Cardiff, Wales - December 21, 2015

Hey everyone!

Soooo...guess who is back in Wales?!?! I got moved to Cardiff! It is a
pretty big city. Loads of people! There is a huge city centre that
always has sooo many people in it. It is insane! My new companion is
sister Larsen. She is from Logan Utah. She has only just finished her
training so she just graduated from being a greenie.

This week was crazy with moves. Especially since we had to close down
the Notts 4 flat. We had to deep clean it and pack up some of the
stuff in it. It was intense. Plus packing all our own personal stuff.
We had to stay up pretty to get it all done.

But this week is Christmas! The special time when we get to set aside
time to think of Christ! How exciting! Plus I will be skyping home on
Christmas Day! Can't wait to talk to the family! We have dinner with a
lady for Christmas Day then going to our investigators house for tea.
It should be a great day! We will be skyping in the evening here. I
will be on at 7:30 here in the uk on Christmas Day. That means it will
be 12:30 there in Wyoming. Can't wait to talk to you all!

A less active family is taking us to TGIFrdays for dinner which is
awesome! Haven't had that in ages! It's so expensive over here! So
that will be amazing! Haha

Well I love you all! Merry Christmas from the UK! 🏻☃

Love,

Sister Rasmussen

Nottingham, England - December 14, 2015

Hey everyone!

So this week has been super crazy busy! We have taught some great people and we are still in the process of packing up our whole flat so we can move on Wednesday. Our flat as of right now is a mess! I guess that is what moving does for you. But it is driving me crazy haha!

The biggest news of this week is...LINDSEY GOT BAPTISED!!! I am so happy for her. She is so amazing. The Spirit was super strong at her baptism. You could just see her face glow when she came up out of the water. Yay! The ward was very supportive of her as well which is just awesome. A lot of people came for it and brought lots of food for refreshments afterwards. She has great friends in this ward so she will do great. It was such a blessing to be here for such a special day for her. When she came in to the changing room afterwards she just cried! Tears of happiness of course!

This week was very busy for the ward. We had the baptism on Thursday. On Friday sports night at the chapel. Saturday was the Christmas party. Sunday church and then later that night a carol concert. Then Monday family home evening for empty nesters. So there were loads of great opportunities to bring our investigators to the church in a relaxed way and for them to make friends in the ward. It was soooo good! Activities at the church make such a huge difference!

We also had zone meeting on Friday. Luckily we don't have to travel very far to get there so it didn't take up too much of our day. It feels like this week we have just been rushing from place to place and
meeting to meeting! It was great training though! They talked to us about fear and how we let it get in our way sometimes. Also about inviting people to baptism! So this week we are just going to invite
everyone we meet with. Perhaps a miracle will happen and we can get a couple more people on baptismal dates.

We went to Cosmo last pday which is a posh buffet. It has food from all over the world there. It was so good! We ate waaaay too much! It was fun though being together with the district.  This p day we are going to the German Christmas market than playing volleyball at the chapel! Yay!!!

Well I love you all! Have a great week!

Love,

Sister Rasmussen

 

 

Nottingham, England - December 7, 2015

Hey everyone!

How are you this week? This week was pretty great again! This area of Nottingham is so great! I love it here so so much. We are working with the coolest people as well. Everything honestly is just kind of falling in to place here. We are so lucky that Heavenly Father is guiding us so much. So cool thing...we are having a baptism this week! Her name is Lindsey and she is so great! I will send pictures next week. Modern day miracles are happening!

Last p day we all went as a district to the huge manor where they filmed batman!! It is called Wollaton Hall. It was so fun! They had turned most of it in to a museum. It was so pretty though! It really looked like the mansion in downton abbey! So that was a blast. We walked around their huge gardens and there were a lot of deer just chilling about. Then it rained so hard and we had to walk a long way to catch the bus without an umbrella so sister huh and I got pretty soaked.

Every place here has their Christmas lights up! It is so fun! Every town centre has a big Christmas tree up and lots of old fashioned markets are going on. Every where has a festival as well for when they turn the town Christmas lights on. Sister huh and I didn't realize that our town was having a big festival so we went to the high street to talk to people and there were fair rides and food and a big market. We were so confused about what was going on! But we just stayed on the outside of the crowd and talked to some pretty cool people.

So this week we also did service for our investigator. She has this creepy cellar that looks more like a dungeon. She has a hard time keeping her house clean so we offered to clean it and she said yes we
could help clean her cellar. So we got the elders and went over after district meeting to help. When she showed us the cellar we were in shock! It was piled high with rubbish that she had just been chucking down there for ages! The smell was something else. We were all scared of what might be living down there haha! We were freaking out every time we would grab something and it would be wet or slimy or something! But nevertheless we got it all cleaned out! We were so glad we had brought the elders, sister huh and I could have never managed on our own. We went back to the flat for lunch and I showered about four times to get rid of the smell. We are helping her clean the rest
of her house sometime. Pray for us...hahaha!

We also helped a less active and her non member husband move. When we got there they hadn't even put stuff in boxes yet! So we helped them pack, move, and then unpack everything! It went well though and they definitely couldn't have done it without us. We got it all done in a spaces of a few hours as well! So it just goes to show that when you are a missionary you learn how to pack as fast as lightening and cram stuff in to spaces however small they are. So yeah missionaries are mean packers haha

We have family home evening with members of the ward and some less actives tonight which will be good. It's always good to have activities for people to go to and form friendships at.

So we found out a couple weeks ago when I had just barely gotten here that our flat had been sold and we would have to move in to a new one on the 16 of December. Well then we found out that the mission home had put off finding us a place to live and so they are having us close down the area on the 16th instead of just moving to a new flat. It's so sad because I have had the most success here on my entire mission. The field is definitely white here and they are just leaving the area alone with no missionaries coming in for another few transfers. Ugh...it's so so so sad. Especially with Lindsey's baptism because it is like we will get her baptised then leave. We are praying for a miracle that they can find a flat within this next week for us to move to so that we don't have to leave. Praying very very hard! I already love this place and the people so much!

Well that is the exciting news of the week. Love you all!

Love,

Sister Rasmussen