Happyyy Week After Thanksgiving!

Hello everyone! 

I hope ya'll had a greattt Thanksgiving week and ate as much as your stomachs could possibly hold! 

We had a good week!  Lot's of stuff happened. I don't remember Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday. Nothing too exciting must have happened. I just remember that it was cold. I add more and more layers every day. 

Thursday was Thanksgiving! My Thanksgiving was good! We got to spend the day visiting members and we were able to come home at 8! So, I wasn't stressed out about being late to knocking or anything. Also it was beautiful outside all day...the sky was clear and the sun was shining, and there was frost everywhere! It was so pretty and happy outside. We drove around and gave thank you cards to members of the ward and then we did some weekly planning. We then visited a less active family and talked to them a bit and ate a snack. Then we went to the Popes house.  We were only supposed to stay at members homes for 3 hours but... we ended up staying for 4... I just am not good at telling members that we have to go. That's something I have to work at. But it was really fun. Brother Pope is hilarious. He's the one that gave us the rebellious candy bar. He kept saying "What's your mom's phone number? I'll call her and tell her happy Thanksgiving." I wouldn't let him, but I told him that he could text her or send her a picture of us. He sent a picture of S. Philippi to her family and it said "Hello! We are having your daughter for Thanksgiving. She realized that in Washington we eat Oysters for Thanksgiving!" and she likes seafood so they texted back "I'm sure she's in heaven eating oysters!" (Sister Philippi is pretty gullible and it looks like she came from a gullible family!) Haha...it was funny. We didn't eat oysters. We had the normal Thanksgiving food. We also visited the Giffords, our adopted grandparents and they gave us some delicious hot chocolate. He said the trick is to double or triple the amount of chocolate it tells you to put in. Haha. Brother Gifford and I are kindred spirits. 

We also decorated our apartment Thursday night because we had a whole extra hour at home! So we put up a tree that is kind of lopsided. It fell on top of Sister Philippi while we were putting it up... haha that was funny. It also came with a Barbie doll (Ken) inside the box. I don't know for sure why it was in there, but we assume it's meant to go on top... so that's where he is. 

So that was our Thanksgiving. It was nice. 

On Friday we went on exchanges. That was pretty fun. I got to leave the area. So I didn't have to make any decisions or think or worry or stress for a whole 24 hours! It was great. I went to Elma/Montesano with Sister Sasser and Sister Baxter. Nothing too exciting happened. It was kind of like going on vacation. I just felt SO relaxed. Haha.

On Saturday we had some great lessons. We finally saw Renee again and she wanted a blessing. She finished the Book of Mormon and KNOWS that she needs to start coming to church and preparing to be baptized, but it's still a scary change for her. 

We also had a lesson with the Bradshaw family. We spent a whole lot longer there than we planned to but the whole time we were there we were just answering their questions. Sadly we ended up staying there through dinner time... so we just had to go straight to knocking and it was really cold and we were really hungry. 

So we went knocking and then visited our ward mission leader afterwards. We asked him for food, and thank goodness they had just made dinner because we were reallyy hungry. 

On Sunday we went to church. It was 20 degrees outside when we left... Very frosty and very cold. The Bradshaws came to church! And they LOVED it! Brooklyn, the 7 year old, is so sweet. She carried a Book of Mormon around and tried to read it during Sacrament, she also loved finding the hymn every time we sang. She followed along and by the last verse was able to chime in and sing with us. At the end of sacrament she looked at me and said "Your church is so fun!" So cute! 

We ended up eating 2 member meals on Sunday... that accidentally happens occasionally and we'll normally try not to let people know, but they found out... sigh. We had a "lunch" at 2 and then dinner at 4. So I was pretty full when we started knocking. 

Anddd that was our week. 

My spiritual thought is just going to be to go watch the new Christmas video, "A Savior is Born"

https://www.mormon.org/christmas

It's really great and the little African kid is super cute and it reminds us to think of our Savior. 

