Elder Britton Holyoak

Hi, you alright mi wee Americans! It's been a really rockin' week here in Brid. We did service for 3 different people, I met tons of people that are into rock music and we found a refrigerator and put it into our flat.

Like I said at the start, it's been a really rocking week. I had tea on Tuesday at Brother Allot's. He is a hardcore rock fan haha. He gives guitar lessons and plays bass in his cover band for a living. He has HIS OWN RECORDING STUDIO IN HIS HOUSE! We ate some really spicey chilly and chatted about music. He has a brilliant wife from Ireland and 2 daughters. One of his daughters is thinking about serving a mission. In other rock news, our branch mission leader is a rocker as well. Brother Stevens is a super funny man and we're planning a genius fireside for the branch.

This week was our week of service. We replaced Jean and Sonia's wallpaper on Saturday. They're both lovely members that we've been teaching and helping them get back to church. We cleaned the chapel this week as well. I did most of the hovering or vacuuming for the Americans. Don't worry dad, I made sure that it had the Top Hat Cleaning first class touch, haha.

The other service that we did was for a young man we met on the bus. He's just moving into his new flat in Brid and guess what street he's moving onto? Our street Trinity Road! So we live super close to him. Mental innit! We moved all of his furniture and other belongings in and of course left him with a Book of Mormon. We're teaching him tomorrow and I'm buzzing! Before we said bye to him he told us, "Thank you guys so much! This was not a coincidence that we met. I've been looking for a church to get my daughter christened into as well!" We will of course teach him that it takes more than sprinkling water on an infant to baptize them, next time haha!

So in our flat we have 2 mini fridges and we've been complaining about how there isn't enough space. We were walking outside near our flat and we saw a large fridge just there for the taking. You see here in England people flog (get rid of) a lot of their crap outside of their houses. It's like spring cleaning year round! So long story short, we carried the fridge into our flat, cleaned it out and now we have a new fridge!

This week has been mint. I'm just so grateful to be involved in this work and getting to know Christ more. I love these people so much, even though the English can get on my nerves sometimes haha. It's so true what King Benjamin says in Mosiah 2:17, "When ye are in the service of your fellow beings, ye are only in the service of your God."

Hope you all have a good one! Ta peeps!

-Elder Holyoak