Hello Elder King..... and Elder.....

So I hope you have been able to see the pictures from Mooloolaba beach last week when we were there and we found 'The Loo with the view'' and how there was the perfect rainbow there, like I have never seen a more perfect rainbow, it when from the sea into the sand and looking at it through some palm trees it was just amazing. So I found out some more about why this was a 8 week transfer for you, so the reason is they are trying to get all the transfers in all the missions across Australia in alignment with one another so they coincide one with another :) So this week my companion's Birthday is coming up and all, he is still only 18 at the moment!!! but it will be awesome as his Birthday falls on the Sunday!! and we have some great news!!! We moved Toni's baptism a week forward from the 28th to the 21st next Saturday at Noon, and she has asked me to Baptize Her!!!! Yay Yay Yay!!! It will be an amazing day and everyone loves Toni, so there will be heaps of people there!!!! Then Elder Derhak, will give her the Holy Ghost on Sunday, so it is awesome as he is giving her a gift on his Birthday and it is a great start to his mission and all. We Love Toni and the kids, we are actually all seeing them today at Cotton tree park at 4.30pm to play sports with them!!! The work is going so well here, we also moved Jacqueline's baptism up from the 14th of March, to the 28th of February, so a week after Toni, and we will then probably Move Gary's baptism from the 28th of February to the 1st week in March as he needs that little bit of extra time and all. And Yesterday evening we had a Pacific Wide Area Broadcast, and that was super great we had Anthony with us for it and all, I found out that, at the moment in the South Pacific, there is 127 Stakes and 35 Districts :) So the work is definitely hastening for sure in this part of the vineyard!!!! So it was also funny in the week, I was out playing some Basketball in the morning and all, and this random woman approaches me and was like can I put this Sling on you, and I was like Yea go for it hahah, I was thinking what the heck hahah, so I get this sling put on me, so was going around trying it on people as a prototype and getting there feedback on it, that same day my companion ends up with a different sling given to us by Toni for his shoulder!!! So the work is going super well here, I was on trade-off on Forest Glen on Saturday, Valentine's day and it was a great day, we just done heaps of Door knocking and all, and I ended up being able to teach with the missionary who was with my parents back home, so that was awesome being able to teach with him in a lesson together, it was an awesome experience, I don't know if you have seen the picture of us together on FB, I'm holding up a Book of Mormon next to him :) I also on Trade-off for the first time in ages so long was able to practice speaking some Persian (Farsi) This man from Afghanistan came to the door and he said to me after we had been speaking for a while, you would not be able to speak my language at all, I said try me I want to see if I can, he said you won't be able to hahah, Then he says do you speak any Persian, Next Sec I'm spitting out some Persian to him and he is so happy, I then asked him for a glass of water in it, it's a useful line as a missionary, and as soon as i asked him no hesitations or anything he just goes to the tap turns it on, and pours me a glass of water, I was so happy to at least now that it worked!!! :) Then he invited us in and we taught him :) I have also been setting other goals as well for when I get back, another one of my goals is to become a better cook :) So I also had interviews with President Henderson on Friday, it was my final interview with him and I have some exciting news for you to tell you when I get back, it is really good news :) So it was also awesome as when we were out knocking doors we met this awesome elderly couple, she had her 89th Birthday and they were so happy together it made me smile!!! and I thought of us :) It was also sweet as we got a card given to us and a big block of chocolate :) in it the card said " To Sam (Elder King) and Elder Derhan I hope you like chocolate! Thank you so much for stopping off that day to help me with my car, from Trish'' It's funny because everyone always get my companions name wrong, Derhan instead of Derhak, in fact Australians do not even try to pronounce my companions name, they are like Hello Elder King....... and Elder how are you!!! me and my companion always joke about it, these our some of the different names he gets on a daily basis ''Derhan'' ''Derhank'' ''Durbar'' ''Burhar'' That one was not even close :P ''Dererk'' just ''Dur'' and DurHawk :P we just call him elder Burhar now as that has to be the most random one!!! So a lot of great things are happening here though and all It will be a hectic and exciting week!! 

This is is, my last Transfer!!!

