Week 3 Depart MTC and Arrive at Leeds England Mission

Departing MTC

Dear Family,

 

Your son will be departing the England Missionary Training Centre on Tuesday morning, 27^th Sept.  We want you to know how much we have enjoyed having him with us. 

 

Elder Tuita is a fine young man and we are grateful for the opportunity we have had to work with him on a daily basis.  He is well-prepared for his mission and he continues each day to grow spiritually.  He is developing good teaching skills and is excited about the work.  He is ready for full time service in the England Leeds Mission.

 

We love this young man and are grateful to you for all you have done to prepare him for this wonderful time in his life.  Your love and continued support are important to his success.   Letters are always greatly anticipated and appreciated.  Please address all future mail to:

    

Sincerely,

 

President & Sister Preston

England Missionary Training Centre

 

 Arrive Leeds England Mission

Dear Brother and Sister Tuita,

Sister Turvey and I have had the privilege of welcoming your son to the England Leeds Mission.  How grateful we are for his desire to service the Lord.

We are grateful for his smiles, for his warmth, and especially for his sweet spirit.

His trainer has been prayerfully considered and is Elder Samuel Otieno Omondi .  They will be serving in the Grimsby 1 Area in the Hull Zone.

We look forward to serving alongside Elder Patrick Benjamin Tuita and sharing his progress and successes from time to time with you.

We already love them

President & Sister Turvey

P.S.  Facebook:  England Leeds Mission Turvey 2016-2019

You can send letters to your son's flat address, but make sure you remember transfers happen every six weeks.  Packages, however, need to be sent to the mission office at the address below.  Please be aware that it takes some time to actually get here.

Regards,

Sister Hayden

Secretary

 

Week 2 -Mission Training Center(MTC) England

Dear family and friends,

I hope everything is well. Just before I start this will be my last email in the mtc I leave next Tuesday morning for Leeds so this will be my last email until the 3rd. So I'll try to make it a good one. The England mtc is amazing. I love it here, were are all one big family here at the england mtc.  This week went by really fast and was super busy. 

Were really started to pick up our learning process here. We're teaching ''investigator's

about 3-4 times a day. They are video recorded so right after we teach we go into a room and a teacher sits with us and breaks down our teaching. You learn so fast here. On top of that every tuesday and thursday they make us go into Manchester and proselyte for about 4 hours. The first time we did this was probably one of the most incredible experiences of my life. You see English people are very independent people and don't really believe in talking to strangers. They all just sit and walk through the city and keep to themselves. So when you try to stop them and talk to them most of them get really upset and just end up yelling at you and cussing you out. We learned a little trick though really quickly. British people love humor so we learned how to apply that in our proselyting. We do the craziest things now to get there attention.  Magic tricks, competitions, crazy stories just anything you can come up with we've tried it on someone on the street. Once they open up to you though and they see that you care about them, the British people are super awesome. They are the funniest people you ever meet. You got to learn to have thick skin though quickly because they love making fun of you. We also learned that British people love too bible bash because they love being opinionated on every subject. It was tough at first but I had an experience that helped me a lot. While we were contacting a Jehovah witness interrupted us while we were talking to some people on the street and and brought up some weird stupid things from some of the bible versus they were making up.  I was prompted to open too the scripture of  James 5:8 ''If any of you lack wisdom let him ask of god that give unto men liberally and upraideth not, and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing waivering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall recieve anything of the lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.'' After I read I testified as men sometimes we rely on ourselves too much too comperhend and analyse the things of god. The only way we can truly know what god wants for us is to pray and ask him. I testified to them that I have done this and recieved an answer and invited them to do so also.  The spirit was strong and they really had nothing else to say after that. 

