September 26, 2011

Hello Family,

This past week was pretty good. It went by very quickly. I went on two
exchanges and we had our zone trainings. Our mission is SO member
orientated now. We now have ways that we measure how much we work with
members and that has become 50% of our focus. We dropped our standards
for personal finding as well, which was very interesting. The activity
of going to the Manchester City Stadium was excellent. I can't
remember a more fun P-Day. We not only went there, but we went to B&Q
[Home Depot (I hope I spelled that right)] and Costco as well. It was
so much fun. Costco looks the exact same way it does in America, so it
was a nice flashback. There are like 2 or 3 Costco's in our mission. I
bought a Man City t-shirt to remember the activity, so now I have a
Man United jersey and Man City t-shirt. Good stuff. Other than that,
there isn't much to report, it was just a good week. This week I have
my last driving lesson and then the following Monday I take my test.
Hopefully I will be a fully licensed driver by the time I write again.
I will really need help though. I wont be emailing again until either
next Wednesday or Thursday. I will probably be in a new area by then
(my fourth). I have the least amount of areas out of my group. All the
other missionaries in my group have at least four areas. I like
standing out :) Things are good overall. I'll send some pictures from
last Monday.

I hope that everything is going well with the fam. I'll talk to you soon.

love,
Elder Misbach


PS: Just for clarification, I did not attend a football match. I just
went and had a tour of the stadium. Hope no one thought I was being
dodgey.






September 19, 2011


Hello Family,

This past week has been good. Nothing too intense to report though.
Tuesday was pretty good; I was able to record 17 different miracles
that happened that day. Great stuff. Unfortunately I can't think of
anything that interesting to report this past week. It was a pretty
straight-forward week. What I can tell you, is that within the past 3
minutes, as I was pondering what I can tell you about this past week,
two Indian girls walked into the library and you can smell their
perfume from a good 50 ft away. That is pretty ironic really, because
I find myself wishing often that more people would use products to
make them smell better and when I find people that actually do use
those products, they overdose. Today, the Wilsons are taking us to the
Manchester City (soccer team) stadium because they are huge fans
(City, NOT United, haha). I'm really looking forward to it. They were
also going to take us to this really fancy chocolate factory called
Slatteries (?), but they weren't able to get a table. They are going
to try and take us on the Wednesday I get transferred for breakfast.
They are great. This chocolate factory is very popular, apparently
Wayne Rooney had his wedding cake made there.

Well life is good and the gospel is true. I have been listening to
past General Conferences recently and I can not wait for the next one
in two weeks!! I hope everyone is doing well. Talk to you soon.

Love, Elder Misbach

Setember 12, 2011

Hello Familia!

Well those pictures took ages! It's a good thing I have nothing better
to do this P-day. I'm thinking about buying cake mix and baking a cake
today, but I'm also trying to be a bit healthier, so I'm in conflict
right now. I hope the pictures turn out all right and they are a
satisfactory representation of my time in Rochdale. Turns out that if
I had just ignored the signs that said I can't use a USB from the
beginning, I could have been sending pictures this entire time. Oh
well.

I might make my email(s) a bit short this week because of how long
that took, but life is still good. Nothing too interesting has
happened recently. We continue to preach the gospel and seek the
Lord's help. It was a rough week weather wise so we didn't achieve too
much, but it was still good. The flat is clean, the gospel is true,
and life is good!

I hope everyone is doing well back in the states. I wish I could have
been there for the 9/11 anniversary. We had a minute of silence in
church, but that was about it. Talk to you soon!

love,

Elder Misbach


Sept. 5, 2011


Hello Familia,

This last week was a pretty good one. The Church History Tour was
excellent. Albert Dock was by far the most interesting. We walked past
the Beatles museum and we were able to look in the Maritime Museum
which has life size replicas of what it would be like to emigrate to
America. That was very interesting. At the River Ribble, President
Preston thought it would be fun if the two zones that were there each
chose a missionary to race across the bridge "to be the first baptized
in the UK". Sadly, I was chosen for the Ashton zone. Before I give the
results I should explain the surrounding factors: 1) I had received
very little sleep due to the excitement of the tour 2) I decided it
would be fun to get there early and start the day off by having
breakfast at Greggs, so I ate three meat pastries and a caramel
doughnut before 9 am 3) I had just eaten some very poor/soggy chicken
sandwiches that I prepared the night before 4) I washed that down with
some chocolate mini-rolls and candy 5) I'm out of shape 6) I was under
the impression that I was still as fast as I was when I was younger 7)
I raced against the human version of Speedy Gonzales. Seriously
though, he is probably six inches shorter than me from El Salvador,
his name is Elder Diaz, and I have never seen someone move so quick in
my life 8) Lastly, I had the family curse working against me. I know
there isn't much actual evidence that Henry Clegg came second, but if
he did, I honored his name. Needless to say, I lost; pretty badly. I
have some pictures of it, that I will send soon hopefully. It was fun
though.

Really isn't much else to say about last week. I received some very
upsetting news about the family I baptized in Colwyn Bay, but there
isn't much I can do about that. Testimonies are so fragile. That is
something that I have learned on my mission. A knowledge of the truth
and a love of the gospel can vanish in a moment if you aren't careful.
And it can be for some of the stupidest reasons. There is a good hymn
that President Preston pointed out that has to do with that, it's
number 336 "School thy Feelings." It is very good.

Overall life is good, the gospel is true, and things are going well.

Hope everything is going good back in the States.

love,

Elder Misbach

PS: GO COUGARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


beginnings of the race (you can see how badly I was already
losing...it was sad)













end of the race (I had long given up at this point and was going for
the laughs, hence the exaggerated stride















Elder Sapaden and I at Albert Dock in Liverpool