Happy Halloween

It has been a really long week. Saturday felt like a week alone. We spent the whole day contacting and it was very productive. We basically have our whole week planned. To be honest I can't remember what we did the rest of the week. We did have an exchange and that was successful. No one ended up losing anything. 

Sam is off work at 4 every day this week so we will be able to meet him multiple times. If we need to move his baptismal date that's no problem but I don't think we'll need to. Issac will be able to come to church soon. We taught him how to study the scriptures and he said he'll have a lot less questions for us so that's good. 

We've been doing some work with less actives and I think it's been productive. We had a less active family at church and that was a nice surprise. Sam wasn't there because he had work. But that's okay because he's been going every week since I've been here. 

I've got the Halloween card you sent me this morning. Thank you so much! I hope you all have a happy Halloween. I didn't really have a Halloween last year but this year I think the zone are planning on doing something. People don't really care about Halloween over here. It just gets in the way of their Christmas celebrating. Seriously; I started seeing Christmas calendars in stores at the end of September! Halloween night will be busy because we have a dinner appointment and then we're helping a new family move into their home. It will be good to get to know them. It sounds like they're a young family.

Hurry up and kill something so you can send me some jerky.

Have a good week and a Happy Halloween.

things are squirly

We had Zone Conference (three zones together) last week and we took pictures of all the people from my MTC group who were there. We had a really large MTC group. I'll send the photo in this e-mail. Other than Zone Conference not much has happened last week. 

We've met a lot of new people last week but haven't been able to stay in contact. Many of them canceled appointments while many just don't answer their phones. But that has given us opportunities to find more new people. We have a lot of people to call and lots of return appointments that will hopefully lead to new investigators. Sam is still doing okay; there's not much to say about him. We only have a few lessons to teach him and were slowly managing to get that done. We also have to make sure he understands the restoration completely. Issac really wants to come to church. He's finding a job that will give him Sundays off. He has a hard time forgiving himself and others but we showed him the gospel library's app and he loves it. He's been reading lots of church books and listening to lots of talks and telling us about it. We haven't been able to see other baptismal date Bennett. We stopped by his house a number of times but he's never there and he never answers his phone. We may have to drop him if we can't contact him at all this week. But other than that things are going good; we are seeing small miracles each day and keeping busy.

I'm exited for Halloween. Last year we didn't do anything but this year I think the zone will probably do something. I'm exited to see your costumes. People have already started letting off fireworks for the fifth of November. That will probably go on until weeks after the new year.

From what I hear we wont be getting any IPads in our mission for a long time. I'll probably be done by then.

A question or two for Sister Fisher: What day is P-Day for you? And How's the chocolate in America? I hear it's not that good but I've never really bought chocolate while visiting America.

We've been doing a lot of contacting at the park. We're giving out a lot of cards but no one is calling us back for some reason...

Halloween Costume

Hey people.

So we had a dry summer but now it's raining, and it's been on-and -off for the past week or so. I almost forgot how exited Mum is going to be for Halloween. I can't wait to see the decorations. Tell Justin to not be a party pooper and actually dress up. I liked the idea last year of him dressing up as a zombie and Dad being Daryl Dixon. At least do the Daryl Dixon one because that would be easy. Baxter is so cute. Is he getting a costume? Is it a good idea to be feeding him ice-cream? He's a lucky dog.

The beginning of the week has been slow. We haven't been able to get a lot of appointments. I think it has mostly been to do with the fact that people are not answering their phones. We have been trying, and we've been stopping by peoples homes but they haven't been in when we try by. We've also had most of our appointments canceled but it's given us some time to do some contacting. We've found some people we want to get back in contact with. Hopefully we can start teaching them. The last couple days of the week have been pretty good. We had some good appointments. We met Isaac again at the chapel. He's doing really good. He's now searching for a job that he can get Sundays off. When we met him before he was having a hard time understanding things, particularly the atonement. We tried explaining but he seemed to struggle to understand so we gave him a gospel principles book and told him to read it. When we met with him on Saturday he seemed very exited about what he had been reading. He said the book had helped him to understand things and a lot of things make sense now. He even shared a missionary experience. He seems much happier now. We also met with Sam. I think we will be able to finish the lessons with him soon. We moved his baptismal date. He's very committed and I think he'll probably be baptized but I'm worried about his understanding. I think religion is almost like a hobby for him. He says he'll go to a church for a while and than get invited to another one and start going there. He's been baptized 7 times. I don't want him to be baptized just because we told him to.

I think my favorite toy may have been my Rescue Heroes play set only because it recorded your voice. And then the dog peed on it. I just remember melting all my toys.

Dad I don't believe that you drew that picture you sent me this past week. You coloured it in on your iPad right? That's better than I can do in terms of perspective and proportion and accuracy to body structure.

Hello family and friends.

I've been getting songs by Duran Duran stuck in my head lately so when I'm finished my mission I'll definitely have to start listening to them.

Last week went by so fast. We've been busy with a lot of things. Every Wednesday we have a district meeting at the chapel but in this zone they always gather as a zone for the last Wednesday of the transfer to have a big pancake breakfast, and then we split off in our districts for our meetings. This zone does a lot of things together. We also had General Conference of coarse. It was really good.

