Booths, Baptisms, and Barbecues

Hello hello!! 

What a wonderful time to be alive!!! Who's excited for conference?? I am!!

Tuesday this week we went on exchanges and I was able to go up to Montpelier and Barre area and it was so fun!! We met some super cool people who I just want to be friends with!! We met two homeless guys, Tommy and Jake, who play the guitar, banjo, and spoons, and it was so fun to meet them!! They taught me how to play the spoons and it was a ton of fun!!

Wednesday we had interviews with president and I bawled my eyes out haha! But it was so good!

Thursday we had zone conference and we were forced to get flu shots 😲 It was fine I guess, but bleh, nobody likes shots haha!

Friday we had breakfast with Brother Sypher and he cooks meals for the missionaries at zone conference and training meetings and such and he was talking about how he has to feed 75 people at the October one and I was completely tuned out haah, so he goes, "that's a lot of pancakes" and when I heard that I looked around and said "where?" And he goes, "Oh, we lost her! " haha, it was funny!!

Saturday, we had a family history booth from 10am - 3pm and that was a ton of fun! Vermont has the cutest little fairs with live music and all that fun stuff!! Then DEBBIE GOT BAPTISED!! I've been here for the entirety of her teaching and it was just so cool!! I am so happy to be here for the beginning of her journey! Then right after that we had a pig roast with the ward!! It was crazy and fun!! At one point during the pig roast we are trying to help one of the people we're teaching get some ibuprofen because she was in a lot of pain, but she can't swallow pills. So we're in the kitchen smashing pills with an ice cream scooper and this cute girl named Summer comes running into the kitchen yelling "SISTER MACBETH WE NEED YOU NOW!!!" So we run out to the gym and Sister Macbeth has to take a minute to try and suck up skittles with a straw and deposit them on another plate. Then we run back to the kitchen and try to help our friend and she's like practically throwing up because apparently ibuprofen in applesauce is disgusting and there are kids running around and all the craziness and it was just so fun! haha!!

Sunday was nice and relaxing! It was the perfect fall day and we got to do our studies up on a sunny hill, and it was wonderful!!

It's been such an amazing week! 

I've been thinking a lot about this story in the New Testament lately and it just really touched me because we all have a degree of faith, but sometimes we falter and stumble and we have to get back up again, but even then the Lord helps us. I don't know if that makes any sense, but just believe and He will help you!!

   

"Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. 24 And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief." Mark 9:23-24

I love you all so much!!

Sister Warburton

When you're not only preaching to the choir but your singing a solo in it?

Hello all!! I have like zero time (sound familiar??) So here's something funny that happened this week.

We met this guy on Facebook and had two video call lessons with him. So we invited him to church and he said he would like to come. So we met him for like 2 seconds in person and gave him a Book of Mormon (he's in second Nephi!!!) and he came to church!! Then he stayed after church and went to choir(we had no idea)!! and while he was in choir he VOLUNTEERED TO SING A SOLO NEXT WEEK!!! hahahaha! How cool is that!! I don't even know if he sings!!! Haha!! I'm excited for next Sunday!!! :D

This is one of my favorite scriptures!!

Alma 26:36

"Now if this is boasting, even so will I boast; for this is my life and my light, my joy and my salvation, and my redemption from everlasting wo. Yea, blessed is the name of my God..., who has been mindful of us, wanderers in a strange land"

Love you all so much!!

Sister Warburton!!

Christmas In September!!!

HELLO!! LIFE IS SO GOOD!! Haha!

This week was a good one!! We had a lot of good times! 

Wednesday we went up to VTC Campus to have a lesson with our friend Jacob and the lesson went really well! So as we were leaving Sister Macbeth starts driving away and I'm checking something on the phone and I hear Sister Macbeth go "Oh.. wait..." And I look up and we're driving down one of the campus sidewalks that's just really wide haha! So I jump out of the car to back her up and this one guy is just watching us laughing and he goes, "How's that working out for you?" Anyways, it was pretty funny!

