4th of July

July 3, 2014

  Fam.

Boating. 

Yup.

Looks.

Great.

Cheers. 

ILY.

  It was well weird not being home with you for the fourth and your fun little adventures to pine view and what have ya. But none the less it looks like it is "just another day in paradise." :) I am starting to miss summer now. haha It took this long, but I kinda miss it. I think it's just because I saw all of the pictures from boating and peoples adventures it makes me miss it. But after e-mails it is back to work :) Just as an fyi next week I will write on Tuesday, because it is transfers this coming week. Pray that I go to London :) :) #Whitechapel. 

  Well I had another wonderful week in the field!! Full of tear jerkers, happy times, and fun times :) 

I need to tell you something that may make you cry. Not because it is sad, but it is just so gosh darn precious!! :) So Mandy, Chelsea and Marley figured out that transfers are next week and so when we went around to their house after church they gave us a "surprise." This surprise touched me to the soul. It was a card that they gave to us. And this is what it said. And I quote. (This is from the kids.And don't worry about the mistakes, that is how they wrote it. Don't judge.)

"Prayer. Dear Heavenly Father, Please bless our missionaries they have been so good and helpful to us and changed our lives. Please watch over them in their new journey ahead and keep them safe we wish them the best and hope that they are happy, and I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ AMEN." And on the other side of the card was...

"speech.

Im not very good at speeches so I wrote a poem instead. 

Elder Wright's

Extreme friends

Loving elders

Dedecated people

Enigetic spirits

Real mormans

Wonderful company

Rare teachers 

Impressive work

Good guys

Hungry tummies

Totally mad

Special little soldiers.

We will miss you. 

:') <3 doesn't that just touch you to the very core? I about cried when they read that. And then Mandy comes along and shares her card with us which reads,

"Elder Wright Brothers  I don't want you to leave us, we love you. You have done so much for us, your the best, your like my boys. I respect and love you guys, you got big hearts and big souls and fantastic friends. Bless u. You have changed me, if you go, you'll take me with you, half my heart. Your part of my family forever a tear to my eyes a rip to my hear. Mandy. In the name of Jesus Christ amen." :) OH MY DAYS!! Mum if that doesn't make you proud/cry I don't know what will!!!!! :) :) :) :) :) :) My mission is complete. I'm done. I might just come home now and that way we can go boating and what have ya :) haha I love them so much. They mean so much to me. So that's that. :) 

Then today we went to the Tour de France! It was so cool!!!!!!!! It is the third largest sporting event in the world... Didn't know that.  And the atmosphere is really fun. It's a lot like a cross country race. You wait at one area for about 5 minutes (for us it was 3 hours) and then you see them for about 10 seconds and that is it. haha It was really cool though, because that is probably the only chance I will ever have to watch the Tour. So that made me really happy! :) :) And I even caught a polka dot hat which I will use for boating next year >:) 

Sorry I am out of time. Cut short today, because of the race. I love you. You have no idea how much you all mean to me. Seriously if you are reading this, you mean a lot to me. Even if you don't think you do... trust me, you do! Love you! XOXO

Elder Wright 

Golfing.

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Every Rose has its Throne

HIYA! 

  So I am writing you today, because moves calls/week is this week. And I am....... Staying with Elder Wright!!! :) :) So funny story behind that. We were interviewing Mandy and Chelsea for their Baptism this next Sunday and out of the blue the phone rings and it is President.... I answered the phone and he said "Elder Wright, do you want to stay or go?" More or less. And I thought to myself for a good while what I wanted to do and I said President I would love to stay! :) So we are staying together. Now you may be thinking I thought you and Elder Wright weren't the best of friends... But that was last week and its a new week! I love him. I noticed it was all my fault too.... I was telling myself why I didn't like him instead of reasons why I loved him! And the reasons why I love him out weigh the bad any day!! Isn't there a quote that says Every rose has its thorn? I am not saying that Elder Wright is good looking or anything I am just saying that he is a great bloke and he has very small or no thorns at all. :) haha *awkward* But ya so there is that :) 

  This week was pretty dang good! We were just really focusing on Mandy and Chlesea, because there baptism is this coming Sunday!!! WEHU! We saw them every single day and they are so excited about their baptism! They are "golden" investigators :) Mandy is scared of going under the water, because when she was a kid she got run over by a glass bottom boat and she could see everybody looking at her when the boat ran over her so you could say she is a bit put off about the water... Crazy story init?! But ya she will be just fine, hopefully when she gets baptized she won't freak out under the water... haha that would be a story to tell :) 

