Εβδομάδα 4!!

Hey everybody!

Well it has been another great week at the MTC here in England. We went two straight days without any rain it was crazy my teacher who is from here said that that doesn't ever happened here so that was kinda cool. I have played a lot of soccer already and I realize it is true that people in America generally aren't as good at soccer. But I have been able to hold my own which is cool I guess.

So me and my companion had to move rooms at the beginning of this week because we were getting a lot of knew missionaries so we couldn't have our own room anymore. Now we have 5 people in our room and it actually isn't that bad but it is actually a little fun. I also like how we have some other people to talk to at night because it is cool to get to know all of the different people here. We got a new group of missionaries in on Wednesday and it feels really packed here we are almost to full. Next week President said that we are going over capacity so that will be interesting to see how that goes.

On Thursday Elder Ballard of the Quorum of the twelve came to watch the British pageant. Before the pageant in the afternoon we had a devotional with all of the missionaries from the MTC and from the Manchester mission. There was like 300 missionaries there and it was cool because before the meeting he went and shook everyone's hands and he wouldn't let you pass by unless you told him how you were doing. Or at least he wouldn't let me which was cool because we were told we couldn't talk with him. Then we had a great devotional on how we need to be the best missionaries we can be but not to over extend ourselves, and also to never get discouraged because a mission is meant to be hard, but it just makes it all the more rewarding. 

The rest of the week wasn't to exciting except for the spirit was so strong on Sunday because it was fast Sunday. We had a two hour sacrament meeting because the spirit was so strong with everyone sharing their testimonies. 

Every night this week we went and performed in the pageant. It is always cool because the spirit is always there and it is really amazing. 

One thought that I had this week is that we are all specially chosen children of the Lord. We are here in this place to help with the work in our own special way. You can loose your selfishness in the work, and loose what you want, but never loose who you truly are as a specially chosen child of our Father in Heaven.

Love you all,

Elder Halverson

Brig's District Singing Called to Serve in Greek (Brig said next time he will try to get their heads in the video)