Oh we're also doing a booth at the Bethel Forward Festival and when we first applied to get into the fair, the lady was like, "Oh I thought you already had a booth." and it turns out that they had been trying to get a hold of us to set up a booth! So that was pretty cool that they wanted us to be there!!

Friday we went over to dinner at the Turinetti's and they are so fun!! They have like 12 kids and all of them are just the sweetest people! 

 

Saturday as we were walking around talking to people we found two new people to teach and they are way cool!! I seriously love the people of Vermont!!

Sunday was such a good day!! Every Sunday we go and visit this cute old lady and the past few weeks she's been a little down and so we were trying to figure out how we could bring her a little joy and we figured what better way to spread joy than to bring Christmas to her!! So we put on our Santa hats, grabbed out our tiny Christmas tree, made some cookies and threw them in a gift bag! We came in singing Christmas Carols and she loved it!! Then we decided we would to the same thing for the other member we were visiting that night and he thought we were out of our minds insane! Haha!! It was so fun!! 

Today has just been a nice relaxing day and it was just wonderful!! 

I love you all so much!! Have a great week and know that you are loved!!! Here is a poem I wrote the other day!!

A Penny's Blessing

In the morning mist, my head was bowed,
I stared down at the ground.
I walked until my feet did still,
a penny I had found!

I heard a voice that said, "Look up!"
"God's trying to bless you!"
My eyes looked round, but not up high.
I walked on through the dew.

In midday sun, my head was bowed,
I stared down at the ground.
I walked until my feet stopped still,
a penny I had found!

I heard a voice that said, "Look up!"
"God wants to help you now!"
My eyes looked round, but not up high.
I walked on through the crowd.

In evening light, my head was bowed,
I stared down at the ground.
I walked until my feet stopped still,
a penny I had found!

I heard a voice that said, "Look up!"
"There is no need to fret!"
My face turned up towards the sky,
a beautiful sunset!

Though scared I was, to look up high,
I let my faith take hold.
When, finally, I turned to God,
the blessings did unfold.

Sometimes a penny's blessing shows
how much God wants you to
look up to Him in faith, and ask,
"What would you have me do?"

 

Look up!! There is so much to see!! Love you all so much!! 

Love,

Sister Warburton

Off we go into Vermont's  Green Mountains!!

Fun brick wall??

More sunsets and me :)

Wishing tree in Randolph!

Double Rainbows and Sunny Downpours

Hello all!! 

I have about 15 minutes to write this and since I am no good at stressful typing I will just tell you my favorite thing that happened this week and anything else that I remember happening! Haha!!

Yesterday was a hard day, but then we met this cool dude named Josh! He had just gotten a police escort out of the hospital and he had two giant black eyes and a chipped front tooth! We talked to him for awhile and sang him a song, but he used to be a youth pastor and then he decided that he wanted to see the US so he decided to become a freight train rider and see everything he could see!! Right now he's going to Maine to work on a weed farm, so that's kinda cool. Haha! Anyways my special miracle for me, was also yesterday. I just felt exhausted and sad and I didn't really want to do anything. But then we had a few good lessons and the miracle was that during one of our lessons it started raining and when we went outside to leave, and it was this amazing downpour that reminded me of Texas! And then as we were driving home, we were still having this crazy downpour but the sun was brightly shining and sunny showers are my absolute favorite!! Then we saw this beautiful double rainbow and I just felt like Heavenly Father was giving me all of my favorite things to show His love for me :)

Sorry again for the short email, but I love you all!!

Sister Warburton

aaaaaaaaaannnndd WE'RE SAFE

Hello hello!!

We made it through transfers!!!! Sister Macbeth and I are staying here!! So I love Sister Macbeth with all my heart. She is the best trainer in the area, and this is the best area in the mission, we have the best mission in the world soooo she is the best trainer in the world! Haha!!

