Monday, December 26, 2016

December 26 Email

Dear Mom and Dad,

It was great to see you all yesterday! I always look forward to the hour or so of time I get to talk with you. 


After I finished with our call yesterday, we watched Alice through the looking glass with the family I was with. It was really fun. I do miss watching movies with you guys. We'll definitely have to do that when I get back. 

After our lunch and movie, Elder Dunning and I went to a nonmember family's house and had dinner. They made some really nice Malaysian food. We also talked a lot about business and economics. They are very successful and really want to impart that knowledge with us young missionaries. They are also very religious people. They definitely give the credit back to God. They are really great people.

Well, this week was great. I'm not really feeling up to writing a general email this week, so if you want to post this for the Christmas blog post, you can. 

I love you!

Love,
Elder Warburton 

P.S. Or I could send in my journal entries from the past few days to use for the blog post.

21/12/16
Today we had breakfast with the Jackmans and a catholic monk named Brother Clements. He was really nice and funny. He's from Zimbabwe. That took our entire morning. We also did some caroling in the evening. We visited the people up Ely way. It was a lot of fun.

22/12/16
Today we had a lesson with Paul. It was a lot of fun. We also gave Carla her massive present. It was great. After that we went caroling. We sang to the Lucas', woolstenhulmes, peacheys, Sinclairs, manser, hutber, Pearce, and . While we were going to the Sinclairs, we walked up to what we thought was the right house, but it was the wrong house and the guy who lived there was outside telling us that it was the wrong house. We had a laugh with him about it. He was really nice. 

23/12/16
Today, we did a bit of finding in the morning. We also did some other stuff. We also had sports night. It was only Paul, Jarell, Carla, and elder dunning and I. It was really fun. We played chair football and around the world. During chair football, I smashed my big toe. It's pretty gross.

24/12/16
Today we went in to town in the morning. Afterwards we met with uncle Gerry and auntie Sue. I love seeing them. Then we Skyped. I skyped with Alex and elder dunning Skyped his family. Then we had a dinner appointment with the Lius. We had a festive meal and played games. I love them. We got home super late.

25/12/16
Today was Christmas. We had our church service in the morning. It was mostly musical items, with a few talks thrown in. Wen and Yao Yao came, just in time for the closing song. ,'P Then we talked for about an hour after church. After that we went back to the flat for a bit to change and open the presents we got at church. I got some sick slippers from the jackmans, guylian chocolate from the abletts, and a chocolate santa from another member. After that, we went to the scammells for lunch. I got to skype my family for an hour or so while I was there. They're doing well. Then after lunch, we watched Alice through the looking glass. It was pretty funny. I enjoyed it. Then after that we went to Gerry and Sue's house for dinner. We had a delicious Malaysian meal. They invited another friend over. It was fun to get to know him. He owns his own business, so most of the evening was talking about economics and such. It was really fun. Then we got home and I went to sleep. 

Monday, December 19, 2016

December 19 Email

Dear wonderful people!

This week was great! We had our Christmas conference on Thursday. We played a bunch of fun games. We also had a spiritual bit in the beginning. It was really good. We had a white elephant gift exchange, as well. I got a dumbbell alarm clock and a Lindt chocolate bear. We also made Zone Christmas music videos. I'll try to send the video.

Also, the sisters baptized someone. Her name is Fatima. She's great. She chose to be baptized, even though she's only sixteen, and she was the only one to be baptized in her family.
 
 
Well, today was fun. We had linner with one of our investigators. They're the Chinese family that I've been talking about. We ate dumplings and talked about castles and such. We're going to go look at a castle with them on Friday. It's going to be fun. I'll probably send some pictures.

That's about it.  Well, see you later!

I love you all!

Love,

Elder Warburton
 

 
Here's our district.
 
Here's our district's gingerbread house. It's the Kirtland temple.
 
We also played "chubby bunny". It's that game where you shove as many marshmallows as you can into your mouth. It's pretty gross. This is the winner.

Monday, December 12, 2016

December 12 Email

Dear wonderful people!

This week has been great! We had our Zone meeting on Friday. Lots of fun. Afterwards, we began making our video for our Christmas conference this week. It's going to be lots of fun.

On Saturday we had our ward Christmas party. We set up the chapel all nice then had a huge party! We had musical items with a catered meal.  It was super good.

Well, that's about all for this week. I love you!

Love,

Elder Warburton

P.S. Here's our zone.


Monday, December 5, 2016

December 5 Email

Dear wonderful people!

This week was great! We had transfers, and I am staying, along with everyone else in the district except for one person, because he was going home. So when we had district meeting on Thursday, it was just like a normal district meeting.

Not too much happening this week. Elder Dunning's birthday is on Tuesday, and one of our investigators got him some presents. He got dumpling wrappers(?) If that's what you would call them. So we made dumplings today! They were awful but so good (they're supposed to look a certain way, but instead they looked more like road kill....but they tasted good!)

Other than that just normal missionary work stuff. Also we went to go see the Ely Cathedral. It was massive. I'll send pictures.

Well that's all! I love you!

Love,

Elder Warburton






November 29 Email

Dear wonderful people!

This week was great! I forgot to mention it's also transfers. Elder Dunning and I will be staying together this transfer! And Elder Dunning is the new district leader! Yay! That means I get to go to bed early on Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday nights, because he will be doing call ins. We also get to stay together for Christmas in Cambridge! Speaking of Christmas you guys should all send me presents.  My address is 75 Wycliffe Road, Cambridge, CB1 3JE, England. ;)

So now about my week. Well, we have these awesome investigators, that one family that I've been talking about that walked into church a few Sundays ago. They come to church every week. And their little girl was in the primary program last week! She's only been to church for times that she was already in the primary program. Aren't they just the best? They also had us over for dinner twice. They make really nice Chinese food. That's like the best part.

We also have a few other awesome investigators. They're all doing well.

Other than that there's not really much else that happened. I hope you have a wonderful week!

I love you all!

Love,

Elder Warburton