All sorts of good

Hey everyone! This has been on super solid week. I shall start from the beginning.

Our killer tree we made. (:

Tuesday was p day. As you know we shopped, went to rhuddlan castle which was way bomb. Had a super good time. We worked on our Christmas tree. We emailed. While we were tracting that evening we went and welcomed Elder Humphries to Rhyl! It is so good to have him here. He is straight the man. We then saw carl and Cassie and that was super fun as usual. (:

Rhuddlan Castle. What a beaut.

Wednesday we were just finishing up comp study when I heard a knock at our door. There was Wilf Murray standing there (a member of the ward). I was surprised to see him and he said you ready to go, so I said sure. Haha we just hopped in his car with no clue what was going on. He had left a message with the wrong elders. Haha so we took a fridge with him to a less active lady. She was very grateful. So that was good. Then Wilf took us to his house and his wife gave us hot chocolate which was good. They then gave us this man to try by so we went and talked with him and his wife for like 45 minutes. They were super super nice. They didn't take a Book of Mormon but they said they'd for sure look at the website because they like Wilf so much. So that was pretty bomb. (: we did some stuff that afternoon, not really sure what haha. That night we had an appointment with Steve. He had a mate there as well. We were there for about an hour and they smoked like a whole pack of cigarettes while we were there. So I'm basically a smoker now I think. No problem.

Thursday was weekly planning which 'twas some good. We saw Yasmin that afternoon then tried by a couple of people. We then went to Mostyn. We were going to have tea with Sian and Rob but they had to cancel because Seren was vomiting all over the place. We didn't get there until about 5:30. We went to try by Peter the one who slammed the door on us last week. He was home and answered the door. We talked for a bit, and he began to cry a bit again. He said bye and started to slam the door and I was just like uh not happening. So I reached out and stopped the door before he could close it. Luckily he didn't get mad and we were able to get into his home because of it. Our mission motto is "bold as a lion" so haha me and Elder Jensen have been laughing about that quite a bit. There's gonna be somebody who's going to smack me across the face when I stop them from shutting their door. 😂 haha well anyways it went super good with peter. He is a sensitive man and has been having a really hard time for years. We told him about blessings and managed to clear a place for him to sit so we could give him a blessing. The blessing really helped him a lot and he seemed to feel better after that. We had such a good lesson with him and the spirit was really strong. He wants to be baptised so we are working towards the 7th of January. He likes the idea of a new year and a fresh start. So we are super excited. He is a good man. 

After that we went and tried by this man John. He was sitting in his front room watching tv. We knocked twice and he didn't move an inch. So then with much hesitation I knocked on his window. He slowly turned and looked at me then jumped up and ran out of the room. We waited for a little while then bailed outta there. So that didn't work out all that good. 😂 haha so we were trying to figure out what time the bus would come to take us back to Rhyl. Elder Jensen walked up to this lady who was sitting in her parked car. Hahaha she locked the doors like 4 times and was about to drive off but then rolled the window a tiny bit down. Haha it was the funniest thing that has ever happened to me.

We were on the bus all by ourselves and I didn't even know what to do with myself. An empty bus messes with the mind.

Friday and Saturday we did finding and had a street display and saw people and got a couple new investigators so that was good. Sunday Peter came to church! It was so bomb to have him there. He was crying through most through most of sacrament meeting. He felt the spirit super strong and he really enjoyed being there. So that went super super good. The ward was putting on a choir concert thing that night so we invited him and he really wanted to come. He came to that as well. It was so good, pretty amazing singing. So things are going super good with Peter.

So that's pretty much all I've got for you. We will be emailing this Saturday so on Christmas Eve but we will not be emailing the Monday following Christmas. So I will talk to you again on Saturday! 

Love you all have a killer week!

-elder edwards

Leaving Rhyl?????

A tall man and a short man doing some contemplation.

Hello everybody! Hope you are all doing wonderful. (: so I guess I will get right to the point we got transfer calls and as you can tell from the subject line... elder raven will be leaving Rhyl! I however will be staying in Rhyl with my comp elder Jensen. We are super excited and looking forward to another transfer together! (: haha I apologize about the trickin it was necessary. 😜

Alright so last Monday was solid. As you know we hiked all over the place in the woods of Abergele by the castle taking about a thousand pictures. It was a real good time. Our last p day with Elder Raven in our midst. 😢 he will always be a member of #rhylbois though. Haha. (: he will be going to Lancaster by the way. Elder Cepeda's new companion will be Elder Humphries! From my mtc group! I'm so excited he is a legend. 😁 

Another pic from last week.

Tuesday we had a district meeting here in Rhyl. Me and elder Jensen have a training on how to help people resolve concerns. I thought it went really well. We talked about how you do everything you can and really listen and follow the spirit in response but in the end it all comes down to them reading and praying about the Book of Mormon. Whether it is an investigator, a recent convert, a less active member, a life long member, a member struggling with their faith, everything comes down to the Book of Mormon. This has been in my head a lot lately. Like Jeffrey R Holland said "nobody can leave the church except going around, under, or over the Book of Mormon." It is true. And that will not change. Nobody will ever fall away from the church unless they stop reading the Book of Mormon. Haha so there is my little rant. 😌 we had a great street display that afternoon as a district. Went quite well. (: we saw Carl that night and it was fun as always. Had a great lesson about the church's light the world campaign. It was solid.

Yeah.

Wednesday was our first five weeks meeting! For the trainers and trainees. Where the trainers say good things about the trainees and the trainees bash their trainers. Haha not quite like that but that is a little part of it.  The meeting was sooo good! Left 6 in the morning and got back a bit after nine. Super long day but super solid day as well. I enjoyed it a lot. (:

Thursday was weekly planning day. It was good. I feel like I say that in every single email. Those exact words. 😂 haha there's never a lot to say about it. Afterwards we were finally able to see a recent convert of the Rhyl ward Yasmin! I honestly hadn't seen her in 2 months. She is crazy busy with work so it's hard for her to come to church let alone talk to us. So it was great to see her. The afternoon was good we did some tracting and such. We saw a less active lady Paulene. She is super nice. After he we saw Graham and Chez. They are one of my fav fams on the planet. Haha the Mitchell's madhouse. They are so great. (:

Friday we did some tracting and it was pretty good. We met a man whose been to heaven and Marilyn Monroe and Elvis often appear to him in his room at night. So that was interesting. He accepted a baptismal invite though so you never know. (: We had tea with Sian and Rob that night and it was solid as per usual. They the bomb. (: So then we went and saw another investigator. He answered the door and we said hello and the usual sort of stuff. We asked if he had read the Book of Mormon and he said he read the chapter we left him. We asked if he prayed and he started crying and trying to give us the Book back. We told him we wanted him to keep it and he slammed the door on us. So not really sure what's going on there, we will keep trying with him.

Saturday we had a great street display with the other elders. Met a lot of great people and some crazies as well. I can't really remember what else we did so haha that's all you get.

4 dudes cooking in the dark in a small kitchen because the lightbulb is out.
And it gets dark at like 3 o'clock here.😂

Sunday was good as well. Had church, tried by loads of people, had tea with the other elders, blitzed an area with them. Last time with elder raven. 😢 we got transfer calls that night and learned we'd both be staying. 😁 excited.

Inside the castle.

Yesterday (Monday) we cleaned the flat for 2 hours. We went HAMburglar on our flat it's looking mad good. We tracted, then had tea with the Morris fam. It was super fun and good. We saw Sabrina and Carson and Dave then went and said goodbye to the ravester. He's gonna kill it in Lancaster.

Today has been a solid p day! Me and elder Jensen bought loads of food and accessories to