We've been sharing this video with everyone we can, and it just reminds me that we need to think about the Savior, who is the real reason for the season. :) I'm going to try to study the Savior in my studies this month. And you should too. Because He is Awesome, Wonderful, our Friend, Advocate, Redeemer, etc. And Christmas will mean a lot more as you ponder Him. :)

Well, I hope you all have a great week! Stay warm! Remember who you are and what you stand for! 

Lot's of love, 

Sister Warburton

We tried jumping pictures again.. and they just turn out SO funny. Sister Philippi hates jumping pictures.... 

"Hello Sister Warburton!  Do you know this girl?  She is great.  We love having her in our home."...another nice note and picture from someone in WA.

  

Videos of a Sister Missionary

Happy Thanksgiving Week!

Hey Family and Friends! :)

Hope you are all staying warm!

I'm struggling to stay warm. But that's nothing new. I'm ready for Summer to come back. 

This week was great, I can't remember much of it, but it was really good I'm sure! 

On Tuesday I reached my half way mark. Some members were going to come get the beehive couch off our porch so we could burn it for my half way mark, but then the wind was pretty crazy so they told us it wouldn't work out that night. But they told me I could come burn something small like a skirt. So I brought a kind of ugly skirt over and they dipped it in gasoline, and hung it from their garage. It took me about a million tries to catch it on fire because I was afraid but I eventually got it and it went up in flames! And melted! And then was gone. I have a funny video of it, but it's too big, my email won't let me send it. 

On Wednesday we had our district meeting. and then after that we visited the Jerome family. They are an interesting family, some of them got baptized about a year ago, but the youngest girl, Aurora wasn't. Also, the dad wasn't, and they have a 17 year old girl living with them too who loves church but never got baptized. So we asked them what was holding them back and then set up a time to come back and teach them. The dad and the 17 year old weren't there to listen, but when we came back on Friday we taught Aurora the first lesson and she really wants to get baptized! So we put her on date for December 4th! She's super sweet and we're really excited for her. 

On Thursday we had our park day. We planned most of the day, but then we had dinner with a couple in the ward. They fed us the equivalent of a horse or an elephant. But it was really good. We just had to roll out of their house. It was funny, we asked her to give us a ride to where we were knocking, in downtown Winlock, and she was worried about dropping us off there. But we were thinking "Are you crazy? Do you see all the sidewalk that we have here? And there are at least THREE streetlights! This is wayyyyy less scary than knocking most of the roads we knock." haha she wouldn't have let us get out if she had dropped us off anywhere else. We had a pretty good time knocking. We both had to go to the bathroom pretty bad, but we found a few teenagers that were willing to listen. They both said we could come back and teach them. And one of them already has a ton of friends that go to our church. So, hopefully we'll be able to find them at home again. 

It wasn't too cold while we were walking everywhere on Thursday, but then we stood and talked to Carlos for a while and by the time we started walking again my feet were numb. So, the 40 minute walk home was a bit rough, but I just sang some Christmas songs, and it was all good. 

On Friday we did service for a family in the ward, they are trying to get their house built before Christmas so we helped them move wood and clean up. 

In the evening we helped at the senior center. They had an awards night for some 1st Responders or something and a dinner, so we helped clean dishes. It's funny because you know you have been in a small town for a while when you show up to a community service project and recognize a lot of the people. Even when they aren't members. We knew half of the people working in the kitchen, and none of them were members of the church. We didn't even know they would be there. 

Saturday was also a good day. We knocked into a family earlier in the week, the Bradshaws, and they have no religious background. But they have researched different beliefs and they bought a few bibles. And they have a TON of really good, but pretty deep questions. So, they told us we could come back. We had a great time teaching them and answering their questions. We were 40 minutes late to dinner, but it was a good lesson and they told us we could come back.