So today is Transfer day!!! This is it, my last Transfer!!! It's going to the be the best one ever!!! I'm excited to let you know about it, I'm so happy I'm staying on the Sunshine Coast and all and Finishing here, the work is going actually amazing, Toni, the single mum is just loving the church and cannot wait to be baptized on the 28th of this month Ahhhh  so exciting, I Toni and her kids got to watch another baptism of a members child in the ward and all the kids over the age of 8 want to get baptized :D There is Flynn age 12, Jed age 10, Matilda age 8, Millar age 6 and Olive age 2. :D The Best family, Love them so much, They are so happy here and we went to Lions Park again on Sunday after church had a kick around with the kids, some soccer, then got to teach Toni and then got to teach her yesterday and we are going to arrange to go to Cotton Tree Park and play some sports with the kids and teach her, we are trying to see her as much as possible. We Also have started to teach another woman called Jacqueline and she is in her late 50's we got a phone call from this member saying, My friend she wants to learn about the gospel, we went taught her  the Restoration and committed her to baptism for the 14th of March and she said Yes, but we are going to move the Date forward as we feel she will be ready before then, we also had this same member bring another friend to church, got a phone call on Sunday morning saying my friend Carmen and her son Dallas have been wanting to come to church for ages, I should have invited them sooner, but they are coming today about 10mins after the phone Carmen rocks up to church in her red Hummer, she wants to be taught and we know she can be Baptized soon as well, We also had some 14 and 15 year old girls come to church who our friends with that members daughter and they want to start being taught and so do there parents and grandparents. We are also teaching a woman called Natalie and she came to church the other Sunday, she is doing really great. We Know this will be a smashing Transfer, going to go as Hard as I can here in the Sunny Coast!!! I Love it here in Paradise!!! when the members found out I was staying here, they were cheering and shouting with Joy, I know a few our going to come to the Airport and see me off!!! It was also funny as well as after the Super Bowl last week, I got back after emails and checked the mail in our box outside our apartment and I got my USB back from my friend who was borrowing it and on the Letter to me it said to 'Elder Go Hawks' the return address 'The Superbowl' Then he was also borrowing a not pad of mine in with some info and I got in back and it said 'I Love you man, from Elder E, I'm two down from the Water Tower at Rexburg, here's , my number call me hun ;) So I will definitely catch up with him after, it was funny as remember last week how I said I'm going to go call my boy and he will be so upset the Sea Hawks lost, well this was all from him :) One of my close friends Elder Ly Waut from Tahiti, right now as I email this to you, is on a plane heading back home, He is finished already, he called me last night to say goodbye and we just had a crack up time on the phone just messing around, I'm definitely going to hit up Tahiti. I also got to Interview someone this week called Joy from India, I interviewed his wife for baptism a while back, well he passed ;) and got baptized on Saturday morning and now there daughter is going to be baptized, it's so exciting, we had the best Curry after the interview, I smashed it haaha, then after we had Toblerone chocolate. It's crazy to think there is less then 2 months now!!! and that Valentine's day is coming up. I have heard back home that it is really cold and the snow has came!!! I hate the cold hahah, loving this weather for life!!! So Also I have to tell you about this awesome experience we had, we got a phone call to help with service moving people's furniture for them as we were coming back after helping out we see a woman standing on the road and that her car has just stopped, in the middle of an intersection and no one had helped her, so we pull up and get out and push her car for ages for her as there is no where we can place it, we pushed for a long time until we could get it into an appropriate place and all and we parked in the spot so well, we had no idea how we done it for her, but she was so grateful got out, and was just thanking and was so appreciative of the situation, we were in our own clothes in our sweatpants and my panda t-shirt ;) with our name badges on and she knew who we were she was like do you know this family and we were like yes we had dinner with them on Monday night, she was like I used to take the missionary lessons, my husband at the time now my ex was about to get baptized but when we got a divorce, she was close to baptism and wanted to repay us so now we are going to her house this Saturday for a Pancake Breakfast!!! And we will teach her also, I know it was not by chance that we happened to be driving down that road at the time and I know that we meant to help her and meet her and all I know the Lord's hand was in this work, I know it's unfortunate she had a falling out with that member we had dinner with because of something in the past, but we spoke to that member about how we met her and we know no matter what regardless of what has  happened in the past, everything will be ok and that is why we have forgiveness to move on together so the member said as she started to cry I have been praying for her for ages I'm so happy for this experience I will contact her and sort out everything it was a great experience. :D Know I have to give a massive shout out to CAITLYN FOR A HAPPY BIRTHDAY THIS COMING VALENTINE'S DAY!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAITLYN HAVE A GREAT DAY!! I LOVE YOU AND THE KIDS!!! It was also funny this week as I went on Trade-off and we got locked out the bathroom from the outside, no one was in the bathroom, but we were locked out, it was crack as we all needed to go, we were like what do we do haha, then got a clothes hanger and unlocked the door lock, like a sneaky secret agent or something!!! I also got to teach these incredible Chinese people on Trade-off as I was in the Nambour area, It was the best to teach them as they came straight from mainland China, have never heard of God and it was so sweet to hear them tell me, they are our age, she says 'I Never knew there was a Purpose to life, but know I do and that changes everything'' I will prayer tonight she also wants to get baptized and we will make that happen back in Hong Kong, a few calls and she will continued to be taught out there and all :D I also Loved just chilling at Coolum Beach on Saturday Arvo, just eating some good food and just soaking up the sun and loving it.  Well that was the week!!! It was Boss, just making the most of it and all, I hope you have a great week!!! 

