General Conference....again :)

Dear Friends and Family,
I love you! Haha.  I also love Ilford soooo much.  It's pretty much the best place.   :) 
Monday was a good day.  In the evening we went to see Bela and Brother Blackman and Brother Omoruyi came with us to give her a blessing.  She's still struggling a bit and her blind eye is painful, but she's hanging in there.
Tuesday was also a great day.  We saw Justin in the afternoon with his friends Nicholas and Micheal.  We talked about keeping the Sabbath day holy, and it went well.  Other than that we did a lot of finding.  I love tracting.  Haha, I really do, I'll miss it.  :) 
Wednesday we had district meeting.  After District Meeting Sister Andersen and I made Breakfast burritos for everyone.  It was really funny, because Elder Anderson (one of the Zone Leaders) was like, "Wow! What's the recipe for this?"  Sister Andersen and I laughed and said, "Well, it's not really a recipe... you just scramble some eggs and fry up some sausage..."  Then he interrupted and said, "Wow, there's two recipes?"... Haha.. and then Elder Hamilton said, "I think Elder Anderson is confusing the word recipe with ingredients."  And Elder Anderson said, "Well, it's a recipe to me..."  Oh, Elders.... they make me laugh.  Then we did some finding and went to the Fowles for dinner.  I love that family so much!  Especially their little daughter Katie.  It was really funny, we taught them a lesson and challenged them to give away some pass along cards that have the website on them, and after the lesson was over Katie hops off her mom's lap and says, "Jesus is my friend.... Jesus can hop!"  and she started to hop all around the room.  Then she wanted to say the prayer and she said the cutest prayer.  She said, "Please bless Christine not to talk during the prayer..."  Christine is her older sister and she wasn't talking, but it was cute anyways.  :) 
Thursday was the day of the neverending bus ride.  Haha.  A trip that should have taken 45 minutes ended up taking over 2 hours..... There was a major traffic jam, but we made it and  were able to have lunch with Sister Saltzman and her daughter Corrie.  It was really good, and we also challenged them to give away pass along cards.  Then we went back to the chapel and saw Justin with *drumroll*  Sister Stevenson!  They're back, hoooray!   :)   We talked about the ten commandments and it was a really good lesson.  Then we did some planning and in the evening we went to the Stevenson's for dinner, and had correlation.  It was a good day.
Friday morning we went to see Rebecca, we talked to her about the Law of Chastity, and getting married to Chanelle's dad.  They are engaged and planning of being married, so we hope to help them pick a day soon.  Then we went to Brother Beasley's for llunch.  Suresh prepared the food, and it was soooooooo good, and Justin came as well.  We also talked to him about the Law of Chastity.  It was a really good lesson.  It was so good to see Brother Beasley as well, because it's been a while since we saw him  :)   Then in the evening we met up with Brother Schwartz from Chelmsford, because he came all the way down to meet our Polish family with us, because he served his mission in Poland.  He's from America and actually works with Brother Fowles.  He's really nice.  We went and saw the Polish family, and found out a few things.  1.  They did not understand anything we taught them before 2.  They didn't tell us their real names... haha John= Roman, Sandra= Maria... however Theresa is Theresa, so that's good...  :)   3.  They actually aren't Polish, they are gypsies, and Polish is their second language.  It was a reallllly cool lesson.  We found out a lot about the family, and Brother Schwartz is really good at speaking Polish.  I loved it.
Saturday in the morning we went to see Asha, Vinod, and Shency again.  Suresh came, and it was another good lesson.  We talked a bit about the plan God has for us.  Hopefully they'll be able to come to church soon, but Asha works on Sunday.... so we'll see.  In the afternoon we met a referral named Carlos, and his wife (Viola...... I think....oops...haha, can't remember),  and their little daughter Gabriella (who has red hair, and is adorable).  Also his mother was there.  She's a member.  She and her son are from Venezuala.  Carlos has been in England for about 10 years, and his wife who is from Lithuania has been here about 6 years.  His mother just barely moved in last week, and has come to help with the baby.  She doesn't speak any English, but Carlos and his wife do, because that's how they communicate in the home  :)   It was a good lesson. Carlos is open, and Viola seems willing to learn, although a bit more skeptical.  Then we went to Barry and Evelyn's to make an appearance at Barry's birthday party.  It was really fun, and the food was good  :)   I love African parties.  haha.
