i introduced the Trunk or treat, bobbing for apples, cake walk, and several other games to the Mudgee ward for the 1st time. The Trunk of Treat was a huge success and we had a lot of less actives and non members show up. There was also a child of record baptism just before the Ward Activity so it was good to have our investigators the Pagels, come early for that. The Pagels went all out decorating their car and actually won the award for Best Decorated Vehicle. (they invited us to be the judges for costumes and vehicles). It was a lot of fun for the whole ward and a great opportunity for people to bring their nonmember friends so they can see we are just normal people... well, almost normal.
The work has been slow this week and we are struggling to get people to hold appointments. But we have a few part member families we have made some head way with. Violet, Craig, Jesse, and William didn't come on Saturday or to church yesterday. We will visit them again soon; please pray for them. Also please pray for the Prasad Family we will begin teaching Brother Prasad's nonmember wife (Annie) and 9 year old Daughter (Zinia) on Saturday.
Our 2 recent converts Hilita and Kelly are going really well and are soaking up everything we teach and they learn at church. They are both even excited to do family history and temple work. Hilita's real Dad is coming down from Brisbane next week to come to church with her for the 2nd time and we are teaching him a lesson after wards. She also offered to take us out to dinner after the lesson for my Birthday, but i explained to her that we don't eat out on Sunday (I swear we taught her about that already, haha).
Matt-did you get my information to Mike Brett? I'd love to visit with him. Just for his information the Chapel I go to is actually on Caloola st. Not Kaloola st. Matt, what are you doing for your Birthday?
My companion and I, Elder Christensen, are getting along great, and the active members love us. I'm just concerned right now about finding new people to teach, so keep us in your prayers in that regard.
I greatly appreciate all of your prayers and see them answered through our many 'tender mercies' of the Lord.
Mum, my Birthday Package arrived safely. Did you check out www.missioncards.com?? it would really be nice to have something that i could give to the people i have a chance to work with on my mission to remember me and be able to keep in touch with me. ;)
Many thanks to the Jensens and Johnsons for the sacred funds (CA$H FLOW) I have received from them for my birthday.
That is interesting that you mentioned Stan Manning. I was just thinking about him like 2 or 3 days ago and how he was such a great home teaching companion, and i really enjoyed going out visiting with him. I also was thinking about him Saturday at the Halloween activity because there was a person there making Balloon animals and stuff. I was thinking "i reckon Bro. Manning could show her up"
Say Hello to Bro. Lyon, Freeze, Chamberlain, and the Lee family from Aussie land for me. Oh and tell Mike Stewart whats up for me too. He is the coolest guy. We need more young mens leaders like Stewert. Tell him i said that. Oh, and my companion, Elder Christensen, from Portland Oregon, Says hello to everyone.
Did Kyler or Ellie get dressed up this year for Halloween? Did the 'Summit' Ward have a trunk or treat this year?
Tell Elder Derrek Stobbe I say Hello and Congrats on enduring to the End and returning honorably. Which ward did he speak in? how was his talk?
Well, sorry this is getting a bit long, and my time is up. I want you all to know that my testimony continues to grow in individual gospel principles and this week my testimony had definitely grown in the power of fasting and paying fast offerings. I guarantee that the Lords promise that he will pour us out a blessing greater than we can receive is certainly true. You don't have to worry about me too much Mum, and Dad; I am well taken care of by the Ward and even more, by the Lord.
Love ya mates!
-Elder R.A.Prina
Enjoy the photos of the Mudgee Ward trunk or treat
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Rob at the Brisbane Temple with the Gold Coast Zone
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Gold Coast Zone at the Brisbane Temple
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
G'day mates, Elder Prina here, on the Gold Coast.
Hows it Going?
Matt I'm glad to hear you used to plate and hammer lesson from Thor Wixom. I'll have to try that sometime. We have a plate and a hammer in the flat...
Mum, we don't really have any investigators right now. But we have a few promising potentials. We have taught this Fijian family twice and they fed us both times, and they have a 19 year old kid named William living with them. He is going to come to the Ward Halloween activity this weekend, and then we are going to try to start teaching him in a members home.
Matt, I took your "windows of Heaven" approach this last Saturday, because our teaching pool has dried up. We got a few good return appointments and met a few interesting people (Pentecostal guy).
Dad, it was cool to hear about our cousin Lisa in Italy! How old is she? Tell him that next time he emails her to tell her that the Elder Prina Twins on the other side of the planet say whats up, and congrats on the success! I'm so jealous that she gets to teach Non-member Prina's. Shes serving in Venice!!! I always wanted to go there!
Matt to answer some of your queries: I usually eat toast or cold cereal for breakfast (there is a very limited variety of cold cereal) I like sultana bran crunch or 'Frosties' (which is the same things as Raisin Bran Crunch, and Frosted flakes, respectivley). When I have a bit more time (almost never) I will make some scrambled eggs. As far as morning exercise I start with my back stretches from the physio. Then some times we go running. Other than that I do push ups sit ups and dips and stuff. Nothing fancy... why, what do you do? I've been hovering around 85 kilos my whole mission which is about 180 IBS, but I haven't been on a scale in over 3 months, and my guess is I've lost weight in this area, since we're pretty much a full time biking area.
Matt thanks for the photo of Madi Long's Baptism! Thats a mean tie you've got on in that picture! Matt we just went to Pizza hut this week too, when we didn't have a dinner apt. Its actually the 1st time I've been in Australia. haha. That "BIG New Yorker" sounds sooo good! The large Pizzas here are like a small back home! "I don't want to sound Jealous or anything... But I'm completely Jealous..." (- Mark.) Haha.
Congratulations on the Baptisms of Malie, Sam, and Madison Long! Sounds like the work is taking off over there! Go Hard!
Dad this Pentecostal guy that we tracted into and invited us in to teach him says that when we knocked on his door he was emailing his only Mormon relative (his dad's cousin) Who's name is Lamont Wells. He said that he was "pretty high up in the Mormon church in Utah" I know Wells is a common name in the church, but I was just wondering if you could look him up to see If Lamont Wells is like a general authority or something. This guy - Ronny, invited us to come to the Gold coast Pentacostle church on sunday, the "surf city Church" in Surfers Paradise. Its just outside of our area so we told the Isle of Capri missionaries that they were invited to go.
Thank you Sister Aldous for sending me Travi's Email. That's so funny that his comp. is the bloke from Isle of Capri ward. That is the Ward just north of me what are the chances??!
Dad you should send me some pictures of those expensive Nike basketball shoes yous said you bought at the beginning of the year. Are you playing ball much lately? I've been craving basketball lately, because no one really plays down here, everyone just plays footie.
I want to give a very BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY! To: Elder Travis Aldous and to Anna Jensen! I wish you the happiest day on your Birthday. Andrea, thanks heaps for the birthday money!! Its the end of the month, so i had to spend a bit of it on bread and milk today, but i still have most of it, so I'll put it towards something special:)
Give Kyler and Ellie big squeezes for me John and Sierra!
We've been really busy lately and there is a lot of potential in this area; just keep praying for us.
We went to the temple this morning, that's why Pday is on Wednesday this week.
I am enjoying my mission to the fullest measure through the ups and the downs, and my testimony only continues to grow stronger when the wind blows harder. I learn so much each day, and from every one I meet.
I know the Church Is True. What else matters. Have you shared your testimony with some one lately?
Love,
Elder Prina.
Photos: before and after pictures from our all day of tracting, and creepy doll we found while tracting. A small kangaroo. And the G.C. Zone at the temple.
Hows it Going?
Matt I'm glad to hear you used to plate and hammer lesson from Thor Wixom. I'll have to try that sometime. We have a plate and a hammer in the flat...
Mum, we don't really have any investigators right now. But we have a few promising potentials. We have taught this Fijian family twice and they fed us both times, and they have a 19 year old kid named William living with them. He is going to come to the Ward Halloween activity this weekend, and then we are going to try to start teaching him in a members home.
Matt, I took your "windows of Heaven" approach this last Saturday, because our teaching pool has dried up. We got a few good return appointments and met a few interesting people (Pentecostal guy).
Dad, it was cool to hear about our cousin Lisa in Italy! How old is she? Tell him that next time he emails her to tell her that the Elder Prina Twins on the other side of the planet say whats up, and congrats on the success! I'm so jealous that she gets to teach Non-member Prina's. Shes serving in Venice!!! I always wanted to go there!
Matt to answer some of your queries: I usually eat toast or cold cereal for breakfast (there is a very limited variety of cold cereal) I like sultana bran crunch or 'Frosties' (which is the same things as Raisin Bran Crunch, and Frosted flakes, respectivley). When I have a bit more time (almost never) I will make some scrambled eggs. As far as morning exercise I start with my back stretches from the physio. Then some times we go running. Other than that I do push ups sit ups and dips and stuff. Nothing fancy... why, what do you do? I've been hovering around 85 kilos my whole mission which is about 180 IBS, but I haven't been on a scale in over 3 months, and my guess is I've lost weight in this area, since we're pretty much a full time biking area.
Matt thanks for the photo of Madi Long's Baptism! Thats a mean tie you've got on in that picture! Matt we just went to Pizza hut this week too, when we didn't have a dinner apt. Its actually the 1st time I've been in Australia. haha. That "BIG New Yorker" sounds sooo good! The large Pizzas here are like a small back home! "I don't want to sound Jealous or anything... But I'm completely Jealous..." (- Mark.) Haha.
