Thunderstruck..!

England London Temple

Good morning to all!

This week has been a super busy one! Lots of fun but also some struggles with a random cold just bouncing up out of nowhere. Which was a shame but things are better now. Anyways, we had some cool things happen this week but also a ton of cancellations on teaches we had set up so hopefully this week will be a lot better! But here is the run down for this rainy week! (it was a crazy week of thunderstorms and they were proper nice ones to. Pretty loud one that shook my core in the middle of the night one time, good stuff)

Monday: June 21st, 2016
We got some simple shopping done today and then played some football before we headed over to president to account and prepare for MLC on Wednesday. Long night but it was good.

Tuesday: June 22nd, 2016
We had exchanges with the Staines Zone Leaders and I got to work with Elder Senkans and we had a good time knocking around and visiting some potential formers that we got a few return appointments with. We then finished up our night with a football activity with some less active members.

Wednesday: June 23rd, 2016
We headed to district meeting early and then had to leave midway through so that we could prepare for MLC with President. We tried something different this time and gave a training over Oovoo instead of having everyone travel. It went really well and we were able to provide the necessary training in preparation for the mission piloting the Area Book Planner for the whole Europe Area. Pretty cool opportunity and the app seems intense but also very valuable. Everything will be on the iPad not which is good but also weird cause we won't need giant area books or planners anymore. Following MLC, we had dinner with members and then every other lesson we had planned dropped and it was super annoying...

Thursday: June 24th, 2016
We had lots of scheduled appointments today with some solid people but guess what... They all cancelled one by one and it was an utter disaster. We had no idea what was going on but we ended up going out with our ward mission leader and seeing some lost sheep and then had dinner at a carvery with him. Brother Hughes is a star and one of the best WML I've had so far.

Friday: June 25th, 2016
We had weekly planning at the temple today and then we had our exchanges with the Crawley Zone Leaders and I got to work with my trainer one last time! Crazy... He goes home at the end of this transfer and it was a great blessing to serve with him one more time before the sand in the hourglass runs out for him. We went knocking in this village and also stopped by some potentials and Sheralee was in and we got to set a return appointment for a future time as her son is coming down to visit her and she didn't have much time this week to have a visit from us but we will follow up soon with that one. She also referred us to one of her friends who was looking for some direction in life which was pretty amazing and totally unexpected.

Saturday: June 26th, 2016
So, we continued our service project for the Vowells family and after making the chicken house last week, we got to paint it this week and also do some yard work. There was 6 of us so the work was evenly distributed and of course, I got to paint! I love painting... But when it rains in England and you're painting... It's impossible to not get paint in places where the paint shouldn't have been.(on the chicken house...) The family then treated us to a nice barbecue  in the backyard and we had a good time there. I then got smacked in the face with a headache and the sniffles and was pretty roughed up.

Sunday: June 27th, 2016
Good day at church! Was fighting the sniffles and such and then we had our accounting in the evening. Was a very slow sabbath this week as I needed the rest because we have a lot of trainings coming up and I can't be sick for that. So I was commanded to rest and get better. Feeling much better now, just the back end of the cold now.

Verse of the Week:
Alma 30:41
"But, behold, I have all things as a testimony that these things are true; and ye also have all things as a testimony unto you that they are true; and will ye deny them? Believest thou that these things are true?"

God has given us all the tools in order to find the Fulness of His truth. Will you find them all and search them to find out for yourself, or will ye deny them? Ask and ye shall receive, knock and it shall be opened unto you. 

Hope you all have a great week and continue to search for more truth in your lives because believe it or not, there is much more out there that is still unknown to many... Come and see. The invitation is to all. Read and pray about the Book of Mormon and ye shall know the truth of what I say.

Love,
-Elder Rivera