Yesterday was great.  Sister Fowles came up to us and had a great success story about giving away one of her pass along cards!  She said she had a handyman in her house, and she really felt like she should give him a Book of Mormon, because she had found an extra one while cleaning around the house.  She said she was really nervous because it was so out of the blue, but she followed the prompting.  She gave it to him with one of the website cards, and was kind of nervous and apologetic, and she said that he said, " Why are you so nervous?  Do you want me to buy this book from you?"  She said, "No, no it's free."  He said, "Okay, if I go to this website will I see a picture of you standing there getting an award for giving away this book?"  She said, "No no, it's just a book that means a lot to my family and I and I want to give it to you."  He said, "Then why are you nervous?"  Haha, she said that he was really nice, and they ended up having a long conversation about eternal families, and she found out that he lived in Chelmsford and had a wife and three children of his own.  She showed him Moroni's promise and promised that if he would read and pray that he would get an answer, and told him there was a church in Chelmsford, and told him to come back to her when he'd read the book.  Then as he was leaving she said her three daughters came running down the stairs yelling, "Read it! Read it!"  And he said to them, "Do you read it?"  And the little girls said "Yes!"  It was great!  We'll see what comes of it, but no matter what it was a great experience for them because Sister Fowles followed her prompting.  Church was great.  Justin was there, and we got to watch the last session of General Conference!  I loved it soooo much!  The whole thing!  Elder Oaks is definitely a favourite of mine, and his talk really made me think of my motivations for service.  Elder Bednar's talk was great, and definitely helped me realize that the focus is the temple!  Of course, I absolutely loved Elder Perry's talk on member missionary work  :)   Spot on!  And President Monson's concluding remarks, and the reference to "The song of the righteous is a prayer unto me"  made me think of CJ.  Keep on sharing those talents  :)   I loved it!  Then after church another really cool thing happened.  We had an appointments witha  man named Andrew, and we brought Sister Robertson with us to go see him.  So we went to see him and we knocked on his door.  He lives in a shared house (like many in London) so one of his housemates answered the door.  We asked for Andrew, and he went to get him, then came back and said ,"Sorry, he's sleeping... you'll have to come later..."  It was disappointing because we'd come all that way with a member and everything so I just explained who we were and asked if he would be interested.  He said yes!  His name is Christian, and he's from Nigeria, and he's actually been to a program at our church in Nigeria once before.  He liked it, and when we taught him about the Restoration he was soo chill.  He's pretty much the most chill person I've ever met.  We invited him to be baptized and he said yes, so we have a date with him for the 23 May.  it was super exciting.  We spent the rest of the day finding, and found some more new investigators.  It was a good good day.  I love being a missionary!

Mom-Your trip sounds like great fun.  I'm glad you got the letter.  Thank-you soooo much for taking care of everything for school, haha, because...... well....yeah, time is tight, but I'm kind of glad in a way, because I'll keep busy...haha.... no need to lose momentum.....

Dad- That pretty much is a miracle that you made it home!  Sister Fowles was talking about all the snow on Sunday because her parents live in Utah.  I sent a package a couple of weeks ago, so it should arrive really soon....... I hope there aren't any problems with it  :(   It has pictures and books and other random things in it from Christmastime.

Nathan-  I love you!!!!!  I'm glad you are home  :) 

Elder Ison-  I love Jesus the Christ that is a great book!

Grandma-  I love you so much.  Please let me know if there is anything I can do for you!

Love,
Sister Ison