Well where to start….. This week has been a really great one. I am absolutely exhausted! We have been running all over Blackburn these past two days, and my legs are about to fall off. We have been running in the mornings, and we are playing Football today, so I think that by tonight I am not going to be able to do anything! Its ok though, that is what life is all about. Maybe I can lose some of this weight that I have put on. I mostly just want to lose my face fat. I hate having a fat face!!! Anyways, this week has been really, really good. We had 4 investigators at church yesterday, and we have 3 dated for baptism. Summer Whitaker is dated for the 2nd of Oct., and Jenna and Karen Riley are dated for the 5th of Sept. They are all great! They are all member referrals as well. I have never seen this much success in my entire mission. We taught a ton of lessons last week, and we still managed to pull 72/15 in the QGC category. We are accomplishing amazing things, and I know that it will only get better. I am so happy and excited right now! Blackburn is quickly becoming my favourite area. It is slowly creeping up on Stretford!
Joseph – We talked to the Lancaster sisters on Thursday at zone conference, and they said that they taught the Law of Chastity to him very clearly and directly, and he committed to live it. We aren’t too sure what is going on fully, but we don’t think that he will be getting baptised on the 1st. He will have to have an interview with president before he can really have an official date. Paul talks about it very boldly in Romans, and Preach my Gospel also makes it very clear. He cannot be baptised until he has completely forsaken the life style. It is more than just not practicing as I once thought. But that is enough on that.
The Suit – IS AMAZING!!!!! I am never going to buy a lame American suit again if I can help it. They have no style and no class. I am sorry, I am not one to be super into clothing, but the dressy stuff over here is NICE!!!! The suits are better, and shirts are better, the shoes are much better, the ties don’t even compare!!! I am going to be doing a little stock up before I come home. Like I said if dad wants a new NICE suit, we can go to the Burnley suit shop.
Zone Conference – Oh my goodness President Bullock is going to be an Apostle someday. I am not even kidding you when I say that. He blew our minds last Thursday. He talked about what our purpose is as a missionaries and how that is the same purpose as the Godhead, the ancient prophets, the modern prophets, and the ancient and modern apostles. I could give you scriptures to back that up, but I don’t have them with me. He then told us something that blew me away. I am going to let you all find it out for yourself how cool this is though...
I want you ALL to read 2 Nephi 31 and then answer these questions…..
1) Who is speaking in each verse? (Hint: There are 3 people that speak)
2) What do they all teach about?
3) Why is that so important?
I will give you another hint…… pay special attention to Verses 11 and 15. What happens in those verses only happens twice in the all the standard works, and it is those two times.
After you do that, go and read page 1 of PMG….. MY PURPOSE!
I am looking forward to getting your answers. I was absolutely blown away. I will tell you President Bullock’s insights when you give me yours ha ha ha!!!!!
I got to see a lot of good friends at Zone Conference. E. Driscoll is doing a lot better. He said that he was still sick for about 5 days after he left me, be he then got over whatever it was. It was way good to see him and talk to him again. I have missed him. I also got to see some other great mission friends. It was a great day. I always love Zone Conference!!!
Assistants – The exchange with the assistants was really great. It is so good to see them outside of meetings and to see that they really are real missionaries just like us. E. Garcia is just the same, fun, crazy Spaniard! Him and E. Llaguno had a blast. They didn’t speak Spanish at all because they are serving in an English mission. They are working on their language skills and speaking Spanish wouldn’t help that. They sang in Spanish once or twice. It was a great exchange. It rained the whole time, but it was great. They really helped out a lot. I went with E. Ayers, and he is amazing. He did theatre back home so we had a lot in common. We had a good time, and he really helped me a lot in some things!!!!
I really do think that that is all that I have to talk about this week. We have just been on the move constantly this whole week. I will be in Chorley for the next day or so on exchanges, so that will be fun! I always love going back there. I am really happy right now, tired, but really happy. We are seeing amazing things, and that always helps. Know that I love you all and I pray for you everyday. I can really feel your prayers as I go through out my day, and I thank you for that. Stay strong and go and check out the reading assignment I gave to you. I will be looking forward to seeing what you found!
I love you all very much.
Have a great week!!!!
Elder Neal
Pictures:
#1 - Mostly for Porter (check out the can!!) I am wearing my new suit. you can at least get an idea of the pattern!
#2 -My umbrella kinda died!!
#3 - The 4 of us
#4 - A more proper Picture
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