Stake Cultural Event

Sorry I'm e-mailing today. We couldn't do it yesterday because I was sick all day I just stayed in bed all day. 

Sams baptism went well. He seems very happy. He fits in with the ward very well and they are doing a good job fellowshipping him. You can tell he was very exited and he has lots of support. He bore a powerful testimony in gospel principles class and said he wants to do missionary work. After the baptism the stake had a cultural event at the stake center where all the wards in the steak represented a different culture. Our ward of coarse was representing Africa. Particularly Ghana. There was lots of food from different cultures and everyone dressed in their traditional outfits. Sam let us borrow some of his African cloths so we fit in quite well. Unfortunately we couldn't stay long. We had to leave before the dances started. I heard one of the wards did the haka. 

My companion and I are trying really hard to set up appointments to keep us busy. It's getting more and more difficult to set up appointments. I don't know how Elder Heninger did it so well. He seemed to be able to fill in the days with no problem. Even when appointments canceled. I've been calling lots of people but still can't seem to get enough lessons. Maybe people are getting more busy as we get closer to Christmas. 

We currently have two baptismal dates but we may need to drop one because he's just too busy to meet with us. I've only met him once and haven't seen him since. Our other baptismal date has been away so we haven't been able to see her for a few weeks. Daniel S (a young man in our ward) brought one of his friends to church last Sunday. The sisters are teaching her now. It's really exiting because you can see how exited he is about it. He's doing a really good job.

And the hot chocolate in England sucks too

Moves are coming

Hello to everyone.

Moves is coming up and Elder Heninger is leaving. He's going to Guernsey which is off the coast of France. He's super exited. My new Companion will be Elder Darcy. He's from Ireland. He was actually my district leader in Crowthorn after Elder Moulin left.

Sam is getting ready for baptism and things are going good. He should be baptized on Saturday and we're really happy with the trust and the relationship he has with the ward. He asked for members to do his baptism as well as his confirmation. He's been asking many people to come and he's really exited. He's still as busy as ever but he managed to find time to feed us. We did a lot of service last week which makes me feel good. We finished that guys garden; we dug out some bushes which was very difficult. We got a return appointment with him too. His name is Marvin, he's Jamaican. We also helped the new ward members (the Cheungs) with moving giant tiles into their new flat and came back another time to help tear out their kitchen. They're completely redoing it. They haven't moved in yet but they want to feed us Chinese food some time. They're really nice. We have been having a hard time meeting with our other baptismal dates and investigators because they keep canceling appointments but we keep trying.

Elder Quentin L. Cook will be visiting the Europe Area and he is scheduled to talk to the missionaries from the England London and England London South Missions on November 25. That's pretty exiting. It'll probably be really crowded though.

This is a drawing I did for Elder Heninger in his journal.

New Finding Ideas

Last week went really slow. We had an exchange without warning which was annoying but at least I didn't lose anything. We also had some service witch went pretty good. It took a long time clearing up this guy's back garden but it looks better now and we have another appointment to come back. We were going to have Sam's baptism this Saturday in between sessions of stake conference but the bishop said to move it back to next week because we wouldn't be able to confirm him the next day. But that will give us more time to prepare him and make sure he's ready. I can't really think of much else to say but we've met a few new investigators and had a few lessons cancel as usual. We met for the second time with a lady named Adjoa. She really likes the lessons and understands them surprisingly well, but she talks a lot and it's hard to stay on topic. She also seems unwilling to change religions for now.

We were asked to try new finding ideas and that lead to many of the appointments we had last week. The list that my companion and I came up with consisted of many different kinds of events that would require much planning. We didn't have much time to plan these events so we simply decided to switch up our approaches. It was mostly just asking a simple question like "what makes you happy?" or "what is your view on religion today?" but we also tried simply going around asking for service opportunities witch led to the garden clearing activity we had last week.

Church was Good

My companion and I did a lot of finding last week. We've been asked to try thinking of new finding ideas so we tried to mix things up. We mostly just switched up our approaches. We tried going around just asking for service. That didn't work too well. People just don't want to be helped. We did get one service opportunity out of it though. We're going to help pull weeds out of someones garden. It's a garden of weeds. It needs to be done. Now we have lots of potentials from the last two weeks and so we're planning on doing all we can this week to contact as many as possible. 

Church was good. Issac came to church for the first time in five years. He met the bishop and made plans to move his records to the ward. It turns out our bishop knew his bishop back in Ghana. He was able to tell Issac that his bishop back at home passed away a couple years ago. Issac was able to meet lots of the people in the ward; they did a good job to fellowship him. We were also able to meet the new family in the ward. They didn't need us last week for service but today we'll be helping them move things. They moved here from central London but they're originally from Hong Kong. His name is Gabriel Cheung and they're a young family expecting a child. Sam was also at church. He acts like a member already but he still doesn't have the time to meet with us. We met with him twice last week and we want to meet with him twice this week but he says he's just too tired after work. We'll talk him into it. We had a few good teaches with new investigators and hope to get more. Over all things are going very good.

Hey Sister Fisher I got a hug in the male from Tanis too!

 It's been really nice and warm lately. We had rain yesterday and today but it's supposed to get nice again for the week. The rain here is like Sister Fisher said: like a mist. It's usually like that though sometimes we get drops.

Our ward is mostly Ghanaian's. It's a nice ward. The Sintims have us over every week and over-feed us with African Food. Pauline Welch is the missionary mother of the ward. They have all the missionaries over every week. They're the ones that pranked me. Our ward mission leader is really good at keeping up-to-date about our investigators as well as less actives. He's a busy guy but I think he mostly tries to focus on organizing members to fellowship the people we're working with.

Elder Heninger is a cool guy. He's really friendly and outgoing. We get along really well. He likes camping and hunting, especially duck hunting. He also likes sports. Oh and snowboarding.

this is Elder Heninger

 No one cares about Halloween over here. Everyone just wants Halloween to get out of the way so they can start celebrating Christmas.

Now to answer Mums question.

I wish I learned a language. There are a lot of people around here that speak multiple languages and I've always wanted to learn one but I've never been able to decide what language I wanted to learn. Right now I want to choose between Mandarin, Japanese, German, Italian or Spanish. I know I took French in high school but that class sucked. I also wish I learned piano.

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