Thank you Donny and Marie

What is going on with Springville Soccer? How did they do? What did they take in Region? How far did they get in State? What round? I need to know about stuff like that.
This week we ran into a family. I love families! We have actually run into a few families but two really solid ones. The first one lives near the chapel, a mother and her two twin daughters. Her name is Louise and her twin daughters are Annabel… and Lucinda. They are really funny. Lorraine has heard of the church through Donny Osmond, which is fairly normal. I don’t think I have told you but every day we run into someone while we are tracting who will say, “Oh that is the church Donny Osmond goes to.” We have gotten it a lot more especially because Marie Osmond just got married again. I didn’t know the Osmond’s were that popular, but they love them over here. Probably half the people in my ward that are 50ish joined the church because of the Osmond’s. Back to Lorraine, she has been going through some rough times for the past two years; mainly with partner problems and family problems and money problems. However, she has very strong faith. She really has accepted what we have to say. We have only taught her two lessons but she is set to be baptized on the 12 of June. Isn’t that exciting?
Sue and Sophie are struggling. Sue is so old, so she gets sick a lot and she didn’t make it to church yesterday, so we needed to postpone her baptismal date AGAIN to June 5. I hate it when you teach someone everything and they get so so so close to baptism, but then they just have Satan go ape on them! It is sometimes tough as a missionary because it makes you feel so sad. One of my ZL's told me that not even my faith can change their agency. I wish it could, but it can’t; it’s not Gods way. (Alma 29).
Sophie was doing so well but I have no idea what has been going on with her. She didn’t come to church yesterday so we popped by and she looked horrible. Dark circles around the eyes, etc. We will keep working with her.
I can’t remember if I told you about another family we found on the Military estate. Elder White and I were with a 19 year old member (who is from America) and we were on the estate and we had no idea what to do because we had just been flogged (appointment fell through). We were sitting there thinking and trying to figure out what the spirit wanted us to do, when I heard this whistling. I looked where the whistling came from and the person who was making the whistling noise disappeared. We sat there for five min, and we keep hearing this whistling. I was like, "that’s it! That is the spirit" Just as a joke, it probably wasn’t but I was sick of sitting. So we knocked on the whistler’s door. A woman answered and said, "We don’t believe in this home" (most of the people on the military estate know who we are by now). We started talking and the father comes up with his shirt off and said, "There isn’t a God." But we keep talking to them and so the mom finally invited us in. She then told us she felt like their family had been missing something. She says she has heard a lot about the "Mormons" and wants to have us over for dinner. We set up a date and we went back another time for dinner and she started pelting us with questions. They weren’t easy questions either. But we did really well in following the spirit. When we taught them the restoration lesson the husband came in, again without a shirt and sat and listened to the lesson. Yesterday the family came to church, all except the husband. He has work most Sundays but he is very nice. The family really enjoyed it. It just blows my mind to think that in two weeks they went from not believing in God to really thinking about all of this. We haven’t extended a date yet, but hopefully we will this week. The mom (her name is Jo.) also told us that the reason why we heard whistling was from her girls who came down and told her, "Mom have you seen the Mormon boys out there! They are so good looking!" hahahahaha well I guess I knew my good looks would settle something ;) but don’t worry it isn’t like anything that is scary. Her daughter is too young and there is no worry about it all.
Slough is doing as good as ever. I love you all so so so sos sososos much!
Love,
Elder Michael White

Ming is getting BAPTIZED!!!!!!!

MING IS GETTING BAPTIZED?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Tell me all about it? What was it that made him make the decision? What is the news on everything for him. Send me pictures and all. Wow!!! Great stuff. Amazing how the gospel spreads. All I can say is at least it didn’t take him 2 and half years (just kidding Young ;). Tell him congrats from me and what’s his email so I can send him one? If you can send me Josh’s talk; that would be great.
I won’t lie I don’t have much time this week. We had P day in London and we just got back

Activity in the Staines Zone on P day

and no time to email... Soooooooo I’ll will give you the 411.

Elder Snow is doing great! Mom I will give you his moms number next week. He grew up living with his uncle and aunt. I'm not sure what phone number to give you.
Our investigators are doing well. But, I won’t lie I get discouraged on Sundays because every Sunday we get a call from someone saying they can’t come to church. One of the good families we are teaching had a friend who gave them some anti Mormon literature so they told us not to come back... but we will still work with them. They were going to be baptized in June, all three of them. Also Sophie and Sue will be baptized on June 6 or May 29. We are still working on all of that. They have been taught everything so far and we are just waiting for them to come to church and make more of a commitment. To be honest it was kind of a downer week when it comes to investigators. Some of our investigators are going through that refiner’s fire right now, but it all works out in the end. Missions are roller coasters; they go up and down, and up and down! So keep us in your prayers to find a family that needs and wants the gospel.

Please send me pictures of Mings baptism. Young, I am so excited for you to baptize your brother. That news brought me to tears, I can’t tell you how happy that makes me. Next thing is getting him in the temple and ready for a mission.
I am so sorry that this had to be so short.
Love you all and it will be better next week.
Love Elder M. White
PS Send me Ming’s email please!!!!!

Snow White and the 7 Lessons

Elder Snow, Elder Whitehead, and Elder White at the temple for transfers.

Hi, Iam training again. And, Yes I do love it! I have decided that the Lord has a sense of humor. I was trained by Elder Whitehead, last transfer I trained Elder White, and now I’m training Elder Snow!!! So we have Snow White and the seven lessons. Elder Snow is from Riverton, Utah and just got out of the MTC. He knows Ben Hutchings, and Kelly Cloward (both were in the MTC with him and are from Springville and Mapleton). It was fun to talk to him about back home and all. He enjoys football and is really excited about missionary work. He isn’t as loud as I am, but I don’t know if that is because I am very loud, or it may be that he is just a little nervous; I know he is nervous. I look back and see how nervous I was when I first came out. Wow funny stuff. And that was only six months ago! So officially I have completed 1/4^th of the Lords mission for me. That is kind of crazy to think about.

