Heya everyone!
Yesterday was remembrance day, which is kinda like Memorials day or Veterans day but in England. So for church we went to a remembrance day event in St. Peter's square (middle of manchester). There was bagpipes, a marching band, and a ton of people from the military marching around. It was way interesting, I'm glad I got to experience some culture here!
We have some new friends who I feel like are gonna start progressing pretty soon! One is YuBin, we met him street contacting the other day. I actually think he was drunk when we talked to him haha. It was at night and he was kinda staggering across the sidewalk haha. But nonetheless he seems pretty interested in meeting with us! We also have Crystal, who we met during freshers week I guess but lost her until about 2 weeks ago. But she's so excited to keep meeting with us and learning more! Also, some sisters in my district are super good at street contacting, and keep making Chinese friends. So they keep transferring them over to us so our teaching pool is actually huge right now haha. Which is a little hard cause my Chinese is not good at all right now but at least I'm getting plenty of listening and speaking opportunities!
Also, my district started doing street displays this week! It's pretty much a YSA tradition since all the missionaries in YSA see each other all the time, but we haven't done it for a while. Basically we set up a table with a bunch of Book of Mormons and a banner and then a missionary shouts out a message through a megaphone. Kidding, it's basically street contacting but with a bunch of missionaries in front of a banner/table with Book of Mormons. And it's super effective, we make a bunch of new friends everytime we do it. We made like 3 friends in 2 hours which is sooo good. It's the same thing we did in freshers week almost 2 months ago (wow time flies). So yeah, finding is going really well right now, we're just working on getting them all to progress!
Also england is sooooo cold, this week was literally the worst and it's only gonna get colder. Also there's like no sun here so I'm literally so pale right now. It's getting dark at like 5 right now, but in december it's supposed to get dark before 4. So I'm pale and only gonna get paler. But now people on the street dont think I'm asian and get more surprised when I speak chinese. So I guess theres some benefits to the lack of sunshine here!
-Elder Ensign
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| Some pictures from remembrance day yesterday |
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| Also some random person on the street we were talking to the other day wanted to take a picture with us for whatever reason haha |
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