Hello everyone!!!
Sorry I didn't send this email on monday, we didn't have much time but at
least now I can tell you for sure where I am this next transfer. The news is, I
am staying in Wandsworth with Elder Coons.
So this last week and few days has been quite good. Since monday we have
been in a tri as a missionary in Mitcham goes home this transfer so His
companion Elder Sorenson has been with us. It has been good fun being in a tri
again, but kind of awkward street contacting etc. His new companion comes today
though so things will be back to normal after tonight.
Main thing that happened this week. We had a member ask us to come do
service with him for a less-active called Joyce. We helped her weed her garden
which was fun (except the heat) it was good though, she is a really nice lady
and she really wants to come back to church which is great. She also has a 9
year-old girl named Tara who is not baptised. When we saw her last week and
asked if she was baptised, we asked if she would like to and she said yes. She
really wants to come out to church too as she remembers how fun it was when she
was younger. We are seeing them again tonight so hopefully that will go
well.
We got to see Ruth and Lisa again last week. Ruth's boyfriend was there as
well. He seems a really cool guy, and he has met with missionaries before and
even has a polish Book of Mormon, but he doesn't want to properly take the
lessons yet as he says when he does he wants to be able to put his all into it,
which is a good thing I guess. We were hoping to see them again earlier this
week but we haven't been able to yet.
Joyce (our investigator) is doing well. She is still not very well, which
is preventing her coming to church but since we first started meeting with her
she looks a whole lot better, and both me and Elder Coons believe that she will
get there eventually.
Felix is interesting. We are still trying to work out how serious he is
about the church. He still came on sunday, and he was there yesterday when we
saw his member friend, but he doesn't seem to take things seriously. He might
just come to support his friend. We will try and work that out though.
Apart from that we have just really been doing a lot of finding. We need
people who are going to make progress, but we only seem to be able to find
people that we see once or twice and then they flog us. We will keep going
though.
Well that is all I can think to tell you about my week. The only other
thing I can think of to tell is that the whole of wimbledon seems to be going
Andy Murray crazy after sunday (yes I found out he won, which well done to him).
As you can hopefully see by the attached photo, they really have taken it too
far.
I hope you are getting some nice weather back home. It's too hot down here,
I'm dying! It was apparently 27 degrees on sunday, 27!!!! that's like alomst 27
degrees hotter then what I'm used to! I'm kidding, but it is ridiculously
hot.
Well I hope you all have a good week.
I love you all!!!
Elder Mitchell
Monday 15 July 2013
Hello everybody!!
Greetings from what currently feels like the hottest part of
the planet! (It's over 30 degrees, I start to melt when it gets to 25!...)
I'm trying to think what has happened in the last 4 days
since I last emailed...
I guess the bast place to start is Joyce are Tara. We got to
see them on wednesday which was really good. We had a really good lesson with
them. It went really well. We have invited them to pray about a date for Tara
to be baptised and we have been doing the same. They weren't able to come to
church on sunday unfortunately as Joyce had to work, but she has changed her
work pattern so she gets sundays off, so next week she should be here which will
be great!
The other Joyce is doing okay. She is still struggling a
little bit with her health. We are just trying to help her recognise if she is
getting an answer to her prayers about baptism. She has been taught everything
before by the sisters, but we are just going through everything again.
Felix is doing okay, he seems really eager to meet with us,
and has invited us over to his house, without his member friend there, so he is
opening up a bit more. He was at church on sunday as well. We are still not too
sure about how serious he is though, but hopefully this next week or so we will
be able to work that out.
Ruth and Lisa are doing good. They came to church as well on
sunday. Ruth is moving back to Spain though as she has family that she needs to
help look after, but she will be back in london once a month. Hopefully we can
still work with Lisa though.
Yesterday we had a really good talk with our Bishop though.
