We are already anticipating the Christmas season. We are hoping to have a wonderful celebration with our missionaries. In addition, we know that you will want to send Christmas gifts to your children. Could you please send all packages to the Mission Office? Last year, some of our missionaries received their gifts at their flats. Unfortunately for some, once the postman left the package, someone came by and stole everything. More than one returned to their flat to find an empty box sitting in front of their door. By sending your parcels to the Mission Office, someone will always be there to receive it and place it in a secure location. We shall distribute the packages throughout the mission, and they will receive them in their assigned areas sometime before Christmas.
The office address is:
Elder Eric M. Boothe
England London South Mission
The London Temple
West Park Road, Newchapel
Surrey RH7 6NBEngland
Eric's Email:
Picture 1- District picture
Picture 2- A Snowman that someone built on the common. :D!
Picture 3- A picture from our window. This is a lot of snow for London!
Oh my DAYS have I got a lot to tell everyone! For starters I have less time to write emails this week, so this might be a shorter length than required to portray the events of the last week. Here goes.
Well, it's really snowy here! And even though London had quite a bad winter last year, they still aren't prepared for snow! :D So the last 2 days or so everything has kind of been all over the place. Our bishop asked us to go and get rid of the snow at the chapel, but they didn't have any shovels so we just threw grit salt everywhere. :) I don't think they have invented snow shovels over here because I haven't seen one. Everyone is just using garden spades and stuff like that, haha. And I think they said a third of all train services in London yesterday were delayed or canceled, so everyone is in a tizzy (That sounds like a British word but I don't think it really is a word at all.).
As for moves day, it was SUPPOSED to be on Wednesday, remember? Well, it wasn't, and last week they moved it to today. Is it today? No, no it is not. Is it tomorrow? Don't ask me, I have no idea. It's been delayed as well, because the new missionaries can't get from the MTC to the Temple down here because of all the snow! So moves day could possibly be tomorrow, or it could possibly be on Monday, or it could even possibly be sometime after that, who knows? But I'll send another email on the day it is and let you know who's moving where. So the reason I'm emailing today is because we've been granted 2 hours of P-day today to email home and buy food because we have none and we don't want to starve. That's one of the tender mercies I suppose, haha.
Let's see, the guy I told you about last time who was preparing to be baptised is still preparing for this Saturday! So hopefully I'll be here to see it because that would be really cool.
The last few days have been crazy in a lot of ways. Because of the snow messing everything up, because people are feeding us a lot, maybe even too much sometimes. I had 4 meal appointments in one day, and I felt like I was going to explode. Luckily I didn't, and luckily the food was all very tasty, but I think I've gained about 10 pounds in the last 3 days! :D Also it's been crazy because lots of other things that I don't have time to explain about right now, but trust me! :)
Phew, well happy December to everyone and I'll hopefully be in touch in a few days. I love you guys, and will talk to you later! Bye!!