 

We didn't do any proselyting on Sunday. We had meetings in the morning before church, then a pretty stressful few hours of church. One lady showed up with her daughter who has autism, and we were so glad she came, but we weren't very prepared, and we were trying to make her happy and comfortable but her daughter just wasn't having it. Sacrament meeting went well. She made noises, but I noticed that there were lots of kids making noise just as loud. And one kid, even ran up onto the stand during the sacrament. Haha I'm sure his grandma was embarrassed, but it was kind of a tender mercy to make this mom feel better. The problem was primary. She didn't want to be separated from her mom. Plus, she is in the one class that already has 2 other kids with autism in it. Our primary president was pretty stressed out. We did a bit of running around, silent prayers, etc, and they ended up going home early. But they will try again next week, and so will we. 

We were able to breathe much better after they left though. That's bad.. but having people come to church is probably the most stressful thing ever. 

We had lunch with some members and then we drove an hour to the Elma Stake Center for a musical fireside. It was pretty fun. I got to sing in a musical number with 5 other sisters and I think it sounded really pretty. We sang the Hymn 316, The Lord is my Shepherd. 

Soooo that was my week. It was great. It's getting really cold. I'm sure I'll learn how to drive on ice sometime this coming transfer. Keep me in your prayers. :) 

I'm holding up a lot of people that need to email their families, so I'm just going to skip on the spiritual thought... sorryy. Next week I'll have a really good spiritual thought. :) 

I love you all and I miss you! 

Love, Sister Warburton

Pictures:

Frost.

Our fire pit is full of water and the top layer froze. It looked pretty cool.

HALF WAY!

HI EVERYONE! 

How are things? Is there snow anywhere? We got frost this morning. My hands haven't been warm for a few days. Only 5 months of rain and cold left to go. At least. 

The first half of the week I was a little bit grumpy, and wet, and cold... so I won't dwell too much on that. But I will share a few funny things.

This is when I gave up and laid down in the road on a really cold night. (In the negative part of my week)

On Tuesday we were hanging up flyers for the local food bank, and while we were at the Senior Center, we reminded this one old lady of an experience she'd had last week. She started talking to the other old ladies, and probably thought we couldn't hear her. 

She said to them:

"The other night these two girls knocked on my door. It was REALLY late and dark outside and they were all bundled up. I didn't know why they were knocking on my door, and then they said they were MISSIONARIES! They were only about 14 and 15 and I was just really hoping that their parents were close by." 

I was trying hard not to laugh because she was talking about US. WE are the missionaries around here. And we knock on doors until 7, which maybe if you wake up at 3 in the morning is too late at night... but only if you're CRAZY. Sigh. And I am TWENTY. -_-

We met this guy on Wednesday night that really made me grumpy. He was telling us that our church makes women 2nd class citizens. It kind of irks me when people tell me that I've been brainwashed and that I'm a second class citizen. I argued a little bit. I'm normally really good at not arguing with people, but I failed with this guy... 

This was us cheering ourselves up after that guy told us that our church thinks we are subordinate. Sometimes you just need to take silly pictures.

So, on Thursday we repented and decided to be more positive and to look for tender mercies.

One tender mercy: My mom sent me a new pair of rainboots. On Thursday I had really wet feet because my shoes weren't waterproof. And the next day the rain wasn't letting up at all either. When we went home for lunch the UPS guy showed up and said "Somebody order rubber boots?" and we just looked at him, confused. Then he said "Oh, do you live here?" and we said "we do?" and then he said "Does Kinsey live here?" and then he handed me the package and I got a pair of rainboots that are exactly like my other ones! They are perfect and they keep my feet nice and dry! I walked through TONS of puddles because I could! :)

Another tender mercy: One lady felt bad for us, so she invited us inside and gave us some herbal tea to warm us up. 

