Hello Family and Friends,
Well news has got around that my family emails have been kinda lame!( Maegan)! So I'm gonna try and spice this one up with many interesting facts and side notes to explain in detail my many swashbuckling experiences!
I had my first driving lesson The other day. I think that by law you basically have to take at least one driving lesson but anyways it was pretty weird not only driving a car again ( which i haven't done in 11 months now) but also driving on the left side of the road and also having the wheel be on the right side of the car. Plus all the signs here are completely different and they barely even have any traffic lights its mostly just roundabouts! It was definatly what you might call a swashbuckling experience and i think my companion in the back seat was a bit nervous probably cause i didn't act nervous at all and my instructor yelled at me at least five times for speeding! How was i supposed to know there are speed cameras on like every corner and that if you even go 2 miles per hour over the limit they will take your picture! Its alright we made it our of there alive and we'll even be doing round 2 on Thursday!
We decided to climb what they call a Mountain ( really a large hill ) and were disappointed to find that it was too foggy to see anything! They told us that from the top of the hill you can get a sweet view of the sea!
Last Friday was Cam's baptism so that's the picture of Elder Lindsrom and I with those two kids ( the Taylor Family). The Ward here is like my Family and it is really gonna suck to leave them!
We had a Thanksgiving at Avril and Leightons it was awesome that giant red thing that i am hold is what the Brits call a Christmas cracker. you hold one end and have the person next to you hold the other end and then you pull and it pops and out comes a present and a Joke! Ya i know British People of some weird traditions! So next week i probably wont be emailing until like Tuesday or Thursday because of transfers. Which i am like 98% sure i am getting transferred! I'll Probably have to serve in England as well!
OK so I realized this Email is kinda boring so i guess I'll tell you a story...............
So there we were! It was MId autumn day, the leaves were falling as they tend to do in autumn time except for British autumns last like 2 days until all the leaves are just gone! But anyways there we were! Just knocking some doors as missionaries tend to do! I, being a Eagle Scout and always being prepared, was carrying a backpack ( rucksack in British) full of pamphlets about the plan of salvation and restoration.I like to hand out the pamphlets when we tract( knock doors). Well anyways there we were knocking doors! We start talking to this guy and to be honest i cant even remember what we talked about nor what he even looked like all i can remember is the whole time we were talking i kept receiving the prompting to give him a plan of salvation pamphlet. But me being a stubborn prideful man was using my own wisdom and based on what he was talking about decided that he needed to know about the restoration not the plan of salvation! so i reach into my backpack and find a restoration Pamphlet. Pause!
Now at this point I absolutely knew without a shadow of a doubt that when i reached into that rucksack i grabbed a restoration pamphlet and i knew that what was in my hand and what i was giving him was a restoration pamphlet!
Now unpause he says a couple more words and then i hand him the pamphlet! But the pamphlet that he received from me was a Plan of Salvation Pamphlet!! Not a RESTORATION! Ah man it was crazy! i almost pooped my pants after that!
Haha man I'm glad God helps me with this work haha cause i do some stupid things sometimes! God was gonna teach that guy the Plan of Salvation weather i liked it or not! haha no one can stop this work not even the weak kids who preach it all across the world. Makes me feel better knowing as long as i do my best things work out! God is Real and that was a Miracle! Maybe if you guys are good and send me lots of letters this month I'll share and even cooler experience!
Tara, Elder J Weihing
Monday, November 28, 2011
November 21, 2011 - Vanilla Chocolate
Not too exciting of a week this week guys. just continue to find people and teach everyone once in a while. no ne too solid yet but don't worry there will be. Good news though, today i bought a recorder so and i have already learned half of the song "Sweet Hour of Prayer" I'll basically be a pro by the time i come home. So that i can woo all the women with my sweet musical sounds from the recorder!I haven't come up with an awesome name for my recorder yet though so if you have any suggestions please email them too me so far the only one I can come up with is "Vanilla Chocolate"!
So I don't have any sweet stories to lay down this week but i decided to tell you I nightmare I had a couple weeks ago. Soin my nightmare we were teaching one of the Elect of God a lesson Called the Word of Wisdom ( you may of heard of it). Ya well there me and my companion were just sitting in her living room teaching the lesson when my companion begins to tell her how it is against the word of wisdom to eat cheese and begins to pull out a chart of different types of cheeses! He starts going through the whole chart and explains that blue cheese isn't against the word of wisdom but mozzarella is. So i run in there and start arguing with him and telling her that its not against the W.O.W you can eat as much cheese as you want, but she wasn't believing me she was believing him and then I woke up in a pile of sweat and tears! WOOOO! IT was a terrible nightmare!
Its OK though cause i learned a great lesson from it! We can look into any commandment we want. We can try and find loop holes and whats allowed and whats not allowed. The commandments give us a line and we can try to get close to the line all we want.... but lets face it , it's just better to stay as far away from that line as we can get!
