tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40398321897772992672023-11-15T23:04:33.692-08:00Elder NolanElder Nolan Called to Serve in the England London MissionAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08133260109912546836noreply@blogger.comBlogger88125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4039832189777299267.post-71625854826774478862015-08-15T12:07:00.000-07:002015-08-16T12:35:07.307-07:00Mother Dearest<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A short excerpt from an email sent to Elder Nolan's Mum.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mum,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How are you doing? What have you been up to this week? I love you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, I am feeling good. Spiritually I am feeling stronger than ever</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and I just feel really blessed. My Mission experience has been such a</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">joy, so many powerful experiences, lessons and miracles. It really has</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">been wonderful. Who'd of thought it ey? Think to who I was 31/2 years</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ago. I have changed somewhat since that time. Just a little bit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Christine, Annabelle and Gabriel are getting baptised today :) when I</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">was at the temple last week I put them on the prayer roll. Last night</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">they were all glowing, previously Gabriel had hang ups about the Book</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of Mormon but just before they went away on holiday we had a great</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lesson and finally got her to commit to praying about it. She had read</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so much already but I think she was just scared that it actually was</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">true. Last night as we were leaving I just looked at her and said 'you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">prayed about the book didn't you?' , and her face just lit up even</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">more and this huge grin appeared, they are so happy! I will send you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">photos of the baptism today :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mother! The baptism today was wonderful even though I forgot my whites and had to wear a jumpsuit!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We had zone conference all week this week which was actually really</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">good. Yesterday was the best meeting. A member of the Watford stake</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">presidency trained us on member missionary work. He was the man me and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">you met at the pageant. It was an incredible training. It gave me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">some great insights and ideas to use before I leave.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love you mum and I miss you. I'm so excited to see you. I really</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">don't want to leave the mission field. I wish you could just all come</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and live with me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Elder Nolan</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08133260109912546836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4039832189777299267.post-35127974746607921372015-08-09T07:34:00.000-07:002015-08-10T07:36:47.176-07:003 musketeers!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How are you doing?
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another week has gone by and has been full of miracles, blessings and
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">many lessons learnt. Today is the day of Pare's baptism, she is so
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">excited and SO ready for it. We only met her 5 weeks ago and her faith
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">has rapidly grown in that time, she is so obedient - she has read the
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Book of Mormon everyday since we first invited her to do so and that
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">is what makes all the difference. Pare has two masters degrees and is
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">beginning her PhD in September yet she has shown such humility and
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">meekness in learning the Gospel, her example has taught me a lot - no
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">matter how accomplished we are in our secular endeavours, we must
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">approach the Lord with humble hearts, meek minds and an unwavering
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">trust in His reception of our prayers. The only problem today is that
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">my baptismal trousers are falling off me!
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have been blessed to have been on some great exchanges recently, the
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">mission is full of great missionaries, young missionaries but
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">nevertheless great. This Friday I was with Elder Ramsay, a new zone
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">leader - the most enthusiastic missionary I have ever met. We had a
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">great day involving many aspects of the work, I took him to see Guarav
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">which was a sweet experience. As we talked with one another and set
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">goals for improvement it was so interesting to me that he is
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">encountering the same problems I had when I was younger in the
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">mission. It's become clear that we all go through the same process if
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">we choose to let it happen. Elder Ramsay is much humbler than I was in
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">recognising a need to improve - but the changes that need to be made
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">are exactly the same as the changes that I went through and still
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">going through now! He is a good man.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now there has been a change in the team formation, we have gone from a
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">duo to a trio! Elder Wentzel has joined us. We were planning on it for
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a while, it didn't work out at transfers but this week we had a
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">missionary end up not coming to the mission so we were at an odd
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">number and the time for Elder Wentzel to come to London had arrived.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">President prayed for a long time over it. He is such a good man. Me
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and him have had a great missionary relationship as well as being
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">great friends. When he became a district leader I was his zone leader,
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and when I became an assistant I he was a zone leader and through that
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think I have had over 40 call in reports with him, so we know how
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">each other works. He is just so humble whilst being one of the
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">greatest missionaries I have ever met, this is probably the reason I
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">love him so much. He is from South Africa so we have plenty of
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'banter' about that. He began his mission in London north and served
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">as a zone leader in Norwich, so we have taught many of the same
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">people. Fun fact, Elder Farley trained Elder Gore in Ely, straight
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">after that he came to me in London North and when I left he trained a
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">brand new missionary called Elder Wentzel. So we are all practically
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">family. All for one and one for all!
