Hello to one and all!!!!
Well this week has come and gone faster than anything! Actually this transfer has come and gone faster than anything! I am honestly scared as to how fast these next 5 weeks are going to go. They always say that the end goes faster than anything else, but with it being a 5 week transfer on top of that, I am going to wake up tomorrow and it is going to the be 14th!!!! GAH!!!!!!! I am excited for what is coming, but I never thought that it would come this fast! I am honestly scared. Nevertheless (good scriptural word) I am calm and collected, especially after going to the temple today. The peace that I felt today while I was in the Celestial room was very helpful. I know that all will be well, and that everything is going to go just as it should. I am still allowed to be scared, but I know that everything will be just fine. The temple was amazing today though. The sun was shining; the big stained glass window in the celestial room just explodes with color when the light hits it! I am really excited for you to see it. I have decided that we should start each day with a temple session if possible. We will have to see how that works out, but it would be very nice!
I guess to answer the question that you might have…. Yes I am staying in Preston, and so is Elder Dittmer. We are very excited! He has been one of my most favourite companions! We have another 5 weeks together, and then who knows. The zone leaders are also staying the same. So I will be with Elder Rowley and Elder Griffeth for the next 5 weeks as well. We are going to be working really hard, and finding some great people! I am really excited, and I am happy that I got to start off the transfer with a great visit to the temple! I am hopefully going to get to go once more before you get here, because there is a bank holiday on my last p-day. We will see. I love this place! We were in the temple with the South-Ribble Elders and the Lancaster Sisters today. Only one companionship changed in my district, and that was Blackpool.
So we had some bad news this past week. Our main investigator David dropped us. We was supposed to get baptized on the 27th, but that is no more. What we think happened is that he got scared. He was given a gospel principals book at church, and I think that he read into that and hit the commandments. If you find them on your own, you have to be really prepared to live them. It is much better to be taught them. It is really sad, cause he was really great, but I guess all we can do is pray for him now. He wanted to give us back all of the books and stuff that we gave him, but I refused to take the Book of Mormon back. I testified of it, and I challenged him very boldly to continue to read and to pray about it, and then to contact us when he wants to continue. I know that he had felt the spirit as he prayed, and I am was not going to let him forget that! I have a good feeling that he will be baptized sometime. I don’t think that it will be in my time, but I think that he will eventually! Sad day, but what can you do. Its not the first time that I have had something like this…. At least it isn’t a repeat of Sean from Manchester!
Other than that my week was really good. We got some training at interviews about our area books. We started working on cleaning ours up, and we found some good people to try by. One of them is named Hii, and he is from Malaysia. We went and tried by, and he let us in. He was taught about 2 years ago, and he was really good. He had just gotten back from Malaysia the day before after being gone for 3 months, so I think that we chose the right day to go and see him. He was really cool. We also got into the door of a Romanian man the other night as well. I thought that I was serving a mission in England, but I guess I should probably think again. He was good as well, but he was a Greek Orthodox man. Nothing like Camelia. We are going to be seeing him tomorrow, and so we will find out then how solid he is! The work is really going well though, and I am excited about what is coming in the next 5 weeks!
I really don’t have too much else to say. I have decided that my goal for this last 5 weeks is constancy. I don’t want to turn into something that I am not for the last 6 weeks, just cause I am going home. I do not want to make up for the things that I have not done either. I simply do not want to die. I want to endure to the end, and the only way that I can do that is by being consistent. I know that I can do it, and I am asking for your continued prayer and support. I want to finish strong so that I feel happy about the sacrifice that I have offered. I know that the way that I can be truly happy is by pushing consistently to the end. I really can’t speak too soon, but I think that you will notice a big change in who I am now. My mission has changed me because I have let it! This mission has not been easy at any time, but I am so grateful for that! It has turned me into something that I am happy about being. As I was sitting in the flat yesterday listening to one of my favourite mission songs, I was reflecting about how much I am going to miss this time. It is going to be hard to get back to “normal,” if in fact I ever do. I have decided that I am going to stay super busy when I get home. I am probably going to go straight into work so that my body doesn’t slow down. I want to stay at the level that I am at now, and I know that I can only through my own effort. I am going get off this subject now, cause I still have a night of work ahead of me!
Well I think that I am going to get going. I love you all, and I am so grateful for the amazing things that you do for me! Keep studying! I am leaning so much from the things that I am studying in the Book of Mormon, and I know that that will only continue throughout my life. I had a really cool thought as I was in the temple today too that I will have to share with you in a few weeks!
I love you all!
Elder Neal
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