He calls me Utah.....

Good afternoon! Sorry for the late email. Yesterday was a public holiday, Picnic day. But nobody here went on a picnic....
This week has been crazy Elder Hobby got hurt again but he is okay. he is soar but healing well. We didn't make it to the wildlife park because of the injury.

This week was transfer week so Elder Taleo has left Darwin and my new trainer is Elder Angelo. He is from the Philippians. I don't know much about him we have only been together for 12 hours. He seems really cool. I am leading Malak. It will be fun!

I haven't heard about Brandon (investigator from Arizona that was to be baptized) yet but Im going to try and find out.

I was given a Broncos jersey for one of my Investigators. He calls me utah. He is a cool guy from Queensland. The Broncos are a rugby team in Queensland.

We are working hard to get people to the prepare for baptism. We should have several in this next couple transfers. Ill let you know more about my companion when I learn more about him!

Love Elder Atkinson 

Ill send personal emails later got a training to go to..

Another Email from Elder Ty:

So im still the junior companion  The work is coming along nicely. We planned for a lot of changes for the area last night. I wanted to try something new and my companion said that it sounds good and we will give it a go this transfer.

 Its insane that dallon is gone! Me and Elder Hamilton didn't even know he put his papers in!
heard that you are playing Pokemon go! HAHAHAHAH!!!! How is it? It better not be interrupting your work on the truck and my jeep!
Elder Hobby didnt crash on a bike this week but he got injured. He is okay though. Love you heaps and I hope that all is well in the ward! tell bishop, rzr, and brother brown hi for me! Along with the youth!

All is well here. nothing to report. Love you heaps. hope all is well!!

Elder Taleo and Elder Atkinson

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Elder Taleo and Elder Atkinson

Elder Atkinsons Desk

not sure... tree/plant =)

Alma and King Benjamin!

Good afternoon! This week has been very fun! We have been out knocking on heaps of doors! You never know what you might see... It is funny as! We have met heaps of people and we have only been chased my a few dogs... They weren't friendly.... Almost everyone her has at-least one dog, they aren't trained either. So this week we won the Clean Crock. Its in our kitchen displayed proudly. We also went to follow up with a potential that we met a couple days ago, He wasn't home but his grandmother was. She invited us in  and she talked about how her tooth pain went away the moment she saw us. We began to teach the Restoration of the gospel and she stands up and yells in aboriginal to her family. One by one they came down stairs and she told them that we were messengers from God and told them to hear our words for they were the answer to her prayers. So we said a prayer and began to teach fifteen people. It was peak as! we felt like Alma and King Benjamin! It was amazing to teach a big as group! We committed three of them to be baptized and the rest of them agreed to learn more. The whole family is pretty keen on learning more. Ill keep you updated! Oh!!!! Brandon H from Arizona was supposed to be baptized  yesterday! Ill let you know if it happens!

 Mom: Clay is playing pokemon go?? and your going with him. yall are weird as. I hope all goes well with the interview! Um no princess. change it. my maddux doesn't give girly names..... she is a crazy lady. Hope everything goes well! well i gotta go pet a dingo and a kangaroo. hopefully a croc! ye love you heaps!

Dad:  They both play Pokemon Go? Man they are weird as. I think they want you to play as well. That sounds like a peak activity! Hope everything is going well with your truck! But dont forget my Jeep! hahaha love you heaps! tell the wawas and the yapas hi for me on Wednesday
! I will try and get a picture! but im going to pet a dingo and other stuff today at a wildlife park. so thats more important! love ya!




Elder & Sister Farrer posted this about the flat inspections this month as incentive to always have a clean flat...it's the CCC award and traveling croc trophy🐊. If your flat is continuously clean, then you get the crocodile...and this time we have a tie with the Malak and Katherine elders😊. Elder Taleo and Elder Atkinson of Malak, found the perfect spot for their's

 Elder Taleo and Elder Atkinson won this month =)

Elder Taleo and Elder Atkinson know how to keep a continuously clean flat.

 The CCC award, and traveling crocodile trophy...

Perfect spot...

It's a small world! .... Master Chef =)

Hey Family!

All is well here in Darwin! I absolutely love it here! They People are very unique! We have been biking hard and talking to everyone, knocking on doors and working on a plan to reorganize the areas here in Darwin! This week Elder Taleo had to go with Elder Hamilton to Kathrine for some Zone and District business. So I was with Elder Hobby and Elder Escueta. We biked all Over the main city and the beaches. We had a lot of fun! On the way home on Wednesday night Elder Hobby crashed into a parked truck. He smashed it! The taillight was busted and his bike tire was wrapped like mad! He is okay but President Parker told him to be more careful. That was his fourth crash. He was pretty shaken up from it. But when I was looking for his glasses on the road I found a piece of the tail light! I gave it to him the next day and he put it in his journal! I love Elder Hobby! We are hoping to be companions sometime for a long time!

