We continue to see miracles and have great experiences here at the visitors' centre in London. This past week we had two young adult girls come into the VC from Greece. They were on Spring Break and didn't speak much English. They had been to the museums next door to us and just decided to come in and see what exhibits we had. We struggled to share much with them because we didn't have anyone who could speak Greek this time. We showed them the chapel and they went in and sat down. They seemed to be praying so we left them alone. We looked in a few minutes later and they were gone. Next thing we knew they were at the "I'm a Mormon" exhibit watching a video. So we went over and asked if they'd like to watch the 2-minute Easter video and they said yes. They watched that and afterward said that this was the best place they had visited. We asked if they'd like copies of the Book of Mormon and to have missionaries teach them more when they get home to Greece. They gladly accepted both.

A couple of days later we had a lady come into the VC and asked to use the toilet (this is the term that is used here for rest room). She had just got off a plane from Romania and was to meet someone at the Science Museum but it was closed. On her way out our sisters talked to her a bit. That conversation resulted in her accepting a Romanian Book of Mormon and wanting missionaries to teach her in Romania.

A day later a man walked into the VC and asked if he could worship here. Of course we said yes and showed him the chapel. He sat down and Rod sat down beside him to explain a little about who we are. Rod learned that he is a university professor from Nigeria who was here for a week-long conference at Imperial College (across the street from the VC). As Rod explained about the restoration and living prophets he became very interested. Rod told him that we have missionaries in Nigeria who could teach him more about living prophets when he returns home. He was very desirous to learn more and left us with his home address and phone number so that missionaries can contact him there.

These types of experiences seem to be happening almost daily. We also have many members of the church from all over the world who are on vacation (or holiday as they call it here) come to visit. Missionaries here also bring in people they are teaching or just invite people from Exhibition Road to come in. Last month we had nearly 3,000 visitors to our VC.

We have managed to fit a few "touristy" things in our schedule the past couple of weeks. We visited the National Gallery where there are thousands of artworks. We found a couple of unique "unfinished" paintings by Michaelangelo. We were able to get tickets for front row seats for Lion King at a local theater. To see the costumes and the facial expressions up close was a great treat. We walked down Portabello Road of "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" fame. We have been on several walks through parks and continue to enjoy the spring flowers and greenery here. We found one park (Holland Park) not far from our flat with wild peacocks in it.

We greatly enjoyed General Conference although the experience here was different. Not having conference sessions start until 5:00 p.m. seemed very strange. But we managed to watch all sessions of conference (not all were live though). We particularly enjoyed hearing from Elder Mervyn Arnold who called us as Visitors' Centre Director, Elder Paul Johnson who called Rod to be stake president, and Elder Jeffery Holland who is just our favorite speaker.