8/29/11

Hi Mom & others (+Dad, Patrick, and Lindsey),

So my first area is Gateshead! It is WAY north in the mission. My trainer is Elder Montgomery, and he is way cool (although cool is slang here and I can't use it anymore). We are whitewashing this area. For those who don't know that means that there were no missionaries here and now there are us. The area book is SO unorganized and just a mess! So until church yesterday our only guidelines were a few sticky notes on walls :P But it has been fun. ALOT of tracking and street contacting, but fun. I still haven't taught my first official lesson, but I will on Tuesday! But I have met so many great people here, especially the ward mission leader. He is determined that we will lead the mission! I think with these people and our work we just might! We have tons of less actives in the ward though and we have been focusing on them last week. But I think I have been inside like 5 houses, and three were ward leaders :P. So knocking doors is less than ideal. But now that we have our foot in the door with the members, I think things are really going to pick up :). Oh and our first baptism is next week! Daisy and Fatima were being taught by the Zone leaders (pretty much because Bro. Bell [ward mission leader] made them stop by often to teach because he is just that into his job!). This week I am going to go over the baptismal interview questions with them so fun fun. They are on holiday for now though so that won't be till Thursday. Anyway that is England; see ya next week (oh P-Days are on Mondays here)
Love,
Elder W. Tombs
P.S. Have Mary text Lindsey Hi! :)