President & Sister Walker

The Deseret News published an article about the 14 MTC's around the world in today's paper.  On the second page of the article (which you can find at this link) President and Sister Walker are quoted about their MTC in Preston, England, where they are currently serving.  If you haven't been following the Walker's wonderful experiences at the MTC, I suggest you have a look at their blog:  Postcards from Preston.  It is a very uplifting read!

A Letter from Elder Cameron Nance

(Pres. and Sister Dodge and Elder Nance)

Hello from the other side of the world. Things are great here. It's starting to finally cool down a little bit. I'm on what should be my last two weeks here in Mahasarakham. I could stay another moves (transfer) but it would be very very suprising. So, all signs point that I should be out; we'll see what the Lord says?

We've had a really good week. It's been one of those clean out weeks. We dropped about fifteen to twenty people. It was really hard because I really liked some of them. A lot of people didn't show up for their lessons this week, so that means we did a lot of street contacting. Right now we've still got about twenty investigators we are working with, only six of which are actually progressing. If these other investigators don't start getting the idea we might need to let them go before I'm out of here. So yeah, the work goes on.

As for Oo and Dang our potential baptism couple, we had the opportunity to go way out to their rice fields and harvest some rice. There is a reason why these people are short. I was way hunched over. My back only hurt for a couple of days. Not gonna lie, it was a lot of fun serving them. Not to mention harvesting rice by hand which is something that most people in America will never get to do. We only see it in Asian movies or Mulan haha. Thank you for praying for them, I really think it is helping; please continue to pray for them personally. I'm doing great. Pretty tired, but I'm still happy. When I heard of Griffin being home I realized how fast time is going by. It's nuts!

The church is true!
Love,
Elder Nance

Elder Nance and his companion with Oo and Dang.

Elder Nance harvesting rice.

Elder Nicholas Davis

Nicholas is now serving in Sheffield, England. He has 10 months left on his mission. We recently asked him how we should respond to people in the ward when they asked about him and this is what he said, "Tell them he's more tired and more happy than he's ever been before."

Nicholas told us that the high point in his mission came in his last area, Halifax, where he and his companion were able to teach an English family of seven (they rarely teach English people).

His mission president challenged all of the missionaries to find one young man (or woman) who will likely go out and serve a mission themselves. Almost all of his investigators are not originally from England. He teaches many people from all over the world. He teaches a lot of people from Africa.

Four of them were baptized, two of them were under eight years of age, and one teenager was still considering baptism. He also baptized Martin in Halifax whom he calls "my missionary replacement." This is what he says about life in Sheffield, "Life in Sheffield is very modern and busy, much more so than SLC. There are some really run-down areas (council areas). This is where we find most of our investigators.

This week has been great for finding new investigators. We found 13 new investigators on one half of one street in four hours. That street was golden." Thank you for all of your prayers and support for our Elder Davis. Nicholas truly does feel your prayers on his behalf.

He says, "Prayer is so real and powerful, and it is one of the most important connections we have with heaven. I love you and I love this work, now go and find someone for the missionaries to teach wherever you live!"

Address:

Elder Nicholas Davis

England Leeds Mission

Lister House,

Lister HillHorsforth,

LeedsEngland LS18 5AZUnited Kingdom

Alesa Davis