I love my mission, I love England, and I love the English people!

Sup guys!!:) Y'alright?

 This week was a pretty good week!

 We had a fun week because it was the Challenge Week!! 

But before we get into that, of course, let's talk weather. ;) 

Bit of the same stuff really. 

There were a couple of way warm days where we were walking

 around in just the white shirts, but then the temp dropped a ton! 

It snowed one morning, which was fun for Elder Matus! 

He's never seen snow before!!

So that was fun stuff:)

So here's a list of all the challenges for the various different days.

And just to clarify, each challenge is worth 1 point and it only

applies for the day of. Here we go:

Tuesday

1. 7 selfies with random people. Haha That was fun.

2. Hand written "thank you" note to member of ward council.

3. 2 new investigators.

4. Pres. Challenge: 4 potentials.

Wednesday

1. 2 part member stop bys.

2. Dance off with someone and film it.

3. 1 member present lesson.

Thursday

1. Commit 6 people to church.

2. Ask someone to draw a portrait of you on a pass along card.

3. Take a member "finding" with you for at least 30 minutes.

4. Pres. Challenge: Place 3 BoMs.

Friday

1. Stroke 10 different cats.

2. Have 3 members put testimonies in BoM and you place it that day.

3. 2 new people committed to a baptismal date.

Saturday

1. Contact 2 referrals

2. 2 new family investigators

3. 5 DAs set up for the next week

4. Pres. Challenge: 2 member stop bys.

The challenges were way cool! 

They were designed to help us stretch our potential

 and shoot for specific things. And it helped a ton!

 It helped me realize that we should be expecting and working towards

miracles everyday in missionary work. :) It helped me understand truly

the importance of the daily goals we set too! We should always be

striving to work toward our goals. It was way fun! :) 

We had some good moments for sure! 

The 7 selfies....hahaha Luckily that day, there were Dominos Pizza

 workers dressed as super heroes so we were able to

get a few pics with them!!  We got someone to draw a portrait of

Elder Matus and I and we hung it up on the wall in our flat. :D 

We had cool experiences looking for families to teach. 

 We went through the area book and found a bunch of potentials 

that mentioned they were families and went by them. 

None of them bore fruit, but we were able

to find families in the areas of those potentials! We kept looking for

clues, like mini vans in the drives or toys in the yards. 

And lo and 

behold, we found two potential families to teach! 

T'was way cool:) And we got members involved in specifically

 praying for families to teach

so it was fun seeing those prayers answered!

We had exchanges this past week and I stayed here with Elder Quesada.

(What's with me being with all these dudes that speak Spanish!? Haha)

Elder Matus went to Nuneaton with Elder Pederson and boy oh

boy....hahaha Elder Pederson is one of those guys that's SO sarcastic

all the time he seems really rude.

 Elder Matus isn't quite used to that level of sarcasm....lets just say 

he was happy when exchange was

over;D haha

Other than that though, 'twas a pretty normal week! We're having some

fun!:) It's kinda crazy though because with the way that the transfers

are now, I'm training Elder Matus for only 6 more weeks! :o 

Holy flip, man...time flies. I just want to say, I love my mission, I love

England, and I love the English people! Sometimes it just hits you

like....man, I'm walking the streets of England preaching the word of

God!! Crazy, crazy lucky:) 

Anyways, I hope all is well with you guys!

Cheers mates.

Elder Wright

Peace. Love. Cheers.

Hey hey all! :) How's it goin?? 

Welcome back to the account of my life over here in the British Isles:)

 The weather lately has been pretty crazy (surprise, surprise). 

There were a couple days where we were able

to wear just our white shirts, which was awesome!! But, then it got

freezing cold again.

 A couple of good wet days, which was good for Elder Matus to experience!

 "Welcome to Britain Elder." Haha!

Things are starting to lighten up a bit:) 

We have quite different personalities, 

but it's fun to build on the common stuff! 

For instance, the Spanish do the same thing to him that the

 British do to me in that they profess that their accent is the 

"original" language and that we just messed it up. 

We have some fun laughs about that!

 But yeah, it's going alright:)

The first part of the week was spent walking around 

because we had to get Elder Matus' bike fixed at a bike shop! 

Eventually we got the bike fixed and now were cruising

 around the Hood in style;)  Oh how I do love bikes on the mish.

