Elder and Sister Craven: SOLIHULL ENGLAND

We liked this droopy building in Stratford upon Avon

We are grateful for internet technology that lets us watch some conference live and all eventually. Tomorrow starts the Church’s “I’m a Mormon” ad campaign in London’s main transportation areas. We are in Solihull England to hold down the Public Affairs office while Elder and Sister Pat and Ann Coppin, assigned here, field media inquiries and train members on responding to questions and how to be missionaries. They were gracious to have us to dinner and to enjoy a conference session with them. This weekend we had nice spring weather and took the opportunity to visit Stratford-on-Avon and Warwick Castle, not too far away. We like the grocery store here, everything is in English and the people speak something very close to English. They do spell differently though, mixing up vowels and adding vowels and they have added words like nappies, lorries and trolleys, that sound like they are English words but will not be in any real English dictionary. Actually it is surprising how difficult it is to understand the waitress. Elaine’s a nervous wreck while Martin drives on the wrong side of the road but he has only hit the curb once as the tendency is to stay as far left as possible to avoid all those cars coming at you in the wrong lane.