Carrier's England Mission 2019

June 16-23

Sunshine All Week

We enjoyed having light from the sun all week long.

The sun rises at 4:30 a.m. here and sets at 10:30 pm

Every Wednesday we have a devotional with Brother McMorn (institute director), and

Marian (secretary). Last week we watched Elder Holland's talk for CES educators at their annual symposium. Elder Holland talked about igniting the light in YSA instead of focusing on filling their jar. It was a powerful topic reminding us to point the YSA to Christ. He reminded us to teach in a way that the students will be eager to share their light and become better through Christ. It was powerful and we were reminded that Christ is the source of Light!

Since the sun shined brightly all week we went about enjoying the light. Here's our week's adventures.

Monday a new convert at the institute volunteered to do the lesson for home evening. She did great and shed her light to all of us.

Tuesday, we picked up a new senior sister at the airport. She is from West Jordan, Utah. We took her for a sun filled car ride to Hull, England. It was an 1 1/2 hour ride there. Her eagerness and conversation with us was filled with light, even with her jet lag. At Hull we met President and Sister Turvey leading a zone conference. After eating a missionary pizza lunch we headed back to Leeds so I could get my hair cut. That evening we were enlightened by our Iranian friends who were there to mingle together and were taught about Christ. They brought the dinner.

Wednesday, it was warm and sunny. We took a long morning walk and saw many of the owl statutes on the buildings here in Leeds.

Owls on pillars

Owls on fence

The gold owls all over the city.

Salt Lake City sent a film crew from Germany to Leeds England Institute. They came with their lights and camera. Many students were interviewed. They filmed our pizza lunch from Costco; students working on a service project and delivering of goods to the St. George's Crypt (not far from the institute); filmed our Wednesday evening guest chef dinner; filmed my family search class; and filmed the students doing lots of different activities. They even had a drone getting aerial pictures.

Wednesday afternoon Pete and I and a YSA couple from Manchester, England, (The Quinns) had a two hour spiritual, Christ centered, meeting with Sonny Donaldson, (director over CES in all of England), K. Roy Tunnicliffe, (area authority 70), and another area authority seventy, Elder Hans Degroot, from the European headquarters in Germany. He took a picture with us to send to our friends Calvin and Teresa Barlow who are serving a mission in Berlin Germany. He knew them well. Pete and I both felt of Christ's love for the YSA during that council gathering. These leaders expressed their love and concern for the YSA in this area. They shared important council from the brethren for us that afternoon and expressed gratitude for our service with the YSA in Leeds, England. Leeds Institute of Religion has built quite a reputable name in the European area.

Thursday, we went on another sun filled walk, had a great devotional with the institute director, fixed a chicken Alfredo dinner for everyone, and Brother McMorn taught the Parable of the

Talents in institute. Many comments shed inspirational light to all. Here's some pictures from our walk in

downtown Leeds.

Friday, we started the day with our pancake devotional bright and early at 8:00 a.m. Instead of pancakes we had french toast. Some had never tasted french toast. The talk we used for the devotional was Elder Scott's 1999 talk called, He Lives. We usually get a big turnout for this event because they're hungry. I'm always impressed with the YSA's insights at these devotionals.

The YSA played some card games with us. After they left, around 1:00 P.M., we enjoyed the sun in Knaresborough. It's a beautiful town just 30 minutes north of Leeds.

Knaresborough Castle

views of Knaresborough below the castle

Knaresborough city

Painted windows on a lovely home

city street in Knaresborough

lovely flowers surrounding quaint home

Knaresborough linen mill water dams

River walk in Knaresborough

Saturday was our p-day and President Turvey asked if we could help him pack. We were glad to help and we ended up coming home with lots of food for the YSA. After lunch we headed to see the Harewood Home just outside of Leeds. It is quite a huge mansion with lovely yards.

The kitchen in the basement of this home is where the movie Victoria was filmed.

When we got home a Chinese friend knocked on our door. She was looking for the Mandarin sisters. We had a nice visit with her while we waited for the sisters. She was interested in seeing the inside of the institute.

This is what I showed her.