Week 81: One Month Till The End - August 27, 2019

Uncle Bryan ran into Elder Wright last week. It's so fun to get happy pictures by text!

Hey everyone! Not much has really happened this week, so don't expect this email to be very interesting. We do have transfers today, which I don't really know what's going to happen since everyone but my district leader got a moving notice. I will say things are going by real fast, and it's only becoming more and more really as the days go by. I'm still striving to focus on the mission, since I know that if I don't it will just make things go by a lot slower. I'm hoping this last month will be an amazing one and that I'm able to do well during it. I hope you all have a wonderful week and remember to have the spirit in your life.

Till Then,

Elder Wright

Week 80: More Illness and Crown Burger

We love getting surprise pictures texted to us from family, friends and even strangers. Kraig's cousin Ellen ran into Elder Wright at the Family History Library last week and was kind enough to send us a couple of pictures. Love that smile!

Hey everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful week, because my week was very average. It's not average in terms of what I did, but more because I didn't really do much. My companion got a little bit more sick last week, so we spent a large majority of the time at the apartment. In most other cases, this would be a nice opportunity to have fun and stuff like that, but the problem with that is that I could only do so much at the apartment, so in the end I got bored. Thankfully, Elder Greene is doing better, so now we are actually able to go to zone now. Not much has been happening there that much, so things are doing well on that front. We did do a fun district activity yesterday, though, so that was nice. What we did was we went to Crown Burger and had dinner there, which was great because I enjoyed the food. It's fairly similar to Apollo Burger, so not anything new or anything like that, but I still enjoyed it because I haven't had a good mushroom-swiss burger in a long time. After we ate, we played games for a while and then we went to bed. In all, things are going well here and I'm hoping thing continue to stay this great throughout the last five weeks of my mission. I hope you all have an amazing week and remember to pray often, because that is how we keep in touch with our Father in Heaven!

Till Then,

Elder Wright

Week 79: The Plague Hits the District - August 13, 2019

I love this screenshot I took while we were visiting today. Not only does it show how Elder Wright has grown up, it shows how happy we are to be visiting with each other.

Hey everyone! Okay, so it has been somewhat of an interesting week, but that's mostly because of the illness that's been going around. Nothing too crazy, just a cold, but it has made things different for the last week. It all started on Thursday when I had a slight problem with swallowing, but that really didn't become a problem till the next day when it became painful to swallow and I became all congested. I saw the nurses and they told me that I should stay home till I got better and to not spread it around. Well, I did well on the first part, but the "not spreading it around" part failed because both my companion and another elder in the district caught what I had. There have been many exchanges of companionships over the last couple days because of this, so it has made things quite exciting. I'm currently doing well, only with a slight stuffy nose, my companion is doing well despite the lack of sleep, and Elder Spears (the other elder in my district who caught it) is almost fully recovered. It's events like these that really build your faith because even after you receive all the medicine and rest that you need, you still need to have the faith that you will be healed. I hope you all have a wonderful week and that you too can have some faith building experiences some time (but hopefully not cruddy ones like illness).

Till Then,

Elder Wright

Week 78: BEEEEEES!! - August 6, 2019

Hey everyone! Okay, so transfers happened last week, and I'm glad to say that I didn't move! The only thing that did change for me was that I now have a new companion, whose name is Elder Greene. The interesting thing is, I was his district leader for about 3 months, so I already new somewhat about him already! Things have been going really well for us and I'm glad to have him as my companion. As for other stuff, yesterday all the young elders in the mission got to go to the SLC Bees baseball game! It was really fun getting to watch the game, even though I'm not a sports fan and the Bees lost the game, but oh well. Anyways, things are going well here. I'm still in Discovery, I'm still in the same district, I have a great companion, and all in all things are good. I know that this is a blessing from Heavenly Father and I'm so thankful for this. I hope you all have an amazing week and remember the tender mercies that Heavenly Father has given you!

Till Then,

Elder Wright

PS: Pictures Time!!

Some of me with my companion, some of me with the main actress from The Fighting Preacher, and some from the Bees Game

Week 77: Pioneer Day & Fighting Preacher - July 30, 2019

Hey everyone! Okay, I'm making this email really brief since I only have a little over an hour to do emails because of transfers a having a late start. Anyways, so we had Pioneer Day last week, so that's cool. We hiked to Ensign Peak and then went to Pres. Fenn's house for a BBQ dinner. It was a great time and I had a lots of fun. The other thing that happened was that we went to see The Fighting Preacher at the theater! It was really cool to go to the movie theater after such a long time, but seeing all the ads for the other movies made me sad. Not homesick, sad, because they just looked stupid. Anyways, the movie was great! It was made by the same person who made Seventeen Miracles and Ephraim's Rescue, and you can see the quality in it. Afterwards, we got to do a Q&A with one of the producers and one of the actresses. It was a really cool experience and I'm so glad that I got to do that. Anyways, I would send pictures, but I still need to chat with family, so I'll send them next week. Have a wonderful week and remember to read your scriptures!

Till Then,

Elder Wright

He also told us that he is not transferring and will still be serving in the Discovery Center at the Family History Center until at least the end of August.

And he sent lots of pictures!!!