tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35734421190365920142023-11-16T05:27:00.220-08:00Elder Alden HydeMy Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11910300226615267633noreply@blogger.comBlogger112125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573442119036592014.post-15349608481001181162013-03-26T20:49:00.002-07:002013-03-26T20:49:56.937-07:00He's coming home!!!We're trying to get the word out the best we can. Thought it would be good to post it here as well! We are SO excited!!<br />
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<br />My Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11910300226615267633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573442119036592014.post-31099618531835507082013-03-04T17:05:00.001-08:002013-03-04T17:05:45.521-08:00Last Transfer!Elder Hyde is on the final transfer of his mission!! We (as his family) are so excited but I think he is enjoying it so much and would stay longer if her could. In fact, the plan right now is for our father to go and get him and spend maybe two weeks there. His release date is April 10 but if everything works out we will not see him for a few weeks after that. <br />
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I havent' been great about updating the blog but he doesn't write much so I'm going to blame it on him. :) He mostly just answers any questions we ask him. He is still in the same area (Mildura) with the same companions. I guess the only change last week was that they got a new missionary in the area and so now they are no longer a threesome. There are two companionships and Elder Hyde is still with Elder Tuiluaai. Here are a few highlights from the past months with some pictures:<br />
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3/4/2013<br />
There are twins in the branch that are priest age. They were less active and so we decided that we wanted to take them out teaching. One of the twins is more active then the other and he was always keen to come out with us when we asked him, but the other twin would never come with us, we kept trying and he kept saying next time. Finally we got him out one time and he loved it, he has been out with us teaching a few times now and is active to mutual and to church. He shared his testimony that he was less active and doing the wrong things then when he went teaching he could see the blessings and that changed him. He now has the missionary spirit and shared it with the whole branch in his testimony yesterday. How great is our joy to have helped this young man come back to the fold and now he will help others. Glory to God!<div>
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We had a cool celebration where we invited a nonmember youth to church and she is really shy, we taught the mom and the brother but they were both not really interested, but the girl came to church and she knew a lot of the other youth, then when she went home she must have told her mom about it because we got a text from the moms auntie who is a member and it said that the mom wants to come to church now so that was a cool celebration. It made our week. The members still feed us to much. Another thing we went to Robinvale again this week and whenever we go down there we always find someone down there that they eventually baptize and we found 21 potential investigators while we were down there so hopefully they get the same results. Other than that we are doing our best and the lord is blessing us. So Robinvale is 1 hour from Mildura and there are 2 missionaries there and they are in our zone so we go down there every once and a while to help them with the work or make sure they are still working. ha. And provide them with some more company. Mostly Tongans live there because there is a lot of picking like grapes and almonds and oranges. So much potential there because the people are always way nice in little country towns so they are easier to talk to and get along with and get members to fellowship and stuff.</div>
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You must have been inspired to ask if there was something funny that happened this week because there was something quite funny that happened actually. We went to Robinvale to interview a baptism candidate and while we were there Elder Visesio told us he had a dream that he gave a talk in sacrament and that the people were wondering why he was talking again because he already got called up to bear his testimony the week before. Well on Sunday we were sitting in the chapel and all the sudden we hear " and our second speaker will be Elder Visesio". We just started cracking up at him. He wasn't told he would be speaking but he should have listened the dream. The whole time he was talking we were laughing at him.<br />This week has actually been pretty rough, we have been doing a lot of finding and people just slamming the door and stuff but we had a couple of experiences that made it all worth it one of them was this: All of our appointments fell through so we were stuck and didn't really know what to do. So we had about 30 minutes and we set some goals for this half hour. We wanted 1 other lesson and 1 new investigator. So then we thought of some names that this could happen with, when we visited that name, the person asked us if they have to take lessons before being baptized. She wants to be baptized, we will be teaching her this week.<div>
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My Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11910300226615267633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573442119036592014.post-15855536241514173912013-01-07T14:25:00.001-08:002013-01-07T14:25:52.304-08:00Christmas Pics, Mid-December BaptismElder Hyde sent some pics. He also had a baptism in the middle of December!<br />
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<br />My Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11910300226615267633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573442119036592014.post-11519114916219986472013-01-07T14:16:00.002-08:002013-01-07T14:17:24.792-08:00Different Christmas Traditions<div>
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I didnt realize how close christmas really was. You asked what traditions are different, um santa wears a speedo and rides a surf board, I don't know how that works with kids sitting on his lap that would be a bit weird with hairy legs or something, but I don't want to think about it too hard. They have the same music and stuff, it has been pretty weird to walk in the shopping centre and hear the christmas music playing for the past couple months. We will have christmas in adelaide, so I will be able to meet up with Elder Nngawaka, he just got sent to Adelaide. And yes the weather is a difference, I thought since I was out of Tennant and Alice that it wouldn't be as hot but I was wrong it was way hot the other day it was hard to breathe because the air was hot. Keep smiling! Share the joy. Love yas, tell the kids hey for me.<br />
