Sept. 13, 2010

Dear family,

So I am finally here in London. Its is pretty insane. It was sad to leave the MTC, but it was more exciting to get into the field. There were two buses. One going to London South, and the other, going to London and Birmingham. We all left around 6:00 am. It took around six hours by coach to get into London. We stopped off at Birmingham to drop off a group of missionaries including my companion, and then we were off. The ride was horrible, because there was no ventilation. When we finally made it into the city, it took around an hour to get to the mission headquarters. We passed by the headquarters because there was no where to park, and then the second time, the coach driver just decided to park in the middle of the street. It was hilarious! All of us 8 missionaries piled out of the vehicle and basically stopped oncoming traffic as we unloaded our luggage. President/Sister Patch as well as other missionaries helped pile our luggage into the office. After we had a couple of meetings with the mission President and leaders, we made our way into a meeting with the Area Presidents. We sang 'Called to Serve" and then our trainers greeted us. We were all surprised. We had no idea who they were. After we met everyone took pictures and then scattered to our different missions. We took the tubes and then finally got to the flats. My first area is in ENFIELD.

Enfield is an area that needs some work. I have been in the field for about a week, and we have had only a couple of appointments a day. The rest of the time we spend is finding. We had about 20 hours of searching this week for people ready to receive the gospel. After everyday I was so tired. We knocked on so many doors, street contacted for hours, and constantly tried talking to people on the buses, but there were only a few who received our message in a positive manner. Sometimes it is discouraging, but everything pays off when you have an appointment and you are teaching about the restored gospel.

The second day I was out, we went tracting for a couple hours and people were just not interested. We finally ran into a family who let us in. The family name was Georgia Steer. They are Greek Orthodox and the son is a Christian. It was an amazing experience. Being able to teach is wonderful. its moments like this when I know i am doing the right thing, by being out here and serving. We have not had many appointments with investigators, but when we do it is so fun.

On Sunday I was finally able to meet the ward. In my area there is only 1 ward. There are probably around 80 members, and by looking at the ward, you wouldn't even be able to tell we were in London because there are only about two English families.The rest are from all sorts of different places.The ward is so diverse its mind blowing. I bore my testimony and also taught the youth for an hour. All the members are great, and the food that they have given us is very good.

This area has a great amount of potential, i cant wait to have more appointments and grow mentally and spiritually. there are definitely times where it is rough and times where it gets discouraging, but you just have to keep on working, because there are people waiting to hear the good word. Church is true, God lives, Jesus is our redeemer. Hard work pays off.

Thanks for all of the other emails. Sorry, but I can only email my family. Looks like you just have to write :)


Love,
Elder Resolme

PLEASE WRITE HIM! I know he looks forward to hearing from you. His London, England address is the second address posted on the first post in this blog.