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| Elder Doudou, Emma, and Christian on Emma's baptism day |
Well, I will be staying in Norwich
for another transfer! – which I am happy about.
My new companion is Elder Cuche from France. He is a great man and I am
excited to work with him.
The biggest news of the week is that
Emma was baptized. It was a great service. The spirit was strong, lots of her
friends came, lots of members came. It was good. I gave a talk at the baptism
on the Holy Ghost. It went all right and then our Ward Mission Leader baptized
her. She was grinning from ear to ear afterwards. One of her friends from
Greece came and was very impressed and we are going to start teaching her. We
see her on Thursday. Baptisms make all of the hard times and stressful times
worth it.
Also something very miraculous happened. A long time ago our mission received a package from America from a sister in Utah. Inside were some scriptures. In a note she explained that in SLC she had met a man named Calvin Rush and that he lived in Norwich and that he was a good guy and was in Utah for skiing, and she was sending him some scriptures. That was it … no address, no number, just his name and the city he lived in. So my companion and I have been trying to hunt him down for ages but to no avail. All we found out was that he was a builder by trade. So we went to one of the building agencies around town and it just so happened that he worked with them. We got his number and stuff and got in contact with him. He was a bit freaked out ... thought it was a joke. It had been 2 years since he had been to America. But he got his package and we will follow up with him this week! It was really something. He was pretty stunned that this lady went through all this effort.
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| Doing the Shaka at our Chinese meal! |
Sunday our Chinese gang had us over
in their university accomodations for some Chinese food. I felt like I was back
at university – it was fun. They made some really good food: noodles, chicken
and potatoes with some other things that I don’t know, tomatoes with chili
sauce etc. It was a good time. They are great.
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| Bob hard at work |
The rest of the week has been good –
busy and stressful but good. Lots of things to do. It feels like there is never
an end of things to do on the list. We are working hard to find people outside
of Norwich since that is the main part of our area. But it has been hard. We
are teaching lots of students and it has been good, but exams are coming up and
I am not sure how dedicated they can be to learn the gospel if they are
studying for their tests. Only time will tell.
But I am grateful for my opportunity
to be here and to serve the Lord here in England. I know that the Plan of
Salvation is real, it’s perfect, and it leads to everlasting happiness. And it
was good to see Emma make a covenant this weekend as part of this plan.
Love,
Elder
Purdy
