6/14/2016

Soooooo transfers were this week and I will be staying in London north Lea Valley ward! My new companion will be Elder Withers. From Ohio I think. Not close to where jack is serving though. It's crazy at the end of next transfer I will have served 6 months in London! So I'm pretty sure in the next 2 transfers I will be shipped off to Norwich, or like Canterbury. But that will be cool haha. Gotta change it up! Let just hope I'm somewhere nice in the winter, where I can get some snow. That would be amazing!

So this week has been gooooood! We were so blessed as a mission to have Elder Oaks come!!!! So that was super super brilliant. London south mission came and we got to see some of the boys from the MTC so that was sooo good! It was nice to see elder Johnson especially and just to have some good laughs about the MTC days. But the Elder Oaks conference was so powerful. He talked a lot about repentance and how important it is in our teaching and I think everyone basically filled up their entire notebooks with notes from him. He had us laughing pretty hard a few times and it was great haha! But really, everyone was so grateful that we had an Apostle come and speak to us. It was a day full of personal revelation and there are alot of things I can work on. We then heard from Elder Kearon and his wife! That was also great! Haha it was funny how they met actually. So Elder Kearon was found by 2 missionaries right outside the chapel on exhibition road! Right where I found for hours on end every day. He was taught and baptized in about 5 weeks and then Sister Kearon came to London on a study abroad. Haha they met and eventually got married. So that was a pretty awesome story haha. But the spirit was very strong on the conference and President and Sister Stevens were great. They shared their testimonies and it was super powerful. I love them so much. It was just a great conference. But it did take alllll day haha so some missionaries were pretty spiritually drained. But it's alllll good!

So I think I told you about A and R, the Brazilian family we are teaching kind of on and off. Well long story short they have bailed on our last few appointments because they have had family over from Spain. But we were able to go over the other day and when we walked in, A first thing asked when the next baptismal service was! We told him the 25 of June and he said he would be ready! So it's pretty quick but he is so prepared! His wife is in full support but wants more time. She will realize how important it is when she see A baptized. And when she knows A can baptize her. They have a little boy named B and they are just a perfect little family. The gospel will help them so much! We just have to go over a few things with A and really help him understand how important this step is but he's alllll good! We are also teaching G, who elder Burgess referred to us! She is also amazing and is making lots of progress! So we are stoked!

Well it has been a good week! Felt long but also fast! I think the few months leading up to the year mark get slow but also fast. It's Strange. I'm a bit jealous of you guys in Newport haha. Balboa is like our second home and I hope it always stays like that. It's the best. Ride some waves for me and get pitted haha. I love you guys! Be safe, and get a balboa bar for me! And I cannot believe Sam has one transfer left! Blows my mind! Love you!

Our dear friends the Justices's took a package over to Jacob.  We were hoping they would bump into him at the Visitor's Center but I think we have pushed our luck enough!