Like the real live Sydney place

Hey Y'all:)

Its been a crazy couple of weeks to tell you the truth. I have been moved out of my beloved Wollongong to SYDNEY. Like the real life Sydney place. Its a different world up here that is for sure. My area is called Hurtsville and its really a party all day all night.(Trust me, I can hear the party all night long from my skyscraper of an apartment.) My companion is the most beautiful human being she is from Vanuatu and she is a total crack up. I cant decide if its a good companionship or not because we cant take our lives seriously;) I love her. We are opening an area which is pretty interesting I will have you know. We just tract like 6 hours a day but we will get it all moving someday soon:)  The highlight of the week was conference. Man. I just dig it. Such a recharge to your spiritual batteries:) Such a testimony builder to see Prophets and Apostles bear such powerful testimonies of restored truth. What a blessing!

So as many of you probably already know I've been quite ill. It has been pretty trying but I just want to thank you all for your many prayers and fasts on my behalf. Without a doubt I can feel them strengthening me and lifting me up. I love you all so much and I am so grateful for you:) Remember,the world wont end today, Its already tomorrow in Australia:) 

Love you heaps,

Sister Moonbear

Hello People, I am doing pretty alright. just went to the doctor and I am not dying. They did lots of tests and found nothing. My X-ray indicates that there is deff something wrong with the gut but we don't know why. its a little frustrating... hhahaha but they will keep doing tests.I transferred into the presidents ward. That should be good.  Like seriously they live next door. My chapel is the mission office. its weird!  My companions name is Sister toame she is from Vanuatu and she is adorable. I'm so excited for conference next week! We watch it a week later.

Sorry my letters are lame. Haven't been able to do much this week. Hoping to be better soon and able to get to work. 

Love you all heaps and bunches 

Sister Moon 

Please keep her in her prayers.

Hey yall. How ya be? Oh my heck. I just love bein a missionary. Like Im so in the zone!!! Sometimes I dont even think about home for entire dayyyyys! What?? Like I will be getting ready for bed and start praying and I realize that I havent been homesick, not even once!!! Crazy hey?? Like its such a good feel just to be here!! I mean I miss you guys but like I dont have to think about it anymore. ya feel. 

This week has been beautiful. Just simply lovely. We have an amazing new investigator guys!!! Like she is amazing!! She is one of our youths friends and she is lovely. She came to the baptism Amelia(one of the Hardwicks) and it was amazing. The spirit was so strong guys! 

So liver. Its gross its nasty. I hate it. End of story. But really. We were helping someone in the ward weed and she comes out with lunch for us. Brussel sproats, spinach, and a HEAPINGGGG plate of liver. She sets up a table out side and we dig in. I try it but I just cant. Like man. I have eaten alot of weird things but i just cant stomach it. I start praying. I dont know what to do. But i get a totally genius idea. Like amazing. I start cutting up my meat and everytime i get a bite ready I wait for jenny to turn and BAM! I flick it right off my fork over my shoulder. It works like a charm. There is liver all over the yard. but this sweet lady has no need of knowing that! WRONG. did I mention its a shared yard?? Holy cow. this dog comes over and I turn into sister Liver!! what am I gonna do. Im trying to hide all the liver but man it is so so hard. so eventually I just give in and let him eat it all. I thought for sure I would get caught but I am so ninja like. And I didnt have to eat my liver!~:) hahahaha

I love you guys! too much!

Idaho Sisters in the House "Wise Man Built His House Upon a Rock"

102 days til CHRISTMAS!!!

9-14-2015
Hello everyone:) Its been a marvoulous week full of all sorts of fun! Our really good friend Victor was baptized and it was awesome:) I didnt get the opportunity to teach him but we are buddies and we got to attend his baptism. Hes so cool! I'm so proud of him. I got to spend an entire day in the Rigby of the Illawara. It was pretty magical. I saw horses and cows for the first time in ages! It felt good. But the single most important thing I must tell you all is that.................. There are only 102 days till CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHH HAPPY HOLIDAYS KIDS!!!;)
In other news. Its Killer Magpie season and I'm seriously so scared of them:) Its pretty ridiculous. I see a Magpie and I start running;)

We had ZTM this week! Its was very nice:) Mostly because at anything zone I get to see Sister Nelson and she is my best friend:). 

Sister Larita and I laugh till we cry every minute of the day. Its such a relief:) I love her to bits!

Love you heaps,

 Sister Moonpie

soo basically I can cook like a champ now days;)

           





            9-7-2015
 Hey  yall how are you? Ive had a pretty boring week due to the illness that has been spreading rapidly through the flat so I dont have much to report but, i thought Id just let you all in on all my missionary details. 

