As you've probably waited for, here is my weekly summary! Hope you enjoy! :)
Tuesday - Well, today we had our exchange with the Zone Leaders. I started off with Elder Jackson. We had a lesson with a less active named Brian. He's a very humble man with a problem with alcohol. He does pray and read sometimes, but he hasn't been to church in a while. We encouraged him to come church. He said that he would like to go to church again, so hopefully he will come this Sunday. Then we got a call from another less active named Jason, I think. He is very open minded, almost too open minded. He takes bits and pieces from all sorts of different religions and tries to apply them to his life. He really is a great guy, but he needs to start going to church and learning true gospel principles. After that, we went and switched off with the other elders. I went with the other Zone leader, Elder Hinatsu. We taught a Chinese girl named Rebecca about the word of wisdom again. The only problem she has is that she likes to have the occasional drink. We committed her to stop drinking alcohol, so hopefully that will work out before her baptism. Then we drove all the way to Clacton. On the way, we saw this pub/hotel with a hilarious name. I'll put a picture in the bottom. While in Clacton, we met with an investigator named Martin. He's also very humble and loves the church, but he has minor autism, and forgets things very quickly. He's pretty slow to learn, but he does his best to live the commandments. Hopefully he'll be able to get baptized soon. Then we went home and went to bed.
Wednesday - Well, today we finished our exchange with the Zone Leaders and had district meeting. It was a quick district meeting, which is always great. Then we all went to Taco Bell for lunch. It was delicious. We then went to Chelmsford so Elder Radford could take his theory test. While he took his theory test, I wandered around the mall and looked at the shops. We met up in front of a restaurant after he finished his test. Sadly, he failed. He did well on the hazard perception bit of the test, but missed too many of the multiple choice questions. Then we got back to our area at around 5:00 p.m. Elder Radford was feeling a bit sick throughout the exchange yesterday, and he was still feeling sick, so he took a short nap. Then we went to the chapel to book his next theory test. Then we went home and ate dinner.
Thursday - Today we had a service project in the morning. We were helping out a lady in the ward. We mowed her lawn. It took about three hours because the grass was about a foot long and wet, the mower she has is a tiny electric one that connects to a wall socket, and her son was "helping" us. He's super cool and was distracting us the entire time with conversations about guns, politics, and other pointless junk. It was fun. Then he showed us his weapons and air soft collection. He has a few swords, knives, and a pair of nunchucks. He also has some really cool air soft guns. After that, we went to tesco to buy some food. Then we did some finding. Then we ate lunch. I made mashed potatoes out of 4 month expired potatoes in the fridge. They were pretty good. Then we went and stopped by a bunch less actives. After that, we went to a lesson/dinner appointment with our investigator named Bobbie. She fed us some take away Indian food. It was delicious. Then we had a lesson about the pre-existence. She had lots of good questions. Hopefully we were able to adequately answer them.
Friday - Well, in the morning we went out finding. We met a cool guy named Mark. He's into bikes and such. He doesn't have much of a religion for himself, but he does strongly believe in God. After finding for a few hours, we went back to the flat for lunch. After lunch we went to the chapel in order to do our weekly planning. That took a few hours. Then we did some online proselyting since we were already at the chapel. Then we did some stop-bys for a while, then we came home for dinner. Nothing too exciting for today.
Saturday - Well, today we had another service project. There's a sister in the ward who wanted us to help out with her garden. We didn't know that that entailed moving nearly a ton of rubbish around like a game of Tetris. So we cleaned up, rearranged, and chucked out a heap of junk. It took us nearly five hours. So, that was most of our day. We finished at around 4:30. Afterwards, we took showers, ate a late lunch and did some finding for the rest of the day.
Sunday- Well, today was church, the best day of the week. We had ward council in the morning. Then we had church. We had a member missionary themed sacrament meeting. Elder radford and I both gave talks. They were pretty good. Then a member of the ward shared his thoughts about missionary work among members. The rest of the classes were really good. Then we mingled with the members for a while, trying to pump them up for missionary work. Then we went to the Forconesi family's house for lunch. They made some awesome pasta with chicken. It was great. Then we got some referrals from them because of this message we shared with them about sharing the restored gospel, a talk by Elder oaks from October 2016 conference. Then we stopped by the pew family and gave them the sacrament. Then we stopped by another family and got a lunch appointment for Wednesday. They're great! Then we had correlation meeting with our ward mission leaders. After that, we went and stopped by a few less actives with the ward mission leader. Then we went home for dinner.
So, that was my week! I hope you enjoyed it! I love you all!
Love,
Elder Warburton
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