Diversity.

Heyo family! Life is good here in Preston. Just a warning, my brain is so tired right now, so I apologize if this letter is short and sweet. Well, here's what's been goin on in life:

This week was an incredible, multi-cultural week. For a flavor of it...we befriended and ate with a lovely scottish family, I helped teach and interviewed a japanese girl named for baptism for here in Preston (Yuki is the bomb), we taught bulgarians, romanians, polish, and then my favorite...we visited Saroosh. He is a less active man from Saudi Arabia, married a polish woman and now have 4 beautiful. We went over just to get to know them, but were unexpectedly surprised with a whole table filled with a huge variety of home cooked Arabian food. It was...bodacious. I think I tackled and savored 5 full plates of different types of lamb, fish, chicken, rice, squid and shrimp, and all the homemade sauces that mix with them all. Not only was the food awesome, but Saroosh is awesome and he easily worked his way to become one of our favorite people here in Preston. Good times ahead. 

With all 10 missionaries here in Preston, we went to the small and posh village of Ribchester, and had a lunch/fireside with one of the members, Bro. Wellington. At first I thought he was just a posh old man. Wrong. Turns out...he spent over 10 years of his life exploring Saudi Arabia and the middle east in search of possible trails that Lehi and his family took on their exodus out of Jerusalem. He gave us a full presentation, and only later did we realize...he was the author to Lehi in the Wilderness...a book I totally read and loved! It was such a good experience to talk with him, and now i am even more eager to go out and explore something. I just want to grab my backpack and go.

This week, because of their flat being worked on...Elder Hamblin (fellow arizonan) and Launer (swiss) have joined our flat crew...making it a crazy 7 man party every night. Without more detail...we have had some good times. Today, we are continuing on those good times and playing football at the park right by the River Ribble with the 4 Lancaster Elders. 

Other than that, in a couple days, we are saying farewell to our dear Finnish friend Elder Maljanen. We are stoked to go to the temple with him tomorrow, but we are all sad to see him go. He extended his mission time, but now it's time to head back home to the north pole. 

I love you all, and I wish you all well. Keep up the adventures, and peace out!

Elder BA