We just talked about goals for the ward for this year, and how we can help the
work progress. That is something we are going to focus on, is working with the
Bishop and the Ward and help them with their missionary work. Whether it is
Home Teaching, or taking them on teaches with us, or them inviting
investigators over for dinner or whatever, we will try and work out. We will
probably try everything, just to see what works and what doesn't. Hopefully we
will see some success from it.
Well that is about it that I can think of.
Hope you all have a good week.
Love you all
Elder Mitchell
Monday 22 July 2013
Hey everybody!!!
hope you are all doing well and enjoying the
"lovely" summer we are having. I only put that in quotation marks
because everyone says it is lovely but when you have to go around in shirt and
tie its not so nice. Having said that the other day I saw my first cloudy day
in about a month! It was still hot though.
So we have a bit a great news this week. Tara has a
baptismal date for the 10th of August! We saw her on wednesday and had a great
lesson with her and her mum, and invited her to be baptised on that date. It is
amazing as they said that was around the time they were thinking of for her to
be baptised, so I guess it is meant to be :) They both came to church on sunday
too which was great!
Another Miracle we had this week, was with Ruth and her
boyfriend. We got a call from Ruth saying her and Mikel (I dunno how to spell
his name put its the polish version of Michael) had a long talk and he would
like to get baptised was basically what came out of it. So we met with both of
them the other day and had a good lesson with them. The unfortunate thing is
that Mikel lives in north london so we can't teach him. We are hoping to at
least refer him on to the missionarires in his area though.
So just to catch you up with our other investigators: Joyce
we were really pushing to come to church yesterday, but she wasn't sure how she
would feel healthwise, So we said we would call her on saturday to see how she
felt. We tried calling and she didn't answer. I just hope we didn't push her
too much, maybe she just isn't fit enough to come to church just yet.
Lisa and Felix both came to church yesterday which was good.
Lisa came with Ruth for just sacrament and Felix came for the whole thing. We
are hopefully going to see them both next week but I am not too sure due to
events I will explain later.
Tomorrow we have our multi-zone conference in Crawley, its
the first one I have been to in the east, I have always been out west or stuck
in the middle so it'll be different. It should be good though.
Can I ask that you all keep Elder Coons in your prayers this
week. He is still having problems with his stomach and this week (on wednesday)
he has to go in for a procedure (I won't scar you with the details, I'm sure
you can imagine) so just pray that all will go well and that they will find out
what is wrong with him, as he has had this problem for 4 months now.
So that's about it from me this week. I'm trying to think of
something whitty I can end my email with but I've got nothing.
Have a good week.
I love you all
Elder Mitchell
Monday 29 July 2013
Hi everyone,
So there isn't really much to tell you about from this week,
it has been quite tough.
Elder Coons had his procedure on wednesday, they found some
small ulsers in his bowels, but they also found that he has chrons disease.
They have put him on medication for now, but it is likely that he will be on
medication for the rest of his life. He has taken it pretty hard, and he is
considering going home. We have spent most of the week in the flat though, due
to him not feeling well, which I totally understand, but I'm getting a little
frsutrated with being stuck in the flat with nothing else to do. I think I have
solved my Rubik's cube about a gazillion times out of sheer boredem.
So due to that we have not been able to do much work. It has
been a little frustrating for me, but there is not much else that I can do.
Tara and her mum made it to church yesterday though which
was good. And Lisa and Ruth made it there as well. It was our Ward Conference
which was good. The Stake presidency talked a lot about member missionary work
which was really good. Hopefully it will get the ward excited about missionary
work.
Other then that, nothing much has happened, except for our
multi-zone conference on tuesday which was good. It was great to be gathered
with all the other missionaries and to see all my friends, like Elder Bendall,
and also to see Elder Pettersen one last time before he goes home next month.
It was really good and really inspiring.
Well sorry this email is so short, but there is nothing much
really to talk about.
I will keep you posted about the situation with Elder Coons.
I love you all
Elder Mitchell
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