Another tender mercy: This one is cool! So, I have one hair tie. And I normally just have one that stays on my arm at all times unless it's in my hair. Anyways, so you could see that it would be sad if I lost my one hair tie, right? So, I had my hair in a braid, and it was raining and cold and I put a headband thing on to keep my ears warm, and I realized that my hair tie had fallen out. Sad day. But we were trying to be positive, so I kept being positive and decided it wasn't a big deal. Then we got to the first house and the thought came to me "Hey, maybe it's in my hood!" So, I said that thought outloud and asked Sister Philippi to look in my hood for me. And lo and behold, it was just hanging out in one of the creases on the outside of my hood. If I hadn't listened to that prompting right then, then it probably WOULD have fallen out, and then my hair would be bothering me until I acquired another hair tie.  (1st world problems. Don't judge me.)

On Friday the 13th we went to seminary and were in charge of the game. I remembered doing chariot races in high school with Brother Larsen, so I suggested that. It was pretty funny. 

Another tender mercy happened on Friday: While we were knocking we met Karla. She used to be a Jehovah's Witness, but when she was 20 she married a non-JW and was disfellowshipped. That was pretty hard for her so she left the church. She's 60 now and has learned a lot about that faith and doesn't know if there even is a God anymore. She really wants to believe in God, and she sincerely wants the hope that people of faith have. We told her that as missionaries we go around and share what we believe and invite her to act on it. We know that God is there and that He loves us and that we do have a reason for hope, but the only way she'll know that is if she acts on the message for herself. She's really sincere and wants to learn more so we are going to come back sometime this week. :) So that was a cool experience. We've met so many people that don't want anything to do with us this week and won't even give us a chance, that meeting someone who truly wants to know God, was a huge tender mercy. 

We had a ward social that night and it was Breakfast for dinner. We showed up late, and you know that you have really adopted a ward, or that a ward has adopted you, when everyone looks up to see that the missionaries have come in and are all excited to see us. This ward really is like our family, I love them. After everyone ate they had people share their conversion stories and then they finished by saying "Okay missionaries, you get the closing remarks." We were unprepared, so I told them to wait a minute while I found a scripture. I shared Alma 29:9-10. And told them that they should share the gospel with their friends because they are blessed to have it. It was fun. Carlos, the investigator that we got on date last week was there. We taught him almost every day to get him prepared. Then on Friday night after the social he had his interview and passed! 

Saturday was the best day ever! We did some service at the community center. Then we went to the church and filled the font. (I finally got to fill the font for someone! :D ) We practiced playing the piano and took pictures and just hung out at the church and got things all ready. At this point, the person that was supposed to baptize Carlos let us know that he was out of town, so we texted our Ward Mission leader and told him to come prepared to baptize someone. 

While we were filling the font I was taking a selfie and making the most ridiculous happy face I could, the ward executive secretary walked in.... We thought we were the only people in the building. And when I looked up from my selfie I realized he was in the room looking at me like I was crazy....  that was embarrassing.

The font and I. 

People started showing up and a bunch of the men from the ward came to support him. I was so glad that so many of them came to welcome him into the ward. The Young Men's president gave him some candy, the bishop gave him his own set of scriptures. 

The baptism was kind of funny. So, the same brother who made fun of me for taking a selfie told us that the font was too full where it was at and that we should probably turn off the water. So we did, even though it didn't look very high.... however our Ward Mission leader is a pretty big guy... and the water only went up to his knees.... haha it did the job though. Carlos was baptized, no one got hurt, and the water didn't take too long to drain. Our WML told us to fill it up more next time. 

Carlos' Mom made dinner for everyone that was there, so after the baptism we all ate some good food and talked and had fun. It was a great night. 

On Sunday I was a bit stressed out because they weren't there when church started, so I started to pray and then right when I did that they walked in! Phew! Someone had given us a bag of ties to give to Carlos, so I tied one for him when he got there and gave it to him. He was SO happy after he got confirmed. Bishop got a bit teary eyed while talking about him and it was just a special Sacrament meeting. I could tell that Carlos was on cloud nine. His tie was a little crooked and he looked like a typical 13 year old boy, but the smile on his face was priceless. :) The ward has just taken him in, and all the Young Men leaders are getting him involved in everything. They love him and so does the rest of the ward. 

