God's Got it all Figured Out

 This is the Gloucester Cathedral organ console. Usually people don't get to see it. You have to go through a secret (well maybe it isn't secret but it is usually locked) door and up some stairs through all the pipes to find it. But we happened to walk in right when they were finishing up a rehersal for a school concert. So I asked the man in charge if I could go see the console. He let me have a look at it. I bet my organ teacher would be jealous. Too bad I didn't get to actually play it. Maybe someday.

Beautiful pipes.

Cool story

Cool stained glass

Cool painting, cool people

 So there's this hill called Robinswood hill that Gloucester is built around and I have wanted to hike up it every day (thats a bit exaggerated) since I got here three months ago and we finally got the chance! It was only like a 15 minute hike. But it was still way good. Even England can have beautiful weather sometimes--to be honest its actually been a bit too hot for my taste. It was 31 celsius the other day (89ish farenheit). It doesn't sound hot, but when you are wearing a long sleeve shirt and tie and trousers all the time and biking around all day and nobody has air conditioning it is quite hot. I am getting a sweet watch tan, long sleeve shirt tan (just the hands), and a collar tan as well. My legs are going pale though. I guess my California tan can't last forever.

This is Gloucester

This is the bottom end of Gloucester that we rarely get to because it is far away by bike. It is highly likely that we will get another companionship of Elders in Gloucester next transfer though, so these areas won't remain untouched forever. If you look to where the land meets the sky round about the middle you may be able to make out some huge suspension bridges. Super cool. They go across the Severn river from England to Wales (at the part of Britain where England and Wales split apart and go down to their seperate points.)

The work here has been so so good. On Sunday I was able to confirm Jessica a member of the Church and bestow upon her the gift of the Holy Ghost. It was awesome. We also had a new investigator come to church as well, a lady named Jenny. She was taught by missionaries a few years ago, so we decided to stop by. She previously told the missionaries no more visits, but she now seems very open and ready to recieve the fulness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. What a miracle. God is so good. We also had the opportunity to share the message of The Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ with an amazing Seventh-day Adventist couple. They are such good people (so are their three awesome sons) and would make absolutely amazing members of the Church. They are already so devoted to Jesus Christ, they have just have not yet had the opportunity to recieve the fulness of His Gospel. I hope and pray that they will open their hearts to it.

I have found, in the last week, that when I try my very best and my very hardest to do everything I can, it still isn't good enough. But when I start to be thankful for what God has already done for me in my life, constantly looking for and therefore seeing miracles, everything seems to work out just fine. I don't really know what a lot of these people need right now, but thankfully, I don't need to. God's got it all figured out. He is so good. I love Him, and will continue to serve Him the very best I can.

Love,

Elder Poulsen