Week 3 - England MTC

I handed out my first Book of Mormon today! We went to ASDA and I was just prompted to take one. (I carry one everywhere). But, this sweet old lady came up and asked if we would walk her to the other side of the street and we just talked to her for a little while about the Mormons and what they believe. So we gave her the Book of Mormon after she asked for it. (: That adrenaline rush is worth more than any sports game could ever give you. 

This week, they told us we will be getting iPads in the spring!!! YAYYYYYY!!! I'm pumped. 

The Greek missionaries left yesterday morning and I made some really good friends there. Which is good, because they had so many things to fit into their suitcases, they had to leave things behind, so they gave them to me. hahah I'm a rich man now. I got a lot of European style ties, so I look pretty fly. I feel like I fit in really well.

Right now, we're teaching a guy who is named Peter. He has a wife who has been in the hospital for the past few days waiting for an operation to help her walk again because she hasn't been able to walk her whole life. He's really reliant on her, and we all feel like the twist is going to be that she dies in the operation and we have to teach him the Plan of Salvation. Who knows I guess?

I've been working on writing less things down for lessons, and walking in, closing my notebooks, and just teaching from my head and by the Spirit. Who needs lesson plans in a language you don't know?? It's funny though, our teaching is by far more powerful than I ever dreamed it would be and it's only been 3 weeks! 

We watched a Provo MTC Devotional from Elder Holland this week. Boy, that man can blow you away. His talk was all about Preach My Gospel. He talked about how we have to be infinitely better missionaries than he was. He taught from the memorized discussions and he said, "You can't do that anymore. You have to find common ground, then you can say to an investigator, 'Come with me to the Sacred Grove, Come with me to the Garden of Gethsemane, and Come with me to the Cross at Calvary.'" It was really powerful. He also talked about Do you Love Me? Which is the story after Christ dies and they just go back to fishing and he calls them ashore and asks Peter if he loves him 3 times. Then he related it to how we have to be converted because too many missionaries are looking into investigators eyes, bearing sincere testimony, then going home and throwing all that away and going against what they bore testimony of. It was AMAZING. He was so up in your face, you wanted to crawl into a corner.

In language study lately, we've been learning about the cases, which is a deal for Pronouns and Adjectives, Prepositions and Adverbs. It's a little rough because in English there are 0, German there are 4. But, it could be worse. In Greek and Finnish there are 12.
 I was watching a Mormon Message, the latest one, and it really put a lot of things into perspective for me. That's the one thing we're allowed to do is watch those. So we watch a ton of them. This one was titled You Never Know from President Hinckley and it was so so so good. Watch it right away even though it's long. There's also another one entitled 'The Savior wants to Forgive'. That one was so good. It's about a guy who found the Savior when he was at his lowest point.

President Edwards is the MTC President. He's from Utah and was a member of the Seventy a few years back. He knows Elder Robyns really well so we talk about him sometimes. President Durkin is the first counselor, he's from England and he's a really great, happy man. President Hansen is the second counselor and he's a big law guy from Utah. His mission call is to oversee all legal things in Europe for the church. Quite interesting.

Earlier this week, my companion and I were called to be zone leaders.  There's only one companionship in the entire MTC that are the zone leaders. But, it's a little different to have so many responsiblities. I'm grateful for it though. I'm praying for you all everyday. I love you tons. The gift of tongues is coming. The first week here, we had to give one of the sisters from Sweden a blessing because she was so sick. Elder Edvinsson was able to do it all in Swedish. Then, earlier this week, another Elder needed a blessing of comfort, so Elder Seidl gave it to him and we all felt like the blessing was personally for us. I went to bed reading my patriarchal blessing and feeling so blessed. I cry like everyday because I'm so happy. This is amazing. I love this place! Take care. (:

 Elder Hadfield

Until October 26, 2014:

Elder Samuel Phillip Hadfield

Alpine German-Speaking Mission

England Missionary Training Centre

Temple Way

Chorley

Lancashire

ENGLAND PR6 7EQ