In My Experience, There Is No Such Thing As Luck

This last week was so great! I was able to go on exchanges with Elder Parkinson. He is such a beast, he has only been out for 3 months but you would think that he has been out for over a year. we went to teach these two 25 year old guys and one of their girlfriends. We got there and they let us in but it wasn't a pretty sight. It was a mess and one of them was only half dressed and the other one just came out of the kitchen with a beer in his hand. They started to swear up a storm. Elder Parkinson gave me a couple looks like, "lets get out of here." But I wanted to stay, so I pretended like I didn't see him. They started to ask us some really good questions and we could tell that they were sincere. It was cool because we told them about the Holy Ghost and told them it would be there. We shared a message and they just went dead quiet. We told them they were feeling the Holy Ghost and they knew it. Elder Parkinson and I were walking away from that just saying, "wow...wow...wow" it was so cool because it just showed us we shouldn't judge people and say that they wont feel the spirit. We need to give everyone the chance. 

Later on in the week I went on exchanges with Elder Penman. He is a beast Zone leader! He would rather find than teach. Yeah he is a rare breed. I learned a ton from him. He taught me that we just need to talked to literally everyone. We went up to people in cars and started having good conversations with them. We actually got a return appointment from knocking on someones car window while they were waiting for someone. It was a great day cause we found a ton of sweet people.

On Halloween our day was looking awesome with 4 Joint teaches. The most I would have ever had so I was looking forward to it a ton. Sadly everyone of our lessons fell through. We went to try by a Mormon.Org referral and we found out it was the wrong address. The day was turning out to be a huge disappointment. But then around 7 we got a random text from this guy asking us if we were doing anything that night. We then called him and it turns out it was the Mormon.org referral. He asked us if we could come over right away. So Elder Plewe and I basically ran to his house that was a 35 minutes walk away. We got there and he let us in. He told us it is a miracle that we were sitting in his house. He told us some of his story and let me tell you it is crazy. This guy is so cool and he has gone through so much. He knows English Irish and french, he was in the army, and now he is a rugby player. He told us that no matter where he turns he can never fill this whole that is inside of him so he typed in "Christ" into Google and our church came up. He started to talk to a girl from Arizona online and he listens to Jeffery R Holland talks. When we gave him the book of Mormon he was so excited. He has a drinking problem but he told us that he will stop drinking because he wants to be sober while he reads it so he can feel the spirit. We were blown away. What we thought was a bad day turned out to be amazing.

We are starting to see the miracles come forth. There is going to be a second harvest over here in the British Isles. So when you start to see a wave of people joining the church just know that it was prophesied by our mission president. I am so stoked. 

Oh on the side we are teaching a Jehova witness that had a dream that the church was true. So that is kind of cool. I am excited to see where that goes.

Anyway I love you. But I hope you know that I love this gospel more haha. I have never been happier. I hope you all can feel this.

Elder Thayne

So this is Elder Plewe and I when we went over the Mcilwrath home. They are an amazing family. Just a year ago there boy, the one in the middle, had an asthma attack and was left almost dead. the doctors said he would never live. His father gave him a blessing and he woke up out of the coma. Then the doctors said he would never talk. His father gave him a blessing and he is now talking. The doctors said he would never have his memory back. His father gave him a blessing and he remembers everything. The Doctors said that he will never walk. His father gave him another blessing and he is learning how to walk. Every fast Sunday his father helps him walk up to the pulpit so he can bear his testimony. He is truly a miracle. He is 16 right now and so he is trying to recover as fast as possible so he can go on a mission. I feel blessed to know that family :]

 The other pictures are of an IRA monument. The IRA are a terrorist group haha and it is in the back of a members yard. haha don't worry he didn't put it there. His back door neighbors did.