{April 15, 2013}

Hey you guys!

This week was great! Of course we all have our own personal challenges we face in life, but if we take a step back and take a look of the good things the Lord blesses with, even challenges that we are overcoming, we become very grateful. :) This is what has happened to me this week.

First of all, we had a cool miracle, we were street contacting and we got rejected my a group of black people, but one of the ladies said "wait, are you guys Mormons?" We said yes...and she said, "my husband is a member of you church, and he hasn't gone to church in a long time, here is his number and our address, come by and get him back to church!" Ha ha so that was a very crazy experience, the Lord just handed us a huge blessing. We ended up teaching the guy named Albert, we got to know him and things, he is Ghanaian as well as his wife. He lived in salt lake city for a few years and attended Weber state. He has lived in so many different places, he is 53 years old. He was in the bishopric in Ghana, and a ward mission leader in Spain. He works in a hospital, he works with hearts....I don't know too much, but he is so cool! He is so funny and so nice. He wants to come back to church and doesn't really have any reason why he hasn't been coming to church, he just hasn't attended. He is not even in our ward list, so he would be considered as a "lost sheep". It was a miracle! He also wants his wife to take the discussions! So we might get a baptism out of this!! So, so cool!

 

On Saturday some missionaries in our district baptized a dude named Joseph, he's been investigating for over 6 months! He finally was dunked! He is from Georgia the country. He's so cool. As you can see he was baptized in a river. Why? because Joseph watched the Restoration DVD and it showed Joseph Smiths dad being baptized in a river and he wanted the same. Ha ha! That river was so perfect for the baptism! The tree is sweet.

 

Right now we are teaching 2 investigators who seem pretty promising, one is from France/Ghana and she is black, and another mother who is from Portugal, she has a wonderful family that we are trying to get them involved in the lessons. We gave them both soft commitments to work toward baptism, and they both said yes! So hopefully they will continue to progress! They are great!

 

Moves are on Wednesday. I kinda feel like I will leave, but you never know. Whenever I guess, it goes the opposite, so I'll probably stay, ha ha. We have 34 new missionaries coming in, and 14 departing, next transfer there will be 30 new missionaries and 12 departing and it will continue for the next 8 months probably....so everyone will probably be training in these next few months and new areas will be opening. It's crazy! It sure is the Latter-Days!

 

I sure love and miss all of you!! I hope all is well!!

 

Things are great over here in England! The bright warm thing in the sky is out...I think people call it the sun? If I'm right? Yeah, well it feels good.

Take care! ;)

P.S.

I have a favor to ask you all...

will you take the time to send me neat experiences you've have through the Gospel? ;)

Something short and sweet if you'd like...about prayer, fasting, scriptures, mission experiences, etc.

Or even experiences we have had as a family that was spiritual. I just need more ideas/ stories to share with the people here and I don't have a good memory anyways...So if you could, please send me some spiritual experiences you have been blessed with in your lives. I love you all! Thank you so much!

I've been wanting to ask you guys this for a long time and I finally remembered to ask you.