Ahoy
there one and all,
Time here in Sittingbourne is going
by far too fast. I don’t know what time
is anymore. We are always busy, always
running around – it’s crazy. Sometimes I
feel a bit robbed of time! I spend so much time on the phone with conference
calls and talking to other missionaries, its mental. It’s good to feel accountable for things
though. I’m growing a lot.
All is going quite well. We are teaching a girl named Ara. She is the daughter of a member named Catherine. She is good.
She is 15 and she likes coming to church, but doesn’t really believe in
God. We talked a lot about how we are children of God, and how before we came
here we lived with him. It was a very
spiritual lesson. I know she enjoyed it
a lot, and I know that she is feeling her Heavenly Father’s love for her. I
think that inherently everyone knows that they have divine potential,
that we are destined for much much
more than mediocrity, and we can reach that potential through the
gospel by being shaped into that person we were designed to be. We
are hoping to have her baptized this transfer. We haven’t seen Marina for a
while now. I don’t know what happened. She just stopped seeing us and stopped
reading and coming to church. I am very
disappointed about that, but I hope things will turn around again. I am still very excited about Ara. She is solid.
We have had a fun week. We have still just been trekking around all of
the little villages around here. It has been fun learning how to
drive since my license came. I am
terrible at roundabouts. I just go into
them gung ho and guns blazing. It keeps
things interesting for sure.
We have been really busy with less
actives. That’s actually how we got to
teaching Ara was through our less active lessons. It has been so good to go to all of these
people and help them feel that spirit they are familiar with, to remind them
how happy this can make them. It is working.
Our chapel was looking more full than usual on Sunday.
We have been working really closely
with Sister Stocker as well. She is great. I love her.
She helps us out a lot in this area.
Elder Mongelli is good. We get along really well and I am excited to
work more with him some more.
Well that’s all the time I’ve got. God Save the Queen. Enjoy the pictures.
Love,
Elder
Purdy |
| Christian's district -- he is the only American. His companion Elder Mongelli is from Italy. Christian is standing next to him. The others from left to right are from South Africa, Brazil, England, and Malaysia. |
