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| seeing some old MTC buddies at Dallin H Oaks |
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| Me picking my nose |
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| Banana bread we made! So good!! |
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| The whole mission! See if you can find me. |
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| it was dusty |
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| my first real burger in England |
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| We played football and I was messin Foster up |
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| We helped a member remove their kitchen tiles |
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| Me and this guy getting photo bombed |
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| made my hands bleed |
So we got our moves email on Saturday and in it me and Elder Foster found out we are going to be in a tri companionship. Another missionary is going to come to Salisbury. Not going to lie, I was disappointed. Being in a tri can be really awkward when teaching and finding and the new guy is German.... Haha but then Sunday evening rolls around and I get an email from the mission office with travel plans for the new trainers. I was so confused so I called president and asked what's going on. He basically said oh sorry you slipped through the cracks and I forgot to call you Friday. Haha then he told me that he put us in a tri because there is a new missionary coming in halfway through the transfer on July 5th from Thailand. I'm going to be leaving Salisbury halfway through the transfer to open a new area and train. I am SO EXCITED!!!!! And really cool thing about that date too is that Alex the 14 year old investigator is going to be baptized on the 2nd and he asked me to baptize him! The Lord has a plan for us all!
Elder Oaks was so good! He is such a funny man and had so many good spiritual insights. The conference was in the middle of London at Hyde park chapel. On the walk from the train station to Hyde park I felt like I was in that scene from parent trap when the girl goes to London. It is crazy there and there were so many cool sites to see and things to do!! There was 400 missionaries in the conference and it was packed. We had all the missionaries from both missions, London South and Central. Our mission president and his wife spoke and so did the other mission's, then the area president and his wife spoke, President and Sister Kearon. He actually gave a talk at conference in April about refugees. Then Elder Oaks and his wife spoke. The first thing I observed is that the leaders of the church have really cool wives! I learned so many different things from all of them and their talks and took pages of notes. Elder Oaks dropped some really cool doctrine on us that I would love tell you but.... Milk before meat (1 cor 3:2) haha it was a great conference and one of my favourite things he talked about was the doctrine of repentance. He said repentance is the first step we make preparatory to baptism, but baptism dose not bring about repentance and should not. Baptism is a fruit of repentance and a natural result of it, but repentance is the first step and is what we as missionary need to focus on while teaching our investigators. I felt so spiritually fed after that conference and I know it is going to help me improve as a missionary and good man!
The rest of the week was fantastic! We found two new investigators. One was while me and Elder Foster were walking around Amesbury to catch the bus. I felt like we should go stop by someone names Charlie, an old potential investigator we had. On our way we walked past a lady trimming her hedges in the garden. Her teenage son was there too playing with his baby sister. We stopped outside the fence and asked if she needed any help. She said no (as most English people do) so we then started talked about the gospel. She said she would hear more so asked her if we can teach her now and she said yes! So we taught her and her son and baby girl the restoration and gave them a Book of Mormon to read. She loved it and we will be seeing her next week! It's so cool how the Spirit works and how if we are living worthy of the Spirit and if we follow all the little feelings and good ideas that come into our head then Heavenly Father will bless us.
Alex, our investigator, is doing so well! He has more of a desire to live the gospel than I did at his age! He loves learning and loves church and can recognize the Spirit! It is incredible to see someone his age hunger and thirst after righteousness (3 Nephi 12:6) the way he does. He is going to be a great missionary!
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