This was my first week in the field and it has been pretty interesting. On Tuesday we headed out for the mission home bright and early and met President and Sister McReynolds. There ended up being 15 of us new missionaries because a few joined from Provo so our interviews with President took longer than expected. We finally met our trainers around 3. My trainer is Sister Smith and she is from North Salt Lake. She is the 2nd oldest in a family of nine and loves her family and playing soccer. She is so nice and I'm so relieved my trainer is good. I also found out that I am in the Stockport area. There are 2 other sets of missionaries in the same area so we do things with them often. We live in Davenport and thankfully our flat is right across the street from the chapel.
We set up a street display in the town centre on Tuesday. Us and the two other companionships in the area spent about 2 hours talking to people and I met this man named Ian. His wife died a while ago so we taught him about the Plan of Salvation and he was so happy. He came to church with us this Sunday too and he said he had a good time.
Finally, there's Kevia and Kingston. Kevia has just had a hard time these past few years. Kingston is her son and he is literally the craziest little kid i have ever met. We met with Keviaa yesterday and she said she wanted to be baptized and start over again. Obviously Sister Smith and I were so excited and we set a date to work towards. I hope that the message we teach her can give her the peace and strength she is looking for.
Also funny story. I was talking to these two girls on the bus (we walk/take the bus everywhere) and I asked for their phone numbers but their phones were dead. So I thought I'd give them our phone number but I didn't have it memorized yet. I had our companionship phone with us (each companionship gets a smartphone) and i saw an 11 digit number on the front (their phone numbers are also longer than ours?) so i though that was our number. Turns out it's not and I gave these two girls a phony number. I felt really bad after but hopefully they'll at least visit the website.
There have been loads of things that are different from the US here in England. Yes, I did ride a double decker bus. We actually ride them all the time. Also their schools are different? They have primary until their 11, then high school until their 16, then college until their 18, and then university. So I was really confused at first when some 16 year old said they were in college. Some people's accents are also kind of hard to understand. Ian, who I mentioned before, has a thickish accent and talks really fast so i honestly can't understand about half of what he says. I just nod and say yeah occasionally.
Another funny story. The 2nd night here (Wednesday), Sister Smith accidentally left the keys in the flat and the senior Elder who had our keys was not answering his phone. So we ended up having the Zone leaders come over (they're one of the companionships in the area) and Elder Schoonover climber on Elder Jensen's shoulders until he could reach our window, which we thankfully left open. It was hilarious.
I finally got to meet the ward yesterday as well. They were all very friendly and I'm trying to remember all their names but it's hard. The ward is very generous. We have tea appointments with them almost every night and they feed three companionships. We are getting a new ward mission leader too but right now it's Brother Fasa
But yeah that's pretty much it. I'm enjoying my time here and working hard to invite people to come unto Christ. Til next week!
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