Easter has provided a great opportunity to talk with people about Christ and what He has done for us. The Easter video "Follow Him and Find New Life" produced by the church has helped the VC to be busy the past couple of weeks. Many of our young missionaries have gone street contacting on Exhibition Road (in front of the VC) and simply ask people if they would like to see a two-minute video about Jesus Christ. If they were interested then they invited them to come into the VC and watch the video in our cinema. We have had many guests come in from this invitation. Some watch the video and thank us and move on but others watch the video and want to know more. We had a guest from Croatia come in last Saturday to watch the video and he stayed 1 1/2 hours and is planning to come back next Saturday to learn more.

Our young sister missionaries not only give tours and teach at the VC but they also proselyte online for awhile each day. In our VC office we have an online Teaching Center where the sisters sit in front of a computer and respond to requests to learn more about the church through online chats, phone calls, emails, Facebook chats, and video chats. There are way more requests than they have time to respond to and the number of requests to learn more online are growing. Through this online proselyting effort they are teaching people all over the world.

The past two Sundays we have had over 100 visitors each Sunday to our 9:00 sacrament meeting (worship service). This past Sunday, being Easter, was not a surprise to have so many visitors but the previous Sunday we were surprised. The visitors started arriving before 8:30 and they just kept coming and coming. It turned out that a family who used to live here was given permission to bless their new baby here. The family had many family members from all over England as well as some from the United States who attended. When we added this large family gathering to our normal number of visitors here on vacation, on business, or just making a weekend get-away it made for a large congregation.

We have not had much time for exploring or sightseeing the past couple of weeks but we have gotten out some. We've been on some great walks and have seen where many well-known people of the past lived--Charles Dickens, Winston Churchill, Sherlock Holmes, and Charles Darwin to name a few. We also walked up Primrose Hill which is one of the highest elevations in London (not counting the skyscrapers) and provides a great view of the London skyline. We have visited the British Library and we found "Platform 9 3/4" where Harry Potter managed to gain access to Hogwarts. Unfortunately, we were unable to figure out how to penetrate the brick wall.