tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24632739179378495012024-02-07T17:43:51.595-08:00England Leeds Mission 2013-2015Elder Ivins' two years in England serving and teaching about God's plan.Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08022436973161939000noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2463273917937849501.post-49986216575679129422015-08-04T13:58:00.000-07:002015-08-04T13:58:02.990-07:00The Last Email<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; line-height: 16.8999996185303px;"> its a surreal time as you finish your mission. i dont even really know what to say. <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1307604405" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">this sunday</span></span> i was asked by the bishop to open the fast and testimony meeting and go first, i had no words. its just impossible to capture what these two years have held in any words, the best i can think of is "you should have been there" because its futile to explain in words. working is a gift of God, that is a final lesson i have learned, that really the ability to do ANYTHING is from God. there really is nothing that i do or posses that God hasnt given me, or that i dont owe to God. there really is no "I" or "me". thats my summary haha i dont know what else to write. two years is a long time to be here without you all to share the moments with, but i know that it has been worth every moment and that the life ahead is really just the start. now i get to think about bills and school and alll that other stuff in between. which isnt a whole lot to be honest haha. i speak to president for my final interview at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1307604406" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">8 am</span></span> <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1307604407" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">tomorrow</span></span>. life is changing. said goodbye to an investigator and some memebrs who have started coming back out since ive been here. things have been good here for the 3 months i was here. ive called some members in billingham becuase thats a place ill never forget. england is a hard place to leave, its like moving from jersey all over again. </span></span><br />
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Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08022436973161939000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2463273917937849501.post-8984685967224797782015-07-13T22:49:00.000-07:002015-07-13T22:50:33.354-07:00The Gold Mine<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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November 18,2013...after Stake Conference a sister came up to us and gave us a referral for her neighbor. Then she left. Then Elder D and I were planning to go to where she lives the next day and see exactly what this was all about and see if this sister would be able to give us more info. Sunday comes and we get out to Hedon, a tiny little village that is what I thought my mission was going to look like outside of Leeds and York. Well we knocked on her door and she welcomed us in. As we start discussing what we are hoping to happen we start talking about less active members, then something and next thing I know she is pointing to about six other houses that she felt is ready and willing and some of them are even inactives. Well seriously, she blew us out of the water with referrals but she completely 100% understands of how missionaries and members are suppose to work together so well that missionaries are teaching all the time...its the Gold Mine and we have transfers in a week...</div>
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What potentials look like with member help. </div>
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Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08022436973161939000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2463273917937849501.post-23487193019868456012015-07-13T22:39:00.002-07:002015-07-13T22:52:01.302-07:00The favorite moments <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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"It's a sense of breaking on the inside as you think that the last two years are just over...done...gone...but NO! They aren't because I have a full month and a few days...Then I realize I just want to cry because I don't feel it should be coming to the end. I don't want to...Then I think about the fact I will have to. Then I get a rush of adrenaline because I get to come back to the normal world, just with a stronger testimony and conviction of the gospel, so then I want to cry because I wish that new adventure could start, and it's so close yet far...I just don't understand. LIFE. I'm crazy! Thanks for that mum."<br />
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"They always ask what I'm excited about, and just <i>always</i> ask what the plans are for when I'm home? How has my mission helped me?"<br />
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"Right now I feel so tempted to just listen to the music I would back home because I am close to finishing, yet I know that is the wrong thing and if I've done it all this time why start now? Why are we so fragile as mortals? Isn't this the grand step towards feeling eternal joy? I understand opposition in all things, but this isn't fair...I understand that its necessary, and the more I think about it the more I am grateful that Christ came and made it all possible for us to return ...The more I have even just sat here writing about it the more I feel appreciation to the Savior."<br />
