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 

July 28, 2014

   Family!

 Sounds like you are all dandy and great. Going different places, like the rodeo, high school reunion, and next week/this week the family reunion, up in Lake Winnipausakee. :) JK I wish. When I plan our family reunion, that is where we are going. Road trip in an RV to NEW HAmpshire! :) Just like them good ol days :) haha That would be too good to be true. It's amazing how e-mails make you so gosh darn happy!! I open my e-mails every Monday and what do you know "they love me, they really love me" -the Mask. haha That is what I think every week. So cheers for always writing me, even if it is two sentences, it still means the world! :) 

My week was fantastic! Luton is the best area I have served in. Mum to put your mind at ease, I was only jumped twice, but Elder Harding performed some karate or something and scared them away. You know how those gangstas don't like those white boys who can do karate.... hahah :) Luton is a safe place. Don't worry. And there are loads of people who are interested in the Gospel! WEHU! I have never been in an area with more than like 25,000 people in it and there are three quarters on a million here so that's well good :) Update real fast on investigators and what have ya. So this week we put three people on date. One has dropped us but the other two are solid. :) One is named Jane, she is from the Ukraine and her mum was baptised in May. Jane is just struggling a bit with the W.o.W. so she needs to quit. Every time we teach them I just think of Kelsey Chritopulous and her trying to teach crazy Ukrainian women like these two :) hahah The other is Richard from Jamaica. He is legit. So considerate and your normal Jamaican bloke. He doesn't sound like the people off of "Cool Runnings" so don't ask. He sounds like a pure Brit. :) Init funny how we are in England and we are teaching a Ukrainian women and a Jamaican? haha This truly is a melting pot. For example there is this place called Bury Park where a whole bunch of Muslims live. And Rhamadan (where they fast during the daytime) finished yesterday so there were loads of parties, traffic was going crazy. So ya. I don't know what I was trying to get at, but I think I was trying to show you that there is every type of race here. I believe over half of the population is from the Middle East. So we have Muslims, Islamic, Seek, Buddhist, and everything in between. Another random fact if you are from Poland, you are Catholic. No ands, ifs, or buts about it. The Polish are kinda like the Hispanics in Utah. They are everywhere!!! But really cool people. :) haha 

   Elder Harding cracks me up. He is so straight forward, honest, and blunt about everything its unreal. For example, when we talk to people in the street he will just say, "Ya your church isn't true." With no smile, just a straight face. And like if you were to smile they may take it as if you were sarcastic, but not him. No way. He is all seriousness. I am going to see if I can crack him. That is my goal for the next transfer. See if I can make him smile whilst he is talking to people. But shhh don't tell him, this will be our little secret and I will report back to you every week to tell you how it's going. :) hahah He's a good man. 

   It's well fun being a D.L. cuz you get to know everybody in the district so much better! You make calls to each companionship in your district every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. And ask how they are doing and see how the work is going. We do this thing in our District where we send a "Quote of the Day" over text. Kinda like the Quote board int eh warehouse. :) haha You get some reeaall shtupid (that's how the Brits say stupid) ones but that's the fun of it :) So that's pretty neat. We went on an exchange this week which is when the D.L. and his companion swap places with another companionship. So I went to Dunstable 1 on Wednesday and we had so much fun! We were on bikes the whole time and by then end of the day my butt was bruised but hey that is the joys of being on bikes! We even put somebody on date that day. :) :) Good stuff. 

  To be honest that is my life. Pretty straight forward, simple, easy, no stress really. haha Seriously doe. All we have to worry about is talking to people about Church. That is pretty easy. You don't have to worry about school, family, money, impressing anybody, nothink (that is how they say nothing.) You just worry about testifying to people :) #Icandothat. 

   Well I love you to bits. I truly do. If there is anything I can do for you please let me know. Maybe send a letter/postcard, send some chocolate, I am down to do whatever. Just let me know. :) I love you guys!! 

Love,

Elder Dayton Wright 

    Family.

  Seems like you had a lovely week! :) haha I missed out, but thats okay because I can come next year :) Can you believe it?!! 10 months!! CRAZY! Time flies. And I love that it does :) 

    So mum, I shouldn't tell you this so don't read it okay. Don't read it. You won't want to know.

    Okay so Luton has been rated the worst place to live in England for three years running.... And mostly because the crime rate is so terrible, drugs are crazy, and every type of nationality lives here!!! So you got a white kid from Ogden, UT living amongst this gangsta paradise. #thisismyplacetobe :) haha Luton is a city with about 750,000 people living here, a whole lot bigger than Witham and the LGC. haha So that is a background of Luton. (If you read that mum you are so rebellious :) ) I am going to have so much fun here!! I am going to learn as many languages as I can. I have learned quite a bit of Shonah, which is an African language. Polish, Spanish of course, and Romanian. :) I am hoping to be able to come back and speak multiple languages :) 

    My companion... haha He is so funny! He is from Lehi, UT and is pretty geeky. I love him to bits though :) I"ll have to see if I can attach a picture, but I am in an internet cafe and they don't allow it sometimes so i'll see if I can :) because we have a few pictures together and the pictures say it all :) :) 

   There is nothing different between a District Leader and a normal missionary. All a DL does is call people.... haha seriously doe. Thats the only difference. But it is quite fun talking to all the missionaries so that's good. This District is proper small. There is us, Luton, Dunnstable 1 and Dunstable 2. That's it. And the saddest news.... NO SISTERS!!! UGH. kill me! Everybody knows sisters are the best and we don't have any... So that puts a real damper on things. Sisters>>> Girls, go on a mission. It's the best thing you could do. :) 

