February 16, 2011

Hello family, friends, and others

       I bring good tidings from our Mother Country here in England. Need i say the Field is white and already to harvest, and boy am i thrusting in my sickle! 2 Baptisms!!!!!!.........pshhhhhh and people say we are planting seeds! More like Hunting bucks if you ask me! i shall not boast in my own strength but i will boast in the strength of my God! Heather is being baptized not this saturday but the next! she will be my 5th baptism so far..................Just kidding...........she is the first of hopefully many baptisms! Mark is going to be baptized on april 23. Why so far away? cause he is getting married on the 16th of april. Since he is living with his fiance we kinda got to wait till he gets married.

Heather,
        
   Heather is what some people call a golden investigator.... I will no longer call people Golden Investigators, i will now call them Heathers! haha! that sounds like a really bad Chuck Norris joke or something. Ya she was super duper prepared by God. We barely teach her she mostly teaches us haha she bears her testimony that we teach is true before we teach her haha! Cool thing about heather is the first person that i talked to on the Streets of Hereford that accepted an appointment. She was one of the very first persons i talked to. i'll take lots of pictures! I am trying to think of a Gift i could give her at her baptism if you have any ideas Email them to me please!!!!!!!

Oh and i am now a part of a threesome! atleast for a little while. I am the youngest trainer ever haha! Jared Reeks is my 3rd companion and he is just serving a mini mission he lives in the forest of dean which is like an hour away from Hereford. He hasnt even been through the MTC or anything and he doesnt even have a name badge. Is dad dropped him off at our flat (apartment) saaturday night. He is pretty cool and he is very prepared for his mission. His mission papers are with his stake president right now so he is hoping to turn in his papers pretty soon.

A couple interesting things about England compared to America:

People in England think republicans are like from satan or something haha

having your own house is kind of rare if you dont live on a farm..... most people live in like town home type things

Inside peoples houses or flats, space is precious! Kitchens are way small and fridges are usually a half if not a fourth the size of ours.

Most people have washing machines but most dont have drying machines. I hang my clothes out to dry

Almost no one has a dishwasher

people's homes are cramed and they dont worry as much about how good there house looks on the inside

English words:
Posh-wealthy
Mate-dude
goosepimples-goosebumps
Bruv-bro
flat- apartment
gas like for a car not from your bum - petrol

There are a lot more but i cant think of them all right now

I'm not so sure about you guys picking me up 1) beacause i will still be set apart 2) it will be winter in England and the summer is way more beautiful

But if you want to wait to come to england till june for my birthday after i come home then it will be way cooler beacause it will be summer and we can go look at some really cool castles and stuff. Petrol here is way expensive though! like 9 american dollars per gallon!!!

The work is going great and when you come out here you really realize how true this Church is. I thought i used to know the Church was true but now i really really know the church is true! If you really want to know its true you can find out it is but i cant just tell you its true and you believe me. you have to find out its true for yourself! I know that if you want to know the truth you will find it in this church and it is a FACT! this Church is either true or a lie there is no where inbetween, No middle ground. I am your brother, your son, your friend, i am here to share this message with absolutly everyone i know see and meet and that includes you! I would not lie to you if you were here i would look you directly on the eye and tell you " I know this church is the only true church on this earth! Do you? if not, find out for yourself , because i love you,  and i want you to know the truth"

you guys can all write me it only takes 4 days to get here cause Post is so big here