Oxford, Harry Potter, and... DINOSAURS!

Snake Time=Cuddle Time

Hello! (forgive me for the lack of details this week, we are in Oxford today so sorry but not sorry!:)

I hope everyone has had a great week so far because this week has been a super good one! We got to watch the first ever Worldwide Missionary Broadcast and it was super jam packed with wonderful things, things we already had but with more emphasis again. It was great! It was another busy week as well with exchanges and planning for our upcoming Zone Training tomorrow so we are super excited for what is to come! Lots of great things are happening in the missionary world right now and what is super cool is how inspired our Mission President is... Things that are now being announced or changed, we have been doing for MONTHS! The whole world is like wow... And we are over here like, haha, been there, done that! Not bragging, it is just super cool to see how inspired President Gubler really is, he truly is a great man of God! Anyways, here is the rundown for this week! Enjoy!

Oxford Natural History Museum!

Tuesday: January 19th, 2016

Iguanodon Skeleton!

We had exchanges today and I got to work with one of our new district leaders and it was a super good experience. We

had some great lessons with people after dinner and we also went and did some contacting on a street with a lot of potentials as well and that sent super well. We found the nephew of one of the members in our Ward and he took a Book of Mormon as well so that was successful!

Wednesday: January 20th, 2016

Today was our Worldwide Missionary Broadcast and it was super sweet as I said before! There was a lot I took away from it again. I loved Elder Bednar's portion where he says that we as missionaries need to bring the message UNTO their hearts but they have to let the message and Spirit INTO their hearts. Very true but hard doctrine at times.

Don't Take My Photo-Elder Mayes

Thursday:January 21st, 2016

Today we did some

area book cleaning and mapping out the potentials on our iPad but we also had a dinner appointment in a village so then after we knocked around in the village. It was super dark and sketchy but it was fun. It was called Dauntless Road which was really cool. (for all you divergent fans out there) 

Friday: January 22nd, 2016

Today we went on exchanges again and I got to work with Elder Brown, another Arizona Elder which was sweet. We had a great day and we also went to correlation which was interesting... But it was a good day.

Saturday: January 23rd, 2016

We exchanged back today and then later on after doing some visits to some members and investigators, we finished up our newsletter for this week.

Elder McCappin, myself, and our
new friend Rex!

Good ole T-Rex!

Sunday: January 24th, 2016

We had church today and it was super good today. Really great speakers today talking about faith and then we had accounting for the rest of the night. We also had to join the Woodley Elders for dinner because we ran out of food...Oops!:)

So yeah, sorry again for the not so detailed email this week but hopefully everyone enjoys the pictures! Love you all!

On Top of Oxford Clock Tower!

Verse of the Week:

1 Nephi 15:11

"Do ye not remember the things which the Lord hath said?--If ye will not harden your hearts, and ask me in faith, believing that ye shall receive, with diligence in keeping my commandments, surely these things shall be made known unto you."

Love always,

-Elder Rivera