Elder in England: Week 16: Another AMAZING week!

October 20, 2014

Goooooooooood morning!!

This is gonna be another short letter because I got the pictures to work this week, but they took forever to send, so I'm almost out of time.

We set a baptismal date this week! Our investigator surprised us at the chapel as we were sitting in the clerk's office, and we kiddingly asked him when he was going to be baptized. He told us that he wanted to be baptized on November 1st. We were a little shocked, but we quickly set up the baptism as we were sitting with him right there. It's so amazing how prepared some of these people are!

We had a miracle as we were walking back to the train station after meeting a less-active member. We were right about to enter the station when someone said hi to us. We almost walked past him when Elder Jentzsch realized he knew him from a few transfers ago. The man had met Elder Jentzsch and his companion, taken interest in the Church, had actually gone to the Visitor's Centre on Exhibition Road, and had become interested in coming to Church. He didn't want the missionaries to get him to Church though, he told them that he wanted to do it all himself, so he didn't give any contact info. It was a miracle that in all of London, we were able to bump into him and talk to him about the gospel again.

Miracle!!

Another miracle happened when we were on the train back to our flat. We sat down and noticed the person across from us was reading in Jeremiah in the Bible. Elder Jentzsch had just read something really good in Jeremiah earlier that day, and he was able to point that scripture out to the person. We had a little chat about the Bible and the gospel, and then he had to get off the train. Even though we didn't get a new investigator, we were able to plant a seed!

We found a bunch of new really good potential investigators this week, and we're really excited to begin meeting with them! Open your mouths and talk to EVERYONE and you'll see miracles!

We helped an inactive member in our ward with building a deck for her backyard. She runs a nursery in her home, and the backyard was unsuitable for children, so she needed something for the backyard to make it better. We were able to get almost all of it done, we just have to do a few more things, but it was amazing what we got done in just a few hours! When we were talking to the inactive member, she at first was pretty set that she appreciated what we were doing, but she didn't want to come back to Church. By the end of the project, she was asking about the Church and the service the members give. MIRACLE!

This week was Zone Conference, and we had some great trainings from President and Sister Jordan. We also had an Area 70 and his wife come and teach us, Elder and Sister Herbertson. It was really great to hear and learn from them.

I also saw Sister Cummings and Sister Anderson from my ward at BYU!!!!

That's just about everything for this week. Thanks for reading! Hope to hear from everyone soon!

Elder McOmber

Funny of the Week:

We went with another member of the ward to help a recent convert move her furniture, and instead we ended up helping her carry her bags from shop to shop as she went shopping for cleaning supplies.