August 28, 2016

I have had a really great week this week! We have seen quite a few little miracles that are helping the ward to progress! The ward has started to give us a lot of really solid refferals that we will be teaching next week. Last week we were able to go and teach a man named Navi, he was a refferal from a ward member! he is from India and is very active in the seek religion but he was open to listing and learning, it might take a while but the spirit was present in the lesson and he felt it. My companion and I are getting along great! The ward we are in takes such good care of us! I know that this is where I am supposed to be! The Lord has placed people in my path that help me progress and he uses us to help others progress! I had a very amazing study of 2 ne 9. I would like to invite you all to read that! It talks about the need for a Savior! We would be helpless if it wasn't for Jesus Christ! I'm so thankfull for his atonement! I love you all

have a great week
love Elder Wiser

We traveled to a baptism and it took us through the city! Way too crowded

but this is the house of one of the wards recent convert and he collects all of the transformers! and i am pretty facinated by them haha some of them are like two feet tall! thats crazy!

August 21, 2016

Hello everyone! It has been an amazing week in the great Australia Melourne Mission! AMM. We got transfer news this week. and . . . . . . . . Elder Halsey and I get to stay another transfer! We are excited ! It's going to be amazing.

So last week we were able to go to Philips Island at the bottom of Australia! it was great. We got to see koalas, they don't really do much, but it was really cool to see them. and we went to the beautiful look out on the other side of the island! It feels like it was fake because it was so beautiful! I hope you like the pictures.

     So we are still working with that woman named Barbara, she is so kind, she had a good meeting with bishop and enjoys being taught, her baptism is planned for this weekend, we will let you know hoe it goes. and we recieved some tender mercies. We had a weekly planning session and talked about a lot of things we could do to find more poeple to teach and so we took those ideas to the Lord in prayer. Right after we walked out to get in the car, our neigbor accross the street waved to me and said "what do you do?" GOLDEN QUESTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so I walked over and we started to chat! It turns out that he has a wife and three teenage kids and his wife and him split up after 20 years just the day previous. He was struggling! He said when he saw us he felt like we could help for some reason and so he called us over. He laughed because he was asking advice from a 19 year old when he has a 20 year old son hahaha but he still listened. He had to go so we set up a return appointment. Such a miracle. We prayed sincerely and then Heavenly Father answered us, I know that it was not a coincidence. And then two amazing families in the ward gave us some solid referals that we will be teaching! Heavenly Father really does love each of us and he wants to answer our prayers, all we have to do is try our best! I love being on the mission because we get to see miracles like this all the time. But these miracles can be seen anywhere they are sought after!

have a great week

 love Elder Wiser

we went to philip island in the mission van elder jeremiah elder jensen and elder fiaui and elder jensen and elder halsey and myself!

koalas

the look out on philips island

and us by our broken shed

 random pictures an eclips with the moon

this is the teremate family, all the missionaries just call them Mum and Dad. they take such good care of us!

August 14, 2016

This week went by so fast, we had a lot of meetings and traveled around a lot. We had zone conference, and that is where we get to meet with our zone and President and sister Vidmar, and the assistants to the president. Its an all day meeting and its always so amazing. Its always good to spend time with President and Sister Vidmar. They are such an amazing couple. After the meeting President Vidmar and I had our handstand contest. There were like 50 missionaries watching and so we did it in the middle of the gym, neither of us moved for about 60 seconds but then I started to loose my balance and walking around on my hands. But I kept staying up and we both started to wobble around 1 min and 45 seconds and then he fell first. haha the video is so funny because everyone goes crazy. For some reason there had been a lot of pre-handstand hype and people were looking forward to it. Now the whole mission is practicing handstands and they always ask me what the technique is! but I think that he let me win this round and so we will schedule another one!

My companion and I are doing really well, Elder Halsey and I are always laughing and we get along really well, the ward that we are in has so many kind people and so we have been trying to meet them all. I had a really good experience this week because we had a stake conference on Saturday and Sunday! and they talked about family history and temples! Temples are the greatest thing, we can be sealed together with our families. . forever. It just made me realize even more how perfect Gods plan is for us. During one of the talks, they were talking about temples but I started to get answers to different unrealated questions that I had asked earlier in the week. Revelation is truth given from God to us! and when we are sitting in the right place with the right attitude then we are elligable for revelation. all we have to do is come with questions and look for answers. When we fast without a purpose then we are just starving, and when we attend meetings without a purpose then we are starving ourselves of revelation. I love this church because everything we do is to strengthen our faith and relationship with Jesus Christ. The closer we draw to him the more joy we can have, but sometimes we find ourselves farther away than we want to be, and that is when his grace, love, and Atonement kick in. 

when we make mistakes that seperate us from him, then He can forgive us and let is love heal the pain, and then we can feel joy again! I know that the trials we go through strenghten us and help us to draw closer to him (ether 12:27) 

I love you all

have a great week

Love Elder Wiser

August 7, 2016

Stanton didn't have time to write a letter today - but he just sent these pictures. He is loving Australia and every part of his mission.

this is part of my mission intake at the mission home.

and these are three of the weber worriors elder wheeler, howell and myself. and the guy on the left likes weber but he went somewhere else. haha

July 31, 2016

This week was really good. Time has been flying so fast. We have seen a lot of good things going on. We have been finding some new people to teach, and there are some people that really want to be baptised in August. Which is exactly what we help people with. but we had a couple of "build ups" and that means people that build up our hopes and then don't pull through. We had one investigator that called us out of nowhere and said he wanted to be baptised he had been taught all the lessons but just needed a refresher and so we met with him and taught him but then he went home and blocked our phone number haha so that was odd, but maybe now is not his time. and one of the other ones named Joel has been working a lot and hasn't responded back to us. But The Lords time is perfect. absolutly perfect. and so I know that he will take care of those two souls and they will have their time. 

