2/5/2017

Well!! It has been a busy week! A lot of driving in and out of London for meetings and interviews. We had a solid week none the less. This week has seriously flown by, I cannot even Believe it has gone so fast. It's seems like each week goes faster and faster. Weeks feel like days and days feel like weeks hahaha. It's really true. But we are happy and life has been good. We went to the Flandos for dinner on Sunday and it was sooooo good hahaha. We had a delicious roast dinner and it was so dang good. We are super super grateful for them and all that they do. They sent us home with a bunch of food for the week haha. They are the best. So that was a highlight of the week.

 "They had fasted since yesterday at 2pm. They put away 2 1/2 roasts, 4 Yorkshire puddings, carrots and loads of mashed potatoes! Growing boys! Oh and brownies!"

We didn't have much time in Watford this week but we did do some tracting on Saturday which I honestly haven't done for ages. I haven't done a proper tracting block since Bedford hahaha. I've just fallen in love with street contacting but it was good to change it up, sometimes routines kill us haha. It was so good!!! We found some wayyyy cool people. A family from Brazil and also a family from Albania. A few Ghanaians here and there too. So we are super excited to go back and visit them all and teach repentance!!!!

It was good to be in London the other day with the lads from the MTC!!! Ahhh haha it's so fun to just talk about the MTC and all the good memories. We talk about how we still don't really know what we are doing out here. But we are trying!!! So it's all good. We have all learned so much. I'm just grateful for the friends I have made here. Elder Burgess and I sat at lunch and just reflected on the last year and some. We cannot believe how fast it has gone, how much we have learned and changed. I have seen the Lords Hand in my mission. I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Lords Hand

I saw the Lords Hand this week in a woman we found in town from the Philippines. I gave her the last Book of Mormon I was carrying and her face lit up. She was so happy!!!! She couldn't believe that we had given it to her. She expressed such joy. I bore her my testimony that if she read it, she would come closer to Jesus Christ. I realized more than ever before, how much I love the Book of Mormon, how special it is to me personally. I really saw the Lords Hand strengthen my testimony and give us the chance to meet Maria. We are seeing her onTuesday!!! So we are super excited!!!

Love you all! Crazy that patriots came back! Hahaha I'm sure Matthew was happy about that. I love you all! Thanks for being the best.

No short cuts

Jake