Kapilavaddho practised meditation in seclusion for four further months. After this time Luang Phaw allowed Kapilavaddho to start accepting invitations to preach and on 8 November 1954, he was sent back to England in order to search for fellow countrymen interested in ordination. Kapilavaddho preached in London and Manchester and was the subject of many newspaper articles. He set the foundations for the English Sangha Trust (which was to continue to support the work of the English monastic community from that time onwards). Three young men, Robert Albison, Peter Morgan and George Blake, came to him with the intention to ordain, and Kapilavaddho ordained them as novices. In December 1955, when he had managed to raise sufficient funds for air tickets, he brought the novices to Thailand and put them under the same strict regime he had himself undergone.
The new trainees were shown the generous hospitality usual to Thais, and were spoiled so much that they forgot their junior status as newcomers to the community. While the newly ordained monks were seated à table enjoying a full-blown English breakfast, their seniors had to sit on mats on the ground with only rice soup as their food. Kapilavaddho took the examination for the position of anusãvanācariya and passed. He officiated at the full-ordination of his disciples respectively as Suddhavaḍḍhako Bhikkhu, Pāññāvaḍḍho Bhikkhu and Vijjavaḍḍho Bhikkhu.
It may have been that the foreign monks lacked the sense of respect towards their teacher possessed by their Thai brethren. In any case a misunderstanding arose between Luang Phaw and the foreign monks. In a meeting of the whole monastic community, the foreign monks asked Luang Phaw for special privileges via an interpreter. There is no harm in a misunderstanding.