Stealing Investigators + Smartphones + Happy Mother's Day

Hey yall! This week was really good! We were super busy so it totally flew by.

So like 2 months ago, I stopped a man named Matthew from Mauritius (lil country next to Madagascar). He is a Christian and was super nice and said he'd come to our church. He showed up to his lesson (which never happens) and then proceeded to tell us that he's actually been taught the first two lessons! He met with the Elders here in March and then went on Easter break and totally forgot about them and then coincidentally ran into me on the street days after! Isn't it great when God just places people in our path? Haha sorry elders... We taught him again on Friday the Gospel of Jesus Christ and it went really well and he wants to continue to learn.

We went on exchanges with our Sister Training Leaders and I went with Sister Liu from China. She's great and we found 3 investigators in an hour which was such a blessing. Sister Liu has been in YSA for 9 transfers so she knows her stuff. I learned lots!

THE EMM GOT SMARTPHONES! Ok, they've been saying we were getting smart phones for months but President McReynolds didn't think we were spiritually prepared enough til now haha! I was starting to think we would never get them! Only my zone has them right now and the rest of the zones will get them in a couple weeks #suckers. I couldn't care less about using internet or Facebook, I'm just sick of using T9 to text people. Surprisingly the phones are super posh. Galaxy A5, not bad.

Well on Thursday, we got to go to Institute because we had an investigator with us and it was so good. We talked about Moroni and the hard life he lived. He really went though a lot. He wandered by himself for decades trying to stay alive.  He watched all his friends get killed. If there was anyone that had the right to feel sorry for himself, it was him. But he still had hope and determination to write down his father, Mormon's record and his own. Before his famous promise to us, he instructs us to REMEMBER how merciful our lord is. How can HE of all people be saying that? His life has been so hard, yet he still has so much faith. My challenge to you (and to myself) is to have hope and stay positive even when things get hard!

Well I love yall! It was good to FaceTime the fam on Mother's Day. They haven't changed at all haha. As you can tell in the picture, they kept messing with the filters. Miss them every day! Have a good week everyone!

Xx

Sister Gilland
England Manchester Mission

Pictures:
1 New phone who dis
2 Casually blending in with a bush
3 Mi Companga
4 Mother's Day ft fam