Well I feel like I really can’t talk about anything before I mention the fact that it Freaking snowed! Sister Hall and I woke up Sunday morning as per usual and then sister Hall screamed Sister Brown Sister Brown! It’s snowing! It actually took me back to when I was a Greenie and sister Vousden screamed the same thing at me “Sister Brown Sister Brown! It’s snowing!” Why is it that I’m never the first to realise it’s snowing? I thought I would have an internal alarm go off or something to notify me when it snows but alas the 17 years straight of being raised in Canada has done nothing for me. (Just kidding Canada I still love you take me back in 5 months?)
A bit later we got the phone call that church was cancelled so we had a brilliant Idea that we would deliver service to the kind people of Stamford. So sister Hall and I each put on three pairs of trousers, sweaters and hoodies and jackets and socks and our very anti snow friendly boots and drove to the chapel to borrow the snow shovels. Upon or arrival there were a few members that turned up for church who hadn’t heard it was cancelled so they all nicely dressed in there Sunday best decided that since there was enough priesthood they would just do the sacrament. So sister Hall and I still in our very homeless looking duds went into the chapel and took the sacrament. We almost had to use the left over Christmas mince pies from the Christmas party a few nights before for the sacrament but unfortunately someone found bread so we almost had the most unusual sacrament service ever. But hey it’s one I probably won’t forget.
This week was filled with the Christmas spirit In between lending service in helping people decorate there tree, attending our relief society Christmas diner, attending a ward Christmas party in Leicester, drinking a ridiculous amount of hot chocolate, trying not to fall and break our hips while walking through the snow, listening to as much Christmas music as possible and ending the week with watching the Christmas devotional which was soooo dang good!
So ya it was a very cheer filled week oh and I can’t forget about the light the world advent calendar we’ve been doing. Funny story one of them was to help children by lifting there spirits and spending time with them and according to the white handbook it’s kind of a no no for us to be alone with or to be holding children so Sister Hall and I decided to drop off a treat to a family with some young children from our branch and I go a little carried away with playing with one of the little boys where he made a game of jumping off the furniture so I would have to catch him or he would fall, the second time he launched him self at me his head smashed into my face and for a second I seriously thought I might have knocked out a couple teeth (sorry mom) but praise the Lord they are all still there and accounted for. The parents laughed because the kid being a Fijian toddler apparently has a coconut for a head so the kid was totally fine but unfortunately I got the fattest lip of my life as a result haha So for future reference just listen to the white hand book and don’t touch the little kids even if they hurdle themselves at you or are the most adorable toddler you’ve ever seen.
On Saturday one of my Investigators from Swindon was Baptised I wasn’t able to go to his Baptism but I got a photo and I can imagine it was a pretty wonderful day for Bobby. He was the wolf pack guy I took a picture with and also one with his crazy gutting knife.
I gotta go hangout with Sister Johnson this week in Evington a suburb of Leicester but we unfortunately didn’t see to much of Leicester because she was super sick. But I got to redeem my trip to Leicester when I went to another Suburb called Glenfield and I got to drive around that crazy city with sister Blackburn. Leicester is nice but holy the driving is scary over there.
We were trying to be useful and help out a member for the light the world but we ended up with our car being packed with clothes going to Africa for about three days so needless to say we started to feel incredibly claustrophobic in there haha. We spread our wings a bit by going up to Burghly house. It’s funny because in England people just kinda stay inside and keep to themselves but Sister Hall and I discovered something that bring the English people out of there cozy brick homes... SNOW! It works wonders all day people were outside looking at the snow admiring the snow touching the snow and walking through it. Granted I think the main reason is that no one here knows how to drive on snow so they just avoid there cars and driving all together but it could also really be the fact that it hasn’t properly snowed in Stamford for about eight years.
So as you can tell this week I basically was just walking through a winter wonderland as well as preaching the gospel and serving as much as possible along the way so all in all it was a very good week. I love my area my companion and the work.
Love,
Sister Talia Brown 🇬🇧
3 westonbirt house
