Will he get transferred out of Helston!?? We'll see next week!

 Hey everyone!

So this week are moves....and I strongly feel that I will be leaving Helston. I've been here for almost 6 months so I feel like thee Elder Keller needs to move on, but who knows I might stay. It's most likely that I will leave so I said bye to a few families that I am really close with and it was sad, but at the same time i might stay so it'll be awkward if I do stay after saying goodbye to a few people haha.

This week has been busy, we have been seeing a lot of less actives, less actives that I havent met yet. They were interesting, but went well. We still haven't really taught that many people, which is sad. We did teach a guy named Richard yesterday after church, and brother Topham came with us! So we were going in there to teach Richard the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and we told bro Topham that we will ask him questions when we want him to speak haha, so we go in there and brother Topham is off on saying a whole bunch of things. After 10 minutes of trying to take control of the lesson I just gave up cause bro Topham just would not stop, it was so frustrating...especially when he was bringing up the temple, patriarchal blessings, Visions, D&C.. etc. It was bad...so yeah, it was pretty annoying, but Richard and bro Topham are good friends now so that's really good, but way too much info and things that just weren't necessary to say were said. So next Sunday we will see how it goes, haha.

Yesterday I was able to give a member of our ward a blessing. It was my first blessing out on the mission. I didn't really know what to say at all really and I didnt really know the member all that well, but he asked me to give him a blessing, and I did. It was me, Elder Sparks and Brett Jolliffe who is a member. Brett and Derrick (the guy i gave a blessing to) were talking to eachother before Derrick even asked me to give him a blessing, and they were talking about what has been going on in his life...all of his trials, sicknesses, etc. When I gave him a blessing it was just a simple blessing, and I just mentioned a lot about Jesus Christ, how the scriptures will help and guide him in his life etc. It was a blessing that I was really really relying on the Spirit to help me say the right things. I learned that I should not be affraid to just open the blessing and just wait and listen to what the Spirit will tell you what to say, and I learned that when the blessing was already going on. It was wonderful. After the blessing, Brett came up to me and said I did a wonderful spiritual blessing, he knew that was my first blessing and he was really cool about it. He told me everything I said in the blessing was what Brett and Derrick were talking about before I knew I was going to actually give a blessing. Its so amazing how the spirit works in us. I really had a wonderful day yesterday having that experience in using the priesthood that I am blessed to have. It was wonderful! ;)

 

Anyways I love and miss all of you, I hope everything is going well back at home. If you guys would be so kind, please pray for me. I know you are, but I need some help and guidance. I need to understand how to teach people, and actually find people to teach.

I love and miss all of you. Read and pray everyday, I can't tell you how much I love the scriptures, I've come to realize how powerful and wonderful the scriptures are. I find verses everyday that really uplift me and makes me want to do better and love and care for everyone around me.

Cheers everyone! ;)

 

P.s. The pictures:

-the tophams and I! They live in a motorhome! It's so fun to have dinner appointments with them! haha.

-a place called St. Ives

-my district...

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Hey Everyone!

So another short email for you....Last monday we did that hike i was telling you about and it was a tiny little hill...haha so here are some pictures of that hill. It was pretty cool. It was an easy hike I must say, about a 15 minute hike. So that was fun. Later that p-day we went back to Helston and we had an appointment to play basketball with some gators!! Sam and Dee and Lestyn who is a less active. We played ball in this ghetto none-used basketball court. It was Sparks and I vs. these 3 guys that are in their early 20's. These guys play for the Cornwall b-ball team, so I was thinking they were going to be really good. We played them going to 11, 3 of them against us 2, and we beat them 15 to 2.......hahaha they actually alright, but they just couldn't make a layup, so we taught them how to make layups haha, it was really fun! Afterwards, we were walking back to Sams car, and right before we got in the car I said "HOLD UP! SPIRITUAL THOUGHT TIME." Haha I almost forgot that we were supposed to teach them after we played cause these guys are really awesome & we all are pretty much best friends. They LOVE Americans! ;) So we gave everyone a Book of Mormon and we read the introduction page. We all read a paragraph each, and the spirit was so with us. It was so great! Sam and Dee had wonderful questions and really wanted to learn more. They said they would read the book of mormon! So we scheduled a bball/lesson appointment, which is tonight! I'm super excited! After we read the intro page, I really testified of the book of mormon like I haven't before, it was a great feeling, Elder Sparks did as well. We know that Dee and Sam really knew what we were saying was true. On our way home in Sams car they were asking a bunch of questions that were simple to answer and explain. I felt like i was on fire!! It always feels great when you're prepared to answer peoples questions. It wasn't me tho...It was the spirit! ;)

The rest of the week has been a bit slow...until the weekend! We taught Ben and Len, as well as Richard! The lessons went really well, we actually found their needs, which I realized I don't focus enough on with out gators...so that kinda helped out a lot, ha so all of that went really well! We also taught John Spires again! He really wants to change, so we are there to help him, but not be his mother all of the time, so we are giving him a 3rd chance to really commit to the things we give him. He is reading the book of mormon again! So hopefully he will keep goin! That day we taugh John in Penzance, we saw a guy sitting on a bench that was completely wiped out haha he spilt his beer while he was sleeping and some really funny things happed while watching him. He was so stoned and drunk and all of that, it was ridiculous, So I had to take a picture. haha.

Anyways I love and miss all of you so much! The work here is slow, but we are working and praying hard! Miracles will happen! We are just waitin for it to come and working hard for it to come! I'm learning so much each day, I just wish I had more experience teaching people!

Cheers! ;)

Planting Seeds!

 Ello! :)

So this will be really quick cause I have to go! We are going on a hike baby!! The tallest hill in Cornwall!!! Its about 76 feet above sea level!! So it’s huge yo!!!

So this week was a bit slow again....Elder Sparks and I are still happy! We have good attitudes most of the time! And we leave the flat EXPECTING SUCCESS!! I’ve learned if we just say a quick prayer right before we leave the flat and say, "alright there is someone out there just waiting for us to speak to them" it works!! Just EXPECT something good is going to happen. Always always think that! But unfortunately...our expectations haven’t happened this last week. But it will this week! We will baptize many soon to come!

A lot of our gators have been "too busy". So we haven’t been able to teach all that much. We are really good and talking to people on the streets I must say. But people here are so Atheist.. So lame... I can’t believe that they wouldn’t believe in a God. How do they live..? I bear my testimony about our Loving Heavenly Father all of the time to these people, and I can see most of the time in these peoples eye that they know I’m telling them the truth. Even though they don’t accept a Book of Mormon yet. We are planting seeds!! They will come around!

Anyways, yesterday was fast and testimony meeting. And it was just out of control... we had people sharing their testimonies about our heavenly Mother. And all these weird visions these people have been seeing. And just really weird stuff. It was really interesting, so it was probably a good thing none of our investigators came to church yesterday cause it would have probably scared them off haha, but it was good.

There is a picture of this smaller kid and his name is Lestyn! He’s’ such a cool kid! He’s a less active, but we are working on him! We play ball with him and teach him afterwards. He is an EXACT ENGLISH VERSION OF TAYLOR EGBERT!! Hahaha he is a little smart A. haha hes so funny! He seriously is just like Taylor Egbert, so that’s why I love the kid so much! Haha he’s even ripped like Tay, and laughs like him and makes fun of me like Taylor would haha it’s hilarious!!

The other pictures are just pictures from exchanges I had with my sweet zone leader, Elder Sima! He’s so awesome! We had a good time!

Anyways I love all of you so much! Thank you for all your letters and support!

Cheers from England! ;)