I thought I'd run you through a day of mine. Last
Tuesday, to be exact. I would say it was an average day, but it wasn't really.
It was actually really awesome. But actually its fairly normal for days to be
really awesome. So I guess maybe it was average.
After
studying in the morning, we stopped by an investigator named Andrew and set up
an appointment to teach him the next day. Then we stopped by another
investigator, and set up an appointment with him as well. We probably talked to
some random people along the way, but nothing much came of it that
morning.
After
lunch, we went to knock some doors on a street that we had picked on the map.
It turned out to be a really posh street. So everyone was at work and people
weren't home (in less posh areas, tracting during the day is fine because a lot
of people either aren't working, or work random shifts and so might be home
during the day). So we moved on from that. We headed down to the bike path to
ride the four miles down to Burry Port, a village that is also part of our
area. Its no boring bike path though, it happens to run along the coast. So its
absolutely stunningly beautiful.
On the
bike path we met this cool guy named Richard who was a Choir conductor. So I
talked to him about choirs and Gloucester Cathedral and also who I should talk
to to get to play the pipe organ at the Baptist chapel in town (yes!). Anyway,
he has a friend who is a member of the church who has talked to him about it a
lot. We were able to testify to him about the truthfulness of the Gospel and
leave him with a copy of the Book of Mormon and a pamphlet about the
Restoration.
When we
got to Burry Port, we got to help a nice lady carry her shopping home, and set
up an appointment to come back and teach her. Then we stopped by and met
someone who had been previously taught by the missionaries. Tomorrow we are
going to begin helping him fix up his back garden, and hopeful through our
service he will open up again to the Gospel. We were then able to go visit a
member who we had seen the week before, and told to invite her friends over so
we could share a message with them. She had invited a friend over, so we were
able to teach him and we are going to be seeing him again tomorrow night. We
also met one of her neighbors, who told us we could come back later to share a
message with him.
We had a
dinner appointment with a member, which was way good. When we went back to
visit the man we had told we would come back, he had already gone to sleep,
which was unfortunate, but we'll try again tomorrow. We also talked to some of
the cool neighborhood kids. We tried to stop by some other former investigators
and some less actives, but with no success. We were about ready to head home,
but then we ran across some kids playing cricket in an empty car park (that's
parking lot in English), and they let us have a go at bowling and batting
cricket style. That was way fun--Elder Gull is a baseball player as well, so we
were both thoroughly entertained by it.
Finally,
we took the coastal bike path back home. It was an absolutely beautiful
evening. Unfortunately, none of the people we talked to were all that
interested in hearing what we had to say. But considering how much success we
had in Burry Port, there was no room for complaining about that. We were both
pretty dang tired by then. But it was quite the day.
This is a
picture of a castle we saw today. It’s actually more like a really big house
(people still live in it too), but I guess it can be called a castle because it
has that tower on the left side. (check out those sketchy external stairs). It
was built in the 1800s. Pretty cool. The kid in between us is a kid named Alex
we met on Saturday. He showed us how to get to the castle. It was quite an
adventure. And also today he told us he read the first 20 pages of the Book of
Mormon! Pretty awesome! We'll get
to teach him and his mother on Wednesday. It'll be good.
If you
haven't noticed, we run into a lot of people who are interested in
listening to the Gospel. Considering that you can find out from just about
everybody in the world that not many people are interested in religion anymore,
there is no way that this happens by chance. God most definitely the one who
places in our paths the people that we need to meet. It is amazing. It is
miraculous. And we are so grateful for it. Look for the hand of the Lord more
in your life, and you will see it. Have a lovely week.
Love,
Elder
Poulsen
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