Congratulations on the Baptisms of Malie, Sam, and Madison Long! Sounds like the work is taking off over there! Go Hard!
Dad this Pentecostal guy that we tracted into and invited us in to teach him says that when we knocked on his door he was emailing his only Mormon relative (his dad's cousin) Who's name is Lamont Wells. He said that he was "pretty high up in the Mormon church in Utah" I know Wells is a common name in the church, but I was just wondering if you could look him up to see If Lamont Wells is like a general authority or something. This guy - Ronny, invited us to come to the Gold coast Pentacostle church on sunday, the "surf city Church" in Surfers Paradise. Its just outside of our area so we told the Isle of Capri missionaries that they were invited to go.
Thank you Sister Aldous for sending me Travi's Email. That's so funny that his comp. is the bloke from Isle of Capri ward. That is the Ward just north of me what are the chances??!
Dad you should send me some pictures of those expensive Nike basketball shoes yous said you bought at the beginning of the year. Are you playing ball much lately? I've been craving basketball lately, because no one really plays down here, everyone just plays footie.
I want to give a very BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY! To: Elder Travis Aldous and to Anna Jensen! I wish you the happiest day on your Birthday. Andrea, thanks heaps for the birthday money!! Its the end of the month, so i had to spend a bit of it on bread and milk today, but i still have most of it, so I'll put it towards something special:)
Give Kyler and Ellie big squeezes for me John and Sierra!
We've been really busy lately and there is a lot of potential in this area; just keep praying for us.
We went to the temple this morning, that's why Pday is on Wednesday this week.
I am enjoying my mission to the fullest measure through the ups and the downs, and my testimony only continues to grow stronger when the wind blows harder. I learn so much each day, and from every one I meet.
I know the Church Is True. What else matters. Have you shared your testimony with some one lately?
Love,
Elder Prina.
Photos: before and after pictures from our all day of tracting, and creepy doll we found while tracting. A small kangaroo. And the G.C. Zone at the temple.
Monday, October 25, 2010
Good afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen,
Everything is going well here in Kauai, it was good to get pictures and Emails from you Mom and Dad. I'm glad Lisa Prina's emails are getting better.
Elder Gray went home to Arizona on Wednesday, my new companion is Elder Thomson, he is from Twin Falls Idaho. He was in the "Twin Falls Stake" "fifth ward", I'm not sure if that is the same stake as Andrea and Blake but it's gotta be pretty close. He is a humble kid who keeps me focused. He likes to work out... a lot. He goes home in five weeks so I'll have 2 six week companions in a row. He will be the third missionary that will leave to go home (E. Stewart, E. Gray, and E. Thompson). E. Naulu also went home last week, the Pearl City First Ward will miss him. I've had 15 companions so far on my mission and he was by far my favorite.
Mom, you asked about our investigators. We have a 14 year old girl named Kelly Machado who is scheduled to get baptized on Nov. 13th. Her Mom is a returning less active member and her 2 older brothers were already baptized when they were 8. The problem with her is that she isn't very serious about it, I think shes just doing it because her mom want's her to do it. She isn't friends with any of the young women in the ward so she just goes to Sacrament Meeting on Sunday and then leaves with her older brothers. I don't think she is reading from the Book of Mormon or praying. We invite her to pray every time we go over there and she never will, in fact she hardly speaks at all. We stop by their house almost everyday, so we're starting to become really good friends with the family, so hopefully she will start to open up a little bit more.
We also found 4 new investigators this week who want to get baptized we just need to set the date. It seems like everyone in Kauai wants to get baptized they just don't want to live the commandments. We are focusing on finding unbaptized kids to teach right now, they are the low hanging fruit.
Mom, any luck finding a charger for my camera battery? If not I'm going to have to go back to buying disposables. Also, could you please send me a new journal, there should be some empty ones on the book shelf in my room.
Dad, it's good to hear BYU still has faithful fans. I'm glad I don't have to watch this year but I hope they will be ready to win again next year. It was really exciting to hear about Lisa Prina teaching the Prina's in Bacceno, I didn't know her mission went all the way up there, did she see Pietro? Isn't Vienna the southern most tip and Bacceno the northernmost? Is it all one mission? How old is Lisa anyways? Sheis Peters daughter right?
Do you know how much money I have total in my Bank account now? Is any of it in CD's?
I'm so jealous you get to hang out with Kyler and Ellie and all the grand kids! Thanks for the fall pictures, nice smile dad! haha.
Rob, while I was taking a shower the other day I was wondering how we could teach the message of the restoration in a fun interactive way for this 10 year old boy we started teaching. Suddenly I remembered the lesson from Sunday school when Thor Wixom and his wife (Jessica I think) Wrote all the different building blocks of the church on a glass plate and then smashed it with a hammer to represent the Great apostasy ( I think that was like 7 or 8 years ago). So I took a plate and wrote "the church of Jesus Christ" in the middle with a black sharpie and wrote things like "faith" "repentance" "baptism" "revelation" "apostles and prophets" and "priesthood authority" around it. He had so much fun breaking the plate and it shattered into a million little pieces. I asked him if he thought he could put it back together by himself, he said no. It was pretty sweet! Then we taught the restoration through the prophet Joseph Smith and I pulled out another plate that was identical to the first one. Thanks Thor! Thanks revelation in the shower!
I want you all to know that I know the Church was restored through the Prophet Joseph Smith. I know that he translated the Mormon. I know that "no wicked man could write such a book, and know good man would write it, unless he was called of God."-E. Hollands Great Grandfather. I know that he restored the Priesthood Power by which we can receive the gift of the Holy Ghost through which we may know the truth of all things.
I testify these things are true in the name of Jesus Christ.
Love,
Elder Matt Prina
Everything is going well here in Kauai, it was good to get pictures and Emails from you Mom and Dad. I'm glad Lisa Prina's emails are getting better.
Elder Gray went home to Arizona on Wednesday, my new companion is Elder Thomson, he is from Twin Falls Idaho. He was in the "Twin Falls Stake" "fifth ward", I'm not sure if that is the same stake as Andrea and Blake but it's gotta be pretty close. He is a humble kid who keeps me focused. He likes to work out... a lot. He goes home in five weeks so I'll have 2 six week companions in a row. He will be the third missionary that will leave to go home (E. Stewart, E. Gray, and E. Thompson). E. Naulu also went home last week, the Pearl City First Ward will miss him. I've had 15 companions so far on my mission and he was by far my favorite.
Mom, you asked about our investigators. We have a 14 year old girl named Kelly Machado who is scheduled to get baptized on Nov. 13th. Her Mom is a returning less active member and her 2 older brothers were already baptized when they were 8. The problem with her is that she isn't very serious about it, I think shes just doing it because her mom want's her to do it. She isn't friends with any of the young women in the ward so she just goes to Sacrament Meeting on Sunday and then leaves with her older brothers. I don't think she is reading from the Book of Mormon or praying. We invite her to pray every time we go over there and she never will, in fact she hardly speaks at all. We stop by their house almost everyday, so we're starting to become really good friends with the family, so hopefully she will start to open up a little bit more.
We also found 4 new investigators this week who want to get baptized we just need to set the date. It seems like everyone in Kauai wants to get baptized they just don't want to live the commandments. We are focusing on finding unbaptized kids to teach right now, they are the low hanging fruit.
Mom, any luck finding a charger for my camera battery? If not I'm going to have to go back to buying disposables. Also, could you please send me a new journal, there should be some empty ones on the book shelf in my room.
Dad, it's good to hear BYU still has faithful fans. I'm glad I don't have to watch this year but I hope they will be ready to win again next year. It was really exciting to hear about Lisa Prina teaching the Prina's in Bacceno, I didn't know her mission went all the way up there, did she see Pietro? Isn't Vienna the southern most tip and Bacceno the northernmost? Is it all one mission? How old is Lisa anyways? Sheis Peters daughter right?
Do you know how much money I have total in my Bank account now? Is any of it in CD's?
I'm so jealous you get to hang out with Kyler and Ellie and all the grand kids! Thanks for the fall pictures, nice smile dad! haha.
Rob, while I was taking a shower the other day I was wondering how we could teach the message of the restoration in a fun interactive way for this 10 year old boy we started teaching. Suddenly I remembered the lesson from Sunday school when Thor Wixom and his wife (Jessica I think) Wrote all the different building blocks of the church on a glass plate and then smashed it with a hammer to represent the Great apostasy ( I think that was like 7 or 8 years ago). So I took a plate and wrote "the church of Jesus Christ" in the middle with a black sharpie and wrote things like "faith" "repentance" "baptism" "revelation" "apostles and prophets" and "priesthood authority" around it. He had so much fun breaking the plate and it shattered into a million little pieces. I asked him if he thought he could put it back together by himself, he said no. It was pretty sweet! Then we taught the restoration through the prophet Joseph Smith and I pulled out another plate that was identical to the first one. Thanks Thor! Thanks revelation in the shower!
I want you all to know that I know the Church was restored through the Prophet Joseph Smith. I know that he translated the Mormon. I know that "no wicked man could write such a book, and know good man would write it, unless he was called of God."-E. Hollands Great Grandfather. I know that he restored the Priesthood Power by which we can receive the gift of the Holy Ghost through which we may know the truth of all things.
