I'm
in Rugby. Apparently this is where Rugby was invented. That's the legend,
anyway. Rugby is just a bit east of Coventry. Its also pretty close to
Northampton (which is in the London mission), so I can tell people that I used
to live in Northampton... Massachusetts. My companion now is a awesome kid
named Elder Eldredge, who actually came out the same time as me, so that's
nice. We're going to do some powerful teaching by the spirit once we have
people to teach.
One
cool thing is a few of my good friends from the MTC who I hadn't seen in quite
a long time are serving in Coventry, so I'll get to see them when we go there
for meetings! That's pretty cool -because they are pretty cool. Funny enough in
the last ward I was serving in I was the oldest missionary, but now I am the
youngest one serving in the ward. The ward here seems pretty awesome so I am
excited to get the missionary work going here. I must admit I was sad to leave
Wales, but England is pretty dang awesome too. I miss the Watkins family already,
but I'll certainly write this afternoon.
Our
ward mission leader is really awesome so we're going to be working on how to
get all the members to be really excited about doing missionary work. At church
on Sunday I met this super cool 18 year old kid. He said, "You should just
get up there and tell everyone to bring one friend. I reckon you could double
the size of the ward." That's easier said than done, but miracles will
certainly happen as we have faith and work hard. I'm excited for it. There are
so many absolutely amazing people out there that God has prepared to receive
the message of the Restored Gospel. As it says in the scriptures, "For
behold, angels are declaring it unto many at this time in our land; and this is
for the purpose of preparing the hearts of the children of men to receive his
word at the time of his coming in his glory." (Alma 13:24). I'm excited to
meet these people.
Have
an amazing week everyone,
Love,
Elder
Poulsen
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