Another
week has come and gone here in the England Leeds Mission! It has been a weird
week, but great nonetheless. It is always great being in the Lord's service :)
So on Monday, we had a
lesson with Ephrem (I found out I've been spelling his name wrong this whole
time...whoops.) about going to church, reading our scriptures, and prayer. He's
left to go to London on Tuesday, so unfortunately this was the only lesson we
could have with him this week. But it was still great!
Tuesday was a little
more interesting. We had a lesson with Lavinia. She was having a really hard
time and so it was good we were able to cheer her up! She cheered herself up by
making fun of Sister Sovala. So it was an interesting lesson. Then our next
lesson cancelled and so we had lunch with Pam and then went to try by this guy
we found the day before who was upset the elders never brought him a Book of
Mormon. He wasn't in. So we went to a member's house in the area. He was a
little upset we didn't call him first. SO he sat us down in his front room and
said "I'll be right back". Then we heard the front door close and HE
LEFT US! He left us in his house, so we weren't sure what to do, and we didn't
think we could be in his house without him, so we waited outside and had a
lesson with Pam instead. Then he came back with cake. So we had a slice and
retaught him The Restoration. It was really good! He just made us promise that
next time we'd call and not just drop in so he could have something for
us.
Wednesday was way
interesting. Nathan cancelled and then our next lesson did too. So we were
street contacting and then decided to just go to the library and do mormon.org time.
Then we ran into this really nice lady that Sister Sovala talks to all the
time. She said she's really sick and so she lives at the hospital now and she
had to go back. But she didn't want to take the bus because its too hot, noisy,
and bumpy. So we offered to split a cab with her. Well we thought she lived at
the normal hospital or like an assisted living center. no. She lives at the
mental hospital. So we got to tour the mental institution and her carers were
very suspicious of us. kinda funny. But it was great! We still had a great
lesson with her and I hope we cheered her up a little bit...Then we had dinner
with a member. Total miracle on the way back! So we wound up having to take a
different bus than we originally planned on and a few stops later this lady
gets on and asks me which ward I'm from. I was really confused. Like maybe she
saw us at the hospital? Anyways I still told her Rotherham. She's a member in
Sheffield and was visiting a friend that she wanted to introduce to the
missionaries! And God sent her missionaries on her way home! It was so great!
Thursday we had district
meeting in the morning and then came back and had a lesson with June and then
dinner with Darren and Barbara. It was really good. we've still got a lot of
work to do there, but slowly but surely he's starting to trust us more! We were
supposed to have a lesson with Graham afterwards, but he said he forgot. Which
was ok because the bus we were supposed to take refused to let anyone
on...we're still confused about that. So we stopped by a few less-actives in
the area who weren't interested.
Friday. We had branch
correlation right after weekly planning. It took forever because the elders
weren't prepared totally for the baptism they had on Saturday. So we had to
help them with that for most of the time. Then we went door-knocking and street
contacting and had a lesson with Belina. She's having a really hard time right
now. She seems to get offended really easily. She's ok with us because she
thinks missionaries are perfect (yeah, right) but she's having a really hard
time with the rest of the branch. Then we had our lesson with Graham. We gave
him a virtual chapel tour and invited him to church. He said he already had
plans with a friend. So maybe next week. Slow progress. but progress!
Saturday was so great!
We had a lesson with this guy named Carlo. He owns a Jamaican store in town, so
we taught him at the store and he gave us free slushies! Then as we were
leaving, we walked past the car wash and this guy always waves at us, and this
time he asked us to stop. So we did, he invited us to sit down, and then ran
into a store. WE GOT LEFT AGAIN! but he returned with drinks a few seconds
later. He said he knows we work really hard and he feels bad that such nice
girls have to always be outside in the heat (its been really hot this week and
no rain! So weird) and so he wanted to buy us a drink. After double-checking
there was no alcohol, we gladly accepted and set up a return appointment with
him. Then we had a lesson with Nathan to help him write his talk for the
baptism and then caught the train to go to the baptism. So the Elder's
investigator, Abbie, got baptized! It was a little sad because nobody in the
branch knew...so there were six missionaries, Nathan, the branch president and
his wife, his first councilor, and her friend that introduced her to the
church. But I think she wanted it to be really small...
Sunday was amazing!
Abbie got confirmed and then right after church, she wanted her first thing she
did as an official member be going out with the missionaries! So we took her
out. It was a little disappointing because we had three lessons, and none of them
were in. But oh well! So she went home and then we stopped by Graham's house.
We had seen him Saturday night outside (he's basically our next-door neighbor)
and he was really drunk. So we stopped by to tell him how disappointed we were
and explained the word of wisdom a little bit more and then had a lesson with
Livia about getting through trials with Christ's help.
So yeah! It was a great
week! My thought for the week comes from Elder Henry B. Eyring's "Our
Perfect Example"
"The message of the
restored gospel of Jesus Christ is that we can and must expect to become better
as long as we live."
That is something our
Branch President talked about and challenged us to each think of one thing we
can be better at and make that change. There's always something we can do to go
from good to better and better to best. May we all become the best version of
ourselves :)
Love you all!
Sister Hope
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