It's Bloomin' Cold!!

Ok. It's FREEZING! I have only seen snow once this year (it happened to be while I was in the middle of a kidney stone attack haha) and I thought I may never see it this year but I was WRONG. Sunday morning we woke up to about 4 inches of snow. I couldn't believe it. It was so funny.. In the middle of the night I was awake and sister allred randomly woke up and said something about the window and went back to bed. She has a window over her bed so she knew it was snowing. Everytime she woke up she freaked out haha It was so funny. When we got up the next morning she said 'a window with snow on it was haunting my dreams last night!' She's hilarious. I love her.

This week has been really really good. Last week we were on fire and got so much done. This week was a bit harder because of the weather. it was so cold so people didn't really want to talk to us. We've seen some huge miracles though. We've been teaching this woman Mandie Brooks. She is amazing. She was baptized a year or two ago. We've been teaching her and recently her 9 year old son Ollie has started sitting in on the teaches as well. He has started asking tons of questions and so we gave him a childrens BOM and he loves it so much. We went to see him yesterday and he read us stories from it for about 20 minutes. He loves it. We are going to talk to Mandie about Ollie getting baptized. She wants him to. She couldn't stop crying when he was reading the BOM to us. It was so sweet. We are also seeing the german couple again tonight. They are so sweet. They have so many great questions about life. They are a little put off toward religion. They really don't like the pope haha but they are so cool.

Oh! I almost forgot. Remember how I told you President said he has another 'adventure/assignment' for me? He finally told me what it is. We had training on Thursday and interviews. He has asked me, Sister Allred, Sister Housley and the other Sister Allred to be senior sister trainers..... ha! we didn't really react when he told us cause we didn't know what that meant. He told us we are basically zone leaders but he can't call us that cause we're sisters. I don't want to be a zone leader!! When he started telling us about it though it doesn't really sound like anything zone leaders do. We are supposed to do exchanges with all the other sisters in the mission and basically train them. All of us are some of the oldest sisters in the mission and next transfer we are getting 7 new sisters so he wants us to help train them and all the other sisters as well. It sounds pretty intimidating to me but I think it will be a lot of fun! At this rate I will probably get to see nearly every sisters area in the mish. I've already served in half of them :) We haven't really worked out any details or anything but on Wednesday we are going to zone leader council with all the zl's haha I don't know. Just another adventure I guess! I think it will be a lot of fun.

Anyway, things are going so well! I love it here. Hastings is such a great area. The people are a lot of fun, it is a really good ward and such a beautiful area. I love it here!

Thank you for everything. I am so grateful for all you do for me. The support you've given me on my mission has helped me so much :) thank you! I love you so much!

Love, chelsea

PS. I can't believe Dallas is serving in Jenny's ward!!!! What the heck. That is so crazy... haha

PPS. HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATIE! I love you you old woman :)

Remember That Time I Saw the Queen?

I don't think I ever sent you these...

Hastings Flood

Hello! How are you this week? thank you for the email. It sound like things are great. Have you set up a time to do dinner with sister mills fam yet? I wish I could be there for it!

Things are going so well right now. Sister Allred and I have been working so hard this week. By Sunday I was so exhausted. TGI pday. When I got here Hastings didn't have much to work with. There aren't any solid investigators right now so we've been working hard to change that. We set a goal to flood Hastings with the Bom this week. It was fun to really focus on giving people the Bom and constantly testifying about it. That's when you can see the difference. When you start testifying, even if they don't want it you can see that they were touched by the spirit.

We found a couple of new people to work with as well so hopefully things will pick up now. We met this amazing couple on Saturday when we were contacting on the seafront. They are Gernot and Undine Frochlich from Germany. They were so nice to us which was refreshing because not many people had been that day. They were really touched by the things we had told them and they want to learn more so tonight we are bringing them Boms in their language. I am so excited to see them! Please pray for them! The sad thing is they might be moving to Australia soon to find a job there cause they are struggling to find one here. we'll see what happens. The whole time they were so excited about what we were telling them. Especially Undine. She kept saying 'my heart is racing!' haha and she can barely understand english so that was definitely the power of the spirit.

It's funny. The longer I'm out on my mission I feel like the less I have to say in my letters and I know you probably hate that haha But things are going so well. I love it here and I am having so much fun. Sister Allred is really cool. She served with sister poleboina for a long time so she knows how to make curry really well and in india they always eat it w their hands so I will bring that tradition home to you :) It's fun!

Anyway, I hope you are doing great! Thank you for everything! I love you so much. Have a great week.

Love, chels

 

Here's my address!!

1 rosehill house

44 mount pleasant

hastings, esat sussex

TN34 3SH

Love ya!

Hastings

Hello! :) how are you this week? Thank you for the email. Sounds like everyone is doing great! Things are good here. I don't feel like I have much to fill you in on because I just emailed a couple days ago haha.

I love Hastings already. It is so beautiful here. The ward is really great as well. It is a small ward. Maybe like 70 or 80 come on a regular basis. The people are so sweet though. They spoil us too because they LOVE sister missionaries :) of course they do. Hastings was white washed about 4 or 5 months ago so the ward is still thrilled that they get sisters. It is pretty funny. I like it, it seems like a good ward.

