Moving Day

Dear Friends and Family,
Oh how I love being a missionary.
Here we go. Monday was pretty laid back. We did our shopping and stuff and then had teacher training with the Elders. It was a fun day.
Tuesday we saw Jill from South Africa again and Sister Ip came with us. Sister Ip was great! Jill still really respects us, but sees no need to change from being Catholic. Then in the evening we saw Micheal. He's doing okay, but he still hadn't read his Book of Mormon. We read with him , and it seemed good, and we assigned him one verse a day to read (starting small :) ) and he agreed to come to the Friday night activity, so that was nice.
Wednesday we had Zone Conference and it was soooo good. I love President and Sister Patch. President is so funny. I had to give a spot talk on Virtue, but I knew I was going to do it... haha... somehow you just can feel it :) It was bittersweet however to say Goodbye to Sister Berrett, because I probably won't see her again before she goes home... crazy. Then that evening we went to dinner at the Rebelo families. I don't know how they can contain so many amazing families in one ward! It was great to hear their many stories about missionary work. Brother Rebelo talks to anyone and everyone about the church. It's great. They have 2 daughters and 2 sons and they are so cute. I love it.
Thursday we did our planning. We also called just about every estate agent in the area, because we were alerted on Sunday that we needed to move out of Sister Bettridge's house by the end of the month. Most people just laughed at us because we were looking for something at about £450 per month, and they all said that their cheapest were about $550 or £600, which was crazy! We found a couple flats to look at so that was good, but only after we decided to look at anything under £500 per month. Then we did some finding and we met some really nice new investigators on a street that apparently the Elders had tracted on Monday (and we didn't realize it), so that was pretty funny.
Friday was a great day. We went to lunch with Denise Sim. She is so great, and afterwards she dropped us off in Hemel Hempstead (where we are moving), because we had a couple of appointments to view flats. We viewed three flats and found one we really liked, but it was £495 per month. We weren't sure if we'd be allowed to take it, but it was really the cheapest one we had seen that was available before the end of the month. So we talked to the office Elders and eventually "sold" them on it as well :) So we have a place! We may be moving in as soon as Saturday... so I'll update you next Monday as to my current location and new address. Then in the evening we went with Micheal to the ward activity and it was great. What was most exciting was that Micheal did his reading, and then some, and he loved it! :) Also they had a Young Single Adult activity at the chapel and Julia (from Milton Keynes) was there. It was fun to see her! I also saw some people from Enfield, so that was pretty cool. We made Pizza's and played Volleyball. Saturday was a day full of finding. We went tracting all day, but we also found 6 new investigators, so that was fun. In the evening on our dinner break we crashed a Single Adults dinner because it was at Marge's place. It was really fun, and we got to meet a woman from our ward who I've had my eye on for a while. Her named is Fiona Smith, and the reason I've been looking at her is because she looked exactly like Jane from the Joseph Smith movie. Well we got to officially meet her, and guess what! She is Jane from the Joseph Smith movie. Isn't that cool? So that was a fun discovery.
Sunday was exciting because Micheal came to church. What was exciting about that was that he had a really good excuse not to come, but he still chose to come. I love it! Then in the afternoon we were supposed to have 5 appointments but instead we got 4 hours of finding. It's disappointing when people don't keep their appointments, but I guess they have their agency. I like finding anyways :) . So it was a fun way to end the week. I love so much how the Lord is preparing people and how he leads us to them! I love so much how the gospel blesses every aspect of our lives. We may not be able to answer every question, but with faith we can make it through any question or trial. I love it so much! Thank-you to everyone for the wonderful support you are :)
Mom- I have the best family ever. You are so much fun :) I love the Lincoln quiz :-P Thank-you so much for the cookie recipe. By the way, the attached pictures are for Sister Stevenson. She asked for them. Do you think you could get them to her via facebook or something?

Nathan- You are such a good boy. I love you!

Elder Ison- Stop being trunky :-P I got your letter. I was so excited that it was so big, until I realized that it was mostly not from you :( Haha.... thanks anyway :)
Everyone Else- I love you!

Love,
Sister Ison