Such a fun p-day! and week and life :) it was sunny if you can't
tell; it especially affects my mood, i was happy already, and the sun and BAM
instant high on life
but i decided to get all of my souvenirs. because next week is transfers,
and who knows i could be moved up to ipswich and never come back to london! so
don't worry i bought loads of london things!
then we went and got our feet eaten by well-trained baby Piranhas! no but
really..... not joking there is this place and you sit with your feet in this
pool, and the fish eat the dead, hard skin off of your feet! IT WAS SO COOL! it
tickled so much slash felt like little vibrations on your feet. But just
kidding about the baby piranhas.... they are called garra rufa. look them up!
apparently there is this place in Turkey that you can swim in a whole lake full
of them and they do it on your whole body, but thats just too much.
Also we saw a guy slack lining in the park!!!! he was soooooooo good. doing tricks on it and everything. reminded me of the time we tried it at the school up at BYU..... we were awful. i almost went and asked him for some tips and if i could try, but i figured it would not be a good skirt activity. i took a creepy stalker pic but it isn't working, will send it next week.
The other day I was on an exchange with Sister B! she is serving in
the Portuguese branch, so it is her job to just find Portuguese people. It is
fun. Also they can go anywhere in London to do it. So we went to London South,
out of the mission boundaries. so rebellious i know. also I got to have guyana
and coxinha and brigadarios. (look up how to make them, and make brigadarios,
they are incredible! but i don't usually wait for it to cool and harden to make
the balls, I just eat them with a spoon out of the bowl. ha)
so we cleaned for a few hours. you know how much i like that. but really.
it is weird. i really like it. yay spring cleaning.
then we went to camden town, where the adventures began. so we got bang
bang chicken. yum. missionaries always go there, so they give us free drinks!
background on camden town. such a ghetto scary but great place. it is
definitely a place where sister missionaries stand out like a sore thumb.... i
think i got high just from walking around. and you can buy the cheapest (in
price and quality) stuff. but it is also full of adventures. every other shop is
a tattoo piercing or something or other parlor..... wouldn't know we look the
other way ha
but i decided to get all of my souvenirs. because next week is transfers,
and who knows i could be moved up to ipswich and never come back to london! so
don't worry i bought loads of london things! then we went and got our feet eaten by well-trained baby Piranhas! no but
really..... not joking there is this place and you sit with your feet in this
pool, and the fish eat the dead, hard skin off of your feet! IT WAS SO COOL! it
tickled so much slash felt like little vibrations on your feet. But just
kidding about the baby piranhas.... they are called garra rufa. look them up!
apparently there is this place in Turkey that you can swim in a whole lake full
of them and they do it on your whole body, but thats just too much.
Then we went to Hyde Park and it is beautiful!!! today was the most
gorgeous day ever. i realised it is a good thing it isn't sunny here all the
time, the English people wouldn't be able to handle it. they go crazy when it
is nice outside. so we went and decided to ride the Barclay bikes! you can rent
a bike for however long you want and then just drop it off at any of the Barclay
bike stations, which are ALL over london. but let me tell you, idk how sisters
ride in skirts, because I was struggling!!! i ended up just standing up the
whole time, which worked. but it was so beautiful. I can't believe I am so
blessed to be able to live in this incredible place, doing missionary work! the
greatest thing that I could be doing! life is great :)
Also we saw a guy slack lining in the park!!!! he was soooooooo good. doing tricks on it and everything. reminded me of the time we tried it at the school up at BYU..... we were awful. i almost went and asked him for some tips and if i could try, but i figured it would not be a good skirt activity. i took a creepy stalker pic but it isn't working, will send it next week.
the flat in south kensington has the coolest balcony. except you can't tell
from the picture, but just trust me, it is cool. but i don't think sister B was that happy with me making her take a pic on it at 6:30 in the
morning.... but she wouldn't sleep outside with me on it, so she owed me at
least a picture.
I decided I am probably the worst sister trainer ever. after one exchange
on tuesday, we were meeting at the train station and switching to another one
for wednesday/thursday, we were almost there on the tube and i realised i forgot
my suitcase back at the flat, even though we went specifically back to the flat to
grab it, i was just so excited about my guynana and coxinha that i forgot to
grab it.... oops... oh well....
