The General Epistle of Samuel (Spring!!!)

March 10, 2014

Hello everyone!

Well I think spring is finally here in Ipswich. These flowers are everywhere and we have been having sunny day after sunny day. It was so nice not having to work with a coat on the past couple of days. There are more people outside now too so that makes for a better crowd to go "fishing" in haha. We did experience a bit of a lull in our teaching pool this week. We were out of our area a couple of days and then the people we are working with haven't been able to meet with us. We will need to work even harder this coming week to make up for the lost ground. 

Speaking of being out of our area we went to Cambridge on tuesday for a zone training meeting. We had an awesome meeting. We talked about how to plan our days more effectively and how to work with ward members better. Our Zone Leaders are in Cambridge so they brought some members from Cambridge ward to have a question and answer session with. It was great to see some members that I made good friends with while I was there again. As well it was nice to hear the members perspective on missionary work. I am seeing the hastening of the work hasten even more!

Wednesday we went to London for the new missionary meeting. That was a cool experience. Especially because I was on the other end of the meeting as in, being a trainer and not a greeny haha. It was great to see President and Sister Jordan again and a lot of missionaries from my MTC group. It is always a great boost to moral to see mission friends. The meeting was really good and subway was good as well (they bought us lunch). We managed to take a couple pictures in London so I'll send those in another e-mail.

The rest of the week was full of work work work. We tried to cram a full weeks of finding and teaching into three days. Needless to say, everynight when we finished planning and closed in prayer I fell asleep on the floor of the living room until it was time for bed haha. Being tired all the time has become the new normal. I'll have plenty of time to catch up on my sleep when I get home.

Today for P-day we have a busy day planned. We are having a zone p-day in Bury St. Edmunds. We are going to go play football with the entire zone so that should be pretty exciting. We'll try and get Elder Jensen Kebab-tised (eat a Kebab) for lunch as well. This next week is going to great as well. Lots of work to do. And for all yall's information next Monday will NOT be P-day. It will be on Tuesday since the transfer is coming to a close. It has flown by! Well that's it for this week. It was wonderful getting to hear from all of you and I look forward to next week!

Love, 

Elder Dalton

tall building in London

London

Elder Jensen thought it would be cute to take a picture of me taking a picture of flowers to send to you guys. Nice story about this: One of our neigbours saw us taking the pictures and asked if we wanted to take pictures of some of the flowers near her house. We said sure and followed here over. While we took some pictures we chatted with her. She knew that we were Mormons and said that she sees us walk by all the time. She asked Elder Jensen how long he had been here and he answered. Then she looked at me and said, "and you have been here forever!" I had to laugh haha. She was a nice old woman. We gave her a card with our number on it so hopefuly a good service opportunity will show up. 

surprise picture of me at the kings cross tube station. That is my "im excited to fight a crowd" face haha

Elder Jensen took this one. I had to laugh at the look on the guys face when he took the picture. 

this is what the tubes look like. We are a ways underground. Sorry it's blurry