October 26, 2015

Dear wonderful people!

I have about 15 minutes to write this email, so sorry if it is really short.

This week has been amazing! I lost my badge on Tuesday and prayed about it. The following Thursday Elder Sowah and I went to the library to print off directions to the church for an investigator and the librarian walked up and asked if the badge belonged to anybody in our congregation. Then he looked at my second badge and said, "oh! This must belong to you." Heavenly Father does answer prayers. 

That's about all the time I have, so I'll end with a spiritual thought.

14 And I will also ease the burdens which are put upon your shoulders, that even you cannot feel them upon your backs, even while you are in bondage; and this will I do that ye may stand as witnesses for me hereafter, and that ye may know of a surety that I, the Lord God, do visit my people in their afflictions. (Mosiah 24)

Whenever you have problems, ask the Lord for help and He promises you that He will help you.

I love you all!

Love, 

Elder Warburton 

October 19 Email

Dear wonderful people,

This week has been Wonderful!

I can't really remember too many specifics, but I know that we have had many miracles. We've been focusing more on working with members this week. We tried getting members to all of our appointments. Usually they come with us and the appointment cancels. We had a member to one of our appointments this week and it was great. I would definitely recommend bringing members to appointments. For those of you at home, all I can say is that you should go talk to the missionaries and offer to go with them to appointments. You will be the answer to their prayers.

Not too much happened this week, so I'll end with a spiritual thought. 

 6 I glory in plainness; I glory in truth; I glory in my Jesus, for he hath redeemed my soul from hell. (2 Nephi 33)

The truth is simple. When you teach, teach simply. That is why the lord taught in parables. We are pricked by simple truths.

Go do missionary work! 

Love,

Elder Warburton

October 13 Email

Dear beautiful people,

This week has been a wonderful one. My birthday was this week, so that was pretty exciting. I'm 19 now. (I feel so old) The bishop invited all of the missionaries in our ward over for dinner. They baked me an awesome cake. I'll put a picture of it at the bottom of this email. The sisters also baked me some brownies. I haven't eaten them yet, but I'm sure that they will taste great.

We had a consecrated hour of finding on Thursday as a zone. We had some awesome miracles. The first person we met is named Carmen. She has had some bad luck in the past few years. She also has a daughter with severe mental disabilities. She came to the door and started shaking our hands a bunch. She was one of the nicest people I've met. We talked with Carmen a little while about the restoration and the plan of salvation. We got a return appointment! The next person we met was named Samia. She said that she was interested and we gave her a Book of Mormon. We got a return appointment with her as well! This happened with a few other people as well, but they had difficult names that I couldn't remember. 

This is the first week of the transfer, so we found out where everyone is going. Our ward is staying the same except sister Bader is being replaced. So, we're getting a few new missionaries. That's exciting. 

Not much else happened, so I'll end with a spiritual thought. The mission is going to read the entire Book of Mormon by Christmas, so as I was read through it again, I came upon this scripture:

16 For the time soon cometh that the fulness of the wrath of God shall be poured out upon all the children of men; for he will not suffer that the wicked shall destroy the righteous.

17 Wherefore, he will preserve the righteous by his power, even if it so be that the fulness of his wrath must come, and the righteous be preserved, even unto the destruction of their enemies by fire. Wherefore, the righteous need not fear; for thus saith the prophet, they shall be saved, even if it so be as by fire. (1 Nephi 22)

Isn't that something?

Heavenly Father won't allow you to be destroyed so, in the words of Elder Sowah, don't worry about it. The Lord will protect you, "even unto the destruction of [your] enemies by fire." 

So don't worry, the Lord will provide.

Love,

Elder Warburton

P.S. Here's that cake.

P.P.S. Here's a picture of a cool car I saw.

(I'm also including what he wrote to me because I thought the stories were fun).

