We Made It!

 After our year wait in Utah, we finally made it to England!  However, we’ve been in quarantine for 9 day, so we haven’t seen much.  The people of our new ward and stake have been so welcoming.  It’s lovely to see people you’ve only been able to meet from afar.  We’ve been showered with sausage rolls, fish and chips, crumpets and .... a selection of Cadbury bars.  Our first post-Covid visit will be to the Cadbury factory.  We’ve also ordered in fish and chips as we can’t get enough of them.  One innovation - curry sauce with fish’n chips. 

For the past 9 days, we’ve been doing pretty much what we did in Utah - zooming with individual Pathway students and Young Adults.  Fortunately, our Institute and Pathway classes have been on break while we recover from jet lag and figure out British appliances, etc.  This week, it’s  back to our usual schedule of lessons and gatherings with the bonus of no middle-of-the-night meetings🥳

We were able to walk our final Covid-19 tests to a ‘royal’ post box, and caught a shot or two along the way. 

King George I, statue on Birmingham University campus.  

While taking this picture, a local celeb, Kaptain Kirk, happened to be also videoing the statue.  He had lots of questions for us: who are we, where do we come from, have we been to any local attractions, etc.  Sadly, I failed my first mission test: I identified us as “Mormon Missionaries”.  Argh!!!!!  You know that ONE THING you’re NEVER, EVER going to do!  Yup, I did it.  

Anyway: here’s one of his videos:

 https://youtu.be/o7qsy5QnrLE

The following were some houses we thought looked very British on the main drag we took to the royal post box (I love writing that).  One nice thing we noticed is that the houses are bounded by brick fences.