I'm In Aldershot!

Hey, everyone. Yes, moves were last week, didn't find out until AFTER e-mailing, dangit, so I couldn't tell you guys until today, but I moved! I miss newbury!!! I love the members so much, definitely going to visit them again. Somehow. Maybe.

 

My camera won't work on this computer!! Dangit!!! I'll have to find some way to send you guys photos, I have loads of them. Sigh.

 

Anyways, yes, well my last days in newbury were tough. Elder O'keeffe got as a new companion, Elder Hilton, who actalyl served in Newbury before!!! Weird. Anyways, I thought it was a good move by President Millar, because Elder O'Keeffe needed help in taking over the area.

 

And I am now with.. Elder Remon!! From Spain. He's awesome. And young. Only 6 months out. I'm so old compared to him! haha! But we work hard, and we get work done.

 

Speaking of the work, this area stinks! just kidding its awesome. But it is almost desolate completely from a teaching pool. Our only hope is this girl Mel, from Spain, whose getting baptized on the 19th of April. She's way cool. But Elder Remon and her speak spanish because she isn't very good at speaking english. I'm trying to learn spanish as well, ahha, I agreed to help Elder Remon learn English if he helps me learn spanish :) Anyways yeah, she's great, came to church as well, and has fellowshippers and everything.

 

Its a 4-man area!! Or shoudl I say, 2 man and 2 woman. Yeah, there's sisters in our ward! Sister Green and Sister Dunlop. Both from Australia, both awesome. They are on fire. Sister Green reminds me exactly (And I mean exactly) of Catelyn. its just weird.

 

What else... Well aldershot is an ex-military town or something, you couldn't tell by looking at it though really. But there are loads of really old Nepalese people walking around, haha, because apparently the UK hired Nepalese soldiers "Ghurkas" to fight for them at some point a while ago, and they were like super beast, so now they just chill in the UK, retired. Kind of funny though because none of them speak english. Its almost pointless to try and proselye among them (though we still try.) We just say "Namaste" which means "how are you" and they do "namaste" back, haha, and that's about all we know.

 

Well, sorry for the lack of mass e-mails recently. I don't know what else has been going on. We're just stuck knocking or finding most of the days here, but I don't really mind as much as I used to, because Elder Remon is a cool kid, we laugh about everything. I always butcher my spanish and hejust laughs.

 

well, thank you everyone for the e-mails. love you all. Until next week!

 

-Elder Blumenthal

My Mission Just Flashed Before My Eyes

Woah, I just sat there and realized I have, like, 4 months left in my mission. And then I'm done. That's crazy.

Timbo is coming home in a month! And Some of my companions are going home soon too! Elder Wainwright my trainer goes home in a fortnight. Elder Hegerhorst goes home at the end of April!!! And my BOY is nearing his year mark! That is just... CRAZY.

Okay well this week was, awesome. We had 2 people at church. Well, 4 actually, 2 of them were non-members. It was just for sacrament (we have sacrament last in our ward) and it was fast and testimony meeting.. oh brother.. but it went well! Super well! They both enjoyed it. Best part of it all though, is FELLOWSHIP. Newbury is the king of kings in fellowshipping. Shebana, one of the people who came to church, was instantly invited to like 15 different activities! Its awesome!!! Kudos to the members for being champs.

Well yes, anyways, we've been teaching shebana (I'll have to get a picture of everyone by next week...) and she seems to be progressing rapidly. Before it was a struggle just getting over the first lesson, but now she's absorbing everything like a sponge! She'd be SUCH a great help in the ward. I'm so excited to have found her with Elder Stradling those months ago.

also, we had exchanges in the week, and interviews with President Millar. He sure has changed a lot since he first came out. I was in the first group of elders that came out when he came in. If that makes sense. basically, I know him from when he was a "greenie." haha! He was about as nervous as I was. But now he's just a champion! You can just feel the spirit so strong when you walk into a room with him.

 Anyways, thank you everyone for the e-mails. I hope to hear from everyone soon, and I will try to e-mail those of you whom I remember. Love ya! until next week,

-Elder Blumenthal