        Elder Halsey and I are getting along great! He is so funny, and he is a good teacher as well. We have this new competition going on. and its bowling. We have a good bowling alley in our area and we got permission to go on Mondays and so we bowled this week with the whole zone. I didn't realize how competitive missionaries were but I won one game and lost really really bad the next two. They were all laughing at me and saying that it was the pride cycle in action. Sometimes we feel like we are doing really good and we get cut down haha. But we all have weeknesses that we may be humble (Ether 12:27) and when we are humble our weeknesses become strengths. I know that God wants us to succeed. He will give us the opportuninties that will shape us into the best person. Sometimes they aren't the ones we want but Gods timing is perfect.

I love you all! have a fantastic week

has anyone had any missionary stories?

love elder wiser

this is a very nice salad from the Mcdonalds down here taking the healthy alternatives.

this is our shed in the back yard. . . . .kinda got destroyed in the wind storms haha

and this is our ward mission leader. . . he is honestly the funniest guy haha 

this is a picture of about half the zone after zone P-day

July 24, 2016

 It's been another fantastic week in the great down under! So, I haven't told you much about my companion but he is a champion! He is from Belair Maryland right out of Baltimor. (pardon spelling). He went to a year of university for film development. And he plays soccor and basketball. He is about my size, And he is really funny. I feel like we are laughing all day long. We get along really well, I have been so blessed with getting good companions! They all are very different but they are all so great!

   This week we had an amazing experience. So about a year ago Elder Halsey was involed with teaching a family that was baptized and just went through the temple and was sealed. We were able to attend the sealing! I am so grateful that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has the priesthood keys neccesary to seal families together forever! It's wonderful to see the change that the gospel can make in peoples lives. This family were good before they are baptised but they still expressed that the gospel helped them grow! It makes bad men good and good men better! We always have room to improve, and the atonement of Jesus Christ makes it possible to improve!

     We also had another chance to meet with our mission president! He is so funny! He is very very motivating and has a lot of energy! He has a good vision for us and is pushing us to reach our goals! I love him and his wife! So, funny story! Two weeks ago Elder Ferris my old companion challenged President Vidmar to a hand stand contest! and I was not going to miss out on that! So I jumped in and it was just the three of us! and Elder Ferris had a bad start and fell out pretty quick but President and I (in our prosoliting clothes) stood on our hands without moving for quite a while, over a minute for sure. . . . . and then . . . . . I fell first! . . . I lost to my mission president haha but apparantly he was close to falling too so it supprised him! And now every time I see him he stops and talks about our next competition. haha we set a date for our next hand stand competition its going to be on Aug 12 and so we are both practicing! I can feel his love and the thing that is amazing is that he makes everyone feel that way! Everyone knows that he cares and that he wants them to be happy! He is awesome!

But I know that this church is true and that it blesses everyone

Has anyone had any missionary experiences the last week? I would love to hear them

I love you 

love Elder Wiser

This is me typing a letter on a type writter in a suit on a train. If thats not classy I dont know what is

and this is a brail book of mormon. it takes 8 binders and it fills up that whole box

this is my companion and i and the assistants to the president hahah i thought these were funny pictures. 

This is President Vidmar and I preparing for our next handstand competition!

These bikes are pretty cool 

This is the lucky family 

and their kids 

Us in front of a sunset

I got your package thank you

July 17, 2016

It has been a wonderful week, this week was my first week in my new area Cranbourne with Elder Halsey from Baltamor Maryland and my companion! Our area is one of the fastest growing areas in Melbourne, it has on average 80 new people move in a day. So lots of people to work with. but the area is growing really fast just this week we were able to find three new investigators that are looking really good

    The first ones name is Joel, biggest miracle ever. Elder Halsey taught Joel in one of his last areas but he was living with his partner and wasnt ready quite then, but then we found Joel in Cranbourne and started teaching him again! He works in the navy and is about 26 years old, probably one of the most humble people I have ever taught! He read the Book of Mormon the whole time that he wasnt meeting with missionaries and he just kept saying!" I dont even know what questions I have but I am looking for their answers. and I feel like somethings missing in my life, but when I read the Book of Mormon and meet with people from your church I feel so happy and I feel at home" so he is fully prepared! We are so excited to keep teaching him! He accepted a baptismal date on August and is progressing towards it really nicely! and he got married to his partner and they are expecting a baby soon. He wants his family to be raised in the gospel.  It reconfirmed my testimony that Gods timing is perfect! He knows exacly what we need right when we need it! and so we can trust in him! and we found two other people that accepted baptismal dates, their names are Aaron and Shane! I will update you more next week on them and their story

     But I found a chapter in the Book of Mormon that I really really love it is Mormon chapter 9 it talks miracles and the atonement and the plan of salvation and faith! I studied it all this week and it has changed my perspective on what faith really is! I invite you to read it with any question in mind!  It means so much to me that God is a God of miracles, he is the same yesterday today and forever! There were miracles in the Old and New Testament! There were miracles in Joseph Smiths time and there are miracles now! We all need miracles in our life! I know that God lives and that he loves us! Have a great week

Love Elder Wiser

This is of a man we found taking a nap in his car, "dont let smoking tire you out, smoke and sleep at the same time, its a new activity called smeeping"  

This is my new companion Elder Halsey!

This is a picture of the wetlands by our house so thats pretty cool

This is great! its called balut, it is a premature duck egg and you crack it open and suck out the juice and then eat this duck right out of the shell hahah it is kinda like a boiled egg but you can see the head and eyes and soft bones and feathers and stuff hahaha it is a philipino delicacy. so we enjoyed eating that at a members home hahah