12/27/11

Dear Family,

So not much new news and I am e-mailing from a mac store so not too much time. But I got the call last night, I am getting transfered to some place called Pontefract! So that will be exiting and I am sure that I will have tons of news for next week. Oh and yup, all of my Christmas packages arrived on time. :) And now I have music to listen to and candy to get fat on (although for my own safety I am leaving that in Gateshead). Oh and David thank you so much for filling up my iPod! :) I just have a few questions for you..... What made you think Jesus Christ Supperstar was approved???????!!!?!?!?!?!?! I can understand Sons of Provo (also slightly dodgy) but really that music is apostate by anybody's standards. Haha anyway g2g

Love ya's,Elder W. W. Tombs

1219/11

Dear Family (Special thanks to Patrick, Mom, Dad, Nana and Pappy, and Lindsey for the emails and another big shout out to Nana and Pappy for written post (and a wonderful Christmas card. :)))

So as to my phone call in a few days, I am planning on calling at 4pm my time so around 10 y'alls time right? As to anything else, I have no idea. Pretty much I will be calling from my ward mission leaders house but I think we will initiate the call or else we will just call or txt real quick and send y'all the number. But guess what today is? Not P-day! We get an hour of email time today because tomorrow we are having a mission Christmas party!!!!! The ENTIRE mission is heading down to the base at Harogate tomorrow for the most epic Pday ever!!! I will be sure to send loads of pictures. :) I am so pumped! Elder Bullman and I are staying in New Castle tonight and then tomorrow they will drive us down to Sunderland where the entire zone will take a bus down into the base. Oh and it finally snowed this week :) It was so fun! Elder Bullman and I were pegging each other with snowballs and sliding down massive hills (while talking to everyone of course) :) Then it rained. Snow+rain+cold=less fun. But that is England for you. Man Micheal and Kyle are already getting back! :O that is crazy, and I remember extremely clearly Heath and Micheal McAuley's leaving! Time flies so fast on your mission! Speaking of time, it's time to get back to work.

Love ya'll and speak to you in just a few,

Elder W.W. Tombs

12/12/11

Dear family and friends (namely Dad, David, Patrick, Nana and Pappy, and Lindsey for e-mails and Brittany for written post),

So life here in England carries on as usual..... Except that it is getting pretty cold! It isn't really that bad most days, in fact, hearing that El Paso has had snow really makes me count my blessings.

It normally stays close to 0 degrees C most nights and is a bit warmer in the day. I haven't even had to break out the inlining for my jacket yet.:) But nights, after it rains, the roads get SO slick! And.. Gateshead has tons of hills, so I am glad that we don't have a car here. :)

Just as a side note I love sliding down hills! :) I went almost 30-40 yards the other night (on my feet) with one push. (Sort of the same way we always did in the driveway when we were younger, jumping on to ice patches. :)) Oh and Dad you told me to invite/challenge people to be baptised earlier. Well, here in the Leeds, England mission we invite people to be baptised no later than the first appointment :) It is the best gift we have to offer, why wait any longer than that?

Well G2g peeps, talk to ya in 13:)

Love,

Elder W. W. Tombs

12/5/11

Dear family+friends+random strangers (with special shout outs to Patrick, Mom, Tyler, and Lindsey for emails this week and a BIG round of applause for Lindsey for written post and my favorite Christmas gift I have received on my mission! :))

This week was SO good! I am just so pumped to write y'all about a few of the people here, but I know as soon as I write they disappear. So I will just have to wait for the 17th!!!!!!!! (hint hint) :) Every team in the mission here has set a goal to baptize at least one convert by the end of the year, and so far it looks like it is going to happen! :) North Shields (one of the teams in my zone) was looking really good to baptize a girl named Barbara. But then her mother got really sick and she had to go down to London to care for her. Then, this Sunday they fasted that she would be able to be baptized and 15min after they broke their fast they got a call from
Barbara saying that her mother died and that she would be able to be baptised. Miracles are happening here in England even if they do include sadness.

But yup - g2g till next week,
Love Elder Tombs
(Ha.. when I put it like that, it sounds like a command.)

P.S. Could somone send me a good/ easy pancake recipe (from scratch). We have tons of syrup in the flat.