May 29 Email

Dear wonderful people!

This week was quite enjoyable. All the details are below!

Tuesday - Today was fun. We had district meeting in the morning. It was a lot of fun. One of the sisters gave a training on teaching the atonement of Jesus Christ. It was an awesome training. After district meeting, we went to KFC for lunch. Yes, we're high rollers, I know. Then we took a quick look of Colchester Castle before going back to Witham. When we got back, we went finding for a while, then we changed into service clothes and went to the English Frys to help them out with there garden. They have a little vegetable patch in the back, so we were weeding and overturning the soil and such. Then we ate dinner with them. It was a lot of fun as always. We shared a really spiritual essay about the atonement of Jesus Christ and sharing it with others. It was great.

Wednesday - Today was fun. We went to Kwik fit in the morning to get an appointment to get the oil changed. Then we went finding. Then we had lunch. Then we went finding again. Some guy asked Elder Meier if he was gay. It was funny. Then we stopped by former investigators, potential investigators, less actives, and such until our dinner appointment with the Pans. We had delicious lasagna. Then we ate s'mores and cake. It was really nice. Then I jumped on their trampoline to burn some calories. We played a game with their kids on the trampoline, where there were four footballs and we all had to dodge them while jumping around. Then we shared a message about the atonement and asked them to share their love of the atonement with someone this week. They all accepted. They're awesome. I love them.

Thursday - Today was fun. We dropped our car off at kwik fit in the morning. We told them that we needed it back by 2:30 in order to drive to an appointment, and they said that it wouldn't be finished until about 5:00, so we left it with them, and called some members to ask if they could drive us to our appointment this afternoon at that time. Then we went back to the flat to do our normal planning and studies. Then we did companionship studies and called people to confirm and schedule appointments. Then we had lunch. Then we walked to the member's house so they could drive us to the appointment. It was a good lesson. We watched the old restoration movie. She really liked it. She said that she wants to start coming back to church, so that's always good. Then we walked to the chapel, so I could write my thank you letter for the scholarship I received. Then the English frys picked us up and dropped us off at the flat. Then we picked up our car and drove to our dinner appointment with the powles. They're so awesome. I love them. We made these healthy wraps. They were really tasty. Then we shared a message about prayer and how to make it more sacred. Then we went home and got ready for bed.

Friday - Today was fun. We had our weekly planning in the morning. That took a while. Then we had lunch. After lunch, we went finding in town. We didn't find anybody, but it was a nice day. After finding we stopped by some less active members and other people. After all of that, we had companionship study. Then we had an appointment with a guy named Andy. He has no interest in finding out if the church is true. He's just is fascinated with Joseph smith and how the church and the Book of Mormon came to be. So after a long discussion about how he doesn't trust his feelings, we left, spiritually drained. So we went back to the flat and made rollercoaster pancakes. Yum.

Saturday - Today was awesome. We had an open day today, so pretty much, we had finding planned all day long. As a missionary, seeing that in your planner can be quite discouraging. So we did all of our regular stuff in the morning. Planned, studied, companion studied, etc. Then we stopped by a less active lady named Laura Jane. She's awesome. She gave us some American candy. We talked a bit, then we went finding. After about 1 second of finding, brother Pan called, inviting us over to a barbecue in an hour. So we found like dragons, found a new investigator, then went to  the barbecue. It was super fun. They got the most delicious meat ever, cooked it up and we ate and ate and ate. They invited their nonmember friends as well. So we talked with them for The whole time. They were super fun. So we ate, jumped on the trampoline, made jokes, and had a lot of fun. After the barbecue, we went home for companionship studies.

Sunday - Today we had church in the morning. Halfway through church, we went with a member to give her mom a blessing. It was pretty awkward, because her mom likes to make things complicated. So she started talking about her entire backstory when we asked what her full name was. After the blessing, we made it back just in time for priesthood.  We discussed the talks given by President Monson at conference. It was really good. Then we had lunch with the Nelsons. Since Elder Meier grew up in Austria, and Sister Nelson is Austrian, she made some traditional Austrian food. She made Schnitzel, Tomaten salat, and kartoffel salat. It was really good. They were speaking in German a lot. We shared the message from priesthood with them. After that, we picked up dinner from a member to eat later. Then we went finding in the town. We didn't find anyone, but it was fun. We were finding in the park when it started raining. Then we went to see a less active lady. She was happy to see us. Then we went home and ate dinner. It was super delicious. The food was Argentinian, from one of my favorite families. Yum. 

