Week 55 More Driving & The Man From Snowy River

November 27, 2018

This week was a good one, with lots of driving. Let's see if I can remember it all. 

Thursday and Friday we did a lot of finding and following up. Somewhat successful in each: our person we are teaching, Rita said she would be baptized if she got an answer that the BOM  is true, so excited for that! It also rained some more so we got some raindrops on the name tags  we had a other lesson with the JW's it went ok Haha. We had s pretty good discussion elder middis just didn't exactly keep his cool  oh well haha. 

Saturday we drove to some members clear out in the boons to do some service, it was great I love service.

Sunday i gave a talk in Echuca! It was on Love as the savior did. I especially learned a lot on this topic. When we love as the savior does, we love EVERYONE. Even that person that cut you off in traffic. Loving the unlovable is difficult and un natural. However it strengthens us all.

 

Monday we drove early to Melbourne, Middis had a departing missionary seminar all day. So I went with my old comp Elder Gray! It was fun we also saw Elder Midgely. We stayed thr night in Melbourne as well. Tuesday Middis had the seminar all day as well, this day I went with Midgley and his comp! We did service it was a lot of fun. Then that night we drove to Shep! Man I was tired driving but it was raining so I was more on my senses. I say it everytime I go down there.... I hate the city lol.

Today for pday we went to Mt. Sterling. Really pretty place, where alot of 'The man from snowy river' was filmed. Now we are driving back, I'm very hungry but I love you all, see yaaaaaaaa.

Elder Satterthwaite 

Pics: The house from the movie The Man From Snowy River and delicious SUSHI!

Week 54 Yeah Nah Mate

November 20, 2018

Hello everyone! We had a great busy week here! Let's see if I can remember it all! 

So this week we knocked about a million doors! We found a few people tho! We were able to teach them a few things and set a return appointment! So we are excited for that. It has been cooking here walking around all day but we still seem to enjoy it.

Saturday was interesting... so the night before I texted all the former investigator contacts to see how they were going. One lady asked if we could next day. I was pretty excited. We get to the address... and it's the JW meetinghouse.  Haha I knew we were in for it. So it was these two pretty nice ladies. They were nice but tried to subtlety bash but we didn't fall for it. We had a longgggggg (3.5 hours) conversation with them that really didn't get anywhere. But we are meeting this Friday with some good stuff for em. 

 

That night we drove up to Swan Hill branch to stay over for church the next day, visiting members all the way up. 

Church at swan hill was good! Again, I said the opening prayer, sacrament, and a impromptu talk  all was well tho. We visited a heap of less actives way up at the mission border and then went home. 

Monday and Tuesday we did a lot of finding again and found a few to accept a BOM. Also it finally rained on us.

THANKS everyone for the support! Love yaaaaaaaaa

Elder Satterthwaite 

Week 53 ONE Down ONE to GO

November 13, 2018

Alrighty you Northern blokes this was a good week, but I will get through it quick.

So yes it is almost fully summer down under, so i'm not too excited bout that, pretty cut. 

Thursday: We had interviews with President, always enjoyable. After we had a zone meeting... which started at lunch and went 3 hours :/ It was a GREAT meeeting but i think it was poorly timed and dragged on.  After that and alll Friday i was on exchanges with Elder Chwalik from Wang. We did some great work and had fun! Taught a lesson with Rita and she loved it! She is awesome!

Saturday we also were able to get some great work and attend the Echuca show! It is basically a mini county fair, we met some cool people! 

Monday we found 2 new people to teach in this tiny town!! Im excited to see them be taught! Then we drove to District council, an awesome meeting! Then we drove to Melbourne to stay for Zone Conference in the Morning. Zone Conference was amazing! Our president emphasised being more goal focussed and determined. I think the mission will grow from it heaps.

Thanks for everything, can't believe i hit one year, love yall. 

Elder Satterthwaite

Week 52 Quick Week--ONE YEAR!

November 6, 2018

Well this might be a shorter email cause my comp is still recovering and can't do much. PS I HIT ONE YEAR TOMORROW SO BOO YAH.

     However Friday I set a appointment to do service at a less active members home. He has a roof that had a leak and the nails were sticking up. Got it fixed and he fed us some KANGAROO salami pizza! It was pretty good! 

Then we planned to visit more people cause it was clear out by another area of members but my comp said his shoulder was hurting. 

Sunday was a awesome turnout for our branch!! We had about 23 people come! That was awesome.

Monday and Tuesday were a public holiday for Victoria. The Melbourne cup! A horse race. So those days were slow as well... however I was able to contact our friends we are teaching through calling and set appointments and have a good talk to them. 

We are headed to Wangaratta tonight for interviews in the morning! Good times await. Love ya all and remember, FAITH takes action, take a step and trust in God and he will seriously open doors to bless you're life. It's not meant to be easy, that's never been part of the plan. It's meant to be worth it. 

Elder Satterthwaite 

T minus one year 

Week 51 Crazy Week!

October 31, 2018

Crazy Week!

Well first and foremost, I am staying in Echuca! So is elder middis. This is his last transfer so I will be killing him! Should be great!

 Elder Middis had a physio appointment Thursday, it was good. Friday we got a NEW solid person to teach! We taught her 2.5 lessons in one sitting! She loved it. She's the one we did service for on the spot. We are very excited for her.

Saturday was district conference! I was at the last Wangaratta conference so it was a cool experience. I got to catch up with a lot of people from Albury, my first area! Sunday we also had conference and I saw even more members I knew. It wad a great meeting as well.  

My birthday was also this week so thanks for the wishes everyone! 

Disclaimer: I called my mission President to get permission to do this!!! Tuesday the ludbeys wanted to take me out boating! Normally this isn't allowed but President said I could BOATING. Yep no swimming but we went boating. It was great. 

The ludbeys definitely gave me a great birthday celebration and I felt loved. Anyway sorry this is a day late I was really busy this last pday!!! Love you all!

Elder Satterthwaite 

Boating for my Birthday with the Ludbey's!

 Australian Sunset

 Fancy Pancakes

 Crazy Week!

 Bru Burger so good!

 A bow the Ludbey's gave me