Elder Devin Oviatt--November 12, 2012

Hi fam,

Im good! This week has been really good. Me and Elder Christensen are getting into a really good grove. I cant wait to see where we are at at the end of this move. Im also excited that we are still going to have thanksgiving here thanks to the Forsgren family. WE are trying to get alot of new people to teach! So we are talking to everyone!!!!! which has been hard for me because I have had a really bad sore throat for about a week. Hopefully it gets better :) Yeah so sense I sent pictures I dont have as much time but hey at least Im emailing my family unlike ELDER C. He is watching mormon messages. Haha it makes me laugh.

Lets see funny story for this week. ummmmm so we went over to a DA this week and I was hoping I could gooo my whole mission w/ out having to worry about it but we went over to a Da and they made us Pizza. Perfect I love Pizza!! But I saw the first one they got out of the oven and it was covered with ham & pineapple!!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOO. I asked he daughter if the other pizza was different and she said yeah . Super happy but then they brought out the other pizza and it was covered w/ chicken and pinnapple. I ate salad! :( (Still hate the flavor)

So yeah that was funny we also had a halloween party at our chapel. That was alot of fun. But we ran out of rubbish bins so the bins were over flowing. but what you going to do???

Miss you guys Im jealous of the snow!

Love

Elder Oviatt

"Spiritually Minded Is Life Eternal"

Elder Devin Oviatt--Aug 6, 2012

Man this week has been awesome but probably my slowest of my mission so far. We have been waiting for move calls. We think that Elder Manga is moving and I'm saying some where. But I really want to stay. OH yea  So elder Manga's Parents are going to go to Utah in october for the conference. They were wondering what they should go do and see while there. We thought it would be kinda funny if you guys met up. So yea that might be cool. OH yea so now i can officially say that Iv'e been attacked by a dog on my mission. haha We we're at Isabels visiting with her and her family and when we we're getting ready to go. Marcus Her younger brother had got the dog all worked up and he bit me on my arm. Not hard but enough to break the skin. The family was freaking out and I was Like I'm fine. It's not the first time I;ve been bitten and how Iv'e been around dogs all my life. They felt really bad. But hey for the time being I have some really cool bite marks. (: Also we might be moving apartments. We think some one broke into our flat. Its fine but yeah. We went to the London Eye again to go contacting. Thats still so much fun. Its funny how much of the Olympics Iv'e been seeing. Every ones house we go to is watching the Olympics. So yea We actually see alot of it. GO USA!!! haha. Iv'e never been so patriotic till I got on my mission.

  Oh so for P day we played football(soccer) and because we are in England we had to say a harry potter spell every time we kicked the ball. That was hilarious.

 We havn't been able to see N. t. this week. M. flog on our appointment. so yea its just been a okay week. We have been doing a lot of finding and trying to talk to as many people as possible on the bus and just where ever we are. I stil am amazed at how many people I meet from all over the world. Im loving that part of it. I want to stay here cause I love the members and our investigators but It would be cool to go somewhere else. So The end of this transfer signals the end of my training. I cant wait till I get to. I feel Like that would be really fun. But we'll see. :) I love you guys and I miss All of you. Love

Elder Oviatt

Elder Devin Oviatt--July 23, 2012

  Wow this week has been so great!! So first of all we found out about the olympics and the part that we are going to be playing in it. So the Church has organized a booth that will be set up next to the London Eye, right on south bank. So starting this Friday I think, we are going to be going there in like shifts to run the booth. It will be every day from 10-7 everyday. All the missionaries in the whole zone are really excited! We will be in probably the busiest part of London next to one of the biggest tourist attractions in the UK. I really can't wait!! Their will be millions of people there everyday. It's really exciting. We might even have a I Pad so that we can be collecting emails right then and there and be able to send the email while we are talking to the people so that they recieve the email while or shortly after talking to us. I havn't really talked about the email prograhm in the Mission. So the whole mission is really trying to get emails from everyone. Member and non members. The emails are really nice. They have just little messages on them and after a while one of the emails will go through the first lesson. Than some more little messages and than it will send the second lesson and so on. But we encourage members to do it too because than on the emails the members or whoever can LIKE it on facebook and it will post it to there walls. Than there friends can see and read and start getting those emails! The old and new mission President are pushing this very much. Which I agree this program can go a really long ways. They can track who and where opens the emails and they are already seeing it spread all over the world. It really cool. But yeah so when we go to the eye we are going to be trying our best to get emails. 