Love Elder HydeMy Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11910300226615267633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573442119036592014.post-59215594648644276542012-12-03T20:09:00.002-08:002012-12-03T20:09:13.990-08:00New Companion(s)Elder Hyde's companion got transferred last week and he was placed in a 3-Elder companionship. Here is what he had to say about it!<br />
<br />They are Elder Tuiluaai straight from Samoa, a couple transfers ago, and Elder Mafi, a Tongan from Sydney. They are both funny and like to joke around so we have a lot of fun, but are able to get a lot of work done also. They were glad because they both can't drive so they had to ride bike but the weather is getting so hot that it would be hard to ride in. But luckily they get to ride in the car now, who knows one day I might accidentally lose the keys to make us ride the bike. Ha. We have been focusing on helping members mostly and helping them receive ordinances and it was cool this week. We had 2 ex-members get rebaptized and 2 baby blessings for less active members this week so the work is continuing to move forward and the Lord is opening the doors for us to bless the lives of his children.My Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11910300226615267633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573442119036592014.post-42493208334326341302012-11-02T12:48:00.001-07:002012-11-02T12:48:11.435-07:00Zone Conference in AdelaideWe had a sweet zone conference this past week in Adelaide. Elder Pearson came, and he just smashed us as a mission, he told us that we could be doing a lot better. He was speaking very bold too, telling us to repent and stuff. I was watching Sister Carter and it looked like she was going to cry for us because he wasn't taking it easy. I reckon that is what we needed though because we were all excited to get out and do the work after that. Another cool thing that we had was a musical fireside with the branch here. We set up for some members to sing and they are mostly islanders so they have way good voices. We had a pretty good turnout to that. Other than that things are still great. I just wanted to send this picture, it is of when we went to Adelaide.There is 4 of us missionaries here in Mildura, we aren't in a 4 some like in Alice Springs but we stay at the same flat and stuff, and we don't have split area. We work the same areas but it is just like whoever finds the person teaches them, so we are motivated to find a lot so that they don't get taken by the others. ha. The other 2 are Elder Mafi and Elder Tuiluaai. Love ya!<br />Love Elder Hyde<br />
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My Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11910300226615267633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573442119036592014.post-9725178870046445152012-10-22T12:46:00.001-07:002012-10-22T12:46:20.831-07:00Transferred!!Last week Elder Hyde wrote to us. About two sentences. He said that he couldn't talk long and that he had to catch a plane to Adelaide. We weren't able to get any more details than that!! We were excited to talk to him this week and get some more details. Here is what he said:<br />
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Well the info you may have been waiting for. Leaving from Alice was way hard. I got a call from the members up there just a couple days ago. They called the mission office to find out where I was and they got the number from them. They just said they missed me and wished me luck and that I have to go back after the mission. Ha. But anyway after leaving Alice I got to Adelaide and stayed the night there with the assistants waiting for transfer meeting, where I was told that I was heading off to Mildura, it is about 5 hours drive away from Adelaide, in Victoria. There are heaps of islanders so it is good. I have never eaten so much fast food. We have tea dates a lot and sometimes they feel lazy to cook so when we show up they take us to KFC or Maccers or something. Its crazy. I will probably put back on heaps of weight but oh well.<div>
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I couldn't ask for a better companion.H name is Elder Ngawaka, from Auckland, New Zealand. He is a mix of Aussie, Maori I think, and Cook Island. He is the man. I just wanted to share this experience with you real quick, probably the most spiritual experiences I have had:<div>
We had a great experience this week with a referral. We were going to have a lesson with her so we were looking for members to go with us, unfortunately the members that can usually come were all busy so we were struggling to find someone. We had a feeling to keep trying and we got ahold of a member that could come. We showed up at her house and she was going through a rough time, family was yelling at each other and it wasn't a good situation so we were thinking that maybe we should leave and set up for another time, but the member said lets wait for just a few minutes and stick it out. She invited us in and she let us know her situation, it turns out the member that the Lord provided knew exactly this situation and had been through it before. He was able to deliver doctrine to her needs and bear testimony of personal experience. This was something as missionaries we probably wouldn't have been able to do as well. During the lesson she broke out in prayer as tears filled her eyes. She felt the spirit strongly and invited us back, we committed her to read and pray. On the follow up visit we went back with the same member and his wife. She came out to greet us as happy as could be, with the light of Christ brightening her face. It was truly amazing to see the change in her. Straight away, before we could ask she told us that she prayed and read the scripture and has never been so happy. And even without us saying anymore she told us she wanted to come to church the next day (which the members jumped on and told her that they would pick her up) she didn't even stop there though, she said that she wants to be baptized without us even discussing that before. It was one of the most amazing experiences. She came to church and it was the primary program, she cried throughout the whole sacrament meeting. Glory be to the Father. If it wasn't for this specific member and his experiences, then I don't believe this would have happened. The Lord provided this member at this time to help this lady. I know the Lord provides the way as long as we try our best and dont give up. <br />That is a terrible description of what really happened and the efforts that were put into it and there were many more little details that all fit together for this to happen, the Lord provided it to happen though and I am grateful I was a part of it.<br />I love you all and hope you have a great week. The time is a half hour different I don't know if it is behind or ahead, but yeah.<br />Love Elder Hyde</div>
My Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11910300226615267633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573442119036592014.post-89512284633567373292012-10-07T20:20:00.001-07:002012-10-07T20:20:27.250-07:00Sept 24, Sept 30, Oct 7Sept 24<br /><br />We only spent half the week out bush and the rest in town because there was a conference for the whole Northern Territory. President Carter is coming today and we are having a training with him tomorrow. Then he will come out bush the next day so I am a bit nervous but it will be good for him to see the bush and the people out there. The companionship is way fun they are all islanders but only the one has lived in Australia for most his life. The one thing about islanders is that they eat a lot so they smash all the food. I like the tuna now just because we don't have to cook it just eat it straight from the can. I am not as picky anymore. Just eat whatever fills my stomach. When the mob get a kangaroo they let us try the intestines and brain and kidney and stuff. They taste alright. For pday we have the assistants so we are going to a park and having a barby and some sports it should be fun, its not too hot or too cold either so its good. <br /><br />Man thanks for the advice, where do you get all this from, you always say the right things at the right time. That will help out a lot, that is also something that we have been talking about, just making the time instead of just waiting for it to come because it would probably never come then.<br />We weren't able to spend much time in Harts Range this week to find priesthood, because we had to come in on the weekend to Alice Springs because there was a district conference from Darwin that we watched. Some of the bush saints came into town to watch it so that was good. The priesthood we have in Mulga Bore is pretty solid, Gary is showing the example its just getting the other men to follow, but also in Harts Range we have found some men that are less active so we may be able to just bring them back and build them up instead of trying to get new ones, so it is coming along. It will happen. Thanks for your prayers, they are helping.<br />Love you heaps.<div>
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This week was great, we were able to have the assistants and Pres and Sister Carter come up for a training and that took all day on Tuesday and we had interviews after. President Carter is the man. Then on Wednesday one of the members brought him out bush with us. It was funny to see how Sister Carter reacted when she saw where we lived and how they live and stuff. I think President Carter has a good idea of the work out bush now and he is planning on doing something big to help them out. Some other funny things that happened was that the place that we stay in Harts Range ran out of water so we thought weren't able to take a shower for a few days, but we found a rock hole where we thought we could wash up but it ended up being super dirty with animal poo and stuff so that plan failed so we ended up going to the public toilet in Harts Range and used the shower there, we just didn't look at the dirt around us as we were showering. Ha.<br />Most importantly, thanks for your prayers about us finding potential priesthood because this week we were able to get 4 new investigators and the best part about that is that they were all men. God answers prayers.<div>
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I couldn't believe that they changed the age for missionaries, we need more so that is awesome. I still can't believe it though. We didn't get to hear any of it though, they won't even show it in the branch here until the end of the month. We will probably stay in town when they show it here so I will hopefully hear it sometime.<br />This week was great. Me and Elder Visesio had the opportunity of going out bush just the two of us for a couple of days. We had heaps of miracles, like this lady in Engawala that we never really talked to, she was praying that we would come on this certain day, and our plans weren't really to go on that day but we changed plans at the last minute because that is what the Lord wanted. When we got there we were teaching her brother and she came to the lesson and said she wanted to learn and told us that she was hoping we would come that day. Then the next day we had church there and straight away when we told her about church she got ready and her kids too. She beat us to where we were going to have church and then as we were setting up she even went back and was picking people of for church because it was too hot for some of them to walk. Great things are happening and the Lord is preparing them. Glory be to the Father. This is just a little experience from the week that I wanted to share with you.<div>
I am already almost out of time but I wanted to share a couple of more miracles that we saw out bush with you. One was a principle that we learned from mom. Never give up.W drove to the community of Harts Range just to find out that the usual family that comes to church wasn't there and some were sick. So we almost had to just cancel church there. But we decided there were still some people that needed church so what we did was find a different place to have it and still invite other families because they would still need the sacrament. We were able to make it happen and many people were uplifted and ourselves especially. It may seem like a simple story but there is a lot of effort that was put into making it happen, we were fasting the whole day. This was our last stop and it was 100 degrees. It would have been easy for us to quit but we didn't. We did what the Lord wanted us to do. As we gave our all, there was a great outcome. This is a great work and I wouldn't trade these experiences.<br />Another cool thing that happened was that we finally had church in Mulga Bore with one family. Mulga Bore is the strong community where the church pretty much started out here. We had a testimony meeting and they got up straight away to say their testimony, no mucking around. ha. Usually with my experiences we have to help the aboriginals share their testimony but they did it humbly and on their own. They shared their own experiences and the spirit was so strong. I know that God lives and loves us.<br />Have a great week. Love ya.<br />Love Elder Hyde</div>
