To answer your question: Elder Orr is from
Alberta Canada and he has about nine months left. He is also the
district leader. Being the district leader's junior companion is quite
interesting, because you are the only person besides the district leader
who gets to go on exchanges with every missionary in the district. Because the other areas are so far away and we have a limited number of
miles each month, this week we are going to do "back to back" exchanges to
save miles. Which means that I will spend most of this week away from
the Forest of Dean because Elder Orr has to stay in the forest with the
car. It also means that I get to tag along for all the baptismal
interviews and zone leadership meetings which are this week. I don't get
to go in of course but I will be in the same building.
By the way If you have received any money from the
book (I have no idea if you have yet because the mission has completely
blown all the details about that out of my mind). I would remind you of
the instructions that I gave you before I left. That you please do not
leave the money in my bank account, but put it to good use after the
manner that we previously discussed
thank you so much
Elder Purser
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Re: Good Sabbath
Hi everyone!
It is good to sit down and
read about all the great things going on back home. I am excited to hear
about Tana's baptism on Saturday. You will have to send me some
pictures. You will have to let me know when Beth leaves and who else is
going on missions. I am really excited about all the great things
happening in the work.
You know, people have been really unfair to the
missions here in England and Europe. There is plenty for us to do here.
We have two investigators on baptismal dates and we had nine lessons
this week And we would have had more, except we had to cancel several
appointments because they were with investigators who were single mom's
or teenage girls, and we cannot teach them unless another responsible man
is present. And no one in the branch would go with us.
While I am on the
subject, I would like to plead with any one who reads this Email to
please volunteer to go with the missionaries! There is nothing more
depressing for a missionary than to have people who want to be taught,
but you can't teach them because with out the help of the members, it
would be against the mission rules.
On a happier note I got my first
Welsh library card, which means I can now use the local computer lab with
out paying for it, and because its the beginning of the month we can go
pick up our monthly allotments so I can once again have more than ten
pounds to my name (not counting my one hundred pound emergency fund that
we are not supposed to use).
Last week was quite interesting, because we
got to go house hunting to check out all the possible flats that Elder
Day at the mission office found for us. We visited five flats and all of them
were a significant improvement to the flat we are currently in. We sent
in our report on each of them and we are waiting for the president to
decide which one will be our new home.
Elder Orr and I are hoping they
put us in the third one we saw, because it had a much nicer bathroom than
our current flat and a fully furnished kitchen with a real dishwasher
included. If they put us in that one, we would probably be one of the
only missionary flats in the mission to have a working automatic
dishwasher which would be awesome!!!!!!!!! Forgive my excitement, but
lets face it, washing dishes by hand gets old after the first twelve
times.
Since writing the above, we just got a voice message
from Elder Day they have decided which flat we are moving in to.
Unfortunately he did not say on the message so we will have to call him
when we finish Emailing. Anyway, I need to wrap this up, so that we can go
back to the flat.
Flat inspection is on Friday and we have to give the
flat a deep cleaning today. Elder Orr says that Elder and Sister Durraq,
the senior couple in charge of inspecting flats in our zone, are the
toughest flat inspectors in the mission and Elder Orr and I have a goal
to to get a perfect rating.
Good bye, good luck, cheers.
Elder Purser
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