this has to be the most hyped I've been in awhile! things are
going SO good out here and it's an absolute blast right now! still don't have a
phone but we've been getting by and it's so sick!!!!
last monday was a good one. we all got together as a district,
emailed, got lunch, and played chair soccer. not the most exciting day, but
pretty fun. we tried contacting some people after and planned more for the busy
week!
tuesday was a surprise exchange, I was with elder campbell out
here in wylde green! a few appointments didn't show up but that ain't stopping
us from rising and grinding out here! we got a ton of cool potentials that said
to come back and a few were pretty solid! we also taught a lesson to a family
that sister missionaries found a few weeks ago! the moms name is Syyyyy, the 8
year old son is axxxxn. They've been looking for a church and to grow closer to
God and wow, they are so prepared for the gospel. It was amazing. Other than
that we almost saw a fight break down at McDonald's, that was kind of cool I
guess. Not much else but it was a good day!
Wednesday was cool. Elder Campbell and I did some finding in the
Sutton Coldfield town centre. It was pretty cool, but not as big as Swansea's
city centre. We met up with the other elders for some lunch later on and then
elder Clayton and I went and visited a few potentials and stuff. Had dinner at
a family named the Robertsons, they are super cool! They actually have kids my
age so it was pretty fun to hangout and talk! After we went back to the mission
home to start our exchanges with the APs.
Thursday was definitely one of the funnest days of my mission by
far! The APs came with us to our district meeting in Walsall, and I gave a
training on teaching repentance with love! It's so key, viewing others as
Christ would, having Christlike attributes while teaching is SOO important! The
big one I want to work on is patience! During lunch at the chapel in Walsall I
realised they had something I didn't have in wylde green...a basketball court!
You know I was hyped! And you know I balled up for a bit! I still got some
Jimmer in me! Elder Searle and I after went out to Four Oaks to visit Syyya and
Axxxn and they are both so cool! We did some knocking doors and someone
actually let us in...but he wanted to bash big time haha! Both elder Searle and
I tried to keep the lesson on point but he kept bashing us and i was like no
way I'm bashing right now! I kept just bearing testimony and he got a bit more
quiet after that cuz he couldn't take that away from me. Then we all went to
BIRMINGHAM to get food and talk to people! I finally made it to Birmingham City
Centre, I was so hyped cuz it's not in the zone so this was the one chance to
go! We went to this super good Mexican place called Mission Burrito, and it was
way good! I've never enjoyed Mexican food before but it's now one of my
favourites! So hyped to hit up some good places after my mission in So Cal!
Also got some five guys shakes! Then me and elder Searle talked to people on
Birmingham College's campus and it was dark and quiet, I thought no way we get
any potentials, but in ten minutes we got like 13 people wanting to meet up
again! It was crazy! It was such a fun day! Elder Wagner and Searle are two of
the funniest guys I've ever met!
Friday was a fun day but kind of slow too, we did a ton of
knocking doors and at the end of the night we wanted to just go in for dinner,
but we decided to knock on one more street, and we found a new investigator in
it named Yxxt, she's way cool! We are seeing her again tonight! Goes to show
that god blesses us when we go the extra mile!!
Saturday was a B L A S T !!! We went to Walsall to start out the
day to do some district finding in their city centre! I was with elder
Garrick for half of it and elder smith (my first Zone leader in Swansea) for
the second half, he was there cuz they were on exchanges with the Walsall A
elders! It was cool to catch up on old times, and it's crazy how much I've
changed since the first time I went finding with him in September! I love that
guy! After that we were standing at a train station and I was probably like 15
feet away from Elder Clayton, and this guy just comes up and starts talking to
me casually, and eventually the topic that came up was what we did, and he was
asking a ton of questions about it and was really interested, so we set up a
time to see him this upcoming week! It's so much nicer to start normal and then
transition into the gospel!Then we went to Four Oaks to visit Syyya and Axxxn and wow they are so cool, I say it again and again, I love them! And they
actually love America, it's always cool to see that! One of our lessons ditched
out, but we still had one heck of a day!
Sunday was sweet as always, but it had a cherry on top this
time! PxxJxx (Syyyy's partner), Syyya, and Axxxn all came to church and it was so
sick! The ward loved them and more importantly, they loved the ward!! We are
gonna meet up with them a ton this week, and they are coming to a DA this
weekend! It's sick too cuz PxxxJxxxx is taking me and elder Clayton to the Belfrey for
some golf! It's a super famous course out here that the Ryder Cup was played at!
Other than church we did some weekly planning and visited some people!
A quick spiritual thought for your week: president Monson once
said "If we are on the Lords errand, we are entitled to his
blessings" When we are serving God and following his commandments and
doing what he wants us to do, we can rely on him to bless us with the blessings
that he has promised us in the scriptures and through prophets! We can ask for
those blessings as we are doing what is right! and God will never forsake us!
It really has been a good week out here, im excited for this
coming week! Also a big birthday shoutout to Brigham and Brittany Hill! Hope
you both have killer birthdays this week!!
Hope you all have LIT
weeks because i know i will! Love you guys! Stay safe! 😘😘
Elder Varner
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iPad
heres a ton
of random videos from soccer, random park, drum set at the APs flat, and going
with elder wagner and elder searle to mission burrito in Birmingham!
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