So There I Was....

So I ended up watching some of the Superbowl because I went to the Podiatrist today, to get my Toe nail checked out hahaha, remember how I said I damaged it really bad, well it is still messed up and all :P But not looking that bad, I thought I might as well go to one and get it checked as I want to make sure it is as normal as it can be. t's ok, just ugly az haha, but it adds character right??? something like that!!! it's makes a cool story, well not really, but i will make it sound cool!!! So there I was fighting this massive Crocodile............. and then just leave it at that, adds for suspense.  But in the waiting room, the SUPERBOWL was playing it was sweet!!! The Superbowl adds are always the best!!! So this week was great as well, I actually ended up getting my eyebrows shaped by getting them threaded for free, as I was walking through the shopping mall and I got stopped by a woman who was a member and was actually in Burleigh Heads ward on the Gold Coast and I explained to her, how i served there :) She was like me and my husband have just moved in and all, he is the new bishop there!!! And then she was like, I have just opened up this business and would you like your eyebrows done for free, I was like for sure!! She asked me if I have ever had it done before!! I used to at home every 6 weeks get my eyebrows either waxed or shaped, gotta love them eyebrows.  Also I went on Trade-off this week, with a really close friend of mine, he is going to come visit me up in the Burg :) So teaching this week, has been incredible, I can't even begin, to tell you how amazing Toni is, she is so excited about getting baptized, her and her kids love church. So is so grateful for the church and we brought Anthony, to a lesson with her and he is the just the man, teaches like a boss and he is just an amazing person, I Love him so much, you would think he has been in the church all his life, but only 2 months, he has progressed heaps, it is so nice to see him just loving it!!! it makes me so happy as Anthony is one of my best friends, because it is P-day, we are going to meet up with Anthony again and we are going to all make smoothies together have heaps of ice cream. Then after we are going out for burgers, then we are going to the lighthouse down in Mooloolaba and all!!! and last nice we went to Lions Park in Buderim, you should check it out it has such a great view of the ocean, lovely little park on a summer day, we did not go with Anthony, but we went with the King family and they had some friends who I have taught once before come along, it was super great!!! had a bbq, then after I played some soccer with the kids, well with my brother Benny ;) He always knows me as his big brother :) The work is going so well though!!! It's actually the last week of the Transfer!!!

CROC! CRICKEY!

