Miracles Flooding In

The Elders want to quarantine me because of my sickness.
It was a week full of some great miracles and some rough struggles as well. My comp got sick at the beginning of the week, then the other 2 Elders in the flat got sick as well. And by Saturday afternoon I caught the bug. So now all 4 of us are sick haha. It made for a challenging past couple of days in terms of energy and strength, but also we had some great lessons this week so we got the best of both worlds. 

Tuesday (Feb 18): Today we had our district meeting, ate some lunch, then went out to do a bit of finding. We had a lesson in the evening as well with a lady from Portugal and she accepted a date for baptism! So let's go it was a sick lesson. We just spent the rest of the evening contacting before heading home for dinner. 

Wednesday: Today was very similar to yesterday. We had a district meeting from the zone in the morning, and one of the sisters actually made cinnamon rolls so those we just absolutely so good. Then we headed back to our area, went finding, and taught a lesson. Well, this time the guy that we taught was from Nigeria, and he actually accepted a baptismal date as well. Tonight we had our usual gospel principles class, and headed home for the night.

Thursday: We went to another district meeting today, and after the district meeting we had to do a spicy noodles challenge so that was pretty wild. After the district meeting we traveled back to our area. We had some complications as we were trying to travel back home, the underground station was closed down and so we had to wait to catch a bus which made things take way longer than they should have, but hey, things happen. When we finally got back we taught a lesson to one of our friends from Ghana. Did a bit more finding, and then headed home for dinner, which we ordered a pizza that was delicious.
The whole pizza to myself.

Friday: Today was exchanges with the London North Elders. I spent the day with Elder Anjum who's originally from Pakistan but has spent the last 10 year's living in Birmingham. We had a good time, starting off exchanges by going out to do a bit of finding. Then we went to McDonald's for lunch. After lunch we had a bit of studies and then did a little bit more finding. Then tonight a member made food for us and asked if we could come pick it up. So we headed there to grab that and then we had our games night activity, tons of people came so it made things really fun. Then that was our day. 

Saturday: Today was pretty cool. In the morning we did our weekly planning, and then it turns out there was a stake young mens activity where they had a fifa tournament in our chapel. It was pretty awesome, they brought some lunch and we watched one or two of the games while they played. Unfortunately I couldn't play or else I would have beat everybody. But then after that we headed out to do a bit of finding, teach another lesson and put yet another person on date. So miracles flooding in right now! Then we did our comp study, and tried to stop by a few returning members but didn't have very much luck. So we headed home to eat dinner. 

Sunday: It was a pretty crazy Sunday. The TTSTL's (traveling sisters in the mission) showed up to our church and were there with us for church, as well as the fact that both my companion and I gave talks. After church we had some time outside finding, and we headed to our late lunch appointment with the Brazilian member. The other sisters joined as well so we had 8 missionaries over at her home and somehow we were all able to be filled up with food leftover as well. Then we headed to the chapel to do our study and then we tried to stop by a few returning members. Then we headed back and that was how our week finished off. 

Well that's it from me this week, I hope everyone is doing alright and life is treating you all well. Everything is not too shabby here in London. Apart from the much wind and rain every single day, everything else is going ok. Thanks for all your love and support. Take care y'all!

Elder Orchard
A Brazilian BBQ we had for lunch today.

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