Quote of the week. "Could you die on your mission if you went to a really dangerous place? With like HEAPS of Nephites??" -Ryan age 6

"I don't know Ryan, I mean, It's a miracle I've lived through the 1000's of Nephite encounters I face as a missionary" Hahaha its been a great week:) Its acutally been a double cheeseburger weekend so thats been awesome:) We had zone pday on friday which was so great except it ended with a little bit of crisis when we got the other sisters car locked in a service station and had to sleep 4 extra girls at our house and get them all dressed and ready to go to time out for women the next day at 5 am:) You try fitting two 6'2 Tahitians in your little Chelsea clothes, its a challenge.  But time out for women was AMAZING! I got to meet David Archuletta again which was splendid, but I also got to meet my like all time role model Elaine S Dalton. Holy Cow she is incredible. She gave me the biggest hug and I am so sure that woman was called of God to lead the young women of my generation to the mission field:) Pretty much going to name my children after her:) We had a mission conference yesterday with Brad Wilcox and with a woman named Sandra Turley who was Cosette in the closing cast of Les Mis on BROADWAY! So yeah, Its been a really good week, feeling pumped for the work! I love you all:) Keep smiling and love each other:)

Love,

Sister Moon

Koala cuddling and kangaroo kissing...

Hey yall! Its been a crazy week and I don't really have too much to report but since i get asked about kangaroos every minute of my life I just thought Id send out a quick message to let you all know that... I saw one, I fed on, I got so excited and I even kissed one!;) I turned into a 5 year old girl at the zoo last week though! It was sooo fun! and i saw everything. I just want to be a koala cuddler.... is that too much to ask? Oh my goodness I love this country and its crazy marsupials! I love you all and I feel your prayers! I hope you feel mine! Have an awesome week! 

Love,

Sista Mooon

So Chelsea told us to look up Spider Rain.CRAZY STUFF! Thi was form May 18

Pouring Down Arachnids: Australia's Nasty 'Spider Rain' Explained

by ELIZABETH PALERMO, LIVE SCIENCE

Millions of tiny spiders recently fell from the sky in Australia, alarming residents whose properties were suddenly covered with not only the creepy critters, but also mounds of their silky threads. But that's not where the frightful news ends: Experts say that such arachnid rains aren't as uncommon as you might think.

This month's spider downpour in the country's Southern Tablelands region is just the most recent example of a phenomenon commonly known as "spider rain" or, in some circles, "angel hair," because of the silky, hairlike threads the spiders leave behind. Ian Watson, who lives in the region affected by the spooky shower, took to Facebook to describe what this strange "weather" looks like, according to the Goulburn Post.

Hey everybody!! We made it to 5 months. I realize it really isn't that long and thank goodness because we have so much work to do and time goes oh too fast. But we are pretty proud of ourselves that we made it to a whole hand! 

     This week has been great. Many opportunities to test our faith and burst out of comfort zones. We tracted so much my feet are literally bleeding, and we road trains everywhere to try and meet as many people as possible. We saw so many miracles this week. Investigators came back, new people listened and hearts were changed.My quote of the week is "We set goals to show our faith. We follow up on goals to count our blessings." Sometimes we are afraid to set goals because we are afraid of not reaching them. We are afraid of letting ourselves get discouraged but we can do it! But I promise that as we show our faith and make goals and shoot for things out of our comfort zone and strength, the Lord will bless us and we will have an abundance of blessings to count. I love you all and I hope you are all doing well! Don't be afraid to shoot me an update on you and your families sometime! I love hearing about your adventures as well! Keep Smiling! We have too much to smile about! This week was super great! Read sister stotts blog. Shes is way better at telling stories than I am!!! There are some crazy ones. We have some really cool people in this world!! Just btw. We ran into a member from a different ward this week and he hopped over to our train car and bought us lunch, we were fed almost night, it was awesome. We were hugged and loved, a little girl in the ward made us the sweetest card and basically we have so much to be grateful for. So we have a few investigators again. Grace is from Kenya and she is the sweetest ever. I love her to death. She says the best prayers, the trick is just getting her to read the book of mormon. She needs prayers! So add her to the list! We also have sam who is coming back to us hopefully!! Hes so keen! Put him in your prayers too;) I know! Im so dang bossy! I had my first meat pie this week........ i dont really know how to feel about it.. Like its good but it also sorta tastes like dog food. Im confused. Ill probably have to let you know how i like it as time goes on. I also had weet bix this morning. Aussie breakfast of champions. Its alot like cold oatmeal. Also dont know how to feel about it. but hey! Ill probably come home wanting pies and wheat bix and not being able to get either.:) This week I want you to pray for a missionary opportunity. All of y'all. Can you do that for me? Hears a little secret.... members make the BEST missionaries. For serious.;) Invite someone over for dinner, post something on facebook about your beliefs, send a letter to a friend you know could use a little more comfort and peace in their life, wear your ctr ring, invite someone to the ward chilli cook off! There are so many ways to be a missionary! I promise that as you pray, Heavenly Father will help you know the way you can share the gospel! Heres another secret! Heavenly Father loves his missionaries and blesses them every moment of the day, with safety, with peace, with love. Be a missionary and you'll be blessed! Its super true!!! I love you guys a whole freaking lot. I hope to get some kangaroo pictures your way today but if not, know they are coming next week!!!!:) ahhhhh!