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"I can only imagine these are the same feelings or thoughts that we would have been experiencing just before our journey from our Heavenly Father's presence to this earth. They are conflicting, confusing, yet make you really discern the light from the dark. The good from the bad, The eternal to the temporal. That contrast is so vivid and clear in those moments that the spirit teaches an individual. Those moments have been my favorite."<br />
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These missionaries are truly angels going about the Lords work. They forgo all worldly temptation and live so close to the Savior in order to bring people closer to Christ. Take note, if you thought you knew Christ, try reading the funny little book (that does not take the place of the Bible) called the Book of Mormon. It will take you as close to understanding Christ as is worldly possible. <br />
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Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08022436973161939000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2463273917937849501.post-14619489729263745962015-06-08T22:00:00.000-07:002015-06-08T22:00:02.320-07:00The Study<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Elder Ivins will be leaving England August 6th. He will arrive home August 7, 2015. He has been released as district leader and will enjoy his free nights. His latest transfer was to Scunthorpe, </div>
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He may have one more transfer before coming home. What has been his favorite part of the mission so far? Studying the Scriptures. </div>
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There is no other time that such a young person will take more serious and to heart the words in the Bible and the Book of Mormon. He has truly enjoyed getting to know his Savior through his studies. He got to go back to an area lately and visit recent converts and really loves the people. He also has met lots of companions and friends from around the world: China and Australia.</div>
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Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08022436973161939000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2463273917937849501.post-25832333261807413282015-03-13T12:40:00.002-07:002015-03-13T12:40:52.015-07:00The suffering in the world...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Why is there suffering in the world?<br />
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"A lady that we actually y contacted the first week. She gave us a bear that was made during 9-11 to support the families she thought it was appropriate since we were American We struck up a good conversation (she can talk for all of England) just about life. Haha, anyways she said to come by another time and she'd love to hear our message. <br />
So Elder C and I finally got in contact with her this past week and set up an appointment. We talked a lot about struggles seen in the world and how family is so important to get through it. She said that she has always looked for the truth in religious groups and she just couldn't get over how they never could answer that one question, Why is there suffering in the world?<br />
We told her it is all about opposition in all things. She said that although the reality of that answer is a bit hard, it makes sense and she told us about her struggle with depression. We had to leave but told her a bit about how God still speaks to us today and that a prophet is on the earth again. We left her President Holland's talk. We got bakc later that week and she loved the talk and asked more about prophets and told us some experiences with other religious leader and how they are cold. For that some reason she never felt like there was a family community in those churches. She recently found out her father was not her biological father. She will be doing family history and looks forward to that." <br />
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Like many others, I have often been inspired by beautiful works of art and music. One such occasion was when I stood before a masterful painting created by the Danish artist Frans Schwartz titled <span class="emphasis" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Agony in the Garden.</span><sup class="noteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/liahona/2015/03/encircled-in-his-gentle-arms?cid=HP14FPM&lang=eng#footnote1-12563_000_002" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #0091bc; font-size: 9px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1</a></sup></div>
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This achingly beautiful painting depicts the Savior kneeling in the Garden of Gethsemane. As He prays, an angel stands next to Him, enfolding Him in gentle arms, offering comfort, heavenly succor, and support.</div>
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The longer I contemplate this painting, the more my heart and mind swell with inexpressible feelings of tenderness and <a class="no-link-style" href="http://lds.org/topic/gratitude/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none !important; color: #2f393a; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none !important; vertical-align: baseline;">gratitude</a>. I can sense, in small part, what it must have been like to be present as the Savior began His great culminating work of mortality by taking upon Himself the sins of the world. I marvel at the infinite love and compassion the Father has for His children. I am overwhelmed with profound gratitude for what the sinless Son did for all mankind and for me.</div>
