Ahoy hoy mates! I cannot believe it is Monday again already... ok something really cool I realised this morning- this Thursday September 22 it will be 184 since Joseph Smith obtained the plates. Cool huh?! ... or is that only cool if you are a missionary? ... ha ha ha anyways this weekend was such a good weekend. We had so many crazy teaches oh my days. Ok so this week we have been teaching a lot of foreign people. That's what I love about serving in England. We get to teach not only English people but... everyone else too! ha ha Especially here in Exeter because it's like the third biggest University in England. I told you about that Polish chap- so this week we taught him again and it was so cool because we would just have him read the information in Polish and then ask him simple questions about his feelings- it was so neat to watch his face as he was reading through and seeing that he was feeling the spirit. So cool! There is an elder from Poland here so we call him everytime and let Krzyztof ask him questions and really make sure he understood. We are also teaching a Chinese girl and a Hungarian chap so... ya I think we are going to be starting a little bit of an English teaching class! That will be really cool. How are we going to do it? I have no idea!! With the spirit though that's for sure.. ha ha but it's so cool because a Chinese student just moved into the ward here and she has been a member of the church for 2 years and she sat next to me and asked if we were teaching any Chinese people and I told her about Route (pronounced zoot) and she asked if she could come help us teach her! Um yes you sure can!
So yesterday at church was amazing. They rearranged some of the leadership in the ward so the stake president was there but as he got up to speak he said that he wasn't supposed to be there conducting business that week- that his counselors could have done the Exeter ward business for him but he felt the spirit so strongly last week that he wanted to bring his wife and his daughter to the ward so his daughter could speak to US. He said he was worried because moves was last week and when he found out that we were both still here he said he was so grateful and felt that one of the reasons we both stayed was so we could talk to his daughter and share our excitement about being missionaries with her. You see Sister Fekete and I and our ward mission leader spoke in church last week and we talked about missionary work and so the stake president told us that he felt the spirit so strongly telling him that he needed to bring his daughter to talk to us. So as he was saying that Sister Fekete and I just looked at eachother like... well I guess we need to go talk to his daughter after sacrament meeting ha ha so we did. We talked to her and she asked us why we wanted to go on missions and what it was like because she has been thinking and praying about going and.... it was amazing. I remember when we went to the Salt Lake temple before I left for my mission and we met that sister missionary from Reading Stake here in England and I remember after talking to her just thinking that was exactly what I needed to hear. Well yesterday after talking with her she looked at us with tears in her eyes and told us that is exactly what she needed to hear. It is amazing that the Lord has put us here for the people that are ready to learn about the gospel but He has also put us here to help strengthen others as well. It's amazing how the Lord always puts us exactly where we need to be. Even if it's just to talk to one person! When she was leaving she was SO happy and SO excited and I loved it because I remember feeling like that as well before my mission everytime I would talk to a missionary or a returned missionary about going on a mission I was just absolutely on cloud 9!! I can't even believe that I'm actually here now, I'm a missionary! :) ha ha
Oh my goodness one thing that was so funny, yesterday we called a lady we are teaching to make sure she was coming to church and she was like "well I would come to church but I don't think I can leave my cat for that long" ..... and then a few minutes later she was like "well I would come but it's raining outside and I don't like to go out in the rain." ... Lady you live in England. It is ALWAYS raining. Ha ha ha oh my. I love it.
Random thoughts-
-The Blackham's are coming home on Wednesday!! :( Sister Blackham's mother just got diagnosed wth cancer and they have to go home and take care of her so they are leaving early. I am gutted. I have told you about the Blackham's before, they are serving in Newton Abbot and they were in charge of the YSA program for the stake. They are going to be greatly missed, they have done SO many wonderful things for the people here AND especially for the missionaries.
-Last week in the email you said that Erica Littlefield saw Travis as a missionary or something.. what were you talking about? Who is Travis?
-For pday today all the missionaries in the district and the zone leaders are coming to Exeter and we are going to get chalk and play 4 square. :D ha ha it's going to be like Mr. VanCott's 4th grade class all over again!
Well the church is true. How could it not be? Until next week, Szeretlek!
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