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So my mission President called me 9 days ago and asked me I would train a new missionary. So...I am. His is Elder Thurgood from Nampa, Idaho and he's super awesome. He's actually training me. Which is good becasue I still feel like I'm supposed to be the new missionary. He's so excited to do missionary work and has so much faith. On his first night he gave a blessing to our investigator Francine. It was awesome.

We had a really cool/unique church meeting yesterday. It was a special meeting to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the stake center in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. It was a way awesome, beautiful building. I heard its the biggest chapel in Europe. The speakers consisted of a lady that helped build the building, the first person to ever be baptized in the building, the mission President, the stake president, and Patrick Kearon (remember him from General Conference?), the first councelor in the Europe area presidency. It was way cool to be part of such an occassion. Though it was mostly in English, there was a prayer and a musical number in Welsh for good measure. Merthyr Tydfil is where the legendary Dan Jones, one of the best missionaries ever, did a lot of his work.

The few people that we are teaching are doing well. We have had some amazing experiences recently, but are still working hard and seeking to find more people to teach so that we can soon have people progressing towards baptism. On Saturday, Francine gave an amazing, heartfelt prayer at the end of our lesson. I realized that I have probably seen more change in her than anyone else I have had the opportunity of knowing on my mission. She has come so far since I met her sitting on her doorstep and she told me she didn't believe in God. The family still has a lot of obstacles keeping them from church, but we'll work on it. God's miracles are amazing.

Love,

Seth (I decided to do that on my emails today instead of Elder Poulsen so you wouldn't forget my actual name).