Oh! We learned that Jesus likes pancakes on Tuesday.

Hey all!! It has been a crazy week! 

Loads of change, getting used to new faces, people, streets, etc. 

But hey, it's a ton of fun:D 

As always, let's talk weather. It has been crazy!! We've

actually had 4 days-ish of straight sun! It's been awesome!! :D

As you know I am now in Leicester! 

I had to say goodbye to all the members in Chelmsley which did kinda suck. 

They're like a part of me! I'll miss them for sure. 

But hey, new adventures ahead:)

Leicester has been pretty sweet so far! We live right in city centre

in this pretty cool studio flat (On the first floor. Fist pump!) It is

so different being in a city! I've forgotten what it's like. 

It's way cool! We have a Uni in our area as well so there are

loads of young people (and tons of Chinese. Yay Ni Hao's! :)) 

It's been pretty great so far. 

Plus in Leicester, there are a total of 14 missionaries! 

It's quite opposite from previous areas! Super cool. :)

Oh! We learned that Jesus likes pancakes on Tuesday. 

Watch the video and you see what I mean. 

Elder Campbell is indeed from Scotland. From a little town

outside Edinburgh called Dalkeith. The accent...reminds me a bit of

Mike Myers. ;D Legendary. He's pretty chill! We get along well!

Actually, it's kind of funny because on my 2nd day here, we received

a "mini missionary". He's a youth from Coventry that legit got set

apart as a mini missionary and came over to us to work with us for a

week! It's been fun dragging him around, introducing him to

everything :) The district is pretty sweet! We have us, Elder Lewis

(Virginia--way sick) who is receiving a greenie this week!, and

Sisters Horwath (Switzerland) and Dignos (Philippenes). Hopefully

things go alright together!

 Campbell and a family in the ward played a little trick on me.

 It was hilarious. So, he told me that there was this

polygamist family here in Westcotes. They don't have a congregation

around here, so they come to Westcotes ward and just don't take the

sacrament. Anyways, he took me to go meet them! I was thinking "Man,

this is gonna be way awkward." In reality they have triplets, two

identical and the other looks different. They used that to tell me

that the twins were Hannah's and his (his actual wife) and the other

was Charlottes and his (Hannah's sister). It was SO believable and

they just got talking about it and stuff. Finally, they just busted out

in laughs and couldn't handle it anymore!! Haha! It was hilarious. :) 

The ward here seems pretty cool! Haven't met the bishop yet

because he's on holiday. But everyone else so far is pretty great. :) 

Big-ish ward with about 100-115 that come out on a Sunday.

We had a sweet experience teaching this guy from Africa named Kole. He

was a referral from some sister missionaries. We met up all

together in a park and taught this him. It was a way cool experience!!

He's open and loves Christ! I'm excited to go further with him. :D

Teaching here has proven to be a bit different. Like I said

earlier, it's different teaching Chinese. They aren't brought up with

any beliefs, so they have no concept of what God even is.

Usually we dedicate the first lesson to teaching about the

Godhead/prayer. But it's cool, because we have to learn to teach very,

VERY, simply. I think it'll be a good time here in Leicester though. 

I'm excited to see what will come:)

I do believe that is about it for now. "That'll do donkey, that'll

do." (Yes, Campbell did that for me! Haha) 

So yeah, we shall speak to y'all next week! 

Hope all is fair for ya. Cheers!

Elder Wright

I'll be packing the bags and heading east to Leicester!! (Pronounced "Lester"...yes like creepy dude Lester)

WAZ up my peeps! :) 

So hey, I apologize in advance for the shortness of this email! 

I will explain after I mention some of the things in the week. ;) 

The weather the past two days has been delectable! :D 

Sunshine, heat....Mmm. So that's new!..;)

Let's see here...Tuesday was pretty sweet stuff. As you know, every

Tuesday we go out on splits with our WML and someone else from the

ward. Well, I had a nice time with that returned missionary, James

Heath! It was a ton of fun! While doing finding with him, we just

talked about missions and how cool they are. :) That was pretty

fun. After that, we had an ordeal with some chavs...flipping Chavsley

Hood (Chelmsley Wood).

After district meeting Thursday, I decided I'd work with Elder

Opheikens to help him out with finding and whatnot. He came

here and we tried talking to loads of people and we had a fun time! :)

We stopped a group of three guys in the park that were chilling

out. We got talking to them...one was kinda half believer half not,

one was agnostic, and one was atheist. It was a pretty fun time

talking to those guys! Loads of different points of view.

