TALK ABOUT SEEING THE LORD'S HAND....

May 19, 2014

so on monday we got to take the zone leaders car to rossendale valley to get my pills but when we got there they were closed:( but never fear because the next day after district meeting we jumped on a bus (actually we walked onto the bus but it wouldve been funny to see two missionaries jumping on a bus haha) and luckily we were able to go and fill my prescription, bring home the precious cargo, and plan for the next day seeing as how it was basically already 9:00(side note: we may have street contacted for a while before 9 its just that i cant remember if we did anything else).

Then on wednesday I was on exchange with Elder Chong!! woohooo!! and at the same time we got our flat looked at so that we could get some needed repairs. then later in the evening we went with brother bob and went home teaching.

on thursday we had our weekly party... i mean planning hahahah and during that time i was able to make some calls and try to set up some appointments.

on friday we went to piccadilly and met a man (who was one of the people i called on thursday!!) and we were able to teach him and get to know him and he is interested in learning more!

on saturday, 4-Hour Finding!!, we went with two members to partington and tried to contact a former investigator who unfortunately wasnt in so we tracted the neighborhood and as we were leaving, lo and behold the former investigator pulled up!! talk about a miracle. then later we came to the YSA building and taught another man who also seems very interested in learning more. then we went with yet another member to salford and we went by a few people and one man let us in and we were able to teach him and he too wants to know more!!! talk about seeing the Lord's hand in helping us to find more people to teach!!

 

 

 

 

April 21, 2014- Did the Driver forget He Was Driving?

April 21, 2014

I think Elder Butterfield must have broken all fingers this past week, because he didn't send a weekly report, only answers to the questions I asked him.  I can't think of any other reason he wouldn't have sent the report. hahaha  He gets an A+ on sending pictures though, so we'll just have to make up our own stories of how his week went.  It looks like he is doing so well and loving his area!



Preparation Day Temple Trip
Left to right:  Elder Quaresma, Elder Chong, Elder Caleira, Elder Butterfield (my favorite :)), Elder Yates, & Elder Razandahy



Preparation Day Temple Trip
Flat Mates:  Elder Butterfield, Elder Caleira, Elder Chong, & Elder Yates

So, would the appropriate name for this picture be "Dumbfounded?"  lol!



So, I guess Elder Butterfield & Elder Chong (one the zone leaders he shares an apartment with) were having just a little too much fun with their bunkbeds!

Elder Butterfield & Elder Yates



Did the Driver forget he was driving?.......The missionaries carpooled on their way to the temple for p-day.  This is a picture Elder Butterfield took of the missionaries in the other car.  When I showed this to Mike, I said, that is so dangerous to be taking a picture while you are driving.  Then, he reminded me that the person taking the picture wasn't the driver....in England, they drive on the other side of the car.  Whew!  Good to know the driver hadn't forgetten he was driving!

THREE YEAR CONVERSION & A TESTIMONY

March 31, 2014

When Elder Christensen came to Blackburn about

three weeks ago i was on an exchange with Elder

Razanadahy and we were exchanging back that day

so we decided to try by someone in the area and on

our way there we street contacted someone and set up

 a return appointment. We tried to contact him multiple

 times after that but he was either not in or was busy.

Then last Monday night we weren't sure what we

should do for i believe the next hour before our next

appointment and we decided to try by the man we

street contacted again, which we did and he was in

and he invited us in. We were able to teach him the

Restoration and I invited him to be baptized on April

19th and he said yes.

April 14, 2014

(Mike's new area is Stretford, just outside of Manchester. His new companion is Elder Yates from Bountiful, Utah and they share an apartment with their Zone Leaders, Elder Chong from Malaysia and Elder Calliera from Portugal).

Saturday an investigator of ours was baptised. He was found quite a while back possibly around 3 years ago and now he has finally been baptised. Yesterday he was confirmed a member and then later that night we went to the missionary fireside in Swinton and he bore his testimony there as well. Also i got to see my mission brother Elder Gourrat who is from Tahiti (Elder Leiva trained him).  We had a great week this week.

2 Weeks in one....November 27, 2013

Here are Elder Butterfield's emails from last week and this.....


