You Have a Wonderful Face!

I was Role Playing with my Ukrainian companion today and whenever he says Faith it sounds like he is saying face.  So he was pretending I was an investigator and he said, "You have a great Face, a wonderful face and someday your face will grow." haha it was so funny I couldn't keep a straight face.

So this last week has been crazy. so crazy!!! oh man let me tell you what happened. On Monday we had a great family home evening with the Dunconsons. They are a Family that was less active about 5 years ago but now they are the most solid people in the world. Their family is so Mormon I love it. We played Blind mans buff so that was fun.

Tuesday: we had an exchange with our District leader, Elder Parsons. He is probably the best District leader I have seen. I was with his trainee Elder Kroes. He is from Germany. We Basically found for 7 hours. It was so much fun though because we would dare each other to stop people by saying funny things. 

Wednesday: we were able to teach our Jehovah witness friend, Denver. He is a good guy but he lacks commitment. if you could pray for him that would be brilliant. The rest of the day was just runing around and finding.

Thursday: We had a Book of Mormon study class where we read my favorite chapter in the Book of Mormon, Ether 12. It was a spiritual meeting. Early that day we went into a hospital to put our name on a clergy list for people in who want to talk to us.  We started talking to a catholic Chaplin and he took a Book of Mormon and is having us back next week to talk about his reading, that will be fun.

Saturday: was my favorite day. We taught William, an investigator who has known the church is true for 5 years but can't be baptized because his wife wont sign the paper. If you could pray that her heart will be softened. We also taught Chris a recent convert who is having a hard time. The lesson with him was so spiritual. He felt Gods love for sure and said he needs to start coming back to church. The end of the day we taught the Mitchell's. They are a less active family who want to come back. Their daughter Elle isn't Baptized and the father wants to get active and ready so he can Baptize her.

Sunday was great. I gave a talk on scripture power and we had a dinner appointment with a less active.

Life is good. I love this church. I love this gospel. Keep it real my friends. 

Elder Thayne

this is me and Elder Ahafonov

 

Strawberry milk, chocolate milk and banana milk.

Ha, No Time

So I love Motherwell. I think that he member missionary work is going to take off here. My trainee is named Elder Ahafonov. He is the first Ukrainian missionary to ever serve in either Scotland or Ireland. He is energetic and wants to work hard, which is great. 

This area is huge and it is weird to Whitewash because there was so much that the missionaries before me (elder Plewe and Elder Davis) were doing so it is hard to juggle all of their activities without knowing anything. I have faith that if I work hard the Lord will help me out. The ward is awesome. I think that the work will explode here.

Lots of great things happening. Love you all. 

Elder Thayne

On our way to Glasgow with a sunset

My street 

Elder Thayne and Elder Ahafonov

My Library

Motherwell

Oh wow. This week has been amazing. Let me tell you about it.

Tuesday: we had District Meeting in Mullingar with the Zone Leaders. It was  spiritual one for sure. I had a weird feeling in the middle of it that it would be the last time I lead a district meeting. It was kind of sad. We Blitzed Mullingar, all six of us, and had massive success. We set up 10 appointments for the next couple days. It was a great Blitz. That night we played Bean Boozled. I is a game where you spin a will and it lands on a color and you have to eat that color of bean. The color could be 2 flavors though. It can either be good or bad. Chocolate or dog food. haha it was way fun. It was going slow so I thought I would speed it up and eat all of the rotten eggs at once. There was about 20 jelly beans flavored like rotten eggs in my mouth. It was one of the worst experiences ever.

Wednesday: we were able to find and give a blessing to the same man in the hospital. He is going to pull through I know it.

Thursday: We ran into the guy who needed money to pay for his rent. We asked him if he checked his washer for the money and he did. He was amazed and he asked if we could teach him!! haha yeah we can. We then drove to Carrick on Shannon were we chapped (tracked) a bit and then GQ'd (street  contacted) Everyone seemed strangely rude. We looked at each other and were like...."this is a trial, that means a blessing is going to come." we felt impressed to go the park. We talked to this guy on the bench who we taught. It was really spiritual. He has been off drugs for 8 weeks and is looking to change his life. He is coming to church. One more thing. He is a Piano player and Sligo doesn't have a pianist. He said he would love to come to church and play the Piano for us. haha he is golden.

Friday: Went finding and got some really cool potentials and several appointments made. Then got a random call from the AP's saying I am leaving early, before moves call and going to Motherwell. I am going to be training again. I love training so much. I won't be district leader anymore. It is the first time In a year so it will be weird getting use to. I really have loved it and I have learned so much. I will always be grateful to my dad who was always trying to take this day dreaming, shy, and very white personality boy and trying to teach him leadership. I love him for it. Anyway we left to Dublin that night.

Saturday: found in Dublin City Center which is amazing. I love it. Then went to a Baptismal service of 2 of Gods Children. They didn't have a Pianist so I played the top hand of the songs they had picked and then just played songs I new while the 2 were getting changed. We drove up through Belfast that night and stayed with the Zone Leaders There (Elder Cook and Elder Stoker [amazing missionaries]).

Sunday: left on the fairy and took a bus to Glasgow. On the way I sat next to this really cool guy who just needs the gospel. He is 20 and plays the saxophone. He has a Book of Mormon back home and he promises he will read the full thing and pray about it. Missed church and it was the first week of my mission I couldn't renew my covenants. saw a lot of old mission buddies: Elder Powell, Parkinson, Stevens. Went GQing in Glasgow city center....that was awesome. Then I traveled down to Mother well That night to spend the night with the people me and my trainee are white washing....my other son Elder Plewe! oh man I love Elder Plewe. He is an amazing missionary. If you could see the change you wouldn't believe it. It was so much fun catching up and talking about Portadown till late into the night.