   This morning we saw the Olympic torch! that was really cool. We took Book Of Mormons with us and lifted them up. HAHA it was really funny but hey we might be on TV. We're hoping that we might have permission to watch the opening ceremonies. Cross our fingers! :) Seeing the Torch was really cool though. We saw the helicopters land the torch on tower bridge! I just cant wait. There is already a huge rush of people. They are expecting a influx of like 8 million people. 

    We starting teaching a guy from Ghana this week. His name in nana Tutu, (: haha and my favorite part is one of his sons name is Lord Tutu. But he's really cool. Im excited to start teaching them more.

     But yeah so I'm really excited for this week. I miss and love you all. It's so cool to hear about which of my friends are going on mission.

  With love elder Oviatt

Elder Devin Oviatt-- July 16, 2012

Hey fam,

Hows utah doing? Are the fires still going? This week was really good! We had a zone conference on Friday in crawley. We finally met with the new Mission President. He seems like a really nice guy. Who use to be a heart surgeon. He served his mission in Australia and Bruce R Mcconkie was his Mission President. He is different from President Shamo but in a good way. Some small thinngs have changed but nothing that big yet.  

   Our ward (Catford) had a variety night/ Talent night! It was super funny! The bishoprich did a liup sinc to the 3 amigos where they sing my little butter cup. That was really funny. But I was really impressed with some of the talents. We we're able to bring some of our investigators. We have been visiting this family. We call them our long term invesitagotrs that dont know it yet. haha They are really nice but they are really active in there church. We try intiveing them to the talent night but they already had plans. oh well. I've had to start signing nearly every sunday. So I just accepted it so Im learning BSL kinda. During church I sit with them and help them translate for a member name Sam. He know a little bit of ASL and BSL. So I'll sometimes interpret for him. They're are two other deaf members but they only know BSL. Its funny because Im interpetting for Sam I'm starting to mix Asl and Bsl. I'm getting really good at finger spelling though in bsl. Grandma and Granpa are going to be so mad when I come back and only know BSL. hahahaha. 

      Oh yea I dont think Iv'e told you but we see foxes a lot here in London. Iv'e never seen a fox before but here I see a couple a week espescially while tracting. I'll try and include a picture of one we saw yesterday while knocking a street. haha so One of Elder Manga's friends sent him a package that had a game of angry birds. It was a lot harder than we thought it was going to be. It made me wonder what seku and kylie's nights are like when they get home. For P-day we are going to the O2 arena with the Zone. Thats whats nice about the Wandsworth zone. Its so small that it's really easy for the whole zone to get together and play football or whatever. 

    Yep well thats all for now,

Remember always that if the shoe were on the other foot you would walk away awkwardly. 

With love Elder Oviatt!

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"Spiritually Minded Is Life Eternal"

Elder Devin Oviatte--July 6, 2012

Man this week has been incredible. So we had our baptism last saturday. Her name is V. She was a referal from a ward member. She came to some dance that the stake was putting on and she enjoyed the people and the environment that she wanted to see what church was like. So on the following Sunday she just walked up. We started teaching her and she was so ready for the gospel. We taught her the restoration and when we were done we asked if she had any question and her only question was how to become a member. Me and Elder Manga just started laughing a little. We countinued to teach her and my favorite was the plan of salvation. She asked how Jesus showed himself to prophets before he came to this earth so we must have been spirits before we got our bodies. She was confirmed a member and the spirit was really strong during that. 

Elder Manga is the district leader so we went to another baptism this Saturday. Her name was N. She is a single mom of 5 kids and is so cool! I was glad that we got to go and see that. All four missionaries sang for it. ehhh! We sang Jeruselum, it is our mission song. We have our first zone conference with the new mission president. After the baptism we talk to alot of her family and friends that came to her baptism. 