 I want to print off a number of the talks later on to go over in my study time. We went to Pauline and Tim's (the Welch's) house for the Sunday Morning session after they fed us lunch. (Because of the time difference we watched it live in the afternoon.) Sam went to the Saturday session and the priesthood session and he really enjoyed them. We still haven't been able to teach him but I feel like he's learning a lot from coming to church. We are going to move his baptismal date back and just meet him when we can. We moved the baptismal date for Bennett. He's doing good but we've had a few lessons cancel and we feel like he needs more time. He feels like this is good for him because he said he wants more time to read and pray. 

We gave Isaac a tour of the chapel. He's a less active we found from Ghana who moved here five years ago and hasn't been to church since. He really enjoyed it and seeing the baptismal font brought back memories for him. He had a big smile on his face. He has forgotten many things so we are teaching him all the lessons and answering lots of his questions. Things are going good, still keeping busy.

Out of all the conference talks, I liked the talk by Joel Klingblat about spiritual confidence. It was the Saturday afternoon session. There were some pretty unique topics this conference.

It sounds like winter is getting close back home. It is cooling down in England as well, and we are getting some cold days. It's been a really dry summer but now it's raining. When the sun is out it's nice and warm.

And I still don't know what I want for Christmas. Don't send me too many sweets. Actually it would be cool if you could send me some stuff you can only get in Canada. I can't think of any examples.

Busy week

Hello everyone.

Thanks for the photos. Don't you have the original digital copy of the family photos? I thought they were on Facebook. It doesn't feel like that long ago but Justin definitely looks younger it those pictures. How's Sister Fisher? Was she nervous? Did you drive her down to the MTC or did she fly?

We had a long week; but it feels like it's been very productive. We've picked up some new investigators and had lots of appointments. Lots of them have canceled appointments but we end up seeing most of them in the end. Our investigators just like to make things difficult. 

Sam is still hard to visit. We are going to have to pull him out of class on Sundays to teach him. He's still coming to church and he gets involved in the classes and I feel like he picks up on everything really well. He's still super busy during the week. He over-works himself. We did get to meet him on Saturday at a caffe but it was hard to teach him as he kept falling asleep. He doesn't get enough sleep throughout the week because he works too hard. 

On Sunday all the missionaries spoke in sacrament. It was Sister West's last sacrament meeting before she goes home because next week is General Conference. I'll bet Sister Fisher is exited for that! How's the cinema coming along?

The ward here is wonderful and they feed us a lot. Are you still feeding the missionaries?

 Sister Fisher. I remember in the MTC the chefs served us a nice cooked breakfast every morning but on Sunday they just left out cold cereal for us. It might be different though with much more people.

I didn't get the stuff i lost last week while traveling but I've replaced most of my stuff though. The biggest thing was my shaver. I've been using disposable razors (the kind with only one blade) so hopefully today I'm getting a new shaver. Elder Heninger had an extra towel and I bought a new shirt from Primark (only £5). They have some nice cloths there for cheep. That's where I got my suit. I'm thinking of getting a new pair of trousers there to replace the ones I lost.

Hello people.

Good to hear from you and see the pictures from Kaitlyn and Wade's wedding! It looks like it went very well. Congratulations! Send more pictures! What are they doing for their honeymoon? I hope they have lots of fun.

We had a stressful companion exchange where all the plans went wrong. First, after meeting in our aria we traveled all the way to the other missionary's flat to find that the missionary I was with left his flat keys with his companion so we had to travel back to get them. Then I left all my clothing and hygiene stuff for the exchange on a train and never got it back. It all just put my mood down along with other things but we had a string of small miracles Saturday night that lifted me up. A former investigator saw us on the street and got off his bike to talk to us. He wants to meet with us again and go to church. We met with him that night at his mothers home and talked with him. He has had a rough past and now has drug addictions. We think he may have been on drugs wen we met with him because he was shaking and scratching himself a lot. But he did seem very sincere; he wants to change his life and he believes we can help him.

Thanks also for the family photos. Send me one that has the whole family in it (like the one that Sister Toone took with all the leaves).

Good Luck Bri- uh... Sister Fisher!

Big Ben

Hello friends and family.

Last week went by way too fast for me to even remember what happened. We have been trying to contact lots of potentials. Many of them we only have their phone numbers. Most of them we haven't been able to contact because they haven't answered. We have had better luck with the less actives we have been trying to contact although some of them we have found out have moved away. 

A few of our appointments last week have been cancelled but we were still able to somehow stay busy. We work closely with the members and it feels good that they have our trust. It seems like the biggest problem with our investigators is that they are very busy. 

We finally got a baptismal date for Sam; he's been to church I think four times now but we've only been able to teach him for the first time on Saturday. I think we're hopefully seeing him every Saturday now because that's the only time he's free. So things are going good, we're keeping busy so that's good.

Last Monday up in London was nice. The Big Ben is not as tall as I thought it would be but it definitely is big. It looks smaller in the pictures I took than it seemed in real life (or we look further away in the pictures). We could only go half way across the bridge because the other half of the bridge is actually the other London Mission, so this is as close as we could get. 

There was a stand selling merchandise and they had two shirts for £10 so I got some t-shirts. I also got some post cards so I'm going to need some addresses. I've already got your's and grandpa Baker's but I need Kaitlyn's, grandpa and grandma Fisher's, and Braedon's if you can. Did you get the post card that I sent from the Romsey Abbey?

There were people at the top of this tower cleaning