Guidance

I had a good week! Actually I would say a very wet week there has been so much rain, the river Avon that runs through Bath is about 10ft higher then normal and about 10 ft wider, its crazy! There has been a lot of flooding, so our trains and buses have been cancelled or delayed this week! All the fields near the river look like big ponds, its wild!  We had a great Thanksgiving dinner. There is a lady from our ward from America that invited us over on Friday and we had a feast, it was really good! It was Stake Conference yesterday. One of our investigators was able to come, his name is Ben. Ben is 22 yrs. old and if I knew him at home he would be my best friend.  We saw him almost everyday last week. Hopefully he will have a baptism date by the end of this week. Elder Richards of the 70 was at conference. He talked about how the more we serve the happier we will be. Cool experience this week:  Saturday night we had about 2 hours where we planned to knock. So we looked at the map and prayerfully decided where to go.  We picked a couple roads in this area and headed off. On the way we walked past this little circle that had about 8 houses. We kept walking and got to the road we were planning on knocking but we both felt we needed to go back to that little circle. so we did.  The second door we knocked on was a very nice man. He told us his ancestors were some of the first members of the church from Scotland. He didn't know much about us and what we believed so he wants us to teach him. We have an appointment with him tonight!  Always listen to those thoughts that come into your head, as long as you are being good the Holy Ghost will give you guidance. I love you guys, thanks for your wonderful examples, prayers and support. Have a great week! Cheers!

Thanksgiving week!

This week has been so great!  We went on 2 exchanges.  Once with the district and once with the Zone Leaders. I stayed in Bath both times!  We got 5 new investigators just this week!  While on exchanges it was the first time I have knocked on a door and actually taught someone! It was a really good experience!  We had 2 investigators at church yesterday which was great! Our ward is doing a ward fast this month which has really shown how much the Lord helps when we humble ourselves. The only bad news this week is that Chahra and Martin have decided they don't want us to come around anymore, but we need to go chat with them to see what happened.  I'm going to miss playing some American football on Thursday, but its okay because we have a dinner appointment with the coolest family ever!  All the English people make fun of us celebrating thanksgiving, they ask why do you celebrate a day about Indians? It is pretty cold here, but today is actually warm!  Bath continues to amaze me, its beautiful but very expensive. We don't have any pound shops or a primark , it is very posh, which makes it beautiful. I do have a scripture of the week! Its a good one!  D&C 121:33, the powers of heaven! This scripture gets me excited, love it! have a great week! enjoy the snow, I miss it! Cheers!

"Pray as if everything depended on God and then work as if everything depended on you."

Cold Bath

What a great week! ha ha its been a tough week! But like every other week, it has been good! The low of the week is our baths... The water heater has been broken for the last couple of days so we wake up cold and have to get in a freezing cold bath! Its been making me work out hard so I'm sweaty and hot before I have to bathe. Once my feet hit the water, my breath is gone. I scream the whole time I'm trying to wash myself.  Chahra and Martin have been tough to get a hold of this week, we were only able to see them once and we took them a couch. They were sick yesterday and unable to come to church.  We decided to start focusing on finding again. This upcoming week we will be knocking a contacting a lot. Last P-Day was really fun. We went to a place called Lacock! And it is a beautiful place! The Lacock Abby is where some of Harry Potter was filmed! I am doing really good. I love the mission! Is everyone getting ready for Christmas. Bath is the most beautiful city with all the lights, it amazing! I'm hoping we will get to do something fun for Thanksgiving!

I've walked where Harry Potters walk!

Snowing

 What a great week! Halloween wasn't too exciting but Bonfire night was!! On Halloween, it was pouring rain and I saw about 5 trick or treaters.I did have pumpkin pie on Halloween so that was good! Saturday night was Bonfire night which is a ward party. They had a ton of fireworks, so it made up for me missing the 4th of July.  Dan had the flu this week so we were unable to go to the Temple. Hopefully he will be better this week so we can teach  him. Sunday was a crazy day! I woke up and it was snowing! I thought I was back in Utah ,the snowflakes were huge! The snow was even sticking to the ground. We had ward council in the morning we were the first ones at the Church and then the bishop and a few others showed up. Because of the weather, they decided to cancel church!  A few more people showed so we ended up having testimony meeting for about 30 min. Chahra and Martin are doing better, we taught them the word of wisdom and bought them some substitutes for coffee and tea. We are still working really hard with them.  They need to commit to coming to church and actually come! We are having family night with them tonight. We have been doing a lot of finding, a lot of knocking in the rain and coming home really wet, but I seriously love it! I love the story of Abinidi. I think it is my favorite. He did everything the Lord asked him to do, he didn't see anything come out of it and he was put to death because of his faith. If it wasn't for him, Alma wouldn't have baptised hundreds. Faith is the key to everything we do. The Lord can do anything. It is on our part to have the faith. Thanks for all your prayers and support. Say hi to Alex for me when he gets home! Love you all! Cheers!!

First snow fall in Bath!