   The ward is a great ward. About 60 people come out to Church each week... Kinda small, but hopefully we change that :) One of my favourite parts about Luton is that it is right next to the LGC so I have seen a lot of people from my first area already!! And that brightens up my day :) 

   I don't what else to really say. hmmm... Random fact about Elder Harding, he does not like musicals, or Disney films! Like who the heck are you? (The Who) That makes em well sad, because all I do is quote Open season, Ice Age, The Grinch, Tangled, and every other Disney film in the book.... So that sucks! But what can I do? So guess what I will be doing for the next 6 weeks... hehehe >:) Singing, Do you want to build a snowman... Or let it go, let it go... Just kidding, I don't know those songs, but if you want to you can send me that CD, (Frozen) :) That would be cool. And don't worry, we are aloud to listen to it on the mission, so please send it :) :) Cheers Luv. 

    So that's my life at this time. I will summarise it in this final paragraph. 

  My name is Elder Dayton Wright, I am serving with Elder Alec Harding, who is from Lehi, UT, we are serving in the armpit of England. (Luton) It has been proper hot this week!! Like 85 degrees and the whole time I have been sweating like a pig! NO joke I sweat when we are in the flat, because we don't have AC.... Ugh. Grody. I love this District, got some dang good missionaries init. And we will see miracles this transfer. And btw the quote of this transfer for me is... We don't believe in Miracles, we depend on them. :) Deep init :) Alright so that is my life! I love you to the moon and back and hope you all have another splendid week in Utah or wherever you go :) :) 

Love,

Your favorite child,

Dayton Wright 

Ps. Sorry can't send pictures...  Love you anyways :) 

July 12, 2014

   Family.

 It seems as if you and all of your adventures are treating you swell. Every week I am out here the less I care what goes on back at home... hahah that sounds really bad, but it's true. #doesthathurt? :) Don't take that the wrong way, I still love to hear what is going on and all the dirty little secrets, but it doesn't phase me as much as it used to, so that's nice :) 

  I am really excited about these transfers :) So I am not going to London, but I am going back to the same stake that I was in before (St. Albans) and I will be serving in Luton as the District Leader. :) Apparently Luton is the armpit of England.... but I love me some b.o. so I guess that one works out :) haha what am I saying? ... But I am well excited to go to Luton!!! Not because of being a District Leader, but I might see some of the members from the LGC :) :) :) And that makes me happy!!! And my companion is Elder Harding, who has been out a transfer longer than me, and he is a solid bloke. I am really excited to learn from him :) Elder Wright and I had a few ups and downs along these past 12 weeks, but we are leaving on good terms so thats brilliant! To be honest it was tough, but what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, stand a little taller! :) 

   Besides transfers happening this week, we had loads happen. So first off President Jordan said we could watch the Final of the World Cup on Monday. So we had a member of the bishopric record it then we were able to watch it!!! OH HAPPY DAYS! I was gutted when Germany scored.... But that goal.... mmm that was brilliant! When I was watching the match all of my memories of me playing football came flooding back to me.... And oh my days, I miss it!! Probably more than my family. hahahahah Rude. Sorry. Wasn't the truth. But I cannot wait to go back and play in a proper match. It is going to be well fun :) :) So that was kinda nice. Are you ready for a miracle? This will blow your mind! So on Friday we were at the Library doing the progress record, finished it, came out and started to talk to everybody that was in our path. There was about a line of seven or so people one right after another and we tried to stop every single one, but one after another they all said something along the lines of,  " No, im busy... Not interested... I don't care what you do..." (That was pretty funny) or they just didn't even acknowledge us, and then it came to the last bloke. Who stands 6'4 about 185 pounds, looks kinda like a string been. haha And we were like Hey we are missionaries, who talk about Jesus Christ..... And he was like, "Wait, do you follow the teachings of Jesus Christ?" And of course our faces lite up, because nobody had given us the time of day. So we started testifying to him and teaching him, and the whole time he was like yes I agree with that. After a few short minutes he said he had to go, but we scheduled to meet with him that night. We met him in the courts (the ghetto of Witham) and started talking about Jesus and our Church and he was going right along with it the whole time. And as missionaries you don't get people who are like that very often... So we gave him a date for the 27th of July and he accepted!!! And just yesterday he called and said, "I have decided I am going to stop doubting myself and just go on this path, because this is the right path." :) :) :) Isn't that the best thing you ever did hear!!??? We met him on the 11th and he is getting baptised on the 27th... 16 days. That's mental init. haha His name is Duncan by the way, so if you want to pray for him that would be much appreciated :) Cheers. It truly is amazing how the Lord is willing to bless his missionaries if they are consistent and persistent. We could have stopped trying after the 3rd person and just thought, nobody is going to listen anyways so why bother, but we did not. We were acting out of pure faith and hoping for the best, and we got it!!! Get in :) :) #miracle :) 

   As you can see family, life in Witham has treated me well, but its time to trust my instincts close my eyes and leap. It's time to try defying gravity! haha Luton is calling my name! Pray for me. I will need all the help I can get. ha Love all of you to the moon and back! <3

  Love,

Elder Dayton Wright 

ps Please keep Mandy, Chelsea, and Marley in your prayers that they stay strong in the church :) Cheers 

We also went to Chelsea's play!! It was well good :) :) Don't mind my face... haha 

Saying goodbye to the English family. Lovely family. 

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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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