Hello everyone!!!!!! It is a wonderful p-day here in Lancaster England! The area is stunning and exactly what you imagine when you think of England!!! So much good stuff has happened in the past week! I didn't email last week because I was leaving the MTC to come out to the mission field so sorry about that! Leaving the MTC was rough... I had to say goodbye to a lot of really amazing people but I am so excited to finally be out and working! Like the title says... my companion and I were whitewashed (which just means that we are both brand new to the area, rather than having one who has been here and knows the way around) so it has made for a pretty exciting and eventful week!!! My companion is Sister Menlove from Payson UT and she's been on her mission for about 10 months and she is AMAZING!!! We get along great and we work well together. I am just having the best time!
So many things have happened. I like don't even know where to begin!! There are a few rules here in my mission that make me pretty sad and two of them being that I am not allowed to email back until the following week, which actually isn't that bad, but sorry mom and dad! And the second one being that we are only allowed to take pictures on Monday!! So sad because this place is breathtaking and I know pictures can't even do it justice but I'd like to try!!! So next week I'll try and send all my pictures home from today! I only cover one ward and it has about 80-90 active members that attend every Sunday so that's pretty different from back home!
I feel so bad because I really don't even know what to say except that I am just having the time of my life. The work is slowly building up as we've been here a few days and been able to actually get some investigators and stuff. But I have two very special people to tell you about! Helen..... Oh, Helen! She's this super nice lady we met in the park one night my first day here and she said we could come by on Friday and share a message with her! Yay!!!! BUT we get to her flat (apartment) and it seriously looks like a prison and we find out she is mentally handicap and has some real issues... like she related Jesus Christ and God to Santa and his reindeer and how they deliver presents. SO WEIRD! You kind of just had to be there. But despite all of her issues, she is so kind and loving and I know that our Heavenly Father loves her and that’s all that matters. It was pretty great... my first real lesson with someone and it was totally NOT what we were expecting! Bless her hahaha. The next very special someone is Jerry. Jerry the jerk. We don't actually know if this is his real name but we were knocking doors one very cold and rainy day and this big bald man opens his door and before we even say anything he starts just going off and saying some really awful things about Christians and how "women like you guys need to be slaughtered" and just kept going. Then he slammed his door so we were walking away and he opens is back up and yells super loud "AND GO BACK TO AMERICA" along with some other not very pleasant things. It was great I was actually laughing really hard because I don't even know where it came from!!! Oh well, maybe he was just having a bad day or something....
That's about it! Sorry, I don't have more but I love you all and I am so thankful for all of you guys and your love and support! Have a jolly good week and I'll catch ya later!
Cheerio!!!
Sister Washburn
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