Transfer: Off to Norwich

            So there I was, with a belly full of curry that our dear investigator Ashwani and his lovely wife Eisha prepared for us, walking down the street of Letchworth Garden City, a man drives past shouting something derogatory, we laugh and continue our walk into a little park.  Then we get a call from President Jordan. Elder Botcha answers, hands the phone to me and President Jordan says “Elder Purdy you are off to be a Zone Leader in Norwich.”

            Norwich! I am northbound.  I am off to outer darkness haha.  I hope I don’t pick up that strange Norfolk accent.

            So it looks like I’ve got a 3-hour train ride tomorrow to Norwich. I am looking forward to it. My new companion is Elder Doudou from Berlin, Germany. I think it will be fun. I will miss being around London but hey Norwich will be pretty wicked. I hear it is pretty different up there. I also hear they have some lovely beaches up there so I will have to check them out.

            I'll miss Hitchin. I really have loved this place. I’ll miss Letchworth and my black squirrel friends, and I'll miss this ward. This ward has been absolutely fantastic. They will all be missed. I am leaving at time when we are starting to see some really good success as well. Ashwani and his son Nathan are doing so well and they love having lessons. We taught them yesterday and then they fed us curry afterwards and while we were eating Nathaniel asked if he could have another lesson. He is 9 and he wants to get baptized this October. Ashwani is really sincere and wants to find the truth. We have taught him a lot about apostasy and restoration and he is really starting to pick up on the idea.

            Unfortunately I will have to leave that all behind. But hey ho!

            I am looking forward to a new adventure. Elder Botcha's curry will be sorely missed – and all of his little India quirks. But he is looking forward to teaching Ashwani and Nathan and furthering the work here in Hitchin.

            Well that’s the news from my end. Hope you all have a good week!

Love

Elder Purdy

Another Great Week!

Another great week!

            First thing, Elder Botcha is teaching me how to make some pretty proper curry. I am getting pretty good. I asked his mum to send us some more recipes so we can make some more – it’s good stuff.

            Also we found two families this week. Two families is a ton for us. It has been so good. One of them is a single mum and her two daughters. Her name is Sheryl. We shared some mormon.org videos with her and bore our testimonies that the gospel blesses families, and talked more about how it can help theirs. They loved it and we committed them to say a prayer as a family. It was such a spiritual lesson, and they called us the next day to say that they said a prayer and they felt so peaceful.

            The other one is Ashwani who I talked about last week, and his son. The mum is less active and the son wants to get baptized. Ashwani has been baptized before into a different church and has a concern about priesthood and stuff, but we are sharing the restoration with him this week and it’s going to be powerful! We had a good lesson with them last time and this week will be good as well.

            Also we are teaching a cool girl named Carly. She is 24. We knocked on her door when we were tracting by a member and she was the first door we knocked on. She invited us in. We pretty much talked about faith and how the gospel blesses families and she loved it! We shared Alma 32 and you could literally see her face light up as we read it. So cool. She has been reading lots of the Book of Mormon since then. 

            It is so cool to have investigators that you reallly love, that you really get along with. It is good and it helps me really focus on them and how I can help them accept the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ. It has been a very tiring and rewarding experience. I look forward to meeting with all of them this week and we are planning on bringing some members with us. The more the merrier!

            The gospel is true. I know that happiness can come from understanding the simplicity of the gospel and then living it. We can accomplish so much as we do this.

            The pictures are of me taking a break by the duck pond in town centre, and my dank curry! The third one is of Hitchin Town Centre. It has some pretty cool cobblestoned streets and shops and whatnot.

Love you all.

            Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that Emilie will be getting baptized this Saturday! Woohoo! I am very excited for her.

taking a break by the duck pond

Christian's curry

Hitchin Town Centre