Blessed Car Life

This week has been a pretty solid week. Nothing too crazy, but just an average decent week of missionary work. We've spent a lot of time just trying to do what we can online but man things have been going pretty rough for us. We kinda hit a dry spell at the moment in terms of finding new people to teach but we just gotta keep pressing onward and I know eventually good things will come from it. But one of the craziest things from this week is the fact that I got my flight plans to come home so that was just insane! 😱

One of the main highlights from the week are the fact that we had exchanges on Tuesday and I was able to spend the day with Elder Hathaway and I just had some nostalgia to the good days haha. We had a fun exchange, we even did a cool Facebook live with music and Testimonies, and then played some basketball afterwards, so honestly a great time! 

It's been a HUGE blessing to be able to have a car now because our opportunities for travel have just expanded greatly, but there have been a few difficulties as well haha. We spent a few hours on Monday taking the car in for a tire change and a few other minor problems, and we still haven't gotten everything fixed yet, so we will need to take it in for another service next week. It took up way more time than we were planning but hopefully after next week everything will be alright and working properly.

We also had 4 meal appointments with members this week and all of them were some that we haven't met in person before so it was really great to be able to get our and visit some of them, along with eat some yummy food 😊 

In other news there was a day this week that got sooo hot! It was up to 35 degrees Celsius which is about 90-95 Fahrenheit. For England, that is hot hot weather! And it is just draining, especially the fact that A/C doesn't exist over here haha, but we survived and it's slightly lower heat so I'm doing alright now. 

I'm just really taking advantage of the opportunity to focus on my studies during this time and I am so grateful for the blessing of scriptures and modern day revelation. I know that we can find answers to our questions if we just simply ask, seek, and knock. God hears our prayers, I testify of that. Love you all, have a great and safe week! 

Elder Orchard




 We had the sacrament with the Sisters so that was great 👍
We had the sacrament with the Sisters so that was great 👍

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