surprise! Since it's moves week we didn't think we would be able to email home today, just wednesday or thursday but last night we got a call with some announcements and they said that we needed to come email president our numbers and such and that we could email our family as well- hooray! Especially because I have A LOT to tell you! This week has been absolutely mad!
So Tuesday we taught seminary and it went so well, I loved it! The youth in the Exeter ward are fantastic. The young women spoke yesterday about their experiences at EFY and the spirit was so strong, they all have such strong testimonies, they're are wonderful examples to me. After we taught seminary on Tuesday we had an English lesson with Krzysztof and then after the zone leaders came to do his baptismal interview. Elder Wojtysiak (voitecheck) was on the loud speaker translating for them as they did the interview and anyways afterwards Elder Hotchkiss came out to get us and let us know they had finished and he was just like "His understanding is amazing! ... How did you guys teach him?" ha ha we definitely didn't teach him, the spirit did. That was an AMAZING example to me that the spirit truly is the teacher. But Krzystof was so golden, he was a seeker for sure and every time we would have him read something in Polish he just soaked it all up and we were able to teach him the basics in English. Oh it was so cool.
Wednesday we were supposed to meet this cool girl called Betsy we met on the bus and she flogged us but later we were meeting with David at the library and guess who walked by? Betsy. Sorry Betsy but there's no running away from the truth!!!!! ha ha We rescheduled to meet with her this week. After that we were on our way to LONDON! Actually to East Grinstead, we stayed the night with the sisters there. Sister Allred is serving there and she just moved from our district so it was really fun to see her again! Oh and get this- they get to go to the temple 2 or 3 times a month during study time... :O man I want to go to the temple so bad. Christmas is coming! ha ha aka temple trip. :D
So then Thursday we woke up and took the train from East Grinstead to the London Bridge station. It was about 8 in the morning so we were on the train with all the really smartly dressed business men and women of London, we felt so posh. ha ha ha so we got off the train, walked onto the London Bridge and looked down and there it was, the oh so famous Tower Bridge!! Then we looked just to the right and along the river was the London Bridge hospital where Fekete had her appointment. I'll send a pic. So we went to see the doctor there and he just looked at her knee and said he was doing some tests positive for a torn ACL but we would need an MRI just to be certain so he said we could book an appointment to have an MRI in a few weeks and we told him we came up from Exeter and he was so good he was like oh ok well then let me just go talk to the receptionist and we will see what we can do... so he came back in and said there weren't any openings there but there was another hospital just 3 tube stops away and they had a cancellation so we could get the MRI done there! What a blessing! The only problem was that we have to wait about 3 hours before that appointment. 3 hours we had to wait in London for a doctors appointment... what a shame. :) ha ha it was perfect. So we walked around, took a billion pictures of the tower bridge and it was so brilliant, people would ask us to take pictures for them and so then we would just start chatting and they would ask why we were there etc. etc. they should just have missionaries at the tower bridge everyday just walking around ha ha so we took the underground to the other hospital and there was a huge mall right next to it so we went in to get some food because we had forgotten to eat all day and we did just a little window shopping ;) and then we went to get the MRI done. It took about an hour and then we had to go straight back to the London Bridge Hospital to look at the results. She has a torn ACL and also a torn medial miniscus and other problems becuase of the torn ACL so the doctor said she most definitely needs surgery. So we booked her surgery for the 9th of November!! The day after my birthday... happy birthday to me! ha ha oh speaking of- HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUBREY HOWELL! HAPPY BIRTHDAY ABBY MURRAY! We had tried to call any of our leaders to ask when we should schedule the surgery for and of course we couldn't get ahold of anyone so we just scheduled it so when we did talk to Sister Shamo so was likeNovember 9th? That soon? Well that's going to change moves! So... we are thinking Fekete will probably move closer to London and so she can work in the office or something because she will be on crutches for 2 weeks after and need to recover etc. our ward yesterday was GUTTED! They were like you guys can't move. I'm sorry but you just can't. Adrian, the 2nd counsellor in the bishopbric was like listen sisters you can fight moves, I have before and won! Call your mission president and tell him neither of you can move! ha ha It's a shame because even before the doctors appointment we both felt like one of us was going to move... the ward also kept saying if Fekete has to move for the surgery you better stay here, we don't want elders again! ha ha but sisters have been here for over a year.. they could very well whitewash the area :S yikes. I have no idea but I can't wait until we just know! The few days before moves is so weird, you don't know if you should be saying goodbye or what! Anyways so we got home pretty lateThursday night, we missed the connecting train from Clapham Junction because our train from London bridge was delayed... it was crazy. It was a good little change in the week though. And oh boy London is SO different fromDevon. Ha ha my goodness. OH! so when the doctor was talking with us about the results from the MRI he started asking us about our missionary work so for like 5 minutes of the doctors appointment we were teaching about The Book of Mormon. It was brilliant. Then the chap sitting at the front desk started asking us as well and he was really interested! But he's Muslim. So missionaries can't teach him- shame.
Wait, it gets better. Saturday afternoon we met the Basingstoke elders at the train station and then we all went up to the chapel to get everything ready for Krzysztof's baptism!!!! So we started to fill up the font like normal- up to the first step with cold water and then up to the fourth step with hot water but oh wait hot water wasn't coming out, only cold water! So we called Adrian, he came to see if he could fix it but the pilot light was out so he called Brother Snell the whiz when it comes to the building and he came and fixed up but told us it would take an hour for the water to heat up and then another 45 minutes for the font to fill. Well because the elders came in to do the baptism they had to catch a train back- they didn't have time to wait for that! So Krzysztof was baptised in freezing cold water. He didn't even mind, not one bit. The spirit was amazing there. I love baptisms!
Well I guess that is pretty much it... I'll attach some pics :) we might get to email again on wednesday or thursday, but I'm not sure we will have to wait and see. Thank you so much for the pictures kate tan and shan, and emily bcf!! I love getting pictures! :) I love you guys so much.
*Our best friends Sam & Effie Durstan and Charlotte & Adrian Chrimes!
*Our delish and noutrish dinner on the train ride home. it was SO funny we had about 5 minutes before our train was going to leave and there was a sainsbury's right across the street and so we literally ran over ran through the store trying to find food and ran back and caught our train :D ha ha
*6 months... what?! So crazy. How did we celebrate? With a baptism. :)
*Plus Elder Wojtysiak (Poland) and Elder Wan (Hong Kong)
*Us with Krzysztof
*Devon district October 2011. We went to this yummy all you can eat chinese buffet for lunch after our last district meeting of the moves- yum! The second elder from the left is a wrestler from West Jordan, Penny ask the Frost's if they know Nicko Parasso!
*Me and Feketeeta
*The exact spot me kate and tan took a picture last summer on the tower bridge.. i couldn't resists ha ha
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