Cannon Ball (St Baptism YAY!!)

Dear Mum,

            Before I start people have been telling me that they have been sending me e-mails but I haven’t received all of them. For example I haven’t received any from Steph and Dustin, or anybody from their family. So I don’t really know what’s going on… But keep writing me :) I’ll try my best to write back to all even if it is a few words!

What a great week :) I’m going to give you a recap on the important days of the week where miracles happened or it was just a good day :) and note that the other days were just normal missionary days. Where you tract, talk to as many people as possible, have some appointments fall through, walk around, tract some more, and have a great time while doing it :)

So I kinda forgot to remind you that I was baptising Danny yesterday…. So just to let you know, I HAD MY FIRST BAPTISM YESTERDAY :) WEHU!! So awesome!! Haha It was a great experience! He was so excited the whole time! He couldn’t sit still. Ha But the best part was when he came into the font… So I walked into the font first and then I looked behind me to make sure he was coming in and then all of a sudden he starts running at me and does a cannon ball!! Hahahaha LOL :) :) :) :) :) :) :) I didn’t know what to do so I just smiled and tried to remain calm, because if you remain calm nothing bad will ever happen. Haha (That advice is from Adamal :)) It was also a little awkward cuz everybody just started laughing and it’s supposed to be this spiritual experience and he just does a cannon ball :) haha  but what can you do? He’s only 8 years old :) So you could say Sunday was a GREAT day :)

 

Wednesday- Oh MY DAYS Wednesday was proper (really) good. We have been praying to find a family to teach and we set up an appointment to go teach a family and then when we got there, they weren’t home. :( We then went to some other potential investigators homes to see if they would like to listen to us and the last one that we go to, lets us in :) So already this is a miracle. Cuz we are never let in. haha we go in and the whole family is in the family room and we teach them about prayer and that God is our loving Heavenly Father and that he wants to hear from them. And we also talked about the Book of Mormon. They loved it! They soaked it all up!! And at the end of the lesson the head of the house said the closing prayer for us :) :) :) :) YIPEE!! Such a great miracle oh we were so happy when we got out of their home we were on cloud 9!! Nothing could bring us down :)

 

Friday- was also pretty amazing :) So we went to this older lady’s home who is a member, just to stop by and say hi and to set up an appointment with her cuz we didn’t know who she was. All we knew was that her name was Betty. :) So when she opened the door I couldn’t help myself but I said, “Oh, so you’re Betty” hahah you know like when Bob says it on What about Bob? Ya that’s the exact voice I did and everything :) :) :) hahahahahah LOL So she agreed to have us come over on Tuesday night and then we had some time so we tracted around her street and everybody we talked to knew Betty (the old lady member) and wanted to catch up with her. So we, being the deceiving lil’ devils that we are, told them we were going to be at her home on Tuesday night and they could come to catch up with Betty. And every single person was like “Oh my days that sounds so great. We’ll be there.” Hahha so I think the whole neighbourhood is going to be in Betty’s home on Tuesday night. And we just might convert the whole street. Hahah who am I kidding that would never happen. Hahah But ya what a great night :)

            It sound like everybody is doing great! I can’t believe only a few more weeks then its CHRISTMAS!!! Haha Wehu :) Just let me know what time you want to skype and I’ll do it. Cuz we don’t do anything on Christmas except we watch Disney Movies so I am going to watch Tangled, (“She’s got a dream, She’s got a dream”) Open Season, (“What’s a Shaw?” “I called him Smelliot, hahah Herd Circle formation! No you pin-heads that’s an oval more cirlcey.”) Grinch, (Get the Stick Max Get the Stick Max *pretends to throw a stick* he I’m smarter.) Ice Age hahaha :) and so much more so just let me know cuz I’ll just be watching movies all day long :)

I love you guys and your reading assignment for this week is Alma 5. But more specifically verses 16,22,27,28,33,50-51,60, and 62 :) Love YOU XIOXOXOXOXOXXOXOXOXO

Elda Wright

 

 

Best Son Ever

Dear Family,

I want to start off by sharing a quick excerpt from a talk. This talk might be the best talk I have ever heard in my whole life. It is from Jeffery R Holland, in a Missionary training in 2000 but it is soooo good!! I invite all to go online and read it. The title of the talk is Missionary Work and the Atonement. Alright so this is the last little bit from good ol’ Jeffers talk. “How could we believe it would be easy for us when it was never, ever easy for Him?....If He could come forward in the night, kneel down, fall on His face, bleed from every pore, and cry, “Abba, Father (Papa), if this cup can pass, let it pass,” ¹⁶ then little wonder that salvation is not a whimsical or easy thing for us. If you wonder if there isn’t an easier way, you should remember you are not the first one to ask that. Someone a lot greater and a lot grander asked a long time ago if there wasn’t an easier way.” Holy COW!!!!!! :) :) :) :) :) is that not the greatest thing you’ve ever heard?? This is so true. It’s okay to think this life is hard, because Jesus Christ, the Son of God, asked the same exact question. But you just have to endure. Life can throw so many obstacles in your path, but it’s supposed to happen. So just deal with it and make the most of it. :) You all need to go read this talk. IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE.

