Family and friends,
What's on the up and up guys! I do have to start this out with
some major bday shoutouts! Happy birthday this week to my mom, sister Halle, my
brotha Jake, my grandma Alice, my cousin Troy, and my uncle Jeff! Sorry if I
missed out on anyone! But I love you guys and hope you have a fantastic
birthday!
This last week was a total rager here in Wylde Green, I don't
know how it could've been a better week to end on! So I'll just include a few
of the many cool things that happened this past week like...elder Kinard and I
were about to go knocking doors in an area somewhat near the chapel when all of
the sudden I felt like we needed to branch out and knock doors in an area we
hadn't gone to in ages, so we were walking around in this random part of our
area which we weren't too familiar with, and we passed a street called Hanson
Bridge, I thought of one of my friends whose name is hanson and after a few
minutes since passing it, I felt strongly we needed to knock that street. A few
doors in and some guy with no shirt opens the door and said he was sleeping cuz
he was sick, well we get talking and he's had some amazing experiences with the
church in the past when he lived in Hong Kong, in fact he believed everything
about the restoration and said his only concern was the question "why do
bad things happen to good people?" Well we have the answer to that! We set
up a time for this upcoming week to meet up with him, probably the most solid
return appointment I've made on my mission.
Another kinda funny thing, we were walking to the train station
and we started talking to this guy who is big into acting in local plays, turns
out he is John Bytheway's (Mormon speaker) second or third cousin. We met with
him later on in the week and it went pretty well, he gave us Indian Tonic
Water. It was by far the worst thing I've had to drink on my mission, just
acting like it tasted good and then he gave us a litre of it which we used to
prank pj and aiden!
We had district meeting in Walsall which was nice, did exchanges
with elder hill which was fun as always. We were knocking doors and this 16
year old kid let us into his house and we were starting to get into the
discussion when all of the sudden his mom walks in, pretty surprised to see two
American missionaries in her kitchen, and she ended up politely kicking us out,
it was interesting to say the least.
On Saturday I was asked to give a 10 minute talk the next day in
church, usually I wouldn't stress to much over that, but when the topic is on
the importance of Sunday school attendance, I had absolutely no clue where to
even start. After a ton of preparation I think I did a pretty good talk, I
should get a medal for giving a 10 minute talk on that. If you wanna read it
email me and I'll send it to you!
Notable mentions:
-we did some service for brother Owen and his work which was
cleaning out an abandoned house, which had a sick backyard. We left out scrap
metal in the front yard and there were like 3 random guys with trucks who
showed up and all wanted the metal. I felt like I was in the drug cartel for
metal...
-it was week one of Japanese June for the young men so we had a
culture night and ate a bunch of Japanese food!
Sorry for making you all read this far to find out the transfer
info! So I'll be moving to Rhiwbina Wales tomorrow! It's right next to Cardiff
which is the capital of wales. I'll be follow up training elder mason, from
Utah, so I'm pretty excited! I was even more hyped to hear that the hoop
sessions are unreal there because they have a full basketball court so I'm
gonna be balling up even more! Can't hold me back!
Elder Saban said in the last general conference "When we
are fully committed and “all in,” heaven shakes for our good. When we are
lukewarm or only partially committed, we lose out on some of heaven’s choicest
blessings." Don't be only partially in on following Jesus Christ! Be all
in! Change whatever you need to change to be all in, blessings and happiness
will follow as you commit to being all in, in all you do!
I love you guys and hope you have a lit week cuz I know I'm
about to! 😘
Elder Varner
pics 1-2:
squad up
pics 3-4:
scrap metal cartel
pic 4: the
fells
pic 5: bruce
robertson
pic 6:
johnbytheways cousin
pic 7: sick
church in sutton
pic 8: YM
pic 9: walmley
golf club
pic 10: the
pughs
pic 11:
danny
video 1:
japanese june
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