We invited both of them to quit smoking, and they dropped it the next day

Hey,

 

Elder Dunlap and I have been tearing it up here in Kearns. He has been in the spanish assignment his whole mission, so he is getting used to teaching english, and dealing with the problems that come in the english assignement. We have had lots of really great lessons with our investigators and the all seem to be getting ready for baptism really quick. Raymundo Jalapa will be having his baptism this saturday right after general conference. He will be such a strong convert. We have several others investigators that are working really hard for it. We picked up Sarah Schiermeyer, who has had a really tough past, but is getting married to a less-active member of the church. We invited both of them to quit smoking, and they dropped it the next day. They have been a little bit on edge during our visits since then, but they say it's been getting easier. He's working for the priesthood now, and then he will perform the baptism! It's exciting.

 

Both Elder Dunlap and I will be attending the sunday afternoon session of general conference this weekend. I'm always way excited for conference and to listen to the prophets message. It'll be my last one in the field. But, we can start working without our suit coats after its over!!! Freedom!!

 

anyway,

love you all,

Elder Wright

So we had transfers!!

Hey everyone,

So we had transfers!! Elder Usevitch finally got out of Kearns! I stayed here and my new companion is Elder Dunlap, from Sitka Alaska. We've been together for an hour and a half now... Havent gotten to know him too well yet, but it'll come eventually. Elder Usevitch and I have had a lot of success.this past week, in teaching and finding. We have been relying on the Spirit during our lessons. The work is definitely picking up in our area, and we are trying to inspire the district leaders to be diligent in their areas too. You know you're busy when dinner is a back-up plan. anyway, i'm not too good at this email thing, or at this sending pictures thing, but they'll come eventually.

 

Love,

Elder Wright

6 months in this area has gone really quick

Hey everyone,

We've had a pretty crazy week. We picked up a couple new investigators. We started teaching Raymundo Jalapa, from Culiacan, Mexico. His wife is an active member and they are going to church and reading/studying the scriptures for an hour each day. They are on tourist visas getting some medical stuff worked out at the university, so they have nothing to do all day. They spend a lot of it reading and studying the assignments we leave them, so it all works out. We also started teaching a man named Rodrigo Paloma, who has lived in utah his whole life, but hasnt had much to do with the church at all. (that's pretty hard to do, the LDS church here is like the catholic church to Italy). He's had a pretty rough past with drugs and the law, but he's willing to learn. He has NO knowledge of religion whatsoever, so we're teaching him slowly.

 

other than that, we also got yelled at by Sedrick yesterday for visiting too often. He wasnt in a good mood. So he just vented on us for about 20 minutes. we'll give him a couple days to smooth things over. transfers are in a week, so it will be interesting to see if I or Elder Usevitch goes, or if we get to stay together for ANOTHER 6 WEEKS!!! We need a change of scenery. the 6 months in this area has gone really quick though. The whole winter...

 

anyway, read the book of mormon. it'll do wonders

Love,

Elder Wright

but i can understand enough to know what's going on

HELLO!

 

Elder usevitch and I are rocking it here in Kearns. We have picked up several new investigators, and several of them are working towards baptisimal dates. Some people have been prepared for the Gospel, and they are ready to be baptized. Payton Warden has been coming to church for several years with a family. She was ready to be baptized last year but she backed out because of her family. She said she wants to go for it again, and we can really tell that she wants it. We also ran into a man, Sedrick, who almost died a few months ago, and promised God that he would go to church if he lived through it all. There are so many people that are ready but just need a little push. We are still working to get the ward mission process going. We will have president bishop, from the mission presidency come and train all the ward mission leaders on ward missionary work in the next few weeks. Hopefully we can get things rolling smoothly.

 

We had brother Allen, who is the managing director of the missionary department come and train us on the work this last week. We have a lot of work to do to become better 'preach my gospel' missionaries. I also got to go on exchange into a spanish area last week. My spanish still isnt good enough to carry on any conversation whatsoever, but i can understand enough to know what's going on. We have lots of stuff to do now with the missionaries in our zone. Our head is above water for now, but we have lots of challenges to tackle.

 

transfers are coming up in two weeks, we are sure (pretty sure) one of us will be transferred but it's a toss up who it will be. We are also looking forward to General Conference. It's always the best to hear from the Prophet and the Apostles.

 

2 Nephi 31 the Doctrine of Christ. It works.

 

Love you all everyone,

Elder Wright

Spring is almost here!

Hey everyone,

This year is flying by! Spring is almost here! I'm excited to be able to work without a suit coat, and to be able to count on the sun to be out all the time. Things in Kearns are chugging along. We have some really slow moving investigators, and some others that are on the fast track. One less active sister named Paige Jones decided to come back to church, and she is bringing her daughter to church too. We started teaching them and they have been reading all the scriptures we leave with them and have been praying everyday and even go the extra mile and study even more. We are grateful for those investiagors. Her daughter, Angelique, is working to be baptized on april 9th. Others though, like Kim Maschi, has trouble accepting that there is only one true religion. They are all good, and she feels like she has a good relationship with God. We tried to nail home priesthood authority and praying about the book of mormon, but it isnt sinking in too well. All in all, we are kept busy, but it seems there arent many fruits coming from our labors. It'll come in time.

 

We got up at 4 this morning to go to the temple, and then we played ultimate frisbee today for Pday and we are both totally wasted. Well, it's time to go to work,

 

Also, informational statistic: one of our wards that suffers for attendance, has over 70 elders on their role, with an average attendance of 6 each week. It blew our minds. We suspect that in the next few years that stake will be dissolved if nothing changes soon. also, one of our appartment complexes had a shooting the other night. It's crazy stuff.

 

thanks,

love,

peace,

Elder Wright