Life is Good

Hey family, some crazy things have been happening. Yeah I heard about
all the members freaking out and stuff a member showed us yesterday
what had been going on. And honestly one of the first thing that came
to my mind was 'ah finally it's beginning the purge of the church' I
think right now Heavenly Father is making sure that the people who are
on his side are actually on his side. If you read John 15 it kind of
talks about that and our current situation. It is sad to see so many
people leave the church over such a silly thing but for myself I just
see it as a person who would have slowed the progress of the church
anyways. But it makes sense the church is going to be attacked hard in the last
days and if we don't have a strong member population it's going to
fall.
On another note! Life here is good! We didn't get to teach
William this week but we should this week. We are also now teaching a
less active member to prepare him for getting the Melchizedek
priesthood. So that should be fun! Elder Ballard comes this Saturday
and I'm way excited. We may have some missionaries stay in our flat
the night before, so # sleepover!!!!! It's way cold here now and it
gets dark at like 4 again so the work is going to go way slow. I hope
it doesn't snow.
That's weird that Jordan is taller. I need a
picture to prove it. Well I love you guys and hope everything is great
back home this week!!! Bai

Conference Weekend!!!!

Hmmmm well conference was all good we don't get to watch the last session cause it is too late at night but we will probably watch it later this week. I think something that would be good to do Every Day would be to share a story about Christ and how much he loves everyone. I recently have been trying to grasp the reality of the atonement and it almost brings me to tears every time. The fact that Christ would take every single pain and affliction for every single person in the existence of ever is so powerful and not only that but he did it all by himself. He needed to without help, needed to personally overcome every single sin ever. Its amazing. I love everything that I have learned on my mission, thank you for always making me goto church and to my classes and being super strict with me most of the time;) I would not be the person I am today without the example that you and dad have set for me.

This is what he wrote Dad:

It has been a great week. We have been doing lots of finding and we have been getting flogged a lot as well. Conference was awesome, I learned a lot from it. I especially loved Elder Eyring and Elder Hollands talks. They are my two favourite speakers of this conference. We don't get to watch the last session here so I don't know anything from that one? Anything super cool about it? Transfers are on the 20th, yes its a Monday, President is going to a training to teach us all how to use Ipads, we are getting them in the start of may so the transfers are shorter. It will be very exciting. We have an investigator named Dave, he is probably one of my favourite investigators. He keeps wanting to learn everything deep about the gospel and we are trying to teach him all the basics so he can understand those deep things. He is very Humble he has MS so he is in a wheel chair. He has learned to do so many random things its unreal. 

Gospel Changes Lives

Hola!

Well im going to try and be more detailed in this letter cause I feel inspired to be;)

This week was good! We have been street contacting so much this week! I don't know how often you went out finding but we do it for about 6 hours every day. Its insane how many people we talk to. We seem to get around 7 potentials per 70 or 80 people and only 1 investigator per every 20 potentials. so life is busy. The investigators we do have are all kinda at a stand still right now. No one is progressing too much except for a man named john. We texted john last week randomly, he was a number in the phone that has been there for ages, and he called us back and set up a return appointment. When we met with him he said that when we texted him he was having a really hard time with life and that he was contemplating suicide. We have been meeting with him since and he is sceptical of everything but he is slowly warming up to it all! its great to see how much this Gospel can change anyones life. I got a copy of the teaching of the prophet joseph smith and I have been digging it! ive been studying so much of it and have been trying super hard to apply it to my missionary work. Its been going pretty good so far. We are going to have interviews and exchange and conference this week its going to be super busy! As for things I need, Everything I own is starting to break or wear down. My shoes are good thank goodness. But my trousers are starting to fall apart, that's what I get for buying primark quality trousers haha. I can probably last another month with the ones I have now but ill need to get some new trousers soon. I need money for a new backpack as well casue mine is on the last leg of its journey haha. But I can last a bit longer with it. maybe another 2 weeks I don't know im not a magician I don't know how long they will last.

Love you!!!!

New Companion, Elder Wiser! Excited

WEl lthis week has been great! Me and Elder Wiser have been dong lots. Our boiler broke at the beginning of the week though so we have had no heating or hot water.....we haven't been able to shower just sponge baths and rinsing our hair. Thankfully we got to use the other guys shower Friday. We are still waiting on the boiler guy to fix it. Everything is good though. We are getting lot of new potentials and talking to lots of people. We have some new investigators and if they stick ill tell you about them! My companion is awesome I love him! We get on with each other really well. He's a funny guy. I love teaching as well. Elder wiser told me that I teach with authority, so it has come out of the mouth of 2 witnesses so it must be true, haha he said im really bold in everything I say. I don't think im very bold but hey its whatever. There was as solar eclipse on Friday it was s cool! my first solar eclipse ever. I couldn't get any pictures cause my camera wouldn't do what I wanted it to do. But yeah everything here has been good. Me and Elder Wiser are going to smash it this week! We plan on getting 5 new investigators so it should be good!!!!

lOVE YOU GUYS!

