Found a woman who believed she could raise her cousin from the dead

So transfers are this week!!! As it turns out I am staying (which I am glad for because that means I am going to see some baptisms!) and Elder Samuel got a call to be a District Leader! In the next district! So he is staying in the zone. Actually the area he is going to borders our area! So it is quite funny

So my new companion is Elder Lino and apparently he is from Mozambique so we will see how that goes! Means I'm going to have to tidy the flat!

Last week we had zone activity which was actually quite fun. We played Mormon Mafia and then also human battleships. I think that they wanted to do more, but most of the people didn't turn up until like 2 hours after it was meant to start!! So in that time we played 3 on 3 football because President Dunn had come up with some friends, and to my great surprise, for a 50+-year-old he is pretty good at it! Anyway it was actually quite fun!

So we are going to "Bounce" today because It is Elder Clegg's last time, he's going home, I actually really like him, he's a cool guy, and President and Sister Dunn are coming so that will be interesting! And don't worry I will be super careful!

I forgot last week but one of my Wisdom Tooth is coming through! I can feel it! Which is a weird experience, something I haven't had in a while!

So for food I made this pasta and mince thing that Elder Bonifaz taught me (he's now a Zone Leader!!) and it's actually really nice, i made a panful, it only costs like 4 pounds, but it's enough for like 5 portions, so I have frozen the rest of it so I'm going to be living off that! The main struggle for me is lunch, i just don't know what to have, so I'll use some of those ideas! Also as well, because Elder Musiiwa is training and we share the car we are going to have to stay in the flat till 12 so I can eat lunch

Last week and this week at church, even though it is a big ward of like 200 people, they still have to get the missionaries to help them pass the sacrament :') So I was conducting the music this week and then the other Elders were helping pass the sacrament! Just like home

The weirdest thing last week was that this lady came up to us while we were leaving an appointment, and said that the holy spirit had lead her to us... so got a little excited and launched straight into a compact version of the message of the restoration, it was going fine until i reached the apostasy (the order goes, Godhead, Gospel blesses families, Prophets & Dispensations, Saviour's earthly ministry, Great Apostasy, Restoration, Restoration of the Priesthood, Book of Mormon then Prayer and Holy Ghost) and at that point she announces to us that she is the chosen one and she IS the church. I stop at this point in surprise (although this isn't a new thing) but it gets really weird when she says to us that she's come here to 'prepare' because the next day she was going to try and raise her cousin from the dead... so at this point I got really weirded out and I was just finished writing our mobile number on the back of a restoration pamphlet when I changed my mind and put it back in my bag :'). She tells us this story of what happened to her, and we politely listened. I'm looking at Elder Samuel to say something but nothing, so I don't know how but we eventually got away. At one point she invited us into her house, and we said no (I was worried she might do something to us!) But yeah that was exciting! And a little weird!

Something that came to me was about Stake Temple week, I always remember that the missionaries who were serving used to email their testimonies and then someone would read it out in the testimony meeting and they were some of the most powerful! 

Because I can say that I have become truly converted. I've always known it was true but it is really different now. I am totally at easy with it and brings so much inner peace to me.

I like this scripture in Psalms 52:2 that I came across ;)

I also like this poem byLorenzoo snow:

Hast thou not been unwisely bold,Man’s destiny to thus unfold?To raise, promote such high desire,Such vast ambition thus inspire?Still ’tis no phantom that we traceMan’s ultimatum in life’s race;This royal path has long been trodBy righteous men, each now a God:As Abra’m, Isaac, Jacob, too,First babes, then men—to gods they grew.As man now is, our God once was;As now God is, so man may be,—Which doth unfold man’s destiny.The boy, like to his father grown,Has but attained unto his own;To grow to sire from state of son,Is not ’gainst Nature’s course to run.A son of God, like God to be,Would not be robbing Deity;And he who has this hope within,Will purify himself from sin.

That's about it from me,

Love Jack xx