Well, there you go! That was my week! I love you all!

Love,

Elder Warburton 

May 22 Email

Dear wonderful people!

This week was pretty fun. All the details are inside. Enjoy!

Tuesday - Well, today was pretty fun. We had interviews in the afternoon, so we spent the morning making our training for district meeting. Then we drove over to Ipswich and had our interviews. It was a lot of fun. It's always nice to get together with the Zone. While we were all together, the Zone Leaders and the sister training leaders gave trainings. The most important training, for me, was about planning. Honestly, planning is one of the most important skills that one can learn. Hopefully I'll be able to have that mastered before the end of my mission. Then we had the actual interviews. Those were awesome. I love meeting with president and sister Stevens. They have so much love in them. They are like temporary parents for all of us missionaries. It's great to get to see them. After interviews, we drove home and had dinner with the Goughs. I love the Goughs. They always help us out, and they're just so nice! We had this chicken curry stuff on pasta. It was really nice. Then, we went home for a bit of companionship study. Then we got ready for bed. 

Wednesday - Well, today was an experience. So most of the day was finding and stopping by members, less actives, former investigators, and potential investigators. We met lots of people, but nothing really came of it. Then, after a long day of that normal stuff, we stopped by sister hall and her son, Richard. So last time we were there, Richard gave us the challenge to try this mega spicy pepper extract. So, since we came back, we decided we would do it. I took a whole teaspoon. At first it was just the normal pepper challenge. Then my stomach started to hurt really bad, so I went into the bathroom and just really suffered. Then after about twenty minutes of that, I composed myself and went back into the room. We had a lovely message, talked about Richard and his trip to a theme park, and went left. On the way home, round two of pain started, so I pulled over and basically cried for five minutes. Then we drove the rest of the way home. We made a super milky milkshake to help suppress the effects of it. Later on, round three started, and I threw up half of the milkshake as well as half of the chili oil. So now, I'm on the bathroom floor, stomach churning and heaving, as well as having the chili oil back in my throat. So after a few minutes, that calmed down. I went in to bed and laid down for a while. Then I woke up, maybe 45 minutes later and, you guessed it, Round four! My stomach felt like someone had grabbed my intestines and twisted them into a knot. So I threw up the rest of the shake, lunch, last week's dinner, and an unnaturally large amount of water. After all of that, I laid down on the bathroom floor and just cried (not really, but pretty much). It was a great experience. Now, here I am, white as a ghost, writing this journal entry, not sure if it will start up again. Hopefully it's all over. We'll see what happens. Moral of the story, don't ever eat more than a couple drops of that chili sauce, EVER. Good night! :)

Thursday - Well, I didn't have any more projectile vomit or crazy intestinal twists, so I would say the challenge was a success. We started off the morning with doing some contacting of investigators. Then we had lunch. We made ribs. Yum. Then we went finding in town. We found two cool people named Abi and David. They're pretty cool. We'll be seeing them on Tuesday. Then we talked to a few other people, but nothing else really came from it, except we helped this lady to become more Christian, so I guess that that is good. Then we stopped by Tabitha and Simon. They're members in the ward. They usually have some form of service for us to help them with, but none today. We did get to play with their awesome dog, storm. He's so cute! Then we went to have dinner with Bobbie, but she wasn't home, so we made our own dinner. Then we went up to Witham to go to Bowles club. Right after getting there and helping to set up, Bobbie called wondering where we were. So, instead of Bowles club, we went back to Braintree and taught a really good lesson about the importance of prayer. I felt the spirit, so it must have been a good lesson.

(This sign is across the street from Tabi and Si's house.)

