King of Katherine!! hahaha

G'day! 

I am staying for another Transfer in Katherine! That will make me the King of Katherine!!! HAHAHA! I am so excited to spend another one here! It has been a great time! We are excited to spend Christmas day here! We will be spending Christmas lunch with the Lucheses house! Then driving to Darwin to spend time with the zone! It has been a lot of fun! Very exciting! So this week we had both Churches outside! Because we lost the Church Key!!! HAHAHAHA!!! :) Always something new in Katherine!

Wrapping Brother Hayes door <3

From crashing his new bike last week. 

why so serious.... 

Zone conference, goodbyes and good luck

Elder Ty Atkinson: Australia Adelaide Mission: ty.atkinson@myldsmail.net

G'day! This week has been a lot of fun! We had a great zone conference! We learned a lot! We also did our missionary skit! It is crack up! I'll try and send it to you when we get them! 

On Wednesday we drove back down to katherine! Had church with the Leas. Then said good bye to the Walmslys. They are going to spend their Christmas with their family.

Transfers is this next weekend... It’s going to be interesting! I want to stay for Christmas but not sure if I will. I've been here a very long time. :) Its been a lot of fun!

We are making the final prep on our Christmas gifts for the youth in Binjari. If i'm leaving we will be having a early Christmas in Binjari. :) We will see what happens love you heaps! 

 

 Christmas party with the Walmsleys, and Brother Friday

The water turns them yellow and the dirt turns them red! HAHAHA!!

G'day!

This week was fantastic! We had the baptism of Shaliyah! She is awesome! Full of life and joy! 

She was able to get her mother to the service! Her mom was so happy to see the smile on shays face that she started to cry! After she was baptised she ran over to her mom and gave her a hug! It was a great experience! 

The pictures are on facebook. I left my camera in katherine on accident... 

We are now in Darwin for our zone conference! We are staying in Malak! Today we will be seeing some of my old investigators that they are teaching! It will be awesome! love you all heaps!

(I forgot to mention in Ty’s email that his picture with his NOT SO WHITE shirt he said this about it…”Hahahahaha! Those are my Katherine Shirts!  There is nothing we can do here.  The water turns them yellow and the dirt turns them red! HAHAHA!!”)

From Katherine Branch Facebook page: "We finally broke the attendance record we set when President and I arrived 18 months ago today we had 41 people take the sacrament between Katherine and Binjari meeting. 

A baptism yesterday and confirmation today and a record number of attendees. Wonderful just wonderful.
We also had Ann- Marie come today from
Ngukar ( at least I think that’s how you spell it ) Community, which is about 5 hours away from us but still part of Katherine Branch. She bore a wonderful testimony as did many others.
All in all a great weekend of spiritual highlights."

river was rising!

G'day!

 This week has been a lot of fun! Lots of rain! We were lucky to have Elder Dickson and Anderson come down for a trade off! We were able to see everyone we needed to see! With time to spare! :) We had a lot of fun! Lots of jokes and they took our smashed bike back to darwin! :) 

 

We are excited for next month! A lot of stuff is happening! We hope to have a great month! 

We went fishing yesterday for a few hours as we waited for our car to be serviced! We caught a few large black brim! It was a blast! It was raining the whole time we were there! The river rose so quick! We had to move our bikes because they ended up in the river.  Glad we looked before it got to high! It was a blast!

 Love you heaps! Elder Atkinson

 

Transfer come and gone and.... were here for atleast another 6 weeks!

G'day!
Another Transfer has come and gone! My companion and I will be remaining together for at least six more weeks!

This week was very hot again... The build up is not fun! But its okay! we have been having a lot of fun out here! 

On Saturday night it rained hard! But we were a sleep. We woke up to muddy pathways! By the end of the day my pants and bike were covered in mud! I will send the picture next week.. Forgot my camera cord. :) But the rain cooled things down for a little bit. But by the end of the day it was hot and humid.

Our Investigators and Recent converts were very excited that we are staying! Some of the Members told us that they thought I was gone for sure, But they are glad that they get to keep us a little longer! They weren’t happy to find out that the next transfer will be the week before Christmas.

We should have two baptisms next weekend if everything goes well! We are working hard to get these things to happen! Gotta love missionary work! :) Love you heaps! Elder Atkinson

Even Elders like puddles! lol

G'day!

This week has been a lot of fun! A lot of twist and turns! 

This week we broke a bike! Snapped the derail-er clean off! Other than that, It was a good week! 

We are pushing forward to get the Youth of Katherine to the FSY! We are working on preparing them and confirming plane information! 

It is starting to rain here! Wet season here we come!!! We met a few new people this week who have started to learn! 

Its been a fun time here in Katherine! 

Fun, Twist and turns!!

G'day!

This week has been a lot of fun! A lot of twist and turns! 

This week we broke a bike! Snapped the derail-er clean off! 

Other than that, It was a good week! We are pushing forward to get the Youth of Katherine to the FSY! We are working on preparing them and confirming plane information! 

It is starting to rain here! Wet season here we come!!! We met a few new people this week who have started to learn! Its been a fun time here in Katherine!

Another transfer has come and gone....

G'day!

Another Transfer has come and gone! My companion and I will be remaining together for at least six more weeks! 

This week was very hot again... The build up is not fun! But its okay! we have been having a lot of fun out here! On Saturday night it rained hard! But we were a sleep. We woke up to muddy pathways! By the end of the day my pants and bike were covered in mud! I will send the picture next week.. Forgot my camera cord. :) But the rain cooled things down for a little bit. But by the end of the day it was hot and humid. 

Our Investigators and Recent converts were very excited that we are staying! Some of the Members told us that they thought I was gone for sure, But they are glad that they get to keep us a little longer! They werent happy to find out that the next transfer will be the week before Christmas. 

We should have two baptisms next weekend if everything goes well! We are working hard to get these things to happen! Gotta love missionary work! :) Love you heaps! 

Awesome! Except for the heat!

This last week was awesome! Except for the heat! Its been 45+ for the past two weeks! 

(For those of you wondering how that converts to Fahrenheit it is about 113 degrees...Australia is the southern hemisphere and has opposite seasons than we do here.)

We have had some rain at night but not in the day. We really want it to rain in the day! It is way too hot! This time of year is known for being so hot that people start going crazy and getting in fights! It true as well! We have seen a lot of fights in town but they don't last long because its too hot! :) 

Well it's the last week of the transfer again. We will see in a few days what the will of The Lord is for the Katherine area! But all is well! My companion knows this area well now! So we are prepared! 

We have a lot of people drawing closer to baptism! We just have some classic Aussie obstacles to overcome! :) 

We should have a really good month next month! Love you all heaps! Elder Atkinson