Funeral for Sister Steel

We've seen pictures of her since they were in the MTC. And now she's going home to Colorado.

When missionaries get into the mission, we call it being born. Their trainer is their parent, and the senior missionary of opposite gender in the district is the other parent. Then, when you go home, it's called dying. so usually at the last meeting we'll hold a funeral for them, as we did with sister steele! It was a time to be remembered.










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Just Pictures

A funny accidental picture taken from my desk.



you can't see it very well but the sign in the back says elders!!!! We had to take a picture.






I made dinner for my favorite chinese missionary, Elder Tam!!


pyi (pronounced like the letter "p") our recent convert fed us a Burmese feast.

From Elder Nolan

When your kid is on their mission, you hope they're being a good example as a representative of the Church and a disciple of Christ. You also hope that the people who associate with him, like him.

This is the email that Kelly got this week. Its from a missionary who's been out only 5 weeks.  

hey, so I have a good missionary friend next to me named Elder Nolan, I said that I didn't have a story to tell about this week so he volunteered to write for me!

This guy, your brother, my friend, my zone leader, my inspiration. You should know that Elder Larsen inspires missionaries to do work on the daily. This man studies the scriptures whilst he exercises in the park whilst finding people to teach. He has the most wonderful face ive ever seen and If I had the ability I would right a comic book about his missionary efforts. He'd have a cape though. Either a green or peach coloured cape. With tassels. And glitter. We sing songs together which makes my soul smile. You have a great brother, and he'll be even better when he gets back. Hugs and handshakes, Elder Nolan =D


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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