Hello
from very very sunny England,
It has been so warm all week. I has been in the high 90's for the past
couple of days and there has been no sign of a rain cloud for a while! It has drained all my energy. Every night we
come home I am just exhausted. It has
been really humid which hasn’t helped much either.
We had a couple miracles this
week. On Wednesday we had to go to the
chapel to print off a talk. While we
were walking there we met a young girl named Tasha, right outside the chapel. We stopped her and started talking to
her. She was really nice and we invited
her in to take a tour of the chapel. I
didn’t think she would want to, but she agreed! So we took her in there and we
had a good lesson. We talked about the
Book of Mormon and she was really really happy when we gave her one. Hopefully
we will see her this week.
We also met a guy named James. We met him last transfer but he was really
hard to get a hold of. On Thursday he
called us and wanted to meet up in Letchworth.
We went and met him and had such a good lesson. He was asking all the right questions like
“why don’t we have a prophet today?” We
gave him a baptismal date for August 25th, and he was stoked. He really wants to change some things in his
life and get closer to God.
Our teaching has been really
good. We study a lot of chapter 3 in Preach my Gospel and we are doing really
well at getting good points across to people. Unfortunately lots of our
appointments cancelled on us this week.
We spent a lot of time in the sun tracting and street contacting, and we
spent lots of time with members teaching them about missionary work and how
they can participate. That is something President Jordan has been stressing so
much! Getting into member homes and teaching them, gaining their trust, and
finding people to teach through them. It has been really good for us. The members here are great and we have been
sharing really good lessons with them. We share some video called “I'll Go
Where You Want Me to Go.” It really
invites the spirit into the room and people really see how easy they can share
the gospel! All you have to do is be
really casual about it.
I can’t really think of too much
else that happened this week. I feel
like we are going good places though. It
is that time of year when everybody goes on holiday and we won’t see them for a
couple weeks ... sigh, but just gotta keep on keeping on.
Love,
Elder
Purdy