Stay safe and happy this week!

Love

Sister Chelsea Moon

Extra Blessing from Australia!

Hey loves! I hope yous are doing exceptionally well this fine day:) I've offically started my 4th transfer and I feel hecka weird about it. :) I'm staying in Wollongong and its been great. I really hope i get to stay forever;)

Mini mission was awesome! I learned lots from my girls and Im glad I got to spend my week with them but Im glad to be back to the normal schedule.  Weve met some really nice people this week:) They were also border line insane but thats okay:) They were cool. We had zone training and president came and it was way fun. We were one of the top zones this transfer so we got to play games with president and stuff and it was totally awesome:) he also brought this gigantic teddy bear! Ill have to send yall pictures! :) Our minis were polys so we ate alot this last week. We got fed lunch and dinner everyday and we both gained 2 kilos. It was nasty. But ive lost it all in the past 2 days so i think we are fine:) 

Funny experience of the week. So remember that guy who kissed me that one time.... Well this week we stopped by to see how he was and we had so much fun. :) anyways. he asked me to marry him. Like serious as ever and i didnt know what to say so I told him Id have to think about it.... So if I get really desprate, I have a 92 year old man for a back up.   Thank goodness...;) 

Love 

Sister Moon

 Extra Blessing from Australia this week.  One of the amazing families in Chelsea's ward came to America , (Thank you Stewart Family !!! hugs and kisses, Please fill free to take some back to Sister Moon) Brother Stewart brought a package with him hi from our sweet girl! Candy and koala bears, tam tams Yumm and a fun letter.I though I would share parts.

Here are 10 real random facts about Australia only a missionary would know:)
1) They eat super weird! They eat with both utensils in their hands constantly and your never moves really...you scoop everything to your fork with your knife and then you stick the fork in your mouth.
2) Heck and Dang... but not heck or dang aren't even swear words. I don't really know if they have swear words actually. I've heard quite a few over the pulpit. Its Crazy!
3) Everything is as. Cool as, hard as, wicked as, its super confusing and first cause it either feels like no one finishes their sentences... or they all cuss all the time.
4) A fanny pack is called a bum bag, cause a fanny isn't the most appropriate word.
5) Drop Bear. Look it up.
6) Their are crazy birds everywhere! Its like a zoo.
7)Vegemite is the stuff that's left at the bottom of the beer barrel its this nasty yeast extract that people love.
8) The toilet doesn't flush the other way... disappointing aye? the toilet is actually quite terrifying. Its so forceful!
9)Its common for people to believe in Jesus but not God... How does that even work?
10) When people try to mimic my accent, they make me sound like a hick. Such harsh R's. Anyways!

I love you all so much! The church is true! Love Sister Chelsea Moon

chelsea.moon@myldsmail.net

June 29 2015
Hey everybody! Its been an interesting week! Lots of ups and downs, but that's missionary work right? I was welcomed into the Wollongong Brotherhood. I swore on my life i wouldn't give too many details on how to become a member but I think its important to know I'm pretty positive I was poisoned;)  We were dropped by all of our progressing investigators this week... Weird. Two were supposed to be baptized on Sunday but they disappeared. We are going to find them though:)! We met some really neat people though so we will have many opportunities to teach in no time I'm so sure. God always opens up so many doors:) I love this gospel. I love my Savior. I love the people of Australia:) I love you all so much as well. Remember life is good and keep your heads up, cause when you do you'll realize God is always there:) Notice His hand in your life this week and I promise you'll be blessed:) Love y'all:)

