Miracle week!!

 

Sorry about last week we did go to the castle last week and we took the bus this time to get out there. Last time we took the train and it took longer, but a less active member we have been working with wanted to come and so i didn't feel good just ignoring him and typing a long email especially because it was on the ipad So this week was pretty awesome, lots of things happened by accident and lots of stuff was planned but it all came together for a really good week. We were able to have a lesson with almost everyone of our investigators and get 4 set up for member presents and that is a lot here. We are hoping to make that the norm because it was great. Anything with a member is better, and one of the main reasons why it has been so awesome this week is because they also gave a lifts to the lessons they came to, so that is way better than having to plan around a bus, and B is doing good and I think she is really starting to grasp what we are talking about, and we also made good progress with S she is doing so good, with her I can pretty much guaranty that its not a matter of if she gets baptized it is more like when. She isn't on a date yet but I don't think it will be long, and the cool part was she is already doing missionary work not specifically for our church but for Christianity. And we are the only missionaries she knows so she invited us over to teach, her brother who is visiting from Scotland. He goes back tomorrow but we did see him at church last week and we had a lesson with him and s and P on Saturday and then they were at church this Sunday. They had us for dinner last night also, he seems really cool we are going to try and get him in contact with the missionaries up there but he is moving down here to England in the next 4 months or so. So even if we can't get him in contact with the elders up there he will see the missionaries down here once he moves. 

We had this really cool experience last night. on Saturday we were trackting and we stopped this lady on the street in between the houses She was really drunk but she said she was interested and she gave us here address and told us to come by. We weren't sure what it would be like but we thought okay can't be that bad, so we stopped by last night just to see if the address was real and set something for this week. When we knocked a different guy answered and said that he lived alone and he didn't know that women but said that he would appreciate a visit. His life had been really ruff the last ten months and he could use some help and we were obviously like sure. We set up a time to see him this week. He is such a cool guy. Yesterday was an amazing Sunday. It was as good as the Sunday after A's baptism and the Sunday I got to bless the sacrament with him. It was that good. and we also got fed dinner and lunch yesterday so no dishes it was great. But anyway back to P as we were walking  away from his house we thought about how we got to meet him and how it all worked. The drunk lady was not planning on giving an address she was going to give us her phone number but her phone kept going off with people trying to call her and so she gave up on trying to give us her number, because an important phone call came through. So she told us her address and quickly hurried off, and it was so cool we though back that it had to be the lord getting us P's address so we could meet him.

So things have been full of miracles this week and I have really seen the hand of the lord guiding us to where we need to be. 

Elder Depriest is doing great he can do most things now. We still can't ride bikes or anything like that but he is out of his sling and can tie his own shoes now so its good.

Love you 

Elder Poll

A little time at the hospital...

So this week has been interesting on Monday we did the normal stuff and had a lesson with B ( we are helping him to stop smoking) on Tuesday we had a work over with the zone leaders and then they gave us a lift to Ponty Pool to do some work up there and that went well had a dinner appoint. and then stopped by some people on the way home. Wednesday we had zone meeting and did some finding.  Thurs we had a lesson with A, then we were on our way to another appointment. Just coming down the hill by our flat and usually Elder D is in the back and I lead out because he is new and doesn't know where to go but this time he knew where we were going so he went first and we got going and then I look up and a car had just cut across the road to do a three point turn and didn't see him and cut just in front of him and he ran into him, he flew over the top of the car and landed on his shoulder and rolled three time and at this point I had to rip on my breaks or do the same thing he did. I stopped and got him out of the road and checked him out, we thought he was fine just going to be bruised so we went on like it was okay and were walking to our next appointment. Then we remembered to call Sister Leopard and tell her and she told us we had to go to the emergency room and get it checked out, and so we canceled our other appointments and the zone leaders came and took us to the hospital. and we got an x-ray. They showed it to us and told us it's broken. Even me not being a doctor could see that it was really broken, like not connected at all broken, so they gave him a sling and told him they would call to set up another appointment in the next week. Friday we had a few appointments and then a family had us over for dinner. They didn't think about the fact that my companion didn't have two hands to operate the knife so it was funny to see him struggle trying to cut his meat and then I offered to cut it for him but he said no so sister S just took it and cut it for him and we all laughed really hard. On Saturday we had a lesson with several others and had to take buses around to all of them. The problem with buses is they take up a lot of our time in travel and stop running around 6, so after that we have to walk back from where ever we are, and they don't run on Sundays.