I testify these things are true in the name of Jesus Christ.
Love,
Elder Matt Prina
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Payson Canyon Oct. 20, 2010
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We have been waiting for a day off to take a drive up Payson Canyon and see the beautiful autumn trees. Wednesday was a perfect day sunny and cool. These are some of the pictures we took of the Autumn trees, a deer and few of our pumpkins, our pumpkin trees (five of our pumpkins that grew into our oak trees.)
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
A week ago Matt sent this to my hotmail account and I almost deleted it
I am one of those white shirt baptizing fools, obedient to the bone no doubt about it!
Dear everyone, Aloha!
I just want you to know that the work is exploding here in Kauai and we are on fire! Thanks for the pictures Rob, I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the DGK sticker! Did they have to ask Greg Olsen for permission to use that!?
Mom, to answer a few of your questions: Madison's mom Sam is getting baptized this weekend (the 16th) that is if she doesn't smoke all this week. We are praying very hard for her. That problem is one I've struggled with a lot on my mission. The family who didn't get the sacrament never came back, they told us our church wasn't for them. I cant find my Camera charger! I've used it since I got here to Kauai but I've searched the house High and low and still cant find it. Is there any way you could find a replacement. Maybe if you got on panasonic.com or something. It is a "Lumix (panasonic) DMC-ZS1" camera. I don't know if you have a warranty or something that covers that but I need that charger if I'm going to take anymore pictures on my mission.
A few quick questions for Scot and Debbie: Scoty was born at Wilcox hospital?? He always told me he was born in Lanai. Yes I've been in that hospital many times, one of our investigators decided he wanted to get baptized while he was stuck in there. My companion told me that Bruce and Dianna Raymond were offended by a business deal gone bad with another member and haven't been to church since. They live in our area now by Harbor Mall. My Companion said they want nothing to do with us so we probably shouldn't go over there. I was thinking maybe you could write them a note to rekindle their faith and soften their heart in attempt to get us in the door. Their address is:
2341 Nawiliwili
Lihue, HI. 96766
I'm having a great P-day so far including a relaxing hair cut from one of the members in our ward, Mango Ice Cream with Mac nuts from Coldstone, and walking barefoot through the grass to the Family history center from our pad to write this email. I will try to send a Pic or two, It hasn't been letting me the last couple weeks, I think the file sizes are too big.
Love,
Elder Prina
Dear everyone, Aloha!
I just want you to know that the work is exploding here in Kauai and we are on fire! Thanks for the pictures Rob, I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the DGK sticker! Did they have to ask Greg Olsen for permission to use that!?
Mom, to answer a few of your questions: Madison's mom Sam is getting baptized this weekend (the 16th) that is if she doesn't smoke all this week. We are praying very hard for her. That problem is one I've struggled with a lot on my mission. The family who didn't get the sacrament never came back, they told us our church wasn't for them. I cant find my Camera charger! I've used it since I got here to Kauai but I've searched the house High and low and still cant find it. Is there any way you could find a replacement. Maybe if you got on panasonic.com or something. It is a "Lumix (panasonic) DMC-ZS1" camera. I don't know if you have a warranty or something that covers that but I need that charger if I'm going to take anymore pictures on my mission.
A few quick questions for Scot and Debbie: Scoty was born at Wilcox hospital?? He always told me he was born in Lanai. Yes I've been in that hospital many times, one of our investigators decided he wanted to get baptized while he was stuck in there. My companion told me that Bruce and Dianna Raymond were offended by a business deal gone bad with another member and haven't been to church since. They live in our area now by Harbor Mall. My Companion said they want nothing to do with us so we probably shouldn't go over there. I was thinking maybe you could write them a note to rekindle their faith and soften their heart in attempt to get us in the door. Their address is:
2341 Nawiliwili
Lihue, HI. 96766
I'm having a great P-day so far including a relaxing hair cut from one of the members in our ward, Mango Ice Cream with Mac nuts from Coldstone, and walking barefoot through the grass to the Family history center from our pad to write this email. I will try to send a Pic or two, It hasn't been letting me the last couple weeks, I think the file sizes are too big.
Love,
Elder Prina
Monday, October 18, 2010
Rob
G'day birds and blokes,
How ya goin?
I've been having a good week with my new companion Elder Christensen. He came out the transfer after me, so he's experienced, and easy to work with& get along with. Its great. He's from Portland Oregon. His last area is Emerald, which is about 2 hours west of Rocky. So he went to Rocky for zone conferences and stuff, so I got to ask him about how things are going up those ways.
We contacted a referral this past week for a guy that the missionaries in the next area contacted. We biked there and it started to rain hard on the way there. By the time we got there we were soaked to the bone. Which goes along with our transfer theme that we set for ourselves as a companionship to "Get Soaked". Luckily they were home, after biking for about 20 minutes and it was a nice Figian family who invited us in, gave us a towel and a place to sit down and even made us some tea (dinner). They also offered us some actual tea, so we told them about the word of wisdom and how we don't drink tea. They said they wanted to learn more about that. The mum, Vi (Violet), takes homeless kids under her wing, so she had heaps of kids living there with her. We taught them all the message of the restoration. Explained the Book Of Mormon, answered their questions, and committed them to read and pray. They gave us a ride home and threw our bikes in the back of their ute, 'cause it was still raining. They even invited us back to dinner and a lesson Monday night (tonight). I looked in the area book this morning and it turns out they are actually former investigators from a year ago. So that was interesting. They even came to church one time. They are the loveliest people, and seem like they have a lot of potential, so please keep Violet, Craig, Jessie, and William in your prayers.
Kelly who got baptized last week is now engaged to Hans G. the 20 yr old in our ward who fellow shipped & baptized her. So that is exciting news... even though I wish Hans would man up and go on a mission.
Matt, I hope you can get this info to Mike Brett before he leaves. I would love a visit from him. My Flat Addy is:
16 Arbour Ave.
Robina, QLD 4226
Australia
and Our Chapel is in Tweed Heads New South Wales on the corner of Ducat and Kaloola St.
Hope that helps him find me. He will love his visit here. Australia is way better than Hawaii!
My back is better now, thanks for asking though. Happy Birthday Eric! Happy Birthday Grandpa.
Dad, I heard that Max Hall is playing first string for the Cardinals and that they beat the Saints! that is Awesome! who is Harvey Unga playing for? Chicago? How is he faring?
It sounds like you're working hard Mum and Dad. Keep up the good work. Thanks heaps for the Birthday photos! It's good to see everyone.
I love you all, I know the church is true, the work is coming along, and I'm having the time of my life. Enjoy the photos.
Love, Elder R. A. Prina
P.S. Matt I couldn't figure out your 'phag pens' riddle in the bottom of your package (see picture attachments) Love and pray for you every day - peace
How ya goin?
I've been having a good week with my new companion Elder Christensen. He came out the transfer after me, so he's experienced, and easy to work with& get along with. Its great. He's from Portland Oregon. His last area is Emerald, which is about 2 hours west of Rocky. So he went to Rocky for zone conferences and stuff, so I got to ask him about how things are going up those ways.
We contacted a referral this past week for a guy that the missionaries in the next area contacted. We biked there and it started to rain hard on the way there. By the time we got there we were soaked to the bone. Which goes along with our transfer theme that we set for ourselves as a companionship to "Get Soaked". Luckily they were home, after biking for about 20 minutes and it was a nice Figian family who invited us in, gave us a towel and a place to sit down and even made us some tea (dinner). They also offered us some actual tea, so we told them about the word of wisdom and how we don't drink tea. They said they wanted to learn more about that. The mum, Vi (Violet), takes homeless kids under her wing, so she had heaps of kids living there with her. We taught them all the message of the restoration. Explained the Book Of Mormon, answered their questions, and committed them to read and pray. They gave us a ride home and threw our bikes in the back of their ute, 'cause it was still raining. They even invited us back to dinner and a lesson Monday night (tonight). I looked in the area book this morning and it turns out they are actually former investigators from a year ago. So that was interesting. They even came to church one time. They are the loveliest people, and seem like they have a lot of potential, so please keep Violet, Craig, Jessie, and William in your prayers.
Kelly who got baptized last week is now engaged to Hans G. the 20 yr old in our ward who fellow shipped & baptized her. So that is exciting news... even though I wish Hans would man up and go on a mission.
Matt, I hope you can get this info to Mike Brett before he leaves. I would love a visit from him. My Flat Addy is:
16 Arbour Ave.
Robina, QLD 4226
Australia
and Our Chapel is in Tweed Heads New South Wales on the corner of Ducat and Kaloola St.
Hope that helps him find me. He will love his visit here. Australia is way better than Hawaii!
My back is better now, thanks for asking though. Happy Birthday Eric! Happy Birthday Grandpa.
Dad, I heard that Max Hall is playing first string for the Cardinals and that they beat the Saints! that is Awesome! who is Harvey Unga playing for? Chicago? How is he faring?
It sounds like you're working hard Mum and Dad. Keep up the good work. Thanks heaps for the Birthday photos! It's good to see everyone.
I love you all, I know the church is true, the work is coming along, and I'm having the time of my life. Enjoy the photos.