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My Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11910300226615267633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573442119036592014.post-84207791745536975002012-09-19T18:57:00.000-07:002012-09-19T18:57:01.542-07:00Letters From Sept 9 and Sept 16. . . . And PICTURES!Sept 9<br /><br />I can't think of anything that I would need at Christmas yet but, I was thinking about some things we could use for bush now it is starting to get hot and they have been asking for water balloon fights and stuff so maybe some small squirt gun things and water balloons for water balloon volleyball and stuff but that is only if somebody was thinking of sending a package before Christmas, if not then we could probably just get them here. Money in the account is cool then you don't have to pay shipping and stuff but surprises are cool so you can surprise me with what you want to do. I hope I am still around here at Christmas. We got our new companion this week his name is Elder Lacanivalu, from Fiji, he is tall as but has a heart of gold. It was funny to see when we first took him around to see all of our families some of the little kids would get scared and run away because he is so tall and one time he was sitting on the ground and then some people came so he stood up and the look on their faces when they saw how tall he was when he stood up was priceless. I love this companionship. Miracles will happen. We stayed in town this week because Mulga Bore was in the footy grand final in town. So all the communities were in town to see them play. They ended up losing which was sad, but a good thing was that we were able to still have church in town with them at the chapel. Tanya gave a testimony and it was powerful but her voice was gone because she screamed to much at the football game the night before. All the bush elders had to give a talk in the Alice Springs branch yesterday too. We give talks every week out bush but that is only to about 20 people each week, it was cool and weird to give a talk in front of a large group again. And then we did a musical item also. That was funny. We had to move flats in town too this week so it was a pretty full on week. Time has gone quick and I already have to go, but I hope you have a great week, the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the truth. Love ya.<div>
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The week was pretty good but one of the hardest weeks I have had out bush. We just had a lot of down time where things fell through and people not wanting to act but that was just in one community. Another community is doing great, we were able to teach a lot and heaps of people came to church we might have to start to get more benches there. Dream big.<br />I have never eaten so much tuna in my life, it is good though. We don't like cooking much so we have been getting canned tuna and bread and that is pretty much all of our meals. Ha. Oh and don't forget the sauce mustard and tomato sauce. <div>
Just wanted to send a couple photos of the companionship that I thought were pretty cool.<br />We went out bush this week, it was Elder Lacanivalu first time and he was pretty funny out there. He is excited to do the work, so excited that when we were teaching he invited a less active to be baptized. Ha. The member said I have already been baptized and Elder Lacanivalu just said "oh I was just role playing practicing for when I do it for real." ha. We should have warned him it was a less active.<br />Man, one of the communities called Harts Range is pumping right now. I love going there, the people are coming to church and they are always happy to see us and have stories. We had heaps of people at church there yesterday and a lot of new faces with investigators and less active. The one problem we have there though is that we can't exactly just baptize because there is no priesthood there at the moment so we want to get priesthood and then Harts Range in going to become Zion. I just can't wait to get back out there.<br />I don't know if I have ever thanked you enough for raising me in the gospel and being such and example to me, I see the blessings from it now. Thanks heaps.<br />Love you<br />Love Elder Hyde</div>
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My Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11910300226615267633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573442119036592014.post-20118417610515645732012-09-02T19:26:00.000-07:002012-09-02T19:26:01.904-07:00Letters from Aug 26 and Sept 3September 3<br />
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August 26<br />
Things have just been getting better and better. The weather is warming up which is good. Se saw heaps of miracles this past week, but one in particular; last night we were getting ready to have a lesson at one of the houses and at this house there are heaps of families that live there, they each have their own room, and so when we have stories, we have it in the living room and people that want to come to the living room and there are usually people still left in their rooms especially the men. But this time they made an effort to have everyone there and even young men and older men came it was a great experience to see them want to come closer as a family. I think one thing that may be bringing them closer together is that the father of the community is in the hospital and has been for a long time and he isn't getting much better so that is bringing them closer to the Lord for help. Which also reminds me, could yous remember in your prayers Lyndsay Bird and his family. He is the one in the hospital. <br />
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It has been one of the best weeks out bush. More people are coming to church. They are being more excited about the gospel. We are getting new investigators from hard work and it is getting warmer. Couldn't ask for anything better. We don't really know when we will know if bush will be shut or not. President said that the Lord may take a year or more or earlier. He just needs to find out more about what is going on out there and then take it to the Lord and find out what He wants. He said he is not in a rush. President Carter is the man. It is always great to have him up here. All my companions and I are still getting along. It is a good companionship, we all balance each other out. <br />
Love Yas, <br />
Elder HydeMy Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11910300226615267633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573442119036592014.post-40080521566208987882012-08-19T20:05:00.000-07:002012-08-19T20:05:20.249-07:00Church in AngkulaHad a great week this week. It started out with President and Sister Carter coming up for a zone training. Then afterwards we had a bush meeting with him to let him know more about what is happening out bush. There is a lot of discussion on whether they should shut down the bush or not and it is President Carter's decision. So we had to let him know the work we are doing and if it is working. So that really motivated us this week to make it the best week and prove that the people out bush are progressing and that the gospel is helping them. We saw a lot of miracles this week. They were more keen for stories and lessons, we actually had church in one of the communities that hasn't had a church service for a few months now. <br />
