Alma 34: 32-34

   Family.

 If you could real fast turn to Alma 34.32-34 this is a wonderful scripture that talks about the purpose of life Are you all there? Okay here it is,

" 32 For behold, this life is the time for men to prepare to meet God; yea, behold the day of this life is the day for men to perform their labors.

 33 And now, as I said unto you before, as ye have had so many witnesses, therefore, I beseech of you that ye do not procrastinate the day of your repentance until the end; for after this day of life, which is given us to prepare for eternity, behold, if we do not improve our time while in this life, then cometh the night of darkness wherein there can be no labor performed.

34 Ye cannot say, when ye are brought to that awful crisis, that I will repent, that I will return to my God. Nay, ye cannot say this; for that same spirit which doth possess your bodies at the time that ye go out of this life, that same spirit will have power to possess your body in that eternal world."

 Did all of you read the whole thing? ha I know what you probably did you started reading it then you thought lets just skip to the end when he explains everything, that way we don't have to read it..... Caught you. So if you didn't read it, please take the time now to read it  

Now explanation, in verse 32 it talks about the importance of life. The only reason for it is to prepare to meet God. That's it, nothing else. So if there is one thing that you should be doing right now and you're not, do it. There is nobody stopping you but yourself. I challenge everybody who reads this to read Alma chapter 5. Best chapter ever! And do it prayerfully as well. But just to give you a sneak peak here is a few of my favourite verses from it.

 "16 I say unto you, can you imagine to yourselves that ye hear the voice of the Lord, saying unto you, in that day: Come unto me ye blessed, for behold, your works have been the works of righteousness upon the face of the earth?

 17 Or do ye imagine to yourselves that ye can lie unto the Lord in that day, and say—Lord, our works have been righteous works upon the face of the earth—and that he will save you?" 

Boom. powerful stuff. I try my very hardest in life just so when that day comes The Lord can look at me and say, "Come unto me ye blessed..." Can't you just imagine him saying that as well? I imagine him with open arms and the warmest most welcoming smile you could ever see. It truly does bring tears to my eyes... But now look at verse 17. When we stand before the lord we are going to remember absolutely everything we have ever done wrong. Everything. No ands, ifs, or buts about it. And that to me is a scary thought. My advice to you, think if you were to die right now, would you be guilty, or would he say unto you, "Come unto me ye blessed..." If you feel guilty for something right now.... CHANGE IT! As a missionary you see people change their life for the better, like Debbie and Shannon (I will talk about them later), and it brings yourself more joy than you can imagine. Now can you imagine the joy the Lord will have with you if you were to change your life around? Three words for you, JUST DO IT. Change. Ya, sure it may be tough, but it will be worth it, and I can promise you as one of his faithful servants that your life will be better as well. I cannot stress this enough so I will stop and go onto my week  

Debbie and Shannon- Thanks for your prayers. It worked. I know it did. After the "break up" that we had we didn't see her for two days. Which is a long time for us! So we get a text from her two days later that says, "I miss you twos when are you coming around." Oh what joy filled my soul when I saw that text!!!  haha So we went over to her house and she was a changed women. For some odd reason, she didn't bring up what happened on Sunday, she moved on and she is now back on track! #PraisetheLord! The only sad thing is that it's transfers this week and I think that I might leave, and not see her get baptised.... Hopefully if I leave President will let me come baptise her. Her new date is for the 30th of November! She has been taught everything the only thing she needs help with is the W.o.W. She smokes only one a day. Which is so good, but its not good enough... haha But I know that through our faith that she will be able to over come it all  

So on Friday night we had a "Drinking Chocolate Night" in our flat complex.... And it went so well   ha Like who knew? WE have about 40 flats in our flat complex, so on Monday of last week we sent around flyers and 5 people came, I know only 5 came, but every body who came we now have an appointment with. So moral of the story creative finding works. Do it. As well with creative finding, about 2 months back we did Side walk chalk, and drew out the Plan of Happiness and now Elders in Dunstable are going to have a baptism on the 22nd because of it   Creative Finding, I am telling you, its the future of missionary work  ha Cool story huh? 

If you pray (plead) for one thing tonight let it be this, Michael Veronica, Danya, and Annaya. Who are a wonderful family that came to Church yesterday. They said it was a bit long, but can you blame them? ha I mean you got half of the High Priests bobbing their head around the room... haha  So we teach them tomorrow and they are praying about the Book Of Mormon and they NEED an answer so please pray for them!!!  Cheers. 

Alright, sorry about my sermon. ha Actually not really, but hope you enjoyed it. And hope you have a great week   I love you more than you can imagine and you are constantly the last thing on my mind right before I go to bed! Love you and have a wonderful week  

Much Love,

Elder Dayton Wright 

Happy Birthday GMA

 Sup fam. 

