Wicked Wendy 2

Hello everyone.

Glad to hear everything is still doing good over there. Good to hear that you all are keeping busy. And happy fathers day! Hope you had a good one. Justin's going to love having a job (or at least the part where you get your own spending money from it). $14 an hour sounds good! And he'll love being able to drive. Don't worry once he gets his license he'll practice a lot more. I miss driving. You can sell my car though, I don't like the idea of it not being used for so long and someone else may really want an old toyota. Besides, I still really want a mini and it would be a good chance to have a new car. I'm not expecting you to buy one but keep an eye out for one for me. And tell justin that he doesn't have to give in to peer pressure. It's okay if he likes big trucks but he should be more open minded. Maybe he needs to watch some topgear. That might help. But if he's willing to pay for his own gas maybe he can find out for himself if it's worth it.

There's not much I can tell you this week as my companion and I have been sick for a collective two and a half days. I'm slowly getting familiar with the members here. I've been able to meet some of them at church but it's a lot easier to get to know them if we meet with them personally and we've only had one dinner appointment since I arrived here. I think that's where we got the sickness. We thought it was food poisoning from something we ate the night before but apparently the family we visited all got the same illness as us. We think it was just a bug. So apart from being stuck in our flat for a few days we also had a lot of plans cancelled so we mostly did street contacting and knocking. The area is a nice area but it's taking longer to adjust because I've hardly met any of the members formally and I've only met once with the investigators that I know of. I want to go through the area book to get a good idea about what people we are teaching. Unfortunately this aria book looks like another out of date one.

My new shoes are holding up well. We still do a lot of walking in this area but not as much as my last one. I like Romsey so far. I still haven't got grandma's package yet because the zone leader were late to "district leader council" or something so I'll get it at zone training on the 18th. I'd better send you some pictures now. This first one is of the abbey from our flat. I think we'll go there today for more pictures.

We went to this nice milkshake shop and they had hundreds of flavours. Here's two of the more interesting ones...

random stuff

Some stuff from my sketch book...

Trying out the new camera

Hello how are you? 

So first of all last week I said I got a Canon PowerShot SX160 IS. My mistake it's actually a Canon PowerShot SX170 IS. ​I like it. I think my new camera takes too nice quality pictures because I can only send two at a time.

We did get the cake and it was fine, it wasn't hard. It tasted just fine; it didn't last long...

It's good to hear that Britt enjoyed her trip. Those are some nice pictures. I'm also glad to hear that she will finally be working. Now you need to talk Justin into getting a job. If he still wants a big truck he's going to need to make lots of money.

The new area is really cool. We go to the Winchester ward and it seems like a really nice ward.

My new companion is Elder Wilson from Arizona. He has a strange obsession with the colour red. He's been out for 14 months.

I thought they were going to bring Grandma Fisher's packages to moves (transfers) but apparently they don't do that any more. Probably because at moves everyone already has loads of stuff to carry. But I should be getting it tomorrow because my companion is the district leader and he goes to district leader training meeting so they should bring it there.

My new address is:

74B The Hundred Romsey, 

Hants England

S051 8BX

I've got a few other pictures I'll try to send you.

Not sure how this got here. Maybe it's a barrel for shipping? But why?

Here's the truck Justin needs to buy

This was in Winchester.

 And finally, this looks like something off of TopGear.. (British TV show)

Transfer to Romsey

Hello good to hear from you once again.

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. 

Happy Birthday Feast

Hello people!

Thanks for your birthday wishes. I'm e-mailing today because yesterday was ANOTHER bank holiday. I'm sure everyone loves bank holidays except for missionaries. I did get Grandpas birthday card. I did not get the cake yet but I'm sure it's on it's way. I've been having cake at other peoples houses lately so it's good that I have time to digest it before more cake arrives. The Thaires had me over for my birthday and we had cake and their kids made me a really nice card. (as seen below)

The Stimsons (Martin and Steph) also gave us some cake a few days before. They are doing good. Martin has cut his drinking in half and Steph has quit and is working on quitting smoking.

It's been a long week. I can hardly remember what we did this week. The beginning of the week has been hectic and busy but then it really slowed down so everything seems all jumbled up in my head.

The poster I told you about a few weeks ago is done. I'll send some pictures in another e-mail. Credit to Elder Brown for all the pictures this week. 

Actually there are a lot of pictures this week. Mostly from yesterday. We spent the whole p-day celebrating and cooking up an epic birthday meal. We have no more money for the rest of the month because we spent it all on this one meal. Remember that sandwich Braedon and I made? I told Elder Brown about it and he wanted to try it. But we decided to make it even better. We also added some stuff on the side. We took plenty of pictures so those will come in another e-mail as well. I've only got 9 minutes left so we'll see if I can get them ready for this week. If not you may have to wait for next week. But here's a McLaren.

Tell me if you get the joke.

Birthday Feast  --   The ingredients.

The process begins. Two quarter pound patties (one beef, one chicken) with cheese between and then wrapped in 7 strips of bacon.

next we batter and deep-fry the whole thing.

