Howdy again from Bridlington. This update contains what happened during transfers, massive Yorkshire pudding, more train rides and the consumption of English pancakes made by a 9 year old.
Yesterday was transfer calls yet again and......... I'm staying! However, our 4 man flat is now a 2 man flat. My new companion is Elder Mills. Elder Wilkey and Vickers left this morning. Wilkey went down to Mansfield the most southern part in the mission and Vickers is on his way to the mission office.
The picture of the massive Yorkshire pudding that I sent comes from the lady legend Ross Grimley. She's in her 70s and has been consecutively feeding us almost every week. Everything that she gives us is in larger proportions... haha. Elder Wilkey and I showed up to her house playing some of the EFY music the other week and we told her that this is the church's music. She told us, "Wow! The church is very with it. Could you make me a CD with those songs?" So we burned her a copy of them haha!
I mailed 5 train tickets to the mission office for reimbursements because I have spent a lot of time on trains this week. They aren't long distances just 11-13 miles. We met an amazing young bloke in one of the outer villages. We taught him the restoration on his doorstep and he was coming up with loads of metaphors relating to a car mechanic. He told us, "Oh, so we're like a car, prophets are like the mechanic, and Jesus is like the master mechanic that everyone goes to! And you guys claim to be the legit 70s Mustang F150, not a new one but the same restored one haha." We had a really great conversation with him and gave him a Book of Mormon. A couple days later, we called to confirm when we were going to see him again, his dad answered the phone really angrily. Long story short, the family didn't want us meeting with him again which made me really sad.
That same day something really brilliant happened to make up for the negative though. We went knocking doors and we met probably the nicest lady in the entire U.K! We told her what we were doing and she warmed up to us a ton. She told us how much respect she had for us and what we were doing. She's a recent mum that moved to England 3 years ago from Morocco!! She and her Turkish husband are Muslims. She told us how important respect was in her religion. She asked us if we wanted any biscuits and tea. We asked for hot chocolate and told her that we couldn't come into her house because there wasn't another male in the house (Missionary handbook rule). She told us oh no that's alright. Then she grabbed two chair out of her home and then came out with a tray with amazing hot chocolate and authentic Moroccan biscuits! It was nice getting treated like kings after a day of getting yelled at haha. She told us that we were free to come back later and visit her.
Now to the English pancakes. I explained in the video that I sent how Josiah, the 9 year old boy that we've been teaching made us some English pancakes. They make them really thin here kind of like crepes. I still prefer the American style. We've been teaching Joe for the past couple of weeks and he's such a great kid. He's a footballer, fisherman and drone driving crazy 9 year old! He's going to be baptized in the beginning on April by his dad. It's super exciting!
I don't know what else to say in this letter other than, I'm still alive haha. Along with all of the cool and funny things that I've seen, I'm still constantly talking with people and telling them how much this church can help them. I know that there will be someone else that will be baptized after Joe this coming transfer. I didn't come to this soaking wet island just to baptize people though. I'm out here in England to find someone that is searching for the truth and to help them experience the peace and joy that they desperately need that only the this gospel provides. I'll keep you posted on how the work continues to go here in the coming months. Cha-Cheers!
-Elder Holyoak
Pick up your dog dirt!
Look at that MASSIVE Yorkshire!
Moroccan Biscuits
English Pancakes
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