    First of all, Happy Birthday G'MA! You are looking younger every year. haha You are the best! Just have Shananu give you a kiss for your Birthday for you and that will be from me :) Goodness, it is b-e-a-utiful in Utah... I miss those colours so so so  much!... But you sent pictures so its almost as if I am practically there :) UEA weekend sounds as if it was well spent. With biking, traveling, watching some soccer, going to Vegas, and wherever else you went, sounds like a jolly good time :) To be honest there is not much more I can say about all of guys. haha Keep strong and carry on. 

    Now my life. Ready set 

   GO. 

    This week was full of miracles once again. I don't fully comprehend why or how these all come about, but as I said last week, "I am so blessed." :) so I will start with my favourite miracle then work my way down... and tell you all of the dirty detes. :) 

    Okay, so yesterday after Church we had this priest and laurles camp at our Chapel for all of the youth of the stake, and Elder Nielson and I were there from 1 to about 6.15 or so. And President Jordan was there and he was going to be giving a training and having the mission choir singing at this event. He kindly asked if we wanted to stay and watch, but instead we decided to leave and go find somebody to teach as we headed to Debbie and Shannon's. As soon as we walked out of the Chapel there was a family with two kids walking right by us. So we asked them,

Have you ever been inside this Church before? 

their response, "Well not, this one but one in Cambridge a few years back." 

"Well would you like to come and listen to a choir that is singing here just for the night?"

"Ya, sure why not." 

We walk into the room that President is in with the choir and ask them if they could sing them a song. Of course president said, "Of course, come on in." They sang "Brightly beams, our Father's Mercy" (Don't know if that is what it is called, but that is the first line.)  and it was sooo good. Like A +, top notch, spirit filled, just smashing, actually marvellous! After the song was finished President asked them where they were from and they said, "Spain, and Mexico" So President Jordan and 3 or 4 other missionaries started talking to them in Spanish, and their faces just started to light up! They chit chatted for a bit then President asked, "Can these missionaries come and teach you sometime this week?" and they said, "Of course, we are open to different ideas, we would love to have them over." :) So we left the Chapel and scheduled an appointment with them for tomorrow and they will probably be baptised!! But here is the kick/cutest thing about all of this. So for about 3 weeks now we have been praying to find a "normal family" who could 1. be the second counsellor because we only have a first counsellor. And 2. have two kids, and one of them be over 8. And after we finished talking to them, and were walking away Elder Nielson looked over at me with tears in his eyes and said, "That was the family." And he just started crying tears of joy. :) It was such a happy moment and we knew right then, that this family truly was the family we were supposed to find. It just comes to show that if you ask for something Heavenly Father will answer your prayer, but He just answers in his own time. Talk about a truly humbling experience. :) MIRACLE! 

  Then yesterday as well at Church we had 8 people there! :) We had Anita and her family who we met in the street a few days back and invited them and she said, I have always been looking for a Church. Then on Sunday morning she asks us, "Can my friend come with and bring her kids as  well?" And we were jumping all around the room saying, "OHHH heck ya you can bring your friend and her family!!!" hahah So that was a miracle, and we will be teaching them on Wednesday. 

   Update with Debbie and Shannon. This week we gave Debbie a priesthood blessing to help her with her W.O.W. problems, and oh my days! It worked, it works! All I have to do is take short little baby steps and I can go anywhere. (steps onto the ledge) oohhhuuhh. :) hah So Debbies's whole life she has been around tea. She usually has about 30-40 cups of tea a day, then she smokes about 20-30 a day. And as of yesterday she hasn't had a cigarette or a cup of tea!!!! :) :) :) MIRACLE! I am almost 100% sure that I was foreordained to find and teach Debbie and Shannon. It seems as if we have known each other for years, it's the best thing in the world! It makes me wanna cry. haha Im such a girl. :) It just comes to show that if you are obedient you will receive blessings. -Mosiah 2.41. 

  Well family, my time is up. If you can't tell Life is UHMAZING! I love it. I am not coming home. hehe And Oh the subject, comes from President Jordan. That is what he told Elder Nielson and I before we left the Chapel last night. hahah Don't know if it is supposed to be really deep, or just a weird thing to say, because I have never heard of it before. ha I secretely think President just got stuck and thought of something that grows.... So he could have said instead, "When the sun is shining... make corn." or something to that extent hahah :) I think it all means the same, but for some odd reason he said hay. But hey what can you say? ha okay im done. 

Love you lot,

Have a smashing week! 