                This week….. Hmmm. We also had stake Conference. It was so good! Every single talk had something to do with missionary work. This was so nice, because we are really trying to get the members coming teaching with us, and this conference was just saying you don’t have any reason not to go out with the missionaries. :):) :) :) So let’s hope for the best that this week goes better. President Jordan was there and me and the EQP went up together to talk with him, because there is strength in numbers, if you know what I mean Hahah  :) And we asked if I could go to a football game this December and President said you have to be serving in the area where the football game is being held to go to a game. Sooo that kinda stinks, but I’ll just keep the EQP’s number so when I serve in that area I can call him up and say, “YO Kyle!! Get me some tickets!” and then before you know it I’ll be at the game having the time of my life :) Alright time for some GREAT news!! So every Wednesday at 6 a few of the members and their friends get together and play football. And they invited us to play. And when I say they invited us I mean I kinda demanded that the missionaries should come and play, because we can hold our own. :) haha and the best part about it, is there is a 18 year old kid who is semi-pro and is having try-outs for some premier league teams… so I get to compare myself with this guy :) I’ll let you know how it goes next week :) Talking about football can you send me coach Castles e-mail address? I need to ask him a few questions. Thanks :)

                This week was a’right. We had all of our “progressing investigators” (which was about 2. Hahah) drop us. They just said they don’t want to speak with us anymore. PSH! Can you believe that?? We are trying to save your soul here Mister!!! And you want out? I don’t think so. Ha so that’s a downer. On the plus side all of our “non-progressing investigators” (which is about 2 hahah) are now progressing!!!!!!! :) :) (“You bet they are!” – Bob Wiley) so we have this older man… and he’s about… let’s just say it’s a race against the clock to get him baptised before he is dead. Haha And this week he was just so much happier about the gospel and reading!! We taught him The Plan of Salvation, because we figured that’s the most applicable lesson to him at this time in his life. Haha  and he absolutely LOVED it! :) Oh it was so great to see him frasp certain concepts and get happy about this gospel :) :) So this week, we are going to try our absolute hardest on finding a family. One that has a dad. Cuz every family in this Country is fatherless, because all the husbands run off after they figure out they are about to have a kid. Stupid Brits. JK LOL :) So if you would like to pray for us to find a family that is interested in learning more about this gospel that would be great!! :) That’s really our only “main” goal this week.

                Well that’s about it from me. And I can’t express how much you mean to me. When I say you I mean Mum, Dad, Shanae, and Marae. Haha So please keep sending me e-mails and keep doing missionary work!! It sounds like you are doing amzing things Shanae! Keep it up :) Mum keep up on your real estate School. YOU CAN DO IT! I know you can :) Marae,………….. hmm……… ha………………. :) I guess just keep doing your thing up in Logan! Haha but don’t grow too far apart from the family. Haha JK I know you won’t. You can’t even go a week without coming to see us. Which is great!! So keep doing that :) Dad, keep traveling the world and keep being the best example you can be to all those you come in contact with. When you’re traveling the world, talk to everybody about the Gospel. But especially talk to your business partners about it :)

 I love everybody SOOSOSOSOS Much!

Stay Strong and Stay Worthy! Keep going to the Temple :)

Love, Elda Wright

PS could you send me some sheet music for the piano? Like 100 years and any other stuff that sound good on the piano? Thanks

Don't forget to send me coach Castles e mail

 

Worlds first garden city

Dear Family and friends,

                This is another weekly repost from the world’s first garden city. Yup that’s right. Letchworth is the world’s first garden city! Talk about a pretty cool town :) hahah but anyhoo I’m staying in this area for another 6 weeks which is great!! Because I love everybody in the ward and we are all starting to really get to know each other and just have a fun time! :) For example the EQP (Elders Quorum President) is talking about taking me to the Arsenal football game around Christmas time!!!! :) :) :) :) :) WEHUU!! But the only problem is…. I might be in a trio with the Hitchin Elders by that time and I don’t want to go with them. I just want it to be me and the EQP. He’s a complete stud! And I also have to ask the mission president if I can actually do that… so I’m trying to gain his trust by calling in miracles and reporting about how great we’re doing, so he feels like I’m a good missionary. Hahah I’m such a deceiving little devil. But he (mission president) can probably see right through me, cuz he has the priesthood and such. Haha but whatever. It’s worth a shot! :)