The past week was pretty good! :) We saw a lot of less actives.

I'm bummed though because there's one less active that we started

getting back to church pretty regularly but she's now on holiday for

two weeks! Hopefully she does okay while she's away:) We gave her a

cool little list of scriptures she can read when she's gone.

We had a super cool experience with one of the less actives named

Constantine. Our WML was telling us we needed to go by soon. 

So we decided to go on a certain day. 

When we got there, she had a friend over.

We got talking about things a little bit and her friend started taking

interest! Long story short, we ended up teaching her about the

restoration right there with Constantine!! It was way fun!:) 

It was a cool uplifting/energising experience for Elder Matus 

(heck...and me!).

 It was super cool because at the end (Huguette is her name) Huguette

asked US when we could meet up next!

 So we're going to see her on Tuesday!:D 

Super duper awesome!

Thursday was zone meeting for us, which was pretty good!! 

Our zone is so culturally diverse, it's awesome! Here's a list of all the

countries that missionaries are from in the Coventry zone:

 'Merica, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa, Fiji, Taiwan, Germany,

Italy, Spain, Norway, Holland, and Zimbabwe!! 

Pretty sweet man:)

This coming week is an England Birmingham Mission challenge week!

Every day you get a set of challenges you just complete. Each is worth

a point. There are three categories:

 1) Best companionship 

2) Best district 

3) Best zone. 

There's a reward for each category. It's cool stuff though! :) 

They start off pretty easy and get progressively

harder. It makes it fun! So I'm excited about that:) 

Anyways, sure love you all!! 

Thanks for everythang you do. 

Peace. Love. Cheers.

Elder Wright

Back To The Hood

Hello all!! How's it going?? 

Things over here are pretty crazy man! 

So, I bet you are wondering who my boy is! 

Here we go.....drum roll please......his name is 

Elder Matus and he is from Oaxaca, Mexico!

Pretty cool stuff!:) He's a crazy little Mexican man. Living with

Latinos...very interesting. ;D But it's fun! He's 23 years old and he's

got a good testimony which is awesome! 

His English is pretty good,

there's still a language barrier sometimes. 

Funny enough, he speaks German as well. 

So hey....if we ever need to teach someone in

 "the celestial language", I'm all set!!;D haha

He, like most missionaries, is a little bit shy when it comes to

talking to people at first so, we are trying to talk to a lot of

people on the streets, at bus stops, and at train stations. 

All the good stuff:) I told him that at the beginning of my mission, it was

difficult for me to speak to people and I was pretty shy. 

I think it gave him a bit of confidence helping him know that he's not the only

one! It's funny though because he's been complaining lately about his

shins and feet being sore when we walk. :P Haha!

 Better get used to it buddy! But yeah, we're doing ok. 

He can be a bit crazy sometimes, but it makes it fun throughout the day!

It's been fun to come back to Chelmsley Wood:) 

It was like coming home!

 Coventry was way fun though. I'll be honest, 

I miss the Coventry district a ton! They were way fun:) 

But hey, back to the Hood. We've been on the bus the past week 

because we are waiting to buy Matus a

wheel for his bike. Haha Good stuff though!

We had a funny experience with a group of young-ins one day. 

As we were walking, this giant group of probably like 9-10 year old boys

 are like "Are you guys American!? Are you Jehovahs!?" 

So we talked to them! They got a kick out of my accent and all the

 American phrases we use. Haha! 

Then they challenged us to a game of football, so we

accepted! It was pretty fun not gonna lie!:) It was good for Elder

Matus as well because he was feeling a bit down. 

After that, he was all skipping around because he felt like a celebrity.

 Hahaha Funny guy!

Conference was pretty good!! Uchtdorf is hilarious man. 

 He was making all sorts of jokes. 

Some of the talks I liked: 

Gary E Stevenson, 

Russell M Nelson (priesthood), 

Dieter F Uchtdorf. 

They were all good, but theirs stood out!:) 

(Sometimes Dale G Renlund reminds me of the actor John Malkovich. Hahaha)

On P Day last week in Coventry, we went to an authentic Chinese place

for lunch. We ordered the food and everything and it came out with

chopsticks. I didn't want to be "that guy" that asked for the fork and

spoon so I determined I would finally learn how to use chopsticks.

