Re: Phwew

So these are all the missionaries in the branch. I love them to death, and hope you all get the chance to meet them! 

Until next week! 

– Elder William Kevin Black

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:17 PM, William Black <william.black@myldsmail.net> wrote:

So though this week felt a bit slower, it's been getting faster. 

The more I love my companions and the people of Ireland, the faster days go. 

Our trio has been getting closer, partially thanks to the great sense of humor elder Walker has. 

Not much too exciting has happened this week though... 

We got to see several muslim families, and there were a few funny moments. Like a mildly crazy man who cornered the other trio and told them jokes for a few hours, like: One shepherd said to the other, let's get the flock out of here!! 

This Saturday and Sunday, God's prophet and apostles will speak to the world in a meeting called General Conference. If you just google it, you can easily see where to watch it. I advise everyone to watch it. Bring with a notepad, and be ready to write, because all they say is relevant to today. And the world could use a bit of guideance. 

I hope you all have fantastic weeks! 

Cheers~

– Elder William Kevin Black

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Phwew

So though this week felt a bit slower, it's been getting faster. 

The more I love my companions and the people of Ireland, the faster days go. 

Our trio has been getting closer, partially thanks to the great sense of humor elder Walker has. 

Not much too exciting has happened this week though... 

We got to see several muslim families, and there were a few funny moments. Like a mildly crazy man who cornered the other trio and told them jokes for a few hours, like: One shepherd said to the other, let's get the flock out of here!! 

This Saturday and Sunday, God's prophet and apostles will speak to the world in a meeting called General Conference. If you just google it, you can easily see where to watch it. I advise everyone to watch it. Bring with a notepad, and be ready to write, because all they say is relevant to today. And the world could use a bit of guideance. 

I hope you all have fantastic weeks! 

Cheers~

– Elder William Kevin Black

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Transfer No 2!

So this week, we got a new companion: Elder Walker, and Elder Dixon is chilling at home with his family. 

He is much more intense, and has a bit more aggressive attitude towards missionary work, which doesn't jive much with me and elder Luna. But it works, and we had two great lessons yesterday, with Esau, an african who just walked in to the church off the street, and Connor, who is a lot like elder Luna and me. I'm more of a 'follow the spirit' guy than the business like attitude of Walker... Sort of like Qui-Gon-Jin versus young Obi-wan. x) Just different styles... 

Anyway! This week was sort of low on drama... Not much really exciting happened... X) But I got to go to Dublin for P-day, and we stopped by a nerd shop, which had loads of cool things I couldn't play with for two years.... But browsing was fun! ^0^

And we got to progress a bit with a little 8 yr old daughter of a recent convert, who was getting ready for baptism. She's clever, but really strong-willed, as her mother isn't quite strict enough. But our lesson was so much better - she didn't throw anything, and stayed sitting for almost the whole lesson!! Which was a huge improvement... 

And a few words of wisdom: Serving others is the best way to be happy. 

I love you all! Have fantastic lives!! :D

– Elder William Kevin Black

[Attached is Jaffa. (really named Jeff Kelly) He is an amazing man, a spiritual giant, and a fantastic teacher. His philosophy is to teach as the savior did, with parables. I love him to death! He has the energy of a 20 year old, despite being 45 years old... x]

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Another week, another cruel irony

So Elder Dixon is going home now, and it's just me and Elder Luna for now. He had always had the phone, but tried to pass it off to me, saying "I'll never touch it again." Of course, he broke his oath ~20 times this week, but it only mattered tomorrow - as we drove away from the train station after saying the final goodbye, we realized he still had the phone. We swung the car around, and thankfully he had missed his train by a few seconds, so we were able to get the phone back, and he took a later train. 

So like always, everything worked out. ^-^

We were lucky this last week, in getting many dinner appointments - we milked the fact that Elder Dixon was going home, and were able to get DAs nearly every day - we had to play tetris with a few, moving them around, trying to get them to fit, and even had a few lunch appointments! ^0^ So it was great. 

One of our investigators, Vinnette, has a facebook page -> "Irie-jam Boutique", and really wants to start off her business, but her page needs more likes. So if you want to help a sister out, like the page! She's jamaican, so it's even better! :D

Oh, and Elder Dixon said I was "like the powerpuff girls. And the professor. But male." X) Maybe the strangest thing I've been called, but accurate to some extent... 

I also realized why mormonism is called a cult: anyone who actually researches the church by reading the book of mormon and going to a church meeting gets converted (in a large majority of the time). So only mormons really know very much about mormons because once you learn about mormons you become a mormon. 

It's a lot like science - once you know enough science to fight against science, you become a scientist yourself. (qtd from one of my favorite parodies in the world.)

I love you all, and hope you all have fantastic weeks! :D 

Thanks for being my friends, and for being great people! 

Until next week~

– Elder William Kevin Black

[Sorry, no pictures this week. :/ I'll try to do better next week. I also lost the usb / mini usb cable I need for it anyways. So yeah... Wish me luck! :D]

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Re: I'd pick miracles over numbers any day

Oh, and pictures!! 
141 - the last view of Pegasus - but now we have Hermes! Same kind of car, but brand new, with fancy bells and whistles!! Hermes - messenger of the gods. Very fitting. ^w^

143 - double rainbow we saw directly over our flat! :D 

– Elder William Kevin Black

On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 1:25 PM, William Black <william.black@myldsmail.net> wrote:

Wow. Okay. So. We got a new car, which was clamped the day we got it, though it was a misunderstanding, so it was fine. 