That is pretty much our week.

Love and prayers Elder Poll

Spending time with the police

Monday we thought we should take elder Du Plessis serial number to his bike to the police so they could just check all the ones they came across just in case the people who stole it tried to paint it or something, that payed off. then we got transfer calls that night and elder Du Plessis was transferred. Wednesday we left for Peterborough and I waited with the zone leaders all day for my new comp to get here, and about 30 min before the coach arrived with him the Cheltanham zone leaders called saying the elder DePriests front wheel to his bike was on there coach for some reason not on ours and so that stunk that night trying to get his bike back to the flat. Luckily for us we had a spare rim at the flat and that worked for a few days, then when we got back on the train to come back to Cwmbran we got to New Port station and some one took one of Elder DePriests bags off the train and stole stuff in it, but we didn't notice till we got to Cwmbran and went to get his stuff of the train and it wasn't there, then on Thursday we were on the train back from the district meeting. we got a call from the police saying they have elder Du Plessis bike, so we went to get that, they take forever at the station 1 hour there, then the assistant the the president called and told us that the Newport police have elder DePriests bag and that we need to call them. got that all figures out, on Friday we had a lesson with one of our investigators and then headed to Newport  and when we got there finding out that lots of his stuff was stolen. We also had a lesson with a less active member. Saturday we travel to conference because most members watch it here on internet, we had to take a  train to the stake center to watch it and train back after. Sunday a member gave us a lift to conference and we were there all day till 7 because on Sunday they rebroadcast the priesthood session and the Saturday afternoon session, then watch the Sunday morning session and then we will watch the Sunday afternoon session later this week. It was all awesome.

I think president Uchtdorf just hit right from the start and just slammed me with the spirit that stayed for the whole conference. 

I also read some of the talks form the women conference and that was cool I really liked the story president Uchtdorf told there.
That's all for this week.
Love you guys.

Elder Poll

Just a little excitement this week!!

So the majority of our week was a bit lame and not much excitement. We had a few lessons and nothing much came of them or so we thought. and it just kind of felt like a normal week until Saturday. normally on a Saturday we have an activity at the chapel for investigators to meet members. but we have been asked not to have them anymore by the mission and the ward because of some stuff with other missionaries in the mission getting hurt and stuff so no more activity but that's okay. So we went up and did some work in Ponty Pool then we went out and were doing some work in a part of our area on a huge hill. and that was all good and then we had an appointment with a LA in town and we got there and he forgot to tell us that he had to cancel, so we were like okay we will do some tracting. So we were tracting nearby a members house and thought we would go and stop by and say hi. and then........

We were talking to this member outside his house and a few chavs walked by. (stupid under educated kids that poke fun at us and harass us all the time) they made some rude comments like normal then they kept walking. Suddenly one of them turned back grabbed Elder D's bike and started running. I was the first to register that he was stealing it and ran after him. I almost had him but then he was able to get onto the bike and ride away, then the other friends of his caught up to me and so did Elder D. As I was turing around one of them punched me then another got in my face I thought that we were about to get in a big fight, then they seemed to calm down, and I just started to walk away because there were too many of them to win probably and I was trying to be the bigger person and represent the Lord and leave it to the police. They started to get mouthy towards us again but they knew that the police had been called so they ran off and we just went back to the members house and waited for the police. Then we went to the station and were there for like 4 hours making statements and stuff so we got to bed at around 1 in the morning. I got to go on a ride along with them to see if I could point out the kids who did it but we didn't find them. Don't worry though I am okay the punch wasn't very good.and the police gave us a lift home, which was nice of them.

We woke up the next morning tired and sore but the member whose house it happened in front of gave us a lift which was nice of him.

We had a lesson with a young man and asked him if he wanted to be baptized he said no but that he wanted to come to church some time. It felt kind of empty with no commitment, but then Sunday at the beginning of sacrament meeting our phone vibrated in my pocket and normal I would ignore it especially because we were sitting next to a less active that called us out of the blue on Saturday and said he wanted to come to church. So I was trying to be a good example but I just felt like I should check the phone. It was our investigator and so we went out in the hall and called him back and he asked us for direction to the church from nearby and so he came to sacrament and Sunday school then had to got but that was really cool.  We had a great lesson with one of our investigators in a part member family and they also fed us dinner twice this week. Nepalese food it was really good nothing I had ever had before but really good.  We were at the house last night for dinner and then they gave us a lift home, that was nice because it was a long walk back. And that was our week.

