Nottingham, England - November 23, 2015

Hey everyone!

So this week has been crazy! So there were some dodgy missionaries in Nottingham and president found out so they had an emergency transfer to get them out of the area and put me in there. They gave me the call that they were moving me at about 11 last Monday morning and told me that I had to be the mission home by 4 that afternoon. With traveling and everything that meant I had about an hour and a half to pack all my things! It was sooo hectic! But by the grace of God i somehow got all my stuff packed in time. I am now in Nottingham and it is great. Honestly such a fun place to be and there are so many great people to talk to here. I am really excited to be here. My new companion is sister Huh and she is Korean, but grew up in New Zealand. She is amazing! We have already seen so many miracles in just one week. We both prayed that we would see miracles being in the tough position we were in and the Lord blessed us so much. We taught the most lessons I have ever taught in one week! People came to church! And we met so many more people that we will see this coming week! So yeah it was crazy and a huge surprise, but I can tell that it has always been the Lord's plan for me to serve here.

So another cool thing that happened since I have been here is in one of our first dinner appointments with members I found someone who knew Zachary when he came to England! He has a picture of him and everything! His name is Chris Thomas. They are a really cool family. Plus their son, elder Samuel Thomas, is serving a mission in lehi! Brother tho as said that elder Thomas lived by some mink farms in that area which means he lives really close to Ashley!! Jeez, it was the coolest D.A. Ever! Haha

But this week we were finding a lot of new people to teach. We work mainly in a small city centre in a town called Beeston. It is by a university so we are teaching a lot of students, mainly Chinese students which is cool because they are so humble and nice! Some of them I already feel really close too. It's really cool because in my last area, Stourbridge, we taught a lady that could not speak any English at all so I had to learn the Chinese words for the things we talk about like God, Jesus Christ, and Prayer. So those come in handy a lot when we talk to these students haha

This area is way more posh than my last area which is nice. It's not quite as posh as Cheltenham though which means the people are still humble. So it's pretty perfect for those miracles to happen!

For Pday we went into the huge Nottingham city centre and they have an old fashioned German Christmas market! It was so cool!! It was all lit up and they were selling old fashioned sausages and sweets and cakes and gifts which was really cute. We looked around that and met the zone leaders and went in a few stores so that was awesome. And guess who my zone leaders are- I have served with both of them from previous areas....elder Shaw from Cheltenham! And elder kmeztsch from new
castle Emlyn! So I was already like best friends with both of them so I am glad that we have good zone leaders. I also have the best Sister Training Leaders ever! Sister Alexandroia who is in my group and sister Banchini. One is from Romania and the other is from Italy. These two girls have been life savers this past week and have really helped us out. Thanks goodness for amazing people!

Well I love you all and hope this week has been amazing and that it will get even better!

Love,

Sister Rasmussen

Stourbridge, England - November 9, 2015

Hey everyone!

So this week was pretty good. From Monday evening to Tuesday evening we had exchanges I was with Sister Weisner and it was so awesome! We met some cool people, taught some pretty cool less active people and did some service for the relief society president. Sister Owusu and I also did service for this Russian lady named Nadia. She wanted us to take the old wall paper off her ceiling then put new wall paper back on.  She made us some way good Russian food so it was sweet! We also helped with the Poppy Appeal which is a fundraiser thing that raises money for veterans and remembers the people who died in war. It's a really big thing over here so our bishop made sure to get us involved. We ran a booth at the mall near by so that was cool. So a lot of service this week, which was cool because we met a lot of really nice people, especially with the poppy appeal.

It was also bonfire night here in England! It is a celebration they do every year. It comes from when a guy named Guy Fox tried to blow up parliament a really long time ago. So they have big bonfires and set off loads of fireworks all night to celebrate it haha. Weird I know. The funniest part is they make a stuffed dummy and burn it on their bonfire to signify Guy Fox haha! English people...they are strange!

Well love you all! Have a blessed week!

Love,

Sister Rasmussen

P.S. I finally got my picture from when I got to shake Elder Holland's hand! And the other picture is Sister Weisner and I on exchange! She is the coolest Swiss person I know! Then the last one is after service when Nadia made us Russian food!

Stourbridge, England - November 2, 2015

Hey hey hey!

Oh my goodness this week was crazy! So it started off really good with district pday which was way fun. Then we taught the Sorra family that night and it went really well. We taught baptism and confirmation specifically because that is the one commitment they are struggling with haha it was such a spiritual experience! But then Tuesday we went out finding all day and worked pretty hard. It was a good day, but we didn't see too much of the benefit with numbers 😕 oh well we will keep pushing forward! Then Tuesday night I got really sick and was sick all of Wednesday and Thursday. It stunk because this was the one week we had a bunch of dinner appointments in this ward, but we had to cancel all of them because I was throwing up for two days straight. Then it was a fast Sunday this week so like 3 1/2 days this week I wasn't eating at all haha. It is all good though because I lost a
little bit of weight haha that was probably the most eventful things of this week. Except Sunday all day was super foggy. Like the thickest fog I have ever been in. It was sooo awesome! You couldn't see anything further than like a few feet of you. In the picture below, what you don't see is that this is a huge pond and on the right there are huge trees lining the entire pond. There is also a large fountain in the middle of this pond that you can't tell is there either. Gotta love crazy English weather!

Well I better get going, love ya!

Love,

Sister Rasmussen