Full week in Malak Australia

Got more pictures of Elder Atkinson

from the Airport & Mission Home June 23, 2016:

Look who finally made it to his mission!!

New Missionaries to the AAM

New Missionaries just arrived to the Adelaide Australia Mission

Waiting for assignments =)

Sister Parker, Elder Atkinson, President Parker

 Zone Conference June 29, 2016

N.T. Missionaries with President & Sister Parker

♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥ ¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪ Happy Birthday to you ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸ ♥¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪ Happy Birthday to you ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥ ¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪

Happy Birthday♥ ♥ ♥Dear ELDER TY ATKINSON♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥ ¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪Happy♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪...Birthday to YOU!! !♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥ ¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪...

Elder Atkinsons birthday falls on a Sunday 

so the wonderful senior couple Elder & Sister Farrer 

took him and his companion to lunch and icecream!

Elder Atkinson with his Darwin Birthday Ball.

Elder Atkinson and his companion, Elder Taleo

Birthday lunch on the Wharf

Elder Atkinson chose to try some foods from the Top End... Crocodile, Camel, Buffalo and Kangaroo! Him and Sister Farrer both had this wild lunch =)

 Since his birthday was on our Saturday we had his name on the Orem Owlz (Angels rookie team) Baseball Jumbo tron!!

 

Can't see it but you can hear them wishing Elder Ty Atkinson serving in Australia a Happy Birthday!!

Thinking of you Elder Atkinson

Darwin Missionaries at Correlation Meeting July 3, 2016...with new convert Brenda Wei, Branch Mission Leader Mick Popp, and Branch missionary Aue TeAva

Letter to Dad:
It's heaps of fun down here! And Croc taste heaps like chicken! Kangaroo is sort of like Mule Deer and Antelope combined. Camel is like beef, Water Buffalo is really good! You need to come hunting down here! So I live in a Jungle! It's peak! Heaps of birds all over the place! I love seeing heaps of parrots and other native birds! They are rather colourful! It's amazing! I got my firsts coconut too! It is so hard to cut it open! I'll send y'all heaps of pics soon! I love it here! My companion is awesome he is from Vanuatu! We work really well together! We taught a aboriginal family the other day and their beliefs are very similar. They loved our message and set up their own return appointment. So the Darwin branch covers most of the Northern Territory. They are a couple hundred members. We are in need of a lot more priesthood before we can set up another branch.

Oh I had a Tim Tam yesterday! You need to try them! You leave them in the fridge until they are really cold then you eat them! It's peak! You can bite the tips off and drink milk from it! This is called a Tim Tam slam! You need to try it! I am still looking for a monitor and an Iguana, no luck so far. No snakes but I saw some huge fish at the harbour the other Day! We are thinking of touring the WW2 war tunnels soon! So the harbour I was at the other day was bombed after pearl harbour by the Japanese. There are heaps of memorials for the cost of their freedom. They really love their territory! On the 1st it was territory day! They had fireworks and everything! So you need to get a Northern Territory flag because the consider themselves a different country but they aren't really. The Feds still have control of them but they have their own government. 

Love you heaps Dad!

yes we counted.. he said heaps 7 times! lol  

here is the Northern Territory flag

Email to me:

Croc is heaps like chicken! Then Kangaroo is kinda like a hybrid of Mule deer and Antelope! Camel is just like beef and water Buffalo is awesome! Y'all need to come hunting down here! Looks like Maddie is a piggy bank! Gotta love her! The members are awesome! There aren't a lot of them but it's ok. We are working towards splitting the branch and getting a new chapel. We have on chapel that covers half of the Northern Territory. Oh they said that you need to get a Northern Territory flag. They are split off from most of the government of Australia. In fact they celebrated Territory day on the 1st! Heaps of fireworks, drunks, bush fires, and a lot of crazy stuff! It's been a really cool experience! Not a lot of work but we are working hard to get this work moving! We had a 12 hour training on Tuesday. We learned a lot! I'm super excited to continue the work here!

Elder Taleo is awesome! He taught me how to open a coconut today! I saw a lot of fish at the Harbour the other day! Their are heaps of birds here! They are very colourful! And the bats are huge! It's been peak! I love it here! It's like a jungle! What does the flag pole look like? And maddies pups? 

Love you heaps!

Think he is really picking up the language =)