  We have invited another lady to be baptized on the 28th of June and oddly enough her name is June! I think it is meant to be :) haha She seems really promising! We taught her on Kalena's Birthday so you best believe I was testifying about how families can be together forever! :) I think that is the greatest blessing in my life right now. As terrible as that sounds. But with that you can relate to every single person! And it helps so much, because if it wasn't for that my life woulda been a whole lot easier and less trial some. In all honesty that is really the only thing that went wrong in my life. So I am so blessed! And nobody likes a missionary saying that "They can make it through anything as long as they rely on God." If they have never had to rely on God before. At the time and still to this day I am gutted about the whole experience but it blesses my life more than you could imagine! So count your many blessings! :) 

  I am loving my mission! I cannot stress that enough. This is the greatest thing that anybody could do! Yes, it may be tough sometimes. Noticed how I said sometimes, and not all the time? I live by a quote that goes life's what you make is so lets make it rock! That is from the one the only Miley Cyrus! :) haha just  kidding but those words are very true. Nobody can put you in a bad mood. You have to choose to be the way you are. I remember Dad always telling us kids that nobody could make us mad and I was like, "Girl please! You make me mad all the time!" hahah But it's so true you have to choose to act the way you do. #thetruth 

  I love you guys and thank you so much for continuing to write me! Love you to bits

 

Dear FAMILY!!! 

   Roses are Red, Violets are blue, I'm a schizophrenic and so am I. :) 

Martha may who-via I HATE YOU!! Hate, hate, hate, LOADS entirely!! 

Black mail, Jury duty, pink slip, black mail, jury duty....  

I call this a moon burn :) :) 

Lefty loosey, righty tighty. 

Okay now that I got that out of my system, I can write. 

Er jesrt lerv mer merssern!! Talk about an amazing week in the mission field! :) Sorry I am being selfish, just talking about myself. It sounds like you guys are totes perf. Okay back to my week >:) hahah

   Let's start with the baptism yesterday :) We baptized Mandy and Chelsea who Elder Wright and I found, taught and baptized :) :) We have grown really close to them and to see them progress and come to the realization that this church is true is the best feeling in the world! Mandy went from smoking 30-40 cigarettes a day to zero. We gave her a priesthood blessing and afterwards she stopped. Just like that. Mental that is. Chlesea is super duper smart. She understands the Gospel better than a 16 year old priest. She is so smart :) She even said the closing prayer at her baptism and said something along the lines of, "Now that we are on the right path, please help us to continue on the straight and narrow, and lead us away from the bad things." :) An 11 year old said that prayer. That's awesome! The baptism went over really well :) No cannon balls or crazy events. haha Just picturesque it was. Spirit was present. The ward was there. And Mandy and Chlesea loved it! What more can you ask for? Great finish to a great week!! 

   On Saturday evening we were teaching this lady named June. We taught her the first lesson a week back and gave her a date for the 29th of June. She accepted it and everything was golden. Saturday we talked about the Plan of Salvation. We opened up the lesson with Dieter F. Uchtdorf's Mormon Message, "Our true identity." Which talks about the ugly duckling becoming this marvelous swan. (you should watch it if you haven't) And we related that to her. How we are all sons and daughters of our loving Heavenly Father and then went on to teach her about the Plan of Happiness :) During the lesson we taught the Word of Wisdom, Law of Chastity, and Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy. The first two she was fine with. But keeping the Sabbath day Holy she wouldn't accept it. And we were being so persistent with her by the end of the lesson it seemed as if we were trying to FORCE her to come to Church. But she wouldn't budge. Even after the closing prayer we brought it up one more time and  I think for one of the first times in my life I felt how much God loves all of his children. I started crying, because she shouldn't come to Church... A bit embarrassing but I was so gutted. I didn't know what to do. I knew how much it would bless her life, but she wasn't having it. It opened my eyes just for a minute about how much God loves ALL of us. No matter where we are in life! Which leads me to an amazing quote I heard in Church yesterday which says, "Why would I quit now, when God has given me so much already?" Boom Bam Ding Shong WEHU! haha Great quote init? :) But it is so true. God has given us so much how could we ever give up on Him, ourselves or others? It jsut doesn't make sense. I just love thinking about that quote. You should put it on your wall or somewhere where you can see it to remind you everyday that "You can do it. He is with you, and has given you so much already." :) LOVE IT!! 