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Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08022436973161939000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2463273917937849501.post-35797852516484769482015-03-13T12:23:00.000-07:002015-03-15T14:12:40.876-07:00The testimony<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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"I just want to share my testimony about the gospel, the light, and the truth that it holds, emanates and burns into our consciousness. No matter the trials, the oppositions, the small imprint on us are what help us hold it together. I recently listened to a talk by President Hinkley, the theme was "Don't Drop the Ball" at the end of it he states that we can't afford it. I really liked that. The fact is we are in the last days, we cannot afford to drop the ball. And if you do, the Savior's atonement is the ultimate make-up. Christ is real, he lives, and he loves us. All of us. I wish that I could bear my testimony at the reunion in person, because I can not even imagine the wonderful plan our God has set for us. The beautiful theme of family and love and eternal rounds without the spirit choking my heart in its enveloping warmth, burning another sealing stitch to our consciousness. Being out here has showed the true happiness that we have from the gospel. I cannot wait to see it in my own family one day and the lives of people we set an example for, each one of us. In the name of our Savior, Jesus Christ, Amen."<br />
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Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08022436973161939000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2463273917937849501.post-25639035499810931472015-03-13T12:08:00.002-07:002015-03-13T12:25:01.090-07:00The Only True Church<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
June 2014 "We have an investigator who has no problem believing Joseph Smith is a prophet and the Book of Mormon is the work of God. She doesn't believe we are the only (true) church with authority of God." <br />
"I believe all you say but you are not the only true church....we discussed the temples and the sacredness of them (we are the only Christian denomination with temples). Maybe you are telling me the truth."<br />
The only way to now truth is to pray about it. Joseph Smith did and received an answer. You can do the same, the Bible tells us so.<br />
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Elder Ivins is staying in Billingham another transfer.This is Spud. A regular in Billingham and is all about "beating the man". Elder Ivins, thinking it was his last week had to get a picture with Spud. <span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;">I also love the picture above because we love everyone and all of us need to hear the message! Let the one who hears the message decide, not the messenger. </span>Billingham likes Elder Ivins and they just like him to well to change!<br />
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Audrey made this video for Isaac on his birthday. Really sweet. She got in touch with so many of his friends. Then a family in England made his favorite ice-cream cake for his birthday, Mint Chip Freeze. He loved it! Happy Birthday Missionary!<br />
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<br />Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08022436973161939000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2463273917937849501.post-60188316475772620572014-05-18T20:00:00.001-07:002014-05-18T20:00:18.285-07:00the 'cost and blessings of discipleship' idea taken from the idea of Jeffery R Holland's conference 2014 talk.<br />
read his talk <a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2014/04/the-cost-and-blessings-of-discipleship?lang=eng">here</a><br />
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"Serving is great. So this week was a bit of a downer. March 10th. Take out. Sick. Puking.<br />
My companion was peanut-ed."<br />
What's peanut-ed?<br />
"They pull the tie down really hard and it tightens the knot too much that it gets stuck.<br />
Pennies thrown at us. Called Jehovahies.<br />
I let them know we weren't Jehovah Witnesses. That we were representatives of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. It felt good to stick up for our selves." On another note:<br />
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It is difficult to share the Book of Mormon when so many people are reading the Newly Translated Bible. They find it difficult to read the thees and thous ....So, stick to the King James Version. That is the purest version anyhow...leave the translating up to yourselves and God....<br />
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Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08022436973161939000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2463273917937849501.post-3291022483015297942014-03-09T18:01:00.002-07:002014-03-09T18:01:47.544-07:00The Bike II<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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December 10, 2013- ...the people that we found this week are yearning to change. K wants to get rid of his alcohol dependency. D has gotten off alcohol completely! and is working hard to loose smoking. And then J is carefully growing more and more in the gospel. She enjoys church more and has told us that she feels the difference in her patience with her autistic boy as she reads and prays often...</div>
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November 26, 2013 - Transfers came and went, I stayed. I spent the holiday with the Pickerings. They are from New York and will be moving to the states this summer. Elder Pollock will be my new companion. The Hull Zone is also being split into two zones. I ordered Donner Meat, which I believe I've talked about before, if not don't look it up ...it is suppose to be "lamb, but not many would say it is. But it couldn't be as bad as Hot Dogs.</div>
