9/12/2016

Well to be honest, there is not too much to write about this week. It has been just a normal week speed wise. But it has been good. A nice enjoyable week here in the midlands of England. But first things first, the new missionaries arrived!!! There are 2 in the zone, ones from Canada and the other is from Idaho falls! They are studs and are super ready to just work hard. They are super super cool! But in other news! My boy elder Leone is now serving in the Britannia ward!!!!!!!!!! Ahhhh when I found out I was so stokedddddd! He is serving in the best area in the mission hahaha. He will seriously love life. Imperial college is just starting this next week, all the students are coming back, he will be living the dream! So I'm super super super excited for him. We have zone conference this week in south K so I am hoping I will see him around the town to give him a big old hug. But he will really enjoy it there. Hopefully he can meet "I" and help her out. She gets back from China very very soon so we will see!

The rest of the week was good. We had most of our lessons fall through this week but that gave us lots and lots of time for some street contacting. It's defiantly different finding in the country side. In London there are thousands of people, if you tried to stop everyone you would fall over from spinning around in circles. But here it's just empty villages. So we just literally talk to every human soul in the village. It's super fun being out of London though. It's nice and quiet, you don't have to worry about being hit by double decker buses or cabs. But I do enjoy it out here, we have found some pretty lovely people this week and we are really looking forward to seeing them.

The local Fish and Chips spot!

There is a new senior couple (elder and sister Powers) That has just come to the ward. They are from Provo Utah and weren't too happy about the game. Hahaha I was a proud ute at that point. Turns out Elder Powers coached swimming at BYU for 37 years and has a few championships down his sleeve. Haha it was nice getting to know them. We are super stoked to get the work moving along with them. They are brilliant.

Lords Hand

I saw the Lords Hand this week in placing people in our path that were prepared to hear our message. We were finding on Sunday morning before church and we stopped this taller man Who seemed a bit down. As we talked with him he expressed how just earlier that day he had been wondering if there was a plan for him specifically. He expressed sorrow in that he was 47 and he didn't know what the purpose of his life was. We were able to testify of the Book of Mormon and how it talks about the perfect plan in store for all of us. He shared how

grateful he was that we stopped him. I really saw the Lords Hand in that experience.

I love you guys. You are the best of the best. GO UTES!

No short cuts

Jake

Ahhhhh I forgot the best part of the week!

So we were in Bedford the other day and we were in town and we saw Oliver!!!!!! Ahhhhh it was so sweet. So we sat down and grabbed lunch with him for a second. And we chatted for a bit. He talked about how much he loved FSY (EFY back home) and how spiritual it was! He talked about all the great people he met and how his councilor were such great examples. Come to find out, his parents, who the night before his baptism said he couldn't be baptised, have really softened their hearts, and for his birthday they bought him a quad!!!! We were seriously so happy. And that's not even the best part.......he went on to tell us that he decided at FSY that when he finishes school, so when he's 19, he will be serving a mission and that he is already saving up for it. His parents are super supportive and know it's what he wants to do. So that was something that made our week, well our missions to be honest. It was sweet that Elder ammermon and I were with him when he was baptised and now to hear him tell us he wants to serve a mission! So that was sooooooo sick!

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Oliver was baptized last December when Jacob was serving in Bedford along with Elder Ammermon.