Oh missionary work...gotta love it!

October 24th

Yo yo my peeps!! What's up with you!:D 

It has been a while since a proper email.

 Hopefully I can fill ya in with all the good stuff, although 

I don't have a ton of time to write. Haha

The Quentin L Cook conference......FLIPPN GREAT man! :D 

It was soo good, I absolutely loved it!

 It was one of the most spiritual moments on my mission, 

as far as intensity of the Spirit. It's absolutely crazy. 

 Elder Cook, to be honest, he's one of those Apostles
that's kinda overlooked sometimes. When he testified though, it was
 intense. Literally every time he said "Jesus Christ" he
looked up. Then he pulled out the dodge, "I know the Savior's
voice....I've personally seen His face." The spirit was so
strong in that room, you could hear a pin drop. It just goes to show
that those guys that we listen to every six months are a
powerful witnesses of the Lord. Oh man, it's so cool. :) 

Seriously, I'm loving the mish right now. Boo yah!

Well hey, life is going pretty good!:) We've got a baptism coming up
in a couple weeks so that's great! Turnbow is way cool! We're
getting used to the ropes and everything. It's crazy nice having a
car. :D haha Oh boy. Well hey, that's the basics for now I believe! 

Hope you all are greatly fantastic!!:D 

Cheers,

 til next week!

Elder Wright

October 15th

Hello hello!! I suppose you are wondering why I'm emailing on a
Saturday!! :o As I told you, Elder Quentin L Cook will be coming to
the mission on this coming Monday, so our Pday is today rather than
then. :) Fun stuff!! Anyways, this week has been pretty alright so far!
Transfers was this week as well so it's pretty dang busy! Elder Hayes
moved off to Loughborough (which is funny because it's his first area
he served in!) I got a guy named Elder Turnbow, who is from Idaho. He
seems pretty cool so far!:) He's been out for about 10 months or so
and this is his first transfer as ZL. (It's a bit weird because I'm
supposed to train him to be a ZL when I'm not entirely sure what to do
either. Haha We'll see how it goes!)

So yeah, sorry if this is kind of a short email! I'm trying to think
back to any cool experiences really.. It's been a slow couple of days
because of the whole transfer and whatnot! There are some huge changes
to the zone over here's, just with teams whitewashing out and new
ones coming in. Our mission president isn't too afraid to do that a
lot...which, well I hope it's revelation! Haha:) It has been pretty
stressful the past couple of days with the new switch up but we shall
figure it out hopefully! :) Well hey, I don't have loads of time today
but everything is great so far! Super excited for the transfer!! :) It
should be great. Well anyways, gots to go! 

Love ya loads!!:) 

Cheers!

Elder Wright

October 10th

Hey all! :) We had a pretty good week over here! Oh boy, the weather is

dropping again! :o It's still at that awkward temperature where, when

biking, you put on a coat because it's cold but then after cycling for

a while, it's burning hot!! Haha Oh well...;)

We're doing pretty well! :) We just found out that transfers

will actually be this coming Friday due to an unforeseen opportunity

coming up next Monday...Elder Quentin L Cook will be coming to our

mission for a conference!!!:D That'll be way cool!! So they had to

move transfers back a few days because of that. Exciting news for

sure!

We had a few way cool things happen this week involving less actives. :)

We decided one night to pop by a guy named David Clark. We went by

and this old guy answered the door basically saying, "I know you're

looking for David but he moved down south." Hmmm...fair enough! So we

began talking to this man, whose name is Keith Clark, David's father.

Eventually he asked if we'd like to come in so we were of course were like

"Yeah!" Keith has lost quite a bit of faith over the years. He hadn't

been to church in about 12 years! (It was also funny because the

sisters have been trying to work with him as well but he'd been

dodging them! Haha) We shared a bit with him about our testimonies of

the scriptures and praying and whatnot. That night we set up a time to

do service for him on the Saturday. Well the sisters called us up and

were like "Hey, did you stop by Keith??" They'd said that Keith

actually called them after we popped by and told them that we kinda

pricked his conscience a bit. After doing service in his back

garden and whatnot, to our great surprise HE CAME TO CHURCH!:D After

12 years...he came!....and loved it as well:) 

It was so cool to see him there.

Haha! We have a funny side story I wanna tell ya. We were tracting

one night and this hard core atheist opened the door. He was nice

enough! Got talking with him normally, not interested at all. Mid

conversation, his cat jumps out of the house and over this hip high

brick barrier thing. Elder Hayes asked if he wanted us to grab his cat

and he was like "Yeah sure!" So Hayes leaned over this brick wall and

stretched and stretched until he grabbed this cat. Well he slipped his

feet in the process, so he was basically planking perpendicular to

this brick wall holding a cat in his hands!! Hahaha Eventually he got

up and handed this atheist his cat and he said to us sarcastically

"Cheers!...all in the name of the Lord." Haha

Also another cool story with a less active. We've been working with a

guy named Herman. He's come to church I think once since I've been

here. Anyways, at church this week he told us that he had a spiritual

experience in the week! He's going through a real rough time right now

and he said he finally decided to get on his knees and pray. Literally

a day later, an old friend in New Zealand called him up and told him

that she had a dream of him (Herman) and his father together (who has

passed away). This was a HUGE answer to a pray for him!! We will be

seeing him through the week as well:D

One last cool thing that happened...do you remember me telling you

about that Wilson guy, the Albanian? ("Wilson!!" -Tom Hanks) We set

up a time to see him at his house. We got there and he had a few of

his friends as well all sitting around the table. We started kinda

teaching all of them! One was from Holland and the other was from

somewhere in Africa, and then of course Wilson. There was a moment

when we were teaching where I thought to myself "Look at where I am!