 And man, I've never been more exhausted

 after eating a meal in my entire life!! Haha

There is a less active here named Anne. She is someone Elder

Hill and I saw on the ward list about a month ago and decided to go

by. We were able to teach her a bit and set up a ride for her to come

to church. She wants to come out again and wants to stay motivated

this time. Anyways, she has been to church every week since! It's

super cool:) Elder Matus and I stopped by after we got back and had a

good lesson with her. She brought up some concerns on how she doesn't

know where to start in the BoM so we gave her a little chart with

some reading topics and stuff, which she was much appreciative of! 

It's been a really cool story:) She wouldn't have come to church

at all if it wasn't for the members that fellowship her and give her a

ride. It's been a cool display of missionary/member work actually working!:)

I do marvel at the faith of the greenies!

 It's pretty dang cool! 

It was funny though because one morning we got a potential investigator.

Later that day in a comp prayer, Elder Matus said in broken English

"We thank you that you open the gates of heaven that we could find

potential investigator." It was funny! 

But it does kinda serve a cool lesson:)

Yeah, things are okay! I've been stressing a bit lately about

everything but that's life, innit. 

Anyways, sure love you all! 

Thanks for everything. 

Hasta semana!:)

Elder Wright

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

This Week We Learned The Answer To Everything Is....CHEESE!

Hello, hello! How's it going!? 

It's Elder Wright here. 

This week was alright! Full of some pretty funny stories!

 Let us start with the weather. 

Weather is cold right now but we have much enjoyed not having

rain for multiple days in a row so, that's been great! 

My wrist is getting better so I'm able to ride bikes!

 Bikes are so nice.

Tuesday was Elder Hills birthday! 

We had decided that we would go to this restaurant called 

Big Johns, which is apparently the UK's first

drive thru chippie so that's cool!:) But we just ate in. We had

decided to buy the biggest pizza they had with chips and smoothies. 

So we got the 20 inch pizza and my oh my....that beast was ferocious!

That was one of the biggest mistakes we've made yet. 

It just made us really lazy for the rest of the day

 (now we know never to do that again!). 

Makes me think of Elder Nelson saying that what you put into

your body affects your spirit.

 How true that is! But we had a good b-day for him:)

Funny story! 

We were tracting one day and we looked across the park

and saw this dog jumping like four feet into the air!

We laughed a bit, kind of played it off for a bit and continued. 

Then we looked back in the distance and saw this dog hanging

 in a tree by his mouth!! Hahaha So we had to get proof of this.

 We went up and talked to the kid and videoed it. 

So hopefully you guys can see the video with it!

We had a really deep conversation with this guy named Tony on the street.

Crazy, crazy, guy! Let me tell ya why. 

We get talking about the usual stuff (religion, beliefs, etc). 

Then we started talking more and more going deeper and deeper. 

This guy is brilliant! We were talking about God-physics basically. 

 Anyways, he then told us something that he's never told anyone about. 

He said he had a vision. In this vision he was walking through 

this tunnel and then saw the Saviour and the Saviour ushered him to follow. 

Jesus takes him to this spot where he is shown "the answer to everything". 

He then realized he was sleeping and knew he would wake up soon so, 

he started to shout out the answer to everything so when he would wake up, 

he wouldn't forget it. And no joke, this is what happened....he told us,

 "As I was thus shouting the answer to everything, I regained consciousness

 and shouted 'CHEESE!!!!!!'" No joke!! 

It was absolutely hilarious we just start busting up laughing!

 Then he went on to say, "I don't even like to

eat cheese!!" It was soooo funny!

The work right now is quite slow. We're trying to work with the less

actives here in our area, for I feel this is our purpose here. 

Personally, I love working with less actives! 

Just trying to rekindle what they've once felt.

 It can be sad when they don't progress on the path of happiness

even though you know they have felt the Spirit! 

We've also been trying to strengthen the trust that the

 members here have in missionaries. 

I think they are seeing that not all missionaries are lazy.

 I hope that we can make some sort of difference here!

We had a very humbling experience on Sunday night. 

In the evening, we watched most of the film 17 Miracles. 

Oh man! Just being able to see ever so slightly what it was like 

for the pioneers was very humbling.

I think sometimes we lose sight of what we are so blessed with. 

The pride cycle is demonstrated so simply

 in the Book of Mormon over and over again. 

