Bournemouth Week 12!

Howdy All!

We had interviews this week which was good as always!  President Hughes is a champion, so hearing what he has to say and having a chat with him is good fun!  He's been here for a year next week, which is so crazy to think.  I've had him as my Mission President longer than I had President Leppard.

Cool experience I had a couple of weeks ago!  In our ward there is a family from Greece and their son was the first non convert baptism in Greece either ever or in like 30 years - I can't remember which - but because they're really solid members and they speak fluent English and Greek they work for the Church translating things into Greek.  A couple of weeks ago we were there for dinner and the Sister asked me with some help translating an email as she had a question on something which reminded her husband that he had a question about something he was working on too.  Long story short, I've now helped (kind of) translate the Doctrine and Covenants into Greek.  So that's pretty cool.

Love you all and hope you have a great week!

-Elder Lott

Elder Konan thoroughly unimpressed with the lunch I made

Elder Konan with his new scriptures!

BOURNEMOUTH WEEK #10

Hey Everybody!  We've had a smashing week over here!

It has been rubbish weather the whole week so we've been pretty drenched for about half the time, but it's still been a party as per usual!

The days are pretty similar one to the next and I can't believe how fast time is flying now.  It feels more like a day or two between Preparation Days than a full week and each day feels like it only lasts for about 6 hours or so.  I remember thinking time was moving quickly 6 months ago and even a year ago but it was nothing compared to what it has been lately.

The work in the area isn't too smashing right now and our main challenge is finding people who are really interested.  It isn't too difficult to have a good chat with somebody and get their phone number or even set up another time to meet with them, but actually meeting up with them again seems to be the real challenge here.  Hopefully we're able to find a couple of solid people over the next week or so. 

I don't put a spiritual thought at the end of these enough, but today I just want to add my testimony that God is real, Jesus Christ lives, and they both care about us so much.  The love that they have for us is expressed in many different ways and coming to know them is the most important thing we can do in this life.  Do something this week that draws you closer to God and then keep an eye out for how He blesses you for it.

Love you all!

-Elder Lott


We went to the beach today!!!  (Yes, in missionary attire) 

BOURNEMOUTH WEEK #8

Howdy Ho Everyone!

We've had a stunner of a week over here!

We had Zone Conference on Tuesday which is always good, but this one was super good as we had Elder Johnson from the Area Presidency come and he of course had some really cool stuff to share.  We got to stay with some of the Elders I'm good friends with as well, so that was a good bonus.

We also got to have a meeting with all the District Leaders and the Zone Leaders so they could pass along information from Mission Leadership Council and that was good.  Elder Orr goes home in about 16 days, which is really crazy to think because I've seen him almost everywhere the past 16 months of my life!  It'll be strange to not have him around.

Hope you all have a stunner of a week!

Service we did this week - we helped this man move apartments