Who says you can't sit and cook at the same time...

 November 18, 2013

well i forgot to write in my journal for a couple of days so itll be kinda short, on tuesday we had a district meeting and then helped blackburn with their AUFs, wednesday practically all of our plans fell through, thursday we had weekly planning and then we visited our friend, friday we were going to play sports with our friend but he wasnt feeling too good so that kinda fell through so on the way back to our flat we were throwing the football around and i had an amazing catch in the middle of the road. on saturday we had tea with a less-active member and we ended up helping him with a 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle, sunday we went to see our friend again and helped cheer him up.

November 27, 2013

Last tuesday we had a tea appointment and then had a coordination meeting, wednesday we had a zone meeting in chorley and then when we were heading back to our flat we came across a fight. thursday we had weekly planning, friday we decided to move our couch downstairs but forgot to have someone on the other side so we ended up getting stuck upstairs for a while, saturday we had a special stake conference in chorley, sunday we had stake conference in chorley and also on saturday i found out that i am staying in rossendale valley with elder rodgers.. WOOHOO Christmas!, monday we went to help our friend move to his new flat, tuesday we helped our friend with moving some more of his stuff and then went to my doctors appointment in preston... oh yeah and i saw a ferrari

November 11, 2013...American Football and chance to see a good friend, Elder Leiva!

November 11, 2013

Tuesday we had a zone meeting and on the way back i got to see.... ELDER LEIVA!! i was so excited but our train had pulled up so i had to get on and unfortunately i couldnt get a picture or talk to him but i got to give him a hug. It was guy fawkes night so we had to be in by 5.

Wednesday we had to go on an exchange with the zone leaders and i ended up going to chorley 4 with Elder Bahr, we had our mormon.org hour and 2 appointment fell through within half an hour, also Elder Bahr got the car stuck on a kerb (curb) which was pretty embarrasing, then we had a tea appointment.

Thursday we exchanged back and had weekly planning.

Friday we had an exchange with the district leader and i stayed in Rawtenstall with Elder Tuioti who is the district leader. We went and saw one of our investigators and i helped fix his laptop for him. Then we went and saw his friend who has pet snakes and spiders yuck!

Saturday we exchanged back and went to go see our friend again.

Sunday we went again to see our friend but he wasn’t in so we went to go see a member and he also wasn’t in... on the bright side we got to see an american style mustang.

***The picture on left is Mike, covered in mud after a fun game of American football! 

November 4, 2013-Halloween costume this year.....MISSIONARY!

November 4, 2013,

Tuesday there was a lot of rain and hail, we are also now teaching someone who has been taught by missionaries before.

Wednesday we went and saw a less active and then we got a call from a member that sounded urgent and we ended up talking to their friend and now we are teaching him as well.

Thursday i had my 1st halloween on my mission.. just 1 more to go haha and we also had to be in by 5 and then we got picked up to go to our tea appointment and we ended up playing uno at that members home and elder rodgers gave candy to the trick or treaters that came to their door.

Friday we were finally able to buy some food.

Sunday we had church and then we ended up going to see a friend of ours and we talked to him and set up an appointment with him to throw around the football because he loves america

 

 

October 28, 2013....Eating Air!

Sorry there was no post last week, but Elder Butterfield sent a "nothing much has happened yet, love my new area" noninformational email, so I didn't post it.  In the email I sent him this week, I told him that no more of the "nothing much happened yet" emails were allowed or he would be fired!  haha.....luckily, this week's email has a little more substance...

October 28, 2013,

Wednesday we got a new investigator.

Thursday we had to go to chorley for a skills training and we have run out of funds so we have to walk everywhere and eat air.

Friday we planned for the upcoming week and while we were planning it was sunny out and as soon as we left the flat to go to our appointment it started pouring rain... i got completely soaked because our appointment was 30 min. away and we had to walk and when we got there we were 45 min. early so we had to wait in the rain with the lightning, Saturday elder rodgers and i had to wake up at 5 to clean the baptismal font for the baptism of the sisters investigator... i was so dead!

Sunday all of the talks were about missionary work and then after church i got to ride in a convertible BMW