August 14th, 2011

Hey everybody!!:) I love and miss you all so freaking much holy cow!!! It's closer to mybday! Outta the teens aye?I dont think I'm a kid anymore and that realization is a bit scary!! Oh well gotta do what ya have to!  Wellthis week was awesome! Another week of going nuts!! We had a zoneconference with the zones in the area here in Auckland.  I had to give a talk so that was quite intimidating! But it was fun I enjoyed it:)


 Conference was really really good! Learned a lot! I'm coming to love the Lekias family more and more.  They're initiating many wonderful changes in the mission  that I know will take us all to the next level so we're all pretty pumped about it! Things have been great here!Hopefully the next two weekends are big for us.  We're doing our best to make sure that we'll be saving souls these next weekends! so hopefully we do! This next weekend it should be Richard  and Adam.  A 10 year old and a 12 year old.  We're really excited for them they're awesome kids! :) So hopefully you hear about that next monday!  Shout out to Brooke Steve Peyton and the man Bradyn!!!! :)Welcome to the world Bman!! LOVE YOU GUYS!!! :) 


Not much else to update you guys! Junior and Allison for the next weekend are freaking awesome! They may be two of my favorite investigators my whole mission so far! They're so great! We had a lesson  and than dinner with them the other night.  They're a lot of fun!  Earlier this week we did a prank on them and their car it was funny.  So they've been trying to mess with us too. But they're not as cunning as us so they don't stand a chance! We're really really excited for them the upcoming weekend!  Nothing else is really new! Just got lucky not having a district meeting the last week! haha na just messin! WellI love you all and miss you very much!! Next time i write ya it will be the last time ya hear from me as a teen! ha Can't wait to hear again from you all!! Have a wonderfulweek and may God bless you all!!! I love you all so so sooooo much!!!!! :)

Love Elder Devey
Ps this is a pic of me my son and my first grandson! My mission posterity! haha :)

August 7th, 2011

Hey everybody!!! :)
 How's it going everyone?!  Ah just love being here writing you all again far away from home!! I cannot beleive that it is almost at a year! Halfway that's a joke! WAY too fast!!! I'm kinda scared! It's been making me serve like I have never have before that's for sure!! We've been going all out pulling out all the stops! 


 It's been so much fun lately!! Something that was super fun this week was a leadership meeting that we had.  Oh man it was so good! :) So inspiring and uplifting! I love the Lekias family they're awesome!  One part of the meeting was all about talking to everyone.  We were in the middle of the city which they never allow.  There's one chapel in the heart of Auckland hidden away and President wanted us to make a statement to the world.  So all us leaders of the mission just charged out of the chapel and for two straights hours talked to everyone!!! You should have seen it it was crazy!  One of Lekias' daughters was taking pictures of all of us missionaries flooding the streets and charging all these people everywhere!  It was pure chaos!! But it was so so so much fun!!! I loved it!! :)  


Turns out from that from what we heard of 3 people accepted the invitation to be baptized within those preach by the ways!! Crazy huh?! Miracles all over! It was way fun but for sure a lot of the people were frightened!  Felt like we were freaking everyone out seeing this army of missionaries charging random innocent people.  I'm not overexxagerating any of this by the way! It was awesome! :)  That meeting was all just really fun!! Also hearing from other missionaries about old investigators I used to teach that were baptized. Also seeing Espino my son!! He became DL when i did too.  He did at 4 and a half months that stud! And now he's training so I already have a grandson!! :) I was proud of him that's for sure! Wonderful missionary.. I also was sent more gifts from the people in Niue! haha ran into some who came here like Miriama and Magaoa.  Got some gifts in the mail.  Those blessed wonderful people in Niue.. Gosh I miss them.. Now that I'm gone I kinda wish that I would have stayed longer.. I miss it very much!! Besides that Elder Rangi and I hit a record this week in Papatoetoe!! :)  We talked to 306 people on the streets! Not bragging we just went nuts!! These last few weeks we've been literally talking to everyone! It's been way fun!! :) The baptisms coming up at the end of the month we're very excited for!  4 are very solid now.  Richard, Junior and Allison, and hopefully Adam.  Shaneen and her son Jordan are a bit shaky but we'll do everything we can for them to get them as well.  We found some other really good investigators lately that definitely have potential.  So we are very busy lately!! Just loving serving!! :) There's nothing like it! Especially here in the great NZAM!! :) The best mission in the world!! (pretty sure everyone says that about their own missions!) I'm loving it thought it's very cold who cares?!  This works far too important for any of my weaknesses to get in the way!  I'm trying to completely devote and consecrate myself.  More so than I have before.. Nothing is more worth it.. I love it so much out here!! :)  


Sorry for just going off but I defiantly will remember the time that I served for the rest of eternity!! That's why there better be no regrets yo!!! :) Well I love and miss you all very much and wish you the best this week!!!! Have a wonderful week!!! :) I LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!

Love Elder Devey

August 1st, 2011

Hey everybody!! How's it going?! Well can I just say I miss you all very much!!! This week has been an awesome one!! We're starting to see our hard work and our sacrifice pay off!  This week was huge for us for this month of August!! I'm hoping and praying that my birthday month will be something very special.. Because so far it's looking that way!! Our little heater caught on fire not that long ago so now our flat is like a freezer!! I just figured out that in this big conference were having I have to give a talk! :( Oh well!! Elder Rangi is the man he works very hard!! We have fun with eachother it's been great! 

So some good news from the week we were able to set a small family for baptism on August 20th!  Shaneen, Adam and Jordan! A mom and her two boys:)  Also two investigators that I have felt very close to.  Junior and Allison for the 20th:)  So we have 6 set for this month now!!  Ah it's gonna take a whole lot of qualifying though that's for sure!! Goodness we need all the prayers we can get!!  There's been so many miracles lately it has just been incredible!! :)

The Lord is so merciful and so loving it's amazing..  We continue to do our best we've been working our tails off lately!! Seriously though each day has just been nuts! haha I really do feel as lately i've been serving with "no regrets" or I would at least like to hope so!  I love this area and ward.  It has been so much fun serving here.  The members are incredible and so are the people that live here.  We had lots of our investigators to church this sunday just more blessings!! Ah I'm just loving serving the Lord!! It's not easy.. But it is so worth it.. This is the salvation of God's children.. I am so blessed and honored to be a part of this great work and to bare the Savior's name.. I feel I don't deserve it but I will forever be grateful for this time in my life in which I got to serve him..  Well I hope everyone is doing amazing and that you all are loving life!!! :)  God wants us to have joy so if you're not do something about it!! I wish you the best and I'm always praying for you!!! I miss and love you guys so soooo much!!!! :):):)

Love Elder Devey

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