Anyone can go off the deep end

Hey everyone,

We have been pretty busy this past week, we picked up two new investigators: Judy Keane from california, and Patricia Rivera from Columbia. Judy is catholic, but a lot of her friends have been taking her to church and she is really open about everything we are teaching. We will probably invite her to be baptized during our next meeting. Patricia is married to a member, Jose, who actually was a counselor to a mission president in Columbia, and a bishop and branch president in california, but then stopped coming to church when he moved to utah. It goes to show that anyone can go off the deep end. anyway, Patricia is open to the church and she comes to church pretty regularly with her husband. We have one baptism planned for this coming weekend, Mikayla Mann. She had been taught FOREVER! Hopefully it will go through this time. The lack of communication with the whole family isnt helping the whole situation. I think the ward might be wondering why we cant get anything to happen there. Anywho, I attached some pictures of this last week, we went minigolfing on P-day, we weed-pulled for service. I got to use a machete, which didnt really work very well at all but it was fun. Also, our landlord's dog had puppies and they went out of town so we took care of them this week. They are about 2 or 3 weeks old now. Their eyes just opened yesterday.

We have been striving to have the Spirit with us everywhere we go. It really does come through faith and diligence. We have been praying and studying for the spirit to be with us always, because without it we cannot do anything. D&C 42:14

with love,

Elder Wright

We are slowly but steadily improving the area

Hey everyone!

We had a pretty great week! We are slowly but steadily improving the area and the amount of work we have here. It's insanely hot around here. We have been teaching more and i have been working a whole lot on my teaching skills because they arent as good as they could be. We had a baptism planned for Saturday, but we got a call the morning of saying they wanted to put it off for a week. It was dissapointing because we had been looking forward to it all week long, but mikayla is set for this coming week. We are trying to look for more committed investigators, and leave better commitments with those that arent super exctied about anything. We went and did exchanges during the week. I got to spend some time with some other missionaries in the district. They are doing alright but some need thelp with obedience. I also was able to go on exchange with the zone leaders, and I did 3 baptisimal intervies in one day. one of them, nealius gerber, from south africa, has such a strong testimony, especially for only having read the Book of Mormon for one month. My companion said that nealius knew more about the church than he did. I laughed, because he was such a strong convert.

Anyway, i love you all, let me know what else is going on at home.

Elder Wright

study scriptures DAILY! it works!

Merry Independence Day!!!

We had a pretty busy week, considering it was a holiday weekend. People were home, and we picked up 3 new investigators. Keeley Hartin, who is 9. Her family is less-active but she wants to be baptized. Her family just needs to bite the bullet and come to church. the other two were Meagan and Kelsey Robledo Dunn. they also have a less active mother, who wants both of them to be baptized. Our final goal for all of the families is to come to church actively, but there are so few people with that commitment level, especially when it comes to sunday mornings. all 3 of them have baptisimal dates for the 31st of July. Because of the holiday though, we didnt succeed at getting them to church. We have some others that did attend though, and we have one baptism coming up this weekend: Mikayla Mann, who was actually taught here in this area when I was here in September. Our area picked up some even though most of the mission dipped a little bit. For the 3rd of July (The fourth wasnt celebrated at all on Sunday) we had an activity at a church building with a bunch of missionaries. We watched a movie and played some dodgeball, which was awesome to play something besides basketball for a change. Especially when we could get 20 guys in on one game. Our district is doing well, and I'm focusing on helping them develop a love for study time and WORK!

It sounds like everything is going well at home. Take care. study scriptures DAILY! it works!

ciao,
Elder Wright


 
hey dad,
 
I'm glad all the priests in the ward are heading out. Some of the priests up here in Utah struggle a little bit. I feel that's one of the challenges of Utah, is that youth really dont have to fight for their faith, it's just around them all the time. But when push comes to shove, some young men opt out of going on missions. If you pass through draper, stop at in-n-out. it's in my area!! :O I wont be there though, it's too crowded. on your way up, my area is on the leftside of the freeway, right when you pass ikea, all the way to when you pass wal-mart.

We had dinner at the duffins, which was really cool. I never knew him myself, but he knew people around like the chamberlins and the hadas.