Dover Life

I'm still alive. We are working today. We moved our P-day to Friday to go to Dover Castle with President and Sister Jordan. I'll email then. Love y'all!

Love,
Elder Dalton

The General Epistle of Samuel (iPads!)

Well this week has been quite eventful for us. On Tuesday we had a mission wide conference in Hyde Park so we had to make the three hour drive into London. I'm the only competent driver so after a three hour trip in, a five hour meeting, and a three hour drive home, I was quite exhausted. We had a great time though and we were able to drive past a few sights in London. Buckingham Palace, Big Ben and the houses of parliament, the London eye, and across tower bridge just to name a few. We had a great time and learned a lot at the meeting. The theme of the meeting was disciples of Jesus Christ in the digital age. Obviously it was due to our mission receiving ipads but that was hardly mentioned. The greater focus was about agency, the atonement and repentance. There was a great focus on strengthening our testimony of the saviour and how that would help us make good decisions on the internet. It was very inspiring and uplifting.

As I've mentioned we received iPads this week (see picture below). They are iPad mini's and have a lot of blocks on them. I guess the church has learned quite a lot since they first tested them in pilot missions in the US and Japan. We currently can use all the church aps along with other ones like weather, maps, iMessage, email and whatnot. We'll soon be allowed to use facebook and skype to use to teach. The church has developed and incredible app for the pamphlets. I recommend checking it out. It is a great tool and we've seen it help us be more effective. Once they sort out a few legal issues we'll even be able have our area book and planner on the iPads. There is a data protection law here in Europe that doesn't allow personal information to be on the internet so that is what is holding that app back from being released to us. Maybe they'll have it done in five weeks... 

As far as the work is going we are working hard to help people progress. Jo's son George is showing some interest so that is good. We'll be playing some table tennis tonight with him and we'll have a chat to see where he is. It is moving along. I am so thankful for all the blessings from being a missionary. I don't want it to end! I hope you all have a fantastic week. I love you all!!!

Love,

Elder Dalton

I'm pretty sure these are weeds but they look nice

service project

sleepy village tracting in the rain!

Selfie in a bookshop

The General Epistle of Samuel (iPads!)

Well this week has been quite eventful for us. On Tuesday we had a mission wide conference in Hyde Park so we had to make the three hour drive into London. I'm the only competent driver so after a three hour trip in, a five hour meeting, and a three hour drive home, I was quite exhausted. We had a great time though and we were able to drive past a few sights in London. Buckingham Palace, Big Ben and the houses of parliament, the London eye, and across tower bridge just to name a few. We had a great time and learned a lot at the meeting. The theme of the meeting was disciples of Jesus Christ in the digital age. Obviously it was due to our mission receiving ipads but that was hardly mentioned. The greater focus was about agency, the atonement and repentance. There was a great focus on strengthening our testimony of the saviour and how that would help us make good decisions on the internet. It was very inspiring and uplifting.

As I've mentioned we received iPads this week (see picture below). They are iPad mini's and have a lot of blocks on them. I guess the church has learned quite a lot since they first tested them in pilot missions in the US and Japan. We currently can use all the church aps along with other ones like weather, maps, iMessage, email and whatnot. We'll soon be allowed to use facebook and skype to use to teach. The church has developed and incredible app for the pamphlets. I recommend checking it out. It is a great tool and we've seen it help us be more effective. Once they sort out a few legal issues we'll even be able have our area book and planner on the iPads. There is a data protection law here in Europe that doesn't allow personal information to be on the internet so that is what is holding that app back from being released to us. Maybe they'll have it done in five weeks... 

As far as the work is going we are working hard to help people progress. Jo's son George is showing some interest so that is good. We'll be playing some table tennis tonight with him and we'll have a chat to see where he is. It is moving along. I am so thankful for all the blessings from being a missionary. I don't want it to end! I hope you all have a fantastic week. I love you all!!!

Love,

Elder Dalton

service project

service project

sleepy village tracting in the rain!

