Monday we went to Battersea Park like I told you and we were right by the river waiting for some elders to show up and all the sudden there were tons of helicopters and airplanes and then we saw this big air show and the planes left the red white and blue smoke- it was SO cool! We had the perfect view of it too, we were right across the Thames from Chelsea and that's where they were having the Olympic Heroes parade! So we got to see the end of the Olympics parade!!!! Well the air show at least ha ha.
Ok so this last week along with our everyday missionary work we have been working on our AUFs as well (Address unkown file... it's all these names with addresses from the church that they just don't know if their records are correct, if they have moved or died or what so we go and investigate... it's so fun!) so we went to this one house on our AUF list and we knocked and the man from the list had moved but his brother was there and we started talking with him and asked where he was from and he said he was from Angola... where Sister Boman lived for 3 years, he was so excited and so we talked with him for quite a while and told him all about the church and we are going to see him again this week... it was sweet. It's amazing how many people from Angola we have met since Sister Boman has been here. After that we went over to Ruth and Lisa's and had a surprise birthday party for Sister Boman!! Her birthday is this Saturday but we wanted to celebrate just in case someone gets moved. It was brilliant. She had NO idea. Let me tell you what it is hard to be sneaky and plan a surprise birthday party as a missionary. ha ha but it was a success!!
Saturday we went to a baptism for a man called Nelson that is from guess where- that's right- Angola. :) We have helped teach him (well Sister Boman in Portuguese) and it was so beautiful, his wife is a member and they have the 2 cutest little boys- there is nothing better than to see a whole family baptised. Only a year and then to the temple they will go. :) Afterwards we had a huge Portuguese feast and THEN we had a fireside for a YSA called Tanser, he is going on his mission next week to Ghana so we all brought our investigators and he invited all his family and friends and it was soooo wonderful. There were so many people there and hearing Tanser share his testimony of why he is going on a mission- it was beautiful. He is such a good missionary already, every week at institute he is always the first one to come up and meet our investigators... London is going to miss him, but the YSA here my goodness, they are all amazing.
Yesterday at church we stayed after because Sister Boman is playing the piano for the Clapham ward primary program (it's funny, it's like she is the stake pianist, she plays for EVERYTHING!) and as we were sitting there waiting this random guy walks in and asks for a Book of Mormon. He has heard about the church for years but today decided he wanted to come and see what it is all about. :) His name is Dave and we are going to see him again on Wednesday. :) I kind of just can't believe it when stuff like that happens. ha ha I guess it's good, we are just busy so we forget to expect the miracle but... as long as we are working hard and doing all that the Lord asks, the miracles just happen. I love being a missionary. I love you! Love, Sister Mills
*The planes over Chelsea
*Boman and I told some girls after institute that we wanted to take a picture with them.. they insisted that we take a hood picture. ha ha Barbara (The girl on the left) and I weren't wearing hoods so they ran around and found us some random coats that we could wear ha ha ha this is Barbara, Shauna, Sister Boman, Edna, me, and Sabrina!! Oh how we love institute. :)
*Wandsworth zone August- September 2012 :)
*Braulio and Alex. Our investigators being best little friends. :) At first Alex said to us "so... is he like my competition?" ha ha ha
*Wandsworth zone!!
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