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now, yesterday me and a few other missionaries were allowed to visit
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We had a great day, we took a member with us and did some
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">insights. Sitting in the celestial room yesterday was the first time
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in a long time that my mind and soul felt truly still. I was able
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">focus my mind and meditate. I read from 2 Peter 1: 2-11 and whilst
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">reading these special verses I realised how grateful I was for the
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">temple and the relationship I have with God. Our understanding of
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Heavenly Father is really quite unique, we know that He is a personal
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">partakers of the divine nature', and by adding virtue, knowledge,
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">temperance and eventually charity to our faith we make our calling and
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">election sure - that 'an entrance maybe administered abundantly unto
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">you in the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ',
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">incredible right?
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love you all
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am currently sat in a Watford barber shop waiting for Elder Gore's
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">hair to be cut. It's always strange coming back to an area, being on
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This week has been great though, we had MLC this week and it was the
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">33-46. It's been a topic of study for me and Elder Gore of late, we
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">also trained on it later in the day and drew examples from the
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">relationship between Lehi and Nephi. It's incredible how from a young
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">age Nephi observed the example of his prophet father and when Nephi
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">again - prophesying in Jerusalem, pleading ' with all that his heart,
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">close family full of disciples and they all set an individual example
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to me which has greatly affected my missionary service. I have thanked
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pare is doing incredibly well! Christine and the girls are preparing
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for the 15th and we have Lauren preparing for the 29th! Too many
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This week has been great for our area, we have some wonderful friends
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">we are teaching and they are progressing so well. We have our friend
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">crazy is that? And what a blessing in disguise when you think about
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it, I think it really solidified her feeling that this was the most
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">as the mission will need young leadership very soon. And then lastly I
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">was with Elder Patterson in London. Going back to Maldon was awesome,
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Such great people over there, I love it. Bro wheeler asked me what my
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">favourite meal was before I came, so I jokingly replied 'steak
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- she is preparing for the temple. Mani swung by the chapel just as
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">together come and visit them. So I got to go to this epic feast.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway, Elder Gale got the worse morning of his mission out of the way </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">on Monday, we went with him to get Presidents car valeted, we couldnt </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">find the company that Elder Gale had set the appointment with, we got </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">about an hour past the allotted time and as we pulled into a side road </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to turn round, Elder Gale realises that his front left tyre was flat!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We then couldn't find a jack in our car or presidents, and when he </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">called the RAC roadside recovery they said that the car in question </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">wasn't registered on the mission fleet. Me and elder Gore left in P</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">residents car to get help and get it valeted some place else, we </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">finally found a really good shop that would do it for a better price, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">we then walked back to where Elder Gale was stranded and grabbed him </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">an apple pastry to cheer him up. When we got back we found him outside</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway, that night we grilled chicken on the chapel roof with </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">President and then a bunch of missionaries turned up and we made them </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'smores', another American method of cheating your way to a heart </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">attack - delicious obviously. We had photos on the roof and just tried </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to soak up the moment as much as we could, President said 'you will </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">tell your wives and children about this night', it's true, it was a </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">great evening and send off for the Jordan's.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tuesday came and we prepared every needful thing for the transition </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">then at around 5.30 the Jordan's arrived with President and Sister </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stevens and we got acquainted. The Jordan's then left and between the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">third floor of the building to them leaving the garage I think I </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">hugged sister Jordan 10 times! It was just so tender and surreal to </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">see them go. But they did indeed go and we got straight to work with </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">President and Sister Stevens planning for the next three days of </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">introduction conferences.