Monday August 27th...

 Ello!

So really quick, this week was sadly really slow... we are trying to get used to taking the buses. So it’s kinda weird ha ha, but we just did a whole bunch of contacting this week and we found a couple of people that we thing might progress! I sure hope so! It’s kinda hard to tell if people here are drunk or not.. because if they are willing to listen and talk to us its most likely because they are drunk. Haha, but we did run into a younger father and kinda taught him on a bench, we gave him a book of Mormon and asked if we could come by and teach him a little bit more and how it can bless him and his families life! He said YES! So we got his address and we will hopefully see him next Sunday! So that was good!

The only really successful days are Sundays it seems like. Yesterday we taught Ben and Len, and a guy named Richard, it went really well! Richard’s dad just died so we taught him the plan of salvation, and he was touched! We watched a dvd with Len, the dvd was elder Holland’s testimony of the book of Mormon, and it was really good! And it goes on explaining a bit more about the book! Len was touched as well! And he really wants to change his life he said, cause he said he knows that what we are teaching him will really change his and his family’s life! So that was really great!  Anyways all is well here in England! Not the numbers I want. But they are coming along!

The picture I sent is just sweet! My sweet planner I made, with the Cornish flag on it! So dope! And the lime green seat! YES!! And a picture of my comp Elder Sparks and me and Michaels mount in the background! (Penzance)

Anyways I love and miss all of you so much!! Hope all is well!!

Cheers! ;)

5 months down!! {& some stories to remember!}

 This week I’m just going to tell you some long stories short, ha ha. Sorry it probably wont be as spiritual. K so here I go.

So we are teaching this lady named Judy, she said she wants to be baptized and everything! It was great at the moment! A couple nights later elder sparks and I were just getting ready to go to bed, then we got a call from Judy. She was mumbling a lot on the phone. She mumbles pretty badly in real life anyways. But it was worse on the phone. And she kept saying she needed us to come over and all this weird stuff. I told her we cant, we have no car, and we just cant anyways. She started getting me attitude and all of the sudden she started yelling and screaming at me on the phone saying she needed help. And her boy friend is getting violent with her and all of this crap. At the moment I was freaking out cause I didn’t know what to do. I was like "Judy call the police" she said they wouldn’t do anything for her. blah blah blah.. After talking on the phone for a while. I just told Judy that we will call the police for her and they will help her. She kept telling us to call the police and then saying not to call the police. She kept changing her mind... so this story can go on and on.. So pretty much it got to a point where it was past 11:00 and I just called the president and asked him what we should do. And just gave us a weird answer saying, " Just do whatever you feel like". Oh well thanks president... ha. So we decided not to call the police cause I knew she was completely drunk. We kept getting calls from her on and off through the night. I was going to the bathroom, and Judy called us again and my comp picked up the phone and it was Judy again, and she was screaming my name " elda kella elda kella!! I need elda kella on the phone now!! " ha.. My comp opened the bathroom door throwing me the phone and he said, "Judy needs you!" Haha I was like Hellllo... she said "elda kella. I trust you, and only you. Help me elda kella.. save me..." haha.. I was like what the flip is going on... I just told her I’m calling the police. I hung up the phone and called the big 999. Haha I told them the situation and told them where she lives. And we went to bed at 2:30.... I was so tired the next day... so yeah Judy is crazy, and we have no baptismal date anymore. So that’s really lame.. And Judy still calls us like 10 times everyday. And we are trying to block her number. She crazy... I felt like was being possessed... ha.

