Chriistmas

Wassup!!!! Definately was in need of a new updated as it has been too long! Just about 2 months. Gosh how entirely slack!

Anyway, Christmas has finally been and gone and it was awesome :)
It is great to see that christmas is not just about presents and the latest technology from this generation. People turn their attention towards how much they love being with family and friends and everything and it is just AMAZING to see that! I LOVED christmas this year! I wasnt abole to spend it with my friends and family back in New Zealand but I did spend it with my Mum and the kids and Steves family i.e mums bfs family! the are one heck of an amzing bunch of people! I did however get to talk to everyone back home and they sounded great which was an awesome feeling and that I didnt let them down too much with not going back home for Christmas :) I didnt want anything for Christmas but my friends and family did not listen to me and i got the most awesomest gifts ever! Thankyou guys :D Texts from people I wouldnt think of made me be like woah wow hahah! I LOVE MY LIFE! Christmas is a time to spread the joy to others and remember our saviour! I LOVE MY SAVIOUR! I OWE MY SAVIOUR! I HONOUR JESUS CHRIST AND HEAVENLY FATHER! xx

Surfers Paradise

"Surfers Paradise say whaaaat!"

So noon came by and so Leyaarna and I decided "hey lets trip down to the Gold Coast!"

Buzzed up and hypo we were - but we didnt know how to get there or what we were gonna do when we got there! We were just gonna follow the signs!

We came across obstacles like a lot of road works and red lights before we left Brisbane! I was like its a siiiign! We're not suppose to go! Eventually we got out of the B - capital!

As we were driving we saw soooo many Surfers Paradise signs and drove past the Theme Parks

and then we just decided "hey lets go to the beach in Surfers!" And so that's exactly what we did!!

 This is where we went :D

and this was our outcome!



the funniest thing about this next photo however is that you go to a beach to get fit, live in the sunshine, sunbathe etc. Not to turn around see a McDonalds, KFC and Hungry Jacks takeout!!!!

Encouraging to play in the sun then lets go have us some K-Fried!!!!

Obesity ahhhhh!

One Year

For once in my life I am happy! Not happy for the moment happy - but happy as in eternally happy.

Today is the day that I got baptized ONE year ago! October 30th 2010 at 11am at Gisborne 3rd Ward chapel in New Zealand; I was baptized into The Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints! I am eternally grateful for it. It changed my life forever - but also for the better! I found many families that are there for me! I literally found what a family is supposed to be like - to feel like. Myself coming from a broken home, where you travel between places to visit your parents or like me traveling oceans - its a life I still live but it's a life I used to live also. Living with one parent since the year 2000 is all I knew! But joining the church I have families all around me and it's a nice feeling! I still have my family you know but I do love looking up to the families in our church :)

I will love these people for my entire life and for eternity ... (from left to right)
Elder Perry Sessions from America
Elder Michael Belnap from America (still on a mission til Nov. 2011)
Elder Trevor Beckstead from America (still on a mission til Sept. 2012)
Elder Jethro Tham from Australia

These guys are the ones that taught me the gospel. I am eternally grateful for you guys coming into my life which is why I LOVE MISSIONARIES because I know the changes that they make in people's lives! I have experienced it! Elder Tham, the man that baptized me! Elder Belnap, the man that confirmed me! I love you guys!

I have had one of the best years of my life being apart of the church! It has been amazing!

I have met the coolest people.
I met my best friend.
My best friends family became my family too.
My sister and I got closer.
My relationship with my parents changed.
I learnt to forgive.
I learnt how it feels to actually be happy.

I was an unhappy person before church I now realise. I really was. I didnt go out and hang with friends, I was kind of unsociable I guess you could say! But I liked it that way. I liked spending time with no-one. When I joined the church, I learnt to just get out there. Be myself. Meet heaps of cool people. Socialise a bit more and BE HAPPY! Like mum had told her friends what I was like and then when she met me this year in Australia when I moved over, I was nothing that she expected! I was sooo talkative and loud. Its all thanks to the church! And my boss at work calls me Happy! Thats my nickname!

Church makes me happy. It really does! Moreso the eternal perspectives and blessings that the church teach.

I am eternally happy... for once in my life