Ahoy,
Had a meeting in London yesterday so
I am shooting off my e-mails today!
The meeting was good. Elder Evans
from the missionary department came and spoke to us about finding people, it
was really inspiring! I loved what he said, he talked a lot about how we should
not just stop people in the street and turn on the fire hose with doctrine and
Joseph Smith and what not, but we need to just keep our cool and talk with people,
not talk to people. He said it bugged him that missionaries would set aside
time to find people instead of just constantly being involved. It was good. I
took some good notes.
Our week last week was interesting. Lots
of traveling. I had a workover in St. Albans with Elder Doudou from Germany on Tuesday,
and then on Thursday I had a workover in Harlow Essex with a missionary from my
district. Felt like we had lots of travel and I wasn’t really able to be here
for some of the lessons with our investigators. Emily is doing well, and will
be baptized at the end of this month. I- is doing fantastic. Her mother was
excited because we brought a missionary from Brazil with us to the lesson and
they just went off pretty much the whole time speaking in Portuguese.
We actually ended up dropping a few
people this week. Sometimes people are just not willing to change. They love to
have us over and to hear what we have to say, but won’t apply what we ask them
to in their own lives. It is terribly frustrating, so my personal goal for this
week is to find just one person to teach – find the one that wants to change. Just one!
The meeting in London was a good way
to start off the week, and it was perfect for the things I want to accomplish
this week. I am really looking forward to seeing some miracles happen! I care
so much about the people of England and I could not think of something I would
rather be doing right now than inviting them to come to Christ, to achieve
their goals, to find more happiness in life.
Cool story, I was talking with one of
the youth in our ward on Sunday, and I asked him about the youth camp that was
last week in Wales. He said it was fun, then his friend, who I had never met
before said he enjoyed it too. Apparently he went and loved it and came to
church that Sunday with his friend. He
now wants to join the church – excellent! It’s funny how all of our
investigators pretty much are under the age of 16 haha.
Well, transfers are next week and I
will let you all know what’s going down. Have a good week! Here is a picture
from the meeting in London.
Love,
Elder
Purdy
