Lehi Came to our Institute!

Well we are really getting into the work!!!  We have been asked to work with the YSA's (Young Single Adults) and we are holding Institute every Tuesday evening.  We have over 10 YSA's in our ward and seven committed to come and Two showed up Late!  We've got some Work to do here!  The Guys who came were Great though and we really Enjoyed them.  Our full time missionaries also came and lent their support, so that was nice.  Anyway we had a Visitor and he Enhanced the lesson!!

 

The single sisters heard that we were studying the Book of Mormon and they requested to join the YSA's, but that would conflict with the program we're trying to establish with the YSA's, so we are doing it Two nights.  One for the YSA's and One for the sisters or anyone else who wants to join.  We had seven sisters come to the lesson on Wed. night during Mutual.  We found a room upstairs away from the youth and had a GREAT lesson.  Lehi came to that one as well.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The ladies Loved it as well and immediately got out their iphones and took pictures.  One of them posted it on My Facebook page.  In spite of all that, there was a sweet spirit in the room and the lesson was very effective!  We won't be dressing up every time, but it was a good attention getter.

 
 This was our last District Meeting.  We ride to train to Gillingham and then take a taxi to the church.
We had transfers last week and Lost four members from our group.  We've been getting close to them, so it's kind of hard to say good-by.  Our Brazilian, Elder Torres (who looks like he could belong to the Tirrells in our ward) is behind Byron and he was transferred.  He is such a Great Elder.  We will certainly Miss him!  Sister Som (from Cambodia) next to me was transferred and the two elders directly behind her were also transferred.  Elder Yap is from Malaysia and Elder Orr is from Alberta, Canada. 

Actually this is what it really looks like.  ha ha ha  When our six weeks is up, we make guesses where everyone will be serving and then we take pictures.  Since there are no Extra people there to take them, everyone sets their camera on a table (which doesn't get the best view) and then sets the timer on their cameras and then Runs back to their chairs.  We don't always make it.  ha ha ha  Looks like I need to sit up straighter.

Byron with Elder Torres and Elder Palmer.  Elder Palmer is from Sugar House in Salt Lake.  He's just been out 6 weeks longer than we have.  This was in Canterbury.  (Beautiful City)

This is what we woke up to a few days ago.  It's called London Fog!  We can hear the fog horns on the river.  There was a 100 car pile up on the bridge just a few miles to the North.  We can see it on a clear day.  We'll be getting a Lot more of this.

I just can't get over how BIG some of the ships are that travel down the Thames.  It's so fascinating!
I can't even get the entire ship in when it's in front of our flat.  It's too large to see it all at once in the camera.  It looks like there's the equivalent of 18 semi's side by side and who know how high they go.

We spent the day with one of the sisters in our ward who was gracious enough to be our taxi.  We spent seven hours together driving all over trying to find less active members on our ward list.  We stopped at this restaurant for one of the Best hamburgers I have ever eaten.  Couldn't resist taking a picture on our way out.  Just to give you an idea of how expensive it is over here--our hamburgers were 9.5 pounds each. (That's British Money)  Then we shared an order of fries--they were delicious but large, and we each had a Fanta.  For three of us it was $60 in our money.

 

This is one of the areas we were working in.  It was a bit chilly that day.

 

 

 

This was a good looking English Chap that we picked up on the way!  He said he was interested in our message!

 

 

This is Tina at the end of the day.  We had a Wonderful time with her and she was so Gracious to drive us all over the countryside and down the little narrow lanes.  It's truly Beautiful over here. I like having a lady driver, then I can sit in the front seat and enjoy the view.  Tina is a hoot!!  We laugh a lot!  We found people (well they weren't there) who had moved over four years ago.  I guess what I'm saying is we found their homes and talked to their neighbors and found they hadn't lived there for over four years.  We got to one door the same time the cleaners were delivering the cleaning, so they had to acknowledge us, but the person we were trying to see was on the "phone" and couldn't see us.  But we did manage to have two GREAT visits and they were worth the Entire day!!! 

 

Well I could go on, but we have a LOT to do to get ready for our next Institute lesson which is this Tues.  We've had a Very Busy week, but We LOVE It!!!

Bye for now.