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now the conferences are done, we have gotten to know President and </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sister Stevens pretty well and I can say with sincerity that I love </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">them and know that they will do remarkable things for this mission.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Elder Gore put is so well the other day, he described the transition </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">like an old cartoon where a dagger would be pointed into the side of a </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">character and then when I was retrieved there was no hole, but </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">seemingly the flesh of the cartoon character had been restored. When </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the Jordan's left it stung and I could feel a hole being made but then </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the Stevens came and the hole was quickly restored. I feel so blessed </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to have two mission presidents and wives and to have a close </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">relationship with them both will bless me forever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On Wednesday after the Ipswich conference we had dinner at the stake </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">presidents home and the opportunity arose for an on the spot musical </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">number, so me, elder Johnson, Elder Hesen, the stake presidents son in</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">law and President Stevens sang brightly beams - the one we used to </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sing in the mission band and it sounded pretty good! President Stevens </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">used to sing bass in the Mormon tabernacle Choir and so I am confident </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the mission will continue its musical habits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In our area we continue to see miracles, people texting us out the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">blue asking to come to church right after we finish our prayer to </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">begin planning for the few people we have to work with, people are </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">receiving answers to prayers and are having powerful experiences with </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the Book of Mormon and the Saviour Jesus Christ. The baptisms will be </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">flooding in soon, we just have to be patient.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, this week has been busy, very busy indeed. The greatest blessings this week have come in the form of trainings and new lessons being learnt. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I realised this week just how much President and Sister Jordan mean to me, they have become such a significant part of my life. I remember looking at their photo in my call packet just wondering what they were like and how we would get on. Being around them so much on my mission has taught me so many things, working closely with them for the past two months has helped me to grow and learn things that will bless the rest of my life. It has been really tender this week to see them say goodbye to so many missionaries. They have truly lost themselves in the work and in the lives of their missionaries. The mission loves them so much and it will be a very strange feeling not having them around, However, the greatest thing about them both is their understanding and testimony of Priesthood keys. President has stressed many times recently that the keys he holds are the same keys the new mission President holds, he encouraged the missionaries to pray for President and Sister Stevens and for a spiritual confirmation that the mantle of Presiding in the England London Mission will in due time pass from President Jordan and rest upon the shoulders of President Stevens. I have sought this witness and have received it. I already feel love growing for the Stevens' and I know that this is a gift from heaven. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are teaching some wonderful people now and helping the Britannia ward to grow! The greatest thing about serving with Elder Gore is that we are both just striving as hard as we can to be consecrated unto the Lord. These are the 'days of the vow of our separation', we feel the weight of that - he has really helped me to regularly sacrifice my own will for the perfect will of my Father in heaven. This life is all about priorities, its all about consecration. You can spend two years as a missionary and come home without changing a whole lot, you can exchange two years of your life for regret - this isn't a bargain we are looking to make. As Nephi didn't build his ship after the manner of men, we are striving to build our souls in the Lords way. Missionary work has been pretty hard since coming to London, I didn't expect this - but my sense of fulfilment and happiness hasn't been higher than it is right now. 'My Joy s full'. My trust is in God and not the Arm of flesh. Me and Elder Gore love each other and we are just both trying to help each other to receive the Holy Ghost more fully. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This week coming looks a little crazy, President Stevens arrives on Tuesday and we will have conferences with him for the rest of the week. Please pray that miracles happen in our area, even if we are out of it for the most part! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This week has been a refiners fire. It's feels like a month rather</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, Friday was the day that the whole mission had been waiting for -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What struck me about him was just how brilliant his mind is, he is</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've just got back from an exchange in Northampton with Elder Martin -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I served with him in Maldon. We had a great time and taught some</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of the train rides at least I will place a Book of Mormon! Yesterday we</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So today I am finally going to see Wicked! I am really looking forward</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Elder Nolan's Mum has been trying to add a video ... but alas no luck - you can see it on Elder Nolan's Facebook page: Elder Tobias Nolan</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I note my testimony on Sunday and told them about how much time we have been together on a mission and then I said ' I think God wants us to be friends' it was so funny......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I got your lovely package this week and letter. Thank you for always believing in me mum, you don't know how powerful an effect that has had on the way I respond to opposition. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This week has been crazy. I didn't expect to spend so much time in an</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">actually really enjoy the office work. It's really cool to see the
