May 20, 2013
Dear Mom,
My new trainer is amazing,
I was so worried about who was going to be my trainer that I fasted and prayed
about it on my first Sunday out here, and the Lord answered my prayers, she is
great, we go running together and we talk and have some same stories! Its
great, honestly I feel like I have been her companion forever, we are such best
friends, and we have the same first name! It’s cool. We work as a companionship,
not as I was thinking it was going to be, like she would do all the talking,
its great! We do things as a team. So the area I’m in is called Lincoln. It’s
the city and surrounding small towns. Sister Egbert and her comp, were the
first ever Sister missionary’s here, so it still feels like we are opening a
new area. We live in this little flat off of Dodington Road, we are in the
south side of the town and the Elders are in the north side, it’s only us Sisters
and the Elders in Lincoln. To describe this place, we have loads of fields,
like in the picture books. And loads of old buildings and an old castle and
manor homes. And its always misty and damp and just England! It is so green and
pretty! It’s been nice because since I have been here we have been hard at
work. The first 3 days I biked close to 11 miles per day. It was great, my
first day in the field I got two blisters on my right hand and poison ivy on my
left leg from ridding on our bikes in a field! Its great! The first day,
Thursday (Since Wednesday is when we met and we had to ride a 3 hour long bus
and a 1 hour train to Lincoln from Birmingham) we had a lesson with a LA
(Less Active) named Pat with the Elders, it was good, she is a sweet spunky
lady. We then had a lesson with this guy named John where all he wants to do is
talk about the trinity, he is funny, but at least he is reading the BOM (Book
of Mormon)! Then we had to ride into city center to meet the Elders to catch a
train to Newyork for a DA (Dinner Appointment) with a family in our ward. (There
is only one ward here with only 150 active members, suffer to say, its small.) But
we had dinner with them, they have the cutest family, 4 boys, 1 girl all under the
age of 11. I was jumping on the tramp with the two oldest boys and they bonked
each other so they wouldn’t let me jump with them after that… oops. Haha, well
we missed out train back, so the Mom had to drive us home so we were late in
getting back but it was alright because The Elders who were with us, one of
them is our District leader, Elder Watts. So it was understandable. But those
two Elders, Elder Watts and Elder Battles are so funny; they asked the most
random questions like, “If you could have any bug on earth pull you in a sleigh,
what would you pick?” Haha… So on Friday we had a lesson with this guy named Gary
who claims he already had the Holy Spirit with him... But he is so sweet!
Really, I love all these people already. Then we went and saw this lady name
Gale who we are seeing this week as well, then had another DA at this family’s
house… the Crofts, People are so nice and just want to feed us all the time.
After dinner we went and saw this mom and her daughter, Sue and Katy. They are
LA, so we are trying to get them to come to church. We had a great time
teaching them and on the way home we had to just push our bikes because it was
raining so hard. I felt like such a missionary then, pushing my bike in the
rain going back to our flat.
Saturday, we did some finding, in other wards
knocked on loads of doors, people are slightly rude, and just close the door on
you, while your talking… oh well, but this one house had a glass window in the door,
and we were just waiting for someone to answer, when all of the sudden a white
dogs head pop up, didn’t make any nosie, just suddenly was there, Sis Egbert yelled
and ran away real quick like. I just stood there, screamed really loud and then
remembered to run. It was so funny and scary. Haha. We then a had met this guy
named Malcom, who said he didn’t have time to talk to us but ended up listening
to us for 20 mins, the Lord really does work on people who need this. We then
rode a bus into town where we got picked up my LA member named Katy, and she
took the Elders and us to Stake Conference. It was great, I got to see a few of
the sisters from the MTC, I love those sisters. We then came home and studied,
and went to bed. Yesterday, we had Stake Conference again at 10 and we were
just praying so hard that Sue would come and guess what? She did! She hasn’t
been to church in 12 years and she came! It was amazing how faith and prayer
work. After that we had a meeting with Katy and the Elders about our investigators
then we had Brother Hanks pick us up and take us to his house for dinner. All
the ward members here are so nice to us, everyone has been so welcoming and
been excited to me. Even the 12-year-old boys came running up to meet me..….
kinda weird, but really great. The dinner at the Hanks was my first real
English dinner. Beef, potatoes, corn, carrots, some kind of scones, and loads
of gravy... And some interesting kinda bland pudding... It was good. :) We then
came back to our flat, grabbed some stuff and went out finding, we went and saw
a PI (potential investigator), where we gave him a BOM and we are seeing him on
Friday and then we went and saw this old lady named Hilda and we helped her
walked her dog Judy around the park and helped her pick up rubbish. And we are
seeing her on Wednesday. It has been a great week and I feel like this is going
to be a great area. Today is P day and we are biking into city center to buy
food for our flat, we are out of everything except beans, and we are tired of
those. Haha, and then Sister Egbert is going to cut my hair. Yea! Well I love
you all, I love you and hope everyone is
doing great. The Church is true, and Reading the BOM everyday brings such
happiness to me! Until next Monday!
Love, Sister J.
Curtis
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