Nice picks of Chief mountain that you took with Grandma Fisher. I forgot how big it is. I can't wait to find out what grandma sent me. I'll be sure to take pictures of whatever it is when I get it. If she sent it to the mission home then the mission home doesn't contact us about packages. They bring all the packages to big missionary gatherings for the missionaries to pick up and take back to their area. So if grandma says it's at the mission home then I'll get it at moves (transfers) this Wednesday.
Kaitlyn already sent me the wedding invitation photos. They look really good. I can't wait for the big day!
Tell Britt to send me some photos from her trip. And tell her that she's spoiled.
I did get a new camera. It's a Canon PowerShot SX160 IS and it takes the same card and same battery as my last one so I got lucky. Especially because it was half price. It's a nice camera; It was £89.
Funny story about the birthday cake that you had delivered to our flat. It arrived to our flat on the one day that we had to leave the flat early. They couldn't leave it there or with a neighbor because it requires a signature. Instead of leaving it at the post office directly below our flat they sent it to Bracknell to be picked up. We don't have the time to go all the way to Bracknell so we had it re-sent to the post office and we'll pick it up today.
I'm moving to Romsey and my new companion's name is Elder Wilson. Another American.
( Note: After getting Elder Fishers e-mail I researched Romsey to add: Romsey is a small market town in the county of Hampshire, England. Romsey lies on the River Test, which is famous for fly fishing, predominantly trout.
Romsey Abbey was founded in 907. Nuns, led by Elflaeda daughter of Edward the Elder, son of Alfred the Great, founded a community — at his direction — in what was then a small village. Later, King Edgar refounded the nunnery, about 960, as a Benedictine house under the rule of St. Ethelflaeda whose devotional acts included chanting psalms while standing naked in the cold water of the River Test.
The Vikings sacked Romsey in 993, burning down the church. But the village recovered, and the abbey was rebuilt in stone in about 1000.
The Normans built the large current abbey that dominates the town (between c. 1120 and 1140) on the site of the original Saxon church. By 1240, 100 nuns lived in the convent.
King Henry I granted Romsey its first charter. This allowed a market to be held every Sunday, and a four-day annual fair in May. In the 13th century, Henry III permitted an additional fair in October.
Romsey continued to grow and prosper until plague struck the town in 1348-9. The Black Death is thought to have killed up to half of the Romsey's population of 1000. The number of nuns fell as low as 19. Prosperity never returned to the abbey. It was finally suppressed by Henry VIII during the Dissolution of the Monasteriesin 1539. Many religious buildings were destroyed during this time.
Sadler's Mill)
The investigators are doing good. Martin and Steph are doing good and still progressing. We met with Dean briefly and set up an appointment for this week. We asked how his reading was going and he said he thinks the Book of Mormon is true and that it gives him a good comforting feeling. Hopefully he'll end up on a mission. We also have a new investigator named David. He's 56 and he's a really nice guy. He was taught 20 years ago in Australia and we met him on the street in Wokingham. He enjoys our visits and says we are a real blessing. He thinks the Book of Mormon is true but is not sure about baptism yet. He wants to think about it and find out if this is the only right church for him.
The poncho pilot thing we just did on our own. Every time I hear "Pontios Pilot" I always think it sounds like "poncho pilot". So one day i did quick little sketch and my companion and I thought it would make a good poster. And then Elder Brown mentioned that his sister can colour it in photoshop so I decided to do a bigger sketch for her to colour. Elder Brown is planning on sending the mug and the t-shirt to his sister as a birthday gift and I'm keeping the poster. If you want a t-shirt you can just take the picture I sent you to a printing place that does t-shirts with a usb or something. That's what we did.
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