Friday - Well, today was a fairly normal day. We bought a couple of food items that we had run out of, then we did our weekly planning. That took the whole morning. After that, we had lunch, did some calls, then headed out to find. We didn't find any new investigators, but we did meet a few cool people. Hopefully they'll get back to us so we can start to teach them. You know, I was just thinking, people don't really want to be taught, they just want to teach. I wish people in the world were a bit more humble. Sorry for the tangent. After finding, we did our companionship study. It seems like every companionship study we've had so far has been for a specific investigator that we've been working with a lot. So that's what we did during our studies. We studied for her. Then we went out finding a bit more, because our appointment with an investigator fell through. Then we picked up a few pairs of trousers that Elder Meier left on Monday. Then we went home to drop them off. Then we immediately went out to visit a part member family. The parents weren't home, so we went into the garden and talked with the children about weapons and what not, because they have a bunch of swords and airsoft guns and such. Their son Bradley is really cool. He's someone we've been trying to work with a lot, because he's awesome and I want him to get baptised. That would make my day. Then we went home for dinner. I made rollercoaster pancakes. They were delicious. 

Saturday - Today was a good day. We did a bit of stuff in the morning. Bought some laundry detergent. Then we had lunch and called a bunch of people. Then we went to Witham. We started off with finding. We isn't find anybody, but hey ho. It was good anyways. Then we did some online proselyting. Added some members on Facebook. Contacted a few people as well. Then we did some stop bys. We stopped by quite a few different people, but nothing really came from it. While we were out we stopped by a woman in the ward. Her name is Valerie. Her husband isn't a member, so we wanted to meet him, but he wasn't home. She did give us 10�� for dinner. We were very grateful for that. So, After a few hours of stop bys, we went back to Braintree for an appointment with a lady named mrs Everett. I think she was home, but she wouldn't answer the door. Oh well, Her loss. Then we went and stopped by a less active man named Fredrick walls. He was pretty nice, but I don't feel that he wanted to talk about church or anything like that. It was a very brief visit. So we decided to go find again. We didn't find anyone again, but we got a few suggestions on where to eat dinner. In the end, though, we decided to buy the stuff to make hamburgers. So we made hamburgers, and we also bought ice cream and a drink, so our dinner was awesome. We each got three giant hamburgers, ice cream, and a 3 liter of soda to share for 11��! Way better than any restaurant. Then we had companionship study. We watched the Elder Holland and President Eyring face to face. It was really good. Then I went to bed. After about an hour, I was woken to some fighting outside. So I looked out the window after the matter, and I guess one of the people in the complex was mad at this guy for trying to get his motorbike to work. He was hammering it pretty loudly, so I guess he got annoyed. So, yeah. Today was great. P.S. Today was my 21 month mark.

Sunday - Today was good. We had ward council first thing in the morning. That was good. We basically spent the entire time talking about the less active member's we stopped by in the past few weeks. Then we had church. We helped pass the sacrament, as always. The reason that is is because we don't have any young men in the ward. Then we had an interesting lesson in Sunday school about temples. Then in Elder's quorum, we had a really awesome lesson about the talk, "walk with me", by president eyring in the April 2017 conference. It was actually a really good lesson. Probably one of the best ones I've had on my mission. I would encourage you to read and study it again. Then after church, we had lunch. Then we went finding for a while. After that, we had a lesson with a less active lady named Leona. We brought the bishop with us as well. She's really nice. We read from Enos. We focused on prayer and how enos received forgiveness of his sins. It was really good. After that, we had our correlation meeting with the bishop and Melissa, one of the ward missionaries. We got a few suggestions on people to meet with and visit. Then we went home and had dinner. 

Well, that was my week! All in all, not too bad. I love you all!

Love,

Elder Warburton 

May 15 Email

Dear wonderful people!

So, this week was pretty eventful. I hope you've got a few minutes to spare, because this will be a long one. 

Well, here we go!

