Hello Family,
Things are good in Warrington. Elder Tellem is going to be staying with us for another week and a half! Woo! Elder Cline had his surgery, which went well, but now he is staying with the office elders until January 18th. So I will be serving in a threesome for two weeks =) That is something I have wanted to do for a while now. It's great because Elder Tellem is from Wales and Elder Sumner is from Birmingham, so whenever someone tries to accuse us of being American (or even more specifically from Utah) we can stop them in their tracks, hehe. (I normally just don't talk in those situations). It's quite entertaining as well because, for the first time, I'm the minority. So when I'm talking about how much better the States are I have no backup, whereas they backup each other about how great the UK is. (They are living in denial). We have had some great conversations. The condition of the flat was seriously worrying me until this morning when we got to clean it. We are back in shape now. I also finally gave myself a hair cut again and it feels like a breath of fresh air. I love short hair. We are going to go eat at a very popular restaurant here called Nandos today. I have heard nothing but good reviews about it. They deal with everything chicken, so I'm super stoked. They big appeal to this place is there many different sauces that they cook the chicken in. I'm definitely excited for this. I'm also doing well with my diet and exercise. This time around I have made it MUCH more reasonable, so I have been able to stick to it much better. The bikes are good and, luckily, we have an extra one for Elder Tellem! (He wasn't very pleased to find that out, haha). It is hilarious to see the three of us riding down the street stopping people and talking to them. Elder Sumner is doing much better on the bike. Every once and awhile he will get short bursts of confidence where he charges out in front. This companionship is so entertaining. We also had one of the most spiritual lessons of my mission this last week with the husband of a less active who has been diagnosed as terminally ill with cancer. They have a one year old girl that has loads of health problems as well. It was a very powerful lesson, so we look forward to teaching them more. We also have a tea appointment every day this week except for Zone Conference. Good stuff =)
Overall, things are good. The gospel continues to bring more and more joy. I hope that everyone back in America is doing well. I'll speak to you soon!
love
Elder Misbach
January 3, 2012
Well Hello Familia,
I still don't have much to report sadly. That was an excellent bunch of emails though, thank you! Elder Sumner continues to struggle with the bike. He is a good sport about it though. I almost went flying into a roundabout today as we were on our way to the library, but he was able to slam his boots into the ground just in time. It doesn't help his situation that his brakes are horrible. New Years Eve was excellent. We watched Toy Story 2, half of Monsters Inc., and The Chronicles of Narnia 2. We didn't do much on New Years Day. Church was good, then we took a nap, went to our Ward Mission leaders for a meal, went to the Barlows for a buffet, and then headed back. Yesterday was our P-day and I was able to take a 3 hour nap for the first time in about a year. It was great =) I have successfully finished my candy and I only have healthy food at the flat. I'm also doing well with exercise right now, so hopefully I can keep it up. One last interesting thing is that Elder Cline (who is now in my district with Elder Tellem in Widnes) will be having surgery this week, so I will be serving in a threesome from Wednesday until sometime next week. That should be fun. Other than that, things continue to go well and the gospel remains true.
I hope that everyone is doing well and enjoying the new year!
love,
Elder Misbach
December 29, 2011
Hello Familia,
Well transfers are completed and I am still in Warrington, but I'm now with Elder Sumner from Birmingham. He is quite an experienced missionary, which is very nice. I can tell that we will be able to get a lot done. He learned how to ride a bike right before his mission and has spent, in total, an hour of time on a bike. He is really struggling right now, ha. But we are still doing well. There isn't much going on in the area. One of our two investigators is out of town, and the other one we only see once a week. For the most part we are just finding all of the time, but it's good. I have decided that I'm going to eat all of my Christmas candy this week (and I'm already progressing nicely towards achieving that goal) so that next week I can begin my fitness program. I'm going to start with just managing what I eat because it is very difficult to exercise well at this time of the year. Wish me luck. Feel free to give any suggestions. The weather is still very weird. We haven't received any snow and it was actually raining and hailing on us today. Christmas was nice, we just went over to members homes, ate, and watched church movies. All the members were fans of my new music that I got. There isn't really much to report especially because we spoke to each other only a few days ago, sorry.
I hope that everyone is good and that the holidays are going well. Talk to you next year!
Elder Misbach
