PICTURES-- transfer 6, oldham

 Finally met Bishop's 3rd son!!!! Took 3 months. We were friends right off the start.

 Love this part of town

 Beautiful!

 SWAN. Apparently the Queen's bird. Protected by law and everything

 These are the kind of geese that live by my Tesco canals. Evil Canadian geese, go back to Canada

 Take-off

 blind. needed to activate flipper-mode

 I love the Porridges!

 Wild fruit

 I was really enthused for the sunset. Never get to see this

 Made this for the Porridges, it took forever and looked really janky haha

Conference at the Seals. They made a really really really really good lime cheesecake (please let me stay for my birthday). Oh and if you check out the fridge, you'll see me and sister A haha

 TGIF

 Shorna and Sister Riley

 Blood blister. It's more black now, looks like black pudding.

 Decor for the flat

 Glorious

 Working hard

 Hardly working

 Eileen's bday. We sweet

 Crew

 Sisters...

 twinning round 2

 haha reminiscing 

 Italinas

 That's like 50 pounds of flapjacks. £1.50 thanks Park Cake

 3 stooges, 3 amigos. Big fan

 something about say hear see?

 Blackpool

 People trying to take pictures for us

 Decked out trolley

 One of the Porridge kids. She loves me and my chins

She's a keeper

 Shorna's farewell. Officially Sister Shorna!!! Heidi got me that shirt!

 Blackpool lights

 When you try to beat the system

 You get locked in the bathroom

 haha Brother Porridge

 Bit better

 Made me think of Sister Black

Poor shot of the Blackpool tower in all its infamous glory

Emi's Thirty-Seventh Email! October 26, 2015

Sister Barbaro is leaving after being here one transfer, I'm going to really really miss her. We got to be good friends and work hard together. She is sooo Italian, I love her little mannerisms (Moving her eye brows up and down really quickly when something was up, saying "bop" when she didn't know something, "Buena not", putting her hands together and shaking them when she was adamant about getting her point a cross, her blatantly, the cooking, kissing me and everyone all the time-appropriately, plus they do it here anyway, and speaking really fast in Italian).

Chances are I'm going to leave here right before Christmas and my birthday to the next town over, in between here and Hyde-typical. I still struggle to understand why I'm in England in the first place but all you can do is have a positive attitude. Often sisters only move when the hanchos think they are causing trouble so they must think I'm doing ok if I've only moved a total of 5 miles in 9 months.

Anyway, We had zone meeting which we brought the 30 pounds of flap jacks to.

We worked. I was sick. We visited the Italian lady again and I accidentally fell asleep, don't think my presence was missed much amidst all the Italian speaking anyway. Plus I was essentially on my deathbed so it was probably for the better.

Bishop's son Fesoj leaves tomorrow, his family is trying very hard to be strong for him but they just have too much love, at least I'll be here to support them? Haha. He'll be in Provo til Christmas, so say hi to him please!

Here's a poem I just made up:

Clocks changed, winter coming. 

Winter. 

Worst season ever. 

Rain and sleet and cold.

Worst combination ever. 

Winter.

Not even the holidays can compensate for your damp, dark and dreary days.

Why must I lose all feeling in my metacarpals and 'tarsals?

5 hours of sunlight because it's

Winter

I don't actually do poetry, but you get the gist.

Come what may and love it!!! Haha. I know it probably sounds like I'm being my typical brat self, but I know I'm doing EVERYTHING I am suppose to be doing. Heavenly Father is blessing me, I know he will yet bless me even more and that some blessings won't come in this life and I have to be ok with that because I love and trust Him. The logic of man must be pushed aside and simply choose to have faith. So I'm going to do that.

Hm, I feel much better now. Here you go, I love this one:

"The disciple will be puzzled at times too, but he persists. Later he rejoices over how wonderfully things fit together. Realising only then that with God, things never were apart." -Neil A Maxwell

I'm getting Sister Beard, new learning experiences to come in the future with her. She is from Missouri and went to BYU! Good news! Sister Baisden is coming really close by! So excited, hopefully we will go on exchanges! We have to.

Sister Emi Doncheva

Emi's Thirty-Sixth Email! October 19, 2015

We had a sisters thing last week, it wasn't as I anticipated it would be, but it was nice to see the friends. 

Uh we had street displays, I made more cookies (this time a peanut butter and jelly biscuit type thing) and some soup for the district. 

I finally learned "Sweet Hour of Prayer" on the piano but it's a lot harder to play when people are singing haha, and I can't learn anymore songs because I don't know what the other fancy symbols mean. 

We met with an Italian lady who made us pizza, yum. Sister Barbaro was just going off. 

We did a lot of service this week which is always a pleasure, a joy beyond measure. Gardening, decorations, painting and cleaning. The works. 

A member got married this week. She is a month older than me...very happy for the new couple. 

We have someone new dated for baptism, so we will see how that goes. He is very enthused about the gospel.

Main highlight really was that I met some people that mama met in La Jolla two weeks ago, it was crazy. They are the nicest people too. They own a bread company and hooked it up with some of the nicest bread-yum. But they also made me realize they don't have sourdough bread in England..They want us over sometime for tea which I'm super excited about. Not by chance this is exactly where they're from and they went to exactly where I'm from to have met my mama.

Well, I'm grateful for the testimony I've got and the opportunity I have to strengthen it each day as I share it with everyone even if they claim to have no time or are not interested. I know this church is true. I especially am grateful for The Book of Mormon. If I ever start to second guess anything that is beyond my own comprehension, I take a step back and think I know the Book of Mormon is true, that means everything else has to be as well. The beauty is when finally everything else just fits together eventually and makes you a happier and better person. I know it.

Please pray for my friends Sister Cristobal and Sister Miller. 

Top 10

1) The bread couple

2) Rob dated for baptism

3) Sister's thang

4) President set a challenge to re-read the BOM by the end of the year. I like challenges. You should do it too. Oh and it's good timing because I just finished reading it for the first time on my mission this week. The scriptures from President Braizer have been perfect.

5) Sister Barbaro helping me learn patience (counting to 10 before I do my normal flip out)

6) Service

7) Soup there it is

8) Learnt a song

9) Oldham Ward for life. I love Bishop's family

10) Italians

Happy birthday on Friday to Cole Castellanooooo

Sister Emi Doncheva