Yay!! Miracles!:)

Hello everyone!!:) Just taking a slight note.....I have about 5 weeks left. Whoa. Haha Anyways, now that's out of the way, we can a bit about the week!:) I'll keep this one kinda short. First off, the weather has been flipping HOT! Who would've known in England! Haha We are sweating our faces off over here. But hey, beats the cold wet winters so hey;D

Had some good things happen this week. It's been fun to be with Elder Swalberg. As I stated last week, we are in the same MTC group. We actually slept in the same room in the MTC so it's cool to be serving together for our last transfer! Hopefully we don't get TOO trunky;) haha We had a good lesson this week with Harriet. It's a slow progression, but progressing nonetheless. She's done her research online as well! At least she's smart about things! She knows that not EVERYTHING on the internet is true. (We get people that think that all too much. Haha) I think the church is kinda growing on her! She's also been reading through the BoM a bit. Hopefully we can get her and her dad to church one of these times!

Speaking of peeps coming to church, John Harvey has come AGAIN!:) Fourth week in a row. I think he's getting more and more comfortable with it as well. Yay!! Miracles!:) Also, Denver came to church in Peterborough!! Denver is the YSA aged guy that Turnbow and I taught in Nottingham and was baptised a few months after we taught him. Well he's from Peterborough originally so he's up here for the summer. It was AWESOME to see him at church!:D Loads of members thought he was an investigator with us. Hahaha So he just played along with it:P 

But yeah! It's been an awesome time! We're really looking forward to this week and weeks:) Hope everything is grand in the States! Cheerio!

June 12

Hey everyone!! My second to last transfer is coming to an end...what the heck!:o This is crazy. It's been a good time with Ofasi!:) And to end out our transfer on Sunday night, God granted us the tender mercy of having a concert with Elton John!!! Hahaha There's the Peterborough football ground just up from our flat and Elton John played there Sunday night!:D So that was fun. Benny and the Jets, Rocketman, Your Song....yeah it was a good concert. Haha :D

This week was alright! Had a good lesson with John Harvey, our less active friend. It's funny because we planned for his lesson a few days before it took place. We planned on teaching him a bit about prophets/apostles and show him Monson's talk about the BoM from the last conference. Well, when we got there we said absolutely nothing about what we'd teach yet and he started bringing up concerns about modern day prophets and stuff. We were like "Hey, that's actually what we were going to teach you about!" I just think it's awesome how the Lord works in even the smallest things in the work:) 

We also had a good lesson with Harriet and Dan, the little family we found a couple weeks back. Harriet kind of went through a real low patch this last couple of weeks. Well, fortunately we think those trials actually prepared her for the message even more! So she's open to reading more from the BoM because of that. So yeah, we had a good lesson with them and will hopefully be seeing them again this Wednesday!:)

Thursday we went to Leicester for Interviews with President, which was good as usual. Friday we had to travel to Birmingham because Elder Ofasi had a self reliance meeting at the mission home. So I just worked with a couple of Elders in Sutton Coldfield:) Oh! I had a good study that morning so hey, I'll share it with y'all. I was reading in Helaman 11 where Nephi asks God to use the famine to punish the people rather than the sword. I got thinking to myself just how important that one prayer was from the prophet at that time. Just thinking over that principle and pondering it for a while, I gained a new appreciation for the words of our current prophet and just how important he is:) So I started going through his previous talks in the years and it's been real good. But yeah!....that's about it. Haha

Well, transfers has come and we have gotten the news....Elder Ofasi is going to Swansea and Elder Swalberg will be coming here for OUR last transfer!! He's going home with me so  we will be "killing" each other:P Hakanpää is staying and he's getting Elder Winterton, my old companion! So yeah, three of us in this district will be finishing our missions this transfer. (Poor Hakanpää...hopefully he doesn't die. Haha) 

The fact that I'm heading into my last transfer is currently blowing my mind. Sister Tarapi did my last planner for me and on the back page, it just reads "The work is done.." When I saw that, I was kinda flipping out, not gonna lie! Haha It just becomes all too real..:/ But yeah, my last transfer is all set in stone! I've absolutely loved my mission:) It's the best decision I ever made! Anyways, hope you guys are well! :) Have a great week!

