Moving to the mainland

Faith has a short shelf life.... Hard work is good for the soul.

I has been an amazing week! I have been transfered to Eltham on the mainland, just east of Melbourne. My companion is Sister Foster. She is from Adalaide and we get along really well.

Everyone thinks that we are twins because we are both tall and blonde(: actually, she makes me look short haha(:

Eltham is a really nice area, pretty wealthy and people here are very straight to the point.. heaps different than Tassie! haha. But I love talking to people on the train, people are more willing to talk because they can't go anywhere.. wahaha (;

We were doubled into the area so we are starting from square one. Our only investigator at the moment is someone the elders where teaching before but he doesn't speak like any English ):

I am so excited to learn from my companion this transfer. She knows a lot, this is her last transfer. I don't know why but President keeps giving me the best sisters in the mission! My trainers were both sister training leaders and Sister Foster was a sister training leader for like half of her mission!

We trained little mini missionaries this week(: They were able to be our companions for 3 days.

I was companions with Tiffany, a recent convert who was baptised last month. She is super cute, doesn't speak much English haha she is from china but we had a lot of fun together. I love singing and dancing in the car to hymns.. doesnt sound normal... because its not haha but it is fun as!

I have met a couple General Authorities in my life, and I always feel like i have nothing to say to them because they are just so spiritual and i feel like i will say the wrong thing. My goal this transfer is to truly engage into my scriptures and become the best missionary I can be.

Elder Dudfield from the 70 and area authority for southern australia is in our ward. He wants us over for tea(dinner) next month and I am excited to learn from him and to truly grow in this area. The people here are very knowledgeable.

Something that Sister Maxwell talked about the other day to the mini missionaries was that "work is good for the soul" often times I would feel like I have just worked too hard and I just wish for a day to be able to sleep all day and just not have anything to worry about and just have fun. I even would love to just sit and read my scriptures all day long, but I have learned a lot about diligence this week. In Words of Mormon 1:18 it talks about King Benjamin and how he was a wonderful example of diligence. I love it how it shows that the out come of work, is peace. We often think of peace as rest and relaxation, but really it is found when we are diligently serving the lord. President Maxwell talked about how strong faith has short shelf life. That is so true. I imagine even the Apostles feel this way. We all need to be diligent and always work to strengthen our testimonies.
Love you all heaps!
Sister Kruyer

Location:Eltham, Australia

Australia and swearing!

So this week has been really great! 

P.F. was baptized on Friday night. His was a private baptism. I felt so bad because we told him we would do everything we could to get the water warm. We boiled water and everything and he goes in and i swear i didn't know if he would actually be baptized because he yelled "dang nabbit!" bahaha
But he was baptised! It was like titanic cold because the water over flowed and it was all cold water at that point.. lets just say there was a little miss comunication as to who was coming back to turn the water off haha.

Sharon and Leonie were baptized Saturday morning! Amazing!

The highlight of the week was Jerome. Jerome is Hayley's partner. We have been teaching Hayley for a while and she is so ready to be baptised but they have to get married. Well, Jerome pretty much told us that he knows it is true because he has seen Hayley change so much and she is so at peace.
We thought it would take ages for him to come to church because he said he wants to wait till he is completely ready and knows it is true. He used to go to another church but felt like he was a different person throughout the week and then was a hypocrite at church.
But Sunday morning-- during our 2nd official lesson with him-- he told us that he got an answer to his prayer. He told the Lord that he has decided to come to church this week and if it is not right, to give him a bad feeling. And then everything just started to push him to come.
It was so amazing because every talk, every lesson was directed to him. I just sat there with my jaw wide open because literally they could have all been talking straight to him. It really showed me how much our Heavenly Father cares for each and every single one of his children. Someone even shared the exact same experience about feeling like a hypocrite --so this man went less active but then he testified of the atonement and how he came back and changed for the better! It was amazing!
I am so excited for their family. I always feel the spirit so strongly in there lessons it is so cool(:

On a random side-note. I am officially starting to get used to the Aussie's here.

Damn and Hell are not swear words here and everyone finds it hilarious to see the American missionaries cringe at it. EVEN the bishop! haha

Its is a little weird when we go to trainings or have stake conference and people are saying damn and hell over the pulpit. Also everyone here says "as" after every adj. and so it caught me off guard when people would say "sweet as" or "fat as". It just doesn't sound right. but it is nice to have a culture that does not use swear words like at all.

I am a little scared I am going to come home for my homecoming talk and swear and everyone think that I am a terrible person bahaha -- oh the aussies!

Love you all heaps!
Sister Tynica Elyse Kruyer

Weight of our Glory

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giday mates!
bahah jk we totally dont even say that here.. well most of us anyways. We say giday though(: So like always, I am short on time. This week we went to the caves with the whole zone! Which is the whole island of Tassie.



(Tynica didn't send any photos of the caves so I took some off goggle. I can't be sure these are the two she saw but they are Tasmanian caves. )










And then on tuesday we had interviews with our mission president. So that is why I am emailing so late! Sorry(:(: These past two pdays have been sick!

We went to two different caves, aparently there are heaps underneath all of tassie. I was able to spend the night in my old area, the huon!!, which was really awesome. I love it there<3 data-blogger-escaped-br="">
We have two baptisms coming up this week! Will is on Friday and Maddi on Saturday!! Woohoo!!! I am so freaking excited for them(: It is so cool to see how the spirit works with us in so many different ways.

Will is super knowlegable and everything just makes sense to him. I swear I will say something and then the next 10 minutes he will teach us!

Then Maddi --the spirit works with her through the peace that the gospel brings her. It gives her a new start and she is just super spiritual. It is awesome!

My comp broke her wrist this week...trying to kill a spider by standing on a chair.. it was going to attack our investigator so you know, being the heroic sister that she is! She decided to save her and feel and the rest is history!
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Something that I have been studying lately is trials. Why we have them. Why we get angry at God, and What can we learn from them. This past transfer has definitley been the hardest for me and my comp. In our different ways and some shared. I was reading in 2 Corrinthians 4:17 that tells us that our afflictions are only for a moment, because in the eternal sense, they are preparing us for the "weight" of our glory that we will hold for eternity. If we can endure the weight that the Lord gives us in this life it will only make us stronger.
We will have a lot of weight on our shoulders in the celesial kingdom. Doc&Cov 98:12 tells us that God gives us line upon line to the faithful. He will try and prove me and you so see if we will stay faithful to our covenants.

Satan wants us to be angry with God because then we will fail the test. Heavenly Father is seeing if we will be able to comfortably hold the weight of being in his presence again.

Trials are hard and they feel so unfair. But our Heavenly Father sees our potential, just like he saw Christ's potential, each and everyone of us have a potential that only God knows. I love you all so so very much. I keep you all in my prayers.

Love, Sister Tynica Elyse Kruyer