This Gospel is true people! I love life. I am so happy to be here. Going to do everything I can in Motherwell. Love you.Elder Thayne

Elder Plewe and Me, He was my first trainee in Portadown.

Elder Davis and Me

Sheep

Something only Talmage, Eli and Grayson would get.

We Don't Cut Corners

So This last week has been awesome. We have been working as hard as we can. On Tuesday we were informed that we will be getting a car!!!!! oh yeah. I am so excited about that. I think that the work is really going to start picking up here because we have been hitting Sligo really hard so it will be good to go out to new places for a change. 

This week has been better than last week. We have taught a little more. I think the people we meet just need more commitment. We do have some good investigators that have so much potential so we are going to help them feel the spirit so they are inspired to do more. I will have a good lesson to tell you about next week. You can count on that.

So we had All Ireland on Friday. Elder Herbertson of the seventy came. It was awesome. It was really inspiring. He talked to us about how we want to view our missions. He asked us if we are going to regret it because we cut corners. just earlier that day I got a package from my family with a shirt inside from the Lehi Bakery and it said, "We don't cut corners." It was talking about the square donuts, but I am taking it another way.

Saturday was awesome. We were able to find a lot and teach a bit. The entire day we felt like we were on cloud 9. We just felt so happy doing missionary work. We looked at it and asked ourselves why? It is because we were doing what we could and then we gave the Lord the rest. While we can't decide if people will accept us. We can decide how we will act. Sorry this isn't that exciting of an email. I love you all. Hope you are doing good. See you later.

Elder Thayne

This week is looking really good. We are expecting a miracle...a couple miracles and I can't wait to tell you about them.

So these are some pictures from last P-day, we hiked Knock Narea

Horse on a hill.

Stairway to Heaven

Most BEAUTIFUL mission in the world.

Elder Harvey and me

Elder Forward, Corcoran, Kinville and me​

Short as a leprechaun‏

Sorry everyone this is going to be really short. in short I loved this week. I feel like there weren't too many results as far as teaching but we did a lot of things for the branch and other people. Able to give blessings and service and a lot of finding. Elder Harvey and I are happy. I love life. It is the best. 

Elder Thayne

Football pitch 5v5. this is where we bike to for morning exercise!

Cookies and shirts for everyone in the branch. We don't have any free time.

Sweet sunset. Looks like a pillar of light.

Prayer groups and singing

This last week has been awesome. We have been working hard and we are seeing a lot of good things happening. We were able to teach a lot this last week. We met with David again and he seemed to really like to learn about the plan of salvation. If you can keep him in your prayers that would be great.

Elder Giles and I went on exchanges. He is awesome.  He is going to be a stunt man for movies someday. He has lived in America, the UK and Germany. He is a great finder. We went on a little adventure trying to find this country house. We finally found it after a lot of dead ends and asking for help. We taught this little kid and the lesson was awesome!! He went up to his dad and said, "Dad they didn't do anything you said they would. They just were helping me learn about God." haha I love how honest kids are. The Father felt pretty embarrassed.

Even though I am 2 1/2 hours away from any other missionaries I am loving Sligo. This place is great. We are working hard and seeing a lot of cool miracles. This place is full of people who want to bash. It is pretty funny. I have learned how to deal with them. I defend the church with my testimony and they can't penetrate it. I show them the love that god wants them to feel. and they start to ask sincere questions. it is awesome. 

Cool story: Elder Harvey is a beast. There was a guy who came up to us asking for 3 euro for his rent. We really didn't have any money. He seemed desperate. Elder Harvey out of no where just said, "go check your washing machine and your problem will be solved." the guy seemed to be amazed at first. He kept saying "are you serious?" Elder Harvey would just tell him to go check it. It was so cool. We saw him later on and his is still in his flat so it looks like Elder Harvey just prophesied. church is true.

I love this church. Repentance is what I preach. Converts are who I Baptized. Keep it real my friends. 

Elder Thayne

this is my district Elder Atkinson, Elder Giles, Elder Harvey, Elder Thayne

The rest is my stomping ground.

Miracles not deserved!

Wow this last week has been amazing. let me tell you about it. So I went on exchanges with Elder Crowe who is my God father in the mission. We sadly had to do a lot of driving but we had a lot of good talks. We had the opportunity to go to an Elderly Lady's house to give her a blessing. When we got there immediately felt the love that everyone had for their mother/grandma. We walked into Ann's room and her daughter woke her up to tell her we were here. I was privileged to act as the voice in the blessing. The spirit filled the room and I couldn't help but notice that it helped everyone who witnessed it more than it helped the recipient. I am happy was able to be part of it.

This entire week has been really good. We have been working really hard and returning to the flat exhausted. This week as we have found it seems like people are just willing to meet up and listen to what we have to say. We were able to teach a lot. We set up a ton of appointments for this week as well. 

We were GQing with the gospel art book. We stopped people and asked them what they saw. We stopped this guy and he said he would like to learn more right then. So we met with him in the costa and the spirit filled that coffee shop. He is preparing himself for Baptism. We are stoked about that. 

We are loving life. Honestly we don't deserve these blessings that we are getting. It seems like with every effort that we put into the work he blesses us so much more. I am just happy to be a missionary. Sorry I don't have much time. I love this work. I love you all. Keep it real.

Elder Thayne

Sigfred decusin, Jesus, Elder Thayne, Elder Harvey, Loander

Food

Us eating More food. 

Those were at Family home evening.