Another long story short... so funny. We had a barn dance a few nights ago. And a lot of member told us that there was a frozen pizza that was in the freezer for us missionaries. I forgot to grab that pizza that night. And last night Brett Jolliffe (member) and sparks and I were driving home from a dinner appointment, we were passing the church, and I forgot I left my rain coat there, so we all went inside to church. There was a live showing goin on last night about the prophet’s birthday or something. And we chilled for a bit. And we were about to leave and Brett remember that there was a pizza for us in the freezer that some elderly members left for us, so Brett and I went in the kitchen to grab the pizza, and Brett was looking through the fridge and couldn’t see anything. He opened this little door thing in the fridge that I guess was the freezer part of it, and he pulled out this white cookie sized frozen circle round thing. And he flipped it around and we realized it was the pizza that was given to us to enjoy. Haha Brett and I were laughing our heads off. I don’t think I’ve laughed that hard in my life. Hah you had to have been there to really laugh. It was so funny! Ill tell you the entire story when I get back in more detail, but it was hilarious!! Haha.

Anyways. The work is fun! I’m starting to get the hang of things. I think.. I love my comp. We are having a lot of fun, and trying to teach the world down here in Cornwall Helston!! Haha its great!

I love and miss all of you! HOPE ALL IS WELL!

KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON!  The queen told me to tell you guys this. ;)

Cheers all you mates of mine! ;)

{Glimpse of the Olympics, Goodbye Car, Teaching the Plan of Salvation}

Hello!

So this week was a bit crazy! I’m going to make it brief. I have no time! But the whole week has been a bit slow....we traveled up to London to pick up my new comp straight out of the MTC. So I’m training again as you know and it’s been great! This kid Elder Sparks is a stud! He wants to work hard and not be awkward! So this is great! We just handed the keys over to the Bidiford missionaries that stole our car. It was a sad moment. Haha but I’ll be losing weight soon I hope! Ha!

Teaching wise…We haven’t been able to teach many people sadly. The only days that are successful really are Sunday evenings. We visit these people in this tiny village called Mawgan. We visit Ben & Len, the son and father, and this couple named Judee & Mark. We taught all of them The plan of salvation yesterday! I think it was my first time teaching the POS! It went well! They really felt the spirit. I did as well of course! So Judee’s lesson went well, and after judee we went to Ben and Len’s house. Ben answered the door and he was having a hang over. Haha but he invited us in! He was the only one home at that moment, so we just sat in his back garden and started chattin about stuff. Then it started raining so we went inside to his living room, and the TV was on and guess what was on??? THE OLYMPICS BABY!! USA VS SPAIN WITH 6 MINUTES LEFT!!!!  So you know me... I had to see this... and ben was the one that said, "oh lets watch this really fast!!" so I was like heck yes we are! So we watched it and the U.S. won of course! It was so great! I felt super homesick afterwards. Haha but its aight! I got to see at least one event in the whole Olympics for crying out loud!! Haha and it so happened to be Basketball…my favorite!! So after we watched it we started talking about the gospel and book of Mormon. Ben hasn’t read anything yet cause he’s been "busy" but he will he said. Then we starting talking about the plan of salvation, he was amazed on what we had to say! I had these little circle things to explain the POS better. I like visual lessons, so that helped out! Half way through the lesson Len walked in and he sat down and we kinda started over and they both were just shocked and really interested! They had a lot of good questions and a lot of weird and off subject questions. Haha but we managed! ;) When we closed with a word of prayer we started walking out, and I walked outside with Ben and Sparks was way behind me, and Len and sparks starting talking again while I was talking to Ben walking out side, and sparks told me afterwards what Len said to him, and Len told sparks how wonderful we are and how loving we are the them and they really appreciate how much we come over and teach and show love for them and try and strengthen their faith, he went on and started talking about his wife, and how she has kidney stones or something..And sparks!! He said " Len remember that priesthood power we were talking about earlier?" Len said yes and sparks went on saying how we could give her a priesthood blessing and according to their faith all things are possible!! And he asked if she would like a blessing and Len said, "Yes, would you give her a blessing? And I would love one too because I have M.S." so we are going to give them a blessing next time because the wife wasn't home. But isn’t this so awesome!! Wow I’ve trained Elder sparks so well already! ;) Hahah jk. It was all sparks himself!! Haha it was wonderful!!

Then I got talking to Ben and he plays basketball he said, and I invited him to come play ball today and he said he would come!! And we have one other non-member comin!! Its gonna be so fun!!! Ill be dunkin it yo!!