At the baptism we all had matching watches and ties. I'll try and get a picture to yea. So we had a less active come to church. She wanted a blessing. We knew really nothing about her or anything but as Elder Manga started giving her a blessing it was so powerful. as he was blessing her thoughts would pop into my head and as they did he would say them. When we finished she said that we had spoken of things that only she knew. Blessings are amazing, I love giving them now. 

Um lets see what else happened..... ohhh we had a member from America give us beef jerky. Oh my goodness soo good. Elder Manga Had never had it before and he fell in love with it. haha. I might try sending you guys amazing European chocolate but maybe after it cools down. I havn't seen the sun in like 4 days. It has been raining so much!!!  The olympics are getting so close. all the missionaries are getting more and more excited. Everyone else her just thinks it is going to be a annoyence. We'll yea that all for now. Hope everyone is okay with the fires and such. They even made it onto the news out here. With love

Elder Oviatt  

Elder Devin Oviatte--July 2, 2012

Hi family!,

So this week was really good! It was transfer weeks so it was really busy! We got a senior couple in our area but now it is only a 2 man flat. One of the elders went home and the other got sent across the mission. Their names we're elder P. and Elder S. But the senior couple is really cool. We also got some new BYU students that came into our ward last week. They will be here for six weeks. So We had our first Baptism this week!! it was soo cool. Her name is V. It made my week. It's been raining a lot this week. We might play Football (soccer) in the rain today with the whole zone. Im looking forward to that. Umm let see what else.... We went contacting in grennwich again. I love that place. The park over see's all of london. Its really cool. Did I tell you we did the haka for president shamo? If I didnt it was really cool. Our whole zone did it in front of the London Temple. I still havnt met our new mission President. But we will probably have a zone conference soon so that he can interview all of us. I feel like there is going to be a lot of changes coming soon. It's weird being back to a 2 man flat. 4 man flats are alot of fun. But yea. I cant believe that my 2 month mark was this week. that was a shock! It doesn't feel like Iv'e been gone for that long. It is going to be Elder M.'s 1 year mark in 2 weeks. So we are going to go eat somewhere or something. I feel Like I dont have that much to say since it was transfer week. Kieren told me that collin is going to Russia!!! Thats soo cool. It will be funny to email him. 

    I get to eat a lot of different food. We have a lady it our ward that made us Jerk Chicken. SOOO good. Tell the family hi and that I miss them.

With Love

Elder Oviatt

Elder Devin Oviatt--June 25, 2012

Any how's yea Im really good. One of the Elders in my Flat left yesterday and that was kinda sad. We met his parents at church and that was really weird. But sunday was really busy. We had 5 Investigators there and it was busy. OH yea and we got cursed by some old lady as we walked past her. that was Interesting. Right now we are in a Tri with elder stewart but he'll get his new companion on wednesday. Wow my first Transfer is done..... that went by sooo Quick! Hows your summer going? I bet It's a lot sunnier than mine! We get our new Mission President this week I believe. There is already some new changes., Im really looking forward to training though. I hope it comes soon. We have our geneology on a tee shirt and I'm the 9th generation of missionaries. That's really cool. Apparently ours is one of the longest ones that's written down. We went through the London Temple on Wednesday. That is really cool. Man this was a really busy week. We did service for a single lady in the ward. We painted 3 three rooms. I found out how much I hate Oil base paints! It is sooo hard to clean.
   There is a ward talent show coming up and we might do something for it. Oh yea so after the Temple. which was with about half the Mission so proably about 20-30 companionships. Our whole Zone did the HAKA! OH MY! it was sooo cool. :) It went really good. It was weird doing it on the Temple grounds but hey President shamo was right there the whole time so its probably fine. We went street contacting in Greenwich , the four of us. It was a Lot of fun. We got a White Board and put the ?, Where do I go when I die? It was where a lot of tourist walk by. We talked to sooo many people. It helped to raise my confidence talking with people by my self or with a companion. Right when we started we had a group of about 15 people walk up to us. But they we're all mormon. haha After they left the real work started. I want to do it again while the Olympics are going on.
   Yea it was a really busy week. Im looking forward to a normal day soon. We havn't had one in probably 5 days. Well that's all for now.
Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.
With Love Elder Oviatt