Sister McEwan in England: How to Be a Mormon

Wow, what a week.

So Monday we did nothing.

Tuesday I don't even remember what happened except for there was an emergency transfer SO Elder Carr got sent to Rwibina in Wales to fix something and Elder Pace (pronounced pache) from Italy came in. It was a sad day we miss Elder Carr already.

Wednesday we spent the whole of the day in Birmingham. Sister Nelson had a doctors appointment at 9 in Birmy and then we had the worldwide mission broadcast at 5 in Harborne so we just found potentials for the Harborne missionaries. We literally walked through Birmingham for 5 hours finding people. We met and taught the coolest people ever. So sad to pass them on to the other missionaries but they're in good hands.

The Missionary Worldwide Broadcast was sweet! There is a change in our key indicators now as well as schedule. There's a lot more flexibility now. And only 4 key indicators (numbers). It's CRAZY. But so amazing I love it. Just more free time in the morning you get to pick and choose what time you do what and comp study is only 30 minutes as well as lunch and you can do comp and language study at whatever time of the day you want. Also get to go to bed at 9:30 now and plan in the mornings!!!! Woop woop. My habits have changed hardcore I am excited to be a good, organised student when I return to uni.

Thursday we had district meeting. I had a prompting to stop by a super random potential so we went. Right when we got to her door she got out of her car and told us to come in so we went in and taught the restoration. She's like the most normal darling human being I've ever met in my life. We gave her a Book of Mormon and she said she can't wait to read and "hear the whispering of the spirit" to see if it's true. :) Amazing. So prepared. Afterwards we taught Mandy. LOVE HER. She just eats up every single lesson. She is so involved and asks so many questions and always brings people to the lessons so we can teach them too. There's one girl called Aleisha who is always there when we teach. She is 18. Both of them told us they wanted to be baptised so we are working toward it with them! It will take a while because of some Word of Wisdom struggles, but there's nothing that the Lord can't help us overcome. :) After we had dinner with Nathan and Vicky they're
the the Elder's investigators. They're so cool and working toward baptism as well! Vicky is a little more desirous than Nathan but she's amazing and we get along so well.

Friday we had Ailsa's baptism interview!!!!! She's getting baptised on Saturday!!!!!!!!!! Ailsa is definitely this transfers miracle. Still can't believe everything that has happened. She's amazing. The Kidderminster branch loves her and her sweet daughter to bits. We have a primary now!!!! :) She's also so excited to go to the temple next month to do baptisms. :)

So I guess that multiple refugee families heard we were teaching English and were super interested????? So now we have a huge class we are teaching!!!!!! It's going to be so awesome.

We met the coolest guy this week named Adam. Haven't been able to get ahold of him but... he basically stopped us and told us he wanted to learn "How to be a Mormon" it was hilarious because we literally gave him so many lessons all at once because he just wanted to learn, learn, learn. After about 30 minutes of talking, a young polish couple came up to us asking where the nearest pub was. Adam looked at us and said "I'm so sorry but in our church we don't drink so we have no idea." Hahaha he kept calling it "Our church," so amazing. Then he was like, "Okay I'm going to call you guys on Saturday night and make sure you're at church on Sunday!!!!" And we were like "Uhhhh,... isn't that our job?" Haha.

Sunday was amazeeee we had some less actives we've been working with come to church and Ailsa was addressing everyone as "Brother" and "Sister" which made us so happy. We taught Mandy and Aleisha at night with Sarah and there were 2 of their friends there. They all wanted Book of Mormons and we had a big discussion about the restoration. When we recited the first vision the spirit was SO STRONG. One of the women said "Wow, I just went cold." Teaching the resto is my favourite thing ever. Aleisha and the other girl Demi are coming to institute with us on Wednesday :) Wooooooohooo! :)

LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY. This week I had a dream I was back home and the whole time during it I was like "Ugh, I want to just be back on my mission." It really opened my eyes. I need to make the most of every second I have out here because it really isn't long at all!!! Already 1/3 of the way done.

I love you guys so so so so so so so much.

Cheers,

Sister McEwan xxx