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Had a sweet experience out bush this week where we had church in Angkula for the first time since I have been here, because it is the community where most of the people have been staying in town. It is also the one where the strongest priesthood leaders are. We were over at where we were holding church just getting ready for them to come over, when I looked up I saw these 3 guys wearing white shirts and ties walking in a line together coming to church, it was a cool sight. I just imagined it in slow motion like in the movies. Their hair was all slicked back and they were ready. Wearing clean shirts and pants. Awesome as. Then at church they conducted and did most of the things. Felt the spirit strong. <br />
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Just a couple of things that happened. They showed their love to us by inviting us to have a bit of kangaroo with them that they caught. They usually just eat it themselves but by inviting us it showed their trust and love to us. It is pretty crazy how they eat it. They put the whole thing in the ground in the fire to cook. Then when it is cooked they take it out and cut the thighs and heaps of blood comes out and they catch it in a cup and pass it around to drink. Then they chop it up and get the parts that they like. <br />
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My Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11910300226615267633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573442119036592014.post-68260887832175454442012-08-12T19:57:00.001-07:002012-08-12T19:58:41.526-07:00Priesthood PowerI still love it here, this week I had a trade off with the zone leader in town though so I didn't go out bush. But it was cool to meet some of the members here in town. We are trying to connect the town and the bush together, because one of the problems that we have is that the bush members don't really have an example to look for how members of the church should act and stuff because they don't see the members in town much and we are the only people of the church that they really come in contact with. So maybe with the members that I have met we can bring them closer together, and we will be able to accomplish a lot with the members being an example for the bush saints. My trade off was with Elder Taukafa, he is a giant islander from Sydney. He plays pro rugby but he is humble and very spiritual. I learned a lot from him. It was good.<br />
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Keep smiling. Make the best of this week. Love ya.<br />
Love Elder Hyde<br />
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<br />My Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11910300226615267633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573442119036592014.post-41731429908139812902012-08-12T17:58:00.003-07:002012-08-12T18:23:32.602-07:00Letter from August 5thThis is a picture when President Carter came up for zone conference a little while ago. I can't think of anything else you could tell people besides good maybe great or fantastic. Ha. One of the priesthood holders out in Angkula, named Adrian, wanted me to tell you that Elvis Presley is still alive, he is just hiding. But you can't tell anybody because it is a secret. He is obsessed with Elvis and has heaps of Elvis stuff. He wants you to take a picture of him if you ever see him around. Some of the members from Mulga Bore took a horse to the horse races in Harts Range and they just caught wild horses and took them but we saw them getting them ready to take to Harts Range. It was kind of funny because the horses didn't want to be ridden on but they were supposed to be racing in the next couple of days. I realized what the saying "peeing like a race horse" meant because I saw it, yuck. Like a fire hydrant. Anyways, something cool that happened this week, we had a little family home evening thing with some of the bush saints and we used flour in a cup then tipped it over so that the flour was just standing on its own, and then put a skittle on it. Then with a knife you go around and cut the flour and whoever makes the skittle fall has to eat some plain flour. It was showing that we need to build on Jesus Christ, on solid ground. If we don't then we fall down and have to taste the yuck. Then the kids had a flour war after that and they were all white. ha. Those are some cool things that happened this week. I just learned that I will be staying in town this week with one of the zone leaders because the other one is going to go out bush and see how the work is going out there. Yeah. Everything is still awesome here. I hope your still enjoying life as much as you can. Keep smiling. Love ya.<br />
Love Elder Hyde<br />
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I came in an interesting situation because one of the communities that we visit, all of the people are in town, so I haven't seen them out there, but the times I have stayed in town we visit them at their houses here. I have really grown to love them, they are probably the most progressed in the gospel at this point, they have a few worthy priesthood leaders. Then I also really like the other 2, Engawala has quite a few members so that one is cool to visit. And Harts Range there is not many members but it is still cool there.<br />-Are there any that don't seem to welcome you as well? </div>
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There are just a couple families in Engawala and Harts Range that don't really like talking to us but they aren't hostile towards us.<br />-Is it mostly the women that will listen to you? </div>
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They have heaps of domestic dogs butIi don't know if I would call them domestic. They are pretty dingy. Missing fur or skinny. But yeah. There are dingos also but they don't really come into the communities, just if you camp outside them. And that is also why they have dogs to fight off the dingos. Like the community that our shed is in, we can hear dingos but then our dog Mcnight fights them off.<br />-It seems like I read a story of a baby that got carried away by dingos there. </div>
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We got to have a personal interview with him and that lasted 15 minutes then we had a training the next day for the whole day so we spent some good time with him.<br />-Are there any of the aboriginal women that like to mother the missionaries (sometimes to the point of spoiling) or do they just think you should be men and take care of yourselves? </div>