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Any ways, as we were walking to our flat one night a child, no more than 10, began to yell at us mockingly, "Bible bashers! Jesus Believers! and laughing and just generally mocking us. His sister was 4 years younger, caught on after a few more chants by her example of a brother and the parents were just on their porch drinking a lagger. The young boy then began to sing a chant about how we were idiots and the Christ was a fairy-tale, that he just died and was nothing now and we are stupid believers. That stuck the most. We didn't think much of the taunting and we just continued into our building. When we got in the flat my heart went out to the boy and the younger sister. "how could they say that? What child would hold that kind of conviction? What is there I can do to help him?" so many questions I had no answers too come to my heard, and some hostile to the parents for such teachings for surely the boy didn't learn it by his own understanding. </div>
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(they aren't only Bible bashers, and proud of it- they know their Book of Mormon too!)</div>
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November 4, 2013...we were looking for apartment 57, but right where it should have been there was an empty lot...frustrated Elder D wanted to leave, but I just said I wanted to know why it was gone...lot's knock the ones next to it...so we did just that and on 59 we found Martin...We told him on the doorstep that we had an answer for some of his concerns if he would like to listen for 5 minutes (: We've taught him twice since Tuesday.</div>
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Halloween we had to be in by 6:30..Guy Fawkes Day...fireworks and parties. [Guy Fawkes, also known as Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish in the Low Countries, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605] Anyways we found a woman. She is such a smart person and when we found her she only had questions about prayer and why there were so many churches if there is suppose to be 1 God... Elder D and I shared the restoration and taught her about prayer and how she could develop a personal relationship through prayer with her Heavenly Father. </div>
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October 21, 2013...it's getting tougher, but that's what mission does, isn't it? ...I have wonderful morning studies on Christ like attributes every day...One great thing that I love is that faith is so simple yet very complicated and praying for a stronger breeze to cool you down is an easy prayer for Heavenly Father to answer (: if there is faith (;</div>
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Big news is that we have no investigators, well we have that family, but right now that is it. So that is kinda frustrating. We get some really good potentials, but then they just send us away after the first lesson. </div>
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The baptism was great though and then the next day Elder Dotschoat and I did confirmations. Wow! I really enjoyed that...</div>
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The Family is one of the greatest gift God has given us.</div>
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That is why Elder Ivins was so excited to have a miracle in England. </div>
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While on a blitz in his area he and his companion found a young man knocking on doors. They chatted for about 5 minutes and asked if they could come in and share more about who they were and what they do. </div>
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A family to TEACH! </div>
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After a lesson prayer and how it is such a blessing to be able to pray and how it could bless them as a family and individual, they set an appointment for the missionaries to come back.</div>
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They gave them a Book of Mormon.</div>
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Such a nice little surprise...The Family.</div>
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Here are some tips from LDS.org on how to be the best family you can be:</div>
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...our last appointment for the day was to teach a 7 year old girl and her mother about our church. Her mother took the lessons in 2005. </div>
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...so we taught her the plan of <span style="color: lime;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/youth/learn/yw/plan-of-salvation?lang=eng">salvation</a>.</span> The girl had intense questions and is very logical (maybe her mom told her to ask). This lesson 1, turned into 4, then 5. Then the whole family was listening. The father was skeptical at first, and when the plan of salvation lesson wasn't going so well we switched to the<u> <a href="https://www.lds.org/manual/preach-my-gospel-a-guide-to-missionary-service/what-do-i-study-and-teach/lesson-1-the-message-of-the-restoration-of-the-gospel-of-jesus-christ?lang=eng&query=restoration"><span style="color: lime;">restoration</span></a> </u>by spirit. Incredible. The spirit was in the room. The oldest son prayed for the close of our meeting and he is 13. Afterwards, he was just beyond excited to have talked to God. </div>
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The kids were begging to have us back everyday. This was just the answer to our prayers. </div>
