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Reed Salakielu
Well not much happened this week...kinda. It was zone conference and we had a visit from the area presidency, Elder Hamula. It was pretty good. He was really smart and in tune with the spirit and knew what he was talking about. He was kind of introducing a new program and approach to missionary teaching that the church wants to implement, i guess the Brethren have been working really hard on this for a while now and they are going to start it in the mtc sometime next year so they have to get everyone that is already out up to date...i dunno....we're assured it is 100% in line with preach my gospel...which i guess was a real fear for some missionaries. But i guess fair enough cause they say to be preach my gospel...I dunno i'm looking forward to it. Elder Hamula also came to lay down some rebukes for disobedience. No worries there cause our zone is the most obedient. We didn't even know that that was a reason he was here until the end and he interviewed a few of us (me included) and told us that. Well that was the highlight of the week i guess. DC looked cool i guess. Well take care love you all. and thanks for writing, jenn.

Elder Salakielu

thank you

Sun, August 22, 2010 5:15:29 PM
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Ok, well thank you for all the birthday wishes and the cards. The pirate card was broken and didn't play whatever it was supposed to play...but thank you anyways. i got most of that stuff on friday and the package got to the office today. which we already picked up. The senior sister in the office called us right when it got in. Sister Matuauto, she is samoan but has lived in salt lake for like the last 20 years. anyways it was a good week last week. Elder beck set up a dinner appointment with a surprise birthday cake at the end. that was on thursday. and then on friday we had district meeting with another party and cake at the end of the meeting. Got a card and a tie and a journal from the elders in the district. it was nice...but too much. Still haven't opened the package yet. we came straight from the office to the library but thank you again. We have zone conference tomorrow. Those have actually changed from instead of being once every six weeks to once every 3 months. so this is the first one in a while. well i could probably write some more but small steps....

also you can tell mele and jenn woopdeedoo. big deal. i don't want to talk to them either, like they answer my questions anyways....and looks like i'll be missing out on a wopping 2 emails/letters (maybe 3) for the rest of my mission...MELE!

Well i'm fine really, take care and love you all.

Elder Salakielu

AHHH NOT MY XBOX!!!

Mon, June 14, 2010 1:01:03 AM
AHHH NOT MY XBOX!!!
Well that all sounds like some craziness. Not near as much happened here. Tuesday we drove up to perth for zone conference. We got a flat tire on the way up. We had a spare tire but the jack that was in the car didn't really work so we had to flag down some guy and ask if he had one and he did and we got that all settled. Then we got to perth, had zone conference, it really wasn't that great...that may have been my least good zone conference yet. Our zone did sing sweet hour of prayer for Pres. and Sis. Maurer. This is there last transfer so that was there last zone conference. I think Pres maurer leaves Wed. June 23 in the afternoon and then Pres. Cahoon gets in that night. Pres. Maurer is also coming down to Albany this friday for a fireside and to say goodbye to the branch.

Today we went on an 8 hour hike.It was part of this track called the bibbulmun track that runs along the west coast for like 1000+ kilometers. It starts somewhere north of perth and ends in albany and some people just walk the whole thing and it takes like 60ish days..of course we don't have that kind of time so we just did some of it.

So those boys were getting up to no good. Well i hope everythings all good. Did i ever mention those fireworks in my drawer like a few months back...i thought i did. and if i didn't then ya....the bottom right drawer is like stuffed to the brim with fireworks, ok maybe not to the brim but ya there is definitely some ish in there. Dad can use them...or anyone really and if not, then sweet. Also i forgot to check up on if the girls (Mele and Meliss) ever used those Best Buy gift cards which were worth a pretty penny...at least one of them. So did you guys use them? It might be past the date where if there is still money on there than it takes like $2 away every month...i dunno something like that.

haha Sis. Olman...she is funny. well it was only one picture i think so oh well.

Well i guess thats it for now. Mele thanks for writing. I'm sure you're going to do fine in school. Meliss congrats again. Jenn stop being a lazy bum and write me and take care everyone. Love you all.

Elder Salakielu

P.S. I heard that you can buy tim tams at walmart. Is that true? thats pretty gay if thats true.

Wow

Sun, June 6, 2010 4:18:23 PM
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You guys sound super uber busy. What a crazy sunday it sounded like. I wish our sundays were that busy. There was a classic car race here in albany yesterday and it seems like 90% of the town was there. It wasn't really so much a race as it was classic and old fashioned fast cars just driving around a track in a straight line. The track actually was the main street of the city that they closed off and so we had to drive some crazy way around it just to get to church and all throughout the day we could here engines revving and what not.

Well meliss, this will be the last time i ever talk to you as my sister...from here on out you're dead to me! haha (nelson style) lol, tricked ya. I guess as mom said this is the last time i'll talk to you as a salakielu. I guess technically mothers day was the last time i talked to you as a salakielu but never you mind. anywho i'd give you some wise words of wisdom but i don't really have any but i'm sure you've been counseled to the max by the grand master counselor (dad) and i'll just second anything and everything he has said...amen. well congratulations and know that i love you and am happy for you and wish the best to you and teki and take care.

About my camera cable dealy i want to say i misplaced it but i think its lost now, so i guess both. it wouldn't be a big deal if these computers had sd slots but they don't so i just went and got a sd reader. Also we haven't gone to zone conference yet. We are going up to perth tomorrow (tues) and coming back friday, it should be good.