I learned a really funny Hungarian Easter tradition. A lady from our ward
taught us. Back in the old days, boys used to dumb a bucket of water on the
girls! isn't that funny, the reasoning behind it is because they are watering
them just like they water flowers.... idk i guess it makes sense in Hungary. ha
but now they don't do a huge bucket, just a little capsule. but still i think it
is funny. sometimes wives and mothers would wake up to a bucket of water getting
dumped on them! i think i will adopt this tradition in my family, but obviously
roles reversed. this tradition is almost as good as the duffins shooting the
turkey!
Strange thing of the week, sister H and i were walking down the high
street, and this guy walks up to us, kinda looks like he is in a circus, and
asks us if we would like to hear his new song called mother earth.... he was
really creepy so we just kept walking, and then he gets really close to us and
makes that farting noise with his hands.... and runs away. it was actually
hilarious/pretty creepy.
This past weekend was stake conference, and the Young single adult ward was
singing, and they asked us to sing with them. We sang He is Risen and More
Holiness Give me. Mum, our choir was about the exact opposite of yours. (Mom note: I sent this to Rachel: "For Easter, our choir is singing "He Is Risen". There are about 12 people in
the choir. Dad is singing tenor in the choir, McKay is singing bass, I'm
singing alto, and Adam sings Bass an octave higher (which is usually the melody). So maybe for family night
we'll tape us singing it and send it to you. :) haha. could be really scary" ... back to Rachel's choir) there
was about 40 of us! but I am sure your choir is great too. (I WOULD LOVE A VIDEO
OF IT!) but our conductor was fantastic, she is a senior couple missionary, and
she is a expert you can tell, and she helped us to sing it with such feeling.
It was an incredible experience to be a part of. I love how strongly the
spirit is present with music. It touches the heart in a way that just words can
never do. Singing about our Savior and how He is truly risen was such a
beautiful thing. and helped me to understand and feel the spirit about this
truth on a much deeper level than ever before.
Also a few sundays ago, we were waiting with a couple members at the bus
stop after church, and i saw this old lady in a window watching all of us. she
waved, and I waved back, but then the bus came and we got on. I made a mental
note of the old lady to go back and visit, and while we were on the bus, the
senior missionary couple walked up and he said, " did you see that old lady in
the window? she needs the gospel." so we went back the next day and just
visited for a quick sec because she couldn't talk, but we gave her a plan of
salvation pamphlet. she didn't seem all that interested but she said we could
just stop by sometime during the week, she couldn't give us a specific time.
about a week and a half later we visited her and after we knocked a few
times she didn't answer so we left the complex. As we were outside of the flats
we paused for a few minutes deciding where to next go, and which bus to take.
After a few minutes we hear this little old lady saying "hello.... hello?" we
went back to the door and it was Donna! she is very old and moves slowly and
said she is so sorry but she was on the toilet. but we started sharing a bit
about the plan of salvation. Her questions were so deep and sincere it was
brilliant. You would not expect that from a very older lady that seems sickly.
and a few minutes in, she asks, "last time you came you had a book with you, can
i buy it from you?" our favourite kinda question!!! (They are free and we LOVE to share them). we are so excited to
continue to teach her. Her neighbor is a member, and said she has talked to her
about the church before, but she was never interested. It just goes to show
that it is all in the Lord's timing. and bonus, she lives about a 2 minute walk
from the chapel!! but for her probably a 10 min walk, but still. really close :)
adam i hear you are a stud at baseball!! good work! dad thanks for the medical advice! i'll stretch
better, i am the most inflexible person in the world. i love your one sentence
thoughts. exactly how my brain works. and d. is going with sister k then!!! soo cool. i am sure your lesson was great. who is in charge of singles
ward? mum i liked addisons comment. i also liked the fact that they have
technology that can use wifi.... you should see our bricks we use.... its a good
thing though i drop it all the time!
I love you so much! have a great week!!! Jesus Christ is truly our Savior
and He is Risen! He lives, and the evidence of it is all around us, if we open
our eyes and truly look. love you!!! rachel
"To This End I was Born" - 4 min. video
"To This End I was Born" - 4 min. video
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