Elder Parkin in London: 1/23/2017

"Hemel Hempstead"

Looks relish!!! Thanks Iliana and David!

Ahhhhh we went to the Flandros on Sunday night!!!! Best dinner of my mission hahaha. We had Mexican and it was Delicious. Ahhh it was so good. We talked about the Howell family and it was just funny. Brother Flandro was imitating papa super well hahaha I couldn't stop laughing. It made me miss him tons. But they are the best. I'm so glad I'm here.

We had a solid week this week!!!!! The Lord was super super mindful of us and we had a really good time and saw some brilliant miracles. So we are stoked for this next week to see what happens next!

So we had some exchanges this week and we all had such a good time. Ah it was the best. We had all of our lesson from last week that were planned cancel so we had all week to street contact. Ahhh we were so pumped!!! So we just went out and talked to tons and tons of people. Hahaha the thing about finding in Watford is that there are so many people that you get all these phone numbers and it's hard to contact everyone effectively and a lot of the times they don't answer and it's difficult. But we did find some way cool people. I drove for the first time in Watford. It's a bit different than Northampton but it felt good hahaha. I think driving in England is such a thrill. You never

know what's going to happen. It's cool haha.

So we went to Wembley this week with some missionaries and it was cool to drive past Wembley stadium! It's massive. Seats like 90,000 or something. So that was pretty crazy. And the steelers played there a few weeks ago I think so that's sick. But that was pretty cool.

Lords Hand

I saw the Lords Hand this week in us going out to a place called Hemel Hempstead! So Elder Auras and I felt prompted to go out to this area that has previously had missionaries. But they closed the area a few months ago and put in into ours. So we went out there for 3 days straight basically. We found in the town centre and talked with tons and tons of people. We were able to set a lot of return appointments and it was so amazing to see. At first we couldn't even believe how fruitful it was there. We were able to find former investigators as well as new friends that are super willing to meet up. I saw the Lords Hand in promptings us to start working out there. It is a bit out of the way and we trusted that it would all be worth it and it was. So we are super super grateful for that prompting we received.

Life is good out here!!!! We went to a cool castle today that was built in 1495. Just a few years after Columbus. So that's way cool hahaha!