Bright & Sunny weather brings happy people! {And fun pictures!}

Who says you cant get sunburnt in England! Heck yes! See my tanline on my flipping forehead...yeah son! 

Ello! 

Wow so this week was crazy..I don’t know where to start…Well last Monday we went to Lands End! It was incredible! I took a million pictures, so I’m gonna send as much as I can! Haha it was really cool! It turns out that I was 5300 miles away from home somethin like that and that’s the closest I’m going to get to home for the next 20 months. Ha ha it was really cool! I got pretty close to some huge cliffs. They are a lot bigger in real life! I planked it on a cliff haha those who know what planking is will get a laugh out of this. But yeah, I planked in on this little point thing on a cliff, it was scary and funny! Later that night we were street contacting (oh by the way the weather is wonderful! I actually got some sun!!) so people were out and about! People are a lot nicer when the weather is nice, so we talked to a lot of people and handed out a lot of copies of the Book of Mormon! It was great! That night 2 girls asked me out!! Hahahaha I was laughing so hard inside...they asked if I had a girlfriend and all these weird questions and I quickly ended the conversation after talking about the restoration…I gave them a pass a long card and left. Little did I know our flippin number was on that card I gave them!!!!!!! Uhh...so yeah. They called our phone over 10 time and text us quite a few times. We didn’t answer or anything, but they were drunk, ha ha.

Anyways, when it comes to missionary work, it’s been getting better and better! Since it’s summer and we get to see our wonderful bright sun, people are nice and receptive! We did some contacting on the beach in Penzance and we gave away 4 copies of the BOM in less then an hour! It was great! We met a lot of people from everywhere around the world!! It was so cool! Unfortunately we didn’t meet any Americans, haha, but a lot of Australians and Italians! Cool! We haven’t been able to see a few of out investigators this week cause the weather is so great and people are out and about....so we had a few people cancel on us......... lame, but we will see them again. So hopefully we will be able to teach some more people this week!

Planking...

So quick story…this is kinda for the Hale family like Jasmine and her husbandy Skyler! So we had a dinner ap. a few days ago with this family of 2 boys and a married couple obviously, the boy’s names are Ben and Arron Hall. Arron is a RM. and served in Manchester! So while we were waiting in the living room I saw a picture on their wall with a group of missionaries, I got off the couch to just look at it. I realized I saw someone that looked really familiar. This darker skinned chap..Haha I remembered that Skyler served in England but I didn’t know what mission. So I asked Arron "who is this kid? He looks familiar” he said, "His name is Skyler" I didn’t remember skyler’s name at the time until he told me. Haha I was like "oh my gosh that’s my new cousin!" haha I knew it was him! I just couldn’t remember his name! So we had a nice chat about him, he was an AP!! Wow...no wonder uncle Jer said he could marry in the family. Haha! He’s a cool kid! So yeah I took some pictures of the picture I saw! I’ll send it after I’m done writing this cause I already sent too many haha so yeah that was a funny story! (see pic below) 

Arron and I holding the picture of Skyler that was on their wall (he brought it to church the next day)

Anyways! I’m about to go play basketball with my new basketball my mum sent to me! ;) I’m so pumped! Were going to play with some English mates yo!  Yeeaahh!!

I love you all and hope all is well!! 

Cheers!! :)

This is Amin who we were teaching in this amazing place! 

Received a package from home! Made my whole week!!!

Elder Bailey & me being bored.. so we kicked it out in the back garden trying to be funny...

July 23, 2012---Awesome Letter!

Hey everyone,

I don’t have much time. So really quick, this week was amazing! It had its ups and downs. Last Monday night we taught Julian and his wife Becky! They have 2 young babies. They are great! They don’t really know what church is actually true. So we teach them the Restoration a lot! Cause obviously they can relate to Joseph Smith! So we are going to teach them tonight with a member named Bret again, he’s an awesome guy too he’s 28 years old and is hilarious! So Bret taught them a lot last week and he bore his testimony about the book of Mormon and how our families can live together forever! It was emotional and the spirit was present! ;) So I’m praying so hard that that family will be baptized! Cause they are so great and I love them!