I was called bubbly for the first time, which was odd for me. XD I always saw myself as more serious... 

So one of our investigators has a nephew who just returned from his mission, which was exciting to hear! 'Olatunbosun Borsman Anifowose' - solid african name. ALSO: See pictures of me at an african church at 'Banky Media Xpression' facebook page, run by Vinnette Golding, one of our investigators. 

A investigator named Justine agreed to come to church for the first time in about three years! It was way exciting. And she loved it, as did her kids. 

Elder Dixon (Omar Roy Collin Rashid Dixon) is going home next Sunday. He was amazing. He loved america more than me. He just glorifies it, and loves the law system in the US. 

We had eight investigators at church, which is amazing considering the previous numbers for Limerick being {0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 8} or something like that. XD

There is a great talk in oct '07 by jeffery R Holland, which talks about the godhead - we showed it to a stubborn old man, who finally got it the 200th time. Holland is boss. Check out the talk. 

I hope you all have the chance to be persecuted for your beliefs. Whether it be good or bad, it is good to be pushed against, so you can grow stronger. You have to break muscles to build them. Opposition is necessary. 

Oh, and Kebabs. Properly pronounced, this rhymes with "stabs", and is {meat, salad, sauce} all wrapped in pita bread. I highly reccomend them. =w= So good, that the first time missionaries eat them, they are considered Kebabtized. 

And elder Dixon is nearly a master of Capoeira, a sort of martial arts dance. Check it out. 

Also, it's odd not being in the main stream. We only hear news events second hand, so the whole Syria business - I haven't really heard much about what's going on... 

Anyway, love you guys, and I hope you have a fantastic week! 
Enjoy life! 

– Elder William Kevin Black

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I'd pick miracles over numbers any day

Wow. Okay. So. We got a new car, which was clamped the day we got it, though it was a misunderstanding, so it was fine. 

I was called bubbly for the first time, which was odd for me. XD I always saw myself as more serious... 

So one of our investigators has a nephew who just returned from his mission, which was exciting to hear! 'Olatunbosun Borsman Anifowose' - solid african name. ALSO: See pictures of me at an african church at 'Banky Media Xpression' facebook page, run by Vinnette Golding, one of our investigators. 

A investigator named Justine agreed to come to church for the first time in about three years! It was way exciting. And she loved it, as did her kids. 

Elder Dixon (Omar Roy Collin Rashid Dixon) is going home next Sunday. He was amazing. He loved america more than me. He just glorifies it, and loves the law system in the US. 

We had eight investigators at church, which is amazing considering the previous numbers for Limerick being {0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 8} or something like that. XD

There is a great talk in oct '07 by jeffery R Holland, which talks about the godhead - we showed it to a stubborn old man, who finally got it the 200th time. Holland is boss. Check out the talk. 

I hope you all have the chance to be persecuted for your beliefs. Whether it be good or bad, it is good to be pushed against, so you can grow stronger. You have to break muscles to build them. Opposition is necessary. 

Oh, and Kebabs. Properly pronounced, this rhymes with "stabs", and is {meat, salad, sauce} all wrapped in pita bread. I highly reccomend them. =w= So good, that the first time missionaries eat them, they are considered Kebabtized. 

And elder Dixon is nearly a master of Capoeira, a sort of martial arts dance. Check it out. 

Also, it's odd not being in the main stream. We only hear news events second hand, so the whole Syria business - I haven't really heard much about what's going on... 

Anyway, love you guys, and I hope you have a fantastic week! 
Enjoy life! 

– Elder William Kevin Black

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Traveling...

So wow. Most of this week, I spent travelling back and forth, and there was also Zone conference, so our numbers were historically low. 0-0

First, down to Cork. We did a transfer with elder South and Star, where we split up, and got to learn from new companions. Nothing much exciting happened, but it was fun to see how others were operating. 

Second, right up to Dublin. I was with elder Parry for the day, who was out six more weeks than me. It was AWESOME because A. We were walking and got to see many more people than us in Limerick do, because we only drive to appointments and B. There were two Polish people who were going to walk away from us, but I asked if they spoke german, and they stopped, and listened. ^-^ It was great. We also met a nun, which was cool. 

After driving to Dublin, then back to Limerick, then back to Dublin, then back to Limerick, I got many hours of practice driving stick. But we were out of gas on Sunday. So we walked everywhere... Which was tiring, considering no one we went by was home. Four hours of walking wasn't that fun... XP 

Oh. And last Monday night, I was kissed by a drunk man on the neck, despite my best efforts of pushing him off me. So that was a tad scarring. But he called me the handsome one out of the three of us, so I guess that's an upside... Maybe... XD

Until next week!

– Elder William Kevin Black

'best before end' Yeah, I don't like the taste of fire and brimstone in my KitKat bar. XD

Our mega-posh house in Dublin we stayed at. So posh, it was only a bit below the average American house. It even had a dishwasher! :D 

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