After a nice bike ride through the country, we went back and ate at a chippie....living the dream!

What's up!! How it goin?? :)

 This was an alright week I guess! 

It started off pretty slow, but eventually it picked up a bit! 

We experienced some crazy, crazy weather earlier this week. 

A random hail storm in the middle of the week!

It was very crazy because literally 30 

min after it happened it was sunny and hot. 

But ya know...

that's how it is over here! Haha!

 I took a video so hopefully it gets to ya! :)

Sorry if this email isn't too long.

I'm struggling to think of anything spectacular to talk about. 

We had zone conference this week with President!:) 

We received good training on "pulling the yoke together"

...whether it's with companion, the ward members, 

literally in any phase of the work you should all be working

together to help pull it along! It was good stuff.

We had a real fun Pday today! We biked with one of the members out

past a town called Maxstoke to see the nice English countryside.

Mmmm....never gets old! I'll send some pics I took;) After a nice bike

ride through the country, we went back and ate at a chippie....living

the dream! Haha I love England.

Not too many stories to share this week unfortunately. The work is

still going. We've taught Paul and we're happy to hear that

he's living the Word of Wisdom as of now, so that's way cool! 

STILL struggling to commit to church but other than that...he's way good!:)

And Teresa is well also...still progressing! :) We're hoping to have a

good conversation about baptism with her so wish us luck!

Yup...so sorry this is about it really!:/ 

Better luck next week though.

 I hope you all are having a grand old summer!

 Enjoy the week and best wishes:) 

Ta ta.

Elder Wright

We had a fun miracle this week which reconfirmed to me that God is very much involved in His work.

Wazz up my friends!:) 

This week was pretty dang good to be honest!!

There was loads of awesomeness going on! 

But as always, let's talk about the rubbish we call weather. 

This week has been sooo wet!! 

It literally didn't stop raining for 3-4 days. 

During one of those days, it was flooding pretty bad. 

I was with a member on splits and came across

a car stuck in a river of water on the road. 

We got out of the car and helped push the guy out! 

 My shoes are slowly drying over the radiator in our flat;)

 It's been alright though! Fun adventures.

One day we decided to switch things up a bit, so we biked to a town

called Coleshill which we don't normally go to.

 It's a posh little English village. 

Not a ton happened there though! 

They were very rich people (who can be somewhat prideful sometimes). 

One of the old guys was wearing a toupee...I didn't know people 

still wore those for reals!! Haha! But yeah, it was nice to have something new!:)

We had two great lessons with our investigators. 

First lesson was with Paul. He's still doing alright! 

He's continuing to read and think about the gospel a lot, 

but he's struggling at the moment to commit to coming to church.

We set a goal with him to shoot for next week, so let's hope!! 

We also taught Teresa one night (who came to church again!) 

with our bishop and helped her with some of her concerns. 

If we can see her regularly and have her come to church regularly, it'll be great!:) 

We taught Thomas Witts again but unfortunately he's on a low point right

now. Loads of concerns about certain things. 

We eventually just testified of the Saviour and advised him 

to make sure Christ is the foundation of his testimony! 

We showed him the Mormon Message "Mountains to Climb"

(which is great...I would highly recommend watching it;)) The Spirit

was very strong in that lesson! Let's just hope on his own time he can

keep on pushing through it! :)

We had a fun miracle this week as well, which reconfirmed to me that

God is very much involved in His work. 

We were on a bus to go to the Coleshill train station to exchange 

with the Nuneaton Elders. On the bus, we got a call from 

the other guys saying they missed their train.

We decided to get off and knock on some doors. We followed our

feelings after praying for guidance and came to a little stretch of

three houses. The first one.....nada. The second one.....yyyeeee-no.

Then the third one....we got talking to this really cool guy. We

talked about his religious life and answered some of his questions. We

told him a bit about the Plan of Salvation and set up a time to see

him the next week! He's a cool guy!:) It was super cool and it all

started with those other guys missing their train. Because of that, we

met our new investigator. The Lord truly either leads us to those that are ready

 or puts them into our path:)

We had a few things to try to help the district out this week! First,

we had district meeting. I focused the training on fear vs. faith,

then we set the goals for the coming transfer. We had good input from

all the Elders in the district and it motivated us to work real hard

this next transfer!:) Then we had some district finding in Nuneaton to

try to help them out (the ZLs showed up too. It was way fun to have 6

missionaries walking around in their town centre talking to people!).

