This week will be 2 months.
It seems like it went way slow, but it’s been two months already, so I
don’t know how I feel about it.
Last night the Mission President called us with transfer
information. The Mission President calls
to tell those who are training or who have been given a leadership
position. My companion was told he would
be staying and getting a new companion to train… so I knew that I was
leaving. I didn’t know where, the Zone
Leaders would call with that information.
I started packing, and packed until 11:00, took a couple of hours. The Zone Leaders called- it was a whole Zone
call, so they just read through the areas and the changes. Elder Stevenson, you are moving to Luton 2
and you will be whitewashing with Elder
Bell. Whitewashing means we are opening
a new area, new flat, new address, new everything. It will be a little tough for me because I am
not the best finder, but it will be good and help me out a lot to be a better
missionary. I’m pretty excited and a
little worried and nervous about moving- only ate a little cereal for breakfast. Elder Bell is a big football player, so you
don’t need to worry about me on the streets, he will protect me. It’s
just outside of London, so that means we don’t use the London public
transportation. I don’t know how we will be traveling. We are
starting from scratch- they have an apartment for us, and furniture, but we
need everything else. All the little
things, like buying a broom, so we will see how this next week goes.
Interesting things while tracting and street contacting this
week.
We were teaching one gentleman and he offered us a job to
teach English at the college here. We
declined the offer- that would be an awful job for me- I don’t have enough patience!
We meet another guy
and visited with him for about an hour and a half. At the end of the discussion, he said I
should give up on my missionary stuff and just go home. He thought I was wasting my time trying to
teach others, that I should be concentrating on getting a good high end job in
business.
We also met a lady on the street who had been taught
everything about 5 years ago by some sister missionaries. However, when the sisters were transferred
out of the area she fell through the cracks.
We scheduled an appointment with her this week, she is really excited to
learn more about the gospel and refresh her memory about all of the things she
was already taught.
Another lady had been
visiting in Jamaica and met the missionaries there. They referred her to us because she lives in
London. She had a really cool dream
about heaven and stuff. Her dream was
exactly like what “The Message” talks about, to the dot. It was super amazing and super vivid
dream. She saw her mom in heaven who
assured her she was watching over her granddaughter. This lady’s girl who has died of cancer 8
years earlier. We shared a quick
scripture Alma 40:11-12. The spirit was
so strong. We set up an appointment to
meet with her next week. She is really
excited to learn more about this religion and the afterlife. Elder Koponen and
his new companion will be doing the follow ups for all of these now.
There are wild blackberries everywhere! Everywhere!!!
I love it! And I ate a fried
plantain this week, definitely didn’t like that.
I JUST FOUND OUT
THERE IS FARM LAND IN THE NEXT AREA I AM SERVING. It’s the top of Luton, but on lds.org when
checking out the ward boundaries there is farm land. I hope I get to see it!
Love, Elder Stevenson
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