E-mail from Neal - Received 12/17/09

Hello Family,

Well, my purpose in Wigan must not be complete yet. I am staying for at least one more transfer. I am thinking that this is really going to be my last one though. I am now serving with Elder Burnett. He is from Taylorsville, Utah and he has been out for about 4½ Months. He was trained by the same missionary that trained Elder Llaguno, so I know that I am in for a treat. This is his second area, and he is a stellar missionary. I have more to learn, and I know that I am going to learn some things from him. He is an amazing singer as well, much better than me. We are going to have a lot of fun together. He is much more of a lead solo type singer, and I am a powerful chorus member I have decided. Its going to be fun though. We sang “Be still my Soul” this morning and we broke off into some 2 part harmony….. it was great! Anyways E. Boahene is now in Wrexham, Wales with E. Phillips. E. Phillips was my zone leader when I was in Blackburn, and I absolutely love that Elder. He is amazing. He is in his last transfer, and he got released as a zone leader, and he is now with E. Boahene. I think that it is awesome that they put the two Africans together ha ha ha!!!!!! They are going to do amazing things, as are we.

I really don’t have all that much to talk about really. We had interviews last week, and that was really good. I had a really good interview with President, and I learned some new things. I learned that he has wanted to make me a Zone Leader for a long time, but he has been waiting for me to prove myself as it were. Like I said I still have a way to go, but I think that this transfer is going to be the ground breaker. I hope so, but we will wait and see. It's all up to Lord and that’s how it goes. I will do what I am ready for, and what he wants me to do.

Ok talking about humility…. First of all, Alma didn’t say that quote, Ammon did. He is my book of Mormon hero so I know all of the good stuff that he says. I really liked studying about humility. It gave me a chance to look at pride as well, and how I can recognize pride in myself. I learned that basically anything that puts yourself above anyone else (God especially) is pride. The Book of Mormon is crazy when I comes to pride and the mass destruction that it causes. I am in Helaman right now, and in there it talks about how the Nephites were brought to destruction in “Not many years” The footnote says that that is 6 years. How a people can go from amazing prosperity to complete pride in 6 years is totally beyond me! I also liked how humility is also all about allowing our wills to be swallowed up in the fathers. That is always an amazing concept to me, because it is hard a lot of the time. That means that you have to completely forget about what you like, and the things that you deem comfortable, and do all the things that God asks of you. It is possible. You were right as well….. Patience and humility are connected all the time. They both require acceptance. This program has really been amazing. I have really loved the study of diligence this week, because that is something that I need to work on. I will let you know all about that next week.


Ok funny story time…..

We are having a Ward party on Friday and we had to build some little stalls for the gym. Well they were all going at it with little screwdrivers, and I really couldn’t stand for that! I found a drill that someone brought and went to work. I had those things done it no time at all. Everyone was amazed at what I could do with a drill, and I just laughed. It was great fun though. It brought back really good memories.

Ok will I have to run now sorry, but I am really out of time.

I love you all so much, and I am looking forward talking on Monday and then Friday!!!!

Love,

Elder Neal