Still very slim pickins for baptismal candidates. there are a few people to visit and teach but not very many baptizable. we still maybe only have one potential baptism and he is pretty much a 50/50 right now. His name is adam plugg and he is a pretty cool guy and says he wants to get baptized but he is smoking at the moment and yeah....i guess its not very good to be pessimistic though so i'll just say he will get baptized.

Anywho you guys shouldn't be reading this you should be cleaning the bathroom, or vacuuming the family and living rooms, and mopping the floor, or cleaning something...since there is going to be like 50 bazillion people at the house. ok so maybe its only like 10 but oh well. Well send my love and greetings to all the family, and tell jessica congratulations for me and keep the bunnys under control and alive. I hope you all can survive this week and take care, love you all.

Elder Salakielu

Slowness

Well sorry this email is late. We are emailing in the evening because we went hiking earlier today. We went out to a place called Bald Head its this peninsula that sticks out of the south and at the end there is nothing there between you and antarctica. Also at the end of it there is a pile of rocks and in the pile of rocks there is this plastic box and in that there is a little notebook that you write your name in and stuff and so we wrote our names in it. We went with a member of the branch and altogether it took about 5-5.5 hours. So thats why we didn't email earlier and then we had an appointment with this guy whose wife is inactive but that fell through and so we are going back next monday. Then we went shopping and now emailing. I would upload the pictures but i don't have a way of connecting my camera to the computer. I can't find the usb cord for it and the computer doesn't have an sd card slot...so another time.

Also the branch had a branch activity on saturday that was put on by the primary, even though there are only like 5 primary kids in the branch. But it was a western night hoe down. There was singing, dancing, and bbq and fried chicken and fries and it was pretty fun. There was actually a really good turnout of people. There were a lot of inactive families and even quite a few nonmembers there. It was really good, the hard part is now to get them to church, which none of them really came yesterday. We also went to a funeral yesterday. The funeral was of a member who lived out in Denmark which is like half an hour away and she was like 80 and she couldn't really get to church so i've never seen her before but Elder Orth (the Senior Couple) was her hometeacher so we went with them.

well only 11 more days meliss....crazy sauce eh? Jenn thanks for writing me a completely and utterly useless email...no jk it was quite nice, thank you. Mele still lame as usual i see...not jk...

Well not much else to write about. hopefully some things will be happening this week. There is zone conference next week, and our area actually switched zones so now we are in a city zone so we actually will be going to perth and city zone conferences are with two zones combined at a time and i'm pretty sure Elder Rockwood is in the other zone so i'll probably see him there. You probably didn't understand any of that zone business but if you really care just ask and i'll explain it better next time. well thats all for now i guess. Take care everyone, and i love yous all.

Elder Salakielu

Hello everybody (Dr. Nick style...from the simpsons if you're too lame to know what that's from). Well i thought i mentioned what happened with transfers last week but i guess i didn't but i'm a thousand percent positive, in fact we can all go back and look at the email...but i guess you just don't read my emails, so thanks a lot...jk last weeks wasn't even worth reading it was like 3 lines long. but it did mention that me and Elder Wilkey are still in Albany, and pretty much nothing else.

So you cleaned randy's room that is craziness, i never thought i'd see the day. That is quite the feat. So...I see my ipod isn't in the ihome...nah jk. the real challenge is the other room which is all kinds of crazy. That is awesome to hear nia passed her exam and is making her way on up. and oh well about the cardboard cut out...but you guys still have to take a lot of pictures and maybe some videoness. Well good luck with cleaning and continual wedding preparations.

Things here are alright, but i think i jinxed myself when i said that things were picking up. or they really were and so satan was all like i can't have any of this so he just did what he does best and made things harder. Appointments dropped left and right along with investigators. We invited this woman, Alina, to be baptized and she got pretty offended and is all anti for the time being, so we won't go visit her for a while. then there was roy who is like 80 yrs old and we taught him 2 lessons and he was falling asleep during them and then he told us we were wasting out time. Then there was a young couple who decided to go on vacation for a few months...and then we're having trouble with someone quitting smoking and paying tithing. For the time being we only have 1-2 possible real teachable people. One of them is like late 20's and he is filipino but we just can't ever catch him home...or awake. So maybe he isn't actually all that teachable. But we do have some referrals to go and see so hopefully we'll have luck with that. But that just means we have to work and try harder and pray and fast. but there is a branch activity this saturday which actually is supposed to be having a lot of non members come. So we'll see how that goes.

Well thanks for the emails, good luck once again, and take care. Love you guys.

Elder Salakielu

P.S. added some pictures of a few things. One of them is in front of some church back in merriwa with a pretty hypocritical sign...at least hypocritical for them. and then the rest of the pics are here in albany....a frog we caught and then got loose in the apartment, the windmill farm (produces up to like 75% of albany's power) and then pics of the Brig Amity, a replica of the first ship to land in WA in Albany in like 1826...sweet...well see ya later, love ya.

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well hello familia. it is the start of another transfer and i'm still in albany with elder wilkey. Our zone though is having 6 transfers so thats like half of our zone being transferred. we'll find that out later today, but won't even see them until zone conference in like a month.

well thanks meliss and jenn and mom and dad for writing. and thanks for the pics. even though the one you didn't include was the only one i asked for lol. they were still nice thank you. lol about the high voltage pic...LAME...jk. and i have not been late with checking emails. We just don't have day light savings here so it just seems like i've been late but really its just normal.

This past week was not so good. we had like 50 million appointments fall through..ok maybe not that many, but quite a few. Well things sound all crazy and busy back home so i won't bother you with anymore emailness. Love you guys, take care.

Elder Salakielu