Emi's Sixteenth Email! June 1st, 2015

Ok, not going to lie. Pretty dang over emailing. Except for those few regulars who fill me in on life, please keep 'em coming. Other than that, think I might just shorten emailing to an hour or something, it's lammeeee.

I can't really remember too much that happened this week.

Ate some pot-pourri thinking it was candy in a Chinese restaurant bathroom. 

Stan and Ellen have disappeared. 

Someone said my glasses looked like their grandma's- got absolutely zero support from my district. They all just laughed. Where's the support?? hah. 

There's a huge Romanian community- where the Bulgs at? But seriously.

Hope that Dennis had a good birthday. We're all getting so old. 

Oh, Peace asked me to hold on to his "hay fever" (allergy) medication for him. Told him I wasn't his mom and he said, "It's alright, you can still take care of me." Oh what a tender spirit, of course I will Peace!

Other than that, figured it was about time for some lingo update!! The jargon here is wack.

Ta- thank you

Braid- French braid

Plat- braid

Finge- bangs

Take the Mickey (as in Mickey Mouse)- mock/ridicule

Sleeping policeman- speed bumps

Lorry- semi-truck

Jim-jams- pjs

To let- for rent (but always looks like toilet missing the "i")

Estates- neighbourhood

Garden- front/backyard

Torch- flashlight (reallll confusing on that one)

Specs- glasses

Bonnet- hood (of car)

Boot- trunk (of car)

Gherkins- pickles

Pickles- pickled onion

Pram- stroller

Hoover- vacuum

Diary- calendar (also confusing)

Brolly- umbrella (Rihanna would disagree)

Zed- the letter "z"

Trolly- shopping cart

Braces- suspenders

That's good enough for now. Weren't expecting that were you. Oh, they put really good cream on all their cakes. I'm alllll about that. My cake goes swimming in that cream.

Oh and Happy almost b-day to Amber Thorton and Amber Hutchinson!

But yeah. Things are good when you let them be. Just gotta keep trucking on and working to be the best I can be. (Haha Pan's at the library right now). I don't know how people can get by everyday without utilizing the Atonement. I need Christ soooo much everyday in my life and need that strength. That's the urge that we have to share it. But the knowledge and joy that comes with that fact that he lives just makes everyday so much more enjoyable as well. I'm grateful to be in here in Hyde working with Sister Warren and for the trust we can all have in relying on Christ. This church is true. I know it.

Hope you all have a good week!

TOP TEN

10) Ben and Jerry ice cream!! Rarity, for 2£ babyy

9) Bishop's hard work and example

8) The Lees got us a box of Orville Reddenbocker, it's almost gone...

7) Jitterbug family having us over

6) Peace teaching US the after baptism lessons

5) Lees taking us to the Carvery and the privilege it is to spend any time with them

4) Plum recommitting to baptism. Things have got to get real

3) Peace passing the sacrament!!!

2) Apparently there's a heat wave coming, not sure what that means to the Brits, but I'm ready for it.

1) Sister Warren. I can learn so much from her if I let her. Haha, she heart attacked all my stuff. Apparently it's a sister missionary thing to write each other notes. I'm not about that. These things were EVERYWHERE. Told her it  was kinda creepy haha

 So they think they can sing

 Last day for the Pews. So glad we caught them! 

They are amazing

 Looked cooler in person

 Cleaning crew

 Carvery with the Lees

 The mood was right

 Doesn't even know where he got it from

 Peace

 Rascals

 Peace back at it

 Elder Lee, doing better

 Chasing rainbows

In detail

Emi's Fifteenth Email! May 26th, 2015

Another good week. I always feel like so much happens, it's always overwhelming. 