My week was awesome!! We did a lot of fun things and met a lot of cool people!! We talked to this one guy, Fred, who started talking all about aliens and such and how if we see a UFO to not be worried because they are friendly creatures and they even healed him once!! Haha it was so fun 😂

My favorite experience was when we brought pizza over to Debbie's house!! She is the sweetest lady and she is on date to be baptized on the 22nd of  September and we are so excited for her!! But yeah, we bought pizza and brought it over to have dinner with her and it was so fun!! 

I don't really know what else we did this week, but it was fantastic!! Today we had a district pday and it was so fun!! We hiked patriarch hill here by the monument and then played games at the church! It was so fun!!

I'm sorry for the worst email in the world but I love you all so much!! Have a fantastic week and remember to be great!!!

Love,

Sister Warburton

Pictures:

1. Stache's upon stache's

2. Hiking 

3. Pretty Vermont 

4. District pday

5. Grandma Pease!!! She is the cutest little old lady who we go visit every Sunday since she's homebound :)

6. Our district plus the zone leaders and sister training leaders

How many birthday cakes can you fit in a fridge?

Well hello there!!

This week was kinda crazy, but super fun!

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday I have no idea what happened haha, because our phones have deleted all of our apps!! It's been a fun adventure and I'm excited to see what happens tomorrow without all of our plans that we made...

Friday we had district council and it was so cute because the elders threw Sister Macbeth a surprise pre-birthday party!! It was a lot of fun, they made cheesecake and sugar cookies and blew up a bunch of balloons that they taped all around the room! It was fun, It was also kind of super awkward because they had us sing happy birthday as the opening song and everyone started singing super high and it just sounded awful, Haha! Later that evening we had a lesson with J and C. That was interesting... Do you know how weird it is when you're a missionary and the people you're teaching tell you that they are evangelizing to you as well??? Well let me tell you, it's weird. I just think it's weird because the message we share adds to the knowledge that people already have. We aren't here to take what people have, throw it on the ground, stomp on it, and set it on fire!! We're here to give people more knowledge!! And so when people try to evangelize to us, it's like they're trying to destroy what we know, to take away from us the knowledge that we have and give us less. It's like someone is trying to take our real car that works perfectly and give us a cardboard box made to look like a car and say it's better! Anyways, haha it's fun...

Saturday we went to the Pease's farm up in Tunnridge and it was SO FUN!! I got to muck the stalls of the cows and then(!!!!!!!) I GOT TO MILK A COW!!!! If you know me at all, you know that that's been on my bucket list for years!!! It was awesome!! I'm horrible at it, but it was fun!! We also went up to Bethel and did THREE HOURS of finding... Maybe I sound like the most spoiled missionary on the planet, but that was a long time to be wandering around and by the time we got back in the car I was ready to crawl into bed and never leave it ever again. But then(!) when we made it back to the car we were about to go, but Sister Macbeth made me talk to this guy whose name is John! He was the first drunk person I've ever met! Haha! He was very nice and just seemed like he had a very hard life, but we sang him a song and then we prayed together and it was fun!!

Yesterday was Sister Macbeth's birthday!!! She turned 20 and it was so fun!! We went to church and had like 70 people tell her happy birthday!! And we sang a song in Sacrament meeting! We sang Peace in Christ and it was so fun and everyone was crying and it was just so good!! Then a family from the Hanover ward (we're in the South Royalton Ward) who knows Sis Macbeth came up and brought her a birthday cake with candles and pumpkin spice muffins and cards from everyone in the family! Then we went home and another family brought her a cake and the senior sisters who we work with got her a cute card! Then we went to sing to Sister Pease who is this super sweet old lady who lives in Tunbridge and can't come to church because she's too old and that was fun. Then we went up to Chelsea for dinner with the Gilman's and that was so fun!! They are just the cutest family and we had tacos and ice cream and birthday cake and we got to take some of the cake home. Then we went to Randolph to support Donna at her Baptist church and eat Romanian desserts! Then we drove back to Tunbridge to visit one of the members who threw Sister Macbeth a mini surprise party and gave her a shirt and cake and ice cream. So I don't know if you counted all that, but we now have 4 cakes sitting in our fridge at home!! Haha, it was so fun!!

