New Members

The Church is growing by leaps and bounds! The Spanish missionaries in our ward have had such great success bringing new members to the truth. It's great to hear that Harry is also experiencing such success in England.

yeah we've had a pretty sweet time as of late. this weekend we had TWO baptisms!!!! Ayan and Min, man, these kids are so cool. Ayan is 17 and Min is 16.


Ayan is from Somalia and couldn't get her parents to sign her baptismal form for about a year, but this weekend it all happened!


and Min is our other recent convert's brother. Pyi's brother. and man, he's so cool, and so knowledgeable, it's crazy. and he plays basketball, HARD. he's my little, big bro. and yeah, we're having a good time :D

I'm really proud of my missionary. But more than that, I'm so happy for all the new members who are about to learn the gospel and get to know our savior in a more personal way.

D&C 4:4
4 For behold the field is white already to harvest; and lo, he that thrusteth in his sickle with his might, the same layeth up in store that he perisheth not, but bringeth salvation to his soul;


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Drawings

I send Harry drawings every once in a while. A few weeks ago I asked him to send me one.

silly picture of us getting chewed out by another missionary xD

music!

Hey! Maybe he does have some of my talent.

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When To Knock

"No Jehova's Witnesses." hey! that's not me!! :D so we took pictures before knocking.... then we knocked! And we were pointing at our tags and smiling really big, hey! We're Mormons!!! and the lady answered the door and started talking to us, then Elder Moura-Netto notices she has an accent and says, where are you from? Portugal. Bam! my companion starts talking in Portuguese and she's super cool, then we talk in English and tell her about the Restoration and she loves it and we get a return appointment for this week. SO POSH.

Proper Missionary Work

:) ummm, let's see. man, nothing too amazing happens to us to be real! We just do proper missionary work all the time.

This week I met a crazy English preacher guy who was just yelling random bible stuff to the street. He came up to me to tell me that Mormon's are racist because of something Brigham Young apparently said. Then he wouldn't entertain speaking to me as he had to go back to his street-yelling, so one of his lackey's came up to me and started yelling as well. So I showed him one verse in the Book of Mormon and he was like..... oh. well, this guy over here was telling me that you're racist, but ok. xD Owned!


Hey, here's a little spiritual message about the atonement:
I wore a flat cap for the first time the other day, it's Elder Moura-Netto's. They're quite fun. We got caught in the rain. I was wearing a waterproof jacket tho!... but it still soaked me thru to the skin. We came home and i took off my jacket and my jumper (sweater), and my white shirt had all of these AWFUL, NASTY, YELLOW stains all over it! it looked like i'd popped a giant zit all over my body. it was disgusting. But it washed out ;p


We were talking to this crazy I-use-a-megaphone-to-preach-hellfire-and-damnation-to-the-whole-world guy... and he's just talking about nothing, and all kinds of doctrine that isn't found in the Bible, Then! I stopped him and said "Hey, here's a deep spiritual truth for you. Have you ever wondered what the difference between knowledge and wisdom is? I'll tell you. Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit... wisdom is not putting a tomato in a fruit salad. Now you think on that!" and we walked away. Good times!

Do you remember the scotch bonnet pepper I ate in Romford? Today I brought some to the district in London North... Five of us took the scotch bonnet challenge, and it was the most hilarious thing ever. If i could send videos, I would so send you the video of it, it's marvelous! x

Companions

How many companions did you have on your mission? Recently, Harry went to a huge conference where he got to see all of his companions who are still serving. So I decided to add them up.

Elder Boysyuk (Harry's trainer, who's gone home.)

Elder Affleck (Who has also gone home)

Elder Strong

Elder Jensen

Elder Bensige (who went home today)

Elder Gonzalez

Elder Allred

Elder DouDou

Elder Moura Netto
 (A girl stopped her car and called them over to talk to her. She had them sing songs from the Book of Mormon musical with her.)

That makes 9. If you count elder Lowry from the MTC that makes 10!

Victor

Aug 11
VICTOR IS GETTING BAPTISED ON SUNDAY!!!! I love that man so much, he's my pride and joy. I found him, taught him, and now I'm gonna baptise him!!! I'm so excited :D

Aug 18
the baptism was AMAZING!!!!!! so incredibly beautiful and wonderful. Victor Adenubi!! He is my man, just such a good guy. Want to know the first thing he said after being baptised? "I feel like a baby!" goodness gracious, he's the best ever ;D and his brother came as well, all the way from Brighton! which was cool. and there was nice little refreshments afterwards that we didn't even have planned. We're in a ward full of Africans, there was so much food!!! lots of chicken. lots. and it was just lovely. I'm happy :)

A Poem from Harry

I had kind of a bummer week. But as always, Harry makes it better.
i'll try to make you a poem.... it's gonna be really bad but just know that i've tried!!!
~~~~~~
Hey mum, you're the best.
so much cooler than the rest.
The stylish-est, and the besty-iest,
my favorite lady, i do attest.

always looking after me,
and caring for me spiritually,
thank you for teaching me,
to be the best that i can be.

I love you mum, with all my heart.
seriously! with every part.

I love you mum, I'll always say...
You've made me who I am today.