How Firm a Foundation

Hello friends and fam! How's everyone enjoying the heat? I hear Texas and Utah are boiling. Well it's been beautiful here. This week was kinda boring but really good!

Josh is still progressing but this week we thought we'd take a step back and teach him more about the Holy Ghost. I feel like he knows it's all true, he's just scared to commit right away but that's ok! He came to church and even fasted for 24 hours! We also had the amazing opportunity to go to another New Member Fireside. With Josh! This one was in Manchester, it felt so great to be back. The spirit in the fireside was unbelieveable! We think it got some wheels turning in Josh's head. He said he can't wait to share his story at a fireside one day.
We also had a lesson with a friend we met tracting (which never happens) called Al. Al is super great and very philosophical like Josh haha so he makes us think deep but we had some really good conversations.

We also had interviews with President which is always super uplifting and edifying. I'm so grateful for my Mission President. He just seems to know exactly what to say!

Something great about Chorley is we have tea appointments every day and when we don't have one, we can go to the England MTC whenever (it's literally next to our chapel)! It's the most convenient thing ever. We went twice this week lol.

President McReynolds shared the scripture Helaman 5:12 with us at the fireside and I saw it in a whole new light.
"And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall."
We then sang the song "How Firm A Foundation" and the spirit was just electric.

I can testify that if we build our foundation on Christ, we cannot and will not be dragged down. The whirlwinds may come and we might shake a little but we will never fall.

I love this gospel, I love England, and I love you all! Go build your foundation on Christ!

Sister Gilland
England Manchester Mission

Pics include the beautiful temple, & my BFF Becki Kenny (her grandpa was baptised by my dad), Also- England's got me obsessed with flowers, #selfie ft Hannah Tarr before she heads to Canada 😓