Week 5

P day!!!!!!!!!! ha ha yay! Well first of all the first letter received in the mission field award goes to.... CAIDY!!!! with Shannon and Courtney following closely behind. Thank you so much for your letters and for the pictures! You are all so sweet. It's amazing how much letters and encouragement and pictures from home help SOO much. It's true. :) Well this week has been so great. I was going to send some pictures home but we forgot the camera cord! Next week. :) Well guess what?

I'm a month old!!!!!!!!!!!! Yesterday was my month mark- what?! Sister Christensen and I celebrated by dancing around our living room and having ice cream cake and VIMTO!! (the most delicious drink ever ps) it was really fun!

Well let me just tell you sometimes I feel like I'm just playing dress up here on my mission ha ha sometimes it just doesn't seem real, I can't believe I'm here on my mission I can't believe I can tell anyone and everyone about this gospel and look like a complete idiot to all the people of Exeter and LOVE it! ha ha people are always staring at us, we are different but it's great! It's the reason sometimes people will stop and talk to us! The people are so kind here though. ... for the most part we stopped a lady on the street the other day who was pushing a stroller and we started talking to her and asked her how it would feel to know she could be with her family forever and she said ".... i hate my family, i don't even want to be with them now I believe in aliens, not God" ha ha ha yikes. We were able to say some things to her and made her happy and maybe a little hopeful and I couldn't even tell you right now what we said- one of those the spirit completely took over because we had no idea what to say moments. ha ha But I'm grateful that I have a family that is so easy to love and I treasure the knowledge that I can be with you forever! It just takes some faith and dilligence. :)

Well we have been teaching this adorable almost 10 year old boy named Andrew Lennon-Miller whose mother is less active and we just asked him a few days ago if he wants to be baptised on June 12th and he is SOOO excited! It is wonderful to see him help and lift his mother as well. We can help so many others by just the things we do and simply by letting our lives be filled with happiness because of the gospel.

You can tell so much about someone's relationship with God by the way they pray. So if you feel like you're not that great at praying, then do it more! We don't get good at something unless we practice it like mad!

Oh ps we taught Alec about the law of chastity the other day and he said "Well I'm not even married... I know I'll ask the Queen to marry me! Hang on- I guess she is a little bit old" ha ha ha and a little bit married? Oh bless him. I can't wait to send the picture of him!

We have also been teaching a lot of uni students. We are in a proper university town and it is so amazing! We went on a uni walk the other day so we started at high street and then walked all around university and met and talked with so many people along the way, we find so many people that are just waiting to learn more about God!

Ah I wanted to tell you about Keith! Keith Martin is our ward mission leader and he is the most wonderful man! He would do anything for anyone, and he truly does! He does so much for the ward it's amazing. All of the members here really go above and beyond, it is so amazing to see. They have to really because if it wasn't for all of these sweet members the ward would just crumble away! They are each others life support and they are truly a family, it's beautiful to be a part of it.

Ok one last story. A story Sister Christensen has named the Tiverton Bus Saga. We went to Tiverton for a dinner appointment this last week and it's about 40 minutes away. We got a ride there with a member that was there cleaning the church and after dinner the family walked us to the bus stop so we could catch a bus home. Now the busses outside of town don't come as often, in fact they only come every hour so we got there about 15 minutes before it was to arrive so we were sitting there waiting and waiting and we saw a bus go past and I was like oh look there's a 52 going into Exeter and Sister Christensen started freaking out THAT'S THE ONE WE NEED TO BE ON!!!!! ha ha ha the people from dinner told us to wait on the wrong side of the road so we had missed our bus! ha ha ha oh it was terrible, so we walked into a little tesco and asked when the next bus and of course that was the last bus that was going out for the evening SO we had to walk into town (about a 25 minute walk) and then wait at the bus station for another 10 minutes to catch a bus home. Oh my my my it was quite the adventure. ha ha BUT that walk was SO beautiful and then we got to ride a double decker bus home- my first time on a double decker bus woohoo!!!!! ha ha so in the end it turned out well.


SO these are a few of my favorite things this week:

*Waiting for the bus ALLL the time
*Alec and Andrews prayers. I might cry every single time. Just little tiny teardrops though :)
*Waking up an hour and a half early, looking at the clock and thinking YES another hour and a half of sleep :D
*Walking up ETERNITY HILL the other day to get to a dinner appointment and when we got to the top we realized we didn't even need to walk up that hill. ha ha ha seriously that hill was never ending. it was huge. seriously.
*Our fake little fireplace we have in our living room. Mmmmm. :)
*The trees in front of our flat that make everything smell like grapes! It is such a delicious smell and a wonderful change from the cigarette smoke we always smell
*Sister Christensen man is she goofy and I LOVE it! We have so much fun together but she is also the most amazing missionary. It's amazing the miracles we are able to witness together because of her goodness!

Happiness!!!