Happy Mother's day everyone!!! I had a great mother's day. Got to talk to the family! I think my favorite part of the conversation with my family was what my mom said near the end of our conversation, she basically said that everyone is doing alright, no one is in any serious trouble and things are still going good. I think the biggest thing I worry about while I'm out here is what's going on back home. It was so comforting to hear that everyone I know of is doing okay.
This week has been pretty awesome. We went to the Temple with Chris, our investigator whose getting baptized on the 24th of May. While there we got pretty hungry, so we walked to some restaurant, and guess who we saw!? The Pelhams!!!! It was so legit. I didn't get a picture but they did. It was the best!!! I never even thought I'd see them for my entire life basically, and I got to see them at the temple! I feel kind of bad because I didn't get much time to talk to them, and ask about Calum and Hannah and everyone else in haywards heath, but from what I've heard everyone's doing alright.
Well yeah yesterday we had to give 2 people blessings back-to-back!!! And we had to go all the way across Maidstone just to get to the other one. So it was funny because once we gave Sister Collingwood a blessing we basically had to book it back to the flat so Elder Eccleton could talk to his family. I've never seen my feet walk so fast in my life! haha! But everything went alright for Elder Eccleton and he got to talk to everyone, his family is doing good.
We had Zone Conference this week as well, which was pretty great. It was kind of weird because it didn't have too much I got out of it, I don't know if it was just me or the people who organized it, but we listened to an Area Authority, Elder Herbertson, who basically told us the success of missionary work, which comes from working with members for referrals who DON'T interact with members all the time, so for instance Less-Actives and others who don't have leadership callings, rather than the Bishop and priesthood/auxilliary leaders. It makes sense really. We visited a strong family and asiked if they knew anyone they could invite to church, and they were just like, "Well... We don't really associate with many others outside of church..." Haha! So it just reaffirmed to me that the best places to look are the places that no one would think of.
That's about it really. Good week, very busy and not much proselyting unfortunately. We're moving flats soon because the areas going to be a 4-man area!! If I stay that would be SO awesome!!! Haha! But who knows. Anyways, until next week everyone
-Elder Skyler Blumenthal
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