January is over?!

Picture 1- Gingerbread man warrior!

Picture 2- The coast.

Picture 3- The cross on our chapel. :D


This week was pretty good. I went on an exchange to Brighton, which has the reputation as being a hub for gay people, and I did see a few pink buildings, so that was weird. But I was on exchange with someone from Holland named Elder Van der Put, and he's only been out for about 9 weeks but he's a pretty funny kid. He's quite tall, I think he was in a picture a few weeks back. He'll be the tall one. :P But anyways, that was interesting, and that's where I saw that gingerbread man thing.

But other than that, this week hasn't been too eventful. All the people we find and talk to are never there for the appointments we set up, and they don't answer their phones when we call either. So maybe we're just unlikeable people, us missionaries! Oh well, hopefully we'll find someone who is willing to be open and even just listen and realize that it's actually an important and special thing that we're trying to tell them.

Speaking of people like that, one actually came to church yesterday with her member friend! She lives in Cornwall (which is quite a distance from here.), but she was really nice and just a very pleasant person who was willing to learn! So I guess there are people like that, they just live in far away lands, haha. Oh well, the missionaries there will have someone to work with hopefully. :)

I'm doing good in this ward, all the people are nice. So I'm doing good, I'm just wanting something exciting to happen. So I suppose I should get to work on making it happen! :D

I love you guys, bye!

Hello!

Picture 1- Zone meeting.

Hello! This week was pretty good. We had a Zone meeting with President Shamo this week, and that was really good. Also, on Friday we made an hour long presentation to about 20-30 twelve year olds at a school! It was part of their religious education. They are having lots of different faiths come in and explain what they believe. I think one idea behind it is so that kids will be more respectful of people who are different than them, and also so that they can learn more about religion. It was a really cool experience, and the kids were all asking a lot of really good questions. It made me have more hope for the future generation. (Haha, I said that just so I could sound like an old man.) But it was really cool, and we're doing it again this Friday. And I think it might be for an older class, so that will be interesting...

The ward here is really nice. They feed us quite often, and they are just really nice people! And they have fun too. On Saturday they filmed parts of a movie for a stake activity. (It's like a roadshow, but they're just making movies instead.) And they were having a blast. We played a very short part in the video for them, so that was fun.

Well, let's see. The missionary work here is going good. At the moment, we have no one to teach, so this week we're going to be trying to find people to teach. I haven't had a good teach in a while! So hopefully we can find someone who is willing to listen and learn. I'm doing good, even though some things are a bit stressful sometimes. But hey, if life was stressfree, we'd all be vegetables! Er, yeah...

I love you guys, and I am grateful for the things you do for me. Talk to you later, bye!

Ello frum Eastbourne again!

Picture 1- Inside of the church.

Picture 2- The coast!

 

Picture 3- Outside of church at night. Bad quality, but I'll get a better one later.

Picture 4- Me and Elder Evans.

Hello from Eastbourne!! The last few days have been pretty good, just getting used to the newness of everything. The ward here is really nice, and I'm excited to be a part of them and try and help them out for the next however long that I'm here.

Let's see, the church is pretty cool. It's old timey! :D The members are really cool, and there are a lot of "experienced" people! They're super cool.

Elder Evans is cool, we're going to do lots of good here and have fun doing it!

I can't really think of anything to say! I think my brain is still adjusting to being in a new place, because it's been taking a while to process the last few days. I should be good next week, haha. And I'll most definitely have some good stories! Because this week we're having a Zone conference with President Shamo on Wednesday. Also, on Friday we're going to do a presentation at a local school as part of a religious education thing. So yeah, it's going to be an exciting week! Yeah!

I love all you guys and I will talk to you next week! By the way, you definitely can send letters and stuff to the Eastbourne address. That would be ideal, actually. So yeah, send me letters. :) I love ya, bye!

Salutations from Eastbourne!

Picture 1- District pyramid!

Picture 2- Us and Bishop on our last day.

Picture 3- The smile whiteboard that I've now left behind in Brixton.

Picture 4- The missionaries at moves time.

Hello, from a place called Eastbourne! I'm down on the coast, but I haven't yet seen the coast. I shall very soon, since we don't live far from it at all. But I'm now serving with Elder Evans, who is a guy from Utah who has been out one transfer longer than me. We go to church in a used-to-be Church of England School or something. I haven't seen it yet, but I'll take a picture when I do and send it to you! We live with a member, an older lady named Sister Walker. So that will be a lot different than what I'm used to.

I will miss Brixton, but I think my time was done there. I am going to have a really good time here in Eastbourne. It's cool though, because one member from Brixton goes to school down here, and he only lives about 2 minutes from the chapel! So we'll have to take him out on teaches or he can take us out for lunch or something. :) Another member visits here quite often, so at least I'll be able to see some people from my old ward. Elder Keck moved from Brixton as well, and he moved to Welling. That's still in London. So there will be a new missionary trained in Brixton, just like I was! So hopefully he likes it as much.

I don't really know what else to say! I'm just very excited to be in a new environment, and I hope to make the most of it. I hope to hear from you guys soon! I will email again on Monday, and will include pictures of my new companion and the chapel and stuff. It'll be good! I love you guys, talk to you later, bye!

43 Willoughby Crescent
Eastbourne, East Sussex
BN22 8RB
England

So this is the address you can send letters too for the next few weeks. If you have packages you can just send them to the mission home temple address, or this one. It doesn't matter too much, either is good. Bye!

No blog today because of transfers this week

Hello!

Picture 1- A completely empty Underground compartment!

Picture 2- I had always wanted to do that.

It's a new year, isn't that crazy!?!? It is, I'm going to be in England until 2012, that truly is weird. But I love it. :)

This week was good, we basically did finding the whole time. We found some really cool people, some really interesting people, and some really rude people. One day we were walking around with a whiteboard with the question "Do you believe in God?" on it and asking people to mark yes or no, and then we would talk to them about why. That was a really cool thing to do, and the first time we did it, it was 35 yes to 10 no. The second time, it was 14 yes to 12 no or something like that. But that was a really cool way to meet people and get to know them and their beliefs, even though they wouldn't always accept our offer to learn more about God. But there are lots of interesting people, but they are all wonderful people, and I know that God doesn't want them to be confused. But he allows them to be if they choose. People are interesting.

New Year's Eve in London was probably pretty crazy, but I wouldn't know since we were told to be in before 6:00. We saw plenty of crazy things outside out window though, so it was probably good we were in, haha.

Next week is transfer day, that's weird! I think it will be on the Wednesday, but who knows. I will most likely be moving, but it's never a positive thing until we get the call the day before. So I'll let you know what goes down. :)

I love all of you, I want you to be happy! I am grateful for all the support and love you guys give me. Talk to you next week, bye!