And, finally I had exchange with Elder Davis (from my group) which was

pretty good stuff!

I think that's about it really! If I remember anything else that was

noteworthy, well...I won't be able to let you know if it comes to me. ;)

 Sorry mates. Until next week! 

I love ya guys and hope you're enjoying the summer over there! 

(By the way...it's June 20th??! Where does the time go..) 

Cheers guys! :)

Elder Wright

June 13, 2016

Sup peeps!! I'm back! 

This week went by way fast..it seems like I was
just here writing my email last week! Crazy crazy:) 

This week was pretty good!! It's been pretty dang warm that's for sure! 

Some of the members are like "You guys are from Arizona and Mexico, 

you should be used to this!" There's a couple things about this. Firstly, I never
used to bike around for miles in suit trousers and a full backpack.
And lastly, it's a different kind of heat here. Arizona is a dry
oven heat and over here it's humid, which makes it seem much hotter
than the temperature actually is. So yeah! The nice thing is the rain
and clouds will cool ya off a bit:D

It was nice, last Monday we didn't have a dinner appointment set.
Right as we got to our flat, a member called us and invited us over
for dinner. Yay blessings!! They're into the Lord of the Rings
as well, so I got the chance to go on their keyboard and play some of
the Lord of the Rings songs! Even better about it, you could set it to choirs and strings, which added to the effect! We were cracking
up:D haha It was a good ol time...

On Tuesday, we biked over to Water Orton to go by an older family we
tracted into a while back. They are way cool people! They love going
over to America and seeing the different places. We talked a while
about San Francisco (one of my favourite places) and about the BUSH
MAN! Hahaha They were like "Yeah we'd just sit and watch him scare
people forever." I was like "Me too!!" Haha They gave us a big bag of
Jack Links beef jerky, which was delicious. :D That is something
that I have missed...they don't believe in beef jerky here.

There was a certain morning that I was struggling a bit...the day
was going slow, not much happening, so we decided to lift our spirits
by going to visit Godfrey, that newly returned member. And boy was
that a pick me up! It was nice to be able to just explore the gospel
with this member. His motivation and energy about the gospel was
pretty motivating and inspiring! That legend of a man. :) Lately we've
been sharing points from a certain Ensign talk that I would highly
recommend to you guys if you want to think more about happiness! It's
from February 2016 and its entitled "What Can the Book of Mormon Teach
Us About Happiness?" It's got some cool principles! :)

One day, Elder Matus was leading me to a street that he had picked to
tract. Along the way, I kinda got thinking about something. I had no
idea where he was taking me, and in my mind it made the journey seem
longer, because I had no idea where the finishing point would be. I
don't know if you've ever noticed that before! It's similar with
hiking. If you've never done the trail and aren't too familiar with
the distance and whatnot, it can make the journey a bit harder on the
mind! Well it's the same with the mortal journey! If you have a good
view of where you want to end up, that finishing line, it can help us
along that journey. I am a firm believer of needing a DAILY reminder
of who we really are and our divine potential. It creates that proper
perspective we all need!:) Anyways, just some thoughts;)

We had exchanges this week, which was great! I was with Elder
Opheikens and went to Nuneaton for the day.

 Man, that was nice:) Were hoping to help those guys build 

something up in their area because it's lacking a bit. 

But! The ward members in Nuneaton are way cool! We
went to their ward council and had a good time talking over things.
They talked a lot on how their ward is doing when it comes to Sabbath
Day observance. In the conference with Oaks, he talked about how the
first presidency and quorum of the twelve are thinking that if we
improve our Sabbath Day observance, than the plateau that the church
is on will hopefully start moving up! There were some good ideas there
though. But yeah, the exchange was mighty fine. :)

We had a cool miracle this week! We've been trying to find
new investigators here. Well on Sunday, one of the older ladies in the
ward was walking to church and started talking to this girl. Turns out
the girl was interested in the church so they both walked together to
the church! When they got to the church, we met her and talked for a
bit and set up a time to teach later in the week! It was awesome:) And
Teresa was finally able to make it to church again!! So it ended out
to be a pretty good week with loads of little miracles.

I think that is about it for now folks:) 

Enjoy the rest of your week!
Love ya tons!! 

Ta ta.

Elder Wright

The smell of cake flowed into my nostrils for a good half hour:D

Sup guys!! How you been?? 

I hope the weather is sort of normal back

home!...because over here it's mental!  Early in the

week it was cold, Tuesday was a very wet depressing day. 

That carried on until a few days later when it started to warm up!

 And now, today was BEAUTIFUL weather:) 

Warmth, blue skies, etc. (The types of things

you don't appreciate until you live somewhere like the UK) Haha

This week was overall a pretty great week! :) We had a couple of

funnies. There's this old couple named David and Iris that live

here. We visit them every so often, and the funniest thing about them

is they play Xbox together!! They're like in their 80's!  Iris

was describing when she was "stuck on a level" and "people were

shooting at me". It was sooo funny to hear this old woman describe her

Xbox adventures. Haha :) Also, I was in the car with Bro. Kitsell and

I looked out the window and saw a Hobbit house door! So the

next day we biked over there and did a bit of finding. 

(Knocking on doors in the Shire;)

We finally got to see Teresa again!!! She's the one a while back I was

telling ya about. She's still way solid, she has just been soo busy

lately. Like, crazy, crazy, busy. Hopefully things lighten up a bit for

her soon!:) But she's cool. We talked to her on the doorstep for a

while. (and it was nice because she bakes cakes, so the smell of cake

flowed into my nostrils for a good half hour:D ) It was good to

finally catch up with her and hear she's doing okay:) She said she

should be able to come, her and Bill, to church next week. Keep the

fingers crossed! We are also still teaching Paul, such a lad! He just

needs to be able to realize the significance of coming out to church

on a Sunday. Otherwise, he's legit:)

There was a bit more persecution this week than usual.

 I don't know why. I guess the Lord is trying our patience. 

 A group of chavy bruvs were talking to us, making fun of us. 

It was ridiculously pathetic though! 

They were just like "Jesus ain't real! Why do you

believe in that crap!" I just asked them "Why don't you believe!?"

Their arguments were pathetic. Just makes ya feel pity for

them.  Another time we were biking and this car of chavy bruvs

drove past and squirted water (I hope) on us. Haha!

A sign I made for the bathroom door. Get it?

This week we also decided to pop by one of the guys we were

teaching a while back who is an alcoholic. Things weren't progressing

well with him so we stopped seeing him for a bit. But he's such a nice

guy!:) He's the type of drunk that doesn't get angry or aggressive, he

just gets really goofy. Anyways, we popped by and boy....this

time I felt a great deal of compassion for him and I sincerely wanted

to help him with his issues. (Which is something I honestly didn't

feel for him when we were first teaching him) He has had a really,

really tough life. It's things like that that help you view life with a

different perspective. What you think are problems are mere stones

compared to the boulders some are burdened with. It truly makes you

think... I hope in some way we can help him come unto Christ and

experience that "lifting of heavy burdens" that He so graciously

provides.

We had a special treat this week. :) We had a tri-stake conference

with Elder Dallin H Oaks!! It was way cool! I always love when General

Authorities speak I smaller settings because they're more inclined to be

real people and joke around and laugh. It was great! Also

President Kearon of the Area Seventy was there. These are some of the

quotations/notes I wrote down:

"One of the best ways to create vibrant faith is to reach out to those

in need." -President Kearon

"The good feeling we get when we gather on a Sunday never lasts if we

don't act when we depart." -President Kearon

"In the pre existence, all of us fought for the Saviour. When we take

the sacrament and take His name upon us, He fights for us!" -Sister

Oaks

"What I say is less important than what the Spirit will tell your

heart. Listen." -Elder Oaks

Elder Oaks' mother was a widow that was poor. Growing up, his mother

earned 100 dollars a month and payed 10 dollars every single month for

tithing. One day, little Dallin asked his mother why she payed so much

money to the church. This was her response. "There may be people that

are rich enough to not pay tithing. We are poor, and we need the Lords

promised blessings."

It's always a wonderful illuminating experience being able to learn

from a witness of Christ! It's so cool:) Overall it was a

great week! Time flies for sure! I've been on the mission for 10

months to the day today! Crazy, crazy! :) At the conference, I was able

to reunite with some pals from a while ago. Elder Du Plessis, from my

first area! I hadn't seen him in over 7 months! It was fun to see him

for sure. I hope all is well with you peeps! :) 

Have a most bodacious week. 

Cheers.

Elder Wright