                So yesterday we went to London!! :) It was so great!! But we didn’t go see the sights. We went to Camden Town. It’s like your typical bargain market. And let me tell ya, I was reeeeaaalll good at bargaining (say it in caleb’s voice) haha so I bought a few things and I am going to try to send them home if it doesn’t cost too much. But it was a really fun day! I went with Elder Ottoni (the Zone Leader) form Brazil, and Elder Brunstad and Elder Culaug(the Stevenage Elders).  It was really fun!! It was so nice just too kinda step into the world and actually buy worldly things, and think worldly. Haha (if that makes any sense at all) But it was a great day!

                To be honest we aren’t teaching anybody really. We have the people that we go and teach, but they aren’t reading or praying. So they aren’t getting any closer to baptism, but that isn’t our purpose as missionaries. Our purpose is to invite others to come unto Christ and let them choose if they want to. And that is one thing that I’ve grown to understand that you can’t control. No matter how hard you try to make somebody do something you can’t make them do it. Which kinda sucks. Cuz the whole time you’re teaching them you think, “Just flippin pray!! It will HELP you!! Don’t you understand??!! This is TRUE!!” But then you actually have to say, “That’s alright you don’t have to pray. But just remember that Heavenly Father wants to hear from you just as much as you want to hear from your kids.” Hahah but I guess that is why we were given agency. This life would be far too easy if we didn’t have it. And this life wasn’t meant to be easy. So it works out. :) But we are really focusing on working with the members. But our only problem is we don’t have any appointments to take them too… Sooo we need to find people to teach! I know we will find some, because this is the Lord’s wok and he wants us to teach people about his gospel. So He will help us to find the people we need to teach, and help us find people who are ready for the gospel.

                So mum I did receive your package :) and thanks for everything!! It helps out soo much! Elder Carder is really impressed with how much mail I get, because he has never been with a companion who has gotten as much mail as him, because he is from Wales and he can receive post in about a day. So that’s most definitely at least a couple points to whom has ever sent me something through the mail :) For Christmas….. “All I want for Christmas is you.” Hahah Jk that’s not possible… Or is it?..... What time are we skyping?! :) :) :) :) :) just give me a time and a place and im there. :) I can’t wait for that day!!!

So this  next little bit is something really dumb that I thought about and I wanted to throw it in here for fun so here you go. Hmmm…  Alright are you ready for this? Dundundundundundundun here’s a little Elda Wright remix. Comin at ya, all the way from London BABBY!  Sir I want to buy these shoes, for my Elder please. It’s Christmas eve and these shoes are just his size. Could you hurry sir, his companion says there’s not much time, you see, His shoes have been worn a while, and I, know these shoes will make him smile, and I want him to look beautiful, with his new shoes on tonight…. Hahah kinda dumb I know but I honestly don’t need too much for Christmas. Just Ties. Maybe a tie hanger?  Is that what those things are called? But you hang your ties on them. Ya that would be nice :) But just be creative. Anything sent from you is good enough for me :)

I love you guys so much! Thanks for all of your wonderful examples and letters! Keep them coming :) It’s what keeps me going through the week. Love Ya,

Elda Wright :)

 

22 More Fast Sunday's left

Dear Family,

            I am terribly sorry that I didn’t write you yesterday. Mom you were probably worried sick after seeing that movie about the missionaries getting kidnapped… That’s probably what you thought happened to me. Isn’t it? Hahah :) but uh my comp and I thought that transfers were this week so that’s why we had P day today and not yesterday but transfers are next week. Which kinda sucks cuz I thought I was one transfer through my mission already, but I still have another week. Hahah whatever. What’s another week? Elder Carder and I both feel that we will stay with each other cuz he leaves to go home on the 19^th of December. So mom as much as you would like to, just send me a stocking. Cuz he’ll be outta here… Lucky Duck!! ;) Also Mom uh my question for you is why wouldn’t Elder Carder celebrate Christmas? He isn’t a muslim… he’s Mormon… hahahaahasha Oh my days! Mum I freakin love you!! So next week I won’t write you til Tuesday so brace yourselves for that. Oh and next Tuesday we are going to London :) :) :) Wehe!!!!!!!!!!!!  LONDON BABBBYYY!!

