Deep Fry Stuff

Hey everyone.

It's been another good and busy week. We've been mostly busy visiting less actives. One of them came to church this week which was nice. The reason why she doesn't come is because she's deaf and she needs someone to sign for her. 

We also spend half our time walking, and there are lots of up hill roads and paths here. It's exhausting in the hot weather. Today has been rainy so we decided to stay in and deep
fry stuff. It was good but now we're feeling a bit disgusting. I'll
show you some pictures of what we made. 

We didn't see Jacob this week; he's been busy and hasn't been answering our calls. He's in the middle of moving right now, but he's not moving back to Sweden yet. Not until
August. We started teaching a lady named Kate and she has a baptismal date for the eleventh of July. She was taught before and has been to church but she stopped coming and stopped investigating because of some concerns. But when we called her she was exited to meet with us and explained how she's overcome her concerns and wants to feel closer
to God. She came to church this week as well. 

Bexhill and Hastings is pretty nice. Bexhill is apparently the birthplace of British motor racing. Maybe you could look up some interesting things about Bexhill/ Hastings and let me know. I'm sending a video we took earlier today, a picture from our flat, and a picture of me and my companion and Elder Holland. I'm on the left and my companion is shaking his hand. 

Also,Dad, how did you get your katana swords home from your mission? Is there anything you'd like me to look for to bring you home? Happy Father's Day and I'll talk to you next week.

Bexhill

Hey folks!

The weather here has been really nice apart from this morning, but
it's supposed to warm up in the afternoon and the sun is supposed to
show.

Hastings is really nice. I'm living in the Bexhill area right on
the coast of the English Channel. We sometimes go jogging on the beach
for morning exercise. I think we were planning on having a BBQ on the
beach eventually with the district on a p-day where the weather is
nice. Don't worry I'm not treating this as a holiday; in fact we've
been really busy. We've been doing a lot of service this week. But the
area is lovely. I'll send some pictures next week as none of them are
on my iPad. The ward is pretty small but everyone is really nice. We
have an investigator named Jacob who's really cool. He's been taught
everything but he just isn't very confident about his testimony and
doesn't feel ready for baptism. Elder Westra is a really nice guy.
He's 26 years old and he's been out for just over a year. He's from
Holland. His English is very good. We get along really well.

The 22nd is the date that I get on the plain. I haven't received
the letter with my travel plans yet but I'll give you the information
as soon as I have it.

Elder Westra and I have had some really good teaches together.
Especially the one with Jacob. He just needs to recognize the spirit.
We often make plans for a lesson and then completely change what we
teach because we both have a strong feeling that they need something
else. It's always important to follow the spirit to teach to their
needs.

The Elder Holland conference was really good. He talked a lot about
how his mission really meant a lot to him. He also reminded us how
important it is to teach with power and authority and that obedience
helps us to have the spirit as a companion as we teach. We all got to
shake his hand as well.

I hope you all have a lovely week and enjoy the weather. Talk to you
next week! I'll take a picture out of the café right now to send you.

Hastings

This transfer was a five week transfer. It went by fast. I found out that I'll be moving today to Hastings for my last transfer. I will miss this area. I had a good relationship with a lot of people here and will miss them but I'm exited to work in my new area. I hope I can make an impact in that area with the short time I have to be there. My new companion will be Elder Westra. I've met Elder Westra before and he seams like a cool guy. I've heard good things about him. I'm sure we'll work good together. 

Khai Thu is moving back to Canada now. We'll try to get his new address and refer him to the missionaries in Montreal. Susan is still doing amazing. She came to a broadcast we had yesterday at the steak center from Scotland where Elder Holland gave a really good talk about the Book of Mormon. She really enjoyed it. I'm exited to see him on Friday at Hyde Park.

We went to Farnborough on Saturday with the whole district and drew the plan of salvation on the ground with chalk at the town center. It was fun and we came across someone we recognized.

Hope you all have another lovely week and I'll talk to you next week.

Mom get better

So we've been doing a lot more contacting but we want to try to have more effective contacting. There aren't very many people on the streets here and people don't seem to be home too often when we knock. We want to contact in the town center more where there are a lot more people to talk to. We'll also continue to stop by a number of former investigators and less actives. We also need to work on our approaches. There are a number of things we want to work on and I hope we'll be able to improve.

The cultural activity went well. We had a few people cancel on us but we had a pretty good turn up. It was fun. I'll talk to you next week. Hope Mom gets better.