Week Twenty-two

HI! How’s life? Well I think I’ll tell you my dodgiest mission story as of late. So there was a zone leader correlation meeting where all the district, trainers, and follow up trainers were invited. We were going to wake up early to catch a bus to Norwich but the zone leaders phoned us and said we could just come over and spend the night. So we waited for the bus for 20 minutes but we accidently missed the bus we were going to take. We desperately took the next bus to the station where the other one would stop but to no avail; we were two minutes late for it! So we waited another 30 minutes and took the next bus. We arrived in Norwich at 9:45 and called the zone leaders, they asked us if we knew where there flat was but we didn’t and the told us to walk to the forum (a library). We walked up the road through the dodgiest part of town you know the street with all the strip clubs and normal clubs. Although, can you call clubs normal? anyways... ya I didn’t know they were strip clubs and when we finally got by all the sketchy bouncers and the flirty girls (they were flirting with the bouncers not us.... unfortunately in some cases, Hallelujah in others... some of the girls weren’t too pretty let’s just leave it at that) and Elder Fisher informed me that we past about 5 of them haha. Good old missionary tales. Then we waited at marks and spencer’s (a food store) and a homeless guy asked us for some spare change. Then after that we finally got picked up/saved up by the other missionaries. Yay! soooooooooooooooooooooo yep that is my exciting story for the week, Look forward for some more!!! Maybe I’ll talk about missionary work next time who knows ;P anyways Love you long time !!!! -Your friendly neighborhood Sp-i-.... Missionary.... Elder Onychuk!!! woot Cheeers!!! Haaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaa!!! ~CLAPPING~ "man he is so fantastic at spelling English." :O "I am going to name my children after him!!!" "I know right he is sooooooo humble not to mention handsome!" ;D....... Love from birthday boy of 23 years! And thanks for all the birthday wishes!

Week Twenty-one

Hello! Everything is going well in Gorleston now and it’s really exciting to be in a new area. On transfer day I had a fever (it wasn’t very pleasent and it took about 5 hours to get home. We had to wait at Diss for one hour or so because the train lines in between Norwitch and Diss were broken. The night before I couldn’t sleep well at all and maybe only got two hours of sleep. The first night in Gorleston was also pretty bad; you know how my fevers are (for those who don’t know I always get pretty delusional). I had a bad “trip” and thought that I was supposed to put my blanket on myself 1000 times or something silly like that and I didn’t know how I was ever going to do it. I was scared and upset almost to the point of tears. I wanted to wake up my companion and explain my ‘dilemma’ but I didn’t want to wake him up so I ended up saying a prayer and made my bed and got in and somehow got to sleep. I wonder what Heavenly Father thought when he heard that prayer – “Glad We got this kid born in the church, couldn’t stand it if I had to listen to his prayers after he was taking some bad drugs” :P I know He wouldn’t say that but that’s what I would say. Haha. But ya, the day after there was a funeral of someone in the ward so we went to that, it was nice to hear the funny stories of that man’s life. On Saturday we had a baptism which was cool, it seems that I swoop in and take the credit all the time :P Emma is her name and she is a really nice lady. She was just married to her husband Steven on Monday that week. She is really studious; Elder Fisher would give her what they were going to teach her next and she would actually study it and know the material by the time they came for her next lesson. We also met with a really nice man named Derik (who is in his 50’s I think) and is really interested in the church. He walked up to Elders Fisher and Ward (a few days before transfers) and said you’re not going to convert me I just want to know what your church is about. Then at the end of the lesson we had with him he asked “now if I was to decide to join this church what would be the procedure?” or something to that extent. So he looks really good, we hope to see him as soon as he get some of his business in order. Well here are some pictures of you all. Love you! -Elder Onychuk

Week Twenty!

Hello, it’s always great to get letters! It makes me glad to hear from friends! Things haven’t been going too band I got the calls for our moves yesterday and I am going to Goreston-on-sea, yup, right beside the sea so that will be fun! Also President Patch is leaving and we are getting a New Mission president named President Jordon so we will see how that goes. To tell you the truth I am glad to get away from Elder Hlalaphi I didn’t get along with him too well. My new companion will be Elder Fisher but I don’t know much about him yet. I am going to miss the members here, they are awesome and I’m defiantly going to have to come back and visit them after my mission. Has Dakota been updating Josh’s blog? I want to see how he is doing. I am sending him a letter today but won’t get an answer for a while. Chelsea you should send me pictures of Megan’s wedding :D those might come in handy. I’ll be like “she didn’t even send me a dear john letter” :( lol. That would be good fun. How is everyone in Merritt? I am going to write Travis and Dakotah pretty soon. I am trying to get better at stopping people; it’s my biggest problem at the moment. Well I’ll tell you more about my new area when I get there! -Elder Onychuk

Week Nineteen

Hello! I did my three hours of driving instruction today. It went pretty well. It’s a little weird but luckily I haven’t had much trouble besides reaching up to change from forwards to reverse by the steering wheel thinking that the vehicle is an automatic. Things have been improving, nothing too interesting… ya I can’t think of much. Hmmmm there was this Irish guy when I came into the library who noticed my Celtic-ness red hair, go figure. But he said he knew about the latter-day Saint church and I talked to him for a bit. Anyway hope to here form you all soon! -Elder Onychuk

Week Eighteen

Hey things are going alright I suppose. Is Canada celebrating the Queens jubilee over there? It has been a big thing here. It’s the Queens jubilee for these next two days. A lot of shops are closed for it and we had a ward jubilee/ helping hands party. We had about 40 mentally handicapped people come they did dancing and such. We had carnival games set up like guessing how much candy is in the jar and we had food, it was pretty fun. We were not allowed to proselyte there which is understandable, they told us to come in normal clothes so we just enjoyed it and helped set up tables and chairs. It was good fun I wish I took more pictures but I’ll ask the ward for some. Having that party kind of made me a little home sick. I was just thinking about getting my life together after my mission, it’s exciting to think about but not really something I should be focusing on right now. I’m going to do my three hours of driving instruction on Wednesday sot that will be fun. President patch asked me if I had it done yet and he pretty much commanded me to do it this transfer. Haha. I think that I might be moving to a driving area after this transfer, I heard that there are not many missionaries that do there three hours of driving instruction, my new companion is alright just a very different culture again its wird that culture is so different in many place. He is a nice guy and works hard but has many facial expressions that make me think that he is thinking something; I don’t know it’s just wired. -Elder Onychuk

Week Seventeen

I took some questions to church this Sunday and they were all answered. It’s funny because we always tell people to come to church with a question in mind but I have never done it until now. It WORKS! I even got chastened through the words in hymn #221 it says, “Will you not seek for my lost ones, out in the dessert astray?” Try it out :) Love Elder Onychuk

Week Sixteen

Things are going well. Elder Halaphi (from Cape Town South Africa) and I are acquiring more investigators and some of them look pretty good for baptism but we will see how things turn out. One of our investigators said not to come by again because a “very learned” person at her Baptist church told her not to see us. She blindly followed his advice… sometimes I don’t like people. Actually a lot of time I don’t like people, but that is beside the point. I still have been sharing a lot of the December 2010 talk “Fear Not” it’s so good and has become one of my most favorite talks on my mission so far. You should read it. I have been doing a lot of walking. Fun fun. It is good for me (I suppose) I have been slipping a bit in the exercising every morning goal but sometimes I reason that a set of push ups is enough, I hope to hear from you all soon. I’m alive everyone! -Elder Onychuk