   An update on our relationship ( Elder Wright and I ) its perf!! He is amazing!! It's crazy how if you change your frame of mind, serve him, and just love the bloke, how great somebody truly is. I don't know why in the HECK we didn't get along, because we get along sooo well. First of all we have the same name. He is Compton "ghetto booty" California. Which makes him sick! And I am from Ogden "Ghetto Booty" Utah... So we are pretty much the same there. ;) haha But ya I just love the kid. He isn't really much of a kid, he is 3 years older than me... But he is teaching me so much. He's great!! All I can say is taht I am stupid for not getting along with him from the very start. It's like Michael Jackson's song. "I'm starting with the man in the mirror. I'm asking him to change his ways. No message can a man be any clearer. If you want to make the world a better place take a look at yourself and make that change. OW! nah nah nah" :) haha Change yourself before you criticize others. It's as simple as that. :) 

  One more qucik story. So we were doing service for a Less active in the ward. (mowing her lawn) And the lawn mowers over here are bere weird and you plug them into the outlet and then it works. And Leona's grass is about 3 to 4 feet tall and so we started on the task of mowing her lawn.... And about 7 minutes into it I, Dayton "stupid kid" Wright ran over the electrical cord that plugs into the wall!!!...... So ya... We couldn't mow anymore. But apparently that happens a lot over here so it is fixable :) I will attach loads of pictures that will help explain myself :) 

 

I love you!! And thanks for all of the love and support!! 

Keep on keeping on

Love

Elder Dayton Wright 

 

PS we went to a castle last P-Day. Pretty neat :) 

Sorry Everyone catching up on Daytons Blog.

    Dear Family and Friends,

 To be honest, I am a bit jealous. Jealous in the fact that you went to the 1 Direction concert... You are so lucky!! haha :) Seriously though. (One direction re-mix coming up) If only you saw what I could see, you'd understand why I want to go so desperately. Right now I'm writing this e-mail and I can't believe, that you don't know-oh-oh You don't know I want to go!! :) haha Im sure that was good, family fun entertainment! :) Sounds as if summer is into the full swing of things, literally. That golfing looked well fun! I could just imagine Marae golfing... haha :) Let's just say it puts a smile on my face. It kinda reminds me of Samantha trying to play volleyball!! Do you remember that?! Good times. :) :) And we also have girl's camp coming up!! WEHU! Everybody and their cats know that girls camp is by far the greatest thing in the world! :) Make sure to live it up Mum, and Nae-no... you only live once. haha I'm sorry Shananu about your back, that is some bad news. I hope everything gets better. *crossing my fingers OH, PS. HAPPY FATHERS DAY!! :) :) I know it's a bit late, but I didn't wish you one in advance and yesterday I was thinking about you the whole day and I was like, shoot, I didn't wish him a Happy Father's Day last week... But don't you worry, I did write you a hand written letter last week so that should get to you soon :) :) Deirck Wright >>> You truly are the best dad in the world!! Thanks for all that you have done for the family! 10 Points for you :) :) 

   My week.

  Yesterday we confirmed Mandy and Chelsea members of the Church!! :) Such a strong spiritual experience :) And they are doing so well! Everybody is fellow shipping them and you can tell that they are going to be solid members :) If nothing else goes right in my mission,  this one experience will be good enough for me. Seeing Mandy go from smoking everyday all day to going to church and saying her prayers, is the best thing in the world!! There truly is something different about the relationship that missionaries and their investigators share with each other. I love those three like family. They had a really neat experience this week. After they were baptized they received loads entirely of blessings :) Mandy lives off of benefits so she doesn't receive much money from week to week and this past week the school called her in about Chelsea. When Mandy got to the school the head master told Mandy that they are giving her 400 pounds of vouchers and that Chelsea could get free food and snacks for the rest of the year. Mandy asked why and they just said we know you could use some help and we are giving it to you. :) :) :) Init that the best thing you could ever hear! Especially as a parent? Now you don't have to worry if you have enough money to feed your kids or give them their "snack." They are set now. :) God works in mysterious ways. Now I just hope and pray that they stay on the right path! What a cool story! 