During the rest of the week. We didn’t have too much success..We did get 2 new investigators, last Tuesday! Which was amazing! Then nothing too much happened the rest of the week until last night! Wow! So long story short, we went and visited 2 different potentials that lived in this village in the middle of nowhere. And we almost just didn’t visit them/drop them, but we decided to go visit these 2 different families one last time, cause we’ve been trying to see these people for 2 months and they were never home or they were "ill"... so we knocked on the first potentials door named Mark and Judee. Mark said they didn’t have enough time to talk to us. But Judee looked at him like he was stupid. Ha ha and she said "mark of course we have enough time to talk to these guys about the bible." haha so mark was like okay come in...ha ha YES!! So we sat down got to know them, and they have been struggling spiritually. They don’t really like the church that they are going to now. Cause the people are not supportive. blah blah.. And I was so pumped cause our ward is the best and they would love our ward! So we taught them the restoration and about the book of Mormon obviously and they were just so willing to listen and asked great questions, and we just had the spirit with us! It was so great then we watched the book of Mormon DVD that we hand out to people with them, it was only 12 minutes long. And after that they were just shocked, and they asked for a book of Mormon! HAHA! YES!!! So yes we will see them next Sunday!! And they said they WILL read and pray! :) So happy!

Okay and then. The other potentials that we were going to see right after mark and judee, k so we knocked on there door for like the 12 time in 2 months and they finally let us in!! The guy that we were trying to see was named Len, and his son was the one that answered the door and his name is Ben.. Haha he’s about 21 years of age. So he invited us in and we went in their back garden and just sat down and started talking with Ben and Len! It was great! We had a lot of laughs and just got to know each other! It was great! So after 2 flippin hours of talking. Ha ha I finally told them why we are here at their home and what we do and what we invite them to do! They were all ears, but Ben doesn’t believe in God. He believes in Energy...... so he was willing to listen to us. So we taught the Restoration again. Haha and ben had a lot of great questions as well! Len as well again. Haha so it all just made sense to them! I quoted the first vision to them and their eyes were just glowing! After I was done sharing my testimony about the restoration they were blown away! And Ben asked for a book of Mormon! (2 people just ASKED for a Book of Mormon! heck yes) and I shared moronis promise with him, I had ben read it and after he read it I asked what he felt and what stood out to him, and he said the meat of the verse! Have pray with a sincere heart with real intent having faith is Jesus Christ and you will know the truthfulness of the Holy Ghost. He said all of that! And he said he’s feeling something that he doesn’t really feel, I asked what does it feel like, and he said it’s hard to explain, I told him that was the spirit working through him. And he said oh my gosh I know! Haha it was so awesome! Then I told him the spirit is hard to explain to people, cause it’s just so wonderful! I used the analogy that GREAT SCOTT told me, "well what does salt taste like?" haha perfect dad! I asked them that questions and how it’s relevant on how to explain the spirit. They totally agreed! It was such a wonderful experience you guys. I love being a servant my savior, and I know that we are literally instruments in his hands. I witnessed that last nigh and it was an experience I will not forget. I later asked told them about baptism and the atonement, and how they could be reborn again and kind of have a restart in there lives, being forgiven of there sins, they really were interested in that! ;) So next Sunday hopefully we will have a few baptismal dates! :)

So real quick on the pictures. The 2 studs with the union jack onezees! Are the AP's! I love them so much! Haha they are hilarious! They spent the night at our flat on Saturday night and they and pres. & sister Millar were coming to our ward! I was so scared cause was giving a lesson the next day! It went well but was very scary with the ap's listening to the lesson. Haha, so yeah Sunday was a great day! Our new president is an awesome guy! And sister Millar is the most kind lady ever! I love them already!

July 16, 2012

Ello!