Love, Elder R. A. Prina
P.S. Matt I couldn't figure out your 'phag pens' riddle in the bottom of your package (see picture attachments) Love and pray for you every day - peace
I believe in Christ so come what may.
Good morning and Aloha,
I'm grateful we have email so I can keep in contact with all of you. Mom, Dad, Lisa, Mike, Christian, Madison, Chase, Carson, Tucker, Easton, Andrea, Blake, Audrey, Blake Jr., Anna, Max, Jack, Jill, Valerie, Eric, Andrew, Sarah, Emily, Kristin, Pete, Sydney, Grace, John, Sierra, Kyler, Elliah, and Rob, I love you all and wish I could give each of you a big hug. Stobbes, Mark, and anyone else who may read this, I miss you too and thank you for all the support. Sis. Aldous, thanks for Travis' Email, It's good to hear about my buddy every once in a while. My companion, E. Gray is going home this week and I will be getting a new companion. I'm Jealous he gets to see all his family this weekend, he has six cute little nephews and neices. E. Gray was a wonderful companion I learned alot from him, he will be flying home with my old companion E. Naulu this Thursday night.
This week we went to Sis. Bernadez house to ask her if her step daughter had gotten permission from her father to take the lessons. Sis. Bernadez is a returning less active member in our ward. She calls us with random questions all the time like "does god have parents" and "who wrote the living Christ". She told us her step daughter Malie did not ask her dad yet and she was starting to give up on her. Before we left she asked if we needed any thing (groceries, etc.), we said we didn't so she told us to call her if we needed anything. That night we just got money for dinner so we went to pizza hut and got a big new yorker. Just as E. gray and I were settling down to eat pizza and watch the District (the missionary training dvd) I realized we were running low on milk. You can't eat pizza without milk! So I was like "I know! I'll call sis. Bernadez and ask her to buy us some". So I called her and she said "Elders! How did you know to call?" "what?" I said. She said "did you know we were just talking about you?". She explained her step daughter Malie had come home from school that day and just started asking her all these questions. She said she couldn't answer them all so they wrote them down on a piece of paper, she asked if we could come over and answer some of her questions. We told her we were eating dinner but maybe we could meet up at the church (next door to our house) and answer her questions in about half an hour. She agreed and said she would go buy us a gallon of milk. So we met up at the church and found an empty room. Right as we walked in, a bunch of people were getting out of a meeting and Pres. Stennett (1st counselor in the stake pres. who happens to be a member of our ward) walked into the room we were in and asked if he could join us. We started with a prayer and then they pulled out their list and Sis. Bernadez started asking the questions. The first question was "why are there so many churches on the earth?" I told her that Joseph Smith had the same question. As they continued to ask the questions it got more and more cofortable and Malie started asking the questions instead of her mom and even asked some questions that they hadn't written down. E. Gray, President Stennett, and I kind of switched off answering and you could feel the spirit very strong as each question was answered in beautiful simplicity. It was a miracle that President Stennett just happened to be there because he has an amazing knowledge of the scriptures and I even learned a few things as he spoke. He quoted about 10 scriptures with out even looking them up. During the course of us answering her questions we basically taught her the restoration, the plan of salvation, the gospel of Jesus Christ, and some of the commandments. It felt like the temple as the room was just filled with pure intelligence. At the climax of the spirit, all of her questions were answered and I offered a closing prayer thanking the lord for the manifestation of the Holy Ghost. They left and we walked outside and talked to President Stennet for a while. As he started to walk to his car and we started to walk to the pad we got a call from sister Bernadez. She told us Malie wanted to get baptized.
We are seeing a lot of success in our area right now. Sam Long (maddison's mom) got baptized this weekend and I got to confirm her in sacrament meeting. They are such and amazing family. Despite the success it seems that each investigator has some huge stubbling block before he or she can get baptized. For some of them it's smoking, some need to wait longer because they are on probation because they broke the law in the past, some don't come to church, some are too shy to come to classes and make friends with the members, some have parents or step parents who are opposed, and some get anti Mormon materials from their friends and neighbors. We pray for our investigators every morning that they will be able to overcome these things. Our mission goal right now is to get 1000 baptisms in the year of 2010, this hasn't happened since '92 (the year that Eric served over here). We hope to make a contribution to that goal here in Kauai.
Mom, to answer some of your questions, No, I'm not getting transferred, I'm staying here in Lihue Kauai and will probably be here until I die. No, I did not lose my camera, I lost the battery charger and asked if you could order a replacement off the internet or something so I can keep sending you beautiful pictures of Hawaii. Yes, I did send an email last week did you not get it?
Also I was wondering if you could send me Grandpa Rookhuyzen's address so I can write him. Please tell him that his grandson Matt in Hawaii wishes him happy birthday. Also Happy Birthday to Eric on the 14th and Travis on the 21st and Easton on the 11th.
Rob, I was just wondering, how much do you weigh? What do you do for work out in the morning? What do you usually eat for breakfast?
Just wanted you all to know that everything is wonderful here in Hawaii!
Love,
Elder Prina
Ps: Some tourists came to our ward yesterday who knew Peter Prina, he said Peter was his branch president in Albaquirkie.
Pss: How is Sister Prina doing in Italy?
Good morning and Aloha,
I'm greatful we have email so I can keep in contact with all of you. Mom, Dad, Lisa, Mike, Christian, Maddison, Chase, Carson, Tucker, Easton, Andrea, Blake, Audrey, Blake Jr., Anna, Max, Jack, Jill, Valerie, Eric, Andrew, Sarah, Emily, Kristin, Pete, Sydney, Grace, John, Sierra, Kyler, Elliah, and Rob I love you all and wish I could give each of you a big hug. Stobbes, Mark, and anyone else who may read this, I miss you too and thank you for all the support. Sis. Aldous, thanks for Travis' Email, It's good to hear about my buddy everyonce in a while. My companion, E. Gray is going home this week and I will be getting a new companion. I'm Jealous he gets to see all his family this weekend, he has six cute little nephews and nieces. E. Gray was a wonderful companion I learned alot from him, he will be flying home with my old companion E. Naulu this Thursday night.
This week we went to sis. Bernadez' house to ask her if her step daughter had gotten permission from her father to take the lessons. sis. bernadez is a returning less active member in our ward. She calls us with random questions all the time like "does god have parents" and "who wrote the living Christ". She told us her step daughter Malie did not ask her dad yet and she was starting to give up on her. Before we left she asked if we needed any thing (groceries, etc.), we said we didn't so she told us to call her if we needed anything. That night we just got money for dinner so we went to pizza hut and got a big new yorker. Just as E. gray and I were settling down to eat pizza and watch the District (the missionary training dvd) I realized we were running low on milk. You can't eat pizza without milk! So I was like "I know! I'll call sis. Bernadez and ask her to buy us some". So I called her and she said "Elders! How did you know to call?" "what?" I said. She said "did you know we were just talking about you?". She explained her step daughter Malie had come home from school that day and just started asking her all these questions. She said she couldn't answer them all so they wrote them down on a piece of paper, she asked if we could come over and answer some of her questions. We told her we were eating dinner but maybe we could meet up at the church (next door to our house) and answer her questions in about half an hour. She agreed and said she would go buy us a gallon of milk. So we met up at the church and found an empty room. Right as we walked in, a bunch of people were getting out of a meeting and Pres. Stennett (1st counselor in the stake pres. who happens to be a member of our ward) walked into the room we were in and asked if he could join us. We started with a prayer and then they pulled out their list and sis. Bernadez started asking the questions. The first question was "why are there so many churches on the earth?" I answered that one teaching half of the first lesson (the restoration) and told her that Joseph Smith had the same question. As they continued to ask the questions it got more and more comfortable and Malie started asking the questions instead of her mom and even asked some questions that they hadn't written down. E. Gray, President Stennett, and I kind of switched off answering and you could feel the spirit very strong as each question was answered in beautiful simplicity. It was a miracle that President Stennett just happened to be there because he has an amazing knowledge of the scriptures and I even learned a few things as he spoke. He quoted about 10 scriptures with out even looking them up. Durring the course of us answering her questions we basically taught her the restoration, the plan of salvation, the gospel of Jesus Christ, and some of the commandments. It felt like the temple as the room was just filled with pure intelligence. At the climax of the spirit, all of her questions were answered and I offered a closing prayer thanking the lord for the manifestation of the Holy Ghost. They left and we walked outside and talked to President Stennet for a while. As he started to walk to his car and we started to walk to the pad we got a call from sister Bernadez. She told us Malie wanted to get baptized.
We are seeing a lot of success in our area right now. Sam Long (Madison's mom) got baptized this weekend and I got to confirm her in sacrament meeting. They are such and amazing family. Despite the success it seems that each investigator has some huge stumbling block before he or she can get baptized. For some of them it's smoking, some need to wait longer because they are on probation because they broke the law in the past, some don't come to church, some are too shy to come to classes and make friends with the members, some have parents or step parents who are opposed, and some get anti Mormon materials from their friends and neighbors. We pray for our investigators every morning that they will be able to overcome these things. Our mission goal right now is to get 1000 baptisms in the year of 2010, this hasn't happened since '92 (the year that Eric served over here). We hope to make a contribution to that goal here in Kauai.
