Tuesday, April 2

Sorry I didn't give any warning about not emailing yesterday. I forget that whenever there's an opportunity to take a holiday they take it over here. So yes, everywhere was closed yesterday for the Easter holiday.

Happy Late Easter!

It's been a good week or so! Sister Leslie is very nice and a really good missionary! We've been able to see a lot of good things happening! We went to go stop by some less-actives last night and one of them let us in and we had a lovely conversation and we'll be going back there on Thursday to make dinner for her and see her again. She has some physical limitations so we offered to come and make dinner for her and do a bit of service for her. So I think it will be a really good experience. We also saw one of our investigators named Samantha last night. We haven't been able to see her in weeks and weren't even sure she even wanted to keep meeting with us. We ended up feeling prompted to extend the baptismal invitation to her and she is now praying about whether or not she should be baptized on the 27th of April. So that was a good experience as well.

I can't believe it's April already! It doesn't seem to be with the weather over here, but apparently in 2 weeks it's supposed to start being really nice.

How was the Easter holidays back home? We spent it finding... and finding... and finding.... but it was good. We spent all day Saturday finding, but we met some really nice people that could become investigators in the near future! We taught a lesson Saturday night and we really are spreading the gospel to all the world. One of the members is from Ghana and she had family from Ghana visiting for the weekend and invited us over to teach her family about the church. We met and talked about the restoration. Before we even asked them to read The Book of Mormon, they asked if they could each have a copy to start studying. They were pretty happy and excited to hear that there is a living prophet on the earth today. They'll be staying down in London for the next month of so before going back to Ghana, but we gave them the information to know how to contact the missionaries wherever they are. They even ended up decided to come to church on Sunday as well! So even though they weren't able to become our investigators, I hope and pray they will get in touch with the missionaries in Ghana! Sunday was really good, we had testimony meeting. I think having so many people bear testimony of the Atonement really brought the Spirit very powerfully. The chapel was absolutely full of people and I hope they were all able to have their hearts touched in some way on a beautiful Easter Sunday morning.

So I wrote a while back about how I've had to deal with some creepy men as of late. I've actually had to deal with creepy men a fair bit on my mission. I wrote to President in one of recent weekly letters that sometimes it's just so hard being a sister and having to deal with things like that. He called me and told me I'm basically the only sister that has had to deal with it to the extent that I have. He has now committed me to staying away from creepy men. I'm trying. A man at the bus station the other day wanted to hold me hand. I called President that night for some reason and just mentioned it, he was less than pleased to hear about it. Meh, it's alright, I'm smart and am not going to allow myself to get into any truly tough situations. I just thought it was funny that I've been committed to avoid creepy men. The thing is, they all seem relatively normal at first...

Oh! I had an experience today, we were on the bus and Sister Leslie started to talk to someone. I kind of was listening a bit from where I was sitting and the girl was from China. She didn't speak a whole lot of English and so Sister Leslie asked me to come over. I was able to talk to her in some Chinese and understood a little bit of what she said to me in Chinese. We got her number and she said she'd be willing to meet with us to help her improve her English and I asked if she could help me with Chinese. So hopefully we can make something happen there! I was just really proud that I spoke Chinese to someone and they understood what I was saying!

Hmmm... I don't think I have a whole lot else to say today. The sun has been shining a bit more, so there's hope, it's still cold, but at least the sun is shining.

I hope you all will have a wonderful week!

 

I love you all so much!