Thanks for the letters grandma and Matthew! and to the rest of you..............
Elder J. Weihing
One Love
p.s send all my post to the birmingham address I'm 98% sure I'm moving on December 7th
So I don't have any sweet stories to lay down this week but i decided to tell you I nightmare I had a couple weeks ago. Soin my nightmare we were teaching one of the Elect of God a lesson Called the Word of Wisdom ( you may of heard of it). Ya well there me and my companion were just sitting in her living room teaching the lesson when my companion begins to tell her how it is against the word of wisdom to eat cheese and begins to pull out a chart of different types of cheeses! He starts going through the whole chart and explains that blue cheese isn't against the word of wisdom but mozzarella is. So i run in there and start arguing with him and telling her that its not against the W.O.W you can eat as much cheese as you want, but she wasn't believing me she was believing him and then I woke up in a pile of sweat and tears! WOOOO! IT was a terrible nightmare!
Its OK though cause i learned a great lesson from it! We can look into any commandment we want. We can try and find loop holes and whats allowed and whats not allowed. The commandments give us a line and we can try to get close to the line all we want.... but lets face it , it's just better to stay as far away from that line as we can get!
Thanks for the letters grandma and Matthew! and to the rest of you..............
Elder J. Weihing
One Love
p.s send all my post to the birmingham address I'm 98% sure I'm moving on December 7th
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
November 14, 2011
Well it has been very good week guys, Elder LIndstrom and I are going to bike up to a village called Rudry today and then we are going to see if we can find a herd of sheep up in the hills and then we are gonna try and ride them. Well atleast I am haha i dont think Elder Lindstrom wants to try it. Its basically the way the Welsh people Slap the Bull! I dont really have any cool stories to tell you guys this week sorry! So hopefully next week i will have some cooler pictures of the Welsh Hills and lots of Sheep!
Oh the picture of that tank thing is this weird thing that they do in Britain. THey stick their feet in this tak with these little fishes and the fishes eat their dirty feet and clean them off! Its flippin Weird!
Oh the picture of that tank thing is this weird thing that they do in Britain. THey stick their feet in this tak with these little fishes and the fishes eat their dirty feet and clean them off! Its flippin Weird!
November 7, 2011 - Remember Remember the 5th of November!
Hello family and friends,
Saturday was the fifth of november a day of fireworks and bomb fires! I was able to experience the best firework show i have ever seen in my entire life! Caerphilly Castle is the Best!
Oh by the way i never told you guys but a couple weeks ago Elder Lindstrom and I got pulled over by the coppers! We were running late for an appointment so had to bike on the dual carriage way ( basically a freeway) In the middle of the night! Oh ya and i forgot to mention that we forgot our bike lights hahaha! Ya that copper wasnt too happy, he was really chewing us apart. to be honest it was quiet annoying seeing as how the longer he talked to us the more late we were going to be. God didnt really want us to be late though so he decided to send our bishop. Bishop Jones " luckily" " just happened" to be driving on the same free way and saw that we were be pulled over by a cop. so he pulled over, calmed down the policeman, and gave us a ride to the appointment. We got to the appointment it time! dont worry we didnt get a ticket.
That picture i sent of the long piece of ice cream thingy. thats what the Brits call a Vieneta! And if God made anything better then he kept it to himself! Its basically heaven divided with thin pieces of chocolate! I decided to take one step thought and crammed it all into a glass and poured rootbeer into it. What i call a vieneta float. ( no they dont have rootbeer in britain and if you do find any it taste terrible, but i was able to get some quality A&W rootbeer from the martyn family)
Saturday was the fifth of november a day of fireworks and bomb fires! I was able to experience the best firework show i have ever seen in my entire life! Caerphilly Castle is the Best!
Oh by the way i never told you guys but a couple weeks ago Elder Lindstrom and I got pulled over by the coppers! We were running late for an appointment so had to bike on the dual carriage way ( basically a freeway) In the middle of the night! Oh ya and i forgot to mention that we forgot our bike lights hahaha! Ya that copper wasnt too happy, he was really chewing us apart. to be honest it was quiet annoying seeing as how the longer he talked to us the more late we were going to be. God didnt really want us to be late though so he decided to send our bishop. Bishop Jones " luckily" " just happened" to be driving on the same free way and saw that we were be pulled over by a cop. so he pulled over, calmed down the policeman, and gave us a ride to the appointment. We got to the appointment it time! dont worry we didnt get a ticket.
That picture i sent of the long piece of ice cream thingy. thats what the Brits call a Vieneta! And if God made anything better then he kept it to himself! Its basically heaven divided with thin pieces of chocolate! I decided to take one step thought and crammed it all into a glass and poured rootbeer into it. What i call a vieneta float. ( no they dont have rootbeer in britain and if you do find any it taste terrible, but i was able to get some quality A&W rootbeer from the martyn family)
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