Boo!

March 19, 2011:

So here is the short version of the story. . . .

Tuesday, we get a phonecall at 4:30 PM from President Shamo. He tells Elder Evans that his life is about to get shaken up, and then tells him he's moving to Guernsey (one of the Channel islands). And he says to pack because he's moving the next morning! And then President Shamo tells me that I'm getting a companion straight from the Preston MTC who is supposed to be going to Portland Oregon but his visa just hasn't come through yet, and that's why things were changing around right in the middle of transfers. So I'm now with Elder Harris from Leicester, and we just spent Wednesday and Thursday at the temple. We're now back in Eastbourne and Elder Evans is in Guernsey.

So yes, I'm training a new missionary and the short time we've had to work together has been excellent! So I'm extrememly excited, and isn't it interesting that something completely crazy exciting happened after last weeks email which was so boring? :D I think so!

March 21, 2011:

I don't have a lot of time left, today is kind of a weird P-day. We're emailing from Brighton at a really terrible internet cafe. They swindled us out of our money, but oh well. That happens every once in a while. But yes, everythings going great! Elder Harris and I get along well, and more importantly we work together pretty well for only knowing each other a few days.

Hi!

Picture 1-Us in the local paper!


Hello! I'm doing good this week, not much has happened, it seems. This week went by extremely quick. The work still seems like it's on the up, but then things fall through. Like, we were thinking we'd have 7 people at church on Sunday, which is a lot! But only 1 showed, haha, so that's how it goes. Not much to do about it except give them wake up calls or something, maybe we'll try that. :) One good thing about this last week is that we got to go to an all you can eat Chinese food restaurant for free! One of the members took us out, and that was really nice of them. Also, as you can see, we were in the paper for that movie the ward made. Sadly, the article wasn't informative in the least. But I'll probably cut that out and send it home. Hmm, that's about all I can think of this week. BORING! It was a good week, but it was just one of those filler ones, it seems. So this next week we'll have to make more stuff happen, since as I think I've said before, nothing happens until you try to make it happen. So hopefully we'll do more things out of the box this week and be blessed for it.

I love all you guys, sorry this one was so short. Oh well. :) Talk to you next week, bye!

March?!

Picture 1- It was Elder Evans birthday, so we bought a cake!

Picture 2- We caught the sun going down.

Hello! I'm doing very well this week, it's been quite a good one. We've met lots of cool people, but we haven't been able to really meet up with them after we meet them on the street. But hopefully we'll be able to set a time when they'll be in this week sometime. But yes, it has been a very good week. It was Elder Evans birthday on Wednesday, so we bought a cake and had some of that and it was brilliant! :) Oh, and that video that the ward made and we were in, there is going to be an article about it in some paper this week! :D And they took a group picture of us, so I'll be in an English paper! I'll be famous before I know it. I'll see if I can get one to clip my picture out and send it home or something.

Other than that, this week just went by really fast. Oh, Dad, Richard Lamb's nephew is in my district! He's serving in an area called Worthing! It's a small world! Umm, let's see. Oh yeah, we went to a Catholic mass yesterday evening! That was cool, just to see how other people worship and to know where they're coming from. A guy in the ward took us, because he knows all the religious leaders in Eastbourne, so we might go to another one some other week, I'll keep you posted.

I love you all! Have a good week, bye!

Hello! Things are good!

Picture 1- Sunset!

Picture 2- Some cliffs!

 

Picture 3- Someone loves me!

Picture 4- A beautiful circular sunset!

Hello there! This week has been good, I'm feeling very good!

We met this guy named Peter and have stopped by him twice now, and he really likes talking to us, but not always about religion. He showed us his stamp collection, which I think he said was worth a few thousand pounds. I think he had over 2500! So that was interesting, I'd never really seen a stamp collection before. He had some from the late 1800's, so that was pretty cool. And he said that he'll come to church one of these weeks, so we'll see when that happens. :) We met one cool lady named Tracy who said she doesn't know much about Mormons and so we're going back on Thursday to tell her! She's cool, she writes poetry and said she has friends all over the world who look to her for inspiration. So hopefully we'll be able to help her find more inspiration to share. :) We've met a few people on the street who are so angry at God because their family has died or bad things are happening to them. I really wish I could help them not be so bitter and angry, because that's a terrible way to live and wouldn't wish it on anyone. But sadly they won't even hear us out so all you can do is basically tell them that God does in fact love them as they're walking away. I wish people didn't like being so miserable, haha.