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">mission from a different perspective. In my time as a zone leader, I
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">learnt that the Holy Ghost helps you to not only think about the
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">missionaries you are looking after but also feel the way they are
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">feeling and sense what they need to improve. This feeling has
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">noticeably increased since I came to London and it has been a very
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sweet experience. Me and Elder David are working well together, we
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">understand how each other operates and we are able to teach and train
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">quite successfully with one another. Elder David has some great
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">qualities, I admire his drive to succeed, for example - I remember in
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">London North him trying to pick up a few phrases from different
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">languages, he would get investigators to write down things to say and
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">he would study them religiously. I remember thinking to myself, 'how
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">long will that last?' These days he can speak to most nationalities we
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">meet in their native tongue for atleast enough time to win them over
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and then his personality comes out and they are engaged for another 10
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">minutes minimum. He's brilliant and I love serving with him again.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So this week we had the mission wide leadership conference - 2/3 of</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">the district leaders are brand new so it was a really important</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">meeting! A lot of learning going on and we had a visit from Elder
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Watson - emeritus secretary to the first presidency - President
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">referred to him as the 'gate keeper' and said everyone had to get
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">through him to get to the Prophet ( he was secretary to seven of them).
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mike and Christine Stevens were showing him and his wife around London
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- they said it was funny because they don't know London that well! It
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">was good to see them, I forgot how northern northerners sound!
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Mike and Chris Stephens from my home Stake</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This week I went on exchanges with Colchester and Hyde park, I was</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">had too much fun! And then my exchange with Elder Ballsteadt and Liete
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in Hyde park was quite the experience. We taught together and found
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">people to teach in the underground tunnel between South Kensington
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">station and the chapel. Then evening time came - a member from
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">California called president and said he wanted to take some
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">missionaries out for dinner - president said to take the Hyde park
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">zone leaders as he thought me and David were out of town! So we headed
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to a hotel called 'The Langham' on Regent street. That's right, regent
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">street. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We met brother Quist in the Lobby, I was about to suggest we
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He then </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">said 'does this look good? Cos we have a reservation for... Now!'. It</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to chose what to order because each dish cost more than my weekly
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">allowance for food. I said this to bro Quist and he replied ' well
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it's a good job I'm paying'. It was incredible though, we all had
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">three courses, and we went home 3 very happy missionaries. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Brother </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Quist is a stud, we had a great conversation too, what struck me about </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">him was his faithfulness to the gospel, especially the covenants he</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the way he lived his life and the priorities he has. He has 5 kids,
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and his daughter is serving in Romania, she was taken to dinner a few
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">weeks ago and when he found out he wanted to do the same to some other
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">far from home missionaries. It was a real treat and I'm sure will
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">inspire me and my fellow elders to remember to treat the future
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">missionaries we will meet to the greatest meal of their lives one day.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway, I must go!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here are some photos I have been taking with the iPad!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Elder Nolan</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Tower bridge, taxi, tree, bird from the window of our Toyota Yaris</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On a massive detour, sneaky shard shot - just needs a young missionary</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">with a b.o.m or a kid doing some kick ups and this would be a money shot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Took this going 30mph - the bus lane is just a lucky bonus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Lego tower bridge shot from a missionary flat window sill.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Taken in the Mews next door to the chapel</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hey everyone!
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How are you doing?