Also, I'll tell ya about a funny/awkward moment we had. :P We

received a challenge to start playing a video on the iPad right as the

door opens when tracting. We decided to try it to see how it went and

boy was that awkward...hahaha. Right as the door opened it was an

older lady and we began to play the "Because of Him" video. Like 5

(very long) seconds into it, she was like "Uhhh....can I help you??"

Haha! Then we told her what we were doing. It was just funny:) 

The simple joys in missionary work.

Sweetness...so let me tell you about the transfer dodge!! We got the

calls and I am leaving Chelmsley Wood after 7 months! I will

definitely miss it here...I do love it. :) But, I'm also ready for this

change. In our district, the other Elders are staying the same.

Elder Matus will be here and he's getting Elder Hoffman (South

Africa). As for me...I'll be packing the bags and heading east to

Leicester!! (Pronounced "Lester"...yes like creepy dude Lester) I'll

be serving in the Westcotes Ward (My area is Westcotes A). I'll be DL

over there for a big district (Ahh! Kinda nervous. And I'm replacing

the former AP DL over there...no pressure). So yeah, I'm excited for

sure! Oh yeah, my companion. I'll be serving with a Mr. Elder Campbell

from Edinburgh, Scotland!:) I've heard he's a cool lad...been out for

about 4 months. Should be fun! :D

Well anyways, wish me luck! :o 

Ether 12:27 is always a nice comforting scripture when feeling inadequate!;) 

Love ya guys loads! 

We shall speak in a weeks time! Ta!

Elder Wright

I love music, and few things are better than having a successful improv jam sesh!

Hey, hey!! What is up my peeps! :) 

This week was pretty good!! Not bad at all. 

The weather has been pretty much the same really. 

Nothing new there..just craziness. 

So, yeah, no need to really waste time with that

this week. ;)

We had a lot of cool things happen!!

 We've REALLY been trying to find new people to

teach but it can be a struggle sometimes. Well we thought about it and

figured it would be a good idea to look for a miracle through former

investigators! One day, we were going by formers, probably a list of like

20 peeps. Anyways, long story short, the very last person we went by,

the lady answered. She said that right now she's in a rough time in

her life. We were like "Hmmm...Plan of Salvation!" Taught her and set

up a time to see her Tuesday night this week! Woo hoo! 

Miracles:D

Thursday we had some zone meeting action! It was super good and

spiritual as always but I want to talk about something we did during

lunch after it. There was an elder from Idaho (Elder Fullmer) who was

over at the piano playing some stuff (he's way good by the way!) I

went over and we were talking for a while and I was listening to him

jam. Part of the way through we decided to jam together. So we decided

on a key and went for it!! It was a TON of fun! :D 

I love music and few things are better than having a 

successful improv jam sesh! :) 

Haha! Anyways, that was just a bit of fun!

After zone meeting, Elder Matus and I stayed in Coventry because we

were on exchanges with the ZLs. I was with Elder Smith (it brought us

back to the good ol times in Nottingham!:D) It was awesome! We had

some good times on exchange! :) I'll mention one experience...we were

knocking doors and came to this one. The lady answered and right away

was like "I'm Catholic and am very busy!" I don't know what we did or

said but somehow we got talking to her...eventually it led into the

gospel and we taught her the entire Restoration and she was totally

interested!:D It was awesome stuff for sure.

Saturday night was way fun! Our investigator, Teresa, asked if she

could take us out to eat! So, we were like "Flip yeah!!" Haha!

 She took us to this restaurant called Nando's. 

Oh. My. Such good food!!:D

It's this Portuguese chain restaurant. They sell some of the best

chicken in chips! Ah man:) They have all these different sauces that

you pour over the chicken and chips that just makes it to die for.

Mmmmmm.. Anyways, she's still doing well! She's coming to church

regularly and enjoys it a ton. Unfortunately, because of the setting at

Nandos, we weren't able to testify strongly about baptism and put her

on a date. :/ But! We're seeing her again very soon so we shall keep you

posted:)

Church was super good! I have exciting news as well. I'm sure I've

told ya but there are three missionaries serving from the ward right

now. Well...not anymore because one of them just finished!! :) He was

serving in Switzerland. It's been way cool to talk with him since he's

been back (which is less than a week). He's still trying to get used

to it all. He says he was ready to come home but he really misses

the mission! He bore a moving testimony in church. Since being a

missionary, I feel I can relate to the testimony of a

missionary/missionary work. It's such a great work!! 

Sometimes I can't put it all into words. :)

I think that's about it for the week! T'was good. :) This is the last

full week of the transfer. Next Sunday night I find out if I'm staying

or if I'm going! But yeah, keep up the goodness over in da States:)

Thanks everyone! 

Peace. Love. Cheerz.

Elder Wright