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Well, what a week we have had! I can't believe it is already the end of February and March is here... What happened!!! Well, I hope everyone has had a wonderful one as well! Truly one of the most eventful weeks in a long while and I am so happy to say that it is cold in England... And well, I'm freezing my face off in Southampton...! Haha anyways! We had an amazing temple trip with some of our friends and we also had a baptism! Woohoo! Another brother has found his way and oh man, we had some fun with him and all those who attended! Well, here is this weeks rundown!

Wednesday: February 24th, 2016
We had a district meeting today with the Winchester District and that went super well. Definitely learned a lot and after we had a lunch with everyone from the Portsmouth and Winchester distinct with the McCoy's (the senior couple in Portsmouth) and it was a good time! After that, we had a ton of planning to catch up on for the transfer and also the week in preparation for the baptism and also lessons with friends and of course, our Temple trip. It was also a fun night after we planned because we went to Subway to get dinner and we were waiting in line and we had a voucher for two foot longs for £10 and we were totally 15 pence short... Which was insane! So we sprinted back to the flat to grab the missing change and by the time we got there, we had 40 minutes before our appointment and we decided to stay and make something in the flat! We wanted some Mexican food but we didn't have any salsa... So we sprinted downstairs to this shop and bought some and then sprinted back up to make food with the time we had left. Let's just say I was exhausted and bought a Powerade to replenish myself... Haha

Thursday: February 25th, 2016
Today we had to finish up some planning that we weren't able to complete yesterday and then we began to do some driving lessons for Elder Lika. We then headed to Dave's home for a baptismal interview for Felix which went well! We finished up the night by racing to Portsmouth and back to Southampton in crazy traffic to get the Elders to an appointment and then race back to get to our appointments. We made it with 5 minutes to spare, no big deal. The Lord provided for us for sure!

Friday: February 26th 2016

Amy, Ruddy, Anna, Sebastian, Dave (member)
Elder Lika, and yours truly!

More planning today for the baptismal service for Felix and then we stopped by a Romanian family in the evening and taught Rudy, Amy, and Anna, plus their friend Sebastian. Cool thing is they told Sebastian about our temple trip and (keep in mind he has never met with us before) he calls his work and says he can't come in tomorrow because he wanted to go to the temple with us! Super cool miracle and so we began to teach him that same night and it was amazing! He had a lot of questions regarding the Restoration and the bad thing is we taught the Plan of Salvation and then he started to ask questions regarding stuff pertaining to the Restoration and we were both just like... *facepalm*we should have changed  the lesson once he sat down. But hey, lessons learned and it all worked out.

Saturday: February 27th, 2016
Best day ever! Why..? Well, we went to the temple first thing in the morning and we were there for a couple of hours and then headed back home to prepare for the baptism and that was the rest of our night! The baptism went super well and it was a very unique one to remember! A lot of things went well and there was some comic relief behind the scenes. I'll tell you about it later haha.

Sunday: February 28th, 2016

Felix, man of the hour!

Confirmation Sunday's are the best! Felix is a total natural! In Elder's Corum, Felix just threw down powerful testimony and he singe definition of a convert. Oh my goodness... It was just amazing to see and be a part of! His testimony just strengthened mine even more and we are super stoked to continue to see him progress in the gospel! He rest of the night, we did some finding for an hour just before we had to head for accounting and that was it!

Verse of the Week:
Mosiah 27:36
36 And thus they were instruments in the hands of God in bringing many to the knowledge of the truth, yea, to the knowledge of their Redeemer.

This week was amazing and I hope you all continue to have a great week yourself and that the Lord will bless you in the journey you have ahead of you this week! Love you all and will talk to you soon!

-Elder Rivera