So It was super awesome as here in the mission for like only like the 2nd time or so here in the ABM mission, we got over 700 convert baptisms in a year, and the only other time we have done that or achieved that here is when Papua New Guinea was part of the mission, we ended on 702, which was incredible and a lot of miracles are being wrought here, Toni and her children and loving church, we even got to meet Toni's mum yesterday and she said she is so happy that Toni found the church and it's the best for her, I played some sports with her kids, Soccer and Cricket, I will have to teach you how to Play Cricket, just for fun :) It was so sweet at church as Matilda Toni's 8 year old, knew we were coming on Thursday as she was like this sucks I have to wait until Thursday to see them, so we dropped in a surprise visit yesterday and wished them a happy Australia day!!! It was a sweet day,It's cool here as people just shout out AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE OI OI OI. I'm helping my companion with the Lingo teaching him some 'Stralian'. They cut off the end of like every word here to pronounce it hahah, It know heaps of the terms and look forward to you hearing me give them a crack. Elder Derhak is the man and he is settling in really well, day by day, getting accustomed to the Aussie Traditions and what not, I Love him to death. It's really great training a missionary as you just Love them. and then you realize in yourself how far you have come, then I realize how far I still have to go :) I Love flying the Aussie Flag and Yesterday was a Rippa of a day!!! Nothing but chucking a few shrimps on the barbie ;) Always I'm super close with my Bishop and he is actually coming on holiday to England the week after I get home, so we are going to hopefully meet up, all though he is in town for only a few days, super excited though as i think it would be sweet if he can meet my family :)  maybe we will all go out for picnic!! So also American food here is super expensive I look forward to trying a Twinkie when I'm with you, as I can't afford them here as they are $27 for a little box!!! Also my companion's Birthday is coming up next month and I'm going to take him to the Australia Zoo for it, I asked straight away, when he Bday was he said in February, I was like RightO I'm taking you to the Zoo!! So that will be sweet az hahah ;) Also something I want to do, is if you buy an annual pass for the Zoo, you can go unlimited times, And it only costs as much as if you were to go twice, I would have got it the first time, but I never thought I would be able to go again, so next time I'm going to Buy an Annual pass, although it will be like the last time I go to the Zoo before I go back, but I'm just going to live the Annual pass in the Flat with a note attached to it, saying ''you might not know me, but here is a gift to you an Annual Pass to the Australia Zoo, also take care of my companion, work hard, play hard and have fun'' I think that would be a cool little gift for the new person. :) So I have to tell you something super awesome which happened, it was crack up and funny and random az at the time, So we were out knocking doors, on this street and over in the Distance I was like I think that looks like Sister Larkin, and then I noticed a Turtle following her and it was in the middle of the road, and I was super confused I was wondering and thinking wait why is sister Larkin walking her pet turtle and why is she walking him in the middle of the road ???? why not just the side path??? wait??? does sister Larkin even have a pet turtle hahaha??? It must be a wild one I thought, she we rush over to her and she was like I'm trying to rescue this turtle, I don't know what to do, I'm like I'll just go pick it up, she like are you good with animals, to reassure her I was like well I used to work on a farm, and I was thinking as a joke they don't call me the dog catcher for nothing ;) haha, well I ran and picked up before he got smashed by a car and we then put him in a bucket of water and then later released him back in to the wild and all!!! I was hoping they would actually keep him as a pet though!!! I have got a few pictures of me holding the turtle it's a long neck one and I will send them to you my love :) I mean I know I Love catching dogs and all, But i never thought I would catch a wild turtle. Well I now I'm just on the hunt for all different animals, next time I catch a wild CROC!!! CRICKEY!!! ;) 

Aussie Ways

So i have just got back from the temple, and it was really great. So Everything is going really great here with the work, my companion is called Elder Derhak and he is from Rochester New York about 40mins from Palmyra. He is really great and just trying to get used to the aussie ways!!! we get on great and are having a great time, he spent the last 2 days in Brisbane at training!! It was awesome as I met some people who were at BYUI :) The work is going soooo well, We set 2 Baptismal Dates both for the 28th of February, one with Gary and one with Toni, the single mum with 5 kids!!! It was super amazing :) All is going really great!!! Also how are the Sea Hawks doing in the Football, i know it's random az that i mentioned it haah??? So It was really awesome as at the Golden Orientation, one of the sisters came up to me, she was from Idaho, she said there is someone on the phone for you....I was like what the??? and it was Caitlyn :D Ahhhhhh It was so good to speak to her again and to hear her and to know that all is going well and that one of her kids just had her 7th Birthday!!! So a massive shout out to Caitlyn, It made my day being able to speak to her!!! Samuel, he is the man, he is one of my closest friends, he was the one who had met me when I had only been on my mission for 4 days!!! and now he is leaving next week!, It is so crazy, but he will be the best missionary,he will be incredible!! me and Sam we actually go to go to dinner at Mooloolaba together on Saturday evening it was super awesome it's funny as Sam hates the hot weather and loves the cold, but I'm trying to bring him over to the ways of Summer ;)  the hat and the creepy Stalking Glasses, So there is no crazy story really behind the hat, but in My District we each have are own hat on it saying 'Deep Doctrine'  and have some weird glasses to go with it, and anytime any one speaks about something like  or starts going into to ''deep doctrine'' or just something completely irrelevant, we make them put on the hat hahah, we got the hat of some member and it has like beach shells attached to it, and with the glasses they are more sketchy az then the hat haha, with the glasses I was about Brother King's house and he puts his head in the cupboard and when he pulls it out he is wearing these really creepy glasses which he found them on the side of the road, who knows the story behind the glasses, where they came from, who they belonged to ;) and My address is the same as always, it won't change :) So It was also awesome As i got to go back through EMP area another one of my old area's and then today i met someone from EMP and they were so grateful for the work I done there, they said it's not the same, it meant a lot to me, to know that. And I also got to go to Cleveland Point to the Lighthouse with my friend, it was really cool as for some reason even before I came to Australia I thought I'm going to end up at that Lighthouse some how and I finally got there, It's not even that of a light house, but I think what was cool was finally ending up there :) So it was also awesome today as we were coming out the temple we were crossing the road and the tourist bus of Brisbane had stopped right outside the temple and we started posing and everyone was taken pictures it was crack up and just so random :) Also Australia Day here is coming up on monday the 26th,

IM GOING TO BE A DADDY!