Mom, to answer some of your questions, No, I'm not getting transferred, I'm staying here in Lihue Kauai and will probably be here until I die. No, I did not lose my camera, I lost the battery charger and asked if you could order a replacement off the internet or something so I can keep sending you beautiful pictures of Hawaii. Yes, I did send an email last week did you not get it? Yes, I would love some new garment bottoms for my B-day. I like the Briefs, 50/50 Cotton/Polly, Medium.
Also I was wondering if you could send me Grandpa Rookhuyzen's address so I can write him. Please tell him that his grandson Matt in Hawaii wishes him happy birthday. Also Happy Birthday to Eric on the 14th and Travis on the 21st and eE Rob, I was just wondering, how much do you weigh? What do you do for work out in the morning? What do you usually eat for breakfast?
Sorry this is so long, Just wanted you all to know that everything is wonderful here in Hawaii!
Love,
Elder Prina
PS:Some tourists came to our ward yesterday who knew Peter Prina, he said Peter was his branch president in Albaquirkie.
PSS: How is Sister Prina doing in Italy?
I'm grateful we have email so I can keep in contact with all of you. Mom, Dad, Lisa, Mike, Christian, Madison, Chase, Carson, Tucker, Easton, Andrea, Blake, Audrey, Blake Jr., Anna, Max, Jack, Jill, Valerie, Eric, Andrew, Sarah, Emily, Kristin, Pete, Sydney, Grace, John, Sierra, Kyler, Elliah, and Rob, I love you all and wish I could give each of you a big hug. Stobbes, Mark, and anyone else who may read this, I miss you too and thank you for all the support. Sis. Aldous, thanks for Travis' Email, It's good to hear about my buddy every once in a while. My companion, E. Gray is going home this week and I will be getting a new companion. I'm Jealous he gets to see all his family this weekend, he has six cute little nephews and neices. E. Gray was a wonderful companion I learned alot from him, he will be flying home with my old companion E. Naulu this Thursday night.
This week we went to Sis. Bernadez house to ask her if her step daughter had gotten permission from her father to take the lessons. Sis. Bernadez is a returning less active member in our ward. She calls us with random questions all the time like "does god have parents" and "who wrote the living Christ". She told us her step daughter Malie did not ask her dad yet and she was starting to give up on her. Before we left she asked if we needed any thing (groceries, etc.), we said we didn't so she told us to call her if we needed anything. That night we just got money for dinner so we went to pizza hut and got a big new yorker. Just as E. gray and I were settling down to eat pizza and watch the District (the missionary training dvd) I realized we were running low on milk. You can't eat pizza without milk! So I was like "I know! I'll call sis. Bernadez and ask her to buy us some". So I called her and she said "Elders! How did you know to call?" "what?" I said. She said "did you know we were just talking about you?". She explained her step daughter Malie had come home from school that day and just started asking her all these questions. She said she couldn't answer them all so they wrote them down on a piece of paper, she asked if we could come over and answer some of her questions. We told her we were eating dinner but maybe we could meet up at the church (next door to our house) and answer her questions in about half an hour. She agreed and said she would go buy us a gallon of milk. So we met up at the church and found an empty room. Right as we walked in, a bunch of people were getting out of a meeting and Pres. Stennett (1st counselor in the stake pres. who happens to be a member of our ward) walked into the room we were in and asked if he could join us. We started with a prayer and then they pulled out their list and Sis. Bernadez started asking the questions. The first question was "why are there so many churches on the earth?" I told her that Joseph Smith had the same question. As they continued to ask the questions it got more and more cofortable and Malie started asking the questions instead of her mom and even asked some questions that they hadn't written down. E. Gray, President Stennett, and I kind of switched off answering and you could feel the spirit very strong as each question was answered in beautiful simplicity. It was a miracle that President Stennett just happened to be there because he has an amazing knowledge of the scriptures and I even learned a few things as he spoke. He quoted about 10 scriptures with out even looking them up. During the course of us answering her questions we basically taught her the restoration, the plan of salvation, the gospel of Jesus Christ, and some of the commandments. It felt like the temple as the room was just filled with pure intelligence. At the climax of the spirit, all of her questions were answered and I offered a closing prayer thanking the lord for the manifestation of the Holy Ghost. They left and we walked outside and talked to President Stennet for a while. As he started to walk to his car and we started to walk to the pad we got a call from sister Bernadez. She told us Malie wanted to get baptized.
We are seeing a lot of success in our area right now. Sam Long (maddison's mom) got baptized this weekend and I got to confirm her in sacrament meeting. They are such and amazing family. Despite the success it seems that each investigator has some huge stubbling block before he or she can get baptized. For some of them it's smoking, some need to wait longer because they are on probation because they broke the law in the past, some don't come to church, some are too shy to come to classes and make friends with the members, some have parents or step parents who are opposed, and some get anti Mormon materials from their friends and neighbors. We pray for our investigators every morning that they will be able to overcome these things. Our mission goal right now is to get 1000 baptisms in the year of 2010, this hasn't happened since '92 (the year that Eric served over here). We hope to make a contribution to that goal here in Kauai.
Mom, to answer some of your questions, No, I'm not getting transferred, I'm staying here in Lihue Kauai and will probably be here until I die. No, I did not lose my camera, I lost the battery charger and asked if you could order a replacement off the internet or something so I can keep sending you beautiful pictures of Hawaii. Yes, I did send an email last week did you not get it?
Also I was wondering if you could send me Grandpa Rookhuyzen's address so I can write him. Please tell him that his grandson Matt in Hawaii wishes him happy birthday. Also Happy Birthday to Eric on the 14th and Travis on the 21st and Easton on the 11th.
Rob, I was just wondering, how much do you weigh? What do you do for work out in the morning? What do you usually eat for breakfast?
Just wanted you all to know that everything is wonderful here in Hawaii!
Love,
Elder Prina
Ps: Some tourists came to our ward yesterday who knew Peter Prina, he said Peter was his branch president in Albaquirkie.
Pss: How is Sister Prina doing in Italy?
Good morning and Aloha,
I'm greatful we have email so I can keep in contact with all of you. Mom, Dad, Lisa, Mike, Christian, Maddison, Chase, Carson, Tucker, Easton, Andrea, Blake, Audrey, Blake Jr., Anna, Max, Jack, Jill, Valerie, Eric, Andrew, Sarah, Emily, Kristin, Pete, Sydney, Grace, John, Sierra, Kyler, Elliah, and Rob I love you all and wish I could give each of you a big hug. Stobbes, Mark, and anyone else who may read this, I miss you too and thank you for all the support. Sis. Aldous, thanks for Travis' Email, It's good to hear about my buddy everyonce in a while. My companion, E. Gray is going home this week and I will be getting a new companion. I'm Jealous he gets to see all his family this weekend, he has six cute little nephews and nieces. E. Gray was a wonderful companion I learned alot from him, he will be flying home with my old companion E. Naulu this Thursday night.
This week we went to sis. Bernadez' house to ask her if her step daughter had gotten permission from her father to take the lessons. sis. bernadez is a returning less active member in our ward. She calls us with random questions all the time like "does god have parents" and "who wrote the living Christ". She told us her step daughter Malie did not ask her dad yet and she was starting to give up on her. Before we left she asked if we needed any thing (groceries, etc.), we said we didn't so she told us to call her if we needed anything. That night we just got money for dinner so we went to pizza hut and got a big new yorker. Just as E. gray and I were settling down to eat pizza and watch the District (the missionary training dvd) I realized we were running low on milk. You can't eat pizza without milk! So I was like "I know! I'll call sis. Bernadez and ask her to buy us some". So I called her and she said "Elders! How did you know to call?" "what?" I said. She said "did you know we were just talking about you?". She explained her step daughter Malie had come home from school that day and just started asking her all these questions. She said she couldn't answer them all so they wrote them down on a piece of paper, she asked if we could come over and answer some of her questions. We told her we were eating dinner but maybe we could meet up at the church (next door to our house) and answer her questions in about half an hour. She agreed and said she would go buy us a gallon of milk. So we met up at the church and found an empty room. Right as we walked in, a bunch of people were getting out of a meeting and Pres. Stennett (1st counselor in the stake pres. who happens to be a member of our ward) walked into the room we were in and asked if he could join us. We started with a prayer and then they pulled out their list and sis. Bernadez started asking the questions. The first question was "why are there so many churches on the earth?" I answered that one teaching half of the first lesson (the restoration) and told her that Joseph Smith had the same question. As they continued to ask the questions it got more and more comfortable and Malie started asking the questions instead of her mom and even asked some questions that they hadn't written down. E. Gray, President Stennett, and I kind of switched off answering and you could feel the spirit very strong as each question was answered in beautiful simplicity. It was a miracle that President Stennett just happened to be there because he has an amazing knowledge of the scriptures and I even learned a few things as he spoke. He quoted about 10 scriptures with out even looking them up. Durring the course of us answering her questions we basically taught her the restoration, the plan of salvation, the gospel of Jesus Christ, and some of the commandments. It felt like the temple as the room was just filled with pure intelligence. At the climax of the spirit, all of her questions were answered and I offered a closing prayer thanking the lord for the manifestation of the Holy Ghost. They left and we walked outside and talked to President Stennet for a while. As he started to walk to his car and we started to walk to the pad we got a call from sister Bernadez. She told us Malie wanted to get baptized.