Tuesday - Well, today was Elder Radford's last day in Witham. We started off our day by going to Freeport to look at the next clearance. I bought a pair of drown trousers for 8 pounds. Not too shabby. Then we went in to town to have an appointment with an investigator, but they never showed up, so we did our emailing, since we were already at the library. Then we went to Wetherspoons with Bobbie for lunch so Bobbie could say goodbye to Elder Radford. Then we went to the chapel to do some music sharing and such, then we went back to Braintree to say goodbye to the Sagripantis. Then we had a dinner appointment with the Cespedes family. It was a lot of fun. After dinner we went to the chapel so we could say goodbye to whichever members were at the chapel for mutual. Then we went home and Elder Radford started packing. It didn't take home too long. Then we went to bed. 

Wednesday - Today was transfers. We went to London to drop off Elder Radford. Then I met Elder Meier and we started off for Witham. On the way to Liverpool street from Euston, Elder Meier got on a tube that was packed, so I was left behind and had to take the next train. So I got off where we were supposed to get off at and waited. And waited. He wasn't showing up, so I looked around a bit and I could not find him. So I assumed he kept going without me. Then I got to Liverpool Street and he wasn't there. This was very awkward. So I waited a bit there when a few more missionaries showed up at the station. I explained to them what had happened and I had to wait for a while until something happened. So here I was, in the middle of London, alone with no companion, and he did not have a phone, so I couldn't call him. So after a few more minutes, one of the Zone Leaders called me asking if Elder Meier had the Romford missionaries phone. Luckily for us, he had accidentally kept the Romford missionaries' phone. So I called him and he picked up. He was only one station away. So he came to Liverpool Street and we met back up. But, since he had taken the Romford missionaries phone we had to to bring the phone all the way back to where the Zone Leaders were. So they told us they were at Finchley Road, so we went. The station was nearly 10 stops away on the tube. When we were one stop away, the Zone Leaders called and said, "Sorry guys, we lied to you. We're actually at tower hill." For those of you who don't know, that station is about 11 stops in the other direction. (Also, it's right next to Liverpool street, where we started.) so we got back on the tube in the other direction. After a while of train riding, we got to Tower Hill, gave them back their phone, and went back to Liverpool Street. Then we waited for our train back to Braintree. Then we got home, dropped off Elder Meier's suitcases, had lunch, and went to a member's home (the Goughs) and gave Brother Gough a blessing. Then after that, we went to Sue Jackson's house to teach her the missionary lessons again. We taught her the restoration. She really enjoyed it. Then we went shopping for the week. After shopping, we went to Witham to the chapel to send off an email to the office. Then we had dinner with the bishop. They made awesome lasagna and some other Italian stuff. It was delicious. Then we talked with them about missionary work in the ward as well as our London fiasco this morning. It was fun. Then we went home for call ins. 

Thursday - Today was fun. We got to meet the new district at district meeting. We left for Colchester at 9:30, since usually it's a pretty long drive, but there was no traffic, so we were 25 minutes early. So we just chilled out in front of the chapel and jammed to some music. (Mission appropriate, of course.) then we had an awesome district meeting. It went by really quick. Then we all went to Taco Bell for lunch. We all ate the food by the Zone Leaders' flat. Then we went back to Witham. We went finding in the town. While finding, we met this awesome lady from wales. She's super awesome and we're meeting her on Tuesday. Then we did some companion study for Bobbie, then we went to her house and had dinner. She made some awesome spaghetti. Then we talked a bit about agency and how to use it correctly. Then we went to Bowles club. It was a lot of fun. 

Friday - Today was great. We did our weekly planning in the morning. That took a long time. Then we had lunch. I made tortellini with these German style meatballs. It was great. Then we went finding in Witham. We went finding for a while, but we didn't find anyone. But after all of that, we got a call from a former investigator and he wanted to meet with us again, so he was our new investigator for the day, which was awesome. Then we went to the English frys to introduce him to them. It was a lot of fun. Elder Meier shared a nice message with them, then they showed us their massive garden, which is super nice. They have a massive eucalyptus tree. I really want to climb it. After that, we went to berny's house for dinner. They made us fish and chips, my favorite English meal. Then we shared a message about how our attitude determines our blessings. It was really nice. Then we committed them to share the talk, sharing the restored gospel by elder oaks, with the ward members. Then we went home and made our transfer vision. Then I called Bobbie and shared the message I shared with berny and his family with Bobbie. After that, Elder Meier did call ins with the district. After call ins, we called president and asked if we could go to the temple with the ward tomorrow. To our surprise, he said yes! So we get to go to the temple tomorrow. Yay!

