We have too much food, I guess we should be grateful

Hola!

This week was a little bit of a bummer. We had A LOT of cancellations. We were also planning on a baptism tomorrow, but our investigator wants to hold off for a while. i've been trying to build Elder Cartwright's spirits. I thought it would be his first baptism, but he may have to wait one more week. Hopefully this next week will be better. We may have to enlist the wards for more support in helping to teach our investigators.

We have too much food. the fridge is always overflowing with leftovers from dinner appointments. I think because missionaries leave utah, and dont get fed very well, all the members assume that we dont get fed well either. Result: Stuff the missionaries. And if you dont eat all the food, then the members think you didnt like their food. I guess we should be grateful. Food is better than no food.

Anyway,

D&C 6:34, 36

Love,

Elder Wright

we honestly had no idea what else to do

Hey,

Not much new happened this week, We have been looking for new people to teach. Some of the ones we have been working with have been reluctant to move forward. One of them though, Sarah Schiermeyer, has been one that has worked really hard to get baptized. She has quit drinking and smoking, which has been tough for her and her fiance, Dallin. We reminded them last week that they also needed to get married before they could get baptized because they were living in the same home. They were more reluctant to do that, but we asked to them to pray and fast about it on Sunday, and then to talk to bishop about it after church. We fasted and prayed for them too. We stopped by monday and they said they are getting married on the 4th of June and that they wanted to do the baptism the same day! It was awesome. She will be out of town the next few weeks to be living the law of chasity, and then she will get back on June 3rd. It was awesome news for us because we honestly had no idea what else to do. My testimony was built in diligence, that if you do everything you can in your power, God will prepare a way for his will to be accomplished.

1 nephi 3:7 Moroni 7:33-34

Love,

Elder Wright

Life is good, I'm tired all the time, It feels great!

Hey everyone,

We had an excellent week. It was good to call home on Sunday. My last call home. Uh oh. I am staying focused on our area. President Miller was inspired when he put Elder Cartwright and me together. I thought being released from zone leader would give me more time, but we are even busier now with new missionary things and training again. Elder Cartwright has been learning quick, and looks for areas to improve. He is working on memorizing parts of our lessons, and he is doing well with it. The new missionaries that came in have been on a pilot program at the MTC so the mission is working out the kinks in training them once they've arrived. They gave us another hour of companionship study in the mornings!! It was definitely needed, so we can catch up on all the material and prepare for lessons. We've been working really hard and staying busy. I can tell elder Cartwright is starting to lag a bit in the evenings and in the mornings but I keep pushing him. I think over time he'll get used to the schedule. We have been exercising like crazy in the mornings to get our energy up during the day. We play basketball with some of the other elders almost every morning.

As for our investigators and the work in our area, we have several of our investigators on date for baptism, and they are all planning on getting married before then. It's a tough situation for most of them, and it's really difficult to teach and help them to develop the faith to take the leap. I havent had to work with this many situations in the past, and definitely as a new missionary, so I think elder cartwright will be well prepared for the rest of his mission. We are working to build the relationship of trust with our wards too, and we are running from building to building on Sundays. This last week we made it to 6 wards, gave mothers day talks at one ward, and taught an elders quorum in another. If anything, we learn to wing it and go on the fly. I know we should probably be prepared for lessons and things, but i had no idea what we were teaching when we walked into the elders quorum. woops. But it all turned out well. It's also odd as a missionary to give talks on mothers day. Even that was a little on the fly. It turned out okay though.

We started up having dinner appointments again, and already our fridge is getting overloaded with leftovers. Elder Cartwright is getting used to having food shoved down his throat at dinner time too. I prepare by eating a small lunch. D&C 38:30 'if you are prepared, you shall not fear' We try to work it all off at exercise in the morning.

Anyway, Life is good, I'm tired all the time, It feels great!

Love,

Elder Wright

ps. ether 12:4

pps. we got the truck traded for a malibu...

This transfer is going to be FUN!

Hey everyone!

We had a pretty awesome week. We were teaching Jacoby Baker, and he was baptized on saturday. His family was totally digging deep into the gospel and into the scriptures. Jacoby just one day got up in sacrament meeting, and bore his testimony and told everyone that he wants to get baptized. 3 weeks later, he was entering the water. Their family will be so blessed and they are on track and working towards the temple.

As for transfers, I am no longer zone leader. I am DISTRICT LEADER again!!! I'm also TRAINING again!!! I'm in the same area, and my new missionary companion is Elder Cartwright. He is from Piqua, Ohio. He's pretty quiet, but I think he's just a little shellshocked. He came out of the MTC this morning and we were put together at around noon. We've been together for a whle 2 hours now. My son. In my district, there are two of my previous companions, elder neilson, and elder huber. This transfer is going to be FUN! We're going to work hard too, dont worry too much.

This week we had an awesome lesson with Sarah Schiermeyer and her fiance, Dallin Larkin. We watched Joseph Smith: Prophet of the Restoration. It was a good reminder for me of the sacrifice that the prophet made for the Gospel to brought back to the earth. It inspired me to continue to make sacrifice in my own life, to give back to the Lord. Sacrifice brings forth the blessings of heaven.

Love you all,

Elder Wright