I love this gospel, I love the Lord, and I love my Family!! Have an amazing week!! Don't forget that you are so loved!!

Love, 

Sister Warburton :D

1. Real live apples from an apple tree!!

2. Pupusas that we made after a member gave us the recipe!! (So good)

3. The only thing I managed to write in my journal last Sunday haha!

4. More apples!!

5. A cute area in Bethel

6. Louie the cow!!

7. Mucking the stalls, scooping poop!!

8. More Louie

Just Keep Swimming (but not really because I'm a missionary and we can't swim)

Well well well, it seems as if it's that day again!

Tuesday we met with this chill dude named John who is always super high, haha! He is very nice and very respectful and super open! He wants to learn more and seems genuinely interested!! It was actually super funny because throughout the lesson he would text someone and then keep talking to us and when the lesson was over we checked our phone and he had been texting us the entire time! Haha!! It was so funny! We texted him and he was like oops, I thought you were someone else, haha! We also had a lesson with this lady who is on date to be baptized September 29, and it started thundering and raining super hard, but she didn't want us to come inside her house, so we just stood outside on her small 2 foot long porch haha! Oh! Also on Tuesday we invited Kathy to be baptized!! If you remember we met her last Wednesday, on August 1st and we invited her to be baptized on August 26th and she said yes!! It was really cool!

Wednesday we taught this guy named Ed again. He is so nice, but doesn't quite comprehend what we teach him. We tried to teach him about prophets and the role of prophets so we spent about 30 minutes using different analogies and ways of explaining and pictures and having him explain it back to us and he sort of got it. I have no idea if he will remember it at all, but we will just have to teach it to him a few times :) I also had my very first interview on Wednesday and that was good! Oh! On Facebook, I friended this guy and started a conversation with him and I found out he was a member, and then I found out that he lived in Utah and served his mission in my area about 8 years ago... Haha!! The joys of Facebook finding!

Thursday we had zone conference and it was a lot of fun!! We got to talk about Facebook finding and how to stay safe when Facebook finding, family history, and a bunch of other fun stuff! We also went to a relief society activity with Kathy and that was a lot of fun!! We played croquet and ate tons of good food!! It was awesome!!

Friday we met with this guy named Dan and he is just this cute middle aged guy who has no home and no phone and no social media, but we had a lesson with him and he is just so funny! We also taught Kathy the Word of Wisdom and she was like, "Yeah if it's a commandment than I will follow it!" So she is just amazing!! 

Saturday we were in another Parade and we filled up over 250 balloons to pass out among the town. We grossly over estimated the size of the town because i'm pretty sure there are only about 100 people who live there and so we had a TON of extra balloons it was actually pretty funny haha! 

Sunday we went to church and were able to just have a kind of low key day. We did some finding and tracting and a few lessons, met with some less actives and it was just good! 

Mosiah 14:3-5

3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and [I] hid as it were [my] face from him; he was despised, and [I] esteemed him not.

4 Surely he has borne [my] griefs, and carried [my] sorrows; yet [I] did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

5 But he was wounded for [my] transgressions, he was bruised for [my] iniquities; the chastisement of [my] peace was upon him; and with his stripes [I am] healed.

I know the Atonement was an individual one by one experience and that we need to learn how to think about it that way! It is a beautiful message! :)

Sister Warburton

1. McIntosh lake

2. Me and my compadre 

3. My tag in front of Mcintosh lake

4. Silly faces

5. Our tags in the woods (ticks all around us haha)

6. Pretty flower on a dreary day

7. Parade in Sharon VT

McIntosh Lake.

Me and my compadre. 

Silly faces.

Our tags in the woods (ticks all around us haha).

My tag in front of Mcintosh lake.

Pretty flower on a dreary day.

Parade in Sharon VT.