This Week we need to lay the smackdown

Hola,

Not much new in Cottonwood. The work picked up a little bit since last week. We seem to be teaching more and more Less-active folks and recent converts. That's really nice and all, but I want some investigators to work with. We are planning on a baptism this Saturday for Bailey VanWagoner. We've been teaching her for about a month now. Her mother is less/non active and has some word of wisdom problems, but we hope that through the baptism we can get her coming back to church again.

We have one investigator that cant seem to make the changes they know they need to in life. Some people just dont have any sense of commitment, and no sense of responsibility. Cant hold an appointment, cant seem to wake up for church. They want to get baptized, they know it's right, but they have this mentality that it wont take any effort on their part to make it happen. This week we need to lay the smackdown on them to get them to make some very needed changes in their life. I feel like I'm ranting.

That's all for this week, I hope all is well at home!!

ciao,
Elder Wright

Pictures sent home

I'm sorta getting the hang of teaching

Dear Family and Friends,

This week was amazingly and spectacularly depressing! It all started while we spent 3 hours at the DMV while my companion renewed his license. The rest of the week just went downhill from there. On the bright side we got to stop at In-n-Out on the way back and I got a good old double double. Elder Swanson couldnt admit that it was better than any Idaho burger. But as far as the work goes, GAH! Everybody cancelled their appointments on us and everybody dropped their baptisimal dates. Totally not cool. We still have a million golden potential investigators, but all of them are sick/out of town/dont want to talk to us yet. This week we've resolved to focus on obedience, and prayer to keep our work up.

I'm sorta getting the hang of teaching. We went on exchanges this week and I got to go with Elder Garcia in his area. He came out I think in December, so about 3 months after I did. He's from Mexico and he's still learning his english. I think the funniest thing that came out of his mouth was 'Elder, you are sweating like a pork'. He's also an engineer like MEEE!! that was cool. He's almost graduated from some school in mexico but he decided to go on a mission before he finished. It gave us some conversasion to talk about. I learned a lot from him though, Because he's learning english he's always looking for ways to improve his language and teaching, which showed me how much improvement he looked for in everything.

It's also super warm here in Utah right now. It's been in the 30s-40s all week. Nothin else new!

Happy Valentines DAY!!
Elder Wright

I'm approaching my 6 month mark this week. WOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Hey Everyone,

This week was really awesome! We baptized Zach and Colby Pike this Saturday. I had the opportunity to perform my first one too! Elder Swanson baptized Zach and I baptized Colby. Colby is the blond one in the picture. Elder Crowder came back to see it because he helped with them a lot. Hopefully we can get the whole family to come to church every week. We also had a really awesome lesson with Jason Pye. His fellowshipper, Chad Dalton (Elaine S. Dalton's son), is a former MTC teacher, so whenever we teach Jason with him we feel really stupid because he is such an awesome teacher. We committed him to fast this past Sunday for a baptismal date. He didn't feel comfortable setting a date because he knows if he does he will feel outside pressure coming from everyone. So we committed him to set a date for himself and when he feels his own spiritual confirmation that it is right, he would let us know. It's kinda shaky, but it's all we could get out of him. He's a humble guy, but at the same time, he's really smart, so he knows that if he sets a date, there is no going back whether he likes it or not.

As for Super Bowl Sunday. It was not cool. Everyone cancelled their appointments, Jason was the only person that attended church, and nobody even wanted to talk to us. It was worse than Christmas, because at at least on Christmas we could join the parties. Yesterday, all the parties were watching the game so we couldn't really take part in the festivities. It was a very depressing Sunday. On the bright side, we have 3 or 4 baptisms expected this month. We are both really excited for them.

I'm approaching my 6 month mark this week. WOOOOOO!!! for being in Utah 1/4 of my mission. It's good though. I realize I'm called to serve wherever I am.

Love you all,

Elder Wright

This weekend we have 2 baptisms.

Hey Everyone,

This week, it turns out NOTHING CHANGED. Both of us are still here and we are both going to throw down for the next 6 weeks. At the end of this transfer, me and elder Swanson will have been together for close to 6 months. It's CRAZY. We get along pretty well. I'm not so sure if i'll still be saying that in 6 weeks. I hope so. We've pretty much exhausted all possible topics of conversasion. We've probably talked about every single spongebob episode in existence. And MORE!
This weekend we have 2 baptisms. Zach and Colby Pike. They are 10 and 9 years old. Hopefully we can get their whole family to church. We would baptize their dad, but he's not married to mom yet and they're living together. They're engaged, but the wedding is set for October. Boooo! We have a total of three investigators now that are living with their boyfriend/girlfriend. But we'll get them married or moved out soon.
I'm working hard and I'm praying for everyone at home.


Love,
Elder Wright