So I was thinking recently of all those trips Bishop Roberts planned that always sounded like a really fun activity, but then they always end up being 10x harder than described. (Nice lil hike to some waterfalls ends up being a trek up and down the Grand Canyon to huge waterfalls, we also hiked to and stayed in creepy Indian motels). We all agreed to do it and always ended up finding ourselves pushing boundaries we didn't even know existed and getting close to one another as we experienced those things together. I was starting to think these adventures were pre-planned to be difficult on his part. And I'm glad they were. I know like those activities, I'll be so glad to have done this, I'm just trying to find a way to enjoy the effort along the way.

There were mannnnnnny things I didn't know were entitled in regards to serving a mission. Many things are difficult and I know no one says it's going to be easy, but wow, sometimes I just really get down on myself and work myself up for no reason except to cause self-afflictions. That is when I turn to the Lord the most, and seek to have that charity and really get caught up in helping others, not myself. I'm grateful the Savior can help me do so, otherwise I would be very useless for the rest of my time here.

Oh, also, seeing as we're out of the worldly loop, I'm not too distracted by some of the things I've heard recently, but more so curious as to if they're true...

-First-off, is The Alamo happening again?

-Is BYU allowing beards??? PLEASE NOOOOOO

-So I've weighed about 125 back home before and that's about how much I do now. WHY then, do I almost have a double chin?! Sure, maybe I should weigh 120, but I shouldn't have to suffer with this being over only 5 lbs!

-Oh haha, this is more of a side note, but people here don't always (and understandably) know U.S. geography well, but a lady we were teaching was talking about how weed was made legal in some states including San Diego and I was trying to explain that San Diego was just a city, but then she was like "Right, if California is in San Diego, then it's legal there too." Think she missed the point, but is that true as well?

Top Ten

10) Heard a song I really like from back home...

9) Manchester Museum

8) There are these kids here -not to be offensive- but they are considered to be "cool" and they are boys who carry these mini purse type things. They try to act soooo hard and I try very hard not to mock them

7) Peace taking us to KFC was the best

6) A member's son is gnarly at the piano, he competes in Warsaw. He played Khutchaturian by Toceta for us... seriously amazing

5) Members Pawn and Senny Panty had all us missionaries over to help their kids with a missionary opportunity and they even went out to work with us for a bit. That never happens. It was so special.

4) Everything the Lees and our District does for us

3) The Temple trip

2) Peace got the priesthood!

1) Pan got baptized! So proud of him. You wouldn't believe the change in him

 Fallin asleep on member's grandchildren since day one- whoops

 Sister B's new comp and Sister Bevans going home!

 Saying bye to Sis B.

 Staging saying bye, not the same. 

But things got emotional (P.S. check the watch)

 1st day with Sister W.

 A park nearby/ the jungle

 First day unprepared in the rain- at least it wasn't cold!

 Oh what

 Petersens hit it off again

 Dolly and Sister Petersen- love them

 So posh

 Cute-cumbers

 Peace getting domestic on us...

 ...or feminine

 At the Lees!

 Candids...

 ...for days

 The crew- so fun!

 Reliving the moment. Sorry Peace

 Happy birthday Elder Harris!

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Haven't taken a screenshot in a year (old phone was garbage)

Fam

The whiskers!

Fam

Bam

So fun!

Waving bye to Elder Lee

P-day... it happens

Lunch with Ellen and Stan

Chillin

The new District

 Exchanges

 Sorry, I'm way too over makeup, not happening

 Sis Djjikaij from Albania

 Peace took us all to KFC and treated. Too nice

 Panty family's son who worked with us for a bit

 Took Sis Warren to Sweet for the first time!!

 Got a lil lost

 Never happens. Felt so good

 It's better than you'd think

 Pan's baptism!!!

 Proud of Pan

 Lilo a recent convert baptized Pan!

 So tender

 O.G. crew

 Peace signing in his code name. He's the best

 Peace got the Priesthood!!

 Peace hugging the temple

 The more missionaries the merrier

 Sis Schwab!!

 Us in action figure form

 Peace the future missionary!!

 The Nephites in the Manchester Museum

 Wow we look creepy

Archies. Sorry Sweet...