Dear Family,
Well, it's official. I'm staying in Newton Aycliffe. Elder Perkins is going home of course, and my new companion I'm getting is named Elder DeGraw. He was Elder Perkin's companion for 4 1/2 months in Bradford so Elder Perkins knew him fairly well. He was in the military just before his mission, and wasn't even going to go on a mission but one day he was in church and decided that he knew the church was true and that he needed to go serve a mission. Apparently he is very patriotic. He sounds like a very good guy. I'll be meeting him tomorrow so by my next email I will have already served with him for a week.
This last week we had quite a few people confirmed for church, but no one showed up. Elder Perkins was disappointed because it was his last Sunday. Sometimes it's hard to realize that people have agency and just to feel like you're doing something wrong. However, this upcoming week we have General Conference to get people to. And since all the sessions take place at different times, that's a lot of chances that people have to attend church.
We've been working recently with a young lady named Debra. I think she's 23 years old. She has 2 kids. Though she is sometimes a little bit slow to understand, she is very willing to learn. For the last couple times we have seen her, we have gone over the Joseph Smith story and especially where the Book of Mormon came from. She was still struggling to understand where exactly Joseph Smith was coming from, so the last time we visited her, we showed her the Restoration DVD. She loved the movie and asked if she could keep it. We then talked about having a prophet on the earth today and talked about General Conference. She practically invited herself to Conference and asked if she could bring her whole family along, including her mother. That was a pretty amazing experience. Hopefully we should get a lot of people to General Conference.
Also, we just got a Ward Mission Leader. Up until last week we had been working without one. I'm not sure if I ever told you that. But now that we have a Ward Mission Leader things should go a lot more smoothly now.
Well I will be looking forward to getting the SD cards. As soon as I have them I'll go ahead and send the one I have back after copying it to a CD so you can have those pictures.
Oh, and when exactly is Alisa's MTC date? I'm going to send a letter but I was just wondering if she'll be gone already or something.
Love,
Elder Alsop
No comments:
Post a Comment