January 27, 2014

Ok. . . so I got transferred. Wasn't expecting that one! On Wednesday I moved from Warwick to Harborne which is right in the middle of Birmingham! The ward here is huge in comparison to the areas I have served in previously, I think on Sunday there were like 170 people there at church! There are five sets of missionaries in the ward boundaries and the work is crazy here! We have several universities near by, and so we have loads of people from different nationalities walking up and down the streets all the time! We are talking to absolutely loads of people. . . it's just really cool. I will stop using exclamation marks now. 

 Everybody has been waiting for China to open up for missionary work, but it seems like at least half of the students at the universities are Chinese so we get the chance to talk to loads of Chinese people anyway! Three people were baptised on Sunday, two of which were actually Chinese students! It was pretty cool because within a few days of me arriving in Harborne I got to interview three people for baptism. 

Maybe it is because of the university and maybe it is because of the faith of the members and the missionaries in this area, but the work moves forward here way more quickly than I have ever seen before! Within a few minutes of arriving here my new companion  (from Grantsville) and I went to an appointment which flogged (wasn't there.) We went and started talking to people, and we set up an appointment to see the first person we talked to! The lesson went well, and we projected him to be baptised on Feb 16! We set up another lesson with him for a few days later which was a pretty strange one. He told us that all of us are equal, so we could teach him one lesson, and then the next time we meet he would teach us. (I guess he studied theology and he knows like 7 languages :) He says that we will just go back and forth like that. Hopefully he will be able to begin to move forward in the next couple of lessons. 

 That's all for now, talk to you all next week! 

 -Kyle