Love you guys
Elder Poll

 Short Week

This week has been good we have a new investigator, he is from Nepal. Wow I just realized how may investigators we have from there we have 3 but luckily all of there English is very good. because my Nepalese is rubbish. the only words I have picked up are husband and wife because that's what we here all the time at our other investigators house. In there country it's respect full to just call each other husband and wife. This week has been good though we had a lesson with only a few investigators but we have been doing a lot of work with less actives. We had a fast with one  Saturday to Sunday to help him stop smoking. We also had exchanges this week. I went to New Port and that was nice a bit of change of scenery for a day.

 

I did have a few close calls on my bike this week I have decided that I am a horrible driver. I will try to be more careful this week that is one of my goals. The other is to write in my journal better. 

Well the fire alarm is going off so we have to go. Know I am fine and will talk to you next week. 

Love Elder Poll

Looking like school boys...
 

So this week was really tiring and good but most of our lesson canceled and rescheduled and school started back up over here last week and so we are back to looking like school boys again. Everyone over here for school wears a shirt tie and slacks. The ties are color coordinated for each school and stuff so we look kind of like school kids now.

In place of some of our lessons we were able to do a lot of service this week so that was nice. Saturday kind of felt like one back home working hard sweating a trying to make everything work the way you want it to.
We were helping a member move from one of the other wards in the stake to our ward. The other ward has two little sister missionaries and they wouldn't have been much help with all the big stuff that we were moving so we were given permission to leave our area for the day and to get them all moved. It was an all day thing from 10 in the morning till 9 at night. They had lots of stuff heavy stuff, and stairs in this country are narrow and steep and man was I tired after that I slept really well. 

Most of our week was taken up with meetings and finding. We had zone meeting on Wednesday and it was good but the things are going to be harder to implement than other training we have received. We were taught some different things to do then we had been doing before with our finding. Should be interesting.

We also helped a guy trim his hedge this week and I have to say I am becoming quite the master hedge trimmer. To bad we don't really have big hedges back home or I might have a job when i get home. As for our investigator she is doing good just busy for the next few weeks. She is heading off to Spain on Friday and won't be back for a week so we have a lesson with her on Thursday and then we will have to wait till she gets back.

I love you guys i will talk to you next week.
Elder Poll

Met a Prophetess...

Hi Everyone

So this week has been really good.

I had a really funny experience on Wednesday that made me laugh really hard. We had exchanges on Wednesday and so we went to New Port on the train to swap and when we got there the other team wasn't there yet. We were just standing in the station and a lady came up to us and asked if two good elders from the Mormon church would watch her bags for her while she went to go get her ticket and without thinking I said sure, she said thanks and left us with the bags. When she came back she went all funny and said she was a prophetess and she started prophesying over elder D and me and she told him that he wasn't yet worthy of heaven but that in ten days he would be and so he needed to be extra careful until then. Then she said that I was worthy of heaven and also told elder D to get off the computer that it was hurting his salvation and stuff. Then the funniest part is she looks right at me and she says there is a sister missionary in Blackwood that is blond and that we are to be wed in holy matrimony in 3 years. she is saying this deadly serious and I was just trying not to laugh and then she says HOLY MATRIMONY like its really important. She asked for my help to get her stuff through the security gates so I did then I had to go back and do our swaps. It was really funny she was leaving New Port and going to Scotland because she had seen a vision that all the cities were wicked and going to be destroy and stuff it was a hoot. So I now know who I am supposed to marry but I will keep her name to myself because you guys would just make fun of me and you don't need to know. That was probably the highlight of the week. but the rest was pretty good also.

Will you guys keep our investigator in your prayers things are really looking good. We had two lesson with her this week and she doesn't seem to have any big problems with anything we have taught so far but we haven't taught the word of wisdom yet so that might be a struggle. We will have to see. Oh also while on exchange this week I was with elder Berquist here in Cwmbran and he has actually served here before and so that was pretty fun. 

Well Love you guys. Elder Poll