M.T.C. Looking good!!

A couple from our ward works the M.T.C. and ran into Elder Ty Atkinson!! He looks great!! and his companion Elder Contreras from Riverside California, he is going to the Brisbane Australia mission.  thank you so much for the picture!!

First letter home!!

     I'm doing very well here! I have the best companion in the world! Oh my Roommates said thanks for all the food! We are super busy and haven't eaten any of it... 

      My companion is Elder Contreras he is from Riverside California. We room with Elder Hobby who is from London England and Elder Dahle who is from Fruit land Idaho. Our whole room in going to Australia along with one other in my district.The other are going to England on there missions. I wont go in to detail because I don't wanna... Elder Dahle and Elder Hobby are going to Adelaide with me. My companion is going to Brisbane. 

      We are working hard and killed our first Investigator on our second day here. If he wasn't a teacher acting as an investigator his eternal salvation would have been destroyed...  We are getting better and we had a fantastic lesson today with an investigator. We had to teach her today on P-day because my companion and I are going to hospital tomorrow to get an ultrasound on his heart. He had a minor heart murmur. We believe everything is okay but we are getting it done to make sure. Oh Elder Hobby fell out of bed last night! British substitute swear words are fantastic!

Ok well good bye love you

 

His MTC Address is:

Elder Ty Atkinson
Adelaide Australia Mission
M.T.C. BOX 84
2005 N 900 E 
Provo, Utah  84602-1793

ANZAC

Today in Australia  (or tomorrow for us) it is ANZAC (which is like Memorial Day for us) here is an article  http://www.mormonnewsroom.org.nz/article/church-produces-anzac-commemoration-video and then click on video that the L.D.S. Church published.

The Church is true! See ya in Two!!

Saying goodbye to his Brothers before they left for school. 

Elder Atkinson getting hugs and kisses from our sweet dog Maddux, oh the love!! 

Lunch at Los Hermanos,


 Mom no more pictures!! lol poor kid doesn't like me to take pictures! but he forgets its God's given right to Mothers to take lots of pictures =)




































Went back home to get his luggage, he wanted to go to the M.T.C. in the jeep... 
























Deep thoughts

"put your luggage over here and you have 3 minutes to say goodbye to our Elder" =( oh the bittersweet! So sad to say goodbye for 2 years but so proud he is going to serve the Lord!! Love him so much!!

 The Church is TRUE!! See ya in TWO!!

It's official...

It's official he is now Elder Atkinson!! love him so much and so so proud of him!! he will be an outstanding Missionary!

What is a Missionary?

My name is Ty Atkinson, I am 18 years old and preparing to leave tomorrow to enter the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah for 3 weeks then I will go to labor in the Adelaide Australia Mission.  

"What is missionary work?

The Lord has declared that missionary work is the responsibility of all who follow Him (see Matthew 28:19–20; D&C 88:81). Members of the Lord's Church can, by the goodness of their lives and the strength of their testimonies, share the gospel message and help prepare family members, friends, and other acquaintances who are not Latter-day Saints to be taught by the full-time missionaries.

When we experience the blessings of gospel living, we naturally want to share those blessings with others. The Lord spoke of the joy that comes into our lives when we share His gospel:

“If it so be that you should labor all your days in crying repentance unto this people, and bring, save it be one soul unto me, how great shall be your joy with him in the kingdom of my Father!

“And now, if your joy will be great with one soul that you have brought unto me into the kingdom of my Father, how great will be your joy if you should bring many souls unto me!” ( D&C 18:15-16).

After His Resurrection, the Lord commanded His disciples to ”go … and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost“ ( Matthew 28:19). In fulfillment of this command, able young men in the Church have a duty to prepare spiritually, physically, and emotionally to serve as full-time missionaries. Single women and mature couples also have the opportunity to serve full-time missions.

Missionary work also includes helping and supporting those who join the Church. As instructed by President Gordon B. Hinckley, each new member of the Church needs three things: a friend, a responsibility, and nurturing with “the good word of God” (Moroni 6:4; see also “Converts and Young Men,” Ensign, May 1997, 47–50)". (taken from: https://www.lds.org/topics/missionary-work?lang=eng )