Dear family,
So England is pretty epic. :) I have had a great week as well. Yesterday was transfer calls... I am in a four man flat and both Elder Timish (Wakefield) and Elder Henriksen (Horbury with me) are leaving and Elder Short and I are serving together in one big Wake-bury. (Don't try to reverse it.) Until our greenies get in that is! They come in on August 8 because they are in Provo right now
learning English! One is from France and the other is Romanian. :) I "dibs"d the Romanian, but President said that I wasn't aloud to dibs inspired transfers. Ha ha.
So I have some photos this week but I grabbed the wrong camera cord this morning so I guess that will have to wait until next week. These next few weeks are going to be
epic! We have a four man flat to ourselves! :) DIBS! (No battle!) "Dibs-ing" is a big thing in the district right now and battles are way fun. :) To battle when someone calls dibs you call battle. Then, the first one to clap under both knees (separately) and then to clap, then slap your opposite elbows (sort of through the clap), and then clap
backhanded, and touch your nose wins. It is really fun and we all respect the dibs so it is actually pretty useful. You can pretty much steal peoples stuff by dibsing it. Example: Someone unwraps a snickers. Dibs that snickers. Battle. I win, I get to eat it. It is pretty
fun. But anyway, I gots to go partake in the transfer Pday party in Huddersfield.
I love you all,
Elder Tombs
PS. Nope, I am not going to get to see any of the Olympics. But honestly, I am not really too bothered. So long as America wins. (Dibs!)
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
7.9.12
Dear Family,
So it looks like there is some pretty exiting stuff goin on in the home-land. This week has been pretty normal over here, we have had tons of rain. It is English rain - so sunny mornings, rainy afternoons, decent mid days, rainy evenings, and who knows what happens at night. But I bought a new umbrella so it was alright. Oh and I
planted some strawberries. A bit late in the season but who knows what will happen. July the forth occurred on a district meeting so we sang many patriotic hymns while there and went out for lunch at a Chinese buffet :) MM MM America! So it was pretty good, but no one knew over here that it was anything special. My B-day was good as well. We didn't do much but we had a really good tea appointment with the Wakefield missionaries. (Pics from that last week.) That is Epic that Sam is in France! Y'all should for defs give me the address to the mission there so I can write him. Oh this week I got told that I would be a perfect candidate for the Hitler youth by Jack the Ripper :) (That was interesting.) G2G till next time
Love,
Elder Tombs
PS- Kebab is delicious.
PS- Kebab is delicious.
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
7.3.12 Sightseeing Part III
More pictures……
I forgot to mention my buddy Nigel. See if you can pic out which pic is his. ( I will give you a hint, he is a bit of a stoner. :))
Love,
Elder Tombs
7.3.12 Sightseeing Part II
MMMmmmmm! Not quite cake and ice cream, but close enough & delicious enough for me! Oh also, Horbury has tons of nations flags hanging through the town center/centre in preparation for the Olympics. One day as we walked I spied with my little eye, TEXAS! Woot! Woot! (A double woot for greater celebration and emphasis.) There are no other state flags up by the way, just the one. :)
7.3.12 Sightseeing Part I
To my family,
So, as I think I mentioned, we got to see the Olympic torch last monday so that is what this vid is. Watch the one with the green van for the epic bike-man. Oh and nope not kabob, kebab. Delish meat stuff jammed into pita!
So, as I think I mentioned, we got to see the Olympic torch last monday so that is what this vid is. Watch the one with the green van for the epic bike-man. Oh and nope not kabob, kebab. Delish meat stuff jammed into pita!
Also this week was leadership training. As you can see I was happy to see my former companions again. :) OH and the one with shades is my current comp.
So this is my "kebabtism" (from way back in Gateshead). That is a kebab, but they can also be served as just meat and chips as shown here.
6.25.12
To my peeps,
So this week has been interesting in many ways. Well, first off I got to see the Olympic torch go through Wakefield this morning! :) (Oh and uh... no pics again this week... I took loads but the little cord is so hard to remember. But that was really fun and then we
went out for kebab! I love kebab! Listen y'all, we need to start a kebab shop in Lubbock. Put it right in between Coronado and Lubbock High, make it fairly cheep, and then load the place with fliers. These things would sell like hot cakes made of kebab! Open the second shop near campus. There are tons of good cheep kebab places in Wakefield, so it has been on my mind quite a bit lately. The only issue that I can foresee is that you might have to import your donor meat. Anyway, enough of that ramble. So the coal mining museum was pretty good. It ate pretty much our entire p-day though. Did you know in the earliest days of coal mining they had the women dragging sledges full of coal?! That was pretty weird. They only mined some places waste high (because that is how high the coal goes (doorways and things like that)) so the women had to crawl everywhere too! But on
another note the work here is going really well. We are teaching some of the nicest people ever. Oh and a woman named Sheila as well :) She is epic! She is way old though so her baptism is going to have some complications, but nothing is impossible for God for those with faith. Te amo con todo la queso en mi pie.
Elder Tombs
PS. Ah I sort of miss serving with a Spanish speaker.
PSS. Oh and happy fathers day Dad (I think I missed that) and happy birthday Patrick! I am pretty sure I missed that one as well.
So this week has been interesting in many ways. Well, first off I got to see the Olympic torch go through Wakefield this morning! :) (Oh and uh... no pics again this week... I took loads but the little cord is so hard to remember. But that was really fun and then we
went out for kebab! I love kebab! Listen y'all, we need to start a kebab shop in Lubbock. Put it right in between Coronado and Lubbock High, make it fairly cheep, and then load the place with fliers. These things would sell like hot cakes made of kebab! Open the second shop near campus. There are tons of good cheep kebab places in Wakefield, so it has been on my mind quite a bit lately. The only issue that I can foresee is that you might have to import your donor meat. Anyway, enough of that ramble. So the coal mining museum was pretty good. It ate pretty much our entire p-day though. Did you know in the earliest days of coal mining they had the women dragging sledges full of coal?! That was pretty weird. They only mined some places waste high (because that is how high the coal goes (doorways and things like that)) so the women had to crawl everywhere too! But on
another note the work here is going really well. We are teaching some of the nicest people ever. Oh and a woman named Sheila as well :) She is epic! She is way old though so her baptism is going to have some complications, but nothing is impossible for God for those with faith. Te amo con todo la queso en mi pie.
Elder Tombs
PS. Ah I sort of miss serving with a Spanish speaker.
PSS. Oh and happy fathers day Dad (I think I missed that) and happy birthday Patrick! I am pretty sure I missed that one as well.
Monday, June 18, 2012
6.18.12
Dear family,
So first off I love that little tank game! Oh and no... I don't have my cord, but I might just send you some hard copy photos….. Not that much has happened this week. A couple of problems with missionaries and craziness but it's all good in the hood... mostly. Oh, so today we are going to go to this coal mining museum, or as they say in Yorkshire, "coil museum", so that will be fun expsh since we have coil mining ancestors. :) (We get to go in the mine and all!) Anyway, Horbury is great, the flat is looking alot cleaner, and everything is peachy.
Love ya'll,
Elder Tombs
So first off I love that little tank game! Oh and no... I don't have my cord, but I might just send you some hard copy photos….. Not that much has happened this week. A couple of problems with missionaries and craziness but it's all good in the hood... mostly. Oh, so today we are going to go to this coal mining museum, or as they say in Yorkshire, "coil museum", so that will be fun expsh since we have coil mining ancestors. :) (We get to go in the mine and all!) Anyway, Horbury is great, the flat is looking alot cleaner, and everything is peachy.
Love ya'll,
Elder Tombs
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