Dear Family,
how are you all doing? For your information, I sent a card last
week for Dad for his birthday. I sent it last Wednesday so it should get
there soon. I am doing well here. Things are starting to pick up. If
you remember last week, we challenged the zone to give out 360 copies of
the Book of Mormon in 4 weeks. Well we started off strong and gave out
120. Elder Freckleton and I gave out 31 between us. We were really
blessed to have those opportunities. As a result of this we were able to
teach a couple on Sunday night named Victor and Beth. Victor is from
Nigeria and Beth is from Scotland. Victor is really excited to learn
about the Book of Mormon and see what he can take away from it. When he
was in Nigeria, he went to a lot of churches and some of his friends
called him a "christian tourist." He has wondered why there are so many
churches in the world. He said that if he believed in the Book of
Mormon, that he would be baptized. We also started teaching a man named
Emmanuel. He is from Nigeria as well. He loved learning about the
Restoration and he will hopefully soon come to church and worship with
us. Endurance is doing well. He is a bit stressed out over his studies
and work. I hope that he can be baptized this Sunday, but we shall see.
We taught Das again. He is very prepared and has already seen blessings
since he started coming to church. I hope that he can gain a testimony
that the Book of Mormon is true.
On Saturday I was exchanges in the Bridge of Don area with Elder
Ellett, a former companion. There we were able to teach two new people
that were a direct link to finding with the Book of Mormon. The first is
named Abagail. She is from the Cayman Islands in the Carribean. She is
really prepared. When she met the missionaries the day before, she was
thinking about spiritual matters and funny enough, the missionaries were
led to here and are now teaching her. The other was a man named Clark.
When i first met him, I thought he would be in his mid to late 20s, but
it turns out that he is turning 20 next month. He feels that this is
what he needs to turn his life around and felt that we were sent by God
to him. He feels that it was not a coincidence that he came out of the
gas station at the time he did when the missionaries were walking past
there. I feel that he will be very good and sincere about repenting and
getting his life turned around.
(Reader discretion is advised for the following story) While we
were at Clarks. His father and mother were there as well. They had order
pizza and it arrived while we were there. They let us have some which
we were very happy about. However as soon as he opened the pizzas on the
coffee table, his father who was sitting right in front of the pizzas,
just took a swig of his whiskey. He then for some reason, spit it all
out over one of the pizzas. We were a bit bummed at this, but ate from
the far corner of the other pizza. To be honest, it was a funny
experience. Missions: got to love them.
Another neat experience was while i was on exchanges with a
missionary, Elder Riddett, we were walking back to our flat for the
night and he felt prompted that we should turn back around. We had some
time and turned around. This was this guy coming towards us and he
started talking to him about being with his family forever. At the time,
I thought why in the world he would be speaking to him about that since
he was a man in his 20s, but it turns out that he was thinking about
that at that time. We were able to give him a copy of the Book of Mormon
and he is excited to read about that and find out more about the Plan
of Salvation.
Last thing that happened to us this week was that we did service
for this member who has just moved to Wales. We had to take some stuff
off the walls and put the rubbish out on the street corner. The most
challenging thing we had to do was to take a piano out the house. The
only thing was that she lived on a hill and there were quite a few
stairs up to her home. Thankfully we had the other missionaries in the
ward and we were able to amazing lift and push the piano out of the
house, down the grassy hill (which was just dry enough to allow us to do
that), and onto the curb where we then loaded into a van and took it to
the church until some members would get it after they came back from
holiday. To say the least, we were helped by angels to get it down the
hill.
So I am in the Aberdeen Ward. There is another ward in Aberdeen
called the Bridge of Don Ward. Our building is on North Anderson Drive
and Lang Stracht if that helps Sister Bourne pinpoint where we meet. It
is the stake centre. I spoke to Margaret and Tommy Thompson. They
remember the Thoms and asked me to say that they were asking for her.
The other people I know are the Mundies, Wares, Goldies, Sims,
Livingstons, Brother Rae. Oh, I don't know if I'll ever get to meet Mike
King because he lives in the Bridge of Don Ward, but I think I know
where he lives. Ask Sister Bourne if she wants me to say hello to any
people. So the zone covers from Aberdeen to Invergordon. There are 6
units in the Aberdeen stake (Aberdeen, Bridge of Don, Buchan, Elgin,
Inverness, and Invergordon). We have to go on exchanges with several of
the missionaries within this moves. We will be going on one tomorrow in
with the missionaries from Inverness. The wards in Aberdeen are normal
for over here. They are no where near the size they are over in the
states.
Have you signed me up for classes yet or are there still some problems?
For my birthday package, i would really like some rolls from either
costco or homemade. Butterfingers would be nice as well. There was
something else, but I can't think of it right now. It must not have been
very important.
I hope that all is well at home and look forward to hearing from you.
Love,
Elder Buxton
P.S. It snowed Saturday night, but it melt away throughout the day. Hopefully that will be the last of the season.
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