We are seeing a lot of success in our area right now. Sam Long (Madison's mom) got baptized this weekend and I got to confirm her in sacrament meeting. They are such and amazing family. Despite the success it seems that each investigator has some huge stumbling block before he or she can get baptized. For some of them it's smoking, some need to wait longer because they are on probation because they broke the law in the past, some don't come to church, some are too shy to come to classes and make friends with the members, some have parents or step parents who are opposed, and some get anti Mormon materials from their friends and neighbors. We pray for our investigators every morning that they will be able to overcome these things. Our mission goal right now is to get 1000 baptisms in the year of 2010, this hasn't happened since '92 (the year that Eric served over here). We hope to make a contribution to that goal here in Kauai.
Mom, to answer some of your questions, No, I'm not getting transferred, I'm staying here in Lihue Kauai and will probably be here until I die. No, I did not lose my camera, I lost the battery charger and asked if you could order a replacement off the internet or something so I can keep sending you beautiful pictures of Hawaii. Yes, I did send an email last week did you not get it? Yes, I would love some new garment bottoms for my B-day. I like the Briefs, 50/50 Cotton/Polly, Medium.
Also I was wondering if you could send me Grandpa Rookhuyzen's address so I can write him. Please tell him that his grandson Matt in Hawaii wishes him happy birthday. Also Happy Birthday to Eric on the 14th and Travis on the 21st and eE Rob, I was just wondering, how much do you weigh? What do you do for work out in the morning? What do you usually eat for breakfast?
Sorry this is so long, Just wanted you all to know that everything is wonderful here in Hawaii!
Love,
Elder Prina
PS:Some tourists came to our ward yesterday who knew Peter Prina, he said Peter was his branch president in Albaquirkie.
PSS: How is Sister Prina doing in Italy?
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
It's something un-predictable but in the end its tight; A mission is the time of your life!
; A mission is the time of your life!
Today was transfers. E. Lester got transferred to another zone to be a junior zone leader with Elder England, one of my good mates in the mission who was in my MTC District. They will do great together. I was starting to really like Elder Lester, a lot of the members have commented on how we worked so well together and how unified we were. I'll miss him. I'm now with a missionary named Elder Christianson from Oregon. He came out the transfer after me; so hes only 6 weeks behind me. He was in my district when i was up in Rocky. Hes pretty cool. We'll see how he goes. After transfers everyone went and played touch in the rain and got filthy mudy. except me. I just read letters and stuff.
Andrea thanks for the letter, Matt thanks for the sweet package, I also got a letter from Kylee Hayter the girl that got baptized up in Rocky, so that was cool, and a package from E. Paki who is up north right now. Thanks for the love everyone. Ya Matt, my letter from Ange was addressed to me but it had your name on it. and it came with a dunski little picture of Jilly bill. I loved it!
Matt, you've got bad luck with cameras dude! Maybe you just weren't meant to have mission memories, it just wasn't meant to be. The DGK sticker was sweet as, eh? Its actually a Del Parson painting, not Greg Olsen. I doubt DJK got permission, that might be why the manager just gave it to us for free so we wouldn't sue him or something, haha.
Yea, about that 15th/summit ward Boating Trip mishap, can someone please spill the details on that, that sounds like a big deal. How did the boat just sink??
What concert did John and Sierra go to? I miss Kyler and Ellie So much! Thanks heaps again for all the photos of her.
Happy Birthday Easton! are you like 2? Everyone's growing up so fast. Audrey in Drivers Ed? I don't believe. you'll have to let me know how that goes. Maybe when i get home Audrey can drive me home from the airport.... after we go to in and out...
Dad, I know what you mean with the whole gloom and doom thing. Thanks for the insights and such, and Mum, thanks for your testimony of the Atonement.
Just a cool experience,one of many, that I've had lately. We got to General Conference at the stake center, a bit early this past Sunday, and they were just finishing up the mission prep class that they hold at the stake center every Sunday morning. We sat by two of the prospective elders during conference: an Aussie kid from our ward and a Samoan kid from another ward. The kid from our ward Doug knight (Dougy) went out to get something from his car, and he found that the parking break on it had given way, the car had rolled down the parking lot and hit a curb, and it wouldn't start. He came backed a bit panicky, because its, not his car, its his older brothers. We were just sharing experiences before that about answers to our prayers, like when we lose stuff we need to find. They Samoan young man said to Dougy "just pray about it". Doug is an 18 yr old boy that I have helped to return to activity since i have been in the area and he has come a long way, a really long way. It touched me when he demonstrated his simple faith and said 'yeah, I can pray' ; and said a simple prayer right there in the pew, before the meeting started. Both the boys got up during the opening hymn and went out to the parking lot. When they came back their demeanor had changed and Dougy had a big smile on his face. It started! he said. E. Lester and the Samoan young man suggested that he pray and thank the Lord for answering his prayer. Again, he bowed his head right there in the middle of the chapel and said a simple prayer in his heart to show his gratitude to the Lord. One of the greatest lesson I learned from General Conf. was from his simple faith. I'll never forget that. I know the gospel is real and that the Lord answers our prayers.
Kelly got baptized by her boy friend Hans Gilgen last Thursday and it was one of the best baptisms I've attended. I was privileged to give her the gift of the Holy Ghost and confirm her a member of the church. I'm sorry i didn't write everything I needed too, but i have to go.
MOM - please forward these to Matt! all the ones he hasn't got. It doesn't work when i send them to him for some reason, even when I use the correct email addy.
Love you all,
Elder Prina
Today was transfers. E. Lester got transferred to another zone to be a junior zone leader with Elder England, one of my good mates in the mission who was in my MTC District. They will do great together. I was starting to really like Elder Lester, a lot of the members have commented on how we worked so well together and how unified we were. I'll miss him. I'm now with a missionary named Elder Christianson from Oregon. He came out the transfer after me; so hes only 6 weeks behind me. He was in my district when i was up in Rocky. Hes pretty cool. We'll see how he goes. After transfers everyone went and played touch in the rain and got filthy mudy. except me. I just read letters and stuff.
Andrea thanks for the letter, Matt thanks for the sweet package, I also got a letter from Kylee Hayter the girl that got baptized up in Rocky, so that was cool, and a package from E. Paki who is up north right now. Thanks for the love everyone. Ya Matt, my letter from Ange was addressed to me but it had your name on it. and it came with a dunski little picture of Jilly bill. I loved it!
Matt, you've got bad luck with cameras dude! Maybe you just weren't meant to have mission memories, it just wasn't meant to be. The DGK sticker was sweet as, eh? Its actually a Del Parson painting, not Greg Olsen. I doubt DJK got permission, that might be why the manager just gave it to us for free so we wouldn't sue him or something, haha.
Yea, about that 15th/summit ward Boating Trip mishap, can someone please spill the details on that, that sounds like a big deal. How did the boat just sink??
What concert did John and Sierra go to? I miss Kyler and Ellie So much! Thanks heaps again for all the photos of her.
Happy Birthday Easton! are you like 2? Everyone's growing up so fast. Audrey in Drivers Ed? I don't believe. you'll have to let me know how that goes. Maybe when i get home Audrey can drive me home from the airport.... after we go to in and out...
Dad, I know what you mean with the whole gloom and doom thing. Thanks for the insights and such, and Mum, thanks for your testimony of the Atonement.
Just a cool experience,one of many, that I've had lately. We got to General Conference at the stake center, a bit early this past Sunday, and they were just finishing up the mission prep class that they hold at the stake center every Sunday morning. We sat by two of the prospective elders during conference: an Aussie kid from our ward and a Samoan kid from another ward. The kid from our ward Doug knight (Dougy) went out to get something from his car, and he found that the parking break on it had given way, the car had rolled down the parking lot and hit a curb, and it wouldn't start. He came backed a bit panicky, because its, not his car, its his older brothers. We were just sharing experiences before that about answers to our prayers, like when we lose stuff we need to find. They Samoan young man said to Dougy "just pray about it". Doug is an 18 yr old boy that I have helped to return to activity since i have been in the area and he has come a long way, a really long way. It touched me when he demonstrated his simple faith and said 'yeah, I can pray' ; and said a simple prayer right there in the pew, before the meeting started. Both the boys got up during the opening hymn and went out to the parking lot. When they came back their demeanor had changed and Dougy had a big smile on his face. It started! he said. E. Lester and the Samoan young man suggested that he pray and thank the Lord for answering his prayer. Again, he bowed his head right there in the middle of the chapel and said a simple prayer in his heart to show his gratitude to the Lord. One of the greatest lesson I learned from General Conf. was from his simple faith. I'll never forget that. I know the gospel is real and that the Lord answers our prayers.
Kelly got baptized by her boy friend Hans Gilgen last Thursday and it was one of the best baptisms I've attended. I was privileged to give her the gift of the Holy Ghost and confirm her a member of the church. I'm sorry i didn't write everything I needed too, but i have to go.
MOM - please forward these to Matt! all the ones he hasn't got. It doesn't work when i send them to him for some reason, even when I use the correct email addy.
