This week was a good one, it
went by super fast, and we had some miracles too, which are always nice to
have.
There's a lot of great food in
Wales, the chocolate is amazing, I've had good chicken, etc. But I'm not gonna
sugarcoat this, the U.K. Is absolutely awful at hamburgers, I've had five
hamburgers In the last month and only one of them has been good. That was as of
last Friday, but last Saturday, I tasted a hamburger that tasted American, I
was so stoked, it was......Burger King. Glad to know that some things taste the
same!
Picking up right where I left
off, after emailing some members brought our whole district some cottage pie,
which is meat, carrots, and mashed potatoes. It was pretty good. One of the
best moments of my mission to this date came Monday night at our flat: I have
been expecting some big spiritual moment to happen, and I was kind of
disappointed that I hadn't had one to the date, but I realised that the spirit
works In simpler ways, like small feelings of assurance and even gut feelings,
and when I realised this, I was so happy. It changed my perspective a lot! For
all of you who are waiting for that big spiritual manifestation, please look
closely, the spirit works In simply beautiful ways. As a quote one of my mtc
teachers said earlier on, the gospel is simply beautiful and beautifully
simple.
Tuesday we knocked so many
fetching doors, no real success but there's some ahead. Um we had ward
coordination, which was pretty much like district meetings. We came up with who
was what Disney character. The sister missionaries decided I was either Russell
from the movie Up (which is somewhat insulting haha) or christoff from
Frozen (which is more acceptable). I love my district so much. We had a dinner
appointment at a members house, and they fed us so fetching much, like too
much, I felt like I was gonna be sick after, and it was good food, but I felt
so sick, I just ate and ate and ate...after that me and elder Mthethwa knocked
some more doors after, not much success, but we had a fun night.
Wednesday, wow 5 weeks already.
We went to go visit a less active and she was super cool, she said she doesn't
come on Sunday's cuz her 8 year old son doesn't like it so we have to work with
that, but nice family. We met with a cool chef guy named Dxxx, which was
sweet. Nothing else really for the day.
Thursday we had our district
meeting, which was fun, we all got kfc after which was pretty sweet. We met
with Axxxn and he's excited for church! We went over to some Chinese guys
house. We knocked his door the day before and he said come back Thursday and
he'd make us dinner, best Chinese food ever, the guy (jxx) said that the Chinese
girls he rooms with don't eat ice cream cuz they have to be slim, one of his
girl roommates hit him, which was hilarious.
Friday, we taught Dxxxn the plan
of salvation, he's reading the Book of Mormon a ton, it's inspiring me to be
more diligent in reading it. Me and another greenie went and talked to people
on the street, jeez that didn't go well, I have room to grow, a lot. We played
volleyball at night and brother Roberts, the first counsellor In the bishopric,
and his son who is a recent rm came. Super fun! They offered to take us to fish
n chips next week! Also huge miracle: me and the other elders of my district
were standing around In the city center, and a lady came up to us out of
nowhere and asked for the Book of Mormon, she said she was praying to see
missionaries today and sure enough, four of us were there. I'm hyped!
Saturday, I got some music on my
usb that I can listen to, lots of Disney music. I hated high school musical so
much back home, like so much, but listening to it here has made me actually
like the music, which might sound crazy haha. Not much else happened to be
honest.
Sunday, we went to church and
Aaron came and liked it! I taught a lesson during second hour on trials, and to
put extra pressure on me the first counsellor in the mission presidency was
there visiting our ward, but it went really well. For those of you who were in
my seminary class, up the lesson was like that. I love the members here so
flipping much. The ward mission leader, Jared hull, and Shaun fish are two of
the coolest guys ever. We visited some members and met a lady named Pxxx,
who seemed super interested in what we had to say, should be good!
If any
of you liked Ballidino by Atlas Genius, another good song I've listened to is "The
Pit" by Dan Reynolds. He's the lead singer of my favorite band, he wrote
it on his mission and it's about helping his friend overcome sin, it's pretty
good!
Now why did I name this email
how I did? Because every fetching day I almost get hit by a car because I don't
know what fetching side of the road to look out for. I had two crazy close
calls, but don't worry, I'm still here, but if I wasn't at least I'd be in a
better place where the political election wasn't a joke and where byu didn't
lose to Utah. I fetching hate losing to Utah, I won't let that happen when I'm
at byu, no way.
A quick spiritual thought to end
it: President Monson spoke of choices last general conference, where he said "It
has been said that the door of history turns on small hinges, and so do
people’s lives. The choices we make determine our destiny...the path we follow
in this life leads to our destination in the next life...may we maintain the
courage to defy the consensus. May we ever choose the harder right instead of
the easier wrong. As we contemplate the decisions we make in our lives each
day--whether to make this choice or that choice--if we choose Christ, we will
have made the correct choice" I love this quote, if we focus on Christ,
and make decisions with him in mind, we will always be in the right. Each
choice matters, it is thoughts that each choice doesn't matter that leads to
sorrow. I hope and pray that we may all have the courage to choose the harder
right, rather than the easier wrong. Also, general conference is this Saturday
and Sunday! You can watch at lds.org!
Do it!
Thank you so much for the emails
and for being the amazing friends and family that you are, I love you all and i
hope you have the best week!
Elder
Varner
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