Sitting in this Victorian house in England teaching these foreigners

(whom are huffing and puffing away) and I'm teaching them about Jesus

Christ and His plan for us." Haha Occasionally I just have those

moments sometimes where I realize what I'm actually doing! It's pretty

cool:) At the end, when we were leaving, the African said "Thank you

for this message of peace." They said we could pop by again!:) Oh

missionary work...gotta love it!

I do believe that is about all it for this weeks entry!:) I shall let

you know next week the news of the transfer!:o And if I don't write

next Monday, it's because our Pdays will be jacked up for the next

week. Sure love you guys!!:D Hope ya enjoy your week! 

Cheerio!

Elder Wright

We got talking about the Book of Mormon, and as we spoke about it, his face just lit up! As if, in his eyes, he was holding something precious.

Yo, yo, my peeps! Y'alright? :) 

This week was pretty good actually!

Loads of good stuff happening and whatnot! The zone had a baptism over

in Boston!! Yahoo!! The sisters are rocking it out there. Super cool. :) 

The weather is for sure getting autumny. ;)

 Which means wind and wetness is coming! 

There was one day where it was super stormy and wet and I just

 texted Campbell (who has our car currently) saying, 

"#ThoseDaysYouWishYaHadaCar." He texted back saying,

 "Not a drop on us!" Haha! Good times though! :)

We had a cool experience this week! We were talking to people in

Nottingham City Centre one night, and we were really looking to find

new people to be able to teach. After finding for a bit, we stopped

this guy that's from Albania. We talked with him for a while about

what he likes about Nottingham and how long he's been here, the basics

really. Then the opportunity came when he said, "So, what ARE you guys?"

Yahoo! Haha:) We told him what we do and whatnot. We asked if he had a

bit of time we could share a message with him and he was like, "Yeah!"

We went to the local Burger King and sat at a table outside

and started teaching him about the restoration! The cool thing was we

got talking about the Book of Mormon, and as we spoke about it, his

face just lit up! As if, in his eyes, he was holding

something precious. It was a moment I don't know if I'll forget. It

just showed to me even more the converting power of the Book of

Mormon. I've come to love that Book so much! It's no longer a,

"Ah man, I've got to read my scriptures," but rather a, "When can I

start reading!" Makes ya relate to Nephi when he said, "For my soul

delighteth in the scriptures, and my heart pondereth them.."

We found another lad from about a week ago named John. He was a

potential we got on the street and set up a time to see him at his

house a week later. Turns out, funny enough, he's our neighbour!

 He lives just a few houses down from us. Anyways, we show up at

his house and crazy enough he remembered and let us in! (Usually in

those instances, it's easy for people to forget about the appointment.

Props John! Haha) He's super cool though! Totally open to reading the

BoM. We're going to see him later this week. When we were setting

another appointment, he was like "How about a week from now? Is that

too soon?" In our heads we were thinking, "Hell, we'd see ya tomorrow

if you wanted!" Haha!

Oh man, there was a classic moment that happened with John right

before we left his house! We told him it was funny, we just lived a

few houses down. He was like, "Yeah, ya know it was funny. When I moved

here in April, I was talking to some neighbours and they said,

(pointing to our flat) 'Yeah a gay American couple lives in that

flat.'" hahahaha Oh man! We were cracking up!! I suppose it could seem

like missionaries are gay, ya know? Always together, always looking

really happy, etc. Haha I thought that was pretty funny!

Another really funny thing happened this week! So, one day we were in a

part of our area and all of the sudden we see this guy on his bike

ride past us with this giant subwoofer strapped to the back of the

bike and it was blasting reggae music! He had a follower as well, and

they were just cruising past us and continued on! We didn't think too

much of it until about 45 min later when we hear it coming from a

distance away. No lie, we saw him come around the corner and he had a

few more followers this time and they were all just cruising along!!

 So we decided to join in for a bit! We hopped on the bikes and

were cruising around with this Reggae Posse! There was a point

where Hayes and I looked at each other, laughing, and then looked

behind us to see a couple people following all of us. Oh man, we were

dying! Hahaha! We followed these guys for a bit towards our next

destination. :D

General Conference was great!! I loved it! :) There were so many good

talks! I think by far my personal favourite was Uchtdorf's talk on the

Saturday morning session. I believe it was the very first talk of the

whole conference. Oh man, it was so good!! :) Also, Nelson's talk on the

Sunday morning sesh....Mmmmm! Hopefully you all

 gained something from conference as well. :) 

I do believe that about concludes it for me this week though. 

Sure love ya guys! 

Speak to ya next week! 

Cheers!

Elder Wright