Transfer

Dear Fam,

Lots to tell ya.

First of all, I am moving to Wittham in Colchester!! I move tomorrow and I am going to be in a trio... One of my companions has been out a transfer less than me and he is from York and uh-mazing at football :) :) Soo we are going to hold a football tournament or go football finding all the time!! That is going to be bare fun! I don't know much about the other bloke, all I know is that he is from Utah. Just like everybody else in this mission... haha But we should have a good time! :) So thats that.

Second, It sounds like hawaii was reeeeall fun, but it sounds like I was missed so much that you guys didn't know what to do with yourselves. Im sorry about that. Maybe that will teach you a lesson... Don't go on fun vacations with out me >:) hah Just kidding. I am glad that you had loads of fun, that makes me happy :)

Okay lets get down and dirty. Here are the detes for my past week. That rhymmed unintentionally. :)

Tuesday- What a night we had! So we went boxing with Phil (our french Investigator) at his flat, and it was so much fun! A little story time real fast. So phil before we went and fought taught us the basics so we wouldn't hurt ourselves and all of that good stuff but then he said this to me, "you can try to hit me as hard as you want and then from time to time I will show you your weaknesses." I said "Alrigth sounds good" As I am laughing, becuase I am about to box this amazing boxer and I have never fought before in my life! We get into the ring and we start. I was making sure I was doing everything he taught us. My stance was picture perfect, my jabs... ooo Golden, upper cuts... could use some work, and my hooks... were eh descent. So we were going at each other but not getting too fiesty. And from time to time you know he said, "From time to time I will show you your weakness?" Ya, he sure showed me!! I swear every two seconds he was punching me in the face!!! And everytime he would say, "Oh, sorry." And he would say it in his French-British accent, which sounds a lot like the PInk Panther accent. So every time he would punch me and say that I would just start cracking up, because his accent was killing me!! So pretty much for 6 minutes I got beat up by this French man who sounds exactly like Jaques Clouseou and I was laughing the whole time!!!! :') :') :') :') hahahaha What a good time!

Another story.

Friday- Friday we went to go teach Ria and we got a ride from Nick Freeman (18 year old) and two of his mates (both non-mormon.)  But before I get inot the story you need some background info. There is a rule that says, You cannot go into a single womans home unless you bring another male who is 18 years or older. And we did not have a male with us... SO we were just going to teach her outside becuase it was about 15 degrees outside and we were teaching a quick lesson. BUt knowing that we didn't have a male coming with us I jokingly asked Rushane, one of Nicks mates to come teaching with us. And he said, "Ya, mate I wanna be cool like chu. I'll come teach." :) Jserious that is what he said. And so we convinced Nick, and his other mate to come teaching with us!! So we go inside and Ria has six of her friends with her!! So we begin our lesson, The word of wisdom, and pretty soon all the girls were asking us questions and Rushane and Carl (nicks other friends, both non-mormon) were andswering the questions!! LIke one question was, "Why can't we have more than one piercing and tatoos? And Carl spoke up and said, "Well we came into the world with this body, and its showing respect to God by not changing it and hurting it." And all of them were like, OOOHHHH that makes sense. :) :) And I was just sitting in the corner laughing, becuase we have two non-members anwsering questions about the word of wisdon!! :) :) :) It was such a great lesson :)

This week Elder Dowdle was sick for about two whole days!!! So i just sat in the flat and tried just to keep myslef sane! I read the scriptures, watched a few DVD's in a fort that I built :) drew Lehi's dream, and much much more! hahah It was so boring, and he was just fast asleep the whole time!! I secretely think that he was faking it on one day, his birthday. His birthday was yesterday and he was completely fine. Or at least to me he seemed completely fine. And he was like naww mate I need to sleep this off. So that was a bit rubbish, but what can you do? I shouldn't judge anyways. That's bad stuff :) :) haha #WWJD Speaking of BIrthdays......

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUM!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU ARE TURNING 35!! Dang gurl you hawt!! :) haha and also shout out to CALEB!! ITs his birthday on the 21st!! So everybody throw him a hug and kiss from me :) :) I love that kid!

