Sprockers and Roosters

First, we got transfer calls Saturday night and we are both staying in

Beverley for the next transfer which is 7 weeks.

This week was slooooow only had 1 lesson with our investigator Steve.

So the attitude took a hit and things were not so awesome. But

Heavenly Father knows ME and he blessed me in a few ways. Wednesday at

our lesson with Steve, there was puppy, a sprocker which is a

spaniel cocker mix. Approx 1 year old and the cutest thing ever.

Literally cuddled on my lap for a whole hour haha. He was pretty much

all brown with a touch of white on his neck. His temper was so similar

to Oly 🐶. Tuesday we went on exchanges with some lads serving in

Hull. They travelled up to Beverley Monday night and so that was a good

change. I went with an Elder Tsosie, a quiet guy from Utah. He is new as

well, just 1 transfer ahead of me. We knocked doors and met a lady

named Courtnie who accepted a Book of Mormon and was interested in

learning more, so we set up a return appointment. The day was really

slow but we did have a tea appointment and those are always sooo good.

Wednesday we continued to do some finding and didn't have much

success BUT a small blessing from Heavenly Father. If you've been a

missionary you know that you usually have to find your own bathrooms,

so we were wandering through an estate and found a field to take a wee

and of course a big rooster pheasant was pecking in the sunlight :)

Those small things just make the day way better. Our week continued

and we had our return appointment with Courtnie and we were able to

talk more about the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith. She made a goal

for baptism with us January 6 :) More finding on Friday and on

Saturday we travelled north to a town called Driffield where we did

tons of knocking and lots of people talked with us which was nice. Amongst

all this finding, we met a boy about 13 years old who has caught the

fishing bug and he goes fishing 4-5 times a week. He is bait fishing but who cares

hahaha. He had a 16" brown trout in the net when we showed up!!!!! And

continued to catch another 14" when we were watching him. He prefers

carp on floating bread (I guess similar feeling to dry fly fishing

haha) but he caught these browns on worms. 

Today we spent the day in Hull where there are many shops and stuff. My companion loves tie

shopping so we did that all day. Not very much time to email. I am

warmer here than you guys back home haha. I am officially acclimatized.

I haven't worn thermal underwear for almost 2 weeks and usually just

wear my Patagonia sweater out. Hope u all have a wonderful week. I

should have way more time to email next week.  

I can testify that God knows us personally and God answers our prayers. So my advice is to pray and talk to him.  Let him help you in your life. He is eagerly awaiting the call for help. Life is difficult but it can be better with God's help.  Love you all very much. Thank you for the support and prayers.

Elder Pilling

Sent from the land of lads