Elder Hoopes and I have made a goal to teach more this transfer than ever before. This week was definitely a success. We had a couple points where it didn't seem likely lessons would happen, but miracles happened and they did.
For example, on Wednesday we made plans with a lady named Annerine to go to her home and study the BIble with her. The plans were made over a quick call a few days prior, so they weren't super solid. Wednesday rolls around and we had loads to do with planning for meetings, trainings, and videos, so we worked on that all morning and then put it on hold to go and teach.
Annerine's address took us through the standard English streets lined with crammed houses until one such street on the edge of town turned into a single lane muddy country road lined with hedges. Traversing that resulted in an incredibly dirty car and one period where I had to back up about 100 yards to let another car pass who was heading the opposite way. After continuing into the countryside surrounding Bristol another 15 minutes, little cottages start sprouting up. Then, out of thin air, a massive gothic spire springs out from behind the trees. Around the spire, sprouting from the Church of St. Michael the Archangel, is the village of Dundry. The address Annerine first provided took us straight to the pub, so we went in asking around for her with no luck. A couple phone calls and some door-knocking later, we found her house and she is actually super-interested! We are going to start doing Come Follow Me with her each week and hopefully help her start coming to church.
After studying with her we zipped back into the heart of Bristol to a homeless shelter ran by the Salvation Army to teach a man who referred himself. The shelter had signs saying "No Visitors" hung on doors that were locked and secured. We hit the buzzer though and they let us in. The people were incredibly nice and happy to see us. They had us fill out some waivers for visitors, and then let us commandeer the chapel for our lesson. It was really cool, the gentleman has had a lot of hard points in his life but he seems ready to turn a new leaf. We have weekly lessons set up with both Annerine and the other man for the foreseeable future!
We had some other lessons through the week, all of which forced us to push our Social Media obligations closer and closer to the deadlines. We had faith things would work out as we were trying our best however, and as a result, the Spirit truly helped us accomplish what we could not do alone. The videos will he published today and tomorrow, check them out!
Sincerely,
Elder Killian
Pic #1 - the spire at Dundry as we searched for Annerine
Pic #2 - high winds from Storm Eunice, this pic was also taken at Dundry, you can see Bristol in the distance behind us
Pic #3 - our video set for our video which will be published today, it's just the inside of our flat haha
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