1) I survive off an Egg and Fruit diet. Like I eat nothing else unless given to me by a member. Its pretty alright. I like it:)

2) I love this book by Brad Wilcox called the Continuous Atonement! Im learning Heaps.

3) Katrina and Kiri are my favorite humans on the Australian continent.

4) All we do is service. All we do.. Its actually the best because we get to meet lots of people not knocking doors and we love it.

Yeah thats all i got. Im sorry! next week Ill tell you lots of things im sure (Do i say this everyweek?)

I love you guys up to the sky!!!!

Love,

Hermana Moonpie                                                      

incase you were curious about veggiemite

 my name tag is brokey! 

As a added bonus I added a video to Sister Moons Blog she sent us. She's still got it!!!

"Christ was aware of her because he sent us, and we wore His name"

Hello party people:)

Its been a crazy week. I think I say this every week, but its always so true!! I was surprised to get to go to the Sydney Temple this week with some other sisters who were training as well. What an incredible experience!!! I love the temple. I'm so grateful we have such a beautiful blessing so accessible to us. We have some REAL investigators as well! What?!? its been great to be teaching again. I've been obsessed with the Book of Mormon lately. All I want to do is read it sometimes. Its been such a strength to me. Read it guys!!! Everyday. Everyday. Everyday.

 Its been nuts. Training is hard guys. But all the best kinds of hard. I'm being stretched. I don't feel like I know what I'm doing. I'm playing mom but I love it. My companion is so naive and so sweet and I'm so afraid to break her. I'm teaching her English, and how to spend money, she has been so sick so I'm nursing her and I'm just learning to love so much. 

Miracle of the week. So Bellambi. Its so ghetto. Scary ghetto. Missionaries get robbed, harassed, its scary. I was going to pick up the other sisters in Bellambi. I was following my GPS and it wanted to take me a weird way and in my head I'm thinking "I know there is a faster way" but I just followed the GPS. I felt like it was the best way for us right now. We whip around this round about (there are HEAPS of these in Australia) and when I whip around there was a little boy, like 1 year old little boy, in the middle of the road. My heart stops. This road is such a fast road. I stop the car and tell sister Larita to go out and protect him while i try to get my car in a safe place. I jump out of the car and the kid is still wandering. Cars are still coming. I'm freaking out. I pick up the baby and just hold him. I didn't even know what to do. I've never felt so much love for someone i didn't even know. I feel like for a glimpse of time I got to feel what God feels for us.He sent me there because he loved this little boy. At this point I seriously have no idea what to do. I'm just praying. A young girl probably 12 comes out and realizes that I have her brother. She just stops in her tracks. And looks at our name badges. It was nuts. She takes him and thanks us over and over again. The little boy blows kisses at me. It was amazing. Its all I've been able to think about since. Why was it me that got to help this sweet family? I just didn't understand. But I know its because I wear His name on my chest. Just me being the one who gave that child back was a testament to that girl that Christ was aware of her because he sent us and we wore His name. It was the coolest thing ever.

 I love you all more than I love my self some Tim Tams (so loads basically) Miss you much!

Love,

Sister Chelsea Lou

Hey everyone!!

Its been a loco week with lots to report! Transfers were this week and lots of changes were made! I'm training and I'm oober scared to break my little sister friend! Her name is Sister Larita and she is 4'6!!! for reals! I look like a giant compared to my sweet sister. She is from the Philippians and she is a doll. I love her to death. Sister Stott was moved and we received a new set of sisters into our appartment. 4 girls sharing a tiny flat is quite the entertaining sight. My flat mates are from Tahiti and Japan and they are wonderful! I'm learning so much from them and I am planning to be fluent in cebuano, tahitian, french, and Japanese by the end of the transfer;) Its been a good time. It is raining like mad here and Im soaked from head to toe daily. Being a missionary is amazing.  

(Chelsea letter to home funny stuff)

Like I cant believe its only been a week since I emailed!! So first off, Im the palest human ever in this mission, we went on a way fun hike in the RAINFOREST. Did you know I'm in Australia? Sometimes I totally forget! hahahaha we went on exchanges this week and had a gnarly time! Story of the week: So me and sister Mugua were trying to visit an investigator and as we ended our pray we look out the window of our car and there is this super old lady, like ancient!!! and she had pulled out this window screen and was trying to climb up this latter and we come out and she is balling and just freaking out and she got locked out of her house, so SUPER CHELSEA jumps through her window and it was just awesome! My message this week is on service! Do it. There are so many ways to be charitable. Get creative, maybe someday you'll be as thug as me and get to call breaking and entering christlike love:) I love you guys! 1 year more!!!!

Love,

Sister Chels Lou

We are so blessed to have the gospel in our lives! I love you all heaps!

HOOROO!

Sister Moon