(Weekly planning)

Saturday - Well, today we got to go to the temple. It was an amazing experience. You never really know what you've got until you spend two years away from something you love. In this case it's the temple. We had a tour of the the grounds and learned a bit about the history of the area. Then we went into the visitors center and watched one of the new meet the Mormons clips. It was really good. Then we went into the temple for an endowment session. I got the opportunity to be a proxy for Derek English fry's great great grandfather, George William Barnes. It was a sweet experience. Then, I got to be the proxy for him when he was sealed to his parents. That was also a wonderful experience. After that, we did some initiatories for some of bishop and Sister A ancestors. Then, by that time, we had to go. It was great. I can't wait to go to the temple again. Then we went home to Witham on the coach. On the coach ride home, I started to get a splitting headache. I guess I over exerted my spirit. :) When we got home, I couldn't think straight so I took a nap. Then I woke up at 9:30 pm and we did our gaps. Then I went back to bed.

Sunday - Today was our fast Sunday, since we had stake conference last week. It was also Elder Meier's first Sunday in the Witham ward. Elder Meier bore an awesome testimony. Also, Elder Chronister, who served in Witham about 2 and a half years ago came to visit us today. He bore a really good testimony, too. Then we went to Sunday school. It was really good. We were taught about tithing. Then we taught the lesson in elders quorum. It was on eternal marriage. I'm not sure why they chose the 2 twenty year old missionaries to teach a quorum full of married men about eternal marriage, but it was a good lesson nonetheless. After that, there was a ward munch and Mingle. It was really fun. After that, we had to set up for a child of record baptism that was going on in the evening. So we filled the font and got some videos ready for when the ones involved in the ordinance were getting changed. Then we did some companionship study. Then we gave the sacrament to an elderly couple in the ward. Then we went back to the chapel so I could Skype my family. It was super fun. It was really nice to get to see them all again. That was my last mission Skype call, so I guess the count down is really starting. 

Well, that was my week! I love you all!

Love,

Elder Warburton

May 9 Email

Dear wonderful people!

Well, it's that time of the transfer. I'm going to be staying here in Witham, but Elder Radford is moving away. It's pretty sad, since we got along so well, but that's the nature of missionary work. 

So, I know that you've all been waiting for the exciting news of "what was Elder Warburton's week like?" Well, here you go!

Tuesday - Today was pretty fun. The district came down and did a blitz with us. As a whole, we found a total of 5 new investigators! That's awesome! Then we all went to Wetherspoons for lunch.  It was a lot of food for pretty cheap. Definitely recommend it. Then we went to a members house to drop off some dishes that they had lent us a few days earlier. They invited us over for dinner later, because Elder Radford mentioned that the dinner appointment that we had scheduled for that day had cancelled. So we went and did a little bit of shopping that needed to be done and after dropping it off at the flat, we went to their house for dinner. I was still a bit full from the lunch we had at Wetherspoons, so I didn't eat too much, but it was delicious. Then we went into town to go sort out getting some diabetes supplies. That took a while. Then we sent off an email to the mission office about the medicine and went back to the flat for the day.

Wednesday - So we had an appointment with one of the investigators that we found yesterday in the morning. He never showed up, so we went back to the flat to eat lunch. After lunch, we spent most of the afternoon searching for AUFs. We didn't get much out of it, as none of the people we stopped by were in. After that, we went to a dinner appointment with the Gough's. They brought along a less active lady from the ward. She was really nice. We had a good lesson with all of them about the general conference talk about integrity. Then we went to the chapel to update the info we had gotten from the AUFs that we had stopped by. Then we went home.

