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