Good news!! I got to go to Nick and Kaushi's sealing!! It was amazing. They were sealed together and then to their little boy Trian who is about 7. It was so cool to be there. Definitely one of the highlights of my mission. Kaushi is pregnant now and she will be having a baby in June. They are such an amazing family, I love them. The sealing was beautiful, what a miracle I got to be there for it!! They seemed so happy and they looked so good. It was so fun to see some of the members from High Wycombe again. I feel like I've seen most of them a lot since I was transfered since I was working at the Visitors Center. The Bishop always says he sees me more since I've been transfered than he did while I was in High Wycombe. I think We're getting close at least! haha They are a great ward. All of them kept telling me I either need to come visit before I go home (unlikely) or come back and stay with them... yes please! The Bishops wife just had a baby and I saw him for the first time at the sealing. He is so cute! I was there for a big chunk of the pregnancy and finally got to see him!

I love Sister Allred. We get along really well. She is from Lehi Utah and she has been out on her mission for nearly a year. She knows sign language, she interprets back home, but she hasn't used it much on her mission. She is an amazing missionary. I love serving with her. We are having a lot of fun! and working hard of course :)

It's wierd to think my mission is coming to a close. I am loving it so much. It has been such a crazy time and so hard and i've faced so many challenges but it has been something that I have loved so much. I'm glad I made the decision to come. It wasn't easy to leave but I think it will be even harder to come home. I love talking to people on the streets and bearing my testimony every day to them. I love having an hour of personal study every day. I love looking out on my balcony and looking at the english channel :) I love it all!!! It was the best decision I ever made to come here. I can't even put into words what my mission has done for me. Since I'm coming home soon I feel a greater sense of urgency. When I talk to people I just want to grab them and say 'don't you realize what I have for you!?' If only they would Listen to me! There was a guy we stopped and talked to on the way to the library this morning. We talked to him for a good half an hour and I just wanted to shake him because he just wouldn't give it a try. It is so sad! If only these people knew what I knew and if only I could express it to them properly.

Anyway. Life is so good. I am so happy out here. I'm not coming home. I still love you though!

Have a great day!

Love, chels

Where, Oh Where, Is Sister Gregson Now?

Oh my goodness. You will not believe this. I got transfered AGAIN!!!! I just started serving in my 7th area. aaahhh. I thought my dl was joking when he told me I was leaving. I thought for sure I would leave bracknell and go back to exeter with sister kutsevych and if not I would stay in bracknell.. NOPE.

I am now serving in Hastings. It is amazing here!! I love it already. I was sad to be transfered again and really shocked. I'm tired of moving around but I'll take what I'm given. It's kinda fun traveling all around england:) I'm on the complete opposite end of where Exeter was. We live right on the coast. we have a balcony and you can see the english channel and if you look to the left of that you can see the old ruins of a castle. It is beautiful. You can get to France cheaper from here than to the temple :) pday? Hastings is gorgeous. I love it here so much already. I can't wait to send you pictures. You'll be so jealous :) haha The flat is so nice and the assistants told me it's the nicest in the mish. oh baby!

I'm serving with Sister Allred number 2. Not High Wycombe allred. Different one. She is really cool and since she came out I was wondering if we would serve together. She is from Utah. No more indians or ukrainians.

President told me he has another assignment/adventure for me but he hasn't told me what it is yet...ohh boy. He felt bad that he transfered me again but this assignment is for me and sister allred so yeah....we will see... who knows what he is up to now. My prediction is it is something musical cause sister allred is pretty musical as well.

There is a family from High Wycombe that is getting sealed this weekend. I am trying to get permission to go. I'm closer then I would have been if I went back to Exeter so there's a chance!! If not I'll probably just go to france :) The family was reactivated while I was in High Wycombe. It is Nick and Kaushi Hewakirindage (good luck with that name) they are from sri lanka and they have a little boy. They are the cutest family ever.

I was sad to leave Bracknell. Its a bit frustrating being transfered all the time but fun too. High Wycombe is the only area I've been in longer than 6 weeks. ha!

Sister Mills is training. A little Chinese girl!! I think her name is Sister Ho. She's cute :) Did Sister Mills' mom ever call you? She said she was going to.. Let me know if she does!

Anyway. Things are good. Just serving a mission in jolly ol england. I love it so much!!!

Thank you for everything. I love ya!

Sorry this is so short. I don't really have time to write properly.

Just know I love ya!

Love, sister gregson

Tri's are the BEST!

Hello! How are you this week?
I am doing great. I am so much better than i was last week. I'm back to normal! Finally! Things are going so well. This email will be super short because today I am going to OXFORD!!! yeah! And we are getting a spevial tour from the senior couple that is serving there.
I Love bracknell. It is fun here. I love serving in a tri. It is hilarious. Contacting is so funny because we are always bumping into each other and stuff. My companions are the best.
Sister Mills is awesome too. I just love her. We get along so well.
Anyway, I'm going to oxford now! Sorry this is so short! I have to go see england while I can!! time is running short.
BTW I am so excited I get home right before courtney leaves on her mish!!!!! YES!! I can't believe she's going to BULGARIA!! what? Good luck court :) I love ya!
I am so happy out here. I'm going to stay forever i think. I love it so much.
Thank you for everything! I love you! Have a great week!
Love, chels

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