E-mail from Neal - Received 9/1/09

FAMILY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am writing this to you absolutely dripping wet right now!!!!!

 

You are all amazing, and I miss you all soooooooo much!!!! It sounds like you are all having a blast back home. 

 

Well while you are all having fun I am here doing some crazy cool things as well. Like you said we did go to the Temple yesterday and that was absolutely incredible. I actually stayed awake for the whole thing. I know that that is a bad thing to say, but its true! There is really nothing else to talk about there, except that it was AWESOME!!!

Last Wednesday we went on the church history Tour. You have probably seen all the pictures by now, but it was really cool. I took a ton of pictures, and really want to show you all of the cool things that we saw. We started in Liverpool (which is just an absolutely amazing town, one of my favourites). We went to the docks and to the Maritime Museum! That was really cool. Several things about pirates so I was all a flutter. The Missionaries that know me well were laughing their heads off. We then went to Preston and saw the Town Centre, the old Temperance hall, the house of Spirits, the river ribble, and Pres. Hinkley’s house! That was way awesome. The best part was in town centre when a guy tried to contend with 50 missionaries. He did it right in front of president, and he took care of him really quick. From there we went to Downham which was incredible! The town was so cool!!!!!! We got to have a meeting in the Church of England Church, and we actually sang “We thank thee of God for a Prophet,” we thought that it was very appropriate!! It was an amazing day! We were on a bus most of the day, so that was fun as well.

 

The rest of the week has been a bit more tough. My Comp has been having some really tough struggles with some things and so we have been talking a lot about how to get him more excited into the work. We have spent a lot of time with the Zone Leaders, and they have helped a ton. Things are starting to improve though, and things are really starting to look up! I am still on fire, and I have really decided that no one is going to bring me down. I have too much responsibility to let myself drop! I have really been doing a lot of studying and a ton of praying, and I have found a lot of strength in that. My study and prayers have improved so much since I have come to this area!

 

I am sorry that this is so fast and not very informative, but I am running out of time really fast. I wish that I could write more, but this will have to do. One last thing that I will tell you is that the Woman that came to church last week is now dated for baptism on the 26th of September. She is really really good!!! That and David A. Bednar is coming to the mission on the 11th of September. We are really blessed ha ha ha I love it!!!!

 

Well I really have to run! I love you all so so so so so so so so Much!!!! Thank you for all that you do for me!

Elder Neal