Well first of all yesterday at church we had some fun visitors. Sister Christensen and I were teaching a class in primary and so we met the 2 little visitors there and of course we asked where they are from. Utah. So of course the interrogation began. Where in Utah? Orem?! Where in Orem? Stonehenge 2nd ward?! (or something like that) so I asked if he knew the Blosils and the Mattingly's etc. etc. and the little boy said he does carpool with the Blosils and so then I met his sisters and his mom and they live in Marissa Stowell's ward I think just in that neighborhood and anyways so I asked how old they were and one of the girls was like 9th grade and I got SO excited "do you know penny mills?!?!?!" "ya!" It was such a happy moment!! So anyways I met the Sampson family! Lindsay and Kelsey and their brother is Brad who worked with Kate in the play ya? Brad didn't come with them to England because they are at some camps or something but it was so fun!!
Random side note: I'm glad you loved HP! We haven't met anyone that has seen it yet so we can't ask them details... ha ha they aren't quite as enthusiastic about things as they are in America over here. "Oh Harry Potter is out? Ya I'm sure we'll get round to seeing it sometime" ha ha But mom... who won biggest loser? ha ha ha just curious!
Oh! cool random thing, last night on our way home we got a phone call from GERMANY! There are some sisters there that just baptised a man from Ghana that is coming to Exeter for Uni and so they gave us all his information so we could continue teaching him. Their mission president was on the line too and it was just really cool to hear about the work in other places!
So speaking of people coming to Exeter for Uni, there are SO many university students here. We teach a lot a lot of university students. One of our favorite finding techniques is to go on uni walks. We walk close to the high street down some streets that lead us up and around near the university and we get to talk to so many cool people from so many cool places! Well the other day we were walking and Sister Christensen was telling me about a time they went on a uni walk and they stopped a man and asked him something and he said you know i was JUST asking myself that and i was thinking wow that's so cool, i hope that happens to me! Well not even 5 minutes later we stopped this chinese girl called Macy. We started talking to her and asked her some questions and for all of them she just looked at us with her mouth gaping open and then she would say... i was just asking myself that. She is SO cool. We have been able to teach her a few times since that experience and it is so different to teach someone from the ground up. Someone that had never heard of Christianity before and didn't know much about God either. And it's so beautiful to see them pray for the first time and start to feel the love that God has for them and to see them want to know more because they love that feeling so much! She brought one of her friends to church as well and now her friend wants to know, her friend wants to feel those things too! Wow. So so wonderful.
Well these were a few of my favorite things this week:
*One benefit of being from Utah county... when you are watching a little church clip about the priesthood with a new investigator and Russell Wesley is in the clip! ha ha it was so funny
*Alec and Jason received the priesthood this week!!!!! They are able to hold the power of God now... So cool.
*Having members of the ward from Ghana= Jalaffa rice. Mmmmmm
*Curry!!!! Everyone loves curry here. Last week we had curry just about everyday... it is delish.
*When our recent converts or investigators are little missionaries!! Robin is in hospital and has been for 3 weeks now waiting for surgery (NHS... what do you expect... ha ha) and he has told all the nurses about the church and we gave him some Restoration pamphlets and he has given them all away! :) little cutie.
Ok I'm going to attach some pictures and hope that I have left enough time for them to send. I love your guts!!!
PICTURES:
-Oh man this is a story. After zone conference our zone was going to get together and eat at a place called Nando's for dinner before everyone continued driving on to plymouth and cornwall and the elders told us to run and grab a seat while they waited for the others to find parking so we did and they called and told us just to order... so we did and then they came and told us they changed their mind and wanted to go to burger king. so this is sis. c and i with our nando's takeout at burger king. ps nandos is like the equivalent of pf changs but it's portuguese. oh well, it was yummy! ha ha
-TA DA!!!! Howell Road. :) Enough said.
-Magnum bars!!!!
-Lindsay and Kelsey Sampson, Chloe Williams, and me :)
And the pictures from our service day on the farm!!!! There is the most hilarious video of me catching a little piglet that you will see when I send my memory card home. It's funny. ha ha
-On the little boys toy tractor :)
-the field is white :) ha ha us with little Marcus Johns
-we had to spray the piglets with this blue stuff when they have been fighting and they have cuts all over them, it protects it.
-There's the web
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