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<br />Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08022436973161939000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2463273917937849501.post-71246921312445789222013-09-10T03:24:00.000-07:002013-09-10T03:26:05.814-07:00The Bike<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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...another miracle was on Sunday night and we had chosen three streets the night before. Then we got to the first and totally forgot to watch for it. We turned around and then my MTC teacher voice came to mind, </div>
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"<i>if you forget something you felt was good once but you still forgot...that's the spirit telling you now that it's not what should be used." </i></div>
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Confused, I told my trainer and he said, "okay. Let's skip it." As we walked to the third street we came across a man on a bike. I waved and said, "Hello Mate. How are you?" </div>
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He was an ex-communicated member 12 years ago and wanted to get his life bake together. We expressed to him that it was no accident that we were guided to him this night. </div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Mr. &
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<span lang="EN-GB">Elder Isaac
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England Leeds Mission<br />
Lister House, Lister Hill<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">well i cant even send the one improtant thing which is a picture of me and my companion but it is all right, you miht get worried because he is literally just like Rob...i mean the guy even lookslike him AND acts like him, really it is strange but so awesome becaue we arre bes friends already ahahaha but aside from that we are also a killer companionship. we teach "investigators" in a room dressed as a living room and it can seriously be a challenge, especaillly the first time which was out second day.the second day! mostly i put this all in my journals and i now have to tell you so much in suh a little amount of time -_- i love it here and the people are...ineresting. </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: white;">there is</span> </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: white;">oe elder in my district that reminds me of harison and that is just...yea not good ahaha</span><span style="color: #222222;">.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> but then there are tons of interesting and eciting people ive met too like our French, Elder Neville, who is having a blst learning english and will serve in texas haha he loves the word fart and such hahaha but his accents makes it sound like fawt ahaha really we all just get along great and try our mbest with all our investigators. man the keyboards here are terrible and they have diferent keys... ummm well we also taught a "gay" investigator that was just impossosible. we had no clue how or what to say i mean...once he said "yea i like men, i mean girls, women, men, no definitely not men im not gey...you look gey." and that was all uninterupted haha. just bizarre really. im not too home sick. found a lot of things i deffinitely did not pack like a sand bottle landon made and a few notes but it was cool finding it (: Audreys gift helps a lot too and he dads package. i have so much more i want to tell you but thats all that comes to mind... the MTC is not a prison here we really can go and study just about anywhere and outside is always best because the AC sucks in England with all the cold they specialize in heaters... the siters in my district are way fun too because one is from tonga and the other australia...just lots of diversity..im friends with a duth, a german, and tongan, 2 austalians, and an austrian, and then there are just tons from Utah...and one elder from china haha. shoot! 5 min left and i still need to email audge,</span></div>
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<span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.38;">It's not always easy saying good bye to your brother or sibling for 2 whole years.<br />Today my oldest brother, Isaac left to serve a full time mission in England Leeds. It was the hardest day of my life. 2 years is a really long time. But I know they will go by fast. Bye the time he comes home, I will be 15, Jaida will be 17, landon will be 13, and last but not least marissa will be 6! Isaac will miss everyone's birthday atleast once or maybe twice. But I know it's for a good reason. I know he will be a Great one! He is a big brother and example. I will surely miss him a ton. But when he returns with honor i will be able to give him the Biggest hug. People are going to love him. I know it. He got to call us to tell us he got to Chicago safely. We didn't have much time at all but it was worth it! It was great to hear his voice again. Well I just want to say that I'm very proud of him and I know he will do great and be watched over and pretected. Love you a bunch big brother! Or known as Elder Ivins!</span></h5>
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Elder Ivins left today. It feels a bit like a funeral. Kind of like a death in the family. You try to be happy but you can't do anything but wonder what he would be doing if he was home right now. I know he is where he is suppose to be. He phones from Chicago and had met up with about 14 other missionaries all heading to Leeds! I am happy for him! His brothers and sisters miss him. I would have to say that it was extremely helpful to have an RM here with us, Zac, his cousin. He helped answer all those little questions.Thanks to all the support of friends and family!!Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08022436973161939000noreply@blogger.com0