Blimey!
I will start with a very delayed
Happy Birthday to my pal Natedog Jessee!
We worked hard this week, and saw
some cool things happen, but we are still trying to build up. Our teaching pool
is a bit less than desirable. But we are changing that, talking with
errrryybody. That’s all it takes.
We had a zone meeting about that
actually. No matter where you are just talk to people. It is amazing the
situations the Lord puts you in that can lead to something really powerful. By
small and simple things, I suppose. I think the missionaries liked it.
Yes sir, this week went by fast.
Tuesday we met a very nice man who had lost his glasses and was looking for
them. We offered to help and he was very happy for it. We talked with him as we
helped him and he said he was a Christian and wanted to get more into it. He
was stoked to find out we were missionaries and invited us to his home later in
the week. We never found his glasses, but a couple of days later he phoned up
and was screaming at my companion about how we were going to hell, that our
works couldn’t save us and that we were nothing but a cult. So needless to say,
we never tried to pop by. Yikes!
But we found a lovely investigator
named Emma. She is Chinese, from Beijing in fact, and is studying at the UEA.
We talked with her about God, who He is and how we can communicate with him.
And as we prayed she asked how she can be baptized. Bingo! She is prepared. She
came to church on Sunday and brought two of her friends Neil and Jennifer. They
really enjoyed it. We should be teaching all three of them this week. You could
tell that the light of Christ was burning in them, especially during the hymns.
On Saturday we went up north to a
place called Mundesley to visit a lovely sister who was feeding us our evening
tea. We were tracting around her house beforehand and we found a very nice
piece of pavement. We walked down it and right before our eyes there was the North
Sea! Really really pretty. And there were actually waves. Oh man … it was
magical. It made me want to paddle out. We took a picture and breathed it all
in then went back to tracting. It was a tender mercy for sure. There is a place
in my area where people surf called Cromer, so I want to go tract around there
haha.
By the way, the food we had was your
classy English roast food and for pudding we had some delicious orange
chocolate and almond cake. I don’t know how to describe it, but it was out of
this world.
On our way home from that lovely
dinner, our GPS got us wayyy off the beaten path and we were cruising through
some one-lane road through some forest. We got home somehow but it was an
adventure haha.
Things are really cooling down here –
rain rain rain – but it’s good. We are
lighting the world with the gospel. This week will be good. Another week of
building the kingdom!
What an exciting time to be a
missionary. The work is hastening, missionaries have been flooding in. Last
month our mission had 40+ baptisms, which is really good for us. It is good to
be here.
Love
you guys.
Take
care,
Elder
Purdy