Dear Mom,

My birthday was fantastic! You were the third person to wish me a happy birthday. ;) I received dad's email first, then elder Sowah sang to me when I woke up, then I received your email, then president and sister Stevens sang to me through a voice mail. That was awesome. Also, the sisters gave me brownies at church. 

The cake tasted really good. They cut me a huge piece to take home, but I gave it to a homeless man that was sitting in front of the train station. I told him that it was a birthday cake, and he told me that it wasn't his birthday, but that he would enjoy it. Is was pretty funny. He was very thankful for it. 

We haven't had any baptisms yet, but we have a few who are getting there. The one girl, Lois, is really excited to come to church and so is this other man, Dan Brown. They are the two people we have scheduled to get baptized first. I'm really excited for them! 

This week has been wonderful, but, as I am to lazy to write a bunch, I'll refer you to my general email for details. But one thing I forgot to write was that this one man parked his car in the middle of the street and told us that we needed to stop preaching about Morgans. That was pretty hilarious. 

So, that was my week! It was pretty great.

Love,

Elder Warburton 

Happy Birthday, Elder Warburton!!

Today, Gary prayed that there would be someone in England that would help Jared to feel special on his birthday.  After church, I had a friend request on Facebook from someone in England so I accepted it and she sent me these pictures.  A cute Brazilian lady who now lives in England was the answer to Gary's prayer.  Look at that cake!!!  Oh....and bonus....I have a new friend. :)

Elder Warburton's birthday party:  "Hi...I hope you like the pictures.  We tried to make him happy yesterday!  I know this is his first area and I know that the first area is not always easy because they start to learn to be out of our homes and to be missionaries."

October 5th Letter

Dear beautiful people,

This week has been wonderful. Where do I begin? 

We have 4 people with a baptismal date which is amazing. We have Leteef, Fabio, Dan Brown, and now Lois! You've already heard about all of them, so I'll just leave this part how it is. 

We took Lois and Dan Brown to general conference. They both loved it, but I think Lois enjoyed it more. She has been attending the Church of England by herself for a while now which shows her desire to learn the truth of the gospel. She really liked Bradley D. Foster's talk on parenting. I hope she gets baptized. Dan Brown has committed to give up smoking and drinking, which is awesome. He's starting today so I'll need you to all pray for him. 

We were going to a member's house for conference and we were going to take Fabio with us. Fabio cancelled on us for general conference, so we had to go empty handed. On the way to, we missed our bus stop and had to go back. On the way back, we met a member who was headed to the Hyde park chapel for conference. It was going to start in fifteen minutes and Hyde park was about an hour and a half away, so we invited him to come with us. He accepted and we had a wonderful time at the member's home watching conference. That was a miracle. There was this super drunk lady on the bus back.

For the Saturday afternoon session, we went to a member's home and ate Ghanaian food. We had jollof rice, banku, chicken legs, and a lot of other stuff and I put shito on everything. Jollof rice is this really good, king of spicy rice. Banku is this huge dough ball that you eat with your hands and dip in this spicy sauce stuff. Shito is basically Ghanaian chili paste. It was really good. I really enjoyed elder Holland's talk. By the way, I feel the need to say thanks to mom for everything she's done for me. Thanks mom!

I guess I'll end with a spiritual thought. I've been reading in alma for the past couple of days and I love the great example of the anti-Nephi-Lehis.

19 And thus we see that, when these Lamanites were brought to believe and to know the truth, they were firm, and would suffer even unto death rather than commit sin; and thus we see that they buried their weapons of peace, or they buried the weapons of war, for peace. (Alma 24)

We probably won't be brought to this ultimatum, but would you all suffer death rather than to sin? I'm sure that I would, but I know that this is the level of conversion that we all need to have in order to make it back into the presence of God. I know that we can make it to this point. 

I love you all!

Love,

Elder Warburton

P.S. Happy late birthday Emily.

P.P.S. Thanks for the birthday letter Kinsey!

Note from Mom:  Kinsey wanted to send Jared a letter that would embarrass him so here's what she sent: