3 Months in England Already...! WHAT?

Elder Phelps and Myself!

September 21, 2015 3:22 am England Time

So this week has been one for the books! We had exchanges throughout the week so that was super fun and full of great miracles. We also had our Zone Training which went completely according to plan and the Spirit was present throughout the entire training. But everything is going swell and just loads of fun each day! Hope you are all doing great!

Tuesday: September 15th, 2015
Today I was on exchanges with Elder Syndergaard and we had a lot of good things happen for us while we were contacting. We gave out 3 copies of the Book of Mormon and also... Ryan, the Bakers best friend... oh yeah! He is getting baptized!!! But he was super anti to the church and thought
everything we taught was a load of rubbish but then the Spirit just overwhelmed him and he couldn't deny what he was feeling and he then asked if he could be baptized and if I would perform the ordinance for him. What a privilege! But it is truly amazing what the power of the Holy Ghost can do to people if they feel and recognize what they are feeling as the Spirit of the Lord confirming truth the them at that very moment!

Wednesday: September 16th, 2015
Before we exchanged back... we went to the hospital to give a blessing to a member who had a heart attack that led to a stroke and the life support was going to be turned off at 10:00am. it was by far... the hardest blessing I have ever given because I wanted God to heal her so badly... her son was in the room and he was just so sad and I wanted to help, but the Spirit told me it was time for her to go and it was just so hard to accept it... later after that, we just finished planning zone training and had a couple of lessons throughout the day.

Thursday: September 17th, 2015
SPLENDID DAY!!! Wonderful experience at Zone Training and we all learned a lot from each other and all the presentations that were given were so thoroughly planned out and it just went so well and
everything flowed just the way we were praying it would.  We had dinner at the hills that night and then had another hard lesson with the Bakers(recent converts now!=) But one of their dogs was really
sick and on the verge of dying and it was just so sad again... there was nothing we could do but just mourn with the entire family... I was just torn seeing them all say their goodbyes as the dog was struggling to breathe and then they took it to the emergency vet to put her down.=( It was just hard to see them all so sad...

The Squad

Friday: September 18th, 2015
We had exchanges again! This time we had to drive an hour just to pick up Elder Phelps and drop off Elder Richins. Although it was a long drive... the trip and the route we took was so beautiful! There was rolling hills and everything and we saw some deer and a huge buck. Also a very umm... nice Pristine White Lamborghini... But we exchanged and drove back and then we began contacting right away and we met this nice lady named Gloria and her son Nathan and we taught them the Restoration and she took a leaflet and also agreed to meet with us again and be baptized if she received an answer to her prayers. I then had a prompting to go knocking instead so we got back to the car and went knocking on this street that I have been dying to knock and I am glad I listened... we had 5 families talk with us for a bit and we also got return appointments from each of them so woohoo!

Saturday: September 19th, 2015
Today was just traveling back and then we had some stuff to take care of at the chapel for Elder Richins and his driving test... so we lost a lot of time because of traveling and traffic and the hundreds of roadblocks we hit... but then we had an awesome fajita dinner with the Catalanos'.

Sunday: September 20th, 2015
I just love Sundays... especially the Sundays when you have 3 of your baptismal dates show up to church when they said it was going to be hard to make it and they all made it! Proper miracle and they each loved it and are looking forward to their baptisms! But we then had a baptism for a child of record from the ward and then we had accounting the rest of the night! We have also probably set the record for the most sleep overs ever in a mission because we stay in Reading every single Sunday night because of how late we account! haha. It is all good fun and we enjoy our p-days so it is completely worth it!

Today we had a nice french toast breakfast and then we are emailing and then it is all random after that, we have some cleaning to do again and of course, we have to write some letters and all the good ol pday stuff!

Elder Syndergaard and Myself!!!

But I hope all of you are doing swell and that everything is going well for you all!

Thank you all for the emails, I really enjoy each and every one of them!!!

Love you all!