Transfers

Mornin everyone!

So we got transfer calls on Monday night, and yep, I'm staying!! Elder Dudley and I are staying here in Nottingham. I'm excited to be able to be with him for another transfer! Well, actually, he only has a transfer and a half left so I'll most likely be 'killing' him! haha I hope so because I don't want anyone else to have the honor of finishing this fine missionary.

The past week and a half has been brilliant! We are being so blessed by the Lord. I reflected back to when I first arrived here in Notts 4 and we had absolutely nobody to teach. Over the past 12 weeks the Lord has blessed us so much and our teaching pool is getting jam packed! I'm not boasting in my strength or work, but in the work of the Lord! I'm grateful that the Lord is right by our side fighting this war with us! My testimony has increased this past week as to how much diligence pays off. I felt an increase to just give everything thing I had and boy did it work. People took copies of the Book of Mormon like a kid in a candy shop. The other day we passed out 7! We went to a part of our area called Beeston, which is where the university is. We met a girl from Malaysia/Australia, two guys from here in England, a woman from Tanzania, and a guy who is from Uganda! The last guy just stopped and talked to us. After a few sentences were said, he just took the Book of Mormon out of our hands and said he would read it and call is to teach him! Sweet eh? I felt the spirit just bursting within me as I was eager to let everyone know of a living prophet of God.

Another cool story we had this week comes from flogg10ing. This is when we tract around a teaching appointment we have, whether they are in or out. We had a member out with us as well! His name is Sam. He is 23 and never got to serve a mission because he just started coming back to church this year and is already engaged. I was making some phone calls while Elder Dudley and Sam went to knock on some doors. Sam decided that he wanted to knock the door and in was the funniest thing ever. This is how it went according to Elder Dudley:
So Sam says "Hello"
Guy at door"hello"
pause
Sam "how are you today?"
Guy at door "good"
pause
(I didn't want to take over just to give Sam the experience even though i know that he was waiting for me to step in)
Sam "Hey do you know who we are?"
Guy at door "No"
pause
Sam"would you like to know who we are?
Guy at door "sure"
Then i stepped in and said we were missionaries and bla bla bla.
Well we met with them 3 days later and they were really prepared. We found out this guys name was Daniel. He had a son called Kory (after lead singer of slipknot) Daniels partners name is Ashley and Ashley has a daughter called Mae. Ashley had read the plan of salvation leaflet and loved it and you could really tell the spirit was working on them. It was a pretty good experience to start our Saturday off on!

We had Zone Conference this past week and I will refer to something I learned there to end my email with. President Ogden instructed us on how we need to use more 'heaven sent' questions. Using good questions is crucial in order to someone open up to us, create a sense of trust, and know what to teach. Also, this way the person becomes an agent unto themselves instead of an object. Spirit will teach spirit and conversion will take place. I love this gospel so much. I love how everything just makes sense. I know through many experiences I've had with searching for a 'heaven sent' question that the Lord will give us what we need to say when we need it.

Speak to yall next week.
Godbless.
-Elder Jaquish