Good in Basingstoke

Hello once again.

We're doing good here in Basingstoke. Transfers is this week and we found that neither of us are moving. Many of the members were happy to hear that we were staying for another six weeks. We've got a good relationship with the ward but I think we can also do better. We take some of the young men out with us regularly and we see the bishop often but I think we could visit with other members more often. How else are we going to help them with their missionary work. Many of the members are really willing to come on teaches with us so that's great. We got a new ward mission leader and he's great. His name is Pedro and he's a returned missionary. He's really enthusiastic about his calling and he gave a really good talk in church on Sunday. We've been doing a lot of contacting last week to pick up new investigators. We have some return appointments that we're exited for and we've also been trying to contact some of our formers with some luck. But other than that not much to say about the week. So we had the lesson with the lady who came to church and it went really well. She fed us and her husband was there and we taught the restoration. She seemed to understand everything very well, asked good questions and didn't seem to have any problems. She accepted the commitment to be baptised and was really exited for our next appointment. But later we got a text from her and she cancelled our appointment and said she was no longer interested. I'm not sure exactly why but we'll see if we can somehow contact her again. At least she has regular contact with the members as she works with a lot of them.

There are some missionaries here that use Facebook to do missionary work but only those who are assigned to do so. We've got news this week that the mission will be getting iPads sometime in May so I'm not sure if that will change things in terms of missionaries using Facebook. I don't think everyone will get iPads either.

We were walking back to our flat for lunch a few days ago and we saw this guy (probably our age) just laying in the grass with his shoes off not far from the flat. I thought he was just enjoying the sun but we later saw from out our flat window a big police van and about six police officers around him. He was trying to walk and was just falling over everything and stumbling around. He was very drunk. Finally the police put him in the back of the van and drove off. It was fun to watch.

Have a good week.