1/3/12

Dear family (with props to Mom, Dad, Mary, Nana and Pappy, and Lindsey:)

So this week has been kind of crazy. Good, but crazy. So first off, I am now in Ponty as I have hitherto mentioned, and this area is wonderful. :) Oh no! Oops, I forgot to bring my camera again :P But next week for sure y'all will get some photos. Anyway, I was going to send pics from last last Friday's baptism but I suppose not. Anyway, Pontefract is good and our area really is two towns Pontefract and Castletown (or Ponty carlo and Cas Vegas). :) And Elder Ah Mu and I are tearing it up! :) Also, now I am further south than I was in Gateshead and there is a completely different accent! This one is understandable!!! Woot! (it only took a few min for me to understand people clearly whereas in Grodie-land it was a week or 2 for thick Grodies and I still can't understand Allen (a less active member). But here the word the does not exist! It turns out, that society can still function easily without the. Who knew? So do you know what the primary reason people go to church is here in England? I have been studying this out for a while now just by surveying random people that I meet and so far 90% of church goers and 99% of those who answered my question (not actual statistics) have said that they go to the church that they do because that's how they were brought up. It is crazy! So few people have actually had spiritual experiences! I think that is why England is so Atheist. Anyway, ta for now.

Love,

Elder W. W. Tombs