AGGGGHHHHH! I was so hoping that Ruby would be born by now!
So,
the reason I'm emailing on a Wednesday is because it was transfer week.
On transfer week our P-Day's are usually on Tuesday, but yesterday when
we went to email I was able to log on, and I emailed President
Pilkington and a couple of missionaries and some friends, and at the end
of the hour long session for email (I just log off and log back on and
it gives us another hour, which I use 30 minutes of) IT WOULDN'T LET ME
BACK ON! I then learned that I had been the only missionary able to log
on at all, so yeah, I'm emailing my 30 minutes I missed today because I
didn't write my FAMILY; which is kinda the whole point of us emailing
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
I HAVE FINALLY LEFT KEIGHLEY!!!!! I HAVE TRAVELED TO THE DISTANT AND FAR OFF LAND OF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Skipton....
Just
fyi Skipton is about 10 minutes away from Keighley, and it's in my
district sooooooo I haven't really moved at all. I'll probably be in
Keighley for Pday, District meeting, and baptism's which means I'll be
there at least 2, sometimes 3 times a week. So yeah.
I've been on exchange to Skipton like 8 times, so I pretty much know
most of it.
Not to say that I'm not excited though! I'm
serving with Elder Hoareau (Definitely just snuck a look at his badge to
spell that), who is from Bordeaux, France. I've learned my two years of
French was pretty much pointless, but it's still going to be good! He's
a really nice guy, who has a pretty good handle on the language.
Probably the funniest thing about him is that when he's talking about
Jesus Christ he just says, "And the Christ". It's so absolutely French I
can't stop from giggling when he does it
Skipton is a
fairly small town, it's very touristy though because it's the entrance
to the Yorkshire dales, which makes it a pretty Idyllic town. It's
pretty much one of those old people towns that is super well cared for
and has a lot of small shops and markets everywhere that make your heart
stop because everything is hecka expensive. It'll be interesting
serving here, because it's a branch, and I've never been in a branch
before. I'm curious to see how so few people can handle all of the
positions necessary for a functioning church, and I'm more curious to
see how a branch supports the missionaries versus a ward.
Elder
Innis is staying in Keighley, and has been called as a district leader,
which all of us saw coming from a mile away, and he's getting a new
trainee (We call them stars in this mission).
It'll be really weird going on exchange, because more then likely I'll
be either with Elder Innis, or I'll go back to Keighley, so either way
it'll be a bit bizarre.
MAN OH MAN! IT IS COLD!!! Holy
nutcracker I think Satan must be taking a holiday or something because I
swear it feels like there is no heat anywhere on this frozen planet. We
woke up this morning and there was ice everywhere, and all of the
puddles had frozen, and most of the Ponds had a layer of Ice on
them!!!!! Brrrrrrr. Don't worry though, I'm keeping warm. My Cole Haan coat is perfect! So long as it doesn't rain, I'm A ok! [can you sense the massive eye roll his mother just performed right about here? WHAT? Oh sure, like it's never going to RAIN in England in the winter...I feel so much better knowing that coat will work just swell as long as it doesn't rain...]
So
yeah, that's enough from me, hope you all are doing well! I love you
guys lots! I hope Noelle and the baby are ok, and that everything goes
smoothly!
Love you all lots!
--Elder Hays
[the following week]
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
OH MY GOSH I WANT TO CUDDLE THAT LITTLE BALL OF CHUB SO BAD!!!!!!!!
She
looks so adorable!!!!! I can't believe she's finally here! I can't wait
to see her more properly in a few weeks when we Skype! I'm so happy!!!
All I wrote my mission president about pretty much was on how happy I
was about Ruby!!!!
So besides that awesome
part to my week! I'm now in a trio with Elder Flake (From New York) and
Elder Hoareau (France), and that's been loads of fun!
It
snowed for about 2.2 seconds this morning, but it still snowed! Nothing
stuck, but who cares! I'MMMMMMM DREAMING OF A WHITTTTTEEEE CHRISTMASSS!
JUST LIKE THE ONES I USED TO KNOW!!!!!!
So that was cool! I screamed like a school girl when I saw it!
Besides
that not much else has happened. I'll be at a baptism for Melissa and
Josh, two people I taught back in Keighley, on Friday, and Josh has
asked me to baptize him, so that's going to be nice.
Mom, is
my grammar still terrible? I realized I still don't know half the time
when to use a comma, I just do it when it feels right ;p
I'm
getting colder and slightly grumpier as I slowly but surely turn into
Elsa from Frozen, but Elder Flake and Elder Hoareau are my Anna's who
cheer me up. I'm staying warm though Mum!
So yeah, one other
cool thing that happened, the missionaries in our Zone sang at a huge
Church sponsored event celebrating the Christmas Truce during WWI, we
sang It's a long way to Tipperary and Pack up your troubles. It was
really cool. I naturally cried my eye's out when the Choir sang Noel in
French (Did I ever tell you guys that that song makes me cry? Like,
every time with out fail. There's just this one part where the notes go
slightly off key and clash a bit at the climax, the line in English is
"Fall on your knees, and hear the angels voices", and I always cry at
that part, wow I just started tearing up when I wrote that line and
heard it in my heard ;p ) so it was a beautiful night, there were well
over 300 people there, and even the British Legion was represented and
various other dignitaries came.
That's been my week! Not much
else to say! I love you guys so much! I'll talk to you soon! (I don't
have any pics because my cameras dead and I have to buy more batteries)
[and the following week]
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So, I haven't been called a bible basher all week, primarily because
Skipton is 80% people knocking at deaths door, but also because it's
pretty posh.
...I have a confession... I miss the Chav's of
Keighley, I miss being called a bible basher every 10 minutes or so, and
having people randomly plow into me and murmur "God Squad"!
But Skipton is great! The members are
absolutely delightful, and they can COOK! Lawd almighty can some of
these members cook! Also, the dales of Skipton are probably one of the
most beautiful areas you can possibly serve in in our mission, so I'm
soaking it up!
It's snowed a bit this week, but not to bad!
The canal next to our flat froze over, so I threw some coins on top to
see if I could break the Ice, but it was too thick! (Mum, spell check.
To, or too right there. I think it's to, but I have a feeling I could be
wrong)
Our investigator Rebecca quit her Job so she can come
to church starting in January, so that's pretty awesome! I mean, not
awesome that she quit her job, but awesome that she trusts the lord
enough to see that Church should come first.
I was able to pop
over to Keighley and baptize my investigator Josh, while Elder Innis
baptized Melissa (another investigator I taught). It was really cool
though to be there because I realized that I've been present for every
single investigator baptism Keighley has had this year. I'm really happy
for Josh and Melissa, and I know they're starting their life off
together on the right foot! I'll attatch a pic!
Love you guys
so much! I hope everything is going super well with little Ruby! If you
want to, you can blow up a wall sized portrait of me and put it in her
Nursery! ...then again maybe don't... I think that would be a bit too
North Korean, all hail to our glorious Leader Chim jung un type of
thing.
Just a thought -
Love you all lots!
--Elder Hays
