Another Smashing Experience

Hiya all!

Oh boy this past week was brill! haha We are being even more blessed. We better be anyways, after all the tracting in the rain we did this past week hahaha That's right. Good ole sunny England is finally giving us some wet weather to work in! Well, the weather has been super weird this past week. If anyone visits the country, the basis of any conversation is the weather, so thus why I started out my email the way I did. haha

Anyways, yes, we had a goal of speaking to all of our investigators about how they feel they are receiving the message so that we could determine whether or not to continue teaching them. We were feeling slightly ruthless because nobody we are teaching was really progressing. We good things came out of it! Our investigator called Emma kept her commitments to read and pray. She is also still excited to learn and grow. The only thing she is concerned with is with she can make friends with the young women or not. Easy concern to resolve. Our investigator called Roy is also doing alright. We thought he was avoiding us, but he just had a rough week. He is actively learning about the church through mormon.org and is creating a desire to change his life to be in accordance to what the Saviour wants of him. He expressed the good feelings he is getting while reading the Book of Mormon as well, so that's good!! Our other investigators are still good as well and we had some good spiritual lessons with them as well. Ive come to learn that nothing happens unless the spirit teaches the individual. You know its working when both student and teacher are learning. Its just so cool when you learn something when you are the one that's suppose to be teaching! haha

Another smashing experience we had this week comes from how useful pass-along cards are. They are the best! So we got this text from the office saying that we got a referral from church headquarters, which like never happens so I was just excited from that! haha We went by the next day to see this guy, who's name is Ben, and he is so cool. He met missionaries while working in Stoke, which is like 60 miles away. They gave him a pass-along card and must have told Ben that if he went on the website, some missionaries would come visit him. Well He let us straight in and was like, okay lets see this book. haha we talked to him about the Book of Mormon and how is testifies of the Saviour Jesus Christ. He told us how he is tired of the same scene of a friday or saturday night and that he wants to find more purpose in life. He wants to know about the after life and what he needs to do in order to get the most peace. He says he wants to fill the hole in his heart! Yeah buddy!! That's what an Elder wants to hear haha We talked about baptism and he seemed to like the idea. We are going to see him on Wednesday. I'll tell yall how is goes next Monday in my email.

So yeah, that's pretty much the best parts of my week! I have learned this week that attitude counts for something. The way you look at doing the work will have an affect on the outcome of your success. I have been excited to work these past weeks and as a consequence, we are being blessed! Or that's what I think haha

I hope you all have a wonderful week!
Follow the promptings of the spirit always. They will lead you to do good.
Godbless,
Elder Jaquish