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Yes, we all have different backgrounds that help the work a lot, but unfortunately we just found out that my comp Elder Hepworth and Elder Teeples are leaving, me and Yamamoto are staying.<br /> <br />Keep smiling. One of my favorite scriptures- 2 Nephi 2:25 We are here to have joy, keep enjoying life. Love you heaps!</div>
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My new comp is Elder Visesio, its a tongue twister. He is fairly new in the mission but is already a great missionary. He is an islander with Samoan blood born in New Zealand but lives in Brisbane. He has 4 siblings and he is the oldest. He is very humble and funny. The other new comp is not a new companion for me. He is Elder Sie. The one I served with in Elisabeth. He is even funnier and more focused then before so he is great. It was sad to see the others go, but we are going to accomplish miracles with these elders.<br />
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Um well, one that was kind of weird but funny was Elder Sie got peed on by one of the kids in Engawala. There are heaps of little things that are funny that happen and I tend to notice them more when I am looking for them so I will look for more of them so that I can write you more.</div>
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Thanks for writing. Just thinking, we have this vision that we want some of the aboriginal families to make it to the temple by October because that is when the branch is going down to Adelaide to go. Could you include them in your prayers that this may be possible. Thanks. Love yous heaps.<br />
Love Elder HydeMy Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11910300226615267633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573442119036592014.post-83641852603057425432012-07-15T20:25:00.002-07:002012-07-15T20:25:57.496-07:00Another WeekElder Hyde skipped out on his weekly the last couple weeks. He responded to ours but didn't write one of his own so we are going to have to get after him for that. Here is some of what he had to say:<br />
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"This week has been good. This time it was just me and Elder Yamamoto that went out to bush and we were only there for three days, because there was a show her in Alice so all the communities came in for that. So we didn't do church out bush this week. It was weird going to an actual organized branch for church. I haven't been to one for the past like 8 months, just got to sit back and relax. For church out bush we hurry to all the communities and do sacrament at all of them. We give talks and conduct and preside, so we do the whole lot. Its way fun-you get to learn a lot that way. We do have something planned for p-day today. . . . CLEANING! We want everything to look the best for when President Carter comes up. We have interviews with him tomorrow and then training on Wednesday. We do have some investigators, more of our focus is developing the priesthood so they can run the show, and strengthening the members to do their own missionary work."<br />
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When asked how his week was and how it went meeting his new mission president:<br />
"The week has been good. We didn't go out bush at all we just stayed in town because some of the bush saints were here so we had to stay in and look after them. The meeting with President Carter was good. He is awesome. We did get everything clean but he didn't even look at any of it. Ha. They are really going to help us get things moving more quickly here. At the end of the interview it was pretty funny because we were kneeling down to pray, and I got a cramp in my leg because we had done some service for some people and I didn't drink much water during or after it. So I had to stand up and stretch and then we could say the prayer. Ha."<br />
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When asked if they have many investigators in the areas they go to:<br />
"When we are in town we pretty much have to just go finding tracting and stuff all day and then give who we find to the town elders so we meet heaps of people and we have been running into a lot of Americans lately. There is a secret base here that they work at. We do have investigators, not very many but there are some and a lot of potentials we are trying to start teaching. It is interesting how it works because they have to come to church 2 times before we can count them as new investigators and when we start teaching them."<br />
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Here is a part of his letter our dad:<br />
"I can't think of anything that I really need here yet. Transfers is this week and there is a lot of talk in the air so I don't know. It has gone by so quick though. All of the aboriginals in those communities pretty much know us, even if we really don't know them. Actually last time there were some that told us that we need to visit them because they knew us and saw us going around but we never went to their house. <br />Yeah the whites own the cattle stations, we never see or talk to them although I want to try to hook up with them and see if their wife would cook us food or something. ha. but they aren't really our focus. The aboriginals are our focus. <br />Well love you. Stay happy.<br />Love Elder Hyde"<br />
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My Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11910300226615267633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573442119036592014.post-15760221125948866542012-07-03T11:28:00.000-07:002012-07-03T11:28:18.252-07:00Just Pictures This WeekThis week Elder Hyde just sent a few pictures along with some responses to some questions that we asked him. Here are the pictures:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elder Hepworth, Elder Hyde</td></tr>
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Here is how Elder Hyde descibed this gate: "There is this gate that we have to go through because there are cattle so we have to get out of the ute and open it up, but directly under the gate there is an ant hill. But they are not normal ants. They chase you! So you either have to be really fast to open the gate or do a little dance to stay away from them. It is especially hard at night!"<br />
