The last two weeks
January 25So this week was pretty cool and long but also super short all at the same time.
It felt long at first from Monday till about Thursday I was a bit on edge from talking to
Dani
right before she packs to go home. Then after Friday I was just
thinking that wow she is home and now I think i have gotten over the
shock of it all. Otherwise this week has been a bit hectic and next week promises
to be about the same. We had a exchange on Tuesday with the
Worcester elder's I stayed in Hereford for this one with an elder from
Albania he is quite and interesting feller but we had fun and I found
out quite a bit about European history that I didn't know before. Did
you know that Albanian used to be very similar to north Korea in that no
one could come or go and they were fed only the info that the
government wanted them to know. they only moved out of that state about
20 years ago. Wednesday we had a meeting in Cheltenham for a
world wide training broadcast from the missionary board of the church so
we went to Worcester and had lunch with them and then finished
traveling the rest of the way to Cheltenham. The
meeting was really good and I took quite a few notes of things that I
want to try. Thursday
we had district meeting in Worcester before getting on our train to come
back to Hereford the rest of the way. so ya that was a bit busy. Monday we had a pretty good lesson with Brother Woods. On Thursday we had another lesson with brother W and
that went really well we also had a lesson with M and S and
that went rather well also. We also had a bit of a accident with the
bikes also on Thursday. elder Decker's chain broke and so then on Friday
we took it to the bike shop on our way to an appointment and they gave
us a bit of bad news the chain was not fixable it needed to be replaced
and so did the back sprocket because you can't replace one without the
other. and the worst part it wouldn't be able to be done until Saturday
at 4 so for the rest of our day we were on foot and most of Saturday we
were on foot as well, so that severely limited our movements but we
managed, and then on Sunday we went to church and they had a munch and
mingle (linger longer) and that was good. we did get a bit of sad news
and a bit of happy news on Sunday, Brother woods suffers from a medical
thing and so we wont be able to have his baptism on the 6th but hopefully
with a bit more planning later on in the month so that was the bit of
sad news, but the happy news was that the Lord has blessed us in our efforts with an investigator who seems to us so prepared for the gospel
in his life, he walked in by himself to church but he
was in a group of members so we just thought that it was a friend of theirs and the meeting was starting but after we were introduced and
we talked and he said that he was led by the spirit to come to the Mormon church that day. We are going to meet with him tomorrow and
share with him a bit more about the restoration.One thing that was
mentioned at church that was cool that he totally agreed with was the
bible being true as far as it is translated correctly so that was cool.
This
week is going to be a bit of a busy one for us as well. We have a
meeting at the mission home for following up on training on Wednesday and
then Thursday is district meeting so it looks like it will be a bit of a
busy one for us this week as well, then they announced that after this
transfer coming up that transfers will change to Tuesdays instead of Wednesdays so in March transfers will start to be on Tuesdays.
Anyway I think that is about all.
Feb 1
So this week
we had some news about brother woods, he has hit some
walls in health at the moment, but other news is that he is still a
member because they took a longer look into he his records and found
them and so he is still a member so no baptism but a reactivation is now
what we are going for so now we just have to wait for his health to
resolve it self,
Other news about D that guy that came to
church last week, we found out that after we had a lesson with him on
Tuesday that his in not all there and is not the nicest guy. Our lesson
went good at first and finished well but he is very strong in his
beliefs about some very interesting things and could not accept anything
else. On Thursday he sent us some not very
nice text about what he thinks of our beliefs and how it was damning his
salvation so we won't be seeing him again.
That kind of
covers our first two days Monday and Tuesday on Wednesday it was a
really long day we had a meeting in Birmingham that we had to be there
at 10 so we had to wake up at 5 to get there in time because of the
train times but it was well worth it and I learned it a lot, we also didn't know how long the meeting was going to be and it ended up being
three hours plus a lunch after and so after train time we didn't get home
till about 5 and had a dinner appointment ant 5:30
so we grabbed our bikes and went there and then we went from there to
youth that night. The young men were learning how to play snooker which
is a cool different game similar to pool but with some more balls and a
way bigger table and a few new rules as well so it was cool.
Thursday we had district meeting in Worcester and then had a lesson with brother H a recent convert here and had coordination meeting Friday
we had an interesting request come through from president to the whole
mission about not riding bikes that day because there was a high wind
warning for the whole country so he just came out and said no bike for
anyone that day just to be sure. For our area personally the wind storm
passed by the time we were to go out in the morning but we still weren't to bike so we didn't so our day was a bit slow but good. a member
from our ward took us out to lunch.
Saturday
we had a long day of doing stop by's to update our ward list and also
trying to find some less active members who would like to work back into
activity, we also did some tracting and found 4 potentials that day they
we will go back and follow up on later on in the week.
Sunday we had a good church meeting and then after we had lunch and did some
more tracting and then stop by's and we got a few more
potentials.
Other
news for tonight it is DODGE NIGHT the night that we get our call to see
who is moving and who is staying. for me and elder D I am pretty
sure we will stay as we both have not been here for long and and we are
training and so I think we will stay, but who know I could be wrong and God needs me some where else but we will see.
Love you guys have a great week and know that I love you loads.
Elder Poll
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