February 13 2012
Congratulations to Kyle! Going to Louisville Kentucky!
That's so cool. He'll be great
Mom and dad told me that little Carson’s baptism
is coming up this week too. That’s awesome! He should be so excited. It's such
a big day for him. Congratulations buddy!
Well to catch you up with me a little bit. My
first area is stockport. It's a huge town/city on the outside of manchester.
It's kind of in an older area...I think. haha. I really couldn’t tell. Everything
here is so old! It’s much different over here! I’ve definitely had a bit of
culture shock. It’s safe to say that America is definitely the place to be.
USA!
I probably should've gone to the Provo mtc for some language
training. It’s a foreign language! There are so many different accents and
dialects it's not even funny. i sat through all of sacrament meeting yesterday
and I didn’t understand a word! haha. The language is so weird. People from the
town of Liverpool have one of the worst accents. they sound like they're literally
choking on every word. ahha. It’s been a challenge so far. i can honestly say
that I have zero desire to come home with an accent. My goal is to get them to
talk like me! the people here are convinced that they speak English and we
speak American. haha still a bit of a rivalry going on I think. ahah
We’ve been doing a lot of bus riding. That’s our
main transportation. I had to dish out some serious money for a monthly bus
pass too. We do most of our contacting on busses too. I’m still not very good
at it. It’s extremely awkward to be constantly moving up and down the aisle and
changing seats when you get rejected. ahha most of the people you go to already
over heard what you were saying to someone else. it's something I defiantly
need to get better at. Finding people to teach is probably my biggest obstacle.
It’s tough to just walk up to people and to start talking to them about the
gospel. I just need some more practice
We’ve had a few good teaching appointments so
far. One night after we got done having dinner at a member’s house we knocked
on a few random doors just hoping to get lucky.
We knocked on a man named Gerald's front door. He
let us right in! First thing i noticed was how many books he had. Piles and
piles. He had to move stacks of books off of the couch to find a place for us
to sit. We ended up teaching the whole restoration lesson to him. The most
powerful part was the joseph smith story. We asked him if he believed that Joseph
smith was a prophet of god. He said yeas without hesitation .and....... He committed
to be baptized! We set a date for march 10th so we'll see how that goes. We
still have quite a ways to go but i know he can do it.
We walked to his house again Sunday morning to
pick him up for church. Unfortunately our ride fell through. We had to walk all
the way to church. And it's not like Utah where there's a church on every
corner. I’m talking about walking for an hour! (Joys of being a missionary)
haha. I almost died.
He really seemed to enjoy church though. He was
a pretty hardcore catholic so everything was a little different for him though.
He only could attend sacrament though because he was going to his brother’s
house for dinner. But...an even more amazing thing happened on Sunday.
About a week and a half ago elder Corbin talked
to a young African kid on the bus. i guess he was completely drunk. Elder Corbin
invited him to come to church and got his contact information. He said his name
was Ryan. Elder Corbin knew he wasn't going to come to church and he didn't. But
he went yesterday we were so shocked! he stayed for all three hours too. He
actually knows a guy in the word and so he sat with him during classes. Afterwards
we talked to him for a bit. He asked for a book of Mormon. He was so excited. He
told us that his name was actually Herman. He said that he lied to elder Corbin
because he had no intention of coming to church. He said that on Saturday the Holy
Ghost told him he needed to come to church... I couldn’t believe it. ahah. He’s
a really good person and I’m excited to start teaching him.
That's pretty much all that's been going on with
me. I’m just trying to get used to it our here. I’m trying to put one foot in front
of the other and take it one day at a time. i love you all very much and I want
to hear from you! The best way is to probably send everything to the mission
office.
Correction on my current address though. It’s
actually Romany court. Not Romney court. I don’t know if it really matters but
though i should just throw it out there. Love you all very much and I can't
wait for the day I get to see you all again but until then I’ll pray for you
every night. God be with you till we meet again.
Love Elder Ford
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