Well I am just well chuffed over our
week. It was a good one. Tuesday we were in Letchworth Garden City, a nice
place. I like it there. It’s really
green, and as a matter of fact the new Simon Pegg film was filmed there. We saw
part of the shooting a few months ago, so that’s fun. But we saw a lady named
Ajinder up there. She is an Anglo-Indian lady – really nice – and we had a good
lesson on the Restoration with her. She enjoyed it and said she really felt
some "positive energy" in the room as we spoke, and said she saw the
"the light in us." I don’t know ... I guess she is just one of those
people. She has gone to Nepal, though – went to go meditate and have a nice
holiday. She took a Book of Mormon with her, so hopefully she will read it. The
rest of the day we walked around the streets, saw a less active and talked with
people. A good day.
Wednesday we were walking to the
train station to catch a train and I stopped this lady named Lauren. She a
single mum, and as I said who we were she said "Oh yeah I have wanted to
get baptized for awhile and so does my mate." So I hope we have a couple
baptisms coming up! We sat down on a park bench with her and had a real nice
chat about God and families and what we do as missionaries. We should be seeing
her on Wednesday. Miracles happen. She has had a rough couple years it sounds
like and I really hope she sees that this can really help her.
Thursday we had a meeting in St.
Albans – pretty cool city with lots of Roman ruins – and I had a workover with
Elder Peirera from Brazil. He surfs as well so we talked about that a bit and
had a good day together. We took him to Isabella's house, who is Brazilian and
so is her mother, and they just jabbered away in Portugese. I just waited until
we could speak English again. We ate dinner with them and then went tracting.
Friday was a bummer – hosed
appointments and rain. It’s getting a
bit colder here as well, which is always not fun.
And Saturday Emilie got baptized! It
was great. She was grinning from ear to ear afterwards and her mother was very
proud. We taught them at a family’s home called the Meades so we had Brother
Meade baptize her. I gave a talk about baptism. It was really nice, and her
family that aren’t members seemed to really enjoy it – until the next day when
Kylie told me they still think we are a cult that is going to hell …
We are looking forward to this week.
Elder Botcha is getting his patriarchal blessing tomorrow and we really want to
get one more baptism this transfer. Most of our investigators have kind of
fizzled out into not being interested, but we have some good new ones and we
are excited to find some more.
Love
you all,
Elder
Purdy