   To be honest this past week with teaching and finding wasn't exactly the best. We had a lot planned had a lot of good plans for people, but they just wound't have it. We would call them, text them, stop by their house, and they wouldn't answer. And the worst part is that you get to their house, you hear people walking around inside, knock on their door, and then nobody comes.... So you knock again, the dog starts barking, you hear somebody say "SHUT UP" and they still don't come to the door, knock again, you see one of the kids come to the door, and they are just about to open the door, then somebody grabs them and takes them away from the door. We knock one more time. And they look through the curtains and they are "on the phone" and they mouth come back another time. hahahahah That is the best thing in the world!! :) :) :) Just kidding that never happened. But could you imagine? haha Oh my days! :) I mean we got every single one of them this past week, but not all at the same door... haha If that happened at the same door, I would probably just die of laughter!! :') But ya not a whole lot of stuff happened this week. Actually a lot of stuff happened this week. We were dropped by just about everybody! ha We had I believe 5 on date at the start of the week and by the end we had 2. But these two that are on date don't look too promising. One of our investigators is even getting baptized into a different church! Talk about an ultimate sucker punch to the gonads!! haha Elder Wright and I have tried to figure out what is going on and it's not because we are being disobedient, not getting along, or being apostate. But we reckon it's because we found such a lovely family and baptized them that He doesn't want us to have too much success ;) That was a complete joke. I don't know if I should delete that or not, because that doesn't sound the best but if it's what we think, you should be able to know. Right? :) A great plus of this past week was we had dinner with the members every night!! WEHU! That is always the best! A bit random, but that has never happened so that was nice :) #delicious 

   Yup. That is my week in a nut shell. If I could describe it in three words, lovely, sunny, and spot-on. haha Is that four words? I tried making it three but whatevs. I love you! Hope you have a wonderful week and live up your summer!! It only comes once a year. :) 

  Love you! 

 Elder Dayton Wright 

 

Ps Elder Wright and I did a few music videos but they are too big to send... Sorry

pps Also did Shananu ever get my letter that I sent her because it had my last memory stick in it... Hopefully nobody stole it. That had all the pictures of my mission on it.. Oopsies.

 

Stake Conference

Dear Fam,

   It sounds like Stake Conference was truly inspiring. And it's great to hear that some of it was on Hastening the Work of Salvation, because that is exactly what ours is on this next weekend! I hope President Fagg (Stake President, don't laugh at his name. hehehe >:) ) does the same thing that happened at your Stake Conference, have everybody give the missionaries names of people to go teach :) Because that would be awesome!! Referrals are the best thing in the world! 

   It sounds like Zandy is doing well with football! :) Zandy make sure you tell the team this quote that I heard from Jack Nicholas in our past district meeting. He said "The harder you try the luckier you get." Isn't that a great quote? I think that is going to be my motto either that or Hakuna Matata. Either one is fine by me :) :) haha That is mental that Zandy goes home in a month or so... Where has the time gone? School is almost over! Summer is almost here! Peeps are getting their mission calls! Graduation is coming up! Holy days! I can see why Kenny Chesney says in his song, "Don't Blink." Life goes by too fast not to enjoy it. So live it up!! :) :) 

  This week was another wonderful week in the mission field! Training is going surprisingly really well. And it's not because I am a good trainer or anything. In fact its because Elder Wright was so well trained before he came out on his mission that it makes my job easier :) We work very well together and we are finding success in the wonderful area of Witham :) This coming week we have more appointments than we have had for a while and it keeps getting more full :) Erts ser awerserm!! What's even better is that this past week we taught a lady by the name of Katie. At first she cancelled on us and said, "something bad has happened to her so she can't meet with us." And we were gutted. We prepared a great lesson for her and she cancelled on us... Ugh. But to our surprise she texted back and said, "I can actually meet you at 7 in the park." Don't know why she said that.... Actually I think the Man upstairs had something to do with it. :) But anyhoo we met her in the park and the lesson went really well. Elder Wright was slaying with analogies!! I was like oh shhnnappp! Where did you come up with that?? He was saying something to do with ice cream and how we want to share it with peeps and how it makes us happy and how it can make her happy and all this crazy stuff. As you can tell it went right over my head! haha But it was b-e-a-utiful :) And by the end of the lesson we invited her to be baptised! And she said yes!! :) :) :) What what! That has never really happened to me before where they say yes on the first lesson! It was so awesome! We didn't give her a date for the baptism, but we did ask her to read and pray about the Book of Mormon, and she said that she has read from it already so we are very happy with her and that whole situation :) :) I love "greeny" missionaries because they have this hope and faith that they can baptise everybody and they just want to do missionary work! Its so much fun to see Elder Wright just in the past couple of days watch him improve and see him start to get more confident in himself and be more willing to talk to EVERYONE :) It makes me very happy. Elder Wright is a very funny kid. He makes me laugh :) The things that he says, the things that he does, and his mannerisms are so funny! And the best thing is that he is a wonderful singer! So I am going to take lessons from him, but he is charging me 10 pounds a lesson... so can you send me more money? hahah Just kiddin he's not making me pay, but I do need money. Like today! I am starting my driving and it is 56 pounds so I need some more mullah :) Im kinda scared to drive tho. Cuz the roads are half the size to the US and you drive on the opposite side. You use the stick with your left hand. Everything is different and I just might kill myself.... #prayforDayton #imabitnervous 

