Week 23

Wow this week was so great!

So this week our mission had a challenge week! So every day we got
three challenges and my girl and I totally smashed it! We have a lot
of people to start working with now which is exciting it was really
good for us because it helped jump start our area I think and it made
us realise what we are capable of so we are gonna keep it going so we
can keep being strong and doing good work.

This week we gotta go to Coventry for a multi zone Conference so we
stayed the night in Peterborough with some sisters and then drove to
Coventry for the conference we gotta hear from the area 70 Elder
Phillip we learned a lot, sat a lot, ate a lot and drove way to much
but we still had a lot of fun.

The weather has been fantastic lately which has been nice because we
have been doing so much finding I took my girl tracting for three hrs
straight it was crazy but a lot of fun we definitely met some
interesting people on some of those streets but it was still great.

I seriously have fallen in love with this area it has been so cool to
see the country side and all the old buildings there is so much
history in this neck of the woods! There are so many adorable old
English villages we have seen and it's always nice to drive past the
sea.

We have been giving out more Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Lithuanian
book of Mormons then English ones! It always cracks me up when we try
and have a conversation with one of them but it's pretty one sided
with the language barrier but I'm convinced if I keep praying hard
enough maybe God will bless me with the gift of tongues if we find an
elect Baltic person.

We met a lady while tracting who was sobbing at the door I gave her a
hug and tried to comfort her and she proceeded to tell me about how
she had to have her pet GUINEA PIG put down that morning we proceeded
to comfort her and teach her the plan of salvation haha. I love being
a missionary it's so cool how we get to meet random people and talk to
them about life and God and things. There is seriously no other time
in life that I'm gonna get this chance socially to talk to complete
strangers it's just so freaking cool! I'm seriously gonna miss the day
when I can't have a random conversation with a random person.

One day this week we were in Tattershall and we drove past a castle so
I made my girl pull over and we got a picture with it! It was a proper
castle by the way with a mote and everything! We are going back today
to properly check it out.

This morning we went to "The Boston Stump" it is a Small scale
cathedral built in the 1300's it has a huge tower on it that can be
scene from a castle in Lincoln that is an hour from here. I love
seeing churches they did such beautiful workmanship on them it's also
really cool seeing how people during The Apostasy were still trying to
follow Jesus Christ and building places of worship to try and be
closer to God. In a lot of Cathedrals they have graves and monuments
to the people who died and it's amazing to see what people did with
there hands when carving marble and stone and wood the details are
amazing.

We had a lesson this week with a Less active family we have been
working with. Last week was my first lesson with them and it turns out
that they didn't know they needed to be praying so I challenged them
to take turns praying at night out loud, then they came to sacrament
meeting last week for the first time in 20 years. This week in the
lesson I asked the Dad who he would like to give the closing prayer
and he said he would give it as he prayed the spirit was so strong
during his prayer, he sounded like he'd been praying his whole life it
was beautiful I of course teared up a bit during the prayer. He came
to church this Sunday and stayed for all three hours he is amazing I
am so excited for his family!

Easter was super great as well we got so much love from the ward and
ate way to much chocolate I got the call on Saturday morning from
Bishop asking if we could both speak in sacrament meeting so that was
scary it was my first assigned talk on my mission so I'm just glad I
had more then ten minutes to prepare for it. We had diner with some
members and then went to a ward fire side which was super good.

But ya this week was awesome I love being here so much it's so great I
love not being a greenie anymore I feel like mission life is so much
better not being in the greenie area I don't really know why but
something has definitely changed and I'm excited about it! Training is
pretty fun to! Sister Stirm is awesome and we've been having a lot of
fun she is a radio singer as well so we both sing a lot in the car.

 So life is wonderful and I'm doing great hope you had a wonderful
Easter and thought about the Saviour. I'm so grateful for the
Atonement I was talking to a member and we said Christmas is when we
celebrate the gift that is Jesus Christ but Easter is when we
Celebrate using the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

Love,
Sister Talia Brown 🇬🇧
68, Norfolk St
Boston
PE21 9HQ
England



Love,
Sister Talia Brown 🇬🇧
68, Norfolk St
Boston
PE21 9HQ