The General Epistle of Samuel (The End of Bas Vegas)

Well Hello to all once again!

This week was quite good. We were able to invite a young man to be baptised and he accepted. He had a wonderful experience about prayer and repentance prior to our meeting him. We found him while we were walking to the chapel a few weeks back and were able to exchange contact details and set a time to meet again. Eventually the time came for us to meet but unfortunately something came up for him and we had to reschedule. A few days later in the evening we received a text message on my phone from the young man. He seemed quite distraught about some mistakes he had made at a party the day before. He wanted relief and felt like he should send us a text for help. I had a conversation with him about repentance and how to ask Heavenly Father for forgiveness. He said he would give it a go. We met with him the following day to see how he was. We met at the chapel and talked about his experience. He shared how in his prayer he poured out his whole soul to God and put everything into his prayer. He held nothing back and was in tears. He shared how as he prayed he felt like he had connected and that someone was actually listening. He finished his prayer feeling a bit better and retired to bed. He said the next morning as he awoke an incredible feeling of peace overcame him. He felt renewed and that he had been forgiven. We affirmed his feelings and shared about how baptism and receiving the Holy Ghost completes this process of repentance. He agreed to be baptised at the end of the month. The joy on his face as he talked about how he felt after praying was a great testimony to me of how powerful the atonement is. Even for someone who has only a seed of faith. Payer works. Heavenly Father is listening. The Atonement is real and can help us become clean so that we can enter into the kingdom of our Heavenly Father. 

General Conference was a great experience as well. We were pleased to have some investigators come to the Romford chapel to watch some of the sessions. Over here we have to watch conference via satellite at the stake centre. The morning sessions start at five in the evening here and then we watch the afternoon sessions the next day. I still haven't seen the sunday afternoon session but I'll probably download the talks of of lds.org and listen to it in the car and what not. The talks were amazing though. I loved President Eyring's talk and how at the end he powerfully bore his testimony. We are so blessed to be led by prophets and apostles who receive direct revelation from the Lord. 

Well I am sure you are all dying to hear what is happening with moves this week. I am staying in the zone leader gig for a bit longer. I am moving to Colchester which is about 35 miles drive north of Basildon. It is close to Ipswich so back near that area. It is actually the Ipswich stake so I already know quite a few people there. I am excited to be moving there. It is a good zone from what I hear. I will be companions with Elder Butterfield. I have no idea where he is from. He is from the US but other than that I have no idea. I will miss Basildon. I already said goodbye to a few people. I said goodbye to Toni last night. I bore her my testimony of the gospel and promised that if she held fast to what we taught she would be blessed in ways she couldn't imagine. She was upset that I had to leave but thanked me for all that Elder Torres and I had done for her. I'll have to say goodbye to Richard today and give him a blessing. His health isn't too good. We literally had one shot at baptising him because he definitely isn't well enough now to do it. As well we'll be seeing Caren and Jashelle today. She isn't too thrilled that I am leaving either. It will be tough to leave all these people behind. 

Well that's it for this week. It was great to hear from all of you and see the birthday festivities. Thank you all for the love and support. I love you all!    

Love,

Elder Dalton

 

At the Tower of London they are putting these metal poppies in the ground to symbolize all those that have lost their lives fighting for Great Britain. They will keep putting them in until November 11th.