Hello Everyone!
So before I forget... I've been trying to remind myself to tell you all that I am serving in the Epsom ward as they call it, and guess who served in the same area as me??? ELDER HOLLAND!!! so so so cool! I will be baptizing someone in the exact same faunt as Elder Holland did! so that's just a cool fact I would like to begin with.
This week has been great! we have been teaching some cool people! we have 4 baptismal dates, 2 of them are very promising. Susan and Erin. Susan asked me to baptize her yesterday at church for the 8th of December! so i will be getting my first baptism on my mission, after patiently waiting for over 8 months.... wow... but its worth it. Erin is an 9 year old girl who wants to be baptized on the 15th of December! she is a cute little girl that knows the church is true! the work is going pretty well here in Redhill, we just need to FIND MORE PEOPLE. that is something we have been struggling with is finding.. so pray that i will be better contacter. we have been teaching a mother named Denisse, and her son Brendan, we were at there home on Saturday, we just sat and chatted with them about what there concerns are, and just clear everything up, because they want to be baptized.. but we feel that they aren't really taking it all in. Brendan has a hard time believing in God.. he wants to believe in him, but he really in into science.. which leads to a lot of other stuff.. we have interesting conversations with him about science. anyways while we were talking with them, Denisse grabbed her little laptop and surprised us with her sister on skype, who lives in Peru, with missionaries from over there.. it was really weird.. they all we speaking Spanish and laughing at us.. so Denisse translated for us. Denisse's sister was recently baptized, so we are all trying to get her baptized! it was really fun, i had the missionaries from Peru share there testimony to Dennisse, and share some spiritual thoughts. so we basically had a lesson with 3 people present from and in Peru, it was cool. the missionaries were telling us how many people they were baptizing, one of them who has been out for 5 months has baptized 9, the other one who has been out for a year in a half has baptized 30.. wow.. all Lamanites are being baptized! so great! so that was a very interesting teach. it went well and i felt the spirit as the Peru missionaries spoke there Spanish.
Yesterday we were invited to go to a church called the Hope church.. by the hope members who called us last week. So we went and it was interesting. I don't really know what they really believe, but while we were there all they did was sing and the priest just was praying the whole time. there was so many prayers going on in the tiny building, the priest seriously prayed for 30 minutes.. i got so bored i just pulled out my scriptures and read true doctrine. even though they did have some truth, they are Christian. in some of their prayers they were praying for the truth to come to them.. I was so hesitant to just stand up in front of the whole congregation and preach to them about the restored gospel! But I didn't.. the people were nice.. they new about Mormons.. but they just wanted our attendance pretty much.
Anyways I gotta go! I love and miss you all so much, I hope everything is okay and that you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I didn't do much for Thanksgiving just to let you know;) I love you all, Cheers!
some pics from the last few weeks;
-the "some people are gay" wow.. what is this world coming to...
-the temple! what a sweet picture at night! i love my London temple!
-disappointment about obama being elected.. news papers all over the place about obama that day...It sucked.
