The trip to England & my first companion

Hope you guys are well. The MTC here is amazing. I arrived here in England around 8am on Monday. We disembarked the plane, went to customs and, OH NO! I'd forgotten the paper I was supposed to print off to get me through customs! I walked up to the lady and gave her my passport and at first it seemed that I may not be getting through. I explained to her that I was a missionary that would be living in England for just three weeks and then be leaving for Ireland. I was as nice as could be, but she didn’t seem to care. About the time that I was unsure of what else to do, Elder Richardson (one of the other Elders on his way to Ireland-what a life saver), came to my rescue. When the customs lady began to act as if she wouldn’t let me through Elder Richardson said "Oh he's with me", and handed her his passport and a paper with HIS name on it and she let me go through. I mean, she wasn't going to let me through when I was being all nice, yet she let me through on SOMEONE ELSE'S credentials? The lord really needs me here, I know that.

Anyway, after that I got picked up, along with all of the other Elders, from the airport and we rode the 35 minutes to the Preston MTC, which is on the same land as the Preston Temple. I was fortunate to be able to attend the Preston Temple today.

Then later on jet lag set in and it was pretty bad. I stayed up all through that day, meaning I went 3 days on 2 hours of sleep.

But! I learned how to say good morning in Finnish from my 1st companion (who is Finnish) Elder Metsaranta (there's 2 dots over the 1st "a").

So it’s myself and Elder Metsaranta: My first companionship.

Love you all!

Elder Beacham