Here we are at the
mission home with the new young missionaries new that day along with President and Sister
Odgen. We met the
AP's and had dinner that night with two other senior missionary couples and the Mission president and his wife. It was typical English food and was delicious. The mission home is in a very nice area of Birmingham and here is a picture of some of the houses. Also is a picture of the famous roundabouts. We stayed the night with the
Ogdens and then
car vanned with the new sister missionaries to
Carmarthen. The President had given us both a very general map and the car keys and sent us on our way. Elder
Crandall drove for the first 3 hours and because he was stressed and I was a nervous wreck, he asked me to drive. The roundabouts are very difficult to understand if you don't know what exit to take and on some of them there are up to 6 or seven exits. We got lost multiple times that night but after many prayers we made it to our new home. Our mission president was quite concerned because he had not heard from us and we had lost contact with the sisters we were traveling with who also got lost and their zone leaders had to help them find their flat.
It wasn't crossing the plains but I felt our lives were in danger several times because of traveling on the opposite side of the street for the first time and the
roundabouts and in the dark--and it is really dark in these rural areas and often overcast.
Here we are at the mission home with the new young missionaries new that day along with President and Sister Odgen. We met the AP's and had dinner that night with two other senior missionary couples and the Mission president and his wife. It was typical English food and was delicious. The mission home is in a very nice area of Birmingham and here is a picture of some of the houses. Also is a picture of the famous roundabouts. We stayed the night with the Ogdens and then car vanned with the new sister missionaries to Carmarthen. The President had given us both a very general map and the car keys and sent us on our way. Elder Crandall drove for the first 3 hours and because he was stressed and I was a nervous wreck, he asked me to drive. The roundabouts are very difficult to understand if you don't know what exit to take and on some of them there are up to 6 or seven exits. We got lost multiple times that night but after many prayers we made it to our new home. Our mission president was quite concerned because he had not heard from us and we had lost contact with the sisters we were traveling with who also got lost and their zone leaders had to help them find their flat.
It wasn't crossing the plains but I felt our lives were in danger several times because of traveling on the opposite side of the street for the first time and the roundabouts and in the dark--and it is really dark in these rural areas and often overcast.
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