Transfers Again!!! Elder Wiser

Um This week has been lots of fun actually! I got a new companion same area. My companions name is Elder Wiser!!!!! He is legit and he is so funny! We are gonna be good friends. He loves to work which is good cause I need to learn to love working in the rain haha. We have some super solid potentials to teach this next week! this area is gonna take a 180 degree turn. There are going to be miracles this transfer. Liz found out she has cancer so in essence she is kinda screwed cause the doctors here aren't the best. We really need a miracle with her. I've been great! Our boiler is broken so 10 C showers are the worst..... haha missions are fun.

I just want Sanguosha for my birthday. We should be getting Ipads in may or june President is going in for training on how to train us to use them this month so it should be good.

Love you Guys!!!!

Keep reading the BOM and stuff, and say your prayers and goto the temple for me casuei cant go.

p.s. I haven't taken any pictures cause I forgot to....

Love you:)


THIS IS WHAT HE SENT US LAST WEEK

Wow. It seems like every time I have doubts about this work that something comes up and slaps me in the face and says "whats the matte with you". This has been a hard week. Workwise everything went great! I've just been so mentally tired lately that nothing could make me happy. So I told President that I needed help cause I wasn't wanting to do anything. I went all the way to Birmingham to talk with him and we just talked for an hour and a half. I don't think I have ever felt the spirit so strongly in my entire life. I have a new motivation for this work and your letter has just backed it up even more. Transfers are this Wednesday so there should be a good change coming, me and President talked about what and where we think I should go next transfer but nothing is set in stone. Everything is okay with my companion and I.  I've been in Nottingham since the beginning of my mission so I might move across the country I don't know. But thank you. This next week should be lots of fun. Cool experience I had on yesterday haha. We were teaching Ola, I dont know if ive talked about him before, anyways hes a Baptist and we teach him during church and we were talking about the book of Mormon the entire time and I was just talking about it more and testifying of it and he stopped me and said " you speak authority, that is good you will go far in life with that talent" After that we got him to commit to read the book of Mormon every day! All he needs to do is read the book and he will be converted! its all he has to do he believes everything else!!! anyways that's all for this week. Love you!!!!!

The Elect are Everywhere!

Hola Familie

Como estas? Liz is doing great!!!!! She is still dying kinda...But she came to church and everyone fellowshipped her like crazy!!!! Scotts Baptismal date was moved to the 21 and Ola is great as well. Samson is a new investigator I don't know if I told you about him but he is Solid we told him about the plan of salvation and he buzzed that we knew where we were before this life. Im excited to teach it to him!!!! This last week was great though we got a lot done! I went on Exchange with Elder Battles!!! It was way fun. We taught one of the most amazing lessons ive ever had in my life and I don't think ill ever have a lesson as cool as that one ever again. The elect are everywhere! The girl we taught wasn't in my area we were in Elder Battles area. So I don't remember her name or anything sorry:( Keep praying for Liz though. This next week should be pretty crazy we have 2 exchanges and a zone meeting. Do you know of anyone who has their mission calls to Birmingham England? i know one of my friends is going to another mission in England. Well i hope you guys have a great week and keep praying for liz!!!!! LOVE YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Love Stake Conference

 Yes the package was awesome i ate all the sweets in a day unfortunately, ahhhhh preservatives and sugar they are the best!!!! I read the peacegiver in 4 hours it was really really good! This last week was super busy! To start the week off i went on exchange with the zone leaders and me and Elder Debeikes spent most of the day driving to a place that wasnt even in our area. But we both helped supervise a youth service activity...i know what its like to be a youth leader now, i dont know how they do it these kids (probably ages 8-14) were given hand saws and the giant clipper things, these handsaws were fetching crazy they are ridiculously sharp, and then just let them go crazy on random trees in the park to trim down the branches. The group that me and Elder Debeikes were in charge of had the craziest kids ive ever seen. 2 of them are from the middle east and the rest were english and somehow they got into an argument about racism and they all had hand saws and i was scared there was gonna be a battle and that people would start attacking each other with them. Me and debeikes were freaking out the whole time. It was not okay haha. Later in the week we went to zone conference and i took pictures with 30 random missionaries and i also sang in the choir. That was a fun day i got to meet a ton of people from my group, the people i would have been with in the MTC had i gone to Preston. My group is crazy.  But yeah we didnt have a lot of time to teach and find this week so we didnt really teach or get new investigators. We also had stake conference and President Rasmussen gave me a shoutout!!!! He talked about Elder Halls bike crash and said that me and Elder Hall teaching someone on the side of the road inspired him. It was pretty cool! but yeah thats this week. Nothing too fancy and crazy. All our investigators are doing really well as far as we know so it should be a pretty busy week of teaching them! Love you and talk to you next week!!! 

He later wrote:

Also if you can have anyone you meet pray for liz She is literally on her death bed right now and is on a waiting list for an operation that will save her life. She only has her newborn daughter and no one else. She asked us to text her every day to make sure she is still alive so we can come get her child so she doesnt die. So yeah if you could have everyone pray for her to get either higher on the list or to be healed that would be amazing. This could be her last week to live potentially. soooooooo yeah. love you bye!