So I have received a reputation of being a master chef.... When we are on exchanges I make food out of whatever they have and everyone likes it. It's defiantly been fun! Oh yeah so there is a Elder Hamilton here! He played for maple mountain baseball and we played on the game cocks together! We surprised everyone here! They are asking what are the odds that we would be in Darwin together after winning a tournament together!
Love you heaps!


more to Dad:  I heard about the law in Russia. How is Tristan? How does that work?

Nice job on your Truck! I wish you luck with the bumper! I will try and send a mission plaque picture I can seem to figure out the camera... It's hard.

I love President Toone! I told you he was huge! Can you get his email? I would love to email him sometime! (I sent him Sister Toone's Email) 

I'm working with Elder Taleo to reorganize the zone areas. We want to make it more efficient! We are teaching a lot of people but everyone in Darwin moves like mad. It's fun planting seeds and referring them to others. We have had a lot of training's and are learning a lot! 

Norbet is doing well! He is very fun! We say goodbye to him when we go out of the flat!

Love you heaps! Send pics of the truck!

More to Mom:  So I don't know how to work it. (wifi camera) And it's not setup to send it to your phone. So I'll try and figure it out sometime. The wifi in the church isn't very good.
Yes I did pay for my bike. It's in Adelaide. There are bikes here in Darwin that stay here. Because it would be like sending your bike from home to New York to get it here in Darwin!
I know about the Pokemon go. We have strategic contacting spots where players go and play. We are using it for missionary work!

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 =)

P-Day FINALLY hear from Elder Atkinson!!

Hey I don't have a lot of time.  
So the plane had to fill up with fuel for the trip and left an hour late. Then when I finally got here bloody delta goes and changes my flight from 8 am to 2 pm. So I waited in the airport for the whole day. Finally got to fly to Adelaide. It was absolutely beautiful! Ill send some pictures soon. Its been a super long week it was very weird I haven't done much... I had to stay in Adelaide until Saturday and I legally cant Proselyte in Adelaide without a permit so I had to stay at the Mission office. I helped one of the senior missionary fix bikes all day.

I love it here my companion is Elder Taleo. Ill let you know more about him next week.

I love it here in Malak! Its absolutely beautiful! I love it here! The weather is great and the animals are very weird. I have only seen a couple geckos so far. No snakes but their are a lot of strange birds here. I will try and pet the monitor lizard but I have to find one... Yes I am looking out for one. I'll let you know how things are going next week! I haven't done much here yet.

PICTURES!!!!

AND.... another Airplane ride!! 

This time to the Darwin, Australia airport, 

Malak is his first area which is in the Northern Territory of Australia.

"We picked Elder Atkinson up at 12:15. He had a direct flight from Adelaide. We were accompanied to the airport by Elder Taleo and Elder Escueta who along with us, were excited to welcome him to the Darwin Zone. After a few photo's we were off to their flat in Malak so he could unpack and go to work..." Elder & Sister Farrer Mission facebook page. want to thank them again for all these amazing pictures and video!!! 

Oh made Momma so happy yet teary eyed

Welcome to Darwin NT

Upclose with the Airport Crocodile (looks like he was to tired to jump or just terrible timing!

Jumping with the croc...

Waiting for luggage...

Companions

Powerful trio...

  

District Leader Elder Taleo, Elder Atkinson, Zone leader Elder Escueta....

Powerful trio...

With senior couple, Elder and Sister Farrer...

One close up...

Almost home...

Upstairs to their flat...

At home in Malak...

Can't wait to hear from him on his P-Day!!!

Adelaide mission!

I received this last night from a wonderful Couple serving in his mission...










then when I woke up this morning I had this in my email from the mission office 





"Dear Family,                                                                                       22 June 2016

Elder Atkinson has arrived in the Australia Adelaide Mission safely. Sister Parker and I are mindful of the great trust you have placed in us by sharing your son. When he arrived, we met him at the airport and he was taken to the mission office to be introduced to the office staff and assistants. The following day he participated with the rest of his intake in orientation, photographs and interviews. Our interview was followed by dinner and testimonies at the local church building with the other arrivers and senior couple missionary staff.

Elder Atkinson’s companion is Elder Taleo from Port Vila, Vanuatu. They are serving in the Malak area of the Darwin Zone. We are including a picture of Elder Atkinson with President and Sister Parker.

PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL MAIL (including PACKAGES) IS TO BE SENT TO:
Australia Adelaide Mission Office
ELDER TY ATKINSON
PO Box 97
Marden SA 5070 Australia


I am aware that the Lord blesses, in many special ways, the families of missionaries. As your son serves, you will find that to be very true. Your support is greatly appreciated.

Missionaries are allowed to send and receive email from family and limited friends only. They check their emails at the local library on preparation day, which is usually Monday.
Warmest Regards,

President R. Jeffrey Parker

AUSTRALIA ADELAIDE MISSION"



so he will fly to Darwin today, which is a 4 1/2 hour flight! will be welcomed by the wonderful Senior couple Elder and Sister Farrer, the off to a church open house and a baptism!! can't be more excited for Elder Atkinson!!