Love,

Sister Chelsea Moon

July 6 2015

Hello everybody! Its been a super week full of finding! I currently have a mini missionary serving with me, her name is Sister Fa'oa and she is awesome. She is 17 and she is staying with me for the week! Sister Stott also has a mini and so we getting alot of work done! Ive already taken her tracting heaps and I think Ive scared her to death, but she isnt broken yet so... pray for her,  I'm a scary trainer big missionary;) The highlight of the week was getting locked out of my apartment and my my mission president had to drive like 3 hours to save us... It was embarrassing. Thats why I'm sharing it because I have no shame anymore;) I love you all:) Stay happy!
This week we also got to go to this gigantic buddist temple but we didnt get to really see much cause the less active member tour guide had us running through the temple, she had us moving so fast! It was nuts! So we are going back next week so we can catch the whole picture. We shared a very interesting message with her as well. It was dark outside and we couldnt go inside and i WAS NOT leaving till i had shared a message dang it! haha so i just started to sing I stand all amazed.  It was awesome. The spirit was just there. It was a real testimony builder for me because it was so spiritual and i was just so into it and i just dont think ive sang like that for quite a while... BUTTTT i get to the chorus and she stops me and tells me its stupid to focus on that because it was so sad and we need to move forward from the atonement... then she ran inside. What do you do in that situation but laugh?? hhahaha:) we have found some really cool people this week and im so excited to get an opportunity to share with them! I feel your prayers! Keep them coming! pray for all the missionaries! this stuff isnt no walk in the park;) I love it though! Thank you for all the pictures, letters, and love! Ill hear from you soon!

Love,

Sista Moon

Sister's got Swag

Hey so just btw Australia beat Brazil in the world cup today... No big deal. Who am I kidding? Its a huge deal! ;) this week has been awesome. We met some crazy people and last night in the last hour of the week we passed out like 70 cards on a train because we just need to find people so badly! We've met so many people this week and we have had more opportunities to teach than usual:) This truly is the Lords work. Miracles happen each day,and sometimes those miracles are tiny but so important.

  So this week we got so sick. We got a horrible cold and we weren't able to leave our apartment for like 3 days straight. It was awful. But we are doing much better. we are both still coughing like crazy but its all good.:)  we are doing much better. We saw some real interesting people this week. I almost got kissed this week. Well... I did get kissed, but i managed to avoid the lips. I told this little old Greek man that i loved him and oh boy it all went down hill from there. he grabbed my face and oh my heck I've never had to do a head turn so so hard in my life. Phew. We also met this crazy awesome surfer dude named Graham. He is like 65 and he has this MASSIVE beard. He surfs, and snowboards, and sand-boards, with this really cool kite thing. Look it up. its nuts. he also never wears shoes. hes pretty rad. He says god doesn't exist because if he asks god to make a grain of sand float the sand still drops.so the whole gospel teaching is kind of hard. but he has all these crazy philosophies and i love the man. The Lord protects us so much. I cant even believe the situations we are kept from sometimes. I definitely feel your prayers, i hope you feel mine. I love you all so much:) 

Love,

Sister Moon

P.S. Im gonna be the weirdest return missionary. I can already feel it.... So prepare yourselfs. love you:)

Aussie Sister

So last week was the the Queens Birthday so we did not get our email on Sunday night(her Monday) so i am including to weeks in one post.

June 10, 2015

hello everybody!

This week has been wonderful! Australia is beautiful!:) The work is hard but we are up for the challenge! I'm in an Area called Wollongong with my companion Sister Stott! We knew each other at university and shes from Idaho Falls! Its been great! Everyone thinks I have a thick accent and i can barely understand what anybody says but soon enough! I miss you all terribly and hope you are doing well!

I love use guys! (only Australian I can manage currently;))

June 15, 2015

Hey Y'all:) It's week two and still no kangaroo. I hope you are all having a wonderful day (night for most of you) It been a beautiful week here is little GIGANTIC Wollongong:) Nothing too crazy to report but I'm loving this crazy place. My ward is great and we even get a few chances to teach during the week. I love you all and hope life is treating you well:)

This week has been quite eventful. We had zone training which here in this GIGANTIC mission is a pretty big deal actually because our zone covers a ton of land. Sister Nelson is in my zone and boy it was so good to see her! I love that little child so much:) we had zone p-day Friday and we went to the beach and played rugby and collected shells and oh my heck it was so fun! I wish we could see other missionaries more often, that's something I really miss about California, but its fun to see other missionaries 2 times a transfer I guess! It makes it special. Also, the more time I spend on the beach, the more I realize that I'm just a mermaid out of water. Truth. I love it;) we have a few investigators. Thomas is at the uni and he's pretty keen. he has had a few baptism dates and really wants to be baptized but he is Chinese and his parents approval is pretty key in his like and respect and honor are so important and his parents just wont let it happen. we pray and pray for soften hearts though. We have an Investigator named Amy who is awesome as well. Shes getting baptized in 3 weeks hopefully with her daughter Paige.  The people get easier and easier to love, and the accent is starting to sound beautiful, even if the person with the accent is swearing at you, it just sounds better! the ward is my favorite. I've already grown attached to my favorite family(the Stewarts) and we spend a lot of meals there! holy I'm so scared I will be fat by the end of this mission thing, Australians do not take food lightly. hehe.  its been a hard hard adjustment but I'm starting to like it more, a lot of fasting and prayer has happened the past couple of weeks. I'm happy though. Smiles and smiles:) Ill send y'all a real letter soon!

 Keep smiling!

Love, Sister Moon