So this week was cool! We did go finding a lot! We have a few more investigators, FINALLY!!! And we are visiting them on a weekly bases. So that’s great! But no baptismal dates set yet. We will commit one of out gators tonight! His name is Julean! He’s an awesome guy! And we have a member coming with us to teach him tonight so I’m super pumped! Yesterday we went and visited one of our potentials. And when he opened his door he welcomed us inside! It through me off guard cause this stuff never happens. Haha so it was sweet! We thought him the restoration and some of the Plan of Salvation and he is very interested! We read the whole introduction page with him and he really enjoyed it! It all makes sense to him so he wants us to come by next week and teach him more!! Miracles happen baby!! So heck yes!

This week we had 2 exchanges, one with the zone leaders, and the other one was with my boy Elder Bailey! He’s an English man from up north; we really get along and have fun! When we had the exchange with the zone leaders we had to drive an awful lot. When we exchanged back I had to drive all the way to Plymouth to pick up my comp. And back to Helston in one day, with terrible weather. That took pretty much the whole day. Haha the other exchange with Bailey was cool, I went to his area (Red Ruth, none as Chav City) and I went on a double decker bus for the first time! It was so cool! We sat on top right up front! No one was on the bus! Haha so we had fun! That day we visited a young family, on our way to their house we ran into that family on the street.. We were thinking, do we still have that appointment? Sarah the mother said “oh yeah we will be back in 15 minutes.” So we decided to go knocking while waiting for Sarah and her family to get back. We came back to her house later and no one answered, we then went and knocked some more doors and came back to Sarah’s house and no one answered. ha-ha so bailey dusted off his feet at her from door and we walked away..Soon after we ran into Sarah again. Haha we asked her again if we were still going to come over, she looked really annoyed and said "yes... come in...." hehe! :) We went in and tried to teach her kids. Their was 3 kids ages 10 8 and 4. Cute kids, haha they were funny as well. So Sarah was just doing other things while we were just sitting there waiting for her to sit down so we could teach her and her family. Haha it was an awkward 10 minutes just watching her walk around the house..So she finally sat down and was willing to listen. She had a bunch of questions about why God lets bad things happen on this earth if he loves us so much. We taught her about how God gave us our agency. So it just leads to bad things in this world, and God isn’t going to force us to live the way he wants us to. So we taught her that, and the plan of salvation. She was very interested! So she went from being annoyed that we were at her house to humbling herself and was willing to listen to us and she was very receptive! It was sweet. I bore my testimony about the Book of Mormon and how the gospel has blessed my life and my family, and Bailey bore his testimony as well and the spirit was just with us all that evening, and I know Sarah felt the spirit. She said she would read the book of Mormon and really pay attention to what it teaches and that she will pray to know the truthfulness of it. :)

It was a great experience. But too bad she’s not in my area. Haha :(

Ps. The picture of me and sunglasses and lookin like a fool.. Yeah bailey said that I looked like the matrix guy. Haha so I’m dodging a bullet that’s all. Haha lookin fresh!

Cheers to all of you!  I love you all so much!! :)

July 9, 2012

Oyee!!

So this week was crazy! Its been a little over a week for me to train. Its some hard work let me tell you... I still need to be trained. I don’t understand why I’m a trainer, cause I’m still a greenie. Haha but yeah its pretty hard cause this kid is seriously the complete opposite of me. But I’m trying to love him and get to know him.. He’s a good kid though; he’s from Spanish fork if I didn’t tell you guys.

 So this week we had a conference to meet out new mission president, Pres. Millar, he’s a good guy. I didn’t get to say anything to him but he’s cool as well as his wife, she’s from Preston England, she helped a lot with the Preston Temple while it was being built. I think she said she was the first person to do baptisms for the dead in that temple. So that’s cool. Before they came they lived in St. George, really cool people!

At the conference I saw my boy Elder Josh Smith!! He’s just came in the field and we chilled with each other, love that kid, it was exciting to see him! The other picture is our A.P. elder Simmons, he’s a baller, I love that kid to death, he’s an unbelievable missionary, he’s way powerful as well as the other A.P. I’m really close with the aps they are just so awesome I wish I could be like them.. Haha it was also the 4th of July.... and Guess what we did???!!!!!! nothing........So lame... haha I forgot it was the forth of July until I saw an American flag at a school near by our flat. Haha so we got a picture of it, I look like a tool. Haha but oh well!  I hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July!!!!

