Hi Everyone,
I thought I would answer a few of your questions. Yes, it is cold here it’s the coldest in something like fifty years. They are calling it the big freeze. The temp is about 32 f but the humidity is just bone chilling..
This area is so interesting. We live in a very poor area, there is lots of trash and sadness. There are tons of immigrants from all over. I have met so many races of people it is really cool. I love this area. One thing of the things I love about it is the old churches. There are tons of GIANT churches with grave yards around them? Yeah, I literally live right next to one! It is bigger than the SLC Temple and the grave yard has graves over 300 yrs old! It is pretty cool. I will get a picture of it and send it to you guys.
The churches and castle are huge but everything else here is so little! The cars, the flats, the food, the people! Everything! Windsor is also in my area. That is where the queen's castle is and it’s HUGE!! It is the first castle I have ever seen and wow, it is neat looking. Windsor is one of those really pretty English towns that are posh. They really do have those guards with the giant hats that guard the castle and they don’t talk or smile! I thought that was way funny. A member of our ward is one of the guards so he is going to let me try on his uniform and also he said he will give us a tour of the castle next Monday, won’t that be fun. My area has some really nice rich areas and then really poor areas.
We are hoping that our baptism for Saturday is still on. The man we are teaching left town on Friday so we haven’t been able to teach him the law of tithing yet, we are going over tonight to teach him that and if all goes well he will be baptized on Saturday. His wife will follow shortly after she has her baby.
Our most recent investigator (Calley): Holy Cow, what a story she has. We met her at the bus station. Everything that day pretty much led up to us meeting her, it was cool how it all worked; it’s amazing how the spirit works. As for her back ground, she used to be homeless and just recently was accepted into “counsel housing”. She has had some really sad things happen to her. She wants to start over as she put it. We taught her about the Atonement and the tears welled up in her face. What we taught just clicked! She knew that she could start over. We also left her a copy of the BOM and she read what we assigned to her. The next day when we visited her she read us some verses that had touched her. It was amazing to see how the spirit had let her known that the BOM was true. She has some really big issues that need to be worked out but we scheduled her baptism for Jan 1. Please keep her in your prayers.
Love you all and remember that God loves you too. LoveElder White
PS I accidentally deleted all of my pictures I was so sad!!! So I will send pictures another time.