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Another side note: "Our new mission president came in last night so we will meet him on July 10th when he comes to Alice."My Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11910300226615267633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573442119036592014.post-3173838077503478552012-07-03T11:17:00.005-07:002012-07-03T11:17:49.525-07:00Great News!Hey family,<br />I recieved some great news this week from Tennant Creek. Noeleen the lady that I was working with for the past 4 months to baptize actually got baptized. Flipping exciting. Can't wait to hear how they did it. I don't know how the week could get better after hearing that.<br />Time flys like crazy here. We get up in the morning get ready pack up the ute, go out and teach til night then we unpack, eat, and sleep. I wish I had more time to explain it also but the time also flys while I am emailing so it is hard to write a whole lot.<br />Love ya.<br />Love Elder HydeMy Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11910300226615267633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573442119036592014.post-75014839166563441482012-06-17T19:51:00.001-07:002012-06-17T19:51:06.364-07:00Learning More About the BushG'day family,<br />Great week! Learned more ways about the bush. We went out bush on Wednesday. It ended up being just me and Elder Hepworth because 2 of the communities that we go to, all of the people were in town so 2 missionaries stayed here to look after them. We went to the other 2 communities. It is pretty cold out there. The shed we stay in is tinny, it has a bathroom in it, to have a warm shower when we wake up one person has to start a fire under the water heater thing and it heats up the water. i will send a picture of it.<br />I could try and describe the bush and the people and how we do the work but it is pretty hard sometimes, and you cant quite get the full picture until you experience it.<br />We drive quite a bit in the utes between the communities. They love the missionaries out there. The communities are pretty small only like maybe 200 people or less. The main focus is building priesthood leaders because we pretty much run the show for church and stuff, but there are a couple of good men out there that help a lot with the church, soon we will be able to make the switch to them running the programs. We do a lot of activities and movie nights and family home evenings. We collect a lot of fire wood for them so they can keep warm. I love it out there.<br />Love you all heaps. Keep smiling :)<br />Love Elder Hyde<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br /></div>My Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11910300226615267633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573442119036592014.post-35787519537032383132012-06-12T12:16:00.000-07:002012-06-12T12:16:01.004-07:00Packing Up!!Hello family,<br />I guess I will start out with the information that you will probably really want to know. It was transfers this weekend. We were planning on going up to Elliott for the weekend but when we called to ask permission they told us that we couldn't. That seemed weird. Then we realized it was transfers, so we knew that one of us was gone and that we would have to be in Alice Springs. They later told us that. . . I was packing. :( I wasn't expecting that. But fortunately they didnt say that I was packing 23 kg because that would mean that I was leaving the Alice Springs zone. I got my new companion yesterday. His name is Elder Hepworth from Utah. And my new area is called "Bushland Water". We are basically in a companionship of 4. We travel out to the aboriginal communities around Alice Springs to help bring the gospel to them. We will be leaving tomorrow and coming back in to town on Mondays for pdays then we go back out each week like that. I was pretty sad when I heard that I was leaving a big aboriginal community in Tennant but now I am going to where there will be even more. It is also way colder down here than in Tennant Creek, there is frost on the ground in the morning when we go play soccer. Love you all. Have a great week.<br />Love Elder HydeMy Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11910300226615267633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573442119036592014.post-74881631154654195372012-05-27T21:39:00.001-07:002012-05-27T21:39:57.659-07:00Setting Up for the CircusHello family,<br />Something funny that happened this week was we helped set up and cook food for the circus that was in town again. They did the show outside this time because they were using fire in the show. \We helped set up some mesh fencing stuff around where they were having the show kind of like a backdrop but on the side. During one of the acts the clown had a whip that was on fire. When he would whip it would make a little explosion of fire. One time he did this a little bit of gas flew off and got on the fence. All the sudden it went up in flame. The Tennant Creek crowd likes entertainment, when that happened everybody was cheering. Then they put it out and people cheered some more. ha. Then they continued the fire show. Good stuff.<br />It has actually started to get pretty cold. Not really, but I got used to the hot. It gets like 60 degrees in the morning and at night which feels pretty cold. And there is a wind that blows constantly too. I remember Elder Tomadakis telling me that it actually got cold here and I didnt believe him. I couldn't see how somewhere so hot could actually get cold.<br />Keep your heads high. Love you all.<br />Love Elder HydeMy Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11910300226615267633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573442119036592014.post-73216775491620415472012-05-22T20:20:00.001-07:002012-05-22T20:20:34.940-07:00Special Sacrament Meeting VisitorG'day family,<br />This week has been great. We drove down to Alice for p-day. When we got there we had our last interview with President Poulton and Sister Poulton. Then for the next 2 days we had trainings from him. I think they only have like 6 weeks left. They have been focusing a lot on how we can change ourselves to change the world. This time they talked a lot about how we decide if we are happy or not, by thinking positive about everything. I guess our brain works better when we are happy also.<br />Whenever me and my comp think that something is going wrong we try to look on the bright side. When someone shuts the door, we do a fist pump and say yes! Not really. At the end of the training they gave us our leavers interview even though they are leaving.<br />I met somebody in Alice Springs from Roy this past week, e had tea with their family. I couldn't understand her last name but her father is a chiropractor and is in the 28th ward in Roy.<br />We were only in Tennant Creek for 2 days. We held church here and then went straight to Elliott after so that we could have sacrament up there. It has been a while since I have been up there. I love going up there. We always have unexpected visitors at sacrament up there, this time it was a big black pig. All the kids started to chase it away during Elder Tollis' talk. Then we camped at the lake and we just barely got back not to long ago.<br />Take it easy, love yas.