Ahoy,
Crazy week – lots of twists and turns.
Our mission started to use Facebook this week. It’s pretty interesting. I think
it will be good, getting in contact with members and investigators. We will see
where it takes us!
Last Tuesday we went to the district
meeting in Gillingham. It was crazy being back. It was all very familiar. It
was a good meeting, and afterwards we went finding with the elders in Chatham.
Spoke with a good guy from Afghanistan, and the other elders saw him this week.
Chatham is an interesting place. There are always a couple of crazy people that
are roaming around – definitely keeps things interesting. There was a man that
had a banjo, which was wayyy out of tune, and he was just strumming away on it
for a couple hours. Fun stuff.
We really don’t have that great of a
teaching pool right now. It is definitely lacking, so that’s a big focus for us
this week. I've noticed that there are loads of people from Nepal here. Apparently
they move over here and then work for the military in Ashford. Most of them are
Hindi. Nice people, but it’s hard to communicate with them. To be quite frank, to
just have a really good conversation with anybody is proving to be a task, but
Elder Kopischke and I are doing a good job at it. We are slowly finding some
people that are interested. Just takes a good attitude and a lot of faith!
Saturday we had a leadership meeting
in London. The train from Ashford to London is pretty fun. It’s part of the
Eurostar so lots of people on the train are from Europe coming over from France
and Belgium and places like that. It only takes about 30 minutes from Ashford
to London – much better than the 3-hour drive from Norwich to London. It was a
good meeting, and the mission is heading in a great direction!
Yesterday was a good day as well. It
was British Mother’s Day, so most the services were about families and
motherhood. Afterwards we went and street-contacted in the park. It has been
really beautiful and all the flowers and trees are budding. It was a good time
and I really enjoyed it. We saw some good success as well.
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We then had a dinner appointment
with some members. They are English but they used to live in India and they
made a pretty wicked curry. It was delicious and I ate wayyy too much. Good way
to end the week.
I am sure this week will prove to be
very eventful as well! Lots to do and not a lot of time to do it. Lots of work
to do and lots of miracles to happen.
Cheers
big ears,
Elder
Purdy
