Made it to the Land Down Under!!!!

Elder Pierce Arrives at the Mission Home in Brisbane, Australia

The following is a precious message we received from Noah's Mission President and his wife letting us know that our son, Elder Noah Pierce, made it to the land he will call home for the next two years!  What a tender mercy!

Dear Pierce Family,

We are delighted to report that your son, Elder Pierce, arrived safely at the mission home in Brisbane, Australia!  Your son is an impressive man filled with the missionary spirit; we love his positive attitude and excitement for the work and are thrilled that he will be serving with us in this great mission.  Elder Pierce has an excellent trainer, Elder Parker, and they will learn much serving together in the Camira Area in the Centenary Zone.

You should be receiving an email each week from your missionary, and he should be receiving one from you as well.  Though they are immersed in the work, they do miss home, and a loving letter from family is comforting and reassuring. We are grateful for your support of us and as an expression of our gratitude and appreciation, we have created a webpage for you to follow: australiabrisbanemission.com.  We will post pictures of our missionaries and will do our best to capture all that is happening in our mission; especially the missionaries' joys and successes as they labor in the Lord’s vineyard. As they email us pictures of their baptisms, we will post those as well.

We are so happy and humbled to be able to serve the Lord along with your son, Elder Pierce.  Great blessings are in store for not only your missionary, but family at home as well.  We know that you will experience marvelous blessings as you support your son while he serves the Lord honorably and obediently on his mission.  We pray for the Lord's blessings upon you, your missionary and his other loved ones.

Love,

President & Sister Henderson: Australia Brisbane Mission

4/5/2016  (Noah's first letter from Australia)

TALO FALVA!!! (hello in Samoan)

     Alright so first things first today is Wednesday here in the land down under. So I'm writing y'all from the future!!! But sorry about not emailing on Monday because it was super crazy with the scheduling... it was a crazy day. It was what we call a full day p-day which means that the last transfer our zone smashed their goals for baptisms and they got to have play all day from 6-9 pm at President Henderson's house but also because of that it means time was crazy and short... But it was really fun! Also when we went to email on Monday, first all the computers were taken and they told us to come back in an hour and then when we came back in an hour all of the internet and the phones were down in the computer lab place... and they are still down today... Needless to say i was a little disappointed about that but it all turned out okay! and I'm emailing now! But so we are at a member's house emailing but we had to get permission straight from President Henderson. And we hadn't been able to get a hold of him until last night... But like I said it's all good or as they would say here in the land down under No Worries! But i also only get thirty minutes to email since the family only has one computer but..... So i will try to describe all i can in my short time! I also don't really have time to upload my pictures so i'm going to have to send them next week but sorry about that!!

  

 But so it is fall here or as they would say Autumn and it's actually pretty hot..... its like 30 degrees Celsius but I don't know what that is in Fahrenheit but it is hot I can assure you.. and humid! And when you are in your full proselyting clothes and you are biking it gets  a little warm but I love it still here :)  The plane ride was good just long and only minimal complications if i had some more time i would talk about it.. Sorry! In our area we don't have a car and we bike most the time which is alright because i like biking :) 

My ward here is 85% Samoan which is kind of crazy and their English can be a little hard to understand at times because it's an Australian/Samoan accent hahaha. They are awesome people and they feed us heaps of food! all of the time. All the other missionaries say that I'm going to gain some weight in this area because they feed the missionaries a lot even when we don't have appointments with them which is pretty nice actually!! But sorry I'm all out of time...Australia is pretty just a little hot and the people are awesome!!

And we are going to watch general conference at a chapel about an hour away since our area doesn't have a proper chapel. Have a great week all and I'll explain more next week!!

-Elder Pierce