May 28th, 2012 {of all the fred's i've known, stan was the only one we called charlie}

dear anyone that either writes left handed or has wished for a popsicle on a hot day in the past,

so ya i'm kinda in a different country than i was the time before the last time i wrote you guys.  my letter last week was written really soon after i got to my new area so i didn't really know just how different the difference was yet. basically i live probably about twenty miles away from where i used to live but i might as well have moved to a completely different mission! this is so cool. i have been told before in the past that this mission is incredibly diverse and that each area is like working in a new mission but until recently (as in last week) i had not yet experienced the kablamowhoosh effect as i call it. so epsom was more of a quite kind of suburban area where a lot of the english people that worked in london would live, staines is like greater london where basically anyone that came from anywhere lives! it's so cool! and i'm absolutely loving working here and working with elder pond as well we've had some great experiences with the ward and with investigators so far.

the very first thing that we covered was i had to introduce elder pond to the concept of crumpets. then when we had covered all other incredibly necessary material we hit the streets and went contacting. this kid is a natural1 he has a great love and desire to serve every single person we meet or see or speak to that has ever existed and that ever will exist. i mean like really this kid is the dictionary definition of hardworking service. in all basicallity he is the one who is training me. . . . for the second time.

so a few things about the people i've met out here so far and the things we've been doing. we have an investigator named andre who was investigating with the missionaries who were here before us. he's a thirty something year old english guy who works as a barrister (english terminology for lawyer) and is very intelligent. he's really interested in learning about the church and has been looking for a new church for a while now. and when i say looking i mean like really looking. as in he's investigated nearly every church you could think of.  we also are teaching a lady named doris who is really really cool. she is from bolivia and was raised in the catholic church. she has told us though that she's never really felt at home there and never really liked to go. she asked us about how we felt when we went to church. we told that it's something that we look forward to every week, she said that that’s something she has never had but really wants for herself. she also told us that she wants to go to a church where she can feel the same peace that she does while she is reading the book of mormon. we were more than happy to explain to her what exactly that peaceful feeling is and what she can do to have it more often :)  she told us that she would love to be baptized but that she just wants to see if that feeling is at our church before she does it soooooo things are going pretty darn good! (side note: i picked up the use of the word darn from my new companion. . . .  he's from nebraska)

now on to business! google is still the most used search engine in the world and the stock market is full of lines and graphs.

in other news we've had some amazing miracles this week as we've really started to focus all of our finding efforts on the book of mormon. we've set a goal to introduce and use the book of mormon with every person we meet on the street each day (which is a lot) and i am continually amazed at just the amount of power that this book has. something that i've taken to doing lately is i've been seeking to be able to show people just how much the book of mormon can apply to their own lives. so with every person we talk to we always find a book of mormon passage that applies to them (which is easy because all of it applies pretty much all the time always) then we read with them from the book of mormon. i can tell you that there is really power in the words of the book of mormon. anytime we read with someone you can see a change come over them. they feel the spirit and then desire to have this great book for themselves. and the more i read it myself the more i'm amazed at just how personal and specific the book of mormon is to all the challenges and problems that we will face in our lives. i love this book and i love sharing it!

with love

Elder Jarman

 ps. how come soy bean is so good yet tofu is not so good as soy bean is good so?

pps. from where i am sitting i can see no less than three books describing how to improve your psychic power. . . . . . .

ppps. i'm not sure if i've mentioned this but missionary work is basically the funnest thing i have ever ever ever done :)