Well this week has been wonderful. We had a baptism on Friday and it was just lovely. It was a small quiet service and Emily was so scared. She is absolutley terrified of water but the Bishop gave her a blessing before and after she was confirmed on Sunday she said that she just felt very calm. The calmest she has felt in a long time. That's always a good thing. We also got two new investigators this week named Tim, and Rob. They are both very special and I am so excited to teach them more! Rob is paralyzed from the chest down from a motor bike accident and its amazing that he is alive! I guess according to the screens when he was in the hospital he did die but somehow he still lived. He shared with us a very special experience that he had with the spirit. Heavenly Father still had a work for him to do apparently and I am glad that we met him. He told us that before when he was riding his motorbike he had a thought that he should turn around and go home but he kept going on and then that thought came to him a little stronger but he was having a lot of fun. When he turned a corner there was oil on the road and the bike just slipped out from under him and he had a major crash. Anyway he was interested in the resurrection and in the middle of our lesson he asked when church was and wanted us to come see him again! :) I LOVE HOW THE SPIRIT WORKS! needless to say we didn't see him at church because he had a remote control sail boat race thing. Since he can't do much anymore he just makes model cars and boats. He has a ton of cars in his house. I got pretty excited about them. Tim is an interesting man. He goes off on the most random tangents. We were teaching him about the Plan of Salvation and he strated going off on his dad's old shaving brush and how much he loves it and how he keeps everything. That was interesting. But we met with him again last night and the spirit was strong and we surprisingly stayed on topic. He went off a few time but he always brought it back. My favortie tangent that we went off on was the history of the phrase, "in a nutshell" which he has absolutely no concept of. But he was really engaged in our discussion and asked really good questions and was nervous about praying because he had never done so before and asked if we would pray with him...well kind of pray with him. He didn't want pray while we were there but he wanted us all to pray at 10:15 that night to help him out. It was a great experience. We left his house so pumped and ready to shout to the world what we know!! We rocked out to some missionary music on the way home and sang really loud! :) That's how we party....be jealous. :) Today we had a zone p-day in gloucester (pronounced gloster.....don't ask Brits are weird...) We played football to practice for mission football next p-day. Its weird cuz when we would play in rexburg we woudl just run into each other and pretty much do anything to get the ball. that's how i was used to playing soccer....football. but in the MTC we wer absolutely NOT allowed to touch the elders. fair enough. so i got into the habit of not playing basically. But then today when we played the elders kept telling me to just keep pushing forward. because when one of them would get close to me I would back off. So I will have to reprogram myself again. haha Don't worry we will be safe. :) I am so excited for General Conference! It's going to be so good! AND we should have 2 investigators there. Keep your fingers crossed. I am getting more comfortable with driving here. I still cring when I go by big trucks or vans on narrow roads but I am getting there. OH! we met a boy from afghanistan while tracting and we asked him why he moved to England and he laughed at us! Of course he moved here because of the war and the Americans. I tried not to talk too much because I didn't want him to be mad at me beacuse I am American. :) He was really nice and we will stop by him again soon.
Oh! I am having a bit of an identity crisis. We went to see a less active member named Alex and I asked him how he was doing and he lit up and said that I sounded thoroughly English......ok. But THEN at church this lady visiting from Oxford told me that she thought I sounded Irish. I definitly do NOT sound Irish. I hear american when i speak. So do most people but I thought that was kind of funny!
Well the time is far spent and I fear I must leave you once again. Until next week!
As always, Love, hugs, and fist bumps,
Sister Benson
Mosiah 2:41
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