President had me speak to the mtc about the book of mormon and its role it plays with our investigators on Sunday. It went really good. I talked abouth how the book of mormon is the keystone to our religion and how if the book of mormon is not true than joseph smith was not an actual prophet and god does not speak to us in these latter days. That is why it is so important that to our investagators the book of mormon is the keystone to their testimony. The book of mormon stands for so much more than just scripture,( I know trust me I'm not trying to take away from the importance of this) but the book of mormon stands as another wittness that christ lives and that he loves us. when we read the book of Mormon it brings us closer to him. We feel of his love as we read it. We can know through the book of mormon that god loves us and that god is the same today yesterday and forever and that the heavens are not closed but are opened and he still speaks to us today.  People for years have been trying to minipulate, tear at, or discredit the book of mormon but none have been able to do successfully. Thats why we as missionaries its important for us to help our investigators understand the only way you can know if this is god's kingdom on the earth today and that his priesthood authority is restored on the earth today is to read the book of moromon and ask god if its true. 

I miss you guys hope all is well,

love Elder Tuita

 

Week 1 Mission Training Center(MTC) England

Dear Tuita Family,

I miss you so guys a lot. I wish you guys could see how beautiful it is here. I have sent some pictures but they do not capture really how stunning it is here! My first week here has been amazing. I have a German companion! He is also amazing I have learned to love him so much! He is from the county of Baden-wurttemberg! I have never met a pereson in my life with such a pure heart. He has such a strong testimony and shows such love and faith towards the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  He has a hard time speaking english at times though but I have learned to understand him pretty well. This is a picture of us:

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He is going to Leeds as well! There is about 100 misionaries here at the Preston England MTC.  The majority are German ,  Brittish and French but we also have quite of few from China, Africa, Greece, Spain, Portugal as well. Its weird walking around the hallway and just hearing different languages and accents all the time. The culture here is really awesome, its really cool to interact with people from so many different countries. It is such a big testimony builder to me right now to see so many kids around the world with such strong  testimonies of the Gospel. Some of the stories here are really amazing. One of the girls from France got up to bear here testimony about the Atonement. The spirit was so strong, even though she had a hard time speaking english and it was very hard understanding her, I could feel her love and appreciation she had for the Savior and the Atonement. One of the Elders here from China Eder Man is another amazing person I have met here. All chinese people here in the England MTC have to first learn English and then learn Greek. I kid you not he got english down perfectly within his first week here and is now getting greek down rather well. He has such an incredible story.  He told me he used to live a hard life with much violence but the missionaries found him and changed his life forever by teaching him the gospel. one of my favorite people I have met here is Elder Dove. He is so awesome!  He grew up in Africa and was recruited to play soccer for Arsenal he made is way through the youth programs there and finaly made it up to play for Arsenal, after a couple of games though in training he screwed up his knee pretty bad and lost his spot on the team. He told me after that he had a tough time and made some bad decisions but prayed for Heavenly Father for help. Soon after he was approached to be a coach for Arsenal.  He is now one of the soccer trainers for Arsenal.  Because of his Heavenly Father answering his prayers he decided to serve a mission he will be serving in South Africa Cape Town Mission. Here is a picture us:

Elder Dove and Elder Tuita

This last week has been such a big testimony builder for me as​ I have gotten to know and get closer to the people here at the Preston England MTC. I have an amazing district with such great guys. In our spare time here any chance we get we just play soccer. The players here are amazing!  I have never seen anything like it. I just kind of stand in the back and try to play defence but it never works.

Overall its been an amazing week and I miss you guys so much. I have learned so much this past week! Its a little weird being a missionary now though but, I'can't explain to you the feeling I get everymorning.  I get to wake up and put my name tag on. The oppurtunity to where the name of Jesus Christ over my heart and serve along side him in his vinyards brings me this overwheling feeling of joy I can't explain. I love it, I love being a missionary, I love this work. and I miss you guys!

Elder Dove and Elder Tuita

 

 

Elder Tuita Departs Phoenix AZ for England Mission/MTC

September 6th 2016 ~ Elder Tuita departs Phoenix AZ for England MTC
Elder Tuita Departs Phoenix AZ for England Mission Training Center