April 4 Email

Dear wonderful people!

This week was pretty crazy, so I'm just going to give you my journal entries from this week.

28/3/17

Today was interesting. We started off by going to the Bletchley elders flat to shower. While we are there, we were told what time we would pick up the Milton Keynes elders and take them to London. It's always been my dream to drive in London. So we picked them up and started our journey to London. It was nice and easy, until we actually got into London. It was super fun. Small roads, lots of traffic, aggressive driving, it was an awesome experience. While in one roundabout to get to Hyde Park, I almost accidentally left the round about at the wrong exit, so I very quickly pulled back into the roundabout and nearly crashed into a concrete barrier. Then, while in the same roundabout, I took the exit that the GPS told me to take, which led to a dead end which could not be exited, so I drove over the island into the roundabout entrance. Then we safely got to the chapel and dropped off elder Chang. Then we headed back. And thing. Lots of traffic, aggressive drivers, small roads, almost crashed at a roundabout again. It was awesome. I'm not sure if the other elders trust my driving anymore. Oh well, they would've done the same if they were driving. Then we picked up elder Lindsay's stuff and went back to the flat to make lunch. I made Italian noodles. It's nice. Then we went finding. I was with Elder Nakaima and Elder Bourne. We stopped this Vietnamese kid. He was feisty, as Elder Nakaima would say. But he was very humble as well, and he understood the Scriptures pretty well, too. Then we had our lesson with Jawad. He's super good. Definitely a truth seeker. I can't wait until he gets baptized. Then we dropped off the Bletchley elders and went home.

29/3/17

Today was the best worst day ever! We went to the chapel to do basketball for exercise. That was fun. Then we went back and had showers with our brand new water heater that we got. It was nice and warm. Then we had our planning and studies. After studies, we taught a guy in Milton Keynes named Mike. He's from China and I love him. He's very humble and open minded. We resolved his concern about the word of wisdom by sharing the story of Abraham almost sacrificing his son. It was really good. Then at had lunch. After lunch we went into town and did a lot of finding. We met some really fun people. We met this Bulgarian girl who designs formula one cars for red bull. She was super awesome. I think hey name is Svini or something like that. We also met this guy named mark. He's super cool. We gave him a book of Mormon and we will probably see him on Friday. While finding, Elder Lindsay's recent convert texted us saying that Satan was attacking her and she was going to call an ambulance. She called the ambulance and when we stopped by, the paramedic told us to come back later. So we drove all the way back to Bletchley, then she texted us and still wanted to meet. So we drove back to Milton Keynes and had this silly lesson with her about her marrying jesus and how she is perfect and such. She's not perfect. Then we picked up our dinner from a member. She made some really good food for us. Then we saw a less active lady and her husband. Her husband talks a lot. He's really nice, though. We talked a lot about cars and such. Then we saw the bakers, a family in the ward who doesn't come to church a lot because they are always unwell. We had a fun time with them and they offered to have us over for dinner this upcoming Monday. Then we ate the dinner that Sister Kinuyo made for us. It was delicious. 

30/3/17

Today was the best day ever! We had our studies in the morning, then we met with valentina, a Romanian potential that elder Chang and elder Lindsay merry on Monday. We talked about the importance of living prophets. He's super cool. After that, we ate lunch at greggs. I got a cheese and steak sub with ginger beer. It was really nice. Then we had a lesson with a potential we met yesterday named Jerry. He's also super awesome. We taught him the restoration and the importance of praying to know the truthfulness of the book of Mormon. He's from Zimbabwe. Then we went out finding in Bletchley town. While out finding, we met a guy named munya. He's also from Zimbabwe. He's great. We briefly went over the restoration with him. Then we picked up brother epple to come teach jawad with us. He was super helpful. He really brought home the point that we need to rely on faith, rather than complicated doctrine and confusing questions. It was great. Then we had a dinner appointment with some people from Milton Keynes ward, the Irelands. They are lovely. They made chilli! Every dinner appointment is chilli! But it was nice. Then we had, like, a million dessert items. It was great. After that, Elder Bourne needed to release his bowel flood gates, then we went finding for twenty minutes. We met a girl named Ieva. She's super great. She was super open to meeting with us tomorrow. So we'll be seeing her tomorrow at 3:00 pm. She's awesome. We found four new investigators today! Whaaaaaaaahhh!

31/3/17

Today was fun. We had our zone training meeting today. We had to be there by 8:00 in the morning, so we needed to be up really early. When we got there, we needed to pick up the sisters from the station, so we picked them up and got some McDonald's for breakfast. The meeting was awesome. They talked about lots of spiritual things. They talked about the grace of Jesus Christ and used the talk from brad Wilcox. It was really nice. We also got to see the Easter initiative video. It was awesome. Then we took pictures and went home. After we went home we saw Mike, the awesome investigator who lives in Eaglestone. He's great. Then we went finding while elder Lindsay and John saw a less active. Then we went to sports night. It was awesome. I won the first game. :)

1/4/17

Well, today was awesome. We did weekly planning while elder Lindsay and John had a lesson in the city. Then we cleaned up the relief society room in the chapel because we left it all messy yesterday after sports night. Then we had lunch. Then we went finding in Bletchley town. We talked to lots of cool people. We met a lady named Valerie. She was being taught by the missionaries a long time ago. She wants to come to church tomorrow. Then we went to have our lesson with mercy. She wasn't able to make it. Them we had an awesome dinner with the bishop and watched conference while doing so. It was great. I love their family. They're hilarious. Then we went to the chapel and did our progress record. 

2/4/17

Double awesome! We continued general conference today. We got to watch three sessions today. We still haven't seen the Sunday afternoon session, because it starts when we're supposed to be home for the night. We'll probably watch it tomorrow or something. So, we watched the Priesthood session in the morning, then the Saturday afternoon session, then the Sunday morning session. After all of the conferences, I gave a blessing to a lady from the ward. After that, we had a lesson with this lady that stopped us in Bletchley town. She wants to be baptized! She's so golden! We taught get the word of wisdom, and she told us, "Well, how about I stop drinking tea today, how's that sound?" We nearly fell over! She wants to learn. But she lives in Milton Keynes boundaries, so we won't be teaching her starting next week. But that's alright, same team. Then we picked up the sisters and brought them home so they wouldn't be late getting home.

3/4/17

Well, today was interesting. We had lots of lessons and finding planned for the day. While we were out finding in the morning, we got our transfer call from President Stevens. We found out that our area is being closed as well as the Milton Keynes 2 area, which means that we have to clean both flats, and we're all going to have to take our luggage into London. So, after that, we stopped finding and started cleaning the flat. Then we had to pick up the only other elder that's staying in the area and brought him to all of the appointments we had in order to pass them over to him. So we met with basically all of our investigators and handed them over to the other elders. Then, in the evening, we went to a dinner appointment with the Bakers. They're great. Then we went home and started packing.

P.S. I'm going to a place called Witham.  

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

Love,

Elder Warburton