We had a few miracles happen this week! So here in helston it’s really hard to get people to accept a book of Mormon, the time I’ve been here our average of handing out book of Mormons was like maybe 2 a week... yeah pretty bad. But this week we gave out 7!!! And they are solid people!! Last a week ago we had a comp prayer and goals we set to find NORMAL PEOPLE. Haha sounds rude but its true. The investigators we had before were just weird and had some kind of metal problem or something. So we prayed to find normal people and we received an answer to our prayers! We found 2 young families that are searching for the truth! We will see one of them tonight, and the other one next Sunday! And the other ones are just investigating that really appreciated the book of Mormon!! So heck yes!! Doin’ work down here in the promised land of Cornwall Helston!! Haha

Our ward is very old... we only have 3 families that are pretty young, the rest are all 65 years and up. Haha so we need younger families! And we found a few!! So excited!! Now I need to actually focus on how to teach the Plan of Salvation, cause we've never really gotten passed the restoration... haha!

Cheers!  I love you all!! :)

July 2, 2012

Ello! 

So I’m a trainer, as most of you know. And it’s some serious work. I’m not gonna lie, its pretty hard for me. But it’s going to be an incredible learning experience. The kid I’m training is Elder Stewart, he is from Spanish fork Utah, we have absolutely nothing in common other then we are from Utah. So its gonna be an interesting 6 weeks...he’s a good kid though. So my other companion Elder Romer is now a zone leader in London, that didn’t surprise be because he’s just brilliant. So my zone leader (elder sima) and I drove together to the London temple to pick up out new companions. We took a few pictures and we were off. While we were at the temple I actually saw one of my high school buddies Elder Josh Smith, he is a greenie as well, and I was hoping I was going to train him so badly! But nope. So sad. We were so close! But he was extremely happy to see me! Haha and I was extremely happy to see him as well! Haha it was cool! After that we headed on back to the south west of the UK. Elder Stewart and I didn’t get home till 1:00am... we also had to take some sister missionaries down to there new area. It was a long drive with the sisters. They were so loud... haha i was driving the whole time and i was just about to drive us into a wall because the sisters were so hyper. Haha it was great though.... that morning we got to sleep in, so that made up for all the annoyingness.. :)

So since elder steward and I have been here together we have given out at least one book of Mormon a day! So that’s awesome! In the last 4 days we've given out 6! That’s really good for how slow everything has been down here! Its good!

So yeah I’m trying to learn how to train and help this guy out as much as I can! And he’s helping me out as well! The work is hard, but I’m still climbing the latter! :)

Cheers! Hope all is well! I love you all!

Ps: I’m sorry if I couldn’t email some of you back…I had no time. I’m so sorry!

Quick Update from June 28th! {Sorry for the lack of posting!}

Hey Everyone!

So just very quickly.....ummm so we had moves yesterday...and I just got called to be a flippin' Trainer..... yeah! I was NOT expecting that. So yep I am a trainer. I'm kinda flippin out cause I'm still a new missionary, not knowing exactly what to do, so I'm trippin haha. The kid I'm training is Elder Stewart! He's a great kid and from Utah and is Republican! So that's good! But I dont think he plays sports, so I'll be gettin fat...He's a really nice kid and I'm excited to get to know him more!

I'm emailing right now because Elder Stewart wasn't able to email on Monday, so I get to hurry and tell you guys what's goin on! So yeah I had to drive all the way to London and pick up my new comp and drive all the way back to Plymouth in one day. It was like a 12 hour drive altogether, haha I'm super tired. Another cool thing is that we are getting a new car!!! Heck yes! Our other car was pretty old, but we are very lucky to have a car! We are the only missionaries that have a car that aren't zone leaders or A.P.'s! So we are blessed. haha.

Anyways that's the update from the last few days! I'll email you guys back on monday!!

I love all of you!! Cheers! :)