Love you all,
Elder Prina
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Aloha,
Things are going well here in Kauai. It seems easy to invite people to be baptized here. They always say yes. It's just they're not always serious. We have 5 with baptismal dates right now. From now on I'm not going to use our investigators names as much in my emails. One of our investigators called us today and said he entered his name in a search engine and Prinaprofile popped up. He said it kinda freaked him out to see us talking about him on the internet, I think it turned him off a little bit. So thank you for always praying for our investigators and stuff but I will be more careful about using their names in my emails from now on. We had 4 investigators watch conference with us on Sunday, one even came to the Priesthood session. He felt out of place because he was the only one not wearing a tie, so that night he went to Walmart, bought 2 white shirts, 3 ties, a pair of church shoes, and gel to use in his hair. He showed up at 6 the next morning to watch the first Sunday session live.
I love hearing about all the things you guys are doing. Mom and Dad you always sound so busy and that is good, just remember what Pres. Uchtdorf said: your personal worth is not measured by the length of your to do list! I think that was my favorite talk in conference, I love Pres. Uchdorf. Madison, the girl that just got baptized, came with her mom, Sam, to conference on Sunday. Madison is only 10 so I was trying to think of something she could do to keep her attention. I remembered when Rob and I were little, sitting behind the missionaries at the stake center and trying to pay attention. I think it was Elder Epperson, him and his companion made this little game for us where every time they said a word like "atonement" or "faith" or "holy ghost" we marked down a tally and then we got a candy for every five tallies or something. So I made like the same exact thing for maddison and it worked really good.
Mom: You asked about my glasses, I'm pretty sure I told you when it happened but I lost them like my first week on my mission. We went out to eat after General Priesthood session and one of the other elders asked if they could try on my glasses so I let him put them on and started eating. Apparently he put them back on my tray with out me noticing. When I got home that night I realized I wasn't wearing my glasses so I called him and asked him what he did with them. He said he gave them back to me. So it was too late to drive all the way back to the restaurant like 30 min away and dig through their rubbish. Don't worry about it though my eye sight is just fine. Also mom, I just ran out of pages in my "missionary journal" so I need a new one. I know there was like 2 or 3 unused journals that were given to me as gifts sitting on my tall book shelf in my room when I left. Can you please send me all of them? Also Mom and Dad I have to thank you again for the camera, it's sooooo nice, everyone's jealous of it, I will take good care of it and send you lots of awesome pictures. Sorry my email is late this week, we had an all day meeting yesterday.
Scot and Debbie: Thanks so much for the letters and all of Scoty's emails! They mean alot to me! Before I got them I was on an exchange in the Kapa'a 1st ward (there's two kapa'a wards now, plus the Hanalei branch) with a greeny. Neither of us knew the area so we were just driving around visiting members and potential investigators. I had heard the name Ornellas before when I was in Oahu (it's a really big name in the islands), so I said "lets go visit the Ornellas family". When we got there we talked to the dad for a minute and then the daughter Chelsey came out and started talking to us. We asked if we could share a quick message before we left. So I opened up my scriptures and right before I started to read she says "do you have brothers?", I was like what? ...um yeah, I have two. Then she goes "is one of them married to a Stobbe?". Then I smiled and said yes, and she smiled and started yelling, Oh my gosh! I don't believe it! I didn't even realize you guys lived in kauai, she said you guys lived right up the street from them. She said she had gotten in touch with Summer through face book just a couple days ago and was looking at pictures of your family. I guess some how she saw pictures of John and Sierra and somehow remembered the name Prina (probably because of the name of sierra's blogg). We talked for about 15 min. before we got back to the spiritual message. She said she used to hang out with the girls all the time. She said to tell you the Ornellas family says hi. I am serving in the Lihue ward. We live in a little house right next to the huge gym, next to the chapel. Next time I see President Gonzalves I'll have to tell him you say hi. My companion says he knows the Raymonds, I guess they live in our ward now kind of by harbor mall. He said they got offended by a church member and they want nothing to do with the church now. Maybe you guys can write them and tell them to start meeting with the missionaries because I'm here now.
Rob: My recent convert Mike Brett will be heading for Australia soon, I can't remember if you already did but can you send me your address and phone number so he can come say hi when he's there? Did you get my package with the super old tape?
I have a strong testimony that the church is true. The mission can be hard some times but that is what makes it the happiest time of my life. My testimony of the power the Book of Mormon has grown and I know that Joseph Smith translated it by the power of God. I have seen many miracles on my mission of which I am very grateful for. I can truly stand as a witness and state as Joseph did "I knew it, and I knew that God Knew it, and I could not deny It!"
Love,
Elder Prina
Ps: I got a letter from Andrea written to Rob but addressed to me. Rob, did you get one for me? I can't believe my nephews and nieces are in high school and going to drivers ed! Like, I'm pretty sure their lying to me, I really don't believe it. because I'm pretty sure Blake Jr. was just running around in a diaper, waving his plastic sword around saying "cush" "cush" "cush"!
Things are going well here in Kauai. It seems easy to invite people to be baptized here. They always say yes. It's just they're not always serious. We have 5 with baptismal dates right now. From now on I'm not going to use our investigators names as much in my emails. One of our investigators called us today and said he entered his name in a search engine and Prinaprofile popped up. He said it kinda freaked him out to see us talking about him on the internet, I think it turned him off a little bit. So thank you for always praying for our investigators and stuff but I will be more careful about using their names in my emails from now on. We had 4 investigators watch conference with us on Sunday, one even came to the Priesthood session. He felt out of place because he was the only one not wearing a tie, so that night he went to Walmart, bought 2 white shirts, 3 ties, a pair of church shoes, and gel to use in his hair. He showed up at 6 the next morning to watch the first Sunday session live.
I love hearing about all the things you guys are doing. Mom and Dad you always sound so busy and that is good, just remember what Pres. Uchtdorf said: your personal worth is not measured by the length of your to do list! I think that was my favorite talk in conference, I love Pres. Uchdorf. Madison, the girl that just got baptized, came with her mom, Sam, to conference on Sunday. Madison is only 10 so I was trying to think of something she could do to keep her attention. I remembered when Rob and I were little, sitting behind the missionaries at the stake center and trying to pay attention. I think it was Elder Epperson, him and his companion made this little game for us where every time they said a word like "atonement" or "faith" or "holy ghost" we marked down a tally and then we got a candy for every five tallies or something. So I made like the same exact thing for maddison and it worked really good.
Mom: You asked about my glasses, I'm pretty sure I told you when it happened but I lost them like my first week on my mission. We went out to eat after General Priesthood session and one of the other elders asked if they could try on my glasses so I let him put them on and started eating. Apparently he put them back on my tray with out me noticing. When I got home that night I realized I wasn't wearing my glasses so I called him and asked him what he did with them. He said he gave them back to me. So it was too late to drive all the way back to the restaurant like 30 min away and dig through their rubbish. Don't worry about it though my eye sight is just fine. Also mom, I just ran out of pages in my "missionary journal" so I need a new one. I know there was like 2 or 3 unused journals that were given to me as gifts sitting on my tall book shelf in my room when I left. Can you please send me all of them? Also Mom and Dad I have to thank you again for the camera, it's sooooo nice, everyone's jealous of it, I will take good care of it and send you lots of awesome pictures. Sorry my email is late this week, we had an all day meeting yesterday.
Scot and Debbie: Thanks so much for the letters and all of Scoty's emails! They mean alot to me! Before I got them I was on an exchange in the Kapa'a 1st ward (there's two kapa'a wards now, plus the Hanalei branch) with a greeny. Neither of us knew the area so we were just driving around visiting members and potential investigators. I had heard the name Ornellas before when I was in Oahu (it's a really big name in the islands), so I said "lets go visit the Ornellas family". When we got there we talked to the dad for a minute and then the daughter Chelsey came out and started talking to us. We asked if we could share a quick message before we left. So I opened up my scriptures and right before I started to read she says "do you have brothers?", I was like what? ...um yeah, I have two. Then she goes "is one of them married to a Stobbe?". Then I smiled and said yes, and she smiled and started yelling, Oh my gosh! I don't believe it! I didn't even realize you guys lived in kauai, she said you guys lived right up the street from them. She said she had gotten in touch with Summer through face book just a couple days ago and was looking at pictures of your family. I guess some how she saw pictures of John and Sierra and somehow remembered the name Prina (probably because of the name of sierra's blogg). We talked for about 15 min. before we got back to the spiritual message. She said she used to hang out with the girls all the time. She said to tell you the Ornellas family says hi. I am serving in the Lihue ward. We live in a little house right next to the huge gym, next to the chapel. Next time I see President Gonzalves I'll have to tell him you say hi. My companion says he knows the Raymonds, I guess they live in our ward now kind of by harbor mall. He said they got offended by a church member and they want nothing to do with the church now. Maybe you guys can write them and tell them to start meeting with the missionaries because I'm here now.
Rob: My recent convert Mike Brett will be heading for Australia soon, I can't remember if you already did but can you send me your address and phone number so he can come say hi when he's there? Did you get my package with the super old tape?
I have a strong testimony that the church is true. The mission can be hard some times but that is what makes it the happiest time of my life. My testimony of the power the Book of Mormon has grown and I know that Joseph Smith translated it by the power of God. I have seen many miracles on my mission of which I am very grateful for. I can truly stand as a witness and state as Joseph did "I knew it, and I knew that God Knew it, and I could not deny It!"
