5 January Email

Dear wonderful people,

This week I will recount everything that has happened from Christmas-ish.

Christmas Eve was really fun. We met with a guy named Deepak and he wants to get baptized, so that was nice. He's going through cancer treatment right now, but when he's done he'll get baptized. Then afterwards we went to a members house for Christmas Eve dinner. We had Dominos pizza. Classic.

On Christmas Day, well, you know what happened (we got to talk to him for a couple of hours on Skype). Then in the evening, we went to a members home and had a nice English/American Christmas dinner. Then Elder Koehler skulked off to Skype his family, so I got some quality time with the Sohn family. The Sohns have two little girls, Neva, who is 2 years old and the other is about 4 and a half months old. She was born about a week before I came to Hayes ward. (I can only remember Neva's name because she is constantly getting into things that she shouldn't, so Brother Sohn was saying her name a lot.)  I helped brother Sohn put together Neva's new doll house, then it was about 9:30 pm, so he took Elder Koehler and I home.

On New Year's Eve, we did a lot of work. We were finding, when out of nowhere it started to rain sideways. I didn't have my jacket, so I got soaked and my shirt became see through. We just gave up and went back to the flat because it was nearing 7:00 and that's when we needed to be home. So then we played games and ate curry until we had to got to bed.

This past Monday, we had moves calls, and I'm getting sent to a place called Gorleston, which I think is right next to the ocean. Score!  It's on the edge of the mission.  It looks like I'll always be "living on the edge"... Sorry, that was bad. My companion is going to be Elder Cornellio. I've heard he's from Brazil, so this next transfer is going
to be fun.

Well, that's all. I'm going to miss Hayes, but I'm super excited to serve in Gorleston! Just a quick note, I called this with Elder Sowah.

Spiritual thought:

14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city (Revelations 22).

If you follow the Lord's commandments, you have the right to enter Zion.

I love you all!

Love,

Elder Warburton

P.S. I'm going to central London today to see all of the sights.  I'll send pictures later.

Good to see he's supporting the family business. ;)