Work hard but also have a good time.

Ruins of Coventry Castle

Hey hey!! How's it goon? 

Things over here are going okay:) 

Coventry has been a blast!! Fun stuff indeed. 

I'll be heading back to the Hood this week though! Crazy beans man. 

Weather early this week was just kinda normal. 

We've been enjoying a few dry days in a row. Friday, the

weather was FANTASTIC. It was warm, no thermals, no fleece liner, so

nice:) But then Saturday came. Apparently there's a huge storm coming

this way so that's exciting (except for the biking through the wind

part. Haha) The weather the past couple of days hasn't been great but

hey!...helps you appreciate when the weather is good;D

So yeah, Coventry. 

Pretty cool place! A lot different experience compared to Chelms. 

Chelms is slower paced while over here is high speed man! 

It's cool having so many teams in the same area though:)

Sports in the morning is way cool! That is one thing I'll miss most

probably. Haha I mean, I guess we could get up early in Chelmsley Wood

and play football with the chavy bruvs buuuuut.....;)

It is very cool being able to talk with a bunch of Uni aged students!

We also taught some people from China which was pretty fun. 

And there are many many different cultures here in Coventry. 

(Side note for anyone wanting to visit England, Coventry

 is a cool place to visit! Many things to see) 

Actually one of the other Elders here in Coventry,

Elder Holbrook (from Utah) was called to England Birmingham Mission

Mandarin Chinese speaking! He's doing pretty well to be honest. He

and Sister Chen (from Taiwan) speak together sometimes.

Tuesday we had the trainers meeting at the mission home.

 That went well! I got some good council on how to prepare for this next step.

 A lot of talking about how they will feel, how important it is to be

obedient, how to be a good example to him, make him enjoy the first

couple transfers. What stood out to me was...

1) Be obedient 

2) Work hard but also have a good time with them. 

Help them enjoy their first couple months. 

It's been pretty cool to be able to look back on my

experience as a trainee and try to remember what it was like

 (it wasn't that long ago so it's not hard to think back that far;)) 

It's kind of weird thinking back on my first few months in Peterborough. 

It all just kind of seems like a dream.

Speaking of dreams and whatnot, I got a funny story for ya. The

other night, I woke up to Elder Hayes talking in his sleep.

 I was in my sleepy stupor and wasn't really paying attention. 

Finally, I looked over to see what he was doing. 

And what I found scared the flip crap out of me! 

I looked over to see him sitting on the edge of his bed

looking at me while talking. Imagine what a psychiatrist looks like

when he's sitting speaking with his patient. 

Yeah....that's what it looked like. 

And remember, he's not consciously doing any of this!

 He then said "Where's the phone." I was like "I don't know man."

He asked again and then laid back on his bed facing the opposite

direction one normally sleeps. 

It was hilarious!! Kinda creepy....but hilarious. :)

Like I said, I'm gonna miss this district. It's a fun one! 

I am happy I got to experience it for just a small while though:) 

Back to the Hood this week for training. 

I'm excited to get back into it though! 

I was able to speak with Teresa and Bill...some investigators

from Chelms. Bill was the one who came to church on the Sunday before

we left. Turns out he's been thinking about all of this a lot!! I'm

excited to see where that goes:) No matter how fun it was here in

Coventry, I'll be going back home to Chelmsley Wood. I'm excited to

head into this with my first born son!:D

Elder Hayes is a cool guy. A bit reserved, a bit awkward sometimes,

but he's a nice guy for sure! We had a great time:) He taught me some

good work ethic the past week or so. He's a hard worker! He will do a

fine job as district leader here in Cov. But yeah...if you guys want

to place bets on where my boy will be from, by all means go for it! We

heard one of them was coming from Fiji so it could be him!! :o Haha

Anyways, love you guys a ton. Thanks for all the support. 

Enjoy life....and oh!

 Say hi to Simply Blueberry Lemonade for me....I miss her. 

Haha!

 Cheers mates.

Elder Wright

The Gate's Band And More!

Sup guys!:)

 

These people are the Gates. They are a great family in our ward.

Holy flip...crazy week!! 

Mostly because of something that happened at the end of the week. 

Just so you know, the weather has started to get a bit warmer! 

That is good. We are no longer wearing the fleece liners in our coats. 

But, with English weather, it could start snowing in the next 

10 minutes so you never know. Haha!

The beginning of the week was pretty normal. Nothing too special.

Wednesday we had zone meeting in Coventry. THAT was crazy. 

All our trains got cancelled because of some flooding

 so we arrived late to zone meeting. After zone meeting, 

we were heading back to go to the Hood when I got a strong prompting

 not to get on the train we were going on. 

So, we followed through with it! 

We arrived in Chelmsley Wood safely.

 I didn't know what that prompting was all about 

until later that evening. Because of all the train delays and that prompting

and everything, we had to switch up our plans for the day. 

In the evening we went to a town called Water Orton 

(which we had previously planned to go to in the afternoon). 

We were able to find someone that is never in during 

the day that we were able to teach!! And she seems

super ready to hear the gospel! We taught her the Resto on the

doorstep and she was like really excited and like, "This is really

cool!" Her name is Eve (which is fitting!). Cool stuff though:) 

Lesson learned, follow promptings because you NEVER

 know when something great might come of it!

T'was a good week as far as missionary work goes. 

We were able to see some fruits from our labors!

