Sister Chamberlain: It’s raining it’s pouring :)

Subject: It’s raining it’s pouring

So summer ended I think just kidding I think we are just having tumultuous rains for this week. It’s fun though for a change I guess.

Quote of the week provided by President Millar in his email this week.

“One ship sails East and another sails West with the selfsame winds that blow. It’s the set of the sail and not the gale that determines the way we will go.”

It is our choices and goals that determine what we become not the environment or pressures put upon us. It is how we act not how we are acted upon that is important. Choose to be happy." He said that that little poem bit was read at his graduation 55 years ago. He has a good memory.

So this week has been fantastic! I can’t really remember the whole week that well probably because nothing really fantastic happened until yesterday and Saturday so we will focus on those Actually nothing really exciting happened Saturday either. We went to a little village called Francombe and Godalming and walked and walked and walked and it was fun exploring the villages trying to find members that we had never met to see if they were interested in us speaking with them.

One fun thing about our area is that we take the train a ton. I feel like a proper professional woman or something. The train stations are really busy and you have to be quick and have your wits about you! I feel very city like and it’s fun. Okay but yesterday was the real fantastic thing! So we were traveling to an area to knock called Bushy Hill (the names don’t really matter but they are fun so I am going to include them :)) and we were going to knock a road called Fox-glove street and I was real excited because I do love foxes.

So I was looking at the map to see how to get there and I saw a road called Fitz-John Close and I thought that is a funny name and it reminded me of the song "The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" so of course I had to share with Sister Ross a bit of the song but that is beside the point so we started walking toward Fox-gloves and I felt really prompted to go knock Fitz-John and I thought that is just silly I only want to now because of the song so i ignored it but then I felt again that we should figure out where it is and knock it. So we found out that we had just passed it so we turned around. The very first door we knocked a woman answered and she told us "No speak English" I said where are you from and she said Brazil and so I said too bad we don’t speak Portuguese and she asked us if we spoke Spanish. I said, “un poco” and she said. she could “un poco too” haha so in my VERY broken Spanish I explained who we were and introduced the Book of Mormon. She got all excited and said she had seen the book in Brazil. I asked her if she had read it and she said she had. I tried to ask her what she thought of it but I could have mistakingly asked if she liked chiuauas for breakfast hahaha not really but you get what I mean. So she called for her grandson and he came and translated for us. Long story short we are teaching them tonight with a member from Brazil and giving them Portuguese Books of Mormon! So exciting! Moral of the story is when Gordon Lightfoot sings in your head follow the prompting haha just kidding the moral of the story is when you get a prompting follow the prompting.

Mmmm other than that I can’t think of anything else exciting. We have a game called the Settlers of Zarahemla in our flat that a sister left behind. It is exactly like the settlers of Catan only Book of Mormon status. It is really fun but I taught Sister Ross how to play it too well and she always wins. So yes, I have been a poor sport and won’t play. She continues to play against herself though before we go to bed at night. I created a monster.

England has been celebrating 100 years since its involvement in WWI. It was really neat. Last Monday was the official day so all of England was asked to turn off their lights at 10 and put a candle by their window. It was really neat and special to be a part of. There is a big castle in the middle of Guildford and we ate our packed lunches there the other day and the gardens are gorgeous and all done for the anniversary with the flowers spelling out 100 years and stuff. Oh sorry and one more thing that is super cute. So there is a family in our ward named the Elders and they have a baby boy named Isaac, he is two. He tries to say mine and Sister Ross’s names but he can’t say sister so he calls us Mister Ross and Mister Chamberlain. I love it!

Love you all!

love, Sister Chamberlain