Chance Has Arrived!

CHANCE HAS ARRIVED!

He is officially in England. I am a bit behind in writing, but Chance arrived in England 

 about two weeks ago.

Chance's first view of England, from the plane.

Ahh, he sent his mom flowers... ok, a picture of flowers...

A snippet of Chance

Chance arrived, but his luggage did not.  Chance had a few lay overs, and 

apparently, his luggage got left behind somewhere.

He had a layover in The Netherlands for about an hour which was wonderful

because he took pictures out of the plane window and I was

able to see the land where I served my mission. 

I still love that place and it's people.

Losing luggage while traveling can be a bit of a nightmare, and Chance

ended up having to borrow some of his companions pants for a service project.  I 

imagine those pants were a bit short on him since Chance is 

taller than his companion, but there was an upside in this drama for this momma.

One of my first thoughts after finding out that the luggage would be sent to the 

mission home when it arrived in England, so Chance would eventually

have access to his stuff, was that Chance did it!

Chance lost his luggage while traveling to another country, was able to talk to the 

airline and figure out what had happened and then figure out 

what to do.

This does my heart good because as a momma, you want your kids to be

able to be independent and figure things out.

And Chance was able to do this while understanding the accents of England.

I had to ask for directions in Boston once when we were lost, and the police officer's 

accent was so thick, that when I got back in the car, I told'the driver

I was mostly certain that I had heard everything right.

When you have a deaf child that you try to raise to be independent and able to go 

out into the world and be able to take care of business, 

this is a triumphant moment.

Chance has now received his luggage so he no longer has to wear

his companions pants when doing service projects.

Chance actually packed in such a way that he could live out of his carry on for about a week

just in case something like a loss of luggage happened.

He just didn't pack jeans for service projects in that carry on.

Here is a snippet from Chance's weekly emails home:

England is a different place y'all! It's not the same as America and Utah that's for sure. 
My first day which also happened to be my birthday was zone conference and it was good but I fell asleep so many times haha. 
Not too much has happened but we have been able to teach a Chinese college girl yesterday and she is so prepared for the gospel. I was able to translate the English into Chinese for her because we had an English member present. 

Spiritual thought of the week:
8 Blessed be the name of our God; let us sing to his praise, yea, let us give thanks to his holy name, for he doth work righteousness forever.

I love this because it is focusing everything that we do on God and thanking God for everything that we have for the many blessings that we're so blessed to have.

Sorry it was kind of short but I love you all and will talk to you next week!

Quote of the week:
"I don't Rob banks, I mean, I can't."
This is a funny story, so we saw this guy that was on a wheel chair with a leg half Missing ahead of us coming towards us as we were walking and when he got close to us he started talking. He talked about a lot of weird things and we could hardly understand him because he only had one tooth. Well he started asking us about Donald Trump and then he started talking about robbing banks. Well he then said "I don't Rob banks, I mean, I can't." My mission companion and I had a good laugh about that and then questioned if he would if he could.