 So, you remember Teresa? The one investigator that has come to church with us?

 She cares after a guy named Bill and we randomly stopped by them one night.

 We were able to teach them together for the first time ever!

 Teresa wasn't able to make it to church, but BILL came! 

It was super cool:) AND a less active that we had taught

 was also able to make it to church! Good stuff!:)

A couple of funnies this week. I hadn't even had my nice new bike for

a week when I got a flat tire! Hahaha! Bike problem struggle is real.

Another thing that happened related to the bike probs...usually I clip

my helmet to the bike lock because I couldn't be bothered to carry my

helmet around. And I learned my lesson! A group of chavs were

persecuting us as we were tracting and we looked over and saw them

wearing my helmet yelling "Mr. Mormon!!" (Such a sad breed. Haha) When

we got back to my bike, my helmet got smashed through by the chavy

bruvs. Haha I'll send a video we took!

 Also, we were on this street,

and a group of little children came up to us. This little girl asked

in her tiny British accent "Excuse me, are you a bible basher?" Hahaha

So...now I get into why this week was crazy. 

Transfers is coming up next week and let me tell you...we are not staying together. 

But before I go into the details, we got some news on Friday during lunch.

Our phone started ringing and it was the APs calling. 

When they call, you know shiz nit is about to go down! Haha 

Long story short...I'm preggers!! Haha!

 I got the call to be a trainer starting next transfer!! Ahhhh!! 

:o Super crazy! I'm pretty nervous! I'll be training here in Chelmsley Wood.

 And Elder Hill is going to Peterborough! My birth place! Haha

This transfer is a bit different as well. So, transfers are on Tuesday's

now (which means we get the news on transfers on Saturdays) But,

the new "greenies" don't come until the 29th of March. 

So there's a bit of a weird situation for the two weeks before then. 

I'll be paired up with someone else, who also is training, in Coventry. 

So I'll be in Coventry for two weeks serving there and there won't be any

missionaries at all here in Chelms for a couple of weeks. 

Kinda weird situation!

But yeah.....training. Haha Man! It literally feels like I was just

trained! Like I said earlier, I'm a bit nervous for this! But it will

be quite the adventure! :D If any of you want to give me any advice

for training, feel free! I could use some:) haha Pretty eventful week

though!:) But yeah, that's about it really. Hope you all have a

fantastic week! Cheers mates!:)

Elder Wright

                                            3/7/16

More of the Gates Band

Sup peeps!!:) I have officially hit my 7 month mark! 

Crazy beans man.

But yeah. So, as always....let us chat about the weather first! 

There was a day that had the absolute most ridiculous weather

 I've ever seen! Last Wednesday. 

I experienced all four seasons in one day. 

And even crazier it was in the time of about 20 minutes! :o 

We were traveling to a town called Coleshill in our area. T'was just kind of

overcast, a bit chilly. Then we began tracting and it got a bit

warmer, a tad bit of sunshine. Quite nice! But no joke, what I'm about

to say is a true story. Warm-ish weather and sun shining and then it

started snowing for like 15 seconds and then stopped again!! Hahaha!

And then afterwards the sun was shining bright and it was warm. Weird

stuff! Haha:)

Just so you know, the bike that I have been using up till now was a

secondhand bike I had received from the mission home.

 It had a couple of problems with it, not too major. 

I have been getting flat tires a lot lately, but it's not a 

normal puncture one would get in the tube.

The way the hole is situated on the rim of the wheel makes it easy to

cut the valve of the tube all the time! After that had happened a

couple of times as well as the other minor issues, I decided I better

buy a new bike. So I did! It's a good one as well:) 

I'm hoping to take good care of it so I can perhaps sell it to a missionary 

towards the end of my mission. I'm just kinda scared chavs will steal it because

it's nice! We have two nice bike locks that we use when locking up

now. Before I couldn't give two craps if anyone stole my bike but now

I'm taking extra precautions;D  Also another side story, Elder Hills

bike was locked up to a pole outside of the bike shop for a few days

when we were waiting for my bike to come in. When we came back to it,

there was pigeon poop ALL over his bike and the lock!!

 Haha Looks like that pigeon had a nice feast of curry. ;)

We were able to teach many doorstep lessons this week! 

We also found a couple of new investigators which seem pretty dang cool

 so I'm excited to start working with them!:) 

The story of the work here is literally everyone is busy.

 Investigators, members, you name it. The only people

that aren't busy working or something are all the chavs that don't

have jobs! Haha But hey, we keep pushing on because we don't want to

give up on Heavenly Father (sounds cheesy but it's true!). I think

patient perseverance is one of the more important tests of mortality.

One morning, we and a few members decided to help Solihull Council by

picking up rubbish in one of the public parks. 

And oh man, that was great! :D It's pretty sad what

 we as humans have done to destroy this beautiful earth God created! 

There is just so much rubbish everywhere here! 

So, it felt good to do something about it:) 

We were loving it though! 

T'was a nice little switch up from the usual stuff. :)

The past seven months has been some of the most important in my entire

life! I can't even begin to explain everything I have learned. I have

learned just how significant the Gospel of Christ is in our lives, and

I never truly understood until now!

 I seriously can't even describe it in words....sorry. 

 Thank you all for all the love and support!

Cheers mates! 

Oh! Snd happy English Mothers Day

;D

Elder Wright