Hi Family, Feb. 6, 2012
Going from the country side where no one believes in God to here where everyone believes in God is really weird. It isn’t like Slough cuz in Slough most of the people were Muslim... for the most part. Oh which reminds me I am going to buy me a turban here. Dad, to answer your question about baptisms here. No they have not had one in a long time. For about 8 months I think. So hopefully that will change soon as we put our trust in God to give the increase. This area has been pretty dry for the past little bit. Right now we have two dates. One is still Lorraine. Her date has been moved back though cuz she has not been able to meet with us as much as we would have liked to. But she is still doing well. Then we have a 15 year old girl named Faith, her dad is a member and missionaries have tried to teach her in the past but she was never interested; but now she is. Her date is for the 18 as well. Also we have the boy who belongs to an unnamed church who is trying to decide which church he should be a part of. At the church he belongs to now, the people told him no one would talk to him if he joined our church and they also have given him lots of anti Mormon stuff. He said he wants to not have any contact with ether of us for a week while he decided. 
We are also right now teaching a family from Nigeria who are keeping their commitments!!! They are really cool. We want to give them a date when they go to church this next week. They would have come this week but it snowed and so when it snows here (it snowed literally an inch), the whole country shuts down. So not too many at church. But they are doing well and loved the plan of salvation. They said they would be baptized if it was true. Now they just need an experience. In fact the mom told us about a dream she had had a few nights before she met us. She said that in her dream she saw a prophet, just one prophet, and this prophet spoke for Jesus and he spoke to people who were not just black but from all over, from china, America, England Africa etc. It was cool so we talked to her about prophets and restoration and she was like wow this is what I been looking for. They are stars so hopefully they will accept a date for baptism. We can only teach them at late night, like 8:30 in the evening. So it is sometimes tough to get members out at that time.
I wanted to tell you that I’m in the same ward that Alex Boye (the black man in tabernacle choir) was baptized into! He was found here on the streets in Peckham. He was baptized here and then years later moved to Utah. Now he is a big time singer. The whole ward here loves him cuz they all know him.
The three baptisms that were set down in Plymouth are all set to take place next week. That is exciting.
The work is going ok. This next week we have a zone training and then zone leader council. That will be weird going to now that I don’t have to drive 6 hours to get to it. Now it is just a train ride and I am there and not a three day experience. Love you all
Elder White