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So it's moves again - I am leaving. President has called me to be his
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">assistant. Crikey bobs. We had a meeting with him last week where he
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">said I would be merging the Colchester and Cambridge zones together
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">with elder Adriano and continue serving as a zone leader, so when he
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">called yesterday I wasn't expecting what he would say. I am excited to
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">serve and work in this role though. My companion is the one and only
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Elder David. Round two baby! What's also cool is that the Britannia
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ward boundary covers all of central London, so will be technically
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">leaving the mission weekly! I have loved cambridge with Elder Whitby
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and it has been a sacred time for me. he has helped me to reach a new
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">level of consecration and self mastery which I will be forever
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">grateful for.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This week has been incredible. It began with a mission wide conference
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in London in which we were taught by President Patrick Kearon and
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Elder Nielsen both of the first quorum of the seventy. They came to
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">train us on the use of iPads - however the meeting panned out very
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">differently to what I expected. I assumed we would be bored stiff with
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">tutorials on how to use these modern day seer stones but of course the
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lords servants new better than that. They sincerely expressed how much
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">they loved us - Elder Kearon has such a wonderful manner and really
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This week was brilliant, Aisha was baptised and confirmed and it was such a lovely experience. She is really a wonderful person, full of faith and meekness. She has overcome so many fears and obstacles to get to this point. She used to come to sacrament with her hood up and keep to herself. Yesterday she walked in in a bright yellow cardigan, and her hair gave way to her beaming face! She was really glowing! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am doing well; Whitby and I had a great week and we have seen so much progress in our area. Our Kuwaiti student friend had her baptismal interview on friday and she passed with flying colours. She is doing great and is preparing for baptism on saturday. We had interviews last week and after we taught her with President Jordan, I probably learnt more than she did! He really guided her and helped her to understand the passage we were reading. She had been struggling to understand the Book of Mormon but after that lesson she felt confident and excited to keep reading. Since then, most of our lessons have just been going through a verse or two, it really is the best way to teach someone. </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'Paul says, 'When I was a child I spake as a child, but when I became a man I put away childish things', - I, like many other missionaries find this a difficult verse to 'liken' unto myself. When I was a child my Grandfather would rehearse unto me from his own mind a series of Bedtime stories. The central character being called 'Superman Toby', a young, Mancunian apprentice to Superman himself. He has been assigned stewardship over a small village to which he felt great allegiance and responsibility for. Frequently he would report to his Master and receive instruction, training and guidance on how to better fulfill his role. Daily he would meet and council with close members of his 'Gang', namely 'Isaac and Lucy', cousins of his and interestingly real-life cousins of mine also. They would gather with the rest of his gang in a tree house situated in the middle of an idyllic village green. Here, they would plan and organise their collective activities in the area - also never failing to report on the movements of Toby's arch enemies; The Three Boys. Names were never attributed to these detached teenage devils. They were always causing trouble and stifling the progress of Toby and his friends. Whether it be sabotaging service projects, playing unfairly in intergang sports matches, making a mockery of the good kids, stealing their bicycles and even pushing little unsuspecting girls into the deep end of the swimming baths. They were bad news, but somehow Toby's attitude towards them was never vengeful and from the way my Grandfather described their relationship it was apparent that Toby earnestly hoped for them to change.'</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'During the year of hearing these brilliant stories I got to know Toby quite well; He was kind, honest, brave, a leader, he protected those weaker than himself, he was wise - as wise as a 10 year old boy could be, he somehow never gave up hope, never became discouraged and he always remembered who he was. My wonderful Mother would always, without fail say to me 'Remember who you are', it took a while for me to comprehend what she really meant.'