    Well fam have a great week :) And as the summer approaches just remember the way you felt when you went to Hawaii... You missed me and wanted me to come, so don't go anywhere too fun :) Like you better not go to " Lake Winnipasaukee. That's W-i-n-n-i-p-a-s-a-u-k-e-e, two A's and two E's..... perfect. Thank you ladies I am crazy about you especially you Betty." :) :) hahah What about Bob. What a film. :) haha I love you guys and pray for you constantly! I know the Lord blesses us as we are more obedient. President Jordan says, "Obedience brings blessings, Exact Obedience brings Miracles." So if you want something amazing to happen look at your life, What are you lacking or what do you need to improve on, and if you do this you will soon see the Lord's hand in your life and you will start to see Miracles :) A bit harsh, but true. :) I love you and hope you have a wonderful week! 

Love,

Elder Dayton Wright 

Looking Grown Up

Dear Family,

  I liked how in your e-mail mum you were saying how I look more grown up, but umm.... I think I look younger. The only difference between the "old" me and the "new" me is a fatter face. hahah :( ER mer gersh erm ser fert! It sounds like the whole fam damily is doing well. I wish I could have gone with all of you to Cali. That seems like a great trip! :) But was even seems more great is Mothers day this Sunday!!! Woot Woot!! :) Can you say skype!!?? :) :) haha the person you need to look up or whatever you do is jonny.griffin If you add him as a friend things should go just fine :) I can't wait to see you but until that time I will tell you about my week.

 This week was stupendous! We saw and continue to see so many miracles!! For example, we were about to go teach this appointment at 2 o' clock and at about 1.30 they texted and said we were up sick all night last night. can we reschedule? So we reluctantly we said yes. But we were so gutted, but we stuck to our back up plans anyway, which was to go find people in the town centre. As we were walking to the town centre we stopped this bloke that was walking pretty fast and it looked as if he was on a mission to go kill somebody. But we weren't bothered. In the England London Mission we are bold! Like lions!! :) So we asked him, would you like to be with your family forever? And he stopped and began swearing at us!! And we were like maybe we do fear men... :) JK LOL But after a bit he cooled down and he said its funny you should ask me that. I am going to go talk to my mrs. because we are having marital problems. So we looked at each other and just started to testify about everything there is in the book. We went from families to Joseph Smith to who knows what and during that whole time his whole persona changed. He went from swearing, agitated, and jumpy to being calm, respectful, and understanding. It was amazing! The spirit was so strong and it made us so so sos so happy!! :) Afterwards we said a prayer with him and after the prayer he said, "I feel a lot better. I am glad you stopped me and started to talk to me, because before I was going to go talk to my mrs. and probably ruin our relationship but know I feel calm and relaxed." After he said that we were like Darrell (thats his name) that is the spirit testifying to you that these things are true! Can we meet up again? And he said Ya of course. So we met up again and to make long story short we taught an amazing first lesson and invited him to be baptised and he said YES!! So that is saweet!! :) :) :) We are very happy! We are truly seeing the Lord's hand in the work. It is wonderful! And we had so many other miracles just like this the whole week!! 

  I am terribly sorry, but I have to go. don't have much time but we get to skype on Sunday!!!!!!!!!! WEHUWEHU!! I cant wait!! :) :) :) :) I am thinking about 7.30 should be grand :) I love you family and I cannot wait to see your B-e-a-utiful faces :) 

  Much love

Elder Dayton Wright