2 Weeks in one....November 27, 2013

Here are Elder Butterfield's emails from last week and this.....


Who says you can't sit and cook at the same time...

 November 18, 2013

well i forgot to write in my journal for a couple of days so itll be kinda short, on tuesday we had a district meeting and then helped blackburn with their AUFs, wednesday practically all of our plans fell through, thursday we had weekly planning and then we visited our friend, friday we were going to play sports with our friend but he wasnt feeling too good so that kinda fell through so on the way back to our flat we were throwing the football around and i had an amazing catch in the middle of the road. on saturday we had tea with a less-active member and we ended up helping him with a 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle, sunday we went to see our friend again and helped cheer him up.

November 27, 2013

Last tuesday we had a tea appointment and then had a coordination meeting, wednesday we had a zone meeting in chorley and then when we were heading back to our flat we came across a fight. thursday we had weekly planning, friday we decided to move our couch downstairs but forgot to have someone on the other side so we ended up getting stuck upstairs for a while, saturday we had a special stake conference in chorley, sunday we had stake conference in chorley and also on saturday i found out that i am staying in rossendale valley with elder rodgers.. WOOHOO Christmas!, monday we went to help our friend move to his new flat, tuesday we helped our friend with moving some more of his stuff and then went to my doctors appointment in preston... oh yeah and i saw a ferrari

November 11, 2013...American Football and chance to see a good friend, Elder Leiva!

November 11, 2013

Tuesday we had a zone meeting and on the way back i got to see.... ELDER LEIVA!! i was so excited but our train had pulled up so i had to get on and unfortunately i couldnt get a picture or talk to him but i got to give him a hug. It was guy fawkes night so we had to be in by 5.

Wednesday we had to go on an exchange with the zone leaders and i ended up going to chorley 4 with Elder Bahr, we had our mormon.org hour and 2 appointment fell through within half an hour, also Elder Bahr got the car stuck on a kerb (curb) which was pretty embarrasing, then we had a tea appointment.

Thursday we exchanged back and had weekly planning.

Friday we had an exchange with the district leader and i stayed in Rawtenstall with Elder Tuioti who is the district leader. We went and saw one of our investigators and i helped fix his laptop for him. Then we went and saw his friend who has pet snakes and spiders yuck!

Saturday we exchanged back and went to go see our friend again.

Sunday we went again to see our friend but he wasn’t in so we went to go see a member and he also wasn’t in... on the bright side we got to see an american style mustang.

***The picture on left is Mike, covered in mud after a fun game of American football! 

November 4, 2013-Halloween costume this year.....MISSIONARY!

November 4, 2013,

Tuesday there was a lot of rain and hail, we are also now teaching someone who has been taught by missionaries before.

Wednesday we went and saw a less active and then we got a call from a member that sounded urgent and we ended up talking to their friend and now we are teaching him as well.

Thursday i had my 1st halloween on my mission.. just 1 more to go haha and we also had to be in by 5 and then we got picked up to go to our tea appointment and we ended up playing uno at that members home and elder rodgers gave candy to the trick or treaters that came to their door.

Friday we were finally able to buy some food.

Sunday we had church and then we ended up going to see a friend of ours and we talked to him and set up an appointment with him to throw around the football because he loves america

 

 

October 28, 2013....Eating Air!

Sorry there was no post last week, but Elder Butterfield sent a "nothing much has happened yet, love my new area" noninformational email, so I didn't post it.  In the email I sent him this week, I told him that no more of the "nothing much happened yet" emails were allowed or he would be fired!  haha.....luckily, this week's email has a little more substance...

October 28, 2013,

Wednesday we got a new investigator.

Thursday we had to go to chorley for a skills training and we have run out of funds so we have to walk everywhere and eat air.

Friday we planned for the upcoming week and while we were planning it was sunny out and as soon as we left the flat to go to our appointment it started pouring rain... i got completely soaked because our appointment was 30 min. away and we had to walk and when we got there we were 45 min. early so we had to wait in the rain with the lightning, Saturday elder rodgers and i had to wake up at 5 to clean the baptismal font for the baptism of the sisters investigator... i was so dead!

Sunday all of the talks were about missionary work and then after church i got to ride in a convertible BMW

October 17, 2013 ....Goodbye to Colwyn Bay

October 17, 2013

 

GOODBYE TO COLWYN BAY...



I was transferred... i am now currently in Rossendale Valley which is in the Blackburn district in the Chorley Zone.  My new companion is Elder Rodgers.

 

Wednesday of last week     

 
 week we had a lesson that was only supposed to last for 10 minutes last for at least an hour and the man didn’t want us to leave.
Saturday is when i found out that i was getting transferred.

 

Sunday there was a missionary musical fireside in Rhyl and afterwards they had food and we hung out with the Rhyl YSA which are all amazing, michaela, jordan, and worm girl hahaha.

Monday we went to pizza hut for lunch and then we went to an investigator who didn’t want us to leave and then we went and saw another investigator who didn’t want us to leave.

Tuesday was my final day in Colwyn Bay so we saw a lot of members.

Wednesday was my first day in Rossendale Valley.

October 7, 2013....Random Acts of Kindness

October 7, 2013,

Friday we went to our tea appointment. When we went to catch the bus back to our flat one of the people that we talked to last week whose wheel fell off, gave us a ride to the roundabout and seems interested in learning about the gospel.  Also the gaerwen elders car had a flat tire so porthmadog had to give them a lift to our flat… so we had 6 elders in our flat that night... talk about no room haha.

Saturday elder coleman and elder pywell went to a district leader council meeting and porthmadog drove elder nielson and i to bangor to pick up gaerwens car and take it to get a new tire.  Then elder nielson and i drove to the chester chapel to pick up elder coleman and elder pywell, then we went to gaerwen for the saturday morning general conference session.

Sunday we went to Rhyl for general conference.

***Just a little note...Isn't it neat that Elder Butterfield and Elder Coleman were helped by someone they helped a few weeks ago? 

 

September 30, 2013

 

Wow  i look forward to seeing the Mena 1st ward when i get home haha.

Tuesday i had a sore throat and elder coleman and elder pywell had to go to manchester so i was with elder nielson, at the end of the night as we were walking around a woman came up to us and asked if we had a pamphlet for her so we gave her a restoration pamphlet.

Wednesday we had a district meeting and then we had a tea appointment with a recent convert who took us to an all you can eat restaurant and then we went to the chapel and participated in the YMYW activity and there were 2 nonmembers there as well.

Thursday we tried by some potentials and couldnt find one of them and when we found him we were able to set up a return appointment with him for the next day, then one of his neighbors came out and we found out that he had been taught 30 years earlier and we talked to him and invited him to church and he said that he would think about it and said that he thinks that we are an answer to his prayer he said 30 years earlier, then we went and taught 2 investigators and invited them to church and they said that they would come to church. 

Friday we went to penrhyn bay and later came back so that we could get our new shower and we met the neighbor of the potential from the night before on the doorstep again and talked to him and then our appointment with the potential fell through.

Saturday we went to Llandulas and were able to give away 2 copies of the BoM. 

Sunday we had church and then a tea appointment in Deganwy.