Dear Family,
First of all, for some reason, my camera has connected to the computer but doesn't show any pictures existing on it for some reason. I'll have to look into why that's happening before I can send pictures. That's disappointing. There's quite a few pictures I would like to send.
This week has been a busy week. Elder Perkins and I have been working a lot out of the area book, much like in areas before. We've been contacting former investigators in a lot of villages surrounding Newton Aycliffe. Sometimes we don't get a very good response but mostly people have been very nice about it. It's easier to just give them a call on the phone, if they ever gave the missionaries a number. We just tell them we're the new missionaries in the area and ask them if they would like to have missionaries over again. We should be seeing a few of them in the coming weeks.
There is a miracle story that took place just before I came into the Newton Aycliffe area. Elder Perkins and Elder Schneider had been teaching this man named Stuart that loved the missionaries and was being taught all the lessons. They gave him a baptismal date and he accepted it. Just the next night he had a dream where he saw himself being baptized. The next night, he had the same dream again, and he decided to tell the missionaries about it. Apparently he had met missionaries down where he lived before, in Harrogate, and had been taught by them, but due to a car accident Stuart really didn't remember much about them. He asked Elder Perkins and Elder Schneider if they might be able to check and see if he had already been baptized. They got all his information and sent it into the mission office, and it came back saying that, yes, he had been baptized in Harrogate almost 14 years ago, but because of the accident he couldn't even remember it ever happening. Ever since then, he's been coming to church every week and continuing the missionary lessons so that he can learn everything again. He's still a little confused because he just doesn't remember anything, but he is definitely a miracle. He's accepted all the commitments, right now he is just working on stopping smoking, and he's doing very well. I just couldn't believe that story when I heard it. One interesting fact they realized later - the day that Stuart had that dream was the 14th anniversary of him being baptized.
That's an amazing story to me. It's getting colder in England, starting to chill down and sneak into winter again. Pretty soon I'll have to put on a coat and gloves again. A less-active member gave me some nice, warm slippers because they didn't fit him, so that will definitely be appreciated later on this year and well into the next. The English skies are so weird sometimes. You look up and there's this patch of incredibly dark clouds that looks very threatening, but all around it is blue skies and sunshine. The wind here is incredible. Everyone in England has been saying the wind has been increasing and getting worse this year than its ever been. You only have to look up and see all these clouds speeding by to realize how windy it really is. I wonder if its made the news at all.
Well I hope to hear from you next week, and hear that everything is still going good. Say thanks to Conner for helping out with the music and I also wish everyone good luck in school this year. Don't take people's lunch money. That's bad.
Love,
Elder Alsop
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