Do you Believe in Miracles?

 Dear Family,

  That has got to be the saddest news about Dalton and his brother... Please send my love to their family. A lot of great times with that kid...

   It seems as if everything is going swell in Ogden, UT with the Temple open house, boating, soccer tryouts, holiday lighting, and summer life :) :) I saw some pics of the temple on lds.org and the Ogden Temple is gorgeous!!! I cannot wait to go in it and do some temple work again. I miss the temple, although I didn't take full advantage of it when I was at home, (ooopsies) but I have made a resolution to change when I get back! We are far too blessed to have a temple 15 minutes away and not take advantage of it! So if you don't go to the temple on a regular basis, GET THERE!! ha Im not going to lie, I was a bit gutted when I saw that Shanae or Marae didn't e-mail me... Please send me something! Cuz Marae you just graduated from college and you didn't send se some pics... This was like the biggest weekend of your life!!! And Shananu, soccer tryouts... really? You didn't tell me all of the secrets about the girls? And what position you are playing and who made it and who didn't... Im disappointed in you girls... I expected better.... Nothing like a guilt trip. hehe >:) haha I love you anyways :) :)

   So the subject of my e-mail indicates that we saw a few miracles this week... And so it will be my pleasure telling you today all about them :)

   So at the start of this week we couldn't find anybody! We tried everything and nothing was happening. But that wouldn't get us down! So we continued in the hard work and we decided to stop by a less active/recent convert, whose name is Dom. We visited him and we decided to fast with him on Thursday. But come Thursday we had interviews with the President, and when we have interviews Sister Jordan bakes the most delicious brownies! And not only that the Zone Leaders bought muffins for everybody! So there we (Elder Harding and I) were faced with the biggest decision at the time... Do we brake our fast for the muffins and brownies? Or do we continue fasting with Our RC? After a few calls and prayers we decided to continue our fast, because not only were we fasting for our RC but also for new investigators. One of the toughest decisions of my life!! (Not really, but if you don't make something dramatic nobody will like the story.) So we fasted the whole day and we found a few people who could be interested, but then on Friday we began to see miracles!! :) So Friday after Weekly planning (from 10-12) we headed out to find people to teach and when we left we specifically prayed for somebody that would come to Church. And wouldn't you know it the first guy that we stop he asked us if he could come to church!!!! Like what??!!! So we taught him in the street and we even gave him a date right there in the street and he accepted!! :) #miracle 1

    Next one, Saturday night rolls around and we are walking back to the flat and we stop this mum and daughter and had a good gospel convo with them and they told us that they would come to church, but it almost seemed as if they were saying that just to get away from us... haha but they still said they would come to church. So that is a positive so that night we prayed like no other that they would come to church and wouldn't you know it around 10:30 Carol and Kalifa walk through the Church doors!! They stayed the whole time and during sacrament there was a speaker who was talking about how "coincidences" aren't really coincidences, if that makes sense. So we wrote her a note and asked, "Do you think it was a coincidence that we met you last night?" And she said, "No not at all." :)  WEHU!! So we scheduled a time to go over to their house on Thursday and also after Church on Sunday so she can cook us dinner :) :) Because she is from Jamaica so she will cook us Jamaican food :) Random Fact. If I ever meet somebody from a different culture I ask if they can cook us dinner so we can see what kind of food they eat. haha That way you can get into their home, teach them and get a free meal out of it. #cheekylittlemonkey :) #Miracle 2

    This one is especially for one of my favourite sisters :) So we had an appointment that fell through on Sunday night so we decided to tract the rest of the doors, and the first door that we knock on a lady named Evette opens up and we start talking about the Gospel and she says, "I will come to your Church, because I am looking for the true Church, and I have been just about everywhere and I haven't been able to find it..." So we expounded off of that for a bit, then we asked her what her 4 year old daughter's name was and she said, "Shanae." And I was blown away!!!! I was like NO WAY!!! THAT IS MY SISTERS NAME!! hahaha and by the way they are a black family.... So Shanae you have a black name! hahah That is saweet!! :) :) So you could say that made my day/week!! :) #Miracle 3

   So what I learned this week was that if you do all that you can do to make things happen the Lord will put hose who are prepared in your path to find them. Init amazing how all of these things happen? The first person we stop wants to be baptised, one of the last people we talk to at the end of a long day comes to Church, and the first door we knock on is pretty much related to me :) :) AYE! haha So Miracles definitely happen! And that is what keeps this work going forward. I have told you a lot and to be honest I am a bit wiped out... So those are my miracles for the week. Hope and pray that thes people will continue to grow and progress in this Gospel! I love you and hope that you have a wonderful week!

