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1. This is my companion holding the end of a cut piece of cable. I'll give you a few spaces to try to guess what this means.                                                I don't know if you guessed right, but the correct answer is..............we no longer have any bicycles. They were locked up to a steel pole outside the back of our flat and when we woke up Wednesday morning they were gone, this is all there is left. We filed a police report, but we still haven't go much of a chance of getting them back. I think we're going to be on busses for a little while.

2. I don't know if I've mentioned this, but we live on top of an Indian/Bangali restaurant right now that just opened up a little over a month ago. It is quite tasty, but also expensive. There are a bunch of guys from Bangledesh who run it, they are quite cool. Also, it is quite easy to get on the roof.

We have had some quite good experiences this week. Melissa was at church again, that was great. We also had an investigator named AJ at church, that was really cool, I'll get back to him in a minute. But first I wanted to tell you about what happened on Friday night when we were walking home from the bus stop. We were just walking along, and we heard someone calling to us from behind. We turned around to see a lady speedwalking/half running to try to catch up to us. She asked us if we had any literature about our church that she could read. Her name is Holly. She explained that she is a baptist, but she wants to learn all she can about different religions so that she can be sure that she has found the truth. We explained that we have a series of lessons we teach people to help them learn all they need to know about us, and she quite happy about that.

So this was a great miracle, being able to meet Holly. The catch is that she doesn't live in Wolverhampton, she was just here for the day. She actually lives in Stoke-on-Trent, so I'm sure the missionaries there will have an excellent time teaching her.

Here's another British-ism for you, since I haven't given you many of these recently. Don't get too confused by the name Stoke-on-trent. All it means is that there is a town called Stoke that is on the Trent river. Ross-on-Wye is a villiage called Ross that is next to the Wye river, and so on with Burton-on-trent, Stratford-upon-avon, and others. Also, I still think people's accents here are quite cool and when I get home I'll probably be confused for a while about why everyone sounds like I do.

AJ is quite cool, we knocked on his door on Tuesday and he let us in, and we have been able to teach him a few more times after that as well. He came to a baptism on saturday and to church on sunday. I'm sure it was probably quite overwhelming for him, as he was raised Sikh (he grew up here, but his parents were Indian), so it was all new to him. This week we will just be teaching him so simply, trying to help him understand the doctrine and recognize the spirit. It will be great.

have an amazing week!

Love,

Elder Seth Poulsen