I know I normally have sent my email out by now but I haven't so
sorry... this is just to let you know that this library computer
sucks! so I haven't been able to do president's letter, and this
computer has been super slow so I have barely had time to read all
your emails.
I will go onto the computer at the chapel later and send you all my
email to let you know how I am doing. Just so you all know though
that... I am alive!!!! (it's not that scary people, come on :P)
Love you all
Ciao for now!
Elder Mitchell
He also managed to get a quick reply to mine....
Hi dad, sounds like you are having lots of fun with Thomas and
Caitlan, sound like they are still getting into mischief as always!
Hope you are all doing well.
Sandra Hancox says hello by the way, we saw her this week, she is
doing well, her husband Ally has been in and out of hosptial for the
last few months but he is getting better.
I will tell you more about my week in my big email.
I love you all
Elder Mitchell
Finally, having gained access to a good pc:
Hello everyone, I am now on a computer that likes me so I can email
properly :D
Well I hope you are all doing well.
This week has been good. We have had 3 teaches this last week, so hopefully
things will just keep getting better :)
We picked up a new investigator this week, she was a referral from mormon.org, her name is Alice. She is a
young student who signed herself up to meet with missionaries which is cool. We
met her with a member called Phil (he used to be a biker before he was a member,
he always has interesting stories) but it was a great teach. He taught her about
the restoration and Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. it was a great teach
and the spirit was there. She was really happy when we gave her a Book of
Mormon, she even said a prayer at the end of the lesson which was great! We did
set an appointment to see her again tomorrow but she had to cancel as she has a
biology field trip. She is very busy with school so rarely has free time to meet
with us. She also works at the weekends which sucks, but hopefully we can see
her soon though. Her parents are non-practicing Catholics though, so I just hope
that they aren't stopping her from meeting with us. Ideally we would like to
meet them and maybe teach them, but we will see.
We also saw Mike on tuesday as well. He always asks us a lot of questions,
sometimes quite difficult ones too, like the other week he asked us if we all
come from Adam and Eve he asked is every guilty of Incest, which was...
interesting to try and explain haha. But he asked us a lot about the Holy ghost
and the Plan of Salvation, I just hope we answered his questions well enough. He
still doesn't believe that there can only be one true church though, but we will
keep teaching him, and just pray that he feels the spirit from what we
share.
Also we got to see Jimmy and Kathrine on thursday. It was good, although we
didn't really teach much, they just had a lot of questions about what missionary
life is like. We have a good relationship with them though and they have even
invited us around for dinner this week, which is always good. Hopefully we can
teach them both a bit more then.
Something amazing that happened though, as we were walking to get the bus
after seeing them, Elder Van Der Put noticed this guy who was kinda sitting off
by the side of the path on some steps, and he seemed quite down. At first we
walked past (I hadn't seen the guy) but Elder Van Der Put stopped us and asked
if we should go back and talk to him. As I didn't see him I didn't know what he
was on about, but I agreed we should. Well the guy was going through a hard
time, and had decided to go on a walk for various reasons and he ended up where
we met him. But we talked with him and told him who we were and we were able to
testify that whatever he was going through, Heavenly Father and Jesus christ
know exactly what he is going through and that they can help. We gave him a Book
of Mormon which, he was clutching to his chest and crying as we talked to him.
The spirit was so strong then, it nearly had me and Elder van Der Put in tears
as well. But when we finished talking to him, he gave us both a hug and thanked
us for stopping to talk to him, then we gave him our number and we went our
separate ways. We haven't heard from him since, but I am just glad that we were
able to be there for someone who was in need.
Other then that, we have seen a few of the less-actives we normally see,
and have seen quite a few of the members now too. We have also received quite a
few referrals but half of them haven't gone anywhere. One of them, actually
seems to be a prank the guys friends played on him, because one referral was a
14 year old boy, and the phone number was wrong and the email was something like
idontreplytoemails@ or it was something like that anyway, which kinda frustrates
me, that kids would be so stupid to do something like that. They don't
understand how much of people's time they waste just to play a trick. Kids are
dumb, I'm not having any (sorry Becky, I'm only kidding), so yeah, that annoyed
me a little.
Also this week, we had to go all the way to St Austall for a Zone training.
We had to wake up at 6am to get there for 10. 6!!! I missed half an hour of much
needed sleep!!! I'm not bitter about it or anything, I just like my bed... haha!
As much as I like it though, I always get up at 6.30. I have put my alarm clock
in the hall just to make sure I physcially get out of bed to turn it off.
So yeah, that has basically been my week.
Thank you all for your letters and emails and so on. Oh yeah, thank the
Mackay's for the late birthday package, I got that today so thank you so much! I
don't think I could eat all those sweets at once so tell them they don't have to
worry about that.
Well hoep you are all well.
I love you all!!!
Elder Mitchell
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