I'm pretty sure these are weeds but they look nice

The General Epistle of Samuel (another transfer over)

Another transfer has come an gone in a blink of an eye. A lot of crazy things have gone on. Unfortunately Elder Tina'o is moving. I am sad to see him go. I have had so much fun serving with him and learning from him. My new companion is Elder Claure from Brasil! I am excited to have another Brazilian companion. It should be a great couple of transfers with him.

This week a lot of work was done. We were able to meet with a family that we haven't seen for a while. Gemma and Steve are great. They have been busy with work but thankfully after we sent Gemma a text on mothers day, they invited us over. Turns out they were talking about how they needed to start coming to church and that Steve needs to be baptised and their daughter as well. Then we sent them a text. Funny how that works out. We began teaching them and set a day for their daughter to get baptised. They are great and I look forward to working with them. 

We are gearing up for another church initiative this Easter. I think it will be similar to last year's "because of Him." This year it's #BecauseHeLives. I'm not too sure what we'll be doing. Probably lots of pass along cards to give out. We'll see how it goes. 

Well I hope that everyone has had a great week. I look forward to hearing from you all again soon!

Love,

Elder Dalton

correction: Elder Claure is from Bolivia 

pictures from our trip to Dover castle. I would show you pictures of the secret wartime tunnels but apparently they want to keep them secret so they wouldn't let us take pictures. Or it was something to do with copyrights. Either or. 

Hogwarts? a bit of wizard chess and broom flying.....

The General Epistle of Samuel (sunshine)

We've had a fairly good week this week. Lot's of sunshine so that always makes things better :) We had zone conference at the Hyde Park Chapel. It was a great meeting. We talked a lot about finding people to teach. There was an emphasis on using family history to find people to teach. After the meeting we had ward council so our days was all meetings.

The rest of the week we went finding. We've found some good people to teach so now we need to get them progressing. This week will be a bit of a struggle since we have a huge area and the car is going into the garage to get body work done (that's a whole other story). We'll have to be quite good at planning for the latter half of this week to come. 

On p-day we had quite the adventure. We were told of how to get to a Napoleonic era fort that has been abandoned. Long story short we found the place and made a corny documentary. I'll upload it to my drop box account and then share it all with you. I hope everyone has a great week! I look forward to hearing from you all again!

Love,

Elder Dalton

The General Epistle of Samuel (miracle business)

We have had a pretty good week this week. Last P-day we went to the white cliffs of Dover as you saw in some of the pictures. It was good fun despite all the mud. I'll send a picture to illustrate. We were happy to have done it in the narrow window of clear skies before it started raining again.

This week we experienced the great blessings of a miracle. I believe I mentioned last week about a woman named Jo who told us she wanted to be baptised. This whole week we have been working like crazy to get her prepared for the 25th of January. We have taught her every night besides Sunday to get her ready. It has been the easiest investigator ever! She has read almost everything. We have taught almost everything and she knew it all before we taught it. She told us how now that she has made the decision that she has felt an overwhelming peace in her life. She is incredible. Her husband Ian, who was baptised a few months ago, is over the moon. He is so excited. It is incredible to see the gospel taking effect in their lives. The spirit seems to be stronger and stronger in their home every time we go over there. This Sunday is the baptism so we are praying everything will go well. 

This week is going to be full of a lot of finding as well since we need more than just one person to teach. Our faith has been increased a lot after seeing the progress of Jo. Thank you all for your love and support. I hope you all have a great week. You're all in my prayers.

Love,

Elder Dalton

We helped a guy lay his grass in his back garden. Our car was used for a bit of the hauling lol

Elder Tina'o and I at the cliffs

Pictures from Dover

more pictures

The White Cliffs of Dover

I think that is France.....

That is my companion.....

Man it's windy!

We walked along the whole thing.

The Cliffs are made of chalk and there were chalk boards by the main car park so we deemed it a good idea to leave a message :)  and it started to rain.....

Not too far from France.

spiral staircase in our flat

Lovely Dover. Lots of hills...