I'm reading Jesus the Christ by James E. Talmage at the moment, and it's a great book. I love it, and he puts things so well. I can't explain, just go read the chapter on the Sermon on the mount and you'll see what I mean. I'm also reading in the Old testament, and I'm up to the book of Numbers! It's a bit tedious at times, but overall it'll be cool just to know the actual history of the Old testament from start to finish.

So yeah, learning is fun! :D

I love all you guys, and I hope you are all doing good. I'll type to you next week, bye!

Staying Put In Eastbourne

Eric is staying in Eastbourne with Elder Evans this transfer, so he'll be there at least six more weeks. He ran out of time for a blog email, so he asked me to report that he is doing well and not much is changing. Here is a clip from his email to me:

"My week has been pretty good. . . . The ward made a movie for a stake movie night, and they asked us to be in it. It's called "Eastbourne Rock" by jetpackpics, I think. . . . But yes, I'm doing really good. I'm enjoying the work, even though it's still not very productive. So yeah. I don't have much to say!"

Here's the Eastbourne Rock video:

I've been in Eastbourne for nearly 5 weeks already?!

Pictures aren't working this week because we're at a new shop and it doesn't work for some reason. :( Sorry.

Wow, time is flying! I can't believe I've been here for almost 5 weeks. It's the last time I'll email before transfer day, so next email will be in the middle of next week sometime, either Wednesday or Thursday. This last week was good. We had a Zone Conference on Wednesday, and that was really helpful. On Thursday we went to a town about 20 minutes away on a bus (and 45 on a train. We took the train because we didn't know about the bus. :( ) that neither of us had been to before so we thought we'd try it out. It was kind of a small town, and the people there were kind of in a little bubble. It was weird, no one wanted to talk to us. But we did have one ray of sunlight. We found a fish and chips place that sold the best fish and chips that I have ever before tasted, and we managed to get the Pensioner's deal so it was quite cheap. They said it was a one time only deal, haha. But oh well.

The rest of the week was good too. One guy gave each of us a huge fruit basket of quality fruit, so that was nice. Getting a fruit basket makes you feel good, somehow. And on Sunday night as we were knocking, we found two people in a row that were willing to read the Book of Mormon! It was so nice to meet some people who are actually open to try something.

So I think the events of this last week have all added up to something, and we feel that something has changed. Something really good! So this week will be good, and we'll also find out if we're both staying or if one of us is moving next week.

I love all of you, happy Valentine's day! :P Bye!

This week in Eastbourne...

Picture 1- Me and Elder Foong on exchange in Brighton.

Picture 2- Homemade sweet and sour chicken!

Picture 3- Dinner we made from scratch for ourselves and the lady we live with.

Hello! This week was good. I went on another exchange in Brighton, this time with Elder Foong from Malaysia, and that was really good. We had two really nice teaches with people who were actually interested in reading and learning, so that was good. Then we talked to a Jehovah's Witness for about an hour, which actually was pretty good. He seemed like a nice guy, and was open to learning what we believe about certain things. And then later that evening I nearly followed a stranger home on accident! :D We got off the bus and it was dark and I looked around for Elder Foong, and I thought I saw him, so I went running after him and walking along side him. Then as I turn to talk to him, I realize that this man I chased is not in fact Elder Foong at all! He was a bit frightened I think, having a Mormon missionary chasing him down at night. :D But all was well, both me and the real Elder Foong couldn't stop laughing for nearly the whole night.
Well, I don't really have other good stories about teaching, because we have no one to teach at the moment! But we have had some funny finding experiences, and also some really good ones. So all in all, I'm doing good. The ward is treating us well, we're getting fed quite oft. So that's good, we just need to persevere until we find those people to teach! I love all of you, have a good week!