Bloggity blog time!
Hiya YOU ALRIGHT?
I got me hurr did!!!!! FINALLY!
AKA I got a hair cut. So
exciting. It's a bit shorter and healthier and lush now! Missionaries are a bit
deprived when it comes to hair cuts and things :) Well, I am anyway haha
but hey, that's not the most exciting thing that's happened in the past week
don't worry.
Monday till Tuesday we had the
coordinating sisters on exchange with us! Sister Birningham and Sister Wynder.
We love them both so much! We had such a fun time. I was with Sister Birningham
for the whole exchange. We went by a few former investigators in an area called
Cross Hills and did some knocking. Met some lovely people! I'll keep you
updated if any of these people turn into investigators or not!
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This is what I have to deal
with here in England. PARADISE. On the train to Settle looking out the
window :)
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On Wednesday we went to Settle, which
is about a half hour drive from Skipton, to visit some potentials and some
former investigators. We visited Pauline and Viv - Viv is hilarious, getting
dementia, but shows off a lot when he's got company. Pauline is his wonderful amazing
and incredibly patient wife. They're former investigators. We talked a bit
about the Plan of Salvation. The first time we knocked on their door to visit,
Viv answered and invited us in almost straight after we said Hello, then
Pauline comes to the door and says 'noope, nope, no'…but we talked to them both
at the door step for a while, we were all laughing and smiling after a while
and Pauline said we can come visit any time. This happens a lot with people you
see…they're so anti-Mormon/anti-religious, and then we sort of force our
happiness and our bubbly attitude on them and we just love them, they feel it,
and they end up talking to us for ages and say we can come back any time. It
happens all the time! It's great :) After we visited V & P we went by this
darling elderly lady called Elsie Prophet from Manchester. We knocked on her
door and spoke to her last time we were in Settle a fair few weeks ago. She is
so lovely. She loves her family so much, and she loves Manchester as well!
Anyway, when we went the second time, she had her mate Florence over…now
Florence is a very very very strong Jehovah Witness. We came to visit Elsie but
Florence ended up asking us a million and one questions about the church and
about the gospel. It was ................................yeah...that's about it. We were there for over an hour answering her questions.
Then we asked Elsie if we could say a prayer because we had to go, and Florence
(I like to call her Flo) said 'Oh right well I don't want to say a prayer with
you..I'll leave you to it..yes because you don't believe that God is called
Jehovah and I'll say that in my prayer...so I'm going to leave..' She waffled
on for ages. We were quite alright with her praying how ever she wanted to pray,
but she insisted she leave. So Elsie (who was quiet the WHOLE time) said 'Well
go on then!' in the sweetest way possible. Haha love Elsie. Then after tea time
all our plans fell through and we didn't know what to do, so we went street
contacting, only there was NOBODY on the street. Nobody. We went walking for
ages. Then, because this week the Zone Leaders AND our District Leader told
Sister Edgington she's Senior Companion this week, I looked at her and was like
'So what are we going to do?' She decided to say a prayer, so we did. We had
about 20 minutes until we had to be in, so we said a prayer, praying that we'd
find someone to talk to. We were really close to our flat and we saw this man
going to and from his car with boxes. We offered to help him but he said he was
alright. We got chatting and found out he's moving just a few streets over,
he's married, his name's John, middle-aged-ish-sort of (I really have no idea,
he looked old to me). He was so great! He'd met missionaries like 2 or 3 years
ago and had a 5 minute chat with them but nothing ever happened. He said we
could go over to his new house and visit if we want, we talked to him for
longer than 20 minutes, said a prayer with him as well on the street, and then
went to the flat. It was so good :)
Then on Thursday, we went to Sue's
house. Ohhhh Sue…she is just amazing. She treats us like her daughters. She got
her partner to print off 2 beautiful big photographs of the London Temple for
us! She lived near it when it was being built when she was a little girl and
she remembers it! I think I might have already explained that before but I
think it's so amazing! We're going for tea at her house next week :) We feel
like if we build this foundation with her and just love her and testify
to her instead of jumping down her throat with doctrine and things, it
will have an effect on her. She praises us all the time. She's wonderful.
She's already acting like a member of the church! Bless her. Then at night weee
went finding in Cross Hills again, went by a potential investigator, had a
chat. Her name is Debbie. Then we were walking down the street and an automatic
light went on outside someone's door, we were like 'Oh it's a sign!' so of
course, we went and knocked on that random door, and Rita answered :) She's an
older lady, we gave her a Book of Mormon, said a prayer with her, and left. She
wasn't super interested but hey, the seed has been planted!
Zone training meeting on
Friday. President Pilkington has changed how Zone training is
done. Previously it has been the zone leaders getting up
and instructing us all at the front and we're all sat in rows. NOW,
we sit at a table so we can see everyone's faces and we can sit or
stand depending on what we want to do, and it's more of
a discussion. It's so good. Instead of just the Zone Leader's instructing,
we have 5 minute topics and they get the best in the zone to talk about it.
It's Planning, Teaching, Finding and Study. The Zone Leaders asked us to
instruct for 5 minutes on study, especially our companion study and ESPECIALLY
our lesson plans, because apparently they're really really good. The
instruction went really well, everyone did such a great job. The new format is
great. Soooo much better than before. They've never been like that before…well
not in this mission anyway, so we're making history! We also had interviews
with President as well. Every 3 months we have interviews. It went well :)
President Pilkington is the man! So so so inspired, and so human and down to
earth and hilarious. Great, great man.
The members of the branch trust us a
lot now I think. We've had 2 baptisms since we've been here, and for the Poppy
Appeal bake sale that we did a week ago, the members were all praising us for
being so good at talking to people on the street. I laughed because it was so much
easier than what we usually do! Maybe we should bring around trays of cupcakes
when we knock on doors as well? Haha…but nah it was really successful. The
members are such good cooks! We raised a lot of money for the poppy appeal I
think. For all of you who don't know what the poppy appeal is, the 11th of
November aka today is Poppy Day. And the Poppy Appeal is the few weeks before
Poppy Day where everyone raises money. I don't know why, but I know that Poppy
Day is to remember those who died in the war and the fight for freedom for the
country. We all had 2 minutes of silence at 11am today and yesterday as well as
it was Remembrance Sunday. Big week!
And we had a mission president
fireside on Sunday. There were over 200 people there, which is an amazing turn
out. We took Magdalena. Brother Simcock drove us :) Go brother Simcock!!!
President got to meet Magdalena and it was all happy days :) The fireside was
amazing as well. President Pilkington is one of the best public speakers in the
whole world. He is so so so so so so so sosoooo good.
Anyway, missionary work is the best.
You are all the best. Keep spreading the gospel, love everyone, forgive always,
be obedient, and leave everything else up to the Lord!
Thank you for all your emails
and prayers and support as well. You will be blessed!
Love you!!!
Sister Kuhn
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