<br />Elder Hyde<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br /></div>My Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11910300226615267633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573442119036592014.post-13883518245786070592012-05-14T21:25:00.000-07:002012-05-14T21:25:01.336-07:00New Comp and First Taste of GoannaG'day family,<br />Far out. It has been a full on week. Our P-day was changed to Tuesday due to a public holiday on Monday. Unfortunately on Tuesday the internet was down for Tennant Creek, the landline phone and even our mobile phones didn't work. We didn't have any communication with anyone for a day, then the internet still didn't work for another day, so now I am writing today. Anyway, I will get off my soap box now.<br />Now I will tell you the info that you have been waiting for. My new companion in elder Tollis. You will never guess where he is from. . . another Tahitian. ha. He also has a quarter french in him. He has been on his mission about 18 months now. He is pretty funny. He doesn't have his driver's license so I have to drive the whole way. 5 hours. Ha<br />I ate my first goanna this past week. It tastes like chicken and fish mixed together. They cook it in the ground.<br />On sunday the N.T. district president was down for church. He brought his wife and a kid. That was cool to have him down. Someone else presiding at the meeting besides ourself, ha.<br />We are still making progress with the baptismal candidate, she was able to have her interview for baptism and passed, yeah! So it will happen soon. I wish I could say a solid date, but we will just have to see when the time is right and everthing works out.<br />Love yas heaps. Keep smiling.<br />Love Elder Hyde<div>
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</div>My Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11910300226615267633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573442119036592014.post-86350997516859429032012-05-01T10:08:00.001-07:002012-05-01T10:08:26.282-07:00Somebody is Leaving. . . .Hey Family,<br />This week was like a roller coaster-it has been full of ups and downs.<br />We weren't able to baptize our investigator because she wasn't quite ready, but she is still looking forward to being baptized in the next couple of weeks. She is still coming to church and we also had a few new investigators at church also, it's growing! <br />We helped cook a meal as a service for a kids activity in Tennant Creek. These people from the circus came and were teaching the kids how to do circus tricks and then they put a show on at the end where the kids did the circus show. So we cooked the meals for their practices. The clowns got us to do a few tricks. Like riding unicycle, juggling. etc.<br />We found out transfer information this time and . . . somebody is leaving . . . Elder T is leaving and I am staying. We are in Alice Springs right now and I will pick up my new companion this afternoon. That's another up and down, it is sad to see Elder T leave but it will be good to have a new person in Tennant Creek. It's been a good 6 months. We will drop him off at the airport then get the new guys.<br />Well love you all. Have a fantastic week.<br />Love Elder HydeMy Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11910300226615267633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573442119036592014.post-68406996644434038632012-04-24T10:03:00.003-07:002012-04-24T10:03:45.669-07:00Trolley Accident (be sure to read the Aussie Term of the Week)Hey Family,<br />You said last week that the weather can't decide if it wants to be hot or cold. I know how you feel now. Last week I said it got cold, this week it was as hot as ever. Now it is raining again so it is getting cold again. The only thing is I have been waiting for the cold and you are waiting for the warm probably.<br />We witnessed one of the funniest things this week. We saw a shopping trolley accident. I wont be able to describe it to make it sound as funny as it was but here goes... we have this one investigator that everytime we see her driving her car and we are on the bikes we make sure we get out of the way because she is just learning how to drive. So she was one trolley driver that was involved. I guess she is learning how to drive a trolley also. The other crash victim was a lady that just woke up. It was a head on crash. I think this lady fell asleep at the wheel because after it happened she was rubbing her eyes bloodshot eyes and saying, "I just woke up." Ha. Everyone in the shop started laughing. It was hilarious. Anyway that was the entertainment of the week.<br />Our bikes get a lot of use and there is not a bike shop up here so we try to take the best care of them that we can. But the tread on Elder T's tyre was getting pretty low. The tube started to show through the tyre, we realized that was bad but we were in the furthest camp away from town. We were riding and all of the sudden {= poof =} his tyre blew. We walked the rest of the way home. Good times.<br />Our investigator that is looking forward to being baptized has now come to church enough and has shown her desire to be baptized that we might have a baptism this weekend. I say might because I have learned that nothing is for sure in missionary work especially in Tennant Creek and especially with the aboriginals. We have the faith that it will happen though. We are looking forward to it. It is also the last week before transfers so we are banking on it even more.<br />Well, Love yas.<br />Love Elder Hyde<br /> <br />AUSSIE TERM OF THE WEEK:<br />trolley = shopping cartMy Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11910300226615267633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573442119036592014.post-92221339772186915852012-04-24T09:59:00.000-07:002012-04-24T09:59:04.778-07:00Sign of ProtectionHello family,<br />We actually did a little bit of something for pday last week. We played some golf. The course is just dirt. Heaps of flys too. The green is just dirt too so they have like a roller and rake and you make your own little track to the hole. I would like to see Tiger Woods play on that course. Ha.<br />I have had an increase of dogs peeing on my bike lately, just the tyres so that is okay. The aboriginals say that it is a sign of protection from them. Something else happened this week though, there was a little boy that peed on my bike. I dont know if that means anything in their culture. Whats next to pee on it?<br />The weather is getting cold now. On wednesday it actually got down to 70 degrees, we almost had to put a jumper on and actually had to take a warm shower too. The smell of fires is starting to fill the air. That is how everyone in town keeps warm.<br />I hope you all start feeling better from the flu. Love ya.<br />Love Elder Hyde<br /> <br />AUSSIE TERM OF THE WEEK:<br />jumper = sweaterMy Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11910300226615267633noreply@blogger.com0