Thursday - Well, today was pretty chill. Mostly just regular finding and such. We had a lunch in there somewhere. In the evening, we had a dinner appointment with our friend Bobbie. She's doing well. We taught a little bit about agency and the fall of Adam and Eve. Then we had to rush off the get to the chapel to unlock for the bowls club. They introduced us to the game and we got to play a few rounds. We weren't too bad. At least for a couple of rookies. Then we had to do a little bit of computer work, cleared up a little after them, and went home. I remembered that I had a training to prepare, so I spent most of the night time I had on prepping for that.

Friday - Well, today we had district meeting. That was really fun. I gave a training on the importance of planning. Pretty simple. Then we had a zone wide Skype call to counsel together as to what our Baptismal goal for the month of May should be. Then we had a "funeral" for Sister Mura, because she's going home next week. It was pretty funny. We got up and gave her bad advice on dating, interviewed her as a district to see if she was ready to date, then took the ceremonial sad funeral pictures that you have to take at all funerals. Then we finished up district meeting. Then Sister Mura spent about an hour trying to get some pictures off of her iPad in order to finish clearing it off. Then we took them home and we went home and had our lunch. I made some Singapore noodles. They were delicious. Then we did some more AUFs and went to the English-Frys for dinner. It was a lot of fun as usual. We shared a message about enduring to the end. Then we went to visit a less active lady in order to confirm if she would be going to stake conference this weekend. She's going, so no problem there. Then we went to Tesco to buy some quick snacks before call ins.

Saturday - We had a few appointments scheduled in the morning, but they all cancelled. So we did some stuff, went to the chapel to do a bit of computer work, then we had to go to a choir rehearsal before stake conference. It was pretty good. We sang three songs, two before the meeting, and one during the meeting. After we finished singing, we had to speed back from Ipswich, to get to Braintree in order to have a dinner appointment with a less active/part member family. It was really fun. We talked about prayer, and committed everyone to pray every day. They said that they would do it, so that will be good for them. Then we went home and had a Zone call to see who would be coming to church in the Zone.

Sunday - Today was stake conference, so we drove to Colchester and watched the session. It was really good. Lots of inspirational talks. Then we went back to Braintree after conference to give the sacrament to an elderly couple in the ward. They're both in their nineties, so they can't get out to church very easily, so we just give them the sacrament in their homes. Then we had a lunch appointment with the Forconesis. They made this awesome beef stuff and some vegetables. It was awesome! Then immediately afterwards, we had a dinner appointment with the Powles. They have four crazy kids. It was awesome. Then we jumped on their trampoline afterwards to work off the calories of back to back meals. Then we shared a message about missionary work, and left to go to our ward mission Leader's home for correlation. We were trying to implement Elder Radford's ward mission plan into the home teaching message. Then we went to the chapel to send off a Baptismal program template to a member in the ward.

Monday - Today was pretty fun. The first thing we did was go to a less active member's home to bless her home and give her a blessing. After that, we drove to Colchester in order to go on a blitz with the Zone Leaders. Before our blitz, we went to the Zone Leaders flat to have lunch. After lunch, we were going to go on a blitz, but the sisters convinced us to go to an ice cream place instead, so we all got ice cream, then we had to go because we had an appointment in 30 minutes, so we never got to go blitz. Then we had an appointment with an investigator named Philip. He's lovely. We told him that Elder Radford was going to be leaving, and he got really sad, because he loves Elder Radford. So we talked a bit, then left. After the appointment, we had a dinner appointment with some members of the ward. They made some enchiladas, which were mild at best, but it was apparently too spicy for them. I thought that they tasted great, but they weren't spicy at all. Then we played Uno with them. I won five games in a row! That never happens. It was super fun. Then we went to the chapel to check to see where everyone was getting transferred to. After that, we had the official zone call to tell everyone where they were going. 

Well, there you go! I hope you enjoy! I love you all!

Love,

Elder Warburton 

May 1 Email

Dear wonderful people!

This week was pretty fun, so I'll give you the whole scoop in my weekly mission summary.

