July 25th 2011

Hey what's up everybody?! :) How's everyone doin?! It sounds great as always! I miss ya'll very much and in about a month I'll be out of the teens!! Can't beleive it! I'm an old guy.. Ha not really but freak that's crazy! Not droppin any hints or anything but it's my birthday soon! haha :) Next year I'll be almost coming home! Not getting trunky or anything of course just sayin.. Sounds like everything's going great back home and that's what I love to hear!!

 

This week was good! It's all kinda the same everyday now! haha but I feel I'm gettin a better hold on this DL stuff.  Finally gettin a little comfortable and used to it.  A whole lot more organized now! It's been fun I've been workin with the missionaries a lot doing tradeoffs and comp studies and such.  We're very close this transfer I feel it's been a lot of fun so I'm loving it!  August my bday month should be a big month for my companionship!  We gotta a lot of promising things coming our way so we're very excited! :)  So things are going great here!  We're just doing our best to qualify!  This week we talked to I think about 240 people! The most on my mission so far we've been going nuts working very hard!  Still had lots a lessons we just talked to heaps! It's been great! I love E. Rangi! He's the man! Very humble and willing to work hard!! So it's been great with eachother! We're going hard out! So things are great here! Not much else to update! Just having fun serving!

 

We had a few miracles this week with these investigators that are a young married couple.  They're so awesome they're like way good friends of ours! Anyways lessons have been powerful and now they're both preparing for baptism!!  She had to work this sunday and we were'nt expecting them at church but bam they just showed up!! She skipped out on work so they could come!! They're awesome we're really excited for them!! :)  We've been working with a few part-member families reactivating them and teaching the non-members.  Have a kid looking for Aug 20th as well!! So things are picking up and we're loving it!!! :) Thank you for your prayers in my behalf and your support!! I love you all so much and wish you all the best this upcoming week!!!! Love you all and God Bless!!!!! :)

 

Love Elder Devey

July 17th 2011

Hey everybody!!! :) How's it going?!  

I hope things are going awesome! This week was a really good one!! Some new changes as always!  That's all the mission is i swear! haha But Fuataga got transferred and I have a new companion again.  This one's name is Elder Rangi and he is from the Cook Islands!  I've had comps from all over I swear!  He's been out about 6 months and he's awesome!  Very humble willing missionary so I'm excited to be working with him!

He's funny but he doesn't just mess around all the time like Fuataga gosh darn!! ha so it's good to have him here!  The weather has been bitterly cold so it makes it a bit hard on the bikes!  But we manage and that's all that matters!  So enjoy your wonderful weather over there I"m green with jealous rage over here! just kiddin but things are great!

  I love this area it just has heaps of chinese and indian people so it's hard to find but we're doing our best to qualify!  The district's doing good, but not as good as they should be doing!  So everything's a work in progress right now!  But we're doing the best we can.  I love being here and having this calling.  I have been learning so much and can see the changes within myself already and I love it!  I'm very grateful to be here and I'm excited for what's to come!  There's been a lot of changes in the mission which is normal with a new mission president coming in! I've loved it and there's a lot of new leaders like myself who are strugglin so I'm not alone! haha It was sad to see Fu go he was way funny!!  He became a very close friend, but I gotta admit it was hard to work with him because he mostly just wants to have fun so I had to slap him around a bit.

Things are good with missionary work.  We got a couple of sets for August so that should be a great month!  Well of course it should it's my birthday!!! :) Not that I want anything from anyone... ;) hehe.  It's funny having a phone I'm texting investigators and members all the time to arrange stuff it feels like back home with a cell phone! haha texting a lot it's weird!  Anyways I don't know what else to update!  Just working hard and having fun doing it!  I love this work.. It means the world to me..  But I love you all and hope you all have a wonderful week!! 

With my prayers and love

Elder DEvey

Days are flyin by

Hey everybody!!! :) How's everyone doing?!  I bet you're all doing awesome and I hope you are! You better be or else!! This week was good not much to report!  We got to meet our new president and have a little conference.  He's awesome! Great little family!  Sister Lekias acts just like Sister Porter it's funny!  He's good just seems very very strict I was like oh no!! Na it's good!  It was them and his three daughters.  Good little family we're definantely excited to have them here!  Looking forward to the changes that will be coming and the new leadership.  It's gonna be awesome! 

I hear that the Porter family got back to Utah:)  I'm gonna miss them so much.. They were so incredible, just wonderful consecrated servants of the Lord.  But it's good to hear that they've already met you guys way cool!! Besides that.. Man!! Just a normal week don't know what else to update you guys on wow I'm sorry!!  We're working hard! Still strugglin a bit to get solid sets.  We got two more for this month but they're pretty shaky.  We've gotten lots of new investigators but none really progressing.  But we continue to do what we can! Our area has the most Indians out of any area so it's way hard!!! They're all muslim or sikh!  Good people but they don't want anything with the gospel! So it's hard there's turbans everywhere here! haha but the islander people of course are so awesome and beleiving!  So ya things are good the district is picking it up so that's good!! 

This district usually pumps baptisms! We got 8 for june so far looking the same for july.  Not as good as it has been so we're trying to pick it up!  Trying to get them all workin harder because 4 of my missionaries are going home next transfer so I think they're getting trunky so they're not working as hard so it's rough!  But I love this district it's a lot of fun!  All the missionaries are studs so it's great:)  Well things are good here.  Just loving living like this! Just wish I had your weather!  But I miss you all and love you so so much!!!! :) Sorry not many more crazy stories like in Niue, now it's back to the grind of missionary work! We pushed a few cars this week that broke down.  We just happened to be in the right place at the right time of course as always!  Got some good potentials from that.  But ya things are going good here I'm always praying for you all and I love and miss you all so so much!!!! :)

 

Love Elder Devey

July 4th, 2011

Hey everybody!! :)

 I hope and pray that you are all doing wonderful as always! This week was a good one! Not too much happened.  Not too much to update just serving and having fun in doing so!  Pday was good we basically just play basketball all pday so I love it!  Our district meeting was a fun one.  It was on "Locking Your Hearts!"  So it was pretty funny it went really good.  My district has been doing awesome lately!  They're saving soul machines!  It's a pleasure and an honor to be working with these valiant servants of God:)  Something very sad this week.. The Porter's are now officially gone.. Lekias has taken over as of this week!  So now the Porter's are in Draper! Back to our town yo! Excited for the new changes that will come and the fresh ideas that will come with the new president.  It's going to be really good!  He's gonna be coming to our district this wednesday to have interviews with us all individually so it should be wonderful! I'm really excited! :) 

Well Happy 4th of July!! I can't beleive I'm not there for that!  That was always one of my favorite holidays and now I'm in the cold.. But of course it's the best being here in the service of the Lord but still I'm bummed out I'm not there for that!! :( Also missing Lake Powell last week and Transformers!! Gosh darn!! haha Gotta remind myself that this is temporary! haha I'm not missing out you're all missing out ya know what I'm saying?! :)  But ya this week was good still trying to pick things up like I said.  We found lots of new investigators this last week so that was really good!  We still got that faith and hope that we'll baptize weekly this month like last month.  So we gotta get to work!! I've been kinda sick lately so that was a little bump but we aight!  We keep pressing on as we always do:)

 So I love ya all more than you can understand but I love being here more than anything!  Just wish it was a little warmer I'm jealous of the weather back home! But you all keep having fun in accordance with God's commandments of course you crazy partiers! Because this is true happiness and I testify of that with all my heart... I love you all and have a wonderful week!!!! :)  Peace out!! Or in other words Peace be unto you:) LOVE YA!!!!!

Love Elder Devey