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!

Long Bike Ride

 

 

Hola family

okay its just you guys hehe. This week has been great!!!!! Its raining right now though and thats kinda depressing...Crazy adventure story me and Elder Nogueroles were on exchange and we decided to go to Southwell a little village outside the main city, if you go to google maps and type in Bulwell England Nottinghamshire and then look up southwell you can see how far we cycled in a zig zag pattern cause we got lost. This keyboard stinks so sorry if letters are missing. Anyways we went on a 6 hour bike ride to southwell cause its in their area haha....never doing it again. HAHA  This week was awesome we set 2 investigators on a date!!!! Ola is on a date and a guy named Scott! They both have been so prepared!!! Sometimes being bold is the way it has to be, With Ola he grew up in the baptist church so in our lesson i basically just told him his baptism didnt really count (in a loving way) and after we explained how our church has the authority he committed to find out if it was true and is studying so much better than before:) We have a busy week ahead. we have 3 meeting and one is in Leicster....so farrrrrrrrr im not excited but at the same time i am cause i get to see Elder Severe:P "whats wrong with people" haha i ask myself that everyday when i see 12 year olds smoking and drinking, chavs are scary. But you occasionally find the cool chavs that arent crazy so its worth it. Time is going so fast now, ever since i hit my 6 month mark everything is going faster:( I've also wanted to start learning the piano and i have been thinking about minoring in music theory at Uni, i dont know i have like 10 things i might want to start doing when i get home i cant be bothered to think about it right now...but yeah this week has been a week of learning patience cause the people do not want to talk to us at all haha. Its been good though! this week should be good get ready for an Elder Severe story next week:D

"I'm Batman" 6 Months out now!!!

                                                  Wayne Manor, from the movie "Batman"

I am feeling a lot better I can actually work now! Elder Packer is the best. The past  months have gone by so fast i still feel like i dont know anything.

 Wow life sounds cray back home! This last week was crazy! I finally got something that has helped me with this illness. So apparently i have Chronic Rhinitis (idk if that is spelled right) but the doc says that its the casue of my coughing and fatigue and such. I got some spray that i have to inject via a fine mist into my nasal cavity. We had transfers this week and me and E. Packer are staying! Hes the man! we get along so well, hes like a different version of cole except he cant quote anything that me and cole would quote together. I was not able to hear the News from the church we dont have anyting ti access it from but i heard about it from some members. SO for your questions that you have

1. I wish i had read the book of mormon and studied out the stories of Christ more.

2. Come on really? you know this? haha well i didnt plan on going on a mission at all, to be honest i didnt even know if the church was true so i had to take the test in moroni 10:3-5 and after that i had to decide if i wanted to go on a mission or not. After some small and simple blessings in my life i knew i needed to go on a mission.

3. Christ is in every single aspect of everyones lives, and trials should be embraced and looked upon as opportunities to learn. As we grow in knowledge and understanding more and more knowledge will be given to us and we can use that knowledge to build a fortress around us. However like all fortresses they are useless unless we "man the battlements" or use what we have learned. A Fortress without an army is just another building that can be easily penetrated.

4. My favorite thing about serving a mission is all the fun amazing and weird people you get to meet. Muslims are our favorite ti talk to cause they just try to preach hellfire and damnation at us. And all the other cool missionaries that you get to meet and hang out with.

5. England is very diverse, i thought i would be speaking just english but ive learned a little bit of Welsh, Polish, Chinese, Galaec, Tongan, and Swedish. Its also ridiculously cold here and somehow it still manages to rain despite how cold it is. Also the Chocolate here is better than anything ive ever had. And Donner Kebabs:D they are the best.

6. The most important thing to remember on a mission is that you are doing the Lords work, its not about you and it never will be, Have fun while you work but dont be stupid, just be yourself and talk to everyone you can. Its going to be very very hard some days, there will be somedays where you question what you are doing and you want to quit. there will be days when you're on top of the world and feel like you can move mountains. (technically you can hehe) Make friends with as many people as you can, especially the chavs(ghetto people) or else they will harass you hehe. Stand for what you believe and stay with your companion. And if your companion crashes his bike and cant move dont panic just call 999 and teach a lesson to the first person that stops to help you (this actually happened). But es just serve as muchas you can and have fun, MOST IMPORTANT OUT OF ALL IS BE YOURSELF!!!!!!!! NO one likes a fake missionary or a striver, and people expecially dont like wasters. Eww wasters....