14th transfer, staying in Aldershot with Elder White for Christmas!

No pictures due to being at a dodgy internet cafe due to having an unusable chapel.

So, this last week and a bit have been good. Hannah was baptised and confirmed on the 3rd and 4th of December, respectively. Here is the story of her baptism:
We got a text from our Bishop Friday night at 8:30 saying that the gas needs to be fixed at the chapel and so it is off until the next week, so we may need to postpone the baptism because there would be no hot water. I didn't feel that we should postpone since Hannah had been preparing for this day for a while, but we called Hannah and let her know the water would be cold and gave her the option of doing it or postponing. She said she wanted to just go ahead with it, so we told that to Bishop.

Saturday morning we went over the chapel to see how cold the water was. The water that came out of the font tap was... freezing. But, the water from the kitchen taps was somehow really really hot! So Elder White and I thought we would just fill up pots of hot water from there and run them over to the font to equalize the temperature of the water. We did call Hannah again and let her know just how cold the water was, and she still wanted to go for it. Her baptism was at 5:00 and from about 2:30 until then, with the assistance of our ward mission leader and his wife, we ran as much hot or boiling water from the kitchen to the font as we could. After about an hour and a half of that, the water was... still freezing. So then we got about 3 or 4 little heaters and plugged them in and put them in the rooms next to the font as we continued to boil as much water as we could and dump it in there. By 5 o clock, the water was... actually not too cold! So when it came time for the baptism, it went really well. Hannah said it was warmer than she thought it was going to be, and I guess that's the best thing we could've asked for.

So, that was a really cool experience. I could see how God helped us answer our own prayers by letting us do as much as we could, and then making up for the things we couldn't control

Anyway, we had transfers today and both Elder White and I are staying here. So this will be a pretty good Christmas. :) It's starting to get colder here, but no snow yet. :( That's about all I've got time to write, so talk to you later! Bye!

Fwd: Aldershot

Picture 1- You could only see the rain when it was in this slot of sunlight, but it didn't really work on the camera. Cool picture though.

Picture 2- A Rainbow that must have been imaginary, but it's a cool picture too.

Hello! The last few days have been interesting. We had someone stop us on the street and ask if I was new. I said yes, wondering how she knew because she wasn't a member. Then she warned me about Aldershot being a dangerous place and to be careful. Then she just ran away. Elder Kendell then told me that in the 6 months he'd been here he hadn't really seen anything dodgy. Then, over the next 3 days, we saw two fights. :O  I don't think Aldershot is usually that dangerous, it was just weird that that happened after a random stranger warned me about it.

But other than that, it's been great! :D The ward here is pretty big, about 130 on Sunday, with lots of young people and nursery. I'm not used to that, since neither Eastbourne or Brixton had a lot of active youth and children. So it's a pretty well established ward. We had 3 investigators come to church, one of whom is preparing for baptism in late September. Another (South African) investigator got up and bore her testimony that she could feel the Spirit very strongly in the meetings. So things are happening here, and it's exciting. I think it will be a really good transfer! Oh yeah, Elder Keck, my MTC companion is now my Zone leader, so that should be cool too. I'll get to see him every week, along with a few other people I already know. So yes, I'm very happy, and hope you all are. Talk to you next week, bye!

The Eastbourne Era is Over!

Picture 1- Me happily drinking a Milkshake.

Picture 2- Me and Elder Kendell.

I have left Eastbourne and moved to a place caller Aldershot! It's sort of southwest of London. I'm serving with Elder Kendell from Idaho, who came into the MTC the same time as I did. We live with a member here too, named Ann. She seems nice, so that's a good sign. She sounds like she's very strict when it comes to cleaning, so I'll probably moan about that in a few weeks time. :D Anyway, I'm excited to have left Eastbourne even though I will miss it. I needed a change and something new and fresh and exciting going on, so I'm glad I could have that. I don't know any of the members here yet, seeing as I got here today, but I will update on Monday.

My new address is:

12 Upper Elms Road

Aldershot, Hampshire

GU11 3ET

England

Um, that's about it. Elder Tomlinson is staying in Eastbourne and he is getting Elder Lamb (Richard Lamb's nephew, I think. There are multiple Elder Lamb/Lam's in the mission right now.) so that will be good.

Anyways, that's about all I got. Talk to you on Monday! Bye!