 So as I email this to you, It is Transfer day. I'm actually emailing you from my old area Camp Hill, crazy huh??? I'm only here for the day though. I'm still District Leader In Buderim in the Sunshine Coast, But I'm now TRAINING, I'M GOING TO BE A DADDY!!! :D I Look forward to getting a Golden Missionary. I'm also really excited as now I should be finishing here in Buderim, so I really did go from Coast to Coast. :) 
I'm super pumped and excited the reason why I'm back here for the day in Camp Hill is because I'm staying over night. Then going to the Airport and Mission Home tomorrow to get the New Guy. It's going to be great a great experience for me :) There is a lot of great work happening we just had a Baptism on the weekend with Lynn. Her Husband baptized her, it was the most beautiful baptism I have ever seen. It was such a wonderful moment, i will treasure forever. We have a lot of great things happening and Toni, the single mum, brought all 5 of her kids to church and they loved it, we hope for 4 baptisms coming up Toni and 3 of her Children who our of Baptismal age. So this Transfer is an interesting one, it's only 4 weeks. I only have 1 Transfer left and That is a Long Transfer an 8 week one. We also moved flats again and moved back to the one in Maroochydore, as we got all the problems fixed. Also Underwater world was a Blast. I'm so happy I'm staying here in Buderim ward, members had been praying for me to stay, and I got a few people come up to me and be like I just want to lock you in my cupboard and keep you here forever, I'm just glad to have this relationship with the ward and will keep on trying to build it up. It's a great ward and we will do our best I look forward to letting you know how it all goes, I have to go back up to the Sunshine Coast, in a few days, then like in just over a week I will be coming back down to Brisbane, for a Golden Orientation, which is for the new missionaries. Everything is going super great I'm super Happy.  I got a phone call, this week and it was about booking my flight ticket home, such a hectic time, but I'm working harder then ever and have been the most successful missionaries ever in this ward, which is super nice to know,  I Unfortunately have to go now :( But I'm super excited for everything that is happening here!! - Elder King

#Number11

 I hope all is going well, we had a great last week, all went really well, I played Baseball for like the first time, and on my first hit, I hit a home run ;) It was awesome hahah, and this week we have been living off 'Krusteaz' light and fluffy buttermilk pankcake mix :)  Also guess what???? I caught another dog #Number 11 I believe, it was just walking in the streets and it was so lost, but I caught him and we got it back to the owner, the dogs name was Sunny!!!! and I Love it because are here in the sunshine coast. So today we are going to Under Water World, In Mooloolaba, it should be a lot of fun and should be a great day out, we are going with also Brother King in our ward and he has a little son called Benny, and Benny calls me his Big Brother and he actually looks like he could be my son hahha, He is adorable, he was like after your mission can you just come and live with us and then we can just play soccer all day :) Also you should check out the Maroochy River and Chambers Island we always drive past this and they are now doing Sea Plane rides. I also went to Mount Coolum again this week on Trade-off with my Tongan friend, we had a great day and we went to Point Arkwright, we caught a crab there as well, then just put it back.) So also the work this week has been going amazing, it is going so great here, we are loving it, we knocked on this woman's door the other day and got a return appointment, she is 35 single and has 5 kids ages from 2-12, we went back taught her, then the next day went around and done service for her and mowed her lawn, then she came to church on Sunday, walked her in Sat her down and went and got Bishop straight away to meet her and it turns out they actually know each other and then she sat with Bishop's wife and all there kids are the same age, and it's funny as we were thinking of fellowship and we had come up with some names of families we thought would be great for her and it turned she knows them, so when she came to church she already knew quite a few family because all there kids go to the same school and all, it was so awesome everyone was so happy she seems to be Golden, and also Lynn is being baptized this Saturday at 10.00am so we are super excited, The work here is going really well, we have found a lot of new people to teach this last week, and we are so happy because of that we have been doing heaps of door knocking as well, like the day we found Toni we done like 7 hours that day. But we have also been able to teach a lot as well and are seeing great things happen here.