</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'I looked up to Superman Toby, he was everything I wanted to be. He served those around him, he lead them, taught them and many times carried them and it was all because of the love and respect he had for his Master. A missionary can come on a mission for many different reasons; it can be out of expectation, a sense of duty, a feeling of rightness or the result of a budding testimony. In a recent conversation with a friend we determined that the question asked should not be 'Why did you come out?' it has to be 'why did you stay?', or 'Why, despite how hard it has been do you still do what you do?. President Jordan said to us in a recent meeting ' Expectation to serve will only get you so far,a sense of duty will get you further, but Love will take you as far as you need to go'. Elder Dallin H . Oaks of the twelve said, 'The Greatest Missionaries, always act out of Love'. My Grandfather continuously taught me 'Don't just seek to do your best, seek to do what is required' - I was often left puzzled at this statement, but from my time as a missionary, serving in London North, Maldon, Norwich, Watford and now lovely Cambridge I have to understand better what he meant.'</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'I know that my Grandfather was not teaching me how to be a Superhero, he was teaching me how to be a disciple and how to serve as a missionary. My Master is far greater than Superman, it's Jesus Christ. I love the words of Ammon, when he speak on behalf of many missionaries 'I know that I am nothing; as to my own strength I am weak, therefore I will not boast of myself, but I will boast of my God, for in his strength I can do all things.' I bear testimony that this is true, that He lives and that he is more closely involved in this work than we can ever comprehend. He has established His Church, He is my Saviour, My redeemer and our God. His love for us and our love for him will always enable us to serve to the capacity salvation requires of us.' </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'There are some missionaries who come out for the 'wrong reasons', I invite you to stay for the right ones. If we got baptised into this Church for the wrong reasons, then stay for the right ones. If we accepted a calling for the wrong reasons, then now is the time to serve for the right ones. And even if we (missionaries worry about this) got married for the wrong reasons, then again, stay for the right ones. I know that this is the Church of Jesus Christ, repentance is real and free to all. This Church has within in it some of the greatest people in the world who every day serve and do things beyond their mortal capacity. I know this to be true, In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.' </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, the move from Watford was the right thing. The last month in Watford was one of the hardest of my mission, but I definitely learnt more lessons than any other. The biggest lesson learnt falls under the umbrella of gratitude and specifically this - If you are not grateful for the blessings you currently have, why would the Lord see fit to bless you with more? - I was expecting blessings whilst neglecting appreciate the ones I had already received. I decided to make a real effort at being more grateful. This came mostly through prayer. Since I have begun focusing the majority of my prayer on giving thanks, I have felt a massive increase in the Spirit I feel whilst I pray, I have felt happier, My faith has increased, My relationship with God is stronger and my missionary work has become more sincere. I am so grateful for my time in Watford, for the members, the people I taught but mostly for the lessons the Lord helped me to learn. These lessons will affect me for the rest of my life. As President Uchtdorf says 'Could I suggest that we see gratitude as a disposition, a way of life that stands independent of our current situation? In other words, I’m suggesting that instead of being thankful for things, we focus on being thankful inour circumstances—whatever they may be.' Amen brother. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hey mum! loved my parcel from you, such a great gift! I had a really tiring week, but lots of great things have been happening. We are teaching quite a lot of people right now and the ward is doing well. We are having zone p day today ' The Great British Bake Off' as missionaries love to bake! I don't, but most others do! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What i loved the most this week was the letter you sent me, you are doing great. I told the missionaries about the clay heart scandal haha so funny. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We went bowling last week for my birthday, I won! 145! Not bad. Got taken out to pizza hut and gourmet burger kitchen on Friday! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last week we went o the seventh day Adventists with a member from Watford Ward. We loved it! So much fun, we got some good contacts and they just this second called us and invited us to lunch! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, it has definitely been a while since I put finger to key and updated you on the progress of the zone and the changes in our area. Its hard to write a lot when things aren't going to well, its been really hard and it has took me a while to figure out the problem and more importantly, fix it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first thing that needed to change was me, I had let myself fall into a few traps with regards to making missionary work happen. The biggest pit fall a missionary can fall into is to assume. I was doing this, whilst focusing on the zone I assumed that my area would just be taken care of, but it wasn't. I was neglecting it and the people there in by not focusing my mind and heart on it's progress. This has changed now, and the last week we had has shown that. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The second thing that had to change was also me, with regards to how I was treating my companion. We had a great talk about things and he pointed out to me things that I hadn't even clocked I was doing. I felt terrible, I had been so rude and disrespectful to him. I had again assumed that he knew I loved him and that whatever i said to him wouldn't bother him. I realised I was taking out my frustrations on him and in many ways using him as a punching bag, sometimes literally! (He is a 6"1 running back, so i will continue to assume he can take the physical hits ;) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Last thing that needed to change, was me, again. The Lord wasn't done yet, I asked my companion the question 'What is your motive to do missionary work?', we both had to think for a while. I really searched inside for what it was that got me out of bed in the morning, why we would street contact at 8.30pm in the blistering cold, why we would try again and again to get people to change ... etc I knew what my answer should have been, deep down I knew what my reason has been since I handed in my papers, but for the past few weeks I think I had side stepped it and lost the Spirit of the whole thing. The reason I am a missionary is because I love Jesus Christ. I love His Gospel, I love what it challenges me to become, I love the organisation of His Church, I love how the members of His church really are some of, if not the greatest people in the world, I love that I am associated with them, I love answers I get from many of the 'unanswerable' questions we all have, I love working with the missionaries around me, I love the people I have taught, have seen change and become saints through the choices they have made to follow God. I just love it all, and with 7 and half months left I have no intention of slowing down, or 'dying', my only desire is to speed up, to push harder, to get smarter and become wiser, to endure longer and pray more earnestly, to envision higher and achieve greater! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the time I have to be molded into an instrument that the Lord can use to do great things and I am not going to miss any of it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6666669845581px;">I have been practicing my Portuguese with the members this week, they seem to like - my companion must think I'm an idiot as I just say the same thing to everyone I meet. Elder Jones is one of the good guys, he is settling into his new role well and is just about coping with the lack of sleep we get. This week has been one of the most unique of my mission. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6666669845581px;">It has been teaming with everything a mission can throw at you, Miracles, Great studies, great trainings, finding great new people, getting dropped by new people, building relationships with members, agonizing over your recent converts new found struggles, new missionaries, rebuking new missionaries, rebuking old missionaries, praising missionaries, dealing with unwise choices of missionaries, being amazed by the faith of missionaries, being humbled by the sincerity of missionaries. I love the Watford zone, I want you to know the names of these wonderful people, so here ya go, area and then names; </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6666669845581px;">Watford 1 = Nolan and Jones (utah) Watford 2 = Sister Maurer (Swiss) and Eastin (Arizona) Watford 3 = Doucet(Utah) and kishari (Albania) Aylesbury 1 = Wenzsel (S. Africa) and Wen (Hong Kong) Aylesbury 2 = SIster Hernes (Norway) and Smith (Utah) Enfield 1 = Randall (Texas) and Martin (Utah) Enfield 2 = Sister Katrinacova (Czech) and Mlchocova (Czech) Enfield 4 = Murri (Utah) and Toledo (Chile) Wembley 1 = Call (Utah) and Caluag (Philippines) Wembley 2 = Kendall (Utah) and Kgwetiane (S. Africa) Wembley 3 = Opiyo (Uganda) and Tonks (Utah) Hayes 1 = Ballstaedt (Utah) and Haysman (N. Zealand). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6666669845581px;">We had Zone training meeting with them last week on new years day and had a great time together! We set a zone goal of 9 baptisms for the month of January and we are so focused on accomplishing it. The Zone ended with 52 for the past year, which is really great work. I really love this zone, I love the Area and me and Jones are focused on helping them achieve great things and do their absolute best! We have a very young zone, we also have some great leaders in it and Elders who have recently been released from leadership - the beautiful thing we have seen is that these guys are still leaders, missionaries still look up to them and they have a great influence on the Mission.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6666669845581px;">13 Behold I have given unto you my gospel, and this is the gospel which I have given unto you—that I came into the world to do the will of my Father, because my Father sent me. 14 And my Father sent me that I might be lifted up upon the cross; and after that I had been lifted up upon the cross, that I might draw all men unto me, that as I have been lifted up by men even so should men be lifted up by the Father, to stand before me, to be judged of their works, whether they be good or whether they be evil—15 And for this cause have I been lifted up; therefore, according to the power of the Father I will draw all men unto me, that they may be judged according to their works. 16 And it shall come to pass, that whoso repenteth and is baptized in my name shall be filled; and if he endureth to the end, behold, him will I hold guiltless before my Father at that day when I shall stand to judge the world. 3 Nephi 27.