June 10

Wow I can't believe we get to go to the temple!!!!!  WE ARE SO EXCITED!!!!! 
And it is so good to travel through Finsbury Park and Ilford. Makes me miss all my 
old areas. 

It's been a good week on our end. Feels like a long one cuz it hasn't been P Day for a while! 
Also the beautiful weather has been put on hold for a couple of days. English summer has kicked 
in and it has rained nearly every day. Sometimes rain is odd here though. It mists instead of rains.
 And you can't feel yourself getting hit with the rain, but you get wetter and wetter as you walk. 
Super strange. I think instead of raining it is just a giant cloud descending on England. 

Sister Lam and I saw Nora that day too! She is getting so deep into the church it's awesome!! 
She has been to church for the past 3 Sundays :). Only problem is she has had to go to Stevenage
 for two because it is a lot closer to her and she had to leave early. And she's going to a ward BBQ 
today!!! She sparked that idea all by herself. It's awesome!!!!! 

K so we were talking to her about her family and if her family would be interested. She said her 
dad believes in God, but doesn't like religion (golden amiright??). So we gave her a restoration 
pamphlet and a Book of Mormon to give him. We asked her about it a week and a half later and 
she said that he is already on page 100!!!!!! Apparently he is retired and so he fills his day with
 reading. SO COOL!!!!!! No we just have to see him and seal the deal! Nora's family is going to
 get baptised!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sister Lam and Sister Cook are absolutely darling. Sister Cook and Sister Cobabe were called at
 8:50 and were tagged and had to find someone before 9. They ran out the door so fast and sister
 Lam and I heard them thunder down the stairs. Sister Lam and I had to stay inside to do call ins. 
But the sisters found someone at 8:58!!! When thy called Elder Satterthwaite to pass the tag he 
started crying I am sure. Sisters rock what can you do. That night they rehearsed their finding story
and sister Lam and I were dying with laughter. They were knocking doors, running across the 
street, calling people in the phone--they went hard. So fun! Can't believe that was the last
 exchange of the transfer!! How times flies. 

All we talked about was how to get investigators to church. Same problems just keep coming up 
again and again! We have got people like elder smith though so the mission is in good hands!! 

Saturday we went to a boy's baptism. His name is Tade and he is darling. These are a couple of

 the girls in Bishop's family. So blonde and so cute! 

Nora!!! The woman that we love. She is getting deeper and deeper into this, there is no way she
 isn't gonna be a Mormon. 

Always amazed we make it home safe from driving in London. About 5

seconds later a bike pulled up in between us. Poor guy was so trapped

we could've taught him the entire restoration. It's like when we were

in France (Italy?) and had to tuck in our rear view mirrors because of

a giant lake and mountain squishing a tiny road with trucks. Wow that

was such a first world problem sentence. we are blessed.

Okay so Sunday should get a whole email all by itself. What a crazy

day that wiped out sister Cobabe and me.

It started off at about 7:44 in the morning. Sister Cobabe and I were

enjoying our Sunday morning, listening to a talk and getting ready.

Then we got a phone call and found out that we needed to be at ward

council at 8:00 am. And nobody told us! Well at least until that

moment. So we furiously out pur half wet hair in a ponytail and biked

like maniacs to the church. It's a 25 minute bike ride away (we did it

in 18 yesss 💪🏼) and we stumbled into ward council room. And let me

tell you, churches already have an obsession with heaters and combine

that with English people in the summer equals two red faced

missionaries. I was using the lesson 2: Plan of Salvation pamphle as a

fan with a full arm motion in order to get some air in the stifling

room. Halfway though Bishop asked if we were okay cuz it looked like

we were gonna collapse. Hey but at least we made it there!!!!!!!

Then church which is great as always. Afterward we ran out the door

again (not have time in between activities why would we?!) and biked

to a referrals house. We stopped for a few minutes then biked again to

catch a train to Watford. That day we got to go visit the Milton

Keynes sisters!!!! Sister Murakane and Sister Cabral. We went finding

for an hour in the mist cloud rain thing that I can't fully explain so

I'm just gonna leave it at that thanks. Sister Cabral and I found a

guy named Kojo. It means he was born on a Monday in Ghana. They have

names for days of the week and if you are born on that day, then that

can sometimes begin your name. Pretty cool. He was walking about 50

feet in front of us and sister Cabral and I politely yelled to track

him down. I think he was a little surprised. I love people.

After finding sister Cobabe and I shared a training we made about

putting God's will before our own. And how to apply this in

discipleship. I think they really liked it. Time slipped away as it

does and we had to run (see I told you--always running!!!! You think

I'd get in shape with all this running my goodness) to catch the

train. Turns out it was 10 minutes late so we made it!!! Yay!!! We

were happy and so so tired. It was fast Sunday too and we hadn't eaten

yet. Afterward the bike home was a bit of a difficulty because we were

farther than usual and couldn't find the path temporarily. Got in the

end though because we made it home at 8:56!!!!! Wow I know--God is

good!!!!! And then we ate so much food. Tortellini and spinach. It was

delectable and oh so needed.