Well, this is my last letter from the LGC and I have been officially out for 6 months, wow time flies! Hey Mum, It is mothers day on March 30th over here. YOu think I am allowed to skype twice? Once for this Mothers day and one for the American? hah Should I ask president about it? haha Just kidding. I would just get rebuked. But that sounds quite nice. Doesn't it :) Anyways I love you guys and just know that your son is the same old son. Just more spiritual and grown up now... Even though I look like im 16, but still, I am great and super happy! I love you guys more than I can exprees in words! So I LOVE YOU!! Will have to do :) :)

Have a great week, ANd here is a quick quote to keep you going throughout the week :)

If you can smile when things go wrong and say it doesnt matter,

 If you can laugh off acres and wo and trouble makes you fatter,

If you can keep a cheerful face when all around are blue,

Then have your head examined but there's something wrong with you,

For one thing I've arrive at there are no ands and buts,

A guy thats grinnig all the time must be completely nuts.

hahah Just remember that! :) :) Keep your head up and smile :)

I love you guys

Love,

Your favourite son

Elder Wright

Ps. We were in district meeting and we had a training on extending Baptismal invites and this is what the ZL said, "Extending baptismal dates is a lot like kissing the girl that you like for the first time. Yes, its nerve racking, but afterwards its well worth it." :) :) Every guy that just read that knows where I am coming from, but I would agree on both sides of that, it is well worth it :* haha

Love you!!

Dear Mum,

     What a week! So im basically just going to be talking about the weekend in this letter for two reasons, first it was your favourite kids birthday, (notice how I said kid and not son?? >:) Shneaky lil devil I am) and second we had Ria's baptism!!! :) 

 

My Birthday! 

What a day!! The whole day I was just asking Elder Dowdle, "Guess what?" And before he could answer I would say, "It's my Birthday!!" (: He was well annoyed by the time the day was over, but shoot I didn't care! It was my birthday and I can do whatever I want on my birthday!! :) haha We went over to a members home on my birthday and they brought me out this huge Brownie cake with a fire work on top!! It was crazy!! :) :) And it tasted sooo good :) I received some presents from Grandma and Grandpa, The Jazuski family, and the Buddles (where we ate dinner) I never did receive your little package of goods Mum.... Sooo lets hope I get it this week :) :) One thing that I noticed about my birthday a couple years ago, was that it was Kalena's half year anniversary. I was thinking more about her on my birthday than I was thinking about myself. It was really good. So I just wanted to share my side of the story of what happened on that day, because my side of the story is so different compared to the rest of the fams. Here it goes,

I remember getting home from school and there was either a note or mum called me and said "Stephanie is going to come pick you up in a bit but make sure you do your homework before then." So I was like WEHU!!! I was on cloud 9! I was going to Haydens house on a school day! That never happened. So before Steph picked me up I made sure that I did my homework, because I am a good kid like that ;) And I remember just having the BEST time at Haydens house!!! :) I couldn't have been happier :) And pretty soon I noticed it was getting really late and I was thinking to myself, Geez, when is my Mum going to come pick me up? Then Steph told me Hey your mum will be here in a few minutes get ready to go. So i was like okay cool.... Then the doorbell rang....

I remember walking to the door and all four of you were on the porch standing there with these gloomy faces and I didn't notice Kalena there with you, but I just thought that she would be in the car because she was tired from the race or something... Then Mum broke the news to me... I remember so well just running right into your arms and crying my eyes out!! I couldn't believe what had happened it took me so long just to get over the fact that she was gone. It was heart breaking. But I strongly remember the great support we had from family and friends. The greatest support I personally received was from Hayden Shaw. I went over to his house for the next three or four days just to try to take my mind off of things.... And that meant so much to me! I don't think I could've gone through that without the support that we had from all of our friends and family, so thank you :) 

So when ever my birthday comes around I do think of myself, but I always think of Kalena and how great of a sister she was and how great it is going to be to see her again :) I have come to realise that Kalenas death is a blessing in my life. Because as a missionary people are always wondering why bad things happen to good people and how 55 is too young to die, So I speak up and say do you think 18 is too young to die and of course they say yes, then I go on and bare testimony about this church. Yes it is rubbish that that happened to us. But I believe in the wise words of Billy Joel, Only the good die young. How true that is... Sorry Grandma and grandpa... I guess you weren't "good" enough >:)  haha But enough about that. I just thought that I should share that, because that is all I though about this weekend so I thought it was worthy to go in my e-mail. haha

Sunday- Ria's Baptism!!! :) That was so satisfying/rewarding, because we tracted into her, taught her, then baptised her :) :) I think that was Heavenly Fathers way of saying Happy Birthday to me? :) haha It was a great service!! Ria brought 10 or more friends to the baptism!! And Elder Dowdle and I are teaching one of her other friends Kiera, and we think that we can set up a baptismal date with her so that should be really good :) All in all it was a great weekend! Possibly one of the best yet!! :) I cannot believe that I have almost been out for 6 months!! Yes it is 2 weeks away, but still time is flying by!!! :) :) Which makes me really happy :) 

Thanks for everything you guys are doing for me! Keep sending your prayers this way, and I will continue to send prayers your way. Does that sound like a deal?? Okay perfect. That's a deal :) 

I love you and befor you know it Mum it is going to be your birthday... And then that officially means that I am 6 months out!! :) So thats cool :) 

 

I love you guys!! Thanks for the support!! :) 

Love, 

Elder Wright