Love,
Elder Prina
Ps: I got a letter from Andrea written to Rob but addressed to me. Rob, did you get one for me? I can't believe my nephews and nieces are in high school and going to drivers ed! Like, I'm pretty sure their lying to me, I really don't believe it. because I'm pretty sure Blake Jr. was just running around in a diaper, waving his plastic sword around saying "cush" "cush" "cush"!
G'day everyone Oct. 3,2010
And tell me, that these two men would enter the presence of their eternal God quoting from, and finding solace in: A BOOK
Which if NOT the very Word of God would brand them as impostors and charlatans until the end of time.
THEY WOULD NOT DO THAT........................................................ They were willing to die; rather than deny the eternal truthfulness and the Divine authenticity of THE BOOK OF MORMON!
Sorry about that, just one of those Jeffrey R. Holland tangents I get off on occasionally.
This morning I finished the 1st book of Nephi and was thoroughly puzzled by the 1st two Isaiah chapters in the Book of Mormon, but luckily it confused Laman and Lemuel too and Nephi explains it to them in the next chapter. So I just put my self in the crowd with Laman and Lemuel listening to Nephi explain what Isaiah was talking about. Now I understand it!
I have come to have an intimate love and appreciation for the Book Of Mormon on my mission. All my questions have been answered as to why we have it. Every time we teach people and they ask a question of the passages from the book are brought to my remembrance by the Power of the Holy Ghost, just when I need them. I am able to answer there question confidently using the scriptures that we are so blessed to have. Mum, Dad, Matt, and Kristin thanks heaps for the emails. Its good to hear from yous, eh.
We have a member who owns his own Chiropractic practice across the street from our flat, and we did him a favor last week; so he said he would adjust my back for me since I still have back pain every once in a while. So I went in this morning and got that all fixed up. It was so nice!
Scot and Debbie thanks for faithfully sending Scotys emails each week. Those are so nice to get. I also loved reading your letters. They lift me up and boost my self esteem.
Matt, thanks for hitting me up with the ice cream sundae lesson! I want to use that with a few people. Kristin it was good to hear from you, and i look forward to the letter and photos, when you find the time. I'm glad that Syd liked the photos of the Crocs. Its gonna be so wierd how she didn't even talk at all when I left and now shes using words like "enormous". I guess her parents have a very enormous vocabulary. Haha.
I miss the Polizzi family so much. They are such a good family. Mario gave the lesson in Priesthood the week after I left and he was really nervous about it, but I'm sure he did a great job. I wish I could have been there for it.
Dad, did the chiropractor mess up something with my eyes this morning or did I actually read that you have "Lost interest in BYU football" this season?? I don't believe that one minute, but that's good that you have so much time to spend with your family and posterity (roasting Mallows with kyler) and at the temple. Cleaning the temple.. that sounds like a sweet as job! How did you score that!?
I wish i was going to get some of Val's grape juice! She makes the best grape juice ever! Stuff Welch's! I look forward to assisting you in reaping the benefits of the garden when I get home! All this talk of fresh grapes, tomatoes and pears is making my mouth water! MMMMMM I'm looking forward to that. Grapes are so blimin' expensive here that we cant really afford to buy them. So I buy bananas every week instead.
I'm looking forward to watching Gen. Conference next week because we get the DVDs sent over a week late over here and we'll watch them at the stake center next week. I'm so excited for that! Full on Revelation!
Mum, my allergy's haven't really been bothering me 'cause its summer here, but thanks for asking. I'll pray for yours to get better. Who's in your book club? What are you reading now? That is cool that you scanned all those old photo albums. That is a really cool idea. Its good to always be busy.
I heard from Fiona and Junior this week. She just had another baby at the end of Last month. She sent me some cute photos of the girls. They live in Deception bay (well Rothwell, the next suburb over), so I missed seeing them while i was back up in Redcliffe. But hopefully I can see them get sealed in the temple before i come home.
My companion E. Lester was real sick yesterday so we had to stay home from church (for the 1st time on my mission) but luckily we got one of the Priests and his Dad to come administer unto us. It was different being on the receiving end of the administration while we were flat bound. It reminded me of when us and Scoty and Lincoln would take the sacrament to people in their homes, or in the hospital after church. You get the best feeling after that kind of service.
Mum, if anyone is still looking for Birthday Prezz ideas I would really appreciate some speed stick deodorant. They only sell spray deodorants over here and they make my skin burn. Lisa sent me my favorite kind for Christmas last year, but that ran out while I was in Rocky. So some speed stick would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for the letter Shari Ramsay, if your reading this. Sounds like your like me and can't decide what you wanna do when you "grow up". Just do what you love. "Just do what your heart tells you.... Thats what i do.." - Napoleon Dynamite. Haha.
I love you all and hope you have a lovely day. Peace.
Love, Elder Prina
PS. Enjoy the photos! (Jesus loves DGK all day - i found that in a local skate shop and the manager gave the sticker to me for free!)
Which if NOT the very Word of God would brand them as impostors and charlatans until the end of time.
THEY WOULD NOT DO THAT........................................................ They were willing to die; rather than deny the eternal truthfulness and the Divine authenticity of THE BOOK OF MORMON!
Sorry about that, just one of those Jeffrey R. Holland tangents I get off on occasionally.
This morning I finished the 1st book of Nephi and was thoroughly puzzled by the 1st two Isaiah chapters in the Book of Mormon, but luckily it confused Laman and Lemuel too and Nephi explains it to them in the next chapter. So I just put my self in the crowd with Laman and Lemuel listening to Nephi explain what Isaiah was talking about. Now I understand it!
I have come to have an intimate love and appreciation for the Book Of Mormon on my mission. All my questions have been answered as to why we have it. Every time we teach people and they ask a question of the passages from the book are brought to my remembrance by the Power of the Holy Ghost, just when I need them. I am able to answer there question confidently using the scriptures that we are so blessed to have. Mum, Dad, Matt, and Kristin thanks heaps for the emails. Its good to hear from yous, eh.
We have a member who owns his own Chiropractic practice across the street from our flat, and we did him a favor last week; so he said he would adjust my back for me since I still have back pain every once in a while. So I went in this morning and got that all fixed up. It was so nice!
Scot and Debbie thanks for faithfully sending Scotys emails each week. Those are so nice to get. I also loved reading your letters. They lift me up and boost my self esteem.
Matt, thanks for hitting me up with the ice cream sundae lesson! I want to use that with a few people. Kristin it was good to hear from you, and i look forward to the letter and photos, when you find the time. I'm glad that Syd liked the photos of the Crocs. Its gonna be so wierd how she didn't even talk at all when I left and now shes using words like "enormous". I guess her parents have a very enormous vocabulary. Haha.
I miss the Polizzi family so much. They are such a good family. Mario gave the lesson in Priesthood the week after I left and he was really nervous about it, but I'm sure he did a great job. I wish I could have been there for it.
Dad, did the chiropractor mess up something with my eyes this morning or did I actually read that you have "Lost interest in BYU football" this season?? I don't believe that one minute, but that's good that you have so much time to spend with your family and posterity (roasting Mallows with kyler) and at the temple. Cleaning the temple.. that sounds like a sweet as job! How did you score that!?
I wish i was going to get some of Val's grape juice! She makes the best grape juice ever! Stuff Welch's! I look forward to assisting you in reaping the benefits of the garden when I get home! All this talk of fresh grapes, tomatoes and pears is making my mouth water! MMMMMM I'm looking forward to that. Grapes are so blimin' expensive here that we cant really afford to buy them. So I buy bananas every week instead.
I'm looking forward to watching Gen. Conference next week because we get the DVDs sent over a week late over here and we'll watch them at the stake center next week. I'm so excited for that! Full on Revelation!
Mum, my allergy's haven't really been bothering me 'cause its summer here, but thanks for asking. I'll pray for yours to get better. Who's in your book club? What are you reading now? That is cool that you scanned all those old photo albums. That is a really cool idea. Its good to always be busy.
I heard from Fiona and Junior this week. She just had another baby at the end of Last month. She sent me some cute photos of the girls. They live in Deception bay (well Rothwell, the next suburb over), so I missed seeing them while i was back up in Redcliffe. But hopefully I can see them get sealed in the temple before i come home.
My companion E. Lester was real sick yesterday so we had to stay home from church (for the 1st time on my mission) but luckily we got one of the Priests and his Dad to come administer unto us. It was different being on the receiving end of the administration while we were flat bound. It reminded me of when us and Scoty and Lincoln would take the sacrament to people in their homes, or in the hospital after church. You get the best feeling after that kind of service.
Mum, if anyone is still looking for Birthday Prezz ideas I would really appreciate some speed stick deodorant. They only sell spray deodorants over here and they make my skin burn. Lisa sent me my favorite kind for Christmas last year, but that ran out while I was in Rocky. So some speed stick would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for the letter Shari Ramsay, if your reading this. Sounds like your like me and can't decide what you wanna do when you "grow up". Just do what you love. "Just do what your heart tells you.... Thats what i do.." - Napoleon Dynamite. Haha.
I love you all and hope you have a lovely day. Peace.
Love, Elder Prina
PS. Enjoy the photos! (Jesus loves DGK all day - i found that in a local skate shop and the manager gave the sticker to me for free!)
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