Monday, July 16, 2012

Amazing exchanges!

It has been a very busy and fun week! We had 2 exchanges this week and they were both amazing! The first one was with just our district and i was supposed to go with the other trainer but they decided the two Greene's should go together! So i had to stay in Bath and the other Greene came with me! I don't know the area very well and we had to catch a couple buses around to where we were going I was a little stressed cause we had a lot of plans and i would have to take the lead in teaching! It went well and we got everywhere we were supposed to be. I prayed a lot that day, the Lord really helped me. The next exchange was with the ZL's, it was so much fun, and i learned a ton. The ZL that i went with was from New Zealand! He was so funny and a great missionary, we were in Bath again and i had to act as the senior companion which was weird cause i felt he had so much more experience! But he was so good at talking with people and relating everything with the gospel. When i was with him we gave out 3 BOMs which was really good for street contacting. My companion is so good! He is very obedient which is so good. He has taught me a lot and makes me do most of the talking with people in the streets and when we knock doors I'm learning very fast. It is actually his B-Day today and he has been out about 1 year. His house is exactly one hour from our flat, he could catch a train and be home in an hour, so weird. I'm like 12 hours away from my home! We had some funny experiences this week. We met this guy on the street and he told us that Jesus Christ is an alien and believes that he is too... His name is Flash Gorden, and says we believe in crazy things.. whatever! Another man we met said we shouldn't be wearing nice clothes around the streets, and said a prayer for us in the middle of the sidewalk, i couldn't help but laugh while he said the prayer. We were sitting on a bus and a man was rolling up a smoke, completely drunk and we taught him the first lesson as he was getting his smoke ready, don't think he really understood anything we said but it was good practice if anything. The word crap or crappy i guess is really bad here so when i was teaching a lesson with a member family and said that word the family looked at me like i had just killed someone! We had interviews with the President Millar on Saturday and it was very nice to see him. On our way to our interviews we were standing at a bus stop and we had about a 5 min wait so we decided to go knock 2 doors. We said a prayer that we would be able to hand out a book of Mormon, the second door we knocked took the book of Mormon and said they would read it. Very cool.  Be very specific in your prayers and Heavenly Father will provide if you have faith. Thanks for all the letters.  I got letters from Eli and his family the other day and it was great reading them. I don't know about the Olympics, i don't even know when they start or if we get to be involved or anything. I'm far from London, and the mission home so we don't hear much. I love Stephens post cards with the wolves on them, they are awesome. The Lake Powell trips sounds like it was a lot of fun, and I'm glad everyone stayed safe! Its good that Mckay is about to leave, he is going to love it!  We are teaching a family and an old lady right now. The family are Jehovah Witnesses and we are trying are best with them but they went on to the Internet and read all the anti Mormon stuff so that was not good. The other lady we are teaching is Catholic and she doesn't seem to remember what we teach her so that's hard.  We are finding that not to many people here want to hear what we have to say some days it gets hard. The ward here is so great and the food is pretty good! I have potatoes probably every other day. We see miracles everyday, and it is amazing. The mission is very hard but i have changed so much and rely on the Lord for everything. I know that this will be the best thing i will do in my life and will grow so much. Thanks for your prayers and support, it really does help so much. Love you.



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