So, we had a super good week! More trainings but they went super well! Super busy week and we have transfers coming up so my companion and I headed out to President's to help finish it all up and we managed to get it done in two visits compared to last moves which was like 4 haha. I would make mention of a few surprises that would be happening but I'll share more when it's all completely set in stone and sent out this coming week. Stay tuned! Anyways, I had some very powerful personal moments this week that helped me move forward even more! Hopefully we are all pushing ourselves to our limits each day because if we do, then God will grant us extra strength to complete the tasks he expects of us.
Sorry for the short email, we went to Arundel Castle today which was super beautiful!
Wednesday: August 24th 2016
We had a good day of basketball and sports! Then we had a super short exchange I mean.. Like 3 hours haha. Our schedule was packed and due to preparation day and a SZT we couldn't have a full exchange.
Thursday: August 25th, 2016
SZT in Crawley today and it went well. Had a super good dinner at Peri-Peri again with the Brighton elders and then we had to do weekly planning as we couldn't do it Friday due to moves at President's.
Friday: August 26th, 2016
We had moves at president's and got about 95% of it done from 11:00-6:45pm... That was a very tiring and stressful process as a lot of changes are being made in the mission with more missionaries heading home but also some changes to other areas of the mission.
Saturday: August 27th, 2016
We had exchanges with Portsmouth and Elder Cloward and I got to go work some neighbourhoods and we saw so much opposition but on the last door, we found a family that was invited us to come back Sunday!
Sunday: August 28th, 2016
So after a great day of church, we headed back to visit hat family and a Elder Schulthies and I stopped by and I feel that when we are together, we always get these notorious doors that go from good to awkward. The husband of the mother we met started by telling us that for
1) No one by the name of Lucy lives here
2) I'm an atheist
3) I'm actually a C of E member
4) I know what God's plan is for me
The best was this one...
5) My wife showed me that last night and we just aren't interested...
It was dressing really that he would go that far to just say what he could've said at the beginning which was, "not interested at the moment but we know where to find you."
Fun stuff...
Monday: August 29th, 2016
Accounting and more accounting with President. We also went up to a venue we were looking for a possible finding spot with President and also a meeting spot for a future MLC and in the process, within 30 minutes, the 4 of us (President and Sister Gubler, Elder Tunnicliffe and myself) found 4 people (including a couple that approached us while on the venue) super amazing to see President work with people, it was amazing how smoothly and powerfully he worked and we ended up gathering their Facebook information to teach them in the future.
Tuesday: August 30th, 2016
We went up to Wandsworth today for a SZT and had a powerful meeting. One of the best we've had. Went longer than expected again haha but it was a good one! After like 2 hours of London traffic, we had a super good dinner with the Coopers before Charlotte (the daughter) headed off to America for a holiday trip.
Wednesday: August 31st, 2016
Today, super fun trip to Arundel Castle for Elder Schulthies last Preparation Day! Him and I went for the gold plus pass to see EVERYTHING! Super worth it!
Verse of the Week: Introduction to the Book of Mormon
"I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.”
Hope you all have a great week! Pics of Arundel will come next week as I took them all on my camera!
Love,
-Elder Rivera
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