the elders think it is funny to sing Christmas songs all the time, to play
them whenever we are in the car, to call and sing them to us. I should never
have let them know how passionately i felt about Christmas being saved till
after Thanksgiving. it will be sad if any of us move before christmas actually
gets here. but really, christmas stuff everywhere. poor halloween and
thanksgiving. i am definitely calling dibs on going to an americans home on
thanksgiving to celebrate properly.
The saying goes you aren't in England if you don't have a cold. I didn't
know that was a real saying, but apparently it is. People have told me to just
expect to have a cold from now until about june of next year. I never fully
appreciated CA. I will never take it for granted again.
I am pretty sure that the ward got sick of me on Sunday. Last week we were
asked to teach RS about missionary week, and then Sat evening we got a call and
were asked to teach the main Sunday school.... guess the topic..... missionary
work! ha so it was hard because we had to make them different for the woman who
would be in both, but i learned that i even though i get really nervous, i
actually love teaching church classes. I may have been sweating really badly
the whole time, but i really enjoyed it. and people said that they were really
good... idk how much i believe them because everyone always says that, but hey
why not believe them. and then last but not least it was the primary program (
so adorable.... picture our program but with English accents!) and we were
asked to sing 2 of the songs with the primary kids, we'll bring the world his
truth and a childs prayer. http://www.lds.org/music/library/search?query=we%27ll+bring+the+world+his+truth&x=-930&y=-225&lang=eng#d
http://www.lds.org/music/library/search?query=child%27s+prayer&x=-930&y=-225&lang=eng#d
funniest parts of the program were when the cutest little girl, 3 years old
gets up and just says verrrryyyyy loudly, I AM A CHILD OF GOD!!!! and another
when this little 5 year old girl after she finished the part she was supposed to
say said, and my daddy is soooooo handsome. I wonder how much he paid her to
say that. also there was a bit of nudity going on because the little girls were
showing their teacher the cool bike shorts they had on and lifted their dresses
above their head. aren't little kids the best.
crazy thing we saw this week was this taxi driver was in the way of this
huge lorrie (truck), and the lorrie driver kept yelling at him to move, and
finally he just went BAM! and ran into the taxi and pushed it out of the way
with his lorrie..... and I thought I had road rage.
cool lesson we had with Danielle. We shared with her 1 Nephi 3:7 And
it came to pass that I, Nephi, said unto my father: I will go
and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth
no commandments unto
the children of men, save he shall prepare a
way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth
them.
she said that it was exactly the experience she had this week. Sister
Mukomba, (nicest older lady from Zimbabwe. so cool. very independent and
strong. reminds me a bit of Grandma Formica.) gives her a ride to church, and
on the way home Danielle was expressing her desire to have nice dress clothes
for her two boys to go to church in, but that she didn't have the money to buy
them. well sister Muckomba told Danielle that the Lord would help her. A few
days later she found 2 outfits for them for 3£ in a charity shop. She was so
happy and excited. She said it helped her to know that this is what Heavenly
Father wants her to do, to keep going to church.
mum your experience about praying for Danielle brought me to tears. thank
you so much for your love and care for her and her family. you are so right
about people not realising how much the gospel will bless their lives. It takes
a leap of faith, and it is so hard when we see people who are so close to taking
that leap and for some reason don't, and they don't discover the tremendous
blessings Heavenly Father has in store for them.
as i was reading in the Book of Mormon this week i came across a part that
talked about the success of the ancient missionaries in the Book of Mormon.
Ether 12. Read it. It is a great chapter. But when I was reading it what
jumped out at me was the part that said their success and the amazing miracles
that happened were all due to their faith. over the past 7 months from
meetings, scriptures, prayer, and experiences I have learned that faith is a
gift from God. It is a gift given to us for our obedience. Obedience is a
choice. Therefore faith is a choice. we can choose to have faith and we can
choose to strengthen it. we strengthen it by being obedient to God's commands.
We can always be more obedient. study our scriptures better, pray more
sincerely, try to serve more, continually be looking for ways to be more
Christlike and improve.So this transfer I am striving to be 100% obedient in my
actions, thoughts, everything. I want to be the disciple of Christ that has the
faith to work miracles.
Dad- Sister Coons says hellllooooo. it a posh British accent. also ya i
have met quite a few people who have seen the musical or the adverts that were
in the tube in London. one of the things we talked about in our lesson on
Sunday was that the church is coming out of obscurity. and it is so true. even
just here in England the past few years so many things have been happening. The
Lord's work is going forth, it is so cool to be a part of it.
been a great week! i am excited because we get to go to London this week
and go to zone conference and listen to President Jordan and Sister Jordan! you
guys are amazing. I love you and pray for you everyday. I think people are
sick of me bragging about you, but i love you, you're amazing i can't help it!
love ya!!! rachel
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