Hello
again!
I loved Conference! I felt the spirit so strongly in the talks
that were given. I think my favourite
was Elder Eyring’s or Elder Uchtdorf’s.
They were good ones.
We had a good week this week. We were running around to meetings in
Canterbury and in London so we have been pretty busy. It has been good to go to
meetings, but I am looking forward to a week just doing our thing -- teaching
and finding people.
Speaking of which, here is a story
for you guys. We were tracting in a
little village called Lower Halstow -- super country, lots of sheep -- but
anyways we were not having much success.
We really wanted to find some people to teach so we said a prayer. It was getting late and after the prayer we
still didn’t find anyone until we both looked at a house and we knew that was
the one. Sure enough we knocked and a
gentlemen answered and said we could come back the next day. It was cool to see the Lord’s hand help us out
so plainly, but … when we went back to the man’s house it turns out he was a
Christian minister from Illinois of all places.
All he wanted to do was have a good ol'-fashioned Bible bash with us. He knew his scriptures and his weird Mormon
doctrine quite well. He wanted us to
give him historical evidence of the apostasy. Whatever … I guess God does have a sense of
humour haha. After we came out of our "lovely" meeting with him we
knocked on a few more doors and we found a lady who speaks perfect Italian so she
and Elder Mongelli can understand each other.
We will be going back this week.
I will keep you posted on her.
Ah man, I love the gospel though. I don’t know why but I have had to deal with
so much anti stuff on my mission. But you
know what … let ‘em talk. The gospel is
true. Joseph Smith was a prophet – I have
known that since I was a little kid, and nothing is going to shake that.
Other than that, we have been
working with a lot of less actives.
Here is one more experience.
We went to a less active’s house. This was the first time we were meeting with
this person and the first time we have been to their house, and a girl we didn’t
know answered the door. I asked if our
less active was there and she said yes but then she asked how we knew she was
here. I was rather confused to say the
least. It turns out, that this was her
daughter’s home. We didn’t even know
that they had a daughter and somehow we went to her house AND our less active
was there. We taught her and her
daughter and we are going to start teaching her daughter and her non-member
husband.
That’s really about it for this week. The Book of Mormon musical has taken off here. Everyone loves it and I think we are going to
see a lot of attention from it.
Love you all. Have a good week.
