Here's the one that he sent his dad:
It’s going good here I’m not
teaching very many nonmembers yet but I’ve been talking a lot with the less
actives. My companion says my testimony is like our secret weapon ha-ha so I
guess I’m getting better at sharing it. We usually walk. This town isn’t very
big but then we take busses to get out to the other little villages in our
area. Our bishop in this ward lives right next to us and he is the landlord. He’s
hilarious! I’m learning a lot, the other day my mission president gave us
permission to email in the middle of the week because it was Remembrance Day on
Tuesday. Remembrance Day is a holiday that celebrates the signing of the treaty
on the 11th day of the 11th hour. In the middle of zone conference we had a
moment of silence for 2 minutes. It was a really cool meeting. My mission
president is a great speaker. He talked for about 75 minutes and the whole time
all of the top half of the mission was on the edge of their seats listening. I
was randomly selected to follow him and give a 3 minute talk on an attribute of
my choice. So I chose hope because it’s the one I have studied the past month
or so. He said I did a great job considering I had nothing prepared at all. I
am learning a lot more then I ever thought I would out here. Sister Pilkington
the president’s wife taught all of us a song that goes well with what we are
doing out here. It goes like this...
Pack up your troubles in your old
kit bag
And smile, smile, smile
Just think of all the happy times
we'll have
Smile boys, that’s the style
What’s the use of worrying??
It never was worthwhile
So, pack up your troubles in your
old kit bag
And smile, smile, smile
It was great hearing every
missionary in that packed chapel singing that song because it applies to all of
us.
Here's the one for me:
So my mission president gave all of
the mission permission to email in the middle of the week so we could tell our
parents about Remembrance Day and our zone conference on it. Remembrance Day is
celebrating the signing of the treaty that ended world war one. We had a moment
of silence in the middle of zone conference for 2 minutes but they taught us a
song that the soldiers from England would sing in the trenches. I sent it to
dad. Its nuts the statistics of the soldiers from the small villages on England
are crazy. They sent 16000 men out to the war out of the villages in our mission
and only about 20 of the villages had all their sons return. The average life
span of a man fighting the war from England was 36 hours. That’s crazy. Everyone
in England buys poppies and wears them all the up to the 11th day of the 11th
month (Tuesday) when the treaty was signed. I gave a talk on hope following the
mission presidents 75 minute talk. I didn’t have anything prepared so I just
went up and talked with a couple of scriptures thrown in too. My companion gave
a 20 minute instruction on training models that are like roleplaying games to
help us learn the lessons. It was pretty good, I got to go to both the north
half and the southern half of the missions zone conference so we got a car and
drove for 2 hours down to where we needed to be it was nice having a car for a
day. It was fun. Today and this weekend hopefully it will be normal with less
meetings so that I have the time to study and actually go out meeting people. It
should be a good week, on p day after I emailed we went to a tk maxx which is
basically tj max and I bought with much advice from my companion a coat that
should last me for the rest of my mission, it better because it was £70 and that’s
about 120 dollars. Lol so yea it has been a good week. Hopefully going to stay that
way. I’ll talk to you on Monday.