Now we get into the crazy bit. Thursday......oh Thursday.

What's up everyone!:) 

It's Elder Wright signing in from Peterborough, England. This week was a pretty good week! Had some nice things happen...had some crazy things happen. 

So, we will dive straight into the juicy details!:) 

We will start off with Wednesday. (No discredit to Tuesday. It's always great, it's just the "Monday" of missionary life. Haha) We taught our less active guy, John, on Wednesday. Man, he's awesome! He was straight with us and said that Sacrament meeting was quite boring for him (haha), but overall it was good. He said that he didn't find the "speeches" very moving. Well little had he known we had been planning what to teach and felt we should show him this powerhouse talk that the one and only Elder Jeffrey R Holland gave called "Lord, I Believe". Elder Holland once again hit it out of the ball park. John loved it! There was a cool moment we shared with him as well. After the talk and after chatting about random gospel topics, we sat in silence for a bit. It was unplanned, obviously, but nevertheless much needed. Sometimes in lessons, you (as the missionary) kind of feel obligated to say things to fill the silence. Well, in this instance the Spirit actually told me to keep quiet for a moment! Nobody said anything, the cars seemed to stop driving on the busy road outside his house, and we just enjoyed a moment of complete silence! And what a feeling of peace that came into the room:) He recognized it as well! So, that was just a neat experience:)

Later that day, we stopped by this girl we found named Harriet. She's pretty cool! She was up front with us the first time and said the "Mormon" is not for her. Haha (Gotta love it when people say that!) Anyways, we talked to her for a while on her doorstep. We weren't too pushy with her and just kinda talked about things! She gained enough interest to go back inside, read the pamphlet we gave her, and tell her parents that the Mormons were coming over the following Wednesday at 5oclock. Haha 

So sure enough, we come by....Wednesday, at 5oclock:) She was the only one home at the moment, so we just chatted on the doorstep again. And once again, she said that "the Mormon" isn't for her. (Challenge accepted) This time, we answered her questions from the pamphlet, and then brought in the Book of Mormon, an added witness of Jesus Christ!;) And when we did, her dad rolled up and joined in. Haha To make a long story short, he was nice about things and actually was asking some pretty good questions himself. So they actually do seem promising to progress a little bit!:) We are excited about them!

Now we get into the crazy bit. Thursday......oh Thursday. Haha So in the morning, as usual, we had our district meeting, which was really good! :) In the afternoon, we decided to stop by some people. Well, as we are biking, we get up to this T intersection before we cross the road. We look to our right and stop riding our bikes, as a car was turning left to continue on the road perpendicular to where he was driving. Well, he stops 'cause he thinks we are going to cross. So we look forward, and then all we hear was this massive crash! A van that was driving behind this guy just smashed the backside of this guys car! Glass went everywhere, back of the car was demolished. Luckily nobody was hurt! But yeah, then there's just two guys in white shirts and ties and their bikes just standing there not knowing what to do. Haha:P 

Well, after that crash that we witnessed, we continued up the road a bit, probs about 10 minutes. We came up to this street, turned the corner, and to our bewilderment, there's the smashed car! Haha Different street completely and it had literally crashed like 15-minutes before we got there. Anyways, after that confusion, we cycled up the road and found this row of flats all blocked off by caution tape and police vehicles. One of the windows of the flats was completely busted open and these forensic guys were doing their work on the broken glass. Haha So you can imagine, by now we are just feeling weird! "Something's majorly off about today:P" That's not the end either....we witnessed a biker guy eat pavement while on the phone cycling. Hahahaha So yeah, it was just a weird day indeed:P But hey! It's quite funny when you think of it all!:P 

That was pretty much our week to be honest. Did some nice service work for some members. One occasion we did work on a members garden. Another time, we dug out like a thousand tree stumps from another members garden. But it was awesome!:) I got a sunburn!! That's not common in this country:) haha Anyways, hope all is well with you guys! Hope you have a most awesome of a week this week. Cheers!

Elder Wright