Now follow along as we put it all together.

completion!

The final product. complete with deep fried twix, snickers, and ferrero rocher. Elder Brown actually finished his!

Blessings From On High

Note from the editor:

OK before I go into Brandon's letter.......I am getting the blog done very early because its a holiday Monday and i don't have to wait till after work to do it. (This wont be the norm from now on)  This blog is a King Lamoni story in a smaller scale. Read the story in the Book of Mormon. (Alma chapter 17,18,19) The missionaries go into an area with no investigators, teach the king and because everyone knows the king many are taught. Like I said in a smaller scale though) Also a great story of the Lord providing for his servants. Note whenever you see some brackets (..........) that's my comments

Enough of me ......No on to Elder Fisher's letter.

Hey there everyone.

I love the idea of the retro photo each week. (We are starting to send Elder Fisher pictures of the kids way back, funny pictures that may had been forgot...1 or 2 each email) Still haven't got a camera but I'll look for one today.

This week was a pretty good week. We had a lot of people at church on Sunday. Still working with Martin and Steph. They will take some time to progress because of the many concerns but they are doing good and are still feeding us. Most of our investigators that we are teaching right now came from them. They seem to know everyone. We met a less active through them and she's trying to turn her life around. She came to church and really enjoyed it and she's reading her scriptures like crazy. We have other really good potential investigators as well that we are trying to set appointments with. Many of them are busy. We managed to meet one this week finally named Dean. He approached us on the street! It was like two months ago but we finally got in contact with him. We later found out that he knows Steph. He wants to become a missionary and asked what he had to do. We told him we could help him but he's moving to Australia soon. Hopefully we can teach him everything before then and if not the missionaries in Australia will have to take care of him. 

We have a pretty busy week planned ahead of us. The past couple of weeks have gone by fast. This area is starting to come alive. Hopefully I can walk fast enough...

We went to the Davanzo's this week for the second time. They are members within our ward boundaries but they go to a different ward so we decided to get to know them. They are super nice! They love to feed us. After we left their house we got a call from them. 

-Sister Davanzo said "Elder Fisher how many pairs of shoes do you have?" 

-I said "One good pair."

-"And I'm guessing they're not the ones you were wearing today are they?"

-"Actually they are."

-"Come back to our house as soon as you can."

After the appointment we had at the time we stopped by on the way home. They gave me two new (hardly used) pairs of shoes and £30 to buy another pair. They didn't notice my busted camera though...

Please continue to have fun and I'll talk to you next week!

Happy Mothers Day

Thank you to the members over there in Crowthorne who allowed Elder Fisher and Elder Brown to use their Ipad so that we could spend an hour Skyping Elder Fisher. He looks so good and so happy. He said he doesn't miss home and he's doing very well.
For those who are wondering, he has No English accent so far. Still sounding Canadian. It was great to see him so happy. It was even nice to see his companion Elder Brown and chat with him. Very nice gentleman.

Because we had an hour to talk with him he only sent pictures to us Sunday so here's the pictures.

The Thairs kids and I...: seeing who can make the scariest face:

Me with the puppies! We are so cute together. If you don't love puppies you are in fact a villain.

Below is the best breakfast I've ever made: Chocolate pancakes with strawberries  banana, and chocolate milk to drink.

And here is the most epic picture I've taken so far with my camera. Also the last picture I took before it broke. Possibly too epic for my camera to handle. View with caution.

Mothers Day

(Sorry everyone for being late with Brandon's Blog. With the holiday over there and Justin's rugby game here i haven't been able to get it posted till now.) 


Hey so............was another bank holiday so the library was closed. That's why I'm e-mailing today. 

I'm excited for Sister Fisher's mission! I'm so exited! When does she report to the MTC? I guess I can get all the details when we Skype on mothers day. We will have to do it in the morning before church (for you). It will be after church for me. Probably 2:00 here and 7:00 where you are. I hope that works. Some members will be bringing a laptop/iPad to the church for us to Skype on after the meetings.

I enjoyed hearing about Shelly Hill's acquaintance in Lethbridge that has a sister that lives over here. Sounds like Sister Lynnstickles? who takes our Book of Mormon class. We have a Book of Mormon study class every Sunday at 4:00 for members and investigators. Maybe something you can try at the Claresholm ward. We've been trying to get more activities for people to bring their friends at the Bracknell ward and we've been asking members for ideas and encouraging them to organize it (because us missionaries can't really do much organizing). Do any of you have some good ideas? One thing our ward does is a monthly quiz night. Elder brown said his last ward did a monthly fitness night. I thought that would be a cool idea.

I've been working on a sketch on my free p-day hours and Elder Brown's sister does art on the computer so we're getting her to colour it and we will make a poster. Hopefully next p-day we'll have time to take it to a printing place.

 I'm curious to know if you've all been checking out the areas I've served in on Google maps street view much. Check out some of the houses in Finchhamstead. I think Ringo Star lived in one of those houses. You can check up on that though. Talk to you on MOTHERS DAY!

Out of time now. See you Sunday!

A better picture of the trailer..