Love your favourite son,

<3 Dayton Wright

 

The computer won't let me send pictures. Sorry. Love you!! :*

Do you Believe in Miracles?

 Dear Family,

  That has got to be the saddest news about Dalton and his brother... Please send my love to their family. A lot of great times with that kid...

   It seems as if everything is going swell in Ogden, UT with the Temple open house, boating, soccer tryouts, holiday lighting, and summer life :) :) I saw some pics of the temple on lds.org and the Ogden Temple is gorgeous!!! I cannot wait to go in it and do some temple work again. I miss the temple, although I didn't take full advantage of it when I was at home, (ooopsies) but I have made a resolution to change when I get back! We are far too blessed to have a temple 15 minutes away and not take advantage of it! So if you don't go to the temple on a regular basis, GET THERE!! ha Im not going to lie, I was a bit gutted when I saw that Shanae or Marae didn't e-mail me... Please send me something! Cuz Marae you just graduated from college and you didn't send se some pics... This was like the biggest weekend of your life!!! And Shananu, soccer tryouts... really? You didn't tell me all of the secrets about the girls? And what position you are playing and who made it and who didn't... Im disappointed in you girls... I expected better.... Nothing like a guilt trip. hehe >:) haha I love you anyways :) :)

   So the subject of my e-mail indicates that we saw a few miracles this week... And so it will be my pleasure telling you today all about them :)

   So at the start of this week we couldn't find anybody! We tried everything and nothing was happening. But that wouldn't get us down! So we continued in the hard work and we decided to stop by a less active/recent convert, whose name is Dom. We visited him and we decided to fast with him on Thursday. But come Thursday we had interviews with the President, and when we have interviews Sister Jordan bakes the most delicious brownies! And not only that the Zone Leaders bought muffins for everybody! So there we (Elder Harding and I) were faced with the biggest decision at the time... Do we brake our fast for the muffins and brownies? Or do we continue fasting with Our RC? After a few calls and prayers we decided to continue our fast, because not only were we fasting for our RC but also for new investigators. One of the toughest decisions of my life!! (Not really, but if you don't make something dramatic nobody will like the story.) So we fasted the whole day and we found a few people who could be interested, but then on Friday we began to see miracles!! :) So Friday after Weekly planning (from 10-12) we headed out to find people to teach and when we left we specifically prayed for somebody that would come to Church. And wouldn't you know it the first guy that we stop he asked us if he could come to church!!!! Like what??!!! So we taught him in the street and we even gave him a date right there in the street and he accepted!! :) #miracle 1

    Next one, Saturday night rolls around and we are walking back to the flat and we stop this mum and daughter and had a good gospel convo with them and they told us that they would come to church, but it almost seemed as if they were saying that just to get away from us... haha but they still said they would come to church. So that is a positive so that night we prayed like no other that they would come to church and wouldn't you know it around 10:30 Carol and Kalifa walk through the Church doors!! They stayed the whole time and during sacrament there was a speaker who was talking about how "coincidences" aren't really coincidences, if that makes sense. So we wrote her a note and asked, "Do you think it was a coincidence that we met you last night?" And she said, "No not at all." :)  WEHU!! So we scheduled a time to go over to their house on Thursday and also after Church on Sunday so she can cook us dinner :) :) Because she is from Jamaica so she will cook us Jamaican food :) Random Fact. If I ever meet somebody from a different culture I ask if they can cook us dinner so we can see what kind of food they eat. haha That way you can get into their home, teach them and get a free meal out of it. #cheekylittlemonkey :) #Miracle 2

    This one is especially for one of my favourite sisters :) So we had an appointment that fell through on Sunday night so we decided to tract the rest of the doors, and the first door that we knock on a lady named Evette opens up and we start talking about the Gospel and she says, "I will come to your Church, because I am looking for the true Church, and I have been just about everywhere and I haven't been able to find it..." So we expounded off of that for a bit, then we asked her what her 4 year old daughter's name was and she said, "Shanae." And I was blown away!!!! I was like NO WAY!!! THAT IS MY SISTERS NAME!! hahaha and by the way they are a black family.... So Shanae you have a black name! hahah That is saweet!! :) :) So you could say that made my day/week!! :) #Miracle 3

   So what I learned this week was that if you do all that you can do to make things happen the Lord will put hose who are prepared in your path to find them. Init amazing how all of these things happen? The first person we stop wants to be baptised, one of the last people we talk to at the end of a long day comes to Church, and the first door we knock on is pretty much related to me :) :) AYE! haha So Miracles definitely happen! And that is what keeps this work going forward. I have told you a lot and to be honest I am a bit wiped out... So those are my miracles for the week. Hope and pray that thes people will continue to grow and progress in this Gospel! I love you and hope that you have a wonderful week!

