Happy Days

Dear Friends and Family,

I am so glad for Elder Christopher Han to be on a mission now.  It is pretty insane that we are both serving the Lord at the same time.

I am grateful for the wonderful opportunity I have every week to email. 

This week has been quite eventful, we are really trying hard to accomplish our goals for this month, and in doing so, our efforts has been showing.  We have this one investigator who came to church, and she is amazing.  Her testimony is amazing!

On a funny note, we now have a SPANISH investigator from MEXICO.  It reminded me of E. Han and how he is in mexico right now studying spanish.

We were able to go to a lot of places this week, and accomplish so much ground work.  On the mission it is a blessing to not have time to go finding.  (contacting on the streets and tracting)  We have had a lot of appointments now, that we have little time to actually find new people to teach.  

Here are some pictures of our life in Australia.

I am grateful for everyone and I am so happy!!!!  :)

Islander Feeds

Hello Family and Friends,

This week has been hectic! :) In a good way.  

I am super happy to tell you a wonderful story that happened to us!

We had a lot of meetings, and our whole zone: 20 missionaries+ were invited to lunch at a member's house.  These members were tongan, and the culture is to have a massive feed.  For islanders, it is customary to feed the missionaries until they explode, because they feel (I agree as well) that they receive more blessings the more missionaries eat.  ( I totally agree with that ) So we went up there, and the first thing you smell is pork.  Heaps of it.  I mean 3 whole pigs!  This type of food is called hungi.  Not the 3 pigs, but they have like an oven in their backyard where they cook food under the ground.  It is sooooo good!  Anyways, one saying that tongans say to us missionaries is this:  Kai Ke Mate (Eat 'til you die).  Because it is essential that we feel fat afterwards.  I love the islander culture, and it might explain the growth of my belly over the past year.  :)  

I am so excited to be on a mission.  A lot of things are happening!  Our mission has really exemplified themselves, and we are really climbing.  We are showing that a lot of things can happen if you have the faith and desire to accomplish it.

I love you so much

Elder Han

P.S. Here are the pigs that we ate.  I had maybe about 1/5 of the pig and more food.

Shout out to James on his 16th Birthday, as well as Chris leaving for his mission on wednesday!  :)

Transfers!

Bonjour!

Dear family and friends,

My companion Elder Honema'u who is tongan was transferred!!!!  Elder Honema'u WENT TO THE CITY!!!  He is my favourite companion and it is very special that he went to the city, because he is the FIRST tongan to go! 

My next companion is.... ELDER PUNU FROM TAHITI

Tahiti is a very amazing, and they speak Tahitian and French.  So this transfer, I will be learning French.  Attached is his picture.  He is funny.

I am so excited for this transfer.  It is a time for me to work my hardest and continue to do the things that we need to do.  I am so excited and I know that it will be hard, but we need to keep enduring.

Something I've learned this week is this.  Success comes from effort, and effort comes from desire.  We need desire so we can do the things that we need to do.

LOVE YOU HEAPS

ELDER HAN

Christmas in July

Dear family and friends,

Something that some Australian's do is Christmas in July.  Because it is so cold, they celebrate it in a very small way.  However, our ward had a wonderful gathering.  We had a wonderful celebration of the usual snowflakes, Milo (Australian's hot chocolate), and food.  It was such an amazing sight to see, and there were so many people there!  

I love it, and it really reminded me of Christmas and the things we did in America.  

I hope everyone's week has been well.  It is very interesting how everything is happening too fast!  We are coming around the end of the month soon, Boy time flies!  

Please be safe this week,and continue to do the things that you need to do.

I want you all to know that I love you.  You are all examples toward me, and have helped me be who I am today.  

Here is a picture of my zone.  We have many powerful missionaries here, and I am so grateful that I could serve with all of them.

LOVE YOU HEAPS,

ELDER HAN

Consecration

Dear Friends and Families,

I went back to square one.  I realized that one thing that we need to constantly remember is to progress and not be complacent.  That is something I've learned this week. Especially considering about all the rules we have as missionaries.  However, I don't see them as limiting, but rather beneficial.  The mission is only ever the time that we will be blessed for waking up at 6:30.  That amazes me, and I have witnessed it especially this week.

As a District, we started having conference calls every morning at 6:10, and really committed ourselves to do everything in our power to accomplish what we need to do.  From that, we saw so many miracles!  Our district last week had 0 investigators with baptismal dates, but this week we were able to have 5 investigators who accepted baptismal dates.  I know that Heavenly Father will bless each and everyone of us if we do the small and simple things that may seem like it isn't corresponding with our lives.

I have a firm testimony that Jesus Christ is our Saviour, Redeemer of this world.  That Heavenly Father loves each and everyone of us and knows and cares for us.  I also know that as we follow Jesus Christ and learn more about what we can do, that we will be blessed.  Our relationships with our families, friends, and especially our Heavenly Father will increase and we will be able to have that peace and comfort that will help us with our every day life.

For those that are reading this that are not members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, I invite you to learn more about what we teach.  I promise that you will feel the need of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in your lives, and that you will see the improvement of your lives as well.  Please accept my invitation, because I know how much it can help you.  

I love you all so much, and I love being a Representative of Jesus Christ.  

Elder Han

AIM High

Hello Friends and family,

There is something that I've learned especially this week is to Aim High and be committed to do whatever you want to do. 

It is amazing to see the miracles that happen when you actually believe that you can go higher than what you do.  It is so beneficial for this saying, only because we can improve so much more than if we aim to our abilities to our current time.

I just want to share with you that being on a mission is such a blessing, and that when we try our best no matter where we are (even not on a mission) we can achieve the miraculous.  

I know this is a short email, but I hope all of you are doing well.

I love you so much!

Elder Han

And remember  AIM HIGH!

Charity

Dear family and friends,

How amazing it is to be able to email you weekly about the life of a missionary in Australia!  I am extremely blessed to be on this mission and to share my thoughts to you today about this week.

Let me first say that this week was extremely interesting and rewarding.  It may have been the most physically demanding week on my mission.  We biked and hiked and helped many people with their lawns and what not.  

We saw many miracles this week, especially I saw this week a desire in a person to be better than who he was before.  It is always amazing to see that change, and that knowledge has helped me recognize that I need to continue to be better myself.

I love this Church and the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  It is something that I hold dear to my heart and the knowledge of it, helps me overcome anything that I might have. 

I wanted to talk about Charity this week, because it is something that I have been studying the past year.  What it means to be charitable and why it is so important in our lives.  For me, it is something that I strive for.  When we look at Jesus's life when he was on this earth, he did everything for others.  He had pure love for them.  

We can't judge others, but we need to love everyone and serve them.  It is so very important to know that we are all children of God and He loves us so very much.  

We are all brothers and sisters.  

I love you all and I hope you have another fantastic week!!!

LOVE YOU HEAPS

ELDER HAN