            Everything sounds great back home :) Thanks for all of your letters! I wish I could just sit in the Library and read all them 5 times, because they make me smile and laugh so much! It just makes me so gosh darn happy!! Hey Mom congrats on finishing your real estate license shtuff! That’s awesome! Now you can try to find me a lake house. Preferably in Lake Winnapusaukee. “That’s W-i-n-n-i-p-a-u-s-a-u-k-e-e- that two a’s and two p’s. Alright thanks ladies im crazy about you especially you, Betty. Hahah Oh what about Bob! Talk about a great Video!!!!  But a lake house… Ya, that sure would be nice. Huh Dad what do you say? Talk about real family bonding! We could spend every weekend up there as a family and occasionally bring some friends… Maybe every weekend bring some friends. But hey a family that buys a lake house together, stays together :) hahahaahah so I think it’s a great investment :) but that’s just me. You may have to run it past the family. :) Dang. Look at me still working the system while I am half way around the world. Point for Dayton!! :) And a thousand points for dad if he buys a lake house. :) hahahaha YOOO SHANANU!! Congrats on getting your license!! It looks like Bo-BO is about to start another great journey in his life. Just figure out how to get it into four wheel drive, because remember that one time we couldn’t figure it out on our way to school and we were sliding all over the place?! And that one time we got stuck in the mud with Isabella and Olivia… Yaaa you might want to figure that out. Cuz apparently it is snowing already!! Oh hail Ya!! Hahah see what I did there? Sorry I’m a missionary I shouldn’t have said that. But yes Mom we do receive snow, but it doesn’t happen very often. So maybe just send more socks… like warm socks :) but I feel like you will do a great job of knowing what to send to your favourite son for Christmas!! Haha Now to answer some of your random questions :)

Yes I do receive Spencer’s and Joel’s letters :)

And in all honesty the food is roughly the same here as it is in the U.S. But the only difference is the fact that the food is really bland. For example their “hot” salsa, doesn’t even compare to our mild salsa…. So I hope that answers your question about if the food truly is that bland over here.

Hmmm, Halloween is not big at all over here. I probs saw about 30 people trick or treating… ya. 30. Talk about Losers. (when I say Losers, I mean all of England.) Apparently people are worried about having their kids getting kidnapped and stuff. PSH! Come on… it builds character. Haha Jk But on Halloween we had a trunk or treat at the Ward and there was probably about 5-7 cars and about 25 people and over half were adults supervising. Ha Elder Carder and I didn’t stay long, because we went and helped paint a guy’s kitchen. That was fun :) I would have to say I was the best painter there. Thinking about it I probably should be, since I have painted that dang Warehouse floor about 7 times and painted the ceiling… What the heck dad. Who paints the dang ceiling? :) haha I guess you were just preparing me for my mission. But Dad you can’t use that excuse to keep painting the floors/ ceilings, because nobody else is going to serve a mission haha so good luck trying to persuade people to paint! Hahah (<- Did that make sense? I hope it did… cuz it was pretty funny!) :) LOL

            My week was pretty good. It always goes by super-fast! As of right now we don’t have too many progressing investigators. We are really trying hard to find some, but it’s just a bit slow. Haha But we have so many miracles every single day! It’s absolutely ridiculous. And I think we have so many miracles because we are looking for the miracles… if that makes sense. So I would challenge you guys to look for miracles in your everyday life because you will find them. Im sorry to say but I don’t have much to tell you about this week other than we are really trying to work with the members more so. So please. Please work with the missionaries in our area. Just as Dad did with speaking to the missionaries about Roque’s family. That’s perfect. Keep that up. :) That makes me so happy to see that you guys are trying to be more missionary minded.

            So in my personal study I was reading in Alma 54? Or 55? And it talks about the 2000 stripling warriors and how their mothers prepared them, because they were taught to have faith that God will deliver them out of anything if they had faith. Mom, this is what you’ve done for me. You have been such a great example to me and the rest of the family on how to live our lives. Thank you. You truly make a difference in everybody’s life :) And I challenge you guys to read Alma 26. Holy Moly!! Talk about a great chapter! There are so many great verses in this chapter so hit it up!! :)

            Well I love you guys! There’s not a day I don’t think about you! I love you more than I can express. I hope your week goes better than mine :) I honestly pray for that. That’s how much I love you. I would rather have you guys doing well than me… is that crazy? Maybe a little, but whatever. LLLLOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVEEEEEEEE YYYYYYYYOOOOOOOOUUUUU,

Elder Wright