Love your favourite son,

<3 Dayton Wright

 

The computer won't let me send pictures. Sorry. Love you!! :*

August 4th, 2014

   Oki dokie family! 

  I am well happy right now!! Oh my days!! I just love p-day e-mails! :) :) So the Wright Family reunion sounds gr8, everybody said it wasn't the same without me... Im sorry. Mal mal said something really positive though, she said"at least you will be at the next one." :) And how true that is! I can't wait to be reunited as a "Wright" Family and shake a tail feather or two :) Elder Harding and I were totes jealous about you lot going to Jackson Hole though. But we stayed strong and got to work despite our jealousy. :) 

   I don't really know exactly where to start or what to say so from here on out it is just strictly my thoughts and what I am thinking at this exact moment. >:) hehe So todya for P-day we went to Stevenage and played a bit of football and touch Rugby. And can I jsut say I wish rugby was bigger in the states! It is so much fun! Ugh. I love it! The weather has been well nice for the past 4 weeks or so. Been about 80-85 degrees and sunny so I am sappy. They are saying this week we are supposed to get a "heat wave" and it is supposed to hit 100 degrees!!! But you know how weather men are... They say we are supposed to have "2 feet of snow" but it snows 2 inches... So don't know if I believe them, but I shall let you know next week if I remember. >:) 

  We have a recent convert from Spain who taught us how to pray in Espanol! So thats pretty legit :) We teach her english and she teaches us spanish, because she needs help with her English to get a job. So we are trying our best to help her and in return we get a bit as well. Elder Harding doesn't like doing it, but I think it will be so effective when we meet somebody from spain and can just talk the gospel in some spanish and then pray with them in spanish they would be like, "This Church must be true! This little white kid just had the interpretation of tongues!! :) " haha 

   The "Luton" District could be doing a whole lot better. The other Elders just don't seem like they are living up to their potential, so we will see if we can't change that over the next three weeks. haha

  Random side tid bit, Caleb you are looking "swoll" if they still use that term over there... IDK but ya you are looking good mate! Keep it up :) 

   We found some solid people this week!! Yesterday we were fasting as a mission to get 50 baptisms this next month, and Elder Harding and I were fasting to find somebody to put on date this week. So last night we decided to tract for a few more minutes before we went and had dinner at 8 o clock and the last door we knocked on was "the one" :) Her name is Bebhen (pronounced beb-hen haha) She opened the door and said that she was a practicing Christian from Ireland, but Elder Harding and I weren't bothered so we just started teaching her the Restoration and she was very receptive to us and we are seeing her tonight with a RM from the Manchester Mission!! :) And we will extend a date to her for the 30th of August! :) We as a companionship are hoping and praying that we baptise 3 people this month and with it being a 5 weekend month it is most definitely possible :) So we are well excited for her! The next lady is named Suzanna. She is from Portugal (so maybe our Spanish will come in use... huh ;) ) and we knocked on her door she came out and said, "when you knowcked I knew it was you guys. You are a sign from God." And we were stunned! So we agreed with her and said, "Yes we are that sign that you were looking for, when can we meet with you?" So we are seeing her on Saturday with that RM. :) :) She probably won't get baptised till the winter, because she works 9 straight days then has a day off. And in order to get baptised you need to come to Church 3 times.... And during the winter she has three days off a week, so ya winter time is a good time! We might set a date for her in December... Who knows :) :) 

   So that was my life this week. Went on another exchange with Elder Davis, from American Fork. I asked if he know the Belnaps, but he said no... so that's that. I love going on exchanges though!!! YOu get to know the missionaries so much better and the week seems to fly by when you do it :) Oh Interviews are this week!! Which is when you get to talk to President Jordan by yourself for about 10 minutes. This is critical time as a missionary.... You get ten minutes with President Jordan and for some reason everytime I get talking to him I forget what I wanted to talk about... I always come out a bit gutted but anytime spent with Prezzy J is good enough with me :) #Igetwellnervous haha 

  But that is lyfe in Elda Wright's life. Going strong! Loving life, cannot get any better. Love it to bits :) : )<3 I just hope and pray that you lot get on as well as I do :) 

   Love ya like no other! Just to let you know, the Christmas card and a select few other pictures are hanging in my flat. That way I can see you beautiful faces everyday :) :) 

 Love,

Elder Dayton Wright <3