I talked about Monday a little bit in my last email but whatever. (: Monday was great! Like I said Sian and Rob took us all over wales and it was great! She is mad smart. Knows like everything there is to know. It was a lot of fun. That night we had tea at the McAllisters, a family who just moved to Prestatyn (a city close to Rhyl) from California. Their daughter was in the Preston MTC the same time I was! Small world. They literally live in a cottage. It's crazy. It's been in their family for over a hundred years. They took us on a tiny hike up to a lookout because they live kind of above Prestatyn. What a beaut! We could see the sea, Rhyl, Colwyn Bay and it was the best. Then we had a great meal in their little cottage. Elder Korth was saying he felt like he was in the little house on the prairie or something. It was great. (:
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| The view from close to the McAllister's cottage. |
Tuesday we had zone meeting and it was Elder Chilpagiri's birthday!! The senior couple in our zone Sister Hillam made 3 cakes and so we had a surprise party thing for him after the meeting. It was fun. (: Me and Elder Korth made him a birthday hat with a piece of paper, tape, and dental floss to hold it on. It was a good time Elder Chilpagiri is the best. (: We tracted some that afternoon but nobody was interested. There was some nice people though. (: We had tea at Graham and Chez's and had burgers. They always feed us a LOT. 2 thumbs up. (: We visited a family in the ward Sabrina and Carsen. Sabrina is the mom and has a heart condition and Carsen has some sort of disability where he is in a wheelchair. He's the funniest kid in the world. Its tough for them to get to church because of their health, but Sabrina was there yesterday! It was good to see her there.
Wednesday we finally got to see Paul again! He opened the door and invited us right in. We'd just talked to him outside the times before. He is the nicest man and is really interested in what we have to say. He has some reservations being brought up a Catholic but we taught the Restoration and it was really really good. I love the part of the lesson where we recite Joseph's words in the first vision. So good. Paul is very willing to read the Book of Mormon and pray about it. Hopefully his work will allow us to meet with him soon. After Paul we went to Prestatyn and went to see our Investigator Craig. It was good to see him and Jo. He want's to be baptized now that they are married, but doesn't want to rush it. And they really don't like being pushed we can tell that from the past 9 years Craig has been taught. So hopefully we can approach it in a good way and help him want to get baptized soon. (: We did some finding that day and tried by a couple of people but nothing else really eventful happened. Oh yeah we had tea at the Boome's. They are the best. They serve good food too. (:
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| Elder Korth & Elder Edwards. |
Thursday was weekly planning as per usual. Our flat is right next to a school so during studies and weekly planning it is always a madhouse out there. Little kids wrestling and just going crazy. Its distracting because they are so entertaining to watch. (: We visited Yasmin who was baptised a couple of months ago. We stayed on the porch because we couldn't go in. We had a good lesson with a Mormon message. She has a lot of interesting views so it's always interesting teaching her. (: But she's great. We did some tracting but nobody was interested, we then had tea at the Jones's. They are also the best. (: Apparently they had called us that morning to cancel because she wasn't feeling well but they had the wrong number for us. So we felt a little bad but they were glad we came because she felt better that afternoon. They got fish n chips takeout. I love fish n chips. Like a lot.
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| With Sian & Rob. |
Friday after studies we helped the Jolliffes move. It was nice to wear some basketball shorts and a T shirt tee hee. But yeah we helped them move. Not really sure what else to say about it. (: After lunch we headed to Mostyn. Long bus ride. Nice nap. I'm always tired. Probably a good thing though cause it means were going hard! Haha. (: We tracted for a couple hours with no luck. Then we headed to Sian and Rob's for tea and a lesson. The food was so stinkin good. Sian is a great cook. On monday she had been telling us how to cook steak properly. She said "You show it to the grill". Exact words. She cooks them blue which is less than rare. Apparently it's quite the art. She's going to cook us blue steaks sometime so I'm pretty excited. Gonna eat some raw meat! Our lesson was good we showed the restoration video and talked a lot about Joseph Smith. It was pretty good. We found out that she doesn't believe Jesus actually did all the miracles and such and all the bible stories. She thinks it's all just metaphors. And she has a hard time believing that God is a man. She more tends to believe in a higher power like nature. So hopefully we can help her gain that testimony that God is there and loves her, same as Jesus Christ. But she's great. Rob isn't super interested but he plays minecraft during the lessons and listens so at least he's listening. (: The jehovah's witnesses weren't happy with her that she went to our chapel for a tour. (: Haha. She was going to come to church yesterday but she wasn't there and we haven't heard from her. Hopefully everything is ok. Sian and Rob have 2 kids Carys and Sarin. Carys is 12 and Sarin is 5. They are great, Sarin is the cutest! They have a little pug who licks my face a lot (i can handle the hand licking but face licking was a little too much for me especially when Sian told me he eats his own poop sometimes) and they have like 5 cats. They like animals. They are all the best.
Saturday me and Elder Korth went to good ole Mcdonalds for lunch in Abergale then the Colwyn Bay elders got there and we tracted. There was this 24 year old dude that was crazy interested in me being from America. He was funny. He told me I need to get some better looking shoes. He wasn't funny. Haha it's all good though I wasn't bothered. (: Me and Elder Kaonohi tracted into Zoe and she was pretty interested. Abergale is in Colwyn Bay's area so they'll be following up with her. Tracting saturday night we met a man named Joe. He's 78 years old and the funniest person I have ever met. We were all just laughing the whole time we talked to him. He wants us to come back so he can teach us the Gospel of Joe. I don't think we will get anywhere with him. (:
Sunday we had church as usual. It was good. Weekly coordination meeting with Brother Lowe (ward mission leader) was great as always. He is so good. And so excited and willing to help us with everything which is the best. We tracted Trevor road in prestatyn that afternoon. I think they had a "Lets all be as rude as we possibly can to the mormons" meeting right before we came. We always have rude people and it's no biggie but literally every single house was an adventure. Gotta love it! (: No worries though. We had a roast dinner at the wades. The best. I love roast dinners. The Wades are also the best. (:
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| Our fresh new cuts. |
P-Day today! We really needed haircuts so we went to Eddie's barbershop. This Jamiacan man cut my hair. I told him how long to cut the sides and just to trim the top but he basically cut my entire head off. Mad short. Can't believe I trusted a random person to cut my hair, shoutout to mom for always killin the haircuts! Also I didn't understand a word he said. So I said a lot of yeps and mm hmms. But I realized now i kind of like the haircut so no worries. (:
I spent a lot more time on this email than last weeks so i hope you enjoy it! Love you all!
Love, Elder Edwards
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