slide show

Tyson made a little slide show of pictures he has taken and also ones we have sent him. Its cute.

It was from the MTC up until his first area where he celebrated his 19th birthday. Love that boy of mine!!

Pday in Kettering England!

Mondays are Tyson's pdays, and he put these pictures on icloud for us to see. These are the Elders that are in his flat with him. Not sure what the other two companion ships names are, he hasnt said. One is from Chile and the other is from Norway, can you figure out which is from where hahaha. They had a huge breakfast that morning and it looks like they enjoyed it. 

 this is a view of outside their flat.

 in the fog.

 Their building, their flat is the top one in the middle with the 4 pained window.

 Tysons was on cloud nine, they went to teach a family and the dad has a huge Jordan shoe fetish just like Tyson!! So they had to take a look at all the shoes lol.

 Tyson got his Birthday packages!! Heather Johnson from our ward was going to England and offered to take them with them. They mailed them from where they were staying and he got them a couple days later!! Wonder if he will wait until tomorrow to open them lol.

he said when he sent this picture, "welcome to England, where you cant read any Book of Mormons lol there are so many other languages over there, very multi cultural.

Tyson's New area!

A few days ago we received an email and pictures from Tyson's Mission President, President Stevens. He informed us that Tyson had arrived at the Mission Home and met his new companion, Elder Sanchez from Spain. Here are the pictures he sent as well of all of them. His  first area he is serving in is a city called Kettering, which is in the Northampton Zone. its below in the light green zone on the top left, and the city is also on the top left corner of the zone. Since Tyson gets an ipad for his mission, he has been putting all his pictures onto a shared folder on icloud. So this way he doesn't have to send all the pictures thru email, they are all just there, we can see them and keep track of them as he sends them. Its so nice and it makes it so much easier for him too. Im so glad that he is doing well and excited about things. He did say in his last email the day before he left the MTC that he was sad to leave the MTC, he loved it there and loved how small it was and how it felt like a family there. There was just over 100 people in the MTC and he said he talked to every single person there at least once! Thats something you cant do in Provo! He made a lot of really strong friendships there too and was sad to see them leave to other missions. He has a few that are in the same zone and same mission. So i'm sure that they will see each other in zone meetings soon enough. I can't wait til tomorrow! Mondays are his P day now. We will most likely wake up to an email in the morning! This 7 hour time difference is taking some getting used to. There is a couple in our ward, he is from England, who were going there this week for a visit and offered to take a package over for Tyson! That was so awesome and we were so grateful for their kindness!! I hope he can get it in time for his birthday on Saturday!!

Into the Field!

Today Tyson woke up bright and early (5:15am his time or 10:15pm our time) to get ready to leave the MTC. He said in his email Tuesday that he will be sad to leave, he has loved his time there and met so many great friends, .a lot who are not in his mission. He was looking forward to getting into the field and hopes he has a great trainer. Thats what I hope too! I can't wait to hear where his first area is! Here is his email from this week!

Elder Bourne and his Companion Elder Mauerhan.

Elder Bourne with Elder Bevans

Elder Bourne with his room mate Elder Clabaux

 Hello everyone!

So this week has flown past... It seems like I was just emailing and

boom. Here I am again haha. So this week as a whole MTC we went on a

church history tour! We went into Preston and toured the city where

the first apostles arrived and where they began preaching. That was

such a cool experience to see how the places haven't changed all that

much. One balcony where they preached is still there! We visited a

house where those early apostles stayed, and they had an account with

the devil, I think it was Heber C. Kimball gave another guy a blessing

and was thrown across the room. Then they could all see the "Devils"

in the room and they used their priesthood to get rid of them. Next we

went to the River Ribble, where the first baptisms happened in

England. The city of Preston has made a park and it has a sign that

talks about how significant this place is the the LDS church! After

that we walked through the park and came onto a street, just some

random street we all thought, but then we stopped in front of this

house and our guide told us that this was the house President Hinckley

lived in while he served his mission, that is also the same place

where he received the letter from his dad stating "forget yourself and

go to work." So that was super cool!! After that we visited a little

town called Downam (I have no idea how it is spelt) and it was this

little village in the English country side where this family legit

bought every house in the 1600 and if anyone wanted to do anything

they had to go through this family to change the house and such. This

is also a spot Elder Holland has been know to come to ponder. He

received revelation on where to build a temple in this area, and got

the answer Chorley or better know as the Preston temple.

We went on splits yesterday and I actually got to talk in the lesson

haha, the teacher who we were teaching came running after me and Elder

Gago and told me that was the best I had ever taught and I needed to

talk to Elder Mauerhan and tell him he needs to stop talking so much

and let me talk because I have a spirit about me and I know my stuff..

So that was super reassuring!

I've actually loved the MTC. I could not imagine going to Provo and

seeing new people all the time.. I can say I've talked to every single

person here at least once! I love love love having a small MTC because

you just feel like a huge family! It's so awesome! The time here has

flown past, it doesn't seem like I've been here for 3 weeks.. I'm

nervous and excited to get out of here. Mostly nervous because I don't

wanna be in the city right of the bat haha.

So they feed us a lot of lamb here, and I actually really enjoy it!

Yorkshire pudding is to die for.. Those are the best thing ever on

Sunday! We have a TON of potatoes. Legit almost every meal. Soo

everyone has been constipated 😂😂 we've all been taking stool

softener because we don't poop for like 3 days hahahah. One elder said

it best "I push for a mile and I get an inch! This is definitely me

learning patience and perseverance!"

Anyways that's all for this week!

Elder Bourne