Hello
Hello,
Well transfers have come in once
again, and I will be sticking around to hold down the fort in Norwich. Elder
Cuche is off to Northampton. My new companion is Elder Vogel, another German. This
will be his first transfer as a zone leader so it will be a good time working
with him. There is a lot going on in Norwich so I am excited to see all of it
through.
We had a good week last week. Emma
and Neil are still strong in the faith. We celebrated Chinese New Year with
them and some other Chinese investigators as well. Happy Year of the Horse!
There was lots of good food going around – lots of dumplings, lots and lots of
them. I was really full but they all just kept eating and eating. It was all
very good though. A couple more of our Chinese investigators have a baptismal date
– Roy and Zhu – both for the 22nd of this month. They are doing really well!
We had to head into London on Friday
again, for a mission leadership council. Those are always a good time. Lots to
talk about in the mission. I really enjoyed speaking about family history work.
We had a man who is the head of family history in the UK come in and speak
about how we can use family history to find people to teach. I really liked the
idea, but I don’t know how to use the website or anything, so that’s a goal for
the next upcoming weeks is for me to learn how to use it a bit more. We spoke a
lot about how that was one of the major things Moroni spoke about in his
appearance to Joseph Smith. He spoke about the coming forth of the Book of
Mormon, and about the sealing power being restored. Two major events that have helped people to
come unto Christ, and to come unto Him with their families and loved ones.
We related the Book of Mormon to a change of heart, because it gives
people a desire to follow Christ, and the sealing power is a turning of hearts,
as it says in Malachi to families and the importance of them.
On Sunday we met a potential
investigator named Lorena. She is 20, and she is half Chilean. When she lived
over in Chile she met missionaries and even went to church a couple times. She
has great potential and we are teaching her very regularly now. We are also
teaching a lady from Papua New Guinea who is here studying. She had a neighbor
back home who was a member of the church.
So those are my thoughts for today. I
hope you all have a good week!
Love,
Elder
Purdy
