hey everyone!
thanks for tuning in for another episode across the pond! this week was another fast one and it was pretty good! we are working hard out here and are doing all we can to move forward the work here.
we taught our friend sxxxhaun again this week. we were waiting for him at the chapel and we got a call from some other missionaries who said they saw this guy running to the chapel. yep, our homie was running to the chapel to meet with us! that’s dedication! sxxxxhaun took some bumps this week, but he’s so close to being fully committed! we showed him the film “how rare a possession” and he LOVED it!
as usual, lots of door knocking. while tracting we met a young man named Bxxxxn. he’s a gypsy who just got out of jail for stabbing someone, I can promise you he’s more safe now than you think. but we had a solid convo with him and got a message from him which pretty much said “I told all my friends about you guys and how sound you are and they are gonna be looking out for you and after you”. So now we have a flippin gang of gypsys that are backing us up, how dope is that?!
other notable events:
- while biking on the canal there was a group of chavs riding towards me and they were headed literally straight at me, and as I moved out of the way one of them did a wheelie and tried to kick me in the face, I dodged it, but it was way too close for comfort
- while talking to an older man on his doorstep he randomly stopped talking, pointed his cain at a cat like a gun and yelled “bang bang!”
other stuff happened as well but that’s all I feel like typing for now. i was reading in the Book of Alma this last week and Mormon rebukes a man named Pahoran not knowing all the situation. pahoran could have taken serious offence but he in essence said “you rebuked me, but it mattereth not”. David Bednar once said “One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others. A thing, an event, or an expression may be offensive, but you and I can choose not to be offended--and to say with Pahoran, “it mattereth not.”’. No one inflicts being offended on to each of us, being offended is a choice, and if we choose it, we are halting our progression. forgive and forget!
i love you all! thanks for being true homies! make it a lit week!
Elder Varner
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