Work in Slough is really picking back up. We have 7 baptismal dates. Most of which are solid, a few are a little flaky but that is why we are here, yeah?

First we are teaching So…., she is doing well. Her parents were in Greece for a bit, but now they are home. They both have a lot of issues, (her mom was the one who chased me around). We dropped by the other night and talked with her. She is doing well, just she hates her family. She really lives in a challenging environment. I just can’t believe she has done as well as she has in that kind of environment. We need to teach her the Word of Wisdom and Tithing. Sue is doing great. We have taught her everything, but she wants to be baptized with Sophie because they are really good buds. She is like Sophies mom. Sue is an older lady with very poor health, so just pray that when we baptize her she won’t turn to dust in the water.

Next are G…… and E……….(cant remember names) They are doing really well. The only thing is they live in Windsor which is far from our chapel and we have no idea how to get them to church. We have tried asking members and everything! It just all falls through. Now we are going into back up plans. It is just so hard when they live so far away. They think that we are kind of like ghost hunters because when we met them, they asked us to cast the evil spirits that were in their house. So we went in and she asked me "is there an evil spirit in here?" They are just really superstitious. We blessed their house and they said it feels a lot better. Ga.... is excited about the whole thing but is scared to give up her religion which is 7th day Adventist.

We gained 3 new baptismal dates! They are a lady and her two daughters. The mom's name is Nana….. and her two daughters H….. and J…… (dont remember the names). Nana is from Nigeria, her husband passed away five years ago. She has breast and liver cancer and is expected to die soon. She is going to be baptized on the fifth of June. She really loved the plan of salvation and said that "it gives me hope." It is so amazing to see the atonement work in her life. She just all of a sudden clicked on, and to see that as a missionary, there is no better thing. She lives on the very boundaries of our mission! So she is way far from the chapel... but God provides a way. Those are the basics of the people that we are teaching that have baptismal dates. We are excited about all of them.

Well, family I won’t lie. I really loved talking to you on Sunday. Crazy what skype can do, eh? Tender Mercy of the Lord. The flooding in Utah sounds like it might get bad. England has actually been very nice this past month. They think they are going to have a drought. I am praying for that... haha
Love Elder White

Notes from Elder White's family: We were able to skype Michael on Mother’s day what a great way to communicate. It was like he was in our family room having a chat with us telling us all about his mission. He looked and sounded so good. He loves the work he is doing and the people in England!!! We talked to his English companion Elder J. White (he was going home from his mini mission on Wednesday) and he told us his inspiring conversion story. What a sharp young man.

Michael cried when he met his first little nephew Ross just 7 weeks old and Meghan cried when he told her how beautiful she was, Young and Michael cried when they realized that it could be the last time they would skype before Young left on his mission and the rest of us got teary when Michael shared with us his love for us all and his love for his mission and the people he was blessed to serve. All in all we had a great talk. We were able to share our testimonies and say family pray, that was a true blessing to be able to thank our Father in Heaven for our missionary son and ask Heavenly Father to bless and protect him while he served and did his work in England.

The Royal Wedding!!!

****The Royal Wedding*****

Yes, we had permission to watch the Royal Wedding because working during it would have been useless. It was actually pretty cool. Many of the people we teach like S….. and a few others were the guards at it and the escorts. It was pretty neat.

Work that day was really tough though because the whole country celebrated and got drunk and went crazy. England... got to love it :) I don’t think they did anything in Windsor for the wedding celebration. It all took place in London at Westminster Abbey. But this month Prince Charles (next in line for the throne) is having his birthday party in Windsor, I think that is the perfect time to convert the whole lot of them! We were thinking on pulling an Alma and Amulek; good idea don’t you think?

Yes, I heard about Bin Laden. They have told us in Slough, due to the ethnicity that we Americans need to watch out. We will be careful missionaries that’s for sure, but if you think about it we have the best body guard of all, we have God! Right!!

As for our missionary work this week it went pretty good. We did lose a baptismal date. Her husband ran away drunk and we found him the next day hammered. We got talking with him and he was saying how he was going to kill himself and all that stuff. I won’t lie that is scary to deal with. When someone is tells you they are going to kill themselves it is hard to know what to do to help them.

We still are teaching Sophie, But with Omur, because of Bin Laden’s death, I wonder if our President will continue to let us teach him; we will see. Sophie came to church yesterday with a lady named Sue and a lady named D...(forgot her name). D... is from the Caribbean and doesn’t quite understand the apostasy. We have some good potential people we will see how they are coming this upcoming week.

Elder J. White and I did the best in our zone as far as our stats, this week; cool ya, and the APs gave us a call saying good job. We really did do good. We have lots of new investigators and lots of potentials people for baptism. That sure feels good to me!

Update on our recent convert Dan, his wife is saying how he loves the church more than her, and she is also saying she is going to divorce him. Dan told her he does love her but the church is true and this is the way we need to go. She thinks that they can just go to Church of England and everything will be fine. Dan understands how this is the only true church. She just has very little faith and I don’t know how to help her.

We had a great exchange in London this week. We also spent our P day in London playing soccer. Dang I am fat, but I can still maul them all. Wow... I thought Brits were good at soccer…….. False. Jk Jk they are just not as good as I thought. I have to go! Talk to you guys next week on Mothers Day! Love ya all!!