The General Epistle of Samuel (We are in London!)

The past week has been a bit stressful trying to stay on top of all the meetings and things that have been going on in the zone. We have had a lot of baptismal dates drop so we will fall short of our goal this month. We are doing all we can to make sure the missionaries get these people in the water so we can contribute to the mission's goal. 

We have had many highlights amid all the goings on. We recently had an appointment with Toni who was recently baptised and we asked her to invite her twin sister Tiffany to the lesson. She did and Tiffany came. We had talked with Tiffany previously about baptism and she has a desire to so at the appointment with her and Toni we invited her to be baptised and she accepted! The greatest part was when Toni testified to her about how it will help her and how Heavenly Father is looking out for her. The spirit swept through the room in a way I had never felt before in a lesson. It was incredible!

So far this week has gone well. We have moved our Pday to today as you are aware so we have been doing quite a bit of work already this week. The rest of the week we have quite a few appointments. We will have a BBQ tomorrow at our investigator Caren's house to celebrate the holiday. Some good food and more cake and it will be a pretty darn good birthday. Thank you everyone for your mail and birthday wishes. I can feel the love from all of them. I look forward to hearing from all of you again next Monday (pday as usual) so until then... I love you all!

Love,

Elder Dalton

Well as you can see we are in London today.
I needed to confirm an appointment and couldn't find my mobile phone ;)

We got up too early

The General Epistle of Samuel (Changing of the guards err... Companions)

Hello everyone!

This week was quite eventful for all of us here in the England London Mission. This week was full of moves, meetings, and best of all baptisms!!! This week was a wonderful way to close the month of August. 

On the topic of moves, Wednesday was our moves day so we had to venture to London once again to exchange companions. I dropped Elder Torres off at the office where his new assignment is. While I was there I met Elder Moura-Netto's family who came to pick him up now that he has finished his mission. Then I traveled to Euston station just a few streets down from Kings Cross station to make sure all the missionaries that were meeting there to move made the appropriate exchanges. I traveled there with Elder Dickey from South Africa. He is my "Grandfather" in the mission since he trained my trainer. He was waiting that day for a flight home because he was finishing his mission. It was great to be around all these wonderful missionaries that were going hard all the way to the end. 

The following day we had MLC which was wonderful as usual. The mission has been doing well this past month and we were able to achieve our goal of 50 baptisms in the month. We closed with 56 so we are all pretty happy. It has been a while since our mission has baptised that many people in a month. Great things are happening. 

On the topic of baptisms we had a baptism this Saturday. It was a great experience for Toni. It was too bad that Elder Torres couldn't be there for it but they traveled to the Britannia YSA ward in London (the ward Elder Torres is assigned to) and visited him there on Sunday. That made him quite happy. We had a great experience at the baptism. Toni has a twin sister Tiffany who came to the service and expressed her interest in learning about the church and being baptised so we set an appointment. Toni's friends the best friend of Tiffany also felt the spirit very strong and asked if she could be taught too. We will be setting an appointment with her this week as well. The mother is also interested but asked for some time while she finishes up her divorce. The only down side was the water was super cold because the boiler wouldn't turn on (anyone heard of the ice bucket challenge?). It was a great experience. 

Now we have a week of hard work ahead of us because we need to get more people on date to be baptised. Elder Kopischke is a great missionary and I am enjoying serving with him. He has a very German sense of humor so I am getting used to that haha. Life here in Bas Vegas is great! Thanks everyone for the love and emails and I look forward to hearing from you all again next week! Love you all!  

Love,

Elder Dalton