In my studies this week, I read through Helaman 12 (a.k.a

Mormon's Lament). These things hit me very powerfully this week.

Man, the Gospel is just so great. 

And I've realized here on my mission just how important it is. 

I never truly understood until now! 

Alright, I'm done. Haha I hope you guys have a superb week:) 

Let us all be grateful for the knowledge that we take so much for granted!

 Cheers mates!

Elder Wright

Elder Hill got the prompting to,"Go with Elder Wright's feelings".

Hello!! 

This week was interesting!

 It all starts off with last Monday. 

Something went wrong with our emails. 

It was weird because it said they sent but apparently 

they didn't (so sorry if you didn't get an email on time). 

It was a mission thing because we got a call from the APs 

saying that we could take time later in the week 

to resend the emails again. 

On the way to the church to do that, it was a frosty morning. 

Quite cold. A thickness in the air. As we were biking, 

we turned into the path that led to the church 

and I slipped on some ice and hurt my wrist pretty bad! :o

 It's actually been healing very fast! (Power of prayer) 

It's funny because growing up we always had Dad

 if anything got hurt. After it happened I was like "Flip. What do I do?"

 Haha! We called the President and he told me to get it X-rayed.

 It's funny what things remind you of home! When I went to the hospital, 

it just reminded me of home. 

The smell, the scrubs, all the medicine. 

 I didn't think I broke it but we were advised to get it X-rayed anyways.

We had to wait in the hospital for 3 hours

 just to tell us it ISNT broken. Haha!

 So, that was good that it wasn't broken! :) 

But I have to wear a little splint thing. So yeah, that's my story!

We got an invitation from a former investigator to go to the

Fordbridge Centre to make ukuleles! He's way into making

instruments and stuff so he invited us to make ukuleles that we can

"carry with us on our travels". Haha:) So we did.

 It's a club thing where people go that have had history of mental health issues. 

We got talking to a lot of them about what missionaries 

do and why we're here. It was pretty cool!:)

A bit of good British humor !

Heads R coming off Shoulders! Hahah

Had a good lesson with an investigator named Yvette. 

She's from the Congo, speaks French

 (Language barriers man. Takes me back to Peterborough!)

We taught her about the Gospel of Jesus Christ 

which went pretty well! She loves the BoM and the teachings of it.

 It's just a matter of trying to get her to churchy!

But yeah, after the wrist incident, the week became very slow! We

kept trying to figure out how to get bus passes for a couple weeks

(because I won't be able to use my bike for a bit). 

Eventually we did get a travel card! We're trying to get to know the bus

schedules around here. There were a couple of times we were

sprinting to catch buses! Haha:)

So, sometimes we would make up funny stories to tell the members what

happened to my wrist. One of which is that I punched a shark! 

Some good laughs:) But we told this older member named Duncan 

(about 85 or so) that grew up in South Africa about that fake story.

 He went on to tell us an actually story he had where he was 

in the water with a friend of his and they saw a small shark coming at them.

  He kicked it and punched it and it swam away! Haha!

This guy was a daredevil in his youth. 

He's got some crazy stories! :)

Teresa was able to make it to church this week! 

She had been busy one week and then ill another week. 

But she made it back! She's doing super well too:) 

Still progressing so keep her in your prayers if ya could! 

She also said that her really close friend named Bill said that

he wants to start making it out to church as well so we are expecting

both of them next week! :D

Another cool story!

 We were tracting in a tiny village called Water Orton on Friday. 

We decided to pray for a street to tract...I got the

feeling on a certain street. Elder Hill got the prompting to

 "go with Elder Wright's feeling". 

So we went, started knocking. Several houses down, we

knocked and this guy answered. 

He looked at us...kind of smiled a bit.

His wife came to the door as well (they're older) 

and they were like "Mormons??" Heck yeah we are! 

They were like, "Come on in!"

 (Which is VERY rare to be let into someone's home tracting!)

 That was the second time on my mission. 

The British are very reserved people and just don't let you into their homes.

 Turns out they have Mormon friends in

the states and knew a bit about the church. 

They're pretty firm in their beliefs but we were able to give 

them a BoM and some pamphlets.

We had a good chat with him! So that was cool! :)

That's about it really! I hope you all's week was good!:) 

Have a great week. 

Cheerio.

Elder Wright