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6666669845581px;">My heart burns when I read this. The verses radiate absolute truth with me and I can feel the Power of the Holy Ghost within them. I would invite you to read and re-read them, then ask the questions - In what condition will I be lifted up? How has the Atonement of Christ changed me? What is yet to be changed that needs to be? </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-size: 14.6666669845581px;">The Church is a community of repentance, it is the 'hospital for sinners', however imagine for a second a hospital where the patients wouldn't let the other patients be healed. I see this sometimes, we tend to hold on to things and struggle to move on, we can sometimes struggle to watch another receive forgiveness and experience repentance because our finite minds want justice now. A missionary once asked 'what is Godliness?' - i have thought alot about this and I feel comfortable to say that one form of Godliness is not only the ability to see others as they may become but it is the power to forget how they once were, completely. This is something in which Missionaries become quite good at, they see investigators change, progress and become free of the chains they once had because of their repentance and application of the Atonement of Christ. The essence of enduring to the end is the continuation of this path of faith and repentance, no other church requires all of its members to serve and teach other people who they probably don't like most of the time. This is why the Church is so true, its challenging and hard, it stretches us in ways that no other Church does and it challenges each one of us to become like Christ in some of the hardest ways, namely forgiving those we do not want to forgive and forgetting the mistakes we do not want to forget. That's hard, I know it is and I have much repenting to do, but I know that this is something worth doing! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am staying in Watford btw, Elder Hutchins is going to the middle of nowhere, he has been released for his last two transfers! i spoke in sacrament meeting yesterday, last speaker, new i was doing it an hour before i was to give it and prepared it whilst taking the sacrament. A lot of prayer resolved the issue and the ward LOVED IT. I got invited round to a members house just so they could say thankyou and tell me that they had studied the references i made in the talk and several people told me they were inspired and wanted to change because of it. It was on the 'beware of pride' talk by Ezra Taft Benson. I just spoke about how prideful I was when I came out, people love it when you tell them how much of a terrible person you are. I also had no name tag on which I realised half way through and explained that I had left it in the car because I was using it to scrape ice off the car window haha they LOVED that! The Lord took care of me in that one! love ya! Love the package, the socks are wonderful, and I wore the lapel pin on sunday, so cool! </span><br />
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This weekend, our town young friends Malachi and Elijah were baptised and confirmed into the Church. It was wonderful. I am so happy about it and it has made this Christmas experience all the more sacred. We set out with a vision at the start of this transfer to bring a family into the Gospel, and with the Lord's guidance we have done just that. Their mother bore a powerful testimony at the service and has become fully active again. The blessings they were given at their confirmation were quite moving, direct and confirmed to us the reason why the Lord reached out to this family at this time. This has been the best ending to my only ever whole year of being a missionary, this is the type of missionary work that I have wanted to do my whole mission and the Lord has blessed me with it. 'Ask and ye shall receive, seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you', this truth has been confirmed to me time and time again this year. It's a promise that it applies to everything, it affects every aspect of our lives, temporal and spiritual. My mum always taught me the power of doing your part in order for the Lord to bless you and finally I have come to understand just how true that is. However, he thing is you never really do enough to deserve the blessings or at least feel that you have. 'Surely, the greatest joy of God is to bless is children when they do not feel worthy of those blessings'. </div>
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This week, we have been driving around the mission and performing at different Christmas devotionals, we have been to Hyde Park, Watford, St. Albans and Canterbury. What a privilege ey? I never thought I would sing a solo in front of hundreds of people in a suit and tie! It's been a little surreal. People seem to love the Missionary Choir though, I think the Spirit makes up for our many shortcomings and also we have Elder Hein my trainer who is quite honestly incredible when it comes to singing. Before the Canterbury devotional started, we followed the elders of the ward with President to a Sister's house close to the chapel. We found her bedridden, almost motionless but she welcomed us with a smile which told us just how grateful she was we had come. We sang to her, 12 or so missionaries crammed into her little bedsit, all of us feeling the Spirit of Christmas and gazing into her eyes as she slowly scanned around the group. It was magical, we left feeling edified and to be honest I would have happily driven all the way back to Watford in the knowledge that we had done what the Lord really needed us to do.</div>
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I feel very humbled and thankful to be serving my Saviour at this sacred time in which we celebrate his birth. It is clear from the accounts in the scriptures that at the time of his birth the world did not make much of a deal of it. It is however crystal clear that Heaven did, how did we react to the birth of our Saviour before we had taken on our mortal frame? How did we react to it last year? How will we react to it this year? How will we #SharetheGift? </div>
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