Week 61: Power Walking

Hey people around the world! It was another crazy week, and yes we may

have chased a few people down to talk to them. Always the best.

We had 2 awesome exchanges! The first one was with Sister Beck in

Lincoln. We had some time to stop by less actives and talk to people

on the way. There was this one girl booking it down the road, speed

walking to class. I do my best to stop her and she says "can't stop,

uni student, gotta keep moving." Naturally the thing to do is to go

with her. We walked with her for a good ten minutes, and in the end

she wanted to meet with us!  She also dated a Mormon at one point in

her life. 2 minutes after we met her, we chased down this other guy

with his son and he also dated a Mormon! He also wanted to learn more.

It was awesome.

Plus we got some nice exercise.

If you remember, about 3 weeks ago Sister Owusu and I were in Lincoln

and met a guy named Ben who was super awesome. Yesterday he got

baptised! While I was there in Lincoln I got to teach him about the

law of tithing. He was just so prepared for everything in the gospel!

We also went on exchange with the sisters in Wylde Green, and I was

there with Sister Lee! She is so awesome. We saw the cutest puppy.

Church on Sunday was pretty amazing, Helena (who we've been teaching

for a few weeks) came for the first time! We took the bus with her.

She wasn't there on time, and the bus to go to church was about to

leave, when she hopped off a different bus and ran to us! It was

amazing. She brought her little boy to church, and he loved primary so

much he told us at the end "we are coming again next week!"

Cool miracle, we met this guy named Valentine a while ago who never

showed up to his appointment. I ran into him on the street again and

he told us he wanted to see us! We saw him on Saturday, and he's one

of those people who asks all the right questions. People are so

prepared to accept the gospel sometimes it's ridiculous.

I love being a missionary. I've been thinking about a quote this week,

Elder Holland said "love in the gospel is not divided, but always

multiplied." All the people we meet are amazing. I've become attached

to the people here, all of them have something to offer, and something

for us to learn. When we love them, everything we do somehow becomes easier.

This week is transfers, and things will be crazy, but I'll let you

all know next week!

Love you all, keep it classy people.

Love,

Sister Slack

Last PDay we had lots of fun!

 Ben and Sister Beck- from Lincoln

Zone picture

Found sister urbani! She was at the mission home when we had a meeting.

Sister Lee Exchange! She made us kimchi, and it was so good!

Week 52: hop on a zebra and pick raspberries

Well people, it's that time again. Email time! Buuuut this morning we went to a castle, Warwick Castle, and we have nooo time to email. SO hopefully I can fit everything in!

What an incredible week it has been. The week started off great, Sister Thomson and I had a party as we both had driving tests this week. She had the written one, and I had the driving one. During her test I wasn't allowed to be in the building (government stuff or something like that) and so during that time I had to wait I think car by myself for about an hour and a half. I got to make a bajillion phone calls and leave some voicemails, which resulted in receiving lots of gluten free cookies. It was like magic! Ask and ye shall receive. It works. Oh, and she passed! Yay! The next day we drove down to Warwick for my driving test, and basically they make you drive around making sure you know how not to crash, and make sure you can reverse (like into a parking spot or parallel). Now to kill the suspense, I passed! Even after I hit a curb and everything. Prayers = answered!

Of course this week we've been teaching our awesome friend Jessica. Basically, she's the best. And hilarious. She came to a baptismal service we had on Saturday wearing a super cute dress, and is pumped to get baptised. We love her. 

We also went on exchanges with the sisters in Peterborough this week, I was with Sister Alexandroia there, and it was awesome. I ate some pretty amazing brazilian food there, and she nearly got eaten by a dog, but in the end it was a pretty nice exchange. I found peanut butter on sale for 59p!!! It was amazing.

And the highlight of this week was on Thursday. Why? 7 syllables: Elder Jeffrey R. Holland. It was incredible. Sister Thomson and I were determined to get there early to get a good seat. We were the first ones there, and we sat literally on the front row. We were only 3 hours early. WORTH IT. When he finally arrived, we took a picture with him, and then he had us all get up and shake his hand one by one. It was amazing. You could feel the power of that man. The whole conference was incredible, and words here cannot describe everything that I learned or felt. What I can say though, is that my testimony of this restored gospel grew so much. As he spoke, you could just feel the words sink in. I knew everything he was saying was true. I know it. He stood at the pulpit, and explained to us that he was going to talk about the atonement. He explained that we had to have Adam and Eve start the whole thing, they had to leave the garden of eden (where we can all run around hopping on zebras and go to pick raspberries) and provide a way for all of us to eventually get to this earth and for Jesus Christ to pave the way to salvation. Overall? Amazing. 

My favorite part of the whole conference wasn't getting to shake his hand, wasn't getting to sit on the front row, wasn't getting to see everyone in the whole mission, but it was when he got up to leave. Wait... what? Let me explain. After the closing prayer was said, he got up to leave and we all stood for him to walk out of the building. As he was walking down the aisle he said to us "I love you." and blew us all a kiss, and then added "Work hard." As soon as those words came out of his mouth I was hit with the Spirit. It was like a warm feeling gushed into my soul and I could hardly hold back the tears. It was at that moment, as we were all standing silently as he walked away, that my whole being felt and knew that God's power is on the earth today. God's church is here, and it is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. How do I know that? Because I felt it. God's truths are amazing. 

Anyway, gotta go and I love you! 

Love,

Sister Slack

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chillin with joyce

before elder holland

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