Tuesday - Today was pretty chill. We saw a less active lady in the ward. She was nice. We also had a dinner appointment with the Goughs. They're so much fun. We shared a message about missionary work. Then we went and saw another less active family. They're Italian. They invited us over for dinner next Tuesday, so that was nice. Hopefully I'll get to jump on their trampoline when we go. :)

Wednesday - Today was fun. We had district meeting in the morning. It was pretty rushed, but that's only because we had an appointment to get to at 12:00 back in our own area. So we had a quick training, set goals, and took a district picture. Then we went back to our own area and had a lunch appointment at a place called Toby's Carvery with a member. It was awesome. I ate way too much food. After we had lunch with the member, we went to his home and gave him and his wife the sacrament. They're both very old and kind of sickly, so the bishop authorized us to give it to them in the middle of the week. Then we helped them out with a few things in their home, and went on to do some work in town. After a few hours of that, we had a dinner appointment at a member's home. He was the former Bishop, in the stake presidency, and now he's the ward clerk. He's great. Their family is really fun, and really good at missionary work is well. After our dinner with them, we went home teaching with the bishop. We taught a family called the Hill's. Sister Hills is the Sunday school teacher. She's really funny and always super excited about everything. It's pretty funny. After that we went home and went to bed.

Thursday - So, today Elder Radford needed to take his driving theory test. So we spent the entire morning at the chapel online practicing so he would not fail. Then we went to Colechester so he could take his test. While he took his test, I did some window shopping around the mall. It was pretty fun, but also kind of weird to not have a companion for an hour, since I was not allowed to be in the building while he took his test. He passed his test, thank goodness. Then we went back to our area do you have an appointment with an investigator named Philip. He's really good. He loves the church and would come along if he didn't have to work on Sunday mornings during church time. Then we went to a dinner appointment with our investigator named Bobby. She's great but she also has a lot of weird questions about the church. But I think she'll join one day. Then we went home and went to bed.

Friday - Today was pretty fun. We did some normal missionary work, some finding and some stop bys. We did have a dinner appointment with the English frys family. They are great member missionaries. For our message we shared president monson's address about charity, kindness and love. While we were in the middle of our lesson, they heard the ice cream truck outside and ran out and bought us some ice cream. It was pretty funny seeing a couple in their 40s buying ice cream from an ice cream truck. After that we went home and did our regular evening routine.

Saturday - Today we had a flat inspection from the senior couple in Cambridge. So before they came, like a good missionary would, we cleaned the flat up a little bit. After cleaning, we went to a member's home to pick up some lunch. The family is from Argentina, so the food was delicious. We brought it home, ate it and waited for the senior couple to come. When they came, they found the flat in immaculate condition, gave us good grades, and headed off. It was a lot of fun. Then we went to Witham to contact a couple of referrals. We met a lady named Wendy. She's super nice and we're going to see her next week. While we were talking to her her neighbor came up and start talking with us as well. She was really nice as well. Then we went back to Braintree to have a lesson with Philip. After our lesson with him we helped him fix a mirror cabinet in his bathroom, and headed to our lesson with a less active, part member family. They are super hilarious. We basically just hung out with them, looked at their sword collection, and had an awesome lesson about the restoration. After their lesson I went onto the trampoline and showed them some of my tricks. It was great fun. Then we went home and ate dinner.

Sunday - Well, today was a lot of fun. We had our PEC meeting in the morning. We talked a lot about less actives in the ward, and how we can help them to return to activity. After that we had our regular church. When we passed around our dinner calendar in the third hour of church, we filled out the entire week for dinners. I guess that's one of the upsides of transfers coming up. Then after church we had choir practice for a musical item that we are going to be performing at stake conference. That was a lot of fun. Then we went and had lunch with the pan family. They are awesome. They made us a massive lunch. After lunch they told us that they were going to make a cake for their son's birthday. So we had to wait for all of that as well. While we were waiting, four other families from the ward showed up. We were just waiting for them to decorate a cake, and next thing we know, we're at a birthday party for their son. That took a very long time, but it was a lot of fun. Then we stopped by some less active families then we went to the chapel and did a bit of computer work before going home for dinner.

Well, that was my week! I love you all!

Love,

Elder Warburton 

Here's our district photo from district meeting.