Jammy = Lucky!

Hey there!

 Oh man, it sure is exciting to have so many emails to read, especially since I didn't have time to write last week.  So I'm just going to print them off and read them later so that I have more time to write.  (:  And I hope you got my handwritten letter that I sent.

Yeah, the Queen's Jubilee was a pretty big deal to some.  There were a lot of tea parties and such.  'Tea' often means dinner or pudding (dessert) parties.  So the members invite us over for tea quite often.   The ward had an old fashioned street party, which took place in the church car park, but they played games from the 50's and we had spam sandwiches and sausage rolls and the members brought cakes (cup cakes).  It was pretty fun and we had some nonmembers turn up, so that was awesome!

 The month of June is invitational month = the members are highly encouraged to invite people to church whether they be nonmembers or less actives.  The lessons and talks given in church have been very fundamental so that anyone can walk in and understand pretty well the doctrine.  And the members are doing amazing!  We had a nonmember couple and their little boy come to sacrament meeting yesterday and some little girls were baptized on Saturday and they invited their friends.  We've received some referrals from members and things are looking good.  Oh man, I had to play the piano for the baptism and I was so nervous.  There were like 70 people there and for some reason it was worse than playing in sacrament meeting.  But I survived and my sight reading skills and improving. Ha ha!  There's never any time to practice except for when I play prelude, so I have to wing it most times.  I don't play every Sunday, but the ward pianist is in the stake young women's so she's gone a lot and apparently no one else plays.  But I enjoy it and it gives me a nice adrenaline rush everytime (:  Lucky the people sing loud, so they don't hear my mistakes as much.

 Aled is doing....alright.  We had some really good lessons with him and we have a baptismal date and it's all looking good.  But then he didn't come to church!  Aaaaah!  Yesterday I was really feeling like we should drop him, but then he calls us wanting to know where he can get a Doctrine and Covenants and Pearl of Great Price and he wants to be taught earlier in the week because he'll be gone this coming weekend.  I'm so confused!  He is very unpredictable and will never give us a straight answer, it's always ' probably' or 'I suppose'.  We couldn't even get a straight answer about his birthday!  It was Sis. Benson's birthday on Saturday and so we asked Aled when his was and he said, 'Uh, it's usually on the 10th of June.'  Oh man, we had to laugh about that.  He doesn't care at all about birthdays or anything really.  He likes Tai Chee and volunteering in charities and learning about religion.  So I'm going to have to do some more serious praying concerning him. 

 Brandon and Jo dropped us.  Jo called to say that this just isn't something she wants to deal with right now in her life.  Her MS is pretty bad and causes her a lot of pain, so I guess I can understand, but we don't know how Brandon feels about it all.  We don't have any way to contact him besides thru Jo.  I just hope that he'll call us if he really wants it.

 But tonight we are going to go see a really nice girl named Kelly that we met while we were teaching a recent convert kid.  She came over to babysit because Dylan's mom was about to leave and so Kelly sat there while taught Dylan the Word of Wisdom and we gave her a BoM and said we could come see her tonight (:  I'm praying that she won't flog.  So many of our return appointments flog us and it would be nice to have one actually happen.  And then we're going to have dinner with an awesome member named Keith Wilcox.  He has invited some nomembers over for dinner as well.  I'm excited!

 Yeah, so I hope you are all doing well. And I love you so much!  I'm am truly coming to love my mission (:  I went on exchange this week to Stroud and it really really helped me.  Oh man, I feel so much more excited about the work and positive about the future (:

 Love ya!

 Sister LeFevre