Elder Dayton freaking Wright 

 

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY G'MA!!! I LOVE YOU!!

October 20, 2014

Fam.

  Whats good?! How's the autumn time treating all yall? The pictures mum sent were wonderful! To be honest the only reason why I am looking forward to coming home next year is to see Keo. Not Frenchie. Just Keo. Frenchie is a diva, and really annoying. :) And then there is Keo who is full of life and just goes with the flow :) Keo > Frenchie.:) I am sorry to hear that Shananu lost her game, but you win some, you lose some, you just hope you win more than you lose. But don't you worry girlfriend next year when I am coaching with Steiner and Castle we will go all the way baby! :) haha The football game looked sooo much fun. Ugh. I miss going to those with you Poppy! It was a real nail bitter as well, that's always a plus :) Don't you worry though, next year we will go to one, just like the "good ol days" :) 

Alrigh fam, so there is a song that describes exactly how I feel, and it goes like this.... 

 I am so blessed. I have more than I deserve, I thank god for all I have been given at the end of every dayyyy, I am so blessed. -forgot. (some country singer.) ha But these few lines describe exactly how I feel. I feel blessed and humbled. We have had unusual success lately and it humbles me. ha That sounds as if we never have success, but we definitely are always successful just these past few weeks have been brilliant! :) haha 

    So last week as you all know we had David's baptism which was great and we had 5 people at Church. Which is a pant load for us. I think the most my companion and I have ever had is two and that is throughout my whole mission experience. Soo... I am so blessed. 

   This week though, was smashing! You know how Debbie is petrified of water? Well we talked to her about baptism and why she needs to be baptised and she accepted a date for the 15th of November, and she will receive the Holy Ghost on the 16th :) :) B.D.E. for that reason and another one. Their faith is improving so so so much! They came to Church again yesterday, that's three weeks in a row, they thought it was a bit long, but the primary did their programme and it was lovely! It reminded me of back at home how all the kids(Tate Anderson mostly) would always be up there waving at their parents and making silly faces, goodness, it's too great! I love the primary children! :) So they enjoyed that, and as well during the programme Debbie received a "witness" of why she needs to be baptised! They were talking about temples and baptisms for the dead and sadly her dad has passed away and she really wants to know if she can be with him again, so when the primary kids were talking about this the spirit touched her soul!! :) WEHU! I call it a wehu bar, you know like WEHU! :-) So that's Debbie and Shannon. We see them everyday and life is good with them. Oh by the way a miracle happened with them. Their cousin is a member of the Church :) Booyaa Baby! 

   We have this investigator that we meant on the street, by just offering him a free Book of Mormon and he said, 

Yes!

So we were like "Wait, why would you like it?"

Dan said, "Because it talks about God, right?"  

Yes, Yes it does. Do you have a belief in God? 

Then he went on to explain how he has this belief In God and all of that good stuff. But what really caught our attention was he only has one arm. So we taught him about the resurrection and it really touched him, so we set up an appointment to see him on Saturday.

Saturday comes along and no "one arm Dan." (that's what we call him hehe) #gutted.

That night we text Dan and say, "We will see you at Church tomorrow at 10. ya?".... No response. 

get to Church, 9.30 we receive a text from Dan saying, "I am by Stockwood park. Come pick me up." 

Boy were we buzzin! We headed to the park, but it took us 45 minutes to find him, but when we found him he brought his mother and father! :) :) #iamsoblessed So we talked about what would happen at Church as we walked and when we got there they loved it! The mum was participating in our Gospel Principles class, they loved the primary programme, just everything went great! :) It truly was a miracle, because we have been praying to find a 2nd counsellor for our bishopric, because there are not enough Priesthood men for one. And you never know Tony (Dan's Dad) just might be the one :) :) Yaa buddy! #humbled. 

   For two weeks in a row now, we have had five investigators at Church! Geez... That's crazy! Now you know why I feel so blessed, because it truly is more than what we deserve. But you best believe in every prayer (which is about 20 plus a day) we thank Him for everything. If there is one thing I have learned its that you need to rely on the Lord for everything. And not just ask for something, but ask specifically. We didn't just want any family, we wanted a family, with a "normal" dad who could be a 2nd counsellor... And you never know with the Lord's help we may have stumbled upon him :) Crazy! 

But yes this week has been lovely! Our companionship is doing great! I love the people we are teaching, but most of all "I am so blessed, I have more than I deserve, I thank God for all I have been given at the end of every dayyyy! I am so blessed." :) Thank you family and friends for all that you do! It's because of your prayers and your support that Miracles are happening in Luton :) Cheers. 

Love you! Have a wonderful week! 

Love,

Elda Dayton Wright