what's good guys,
thanks to everyone who emailed last week. you guys are the best
and I love you all! So transfer calls came yesterday and I'm...staying another
transfer with elder Kinard! Third one with him and fourth in this area! Elder
Hill is getting elder scanlan, he was here a few weeks ago if you check out my
older emails. And two sisters are moving into the district. Elder Campbell is going
to the promised land of wales, and I was called as DL for the district, which
I'm both excited for, and way nervous for. But I'm excited for the opportunity
to grow and help others and also be humbled. This upcoming transfer should be
LIT!
I was expecting to leave this area so I'm pretty excited to get
another one here. We worked super hard this last week and we found eight new
people to teach for this upcoming week and a few of them are wayyy solid. More
to come soon on that! We did a lot of knocking doors this last week and it went
a lot better than usual. During district finding I went knocking with elder
hill and we played this game where the other person tells you a word to say
while talking to someone on the doorstep, so the first one for me was the word
grape. This lady answered and I opened by saying "how are you doing?"
She responded. And I went in to complete the challenge and said "that's
grape!" I don't think she even noticed, but that game keeps me way more
enthusiastic while at the door. I had several really cool experiences this week
with following promptings so I thought I'd share one, so we had like twenty
minutes to knock some doors and we had to pick which end of the street to start
on because we wouldn't have time to do it all, I felt like we should knock on
one end of it and the first door we knocked, the guy invited us to come back
this week and he was pretty interested in the Book of Mormon. I'm so happy that
I was able to not only recognise that prompting, but also act on it. As elder
Rasband said in conference, act on every prompting.
We got to play volleyball with all the youth on Tuesday night
which was a blast, this ward is amazing, and the youth are so cool. I could
stay here my whole mission and I'd be loving life. Before volleyball we also
went with elder Bowen and opiekens, the zone leaders, to a sweet dessert place
which is coincidentally called "Sweet!" We also found an amazing
chicken place called Piri Fino! It kinda reminds me of the Habit from back home
but chicken instead of burgers! Being in there reminded me of all the times I
grabbed grub with the homie chad boberg before the mish! Also a major bday
shoutout to him this week! And to my cousin dallin! Hope you both have baller
birthdays!
The weather was flipping weird this last week. We had all four
seasons, it was hot sometimes, and then it snowed. On Tuesday it was pretty
nice in the morning and then we were walking up to the train station later on,
and it started snowing/hailing so hard. I could hardly see in front of me. It
felt like the blizzard in monsters inc at the end. But overall I'd pick
snow/hail over rain any day.
I gave a talk in church on missionary work and how there is no
better service than sharing the gospel with others. Every fifth Sunday in this
ward is missionary themed so I spoke, elder kinard spoke, and elder vieter
spoke! Again I love this ward and the members in it! We had dinner appointments
six days last week and again this week! Shoutout to all the people who fed us
last week: the masons, pj/Sonia, the fells, the hammonds, Danny, and the
OGradys, and the Pughs! The only bad thing that's happening is my stomach is
just awful, I'm never actually sick, but I always feel crappy and the
lansoprazole isn't doing much, but I'm seeing the doctor next week so hopefully
it'll get figured out soon. I just need to have faith and patience. I think of
when Jospeh smith was in prison, he had done nothing wrong, but was in some of
the worst of conditions. He asked God where he was hiding. He felt so alone and
so abandoned. Then the lord told him "My son, peace be unto thy soul;
thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment" and "know
thou, my son, that all these things shall give thee experience, and shall be
for thy good. The Son of Man hath descended below them all. Art thou greater
than he? Therefore, hold on thy way, and the priesthood shall remain with thee;
for their bounds are set, they cannot pass. Thy days are known, and thy years
shall not be numbered less; therefore, fear not what man can do, for God shall
be with you forever and ever." We all have trials in life, we all have
times where we feel like we are totally alone and there is no hope, but because
of Jesus Christ we can endure those trials and eventually everything will work
for good for us if we are faithful. Enduring to the end is the hardest thing we
are asked to do, but we aren't alone.
Much love to you all from the happiest missionary in England,
Elder Varner
pics 1-3: the crew in its final week
pic 4: FHE with the masons
pic 5: the ogradys
pics 6-7: "sweet!" with the homies opeikens and
bowen
pics 8-9: sick views
video 1: monopoly champion
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