Anyways I love all of you so much! And I hope all is well! Thank you for all of your birthday wishes to me! Love it all!! You are all the BEST!!

Cheers mates! ;)

Called as a trainer for the second time! {Email from Friday, August 10}

Hello everyone...

So...moves were this last Wednesday and I’ve been called to be a trainer again...haha a fresh missionary out of the MTC....holy cow. So much pressure...the kid I’m training is Elder Sparks from Orem UTAH!! Haha what a surprise. He’s a really awesome kid! He’s 6 foot 2. We get along very well already. So we did a lot of traveling the last few days. We drove up to the temple to pick up Sparks and chilled for a bit, then started heading back down to Helston. We spent the night in a city called Poole with some other elders, then got up early and picked up our district leader and continued our journey south west. Haha it was so long. And I’m still trying to recover from driving so much....

So my birthday was great! I actually found out the morning of my birthday that I was going to be a trainer, got a call from President Millar, it was so scary to see that he was calling our mobile phone. So yep he told me that I was called to be a trainer again and I was shocked once again. So I got that call around 7:00am. Then my comp. Elder Stewart made me green pancakes with this really fattening syrup that was also green haha! He put food coloring in all that he made me. He’s such a great guy, that was really nice of him! And in the afternoon we had a Zone conference call telling everyone who’s moving and other news.. And we received the worst news for us helston missionaries... we were told that we are losing the car...I was so mad. You have no idea. I didn’t show it.. But I was so mad inside...Helston is one of the largest areas in the whole mission, and it's all farmland and the buses are terrible here. Haha so now we wont be able to visit at least 4 of out investigators because they live in tiny villages in the middle of nowhere. And we don’t have any reliable members that could come on teaches with us... so we are kinda screwed. And I don’t know how to use the buses. And I’m training. So I hope you guys have a little taste of what I’m going through right now. Haha but it’ll be fine. Ill try and figure stuff out... we might miss out buses once in a while. And might have to walk home from Penzance once in a while which is a 15 mile walk. No big deal.. Just take our car. Haha anyways later that night (on my birthday, just remember) we went to our church for a dinner appointment with the bishop and his family, and the Joliffs, they are so great! They pretty much did a surprise birthday party for me! They are so wonderful! They made me a cake and we had "hot dogs" which were tiny tiny tiny. and pasta! It was great!

Anyways, thank you for all the happy birthday emails! I haven’t read them yet cause I’m only supposed to send this email and call it good till Monday.. So I will respond to your emails on Monday! I love all of you! Keep me in your prayers cause I’m definitely going to need some help. Haha love you all! :)

Cheers! ;)

Birthday Boy! {Quick Letter}

 Ello!

So this week was a bit slow, but first of all, last p-day we played basketball with a less active and his mate, it was really fun! We kinda beat them by a lot and I also dunked it yo! On a 10 foot hoop! I filmed it so I'll try to send it! Haha yes! So yeah that's kinda the excitement of the week. We had a district meeting last Wednesday and my district so kindly bought me a cake for my birthday. As you can see, I ate it...and I'm also getting really fat, ha! So that was nice of them!

The rest of the week was really slow....we got dropped by 3 investigators...3 of our 5...so yeah that sucked. People are glued to their televisions because of the Olympics...no one is ever out on the streets, haha it’s kinda hard right now, but we do a lot of knocking and people just say "sorry! Olympics on!" and slam the door, so that’s what’s it's been like this whole week. Hopefully it will improve this week! Transfers are this Wednesday so I really don’t care if I leave Helston or stay. I feel like I will stay so I will make the best of this next transfer. I’m sorry I didn’t write that much this week. But there wasn’t much to say.

So I love all of you! I hope you’re all continuing having a blast without me! Ha ha.

Cheers! ;)

P.s. I only get to see little bits of the Olympics and I kinda hope I get moved up to London so I can see more! Ha ha.