Family/Mother/Father,
I hope your birthday was well and I will try my very hardest to keep in mind all the emails i received as I reply!
Everything is going great so far. i'll be completely honest, I am quite homesick. It all hit me at once just a few days ago and i'm spending quite a bit of time on my knees trying to forget about home. This is probably one of the hardest things i've ever done but I know it will be worth it. It helps when I am able to build relationships with the members and investigators. My first sunday in the ward was yesterday and it went well. I was able to meet so many people. The ward is rather large but everyone knows each other. It's a great community they have there. Everyone comes late into sacrament meeting because they were all busy socializing in the hallway. The ward mission leader is brother ashton and he is very nice. He is extremely helpful to us and is always available to come out to teach with us. We had dinner at there home this week.
The people we teach are all amazing and I was able to develop really strong relationships really fast. I love nothing more than being able to go to their homes to chat and to feel the spirit. Most of the people we teach attend the University of Salford and that is where we do most of our finding. I would love to tell you all kinds of stories about the people I teach so send me a letter if you want to hear them!
That is pretty wild that chub got baptised (they use an "s" here, it's kinda weird). good for him. Katelin sent me a picture of him with Jared and Mike it was adorable of course.
I love my family but I miss Josh pretty bad. I think about him all the time. Also Joe, I hope I will be able to work for him again.
How are zach and josh doing?
Hopefully I'll talk to you soon. But for now, cheers mate!
Trace
15 Theatre House
Langworthy Road
Salford, England
M6 7AH
I hope your birthday was well and I will try my very hardest to keep in mind all the emails i received as I reply!
Everything is going great so far. i'll be completely honest, I am quite homesick. It all hit me at once just a few days ago and i'm spending quite a bit of time on my knees trying to forget about home. This is probably one of the hardest things i've ever done but I know it will be worth it. It helps when I am able to build relationships with the members and investigators. My first sunday in the ward was yesterday and it went well. I was able to meet so many people. The ward is rather large but everyone knows each other. It's a great community they have there. Everyone comes late into sacrament meeting because they were all busy socializing in the hallway. The ward mission leader is brother ashton and he is very nice. He is extremely helpful to us and is always available to come out to teach with us. We had dinner at there home this week.
The people we teach are all amazing and I was able to develop really strong relationships really fast. I love nothing more than being able to go to their homes to chat and to feel the spirit. Most of the people we teach attend the University of Salford and that is where we do most of our finding. I would love to tell you all kinds of stories about the people I teach so send me a letter if you want to hear them!
That is pretty wild that chub got baptised (they use an "s" here, it's kinda weird). good for him. Katelin sent me a picture of him with Jared and Mike it was adorable of course.
I love my family but I miss Josh pretty bad. I think about him all the time. Also Joe, I hope I will be able to work for him again.
How are zach and josh doing?
Hopefully I'll talk to you soon. But for now, cheers mate!
Trace
15 Theatre House
Langworthy Road
Salford, England
M6 7AH
And here is today's:
I am so sorry about how short this email will be but a stupid zone activity got us to the library with about fifteen minutes to email. I do laundry in our flat, we have machines. We grocery shop at lidl, the grocery store is very different. I really love the mission president. He is very strict and old fashioned but is very likeable and very sincere. I see other missionaries quite often at conferences and trainings and mission home firesides. I have great pictures to send home but unfortunately i have no time. I will make my companion spend two hours here next monday. I wrote a very detailed letter to katelin about all the people I teach so have her explain a little bit more about what's going on with me. My companion and I are growing very close and we are actually having a way good time together. We are learning each others humour and it is helping quite a bit. We had a lesson where we watched Legacy, i had some serious flashbacks. We watched it with our investigator Deivija (dated for the 30th, woot), at the Raemons home (phillipino, hopefully they cook as well as anita parsons) with Brymo (nigerian, 18, recent convert) and the bishop. It was such a good lesson and we had such a good time. I can't remember the last time I laughed as hard as I did last night. I will send you pictures of all the good times we had. The work is moving along quite wonderfully, I really love all the people we teach. We are in a pretty big city so we spend a majority of the time street contacting and riding the bus. We teach Ebenezer and Jeremiah tonight. Two young boys from a part member family, I love teaching them because they barely know english so we just play games with them and have there parents translate. Slowly the homesickness is fading. Sorry this was so short.
Trace
P.S. I loved the package, even though there was a bunch of random stuff in there it helped me out quite a bit. The pretzel m and m's was money! My companion loves the ball that lights up, he thinks its the coolest thing ever. The glowsticks me and my companion decided will only be broken after a baptism so let's hope its soon, it's very tempting! We teach a man named brymo wells from nigeria. 18 years old and happy all the time. He writes songs and upon listening to his songs Elder Dittmer and I decided we needed to have him change the words he said. He tried to justify it by saying he only said crude things on occassion. I said "Brymo, I'm gonna make you some brownies alright? and I'm just gonna put a little bit of poop in them. Sound good?"...Thanks Mom. He received it well and decided he is going to change his songs. I had my first experience with looking the wrong way while crossing the street. My companion apparently still has the same problem because we got to the median of the street both of us swung our heads right and stepped into the street only to be honked at and nearly missed by a car coming from the other side. Oh England.
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