So, that was our week. It was great. :) 

"The tender mercies of the Lord are over all those whom he hath chosen, because of their faith, to make them mighty even unto the power of deliverance." 

Tender mercies are everywhere, so look around and keep track of them. God loves you more than you know and is blessing you more than you can even see! :) Life is good and be grateful! 

I love you all! Have a great week! 

Love, Sister Warburton

"Hello Warburton's!!! We were blessed to be able to feed your sweet missionary tonight. We adore her!!! (heart emoji) Thank you for sharing her with us! - The Smith's"

Hello!

Hi everyone! 

How are things going? 

This week was our first week since Daylights Savings. And I can not wait for Daylights Savings to happen again! It gets dark about 5:30 and it's gotten really cold and wet. You can probably imagine how fun it is to knock doors on boony roads in the middle of nowhere when it's pitch black outside and raining. Some of the people in our ward council made fun of us for complaining so we told them that they should come knocking with us so they can understand. Haha. I'm sure that none of them will take us up on that offer. 

This week we made it our goal, just jokingly at first, to invite 100 people to be baptized. To give you an idea of how big a goal that is, last week we only had 1 1/2 baptismal invitations. So, we wanted to increase our average by like 100 percent. (If that math is wrong, just ignore it, I don't do math anymore.) 

With our goal and our plan to accomplish it we made a contract with our district leader that said "I, Sister Warburton, along with the help of Sister Philippi, will invite a whopping 100 people to be baptized this week." And then I signed it with a red pen (because real contracts have to be signed in blood. It wouldn't be official without the red pen.) 

We just made it our door approach during knocking. We said "Hi, we're the local missionaries and we are inviting everyone to exercise their faith in Jesus Christ by being baptized! Would you like to be baptized?" 

And that was kind of awkward but most people were pretty nice. No one was interested, but I had faith that we would have miracles as we worked  toward our goal. We got 8 invitations on Monday. 10 invitations on Tuesday. 12 invitations on Wednesday. And so by then we were about 30 invitations short of where we should be. I didn't have much hope of reaching 60 by Thursday, but we were going to have interview with our mission president that night so we decided to just aim for at least 50 before our interview. With our determination we shot past that and had exactly 60 when we had our interviews. President Blatter was impressed and thought it was awesome that we were trying so hard to focus on baptism, so the next day he texted us asking where we were at and we were at 82. 

On Saturday we only got 3, because the road we picked was LONG and DARK and only 3 people talked to us. We did meet a really nice couple at the end though. They weren't interested in being baptized but they invited us in from the rain and gave us some food which we greatly appreciated. (For some reason no one signed up this week to feed us so we ate a lot of quick, easy food. Grilled Cheese, corn, rice, mac and cheese, candy, etc)  They had just gone moose hunting and pheasant hunting, and they grew their own beans and picked some wild mushrooms from the forest and made this moose meat, bean, mushroom stuff and some pheasant curry. And it was SO good. They also asked us a lot of questions about missionaries and what we do and how we do it, and asked us to share our message with them. People NEVER ask us to share our message with them. So that was nice. They are very devout Catholics and aren't interested in changing, but we got to teach them about the Restoration and the Book of Mormon, so hopefully it's something they'll think about. 

Oh, back to Monday night! We finally had a lesson with an investigator, Carlos. We've been trying to teach their family since we got here, and we finally had a lesson. Since we were so baptismal focused we made sure to invite him to be baptized and he said yes! And he's actually always wanted to be baptized. His mom was baptized when he was about 3 or 4, but he remembers it and has wanted to be baptized since then. (He's almost 14.) Since he's been to church before, and has fellowship, and just needs to be reviewed the lessons, we put him on date to be baptized November 14th! 

