April 10 Email

Dear wonderful people!

This week has been pretty great. I'm now in a place called Witham. It's quiet, but it's great. The people here are nice and they're pretty open to our message as well. The ward is pretty awesome, too. They feed us a lot. :)

So, I guess I'll put my week's summary in here. 

Wednesday- Well, today was awesome. We started by taking the other elders and Elder Lindsay to the train station with elder Salisbury's luggage. Then we went back to the flat and picked up all of the rest of our luggage and went back to the train station. Then we all rode into London for transfers. I got to meet lots of new missionaries. I am so old now, it's crazy. I left Elder Bourne and picked up my "rad" new companion. His name is Elder Radford. He's awesome. Definitely one of my favorite companions by far. So, we went home and he showed me around the area after unpacking. We went to Witham town and toured the place a bit. While there we stopped this girl named Megan. She's boss. We are going to see her later in the week. Then we went to dinner with the bishop. They have a stone pizza oven. They made some super sick homemade pizza. It was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo good. I literally ate three and a half pizzas. Like, full sized pizzas. Man. Then we ate a Nutella birthday cake to celebrate her son's birthday. It was fun. Then we talked about how to help the bishop help the missionary work in the ward.

Thursday - Today we had district meeting in the morning. It was sick. Short, sweet, and to the point. We are going to find one new person per companionship every day of the transfer. We've done it so far. But that's spoiling. :) After district meeting we went to Taco Bell. It was yummy. Then we came home and had companionship study. We watched the first hour of the last session of conference. Elder E. costa had an awesome talk. Then we went finding. We met this awesome lady name terry. We're seeing her on Tuesday. Then we picked up a duvet cover and sheets from tesco. Then we had dinner. We ate the pizza that the bishops wife made for us. It was delicious. 

Friday - Today we went to colchester and blitzed with the STLs and the Zone Leaders. We found four new people as a district on that blitz. Sick. Then we came back and found for a few hours. It was awesome. While in town, the English frys saw us and bought us lunch. We continued finding for a bit and met this guy named Brad. He's pretty cool. Then we had dinner with the English frys. Bless them. They're great. After dinner we played uno with them. They are so sweet. Then we shared a message about the Easter initiative. It was fun. Then we went home and got a new investigator over the phone. Nice!

Saturday - We'll, today we did our weekly planning. That took a while. Then we went and visited our ward mission leader so I could meet him. Then he had us help him with a service project for his friend named mister tims. He's this old guy that's basically blind. He's really funny. We raked up the extra grass left over from mowing earlier in the week. Then we went to the chapel and did our progress record and some online proselyting. Then we went and had dinner. 

Sunday - Today was awesome. It was my first day of church in Witham. We helped out with the sacrament then I gave my testimony, because it was my first week in Witham. Then we went to Sunday school. After Sunday school we helped out bishop with his lesson for the young women. We taught about the need for a restoration. It was really good. Then after church we changed into our regular proselyting clothes and had lunch. I was feeling a bit sick throughout the day, so I took an hour to rest. After that we had an appointment with a former investigator. She was really open to our message. After our lesson she made us dinner, which is always a welcome blessing. Then we went with our ward mission leader to visit some less active members. One of the families that we visited had a trampoline, so I couldn't help but jump on it for a few minutes. Then, when we finished, he decided that we should stop by one of his friends and try to share the gospel with her. She was really open, so we taught her and we'll be seeing her next week on Tuesday. 

Well, that's all for this week. I hope you all have an awesome week. I love you all!

Love,

Elder Warburton