Nothing too exciting has happened. It has been raining a lot though. The weather here is crazy. It is hot and humid one second and literally within a few minutes it is raining hard. I got a new raincoat last P-Day. Last Saturday we had a full day of teaching. Or rather we were supposed to. People didn't show up for their appointments or gave us the wrong house number. But we were able to teach a few lessons. We only had two investigators at church. We had one Less Active there. That is one thing that we are really concentrating on. The Area President and Elder Perry have set a goal for the Europe area to double the Sacrament attendance in 10 years. This is going to be done through new members but also through reactivating Less Actives. Unfortunately this ward that we are serving in is not very good at giving us names to go see.
President Ogden is different from the Previous Mission President. The previous one was all about baptize, baptize, baptize but President Ogden is very much centered on baptizing and keeping members and also bringing back the Less Actives. So far this year there have only been about 20 baptisms in this stake (last year had 100) but the Sacrament attendance has already increased by 8%. The goal is 10% for this year.
Yesterday Elsa, the bicycle, had some issues. (Elder Bedke named her when he used her). It’s going to cost like £30 to fix. Kinda sucks but I guess I really don't have an option. I don't want to buy a new bike.
Our investigator Chipo is perfect. This week when we were going to commit her to baptism, she asked us if she could be baptized before we could ask her. It was great. She is so excited too. We went and saw her yesterday and she can't wait to get baptized. She has a really strong testimony in prayer. She loves us to come over and pray with her. The other day she had a Dr's appointment and wanted us to pray with her. We were in City center with a bunch of people walking around. She insisted that we say a prayer over the phone. It was so awkward but she loved it. She is 42 and a nursing student. She has a daughter that we want to teach the lessons too also but she is off at school or something. She said the prayer the other day. It was so intense. It was like one of those crazy prayers that you see on TV. It almost sounded like a rap but it was good.
Rex, the guy that was baptized a few weeks ago, was supposed to get the Priesthood the last 2 weeks but he didn't show up either day. We have seen him and he sounds like he is excited to come to church but from some reason he doesn't show up. We are a little worried that he has gone back to drinking but doesn't want to admit it. We'll see though. Stanford, the little boy that got baptized the same day as Rex has moved away to Cheltenham. Hopefully I'll get transferred there sometime.
That’s all for this Week!
Elder Wright
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