We weren't able to meet with him throughout the week because he got the flu. (Typical Satan.) So, we got to go back Saturday night and he was feeling better and we got the information for the baptism all figured out. So it's actually like 95 % set in stone! Unlike  most other people that we've had on date in the past. So we are super excited for him. I get to fill the font for the first time since coming on my mission and I'm really excited! They say that this mission is one of the top baptizing missions in the United States, but I haven't been able to see that and my faith has wavered a few times, but I guess Heavenly Father just wants to make sure I continue to have faith in Him even when I can't see any results of my efforts. 

So, that's the miracle that came from our goal. :) I'm sure more miracles will happen, I just can't see them yet. 

On Sunday we just needed 15 more. So we knocked doors for like 3 1/2 hours and tried to find people that were at home. We had a young women with us and she was able to invite the 100th person to be baptized! He said no. But that's okay! It was awesome! And then we invited TWO more! So all in all we invited ONE HUNDRED AND TWO people to be baptized this week. And we have one actual baptism coming from it! :) So exciting! 

President Blatter was so impressed that when we had our mission conference call Sunday night he gave us a shout out for reaching our goal. :) 

Other fun things that happened this week: 

- I saw an eagle flying. I think that's the first time I've seen an eagle just out and about in real life. 

- We finally stuck our feet over the mission border. And got pictures, of course.

- And while we were doing that we were watched by about 50 llamas that were just hanging out on their little llama farm. (Or Alpacas) Llamas/Alpacas are hilarious because when they notice you walking by they just look at you. They stare and their eyes follow you the whole way. So, imagine 50 llamas all holding still and just watching your every movement.... It's funny. 

- We met the Mayor of Napavine. So we have now met the Mayor of Vader (who is our Stake President.) The Mayor of Winlock (The one we were talking to last week, we also ran into him at Walmart. That was kind of funny.) and The Mayor of Napavine (who has a lot of Mormon friends, so he was glad to finally meet "the first sister missionaries in Winlock in 20 years!" )

And I think that's all that was exciting that I can think of. Oh, we also went into a house that had 12 Pomeranian dogs and like 10 cats (at least). Washingtonians are weird. 

For my spiritual thought I'll just share a quote from Preach My Gospel. (page 211)

"The Lord sets His standards so that He can bless us. Think about those blessings; He promises those who meet the standards the help of the Holy Ghost. He promises personal peace. He promises the chance to receive holy ordinances in His house. And He promises those who endure in living His standards that they will have eternal life... Because we love the people we serve, all of us want to do better in lifting our Heavenly Father's children to the faithfulness and purity they need to have all the blessings of the Lord... You begin by holding up the Lord's standards clearly and without apology. And the more the world drifts from them and mocks them, the bolder we must be in doing that." - Henry B. Eyring

I think this applies with some recent announcements and with EVERYTHING that we believe. We have high standards because the Lord has set them for us. And those high standards bring us peace and happiness and true joy. So, we need to make sure we hold up those standards "without apology." Because if we love others, the way we should, than that's what we'll do. 

I love you all and hope all of your wildest dreams come true this week! 

Love,

Sister Warburton

Pictures:

Llamas/Alpacas

Stepping into the Vancouver mission! :o 

These are videos of us knocking doors...after Daylights savings. Haha

PHEW!

THERE just is NOT enough time to say everything that I want to say! Being a missionary is the best job in the world and I wish I could show you all how amazing and wonderful it is but it's impossible to describe! 

Things that happened this week:

-We street contacted into the mayor of Winlock. We asked him if he wanted to hear a message about Jesus Christ and he wasn't really interested. Then we talked a bit more. He was worried about us walking around so late at night down town, and offered to get the cops to keep an eye out for us, but we told him it wasn't necessary. Then we walked past them, went down one block, and walked back to our car. I was hoping they wouldn't see how, not far, we had gone and then they yelled to us across the street "You could have just turned around!" and I yelled back "What if somebody needed the gospel on this street!" and they said "Did they?" and I said "No! But you never know!" haha Who would have thunk that I, Kinsey, would ever be that bold while talking to the MAYOR. Especially that loudly! 

- We visited a lady and ended up sweeping and mopping her floors for her. She wants to come to church now. When she found out that we were Mormons she wasn't as excited to come to church, but she still wants to come so her daughter can learn about God. 

- One of our investigators got mad at us for bringing a member to a lesson with her. Which made my stomach hurt (thanks mom!) but we cleared things up and I didn't start crying. She is still willing to meet with us and she is still reading the Book of Mormon. I think people forget sometimes that we really are just 19 and 20 year old girls who really have no idea what we are doing. The only thing that makes us different is that we WANT to serve God, and we want to help people, and we have name tags. That's about it. We still make tons of mistakes. All the time. We aren't perfect and we never claimed to be either. 

- We had a really cool lesson on Wednesday with a man named Scott. His beliefs in God were shattered years ago and now he doesn't believe in God. But he believes in something, he just isn't sure it's God. But you can tell that he really does still believe deep down, he's just been hurt, and been thinking too much. The gospel is simple. If you think too much, you put doubts in your mind. But we're working with him and he is willing to try out what we say. 

- Trunk or treat was Wednesday night. It was POURING. We dressed up as missionaries, and passed out pictures of Jesus with life savers taped to them. ;) Clever, huh? :)  It was really fun. We saw kids that were getting nerd ropes so we tried to figure out who was passing them out, but by the time we got there we were too late and they were all gone. One member though was helping us figure out where they were and she felt bad so on Sunday she brought us nerd ropes! :) So nice. The members here really take good care of us. We're spoiled. :) 

- One 8 year old girl that we are working with is named Charlie. We met her a few weeks ago and she is so sweet. Her dad is a member and her mom is not. She hasn't really grown up going to any church. We visited her this week and she saw my CTR ring and said "What does your ring say?" and I told her it said "CTR" and she said "I have one of those!" I guess 2 old CTR rings just kind of showed up around the house a little after we met her for the first time and she's been wearing it everywhere and telling old people that she runs into that it means "Choose the right." That was kind of a cool story to hear. I think they were her grandmas that were just in a sewing kit or something. But it just shows me how special she is to Heavenly Father and how important it is that we keep helping her even though right now she thinks church is boring. :) 

- It rained all weekend long, Washington is making up for it's warm, sunny summer I guess. 

- On Halloween, we had a zone activity at the stake center. We played board games, basketball, watched 17 miracles, and ate food. I'm getting pretty good at basketball (considering I never played it before my mission). Just another mission miracle. 

- And on Sunday I had the courage to bear my testimony again. I'm gonna be a changed person when I come home. You won't even be able to recognize me! :) 

So, that was my week. We're having fun. We're doing good. And I know that God is grateful for the small efforts that we have to give. :) 

"Now is the moment in the timetable of the Lord to carry the gospel farther than it has ever been carried before... Many a person in this world is crying, knowingly and unknowingly, 'Come over...and help us.' He might be your neighbor. She might be your friend. He might be a relative. She might be someone you met only yesterday. But we have what they need. Let us take new courage from our studies and pray, as did Peter, 'And now, Lord,... grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word."

So, study Preach My Gospel for ideas and for help, and then go out there and open your mouths! :) Share the gospel with everything you have because we have what other people need!

I love you all and I hope you have a great week! :) 

Love, Sister Warburton

Pictures:

The hail that hit our windows.

Some cute little mushrooms.

A pretty view from one of the houses we knocked on. 

The train that passes through 69 times a day. :)

Some of the Elders in our zone.

A picture that has most of our zone....but not all of it.

A picture that has more of my zone but not me.....