Week 63

this week was a normal week.

    So every morning for morning exercise we go and play frisbee for sport. This past week I brought up the idea to my companion that we should make cookies for the elders and then put laxatives in them without them knowing. so we did exactly that. so 6 elders took the cookies and one of the elders took two cookies and he was on the toilet 9 times in one day. To be honest that was his fault, he was only supposed to take one. But i am screwed because now all the elders are gonna team up and get me back and they are already planning on it. so we will see what happens lol.

     Moves are this week and that means sister curtis is leaving and i am getting a new companion, i will be training her to be the new STLT. her name is sister Belliston. she is from Michigan and she is Mandarin speaking. She is great so i am excited to be serving with her :)

    We were able to find a lot of cool people. we taught this one man who is from Syria and he has an 11 year old son who has lots of good questions. The dad is named Tarek and he is pretty interested in learning more it was really exciting. 

     We also taught this chick name Natalie. she has been taught before but was not really progressing for some time so the missionaries stopped teaching her, but still were in contact with her. we went over the other night and she brought up baptsim and said it was something that she saw in her future so we are way pumped about that.

     We visited Grenville in the hospital yesterday he is the one who broke his femur and good news he is getting out of the hospital today! so we are way excited about that and we are excited to be able to teach him in his own home so he is more comfortable. 

   Our part member family came to church this sunday. it was so exciting! we are starting to teach her daughters so it is very exciting i love them so much! We taught their 10 year old daughter about the holy spirit and she was like "i think i felt that before, not all the time but i felt that". it was so cool! it really was a testimony builder of how much we need to humble ourselves and become like children like Christ says in the book of Matthew. We taught her and her sister the plan of salvation and they loved it! 

    This is a new transfer this week so it is going to be crazy with moves and everything today so we will see what is happening! Crazy week man!

    Love you all so much! peace and blessins! 

hot pot pictures. so yummy!…

the laxative cookies the orange "sprinkle" is the laxative...

the elders bought anti-diarrerha meds lol...

picture of me when i i slipped on the carpet and flew in the air and biffed it haha…

Week 60

yo sorry i have been the worst at emailing lately, the first three weeks of the transfer are always so crazy for us. but we finally finished with all three of the conferences. me and my companion instructed on the doctrine behind church and were asked to bring the spiritual side of it into it as well. we were able to have some of the other missionaries help us to explain some of the doctrine of church like the sacrament, atonement, worship, sabbath day, ministering, and learning. things like that. we shared the parable of the great supper in Luke and basically we just wanted them to understand that it is not us inviting them, but that it is Jesus Christ who is inviting our friends to partake of His feast that he has prepared for them. and that it is only Him who can heal our friends. So we helped them to understand that its important to teach the doctrine behind church and then invite them to come to church. make sense? i dont know but if not you can email me and ask questions. :)

  Since one of the conferences was in Dublin we stayed with the sisters there. their running water wasnt working so they told us we would have go to the bathroom in the bathtub and so they all did and i was like nah, i will just pee off the balcony. so i did lol it was sick.

 

    Our friend Grenville who we are teaching and preparing for baptism called us the other day and said he had broken his femur so he is in the hospital right now. he will be there for quite a few more weeks so he wont be getting baptised for a while. we are sad:( but he is doing well. we went to visit him the other day with the elders and we played card games with him and brought him a word search puzzle, since he literally has bothing else to do. poor guy. 

   We had exchanges with the dublin stls the other day. they were at our flat so i wanted to make popcorn for them. so i went into the kitchen and grabbed the bag of kernels and was trying to open them but i guess those morning workouts have been paying off because the bag straight exploded and kernels flew everywhere. haha it was funny. 

    We met this guy on the street named eddy the other day. we had an on the spot with him and he was so cool! he was a big time heroin addict and said that God helped him to overcome it and to stop. his dad is a member in Scotland, just south of us. we taught him the plan of salvation and he loved it. we invited him to be baptised and he accepted and he was able to come to church on sunday. the coolest thing though is he has his name tattooed on his fingers. haha he is such a cool dude and he has a tattoo on his face.

    We also met this guy named Avi. he is amazing and from India! he is 19 years old and come from a hindu background but not practicing but he is so cool! he loved everything about the restoration that we taught him and he accepted to be baptised for later this month as well. he totally understood everything.

 

   for pday today we are going to costco! we are taking the big mission van, packing all the missionaries in, and president and his wife, and we are gonna go party. we are all so excited haha. 

sister macdonald took some cheeky pics of me sleeping during the Scotland south conference, to my defense it was my third conference and i had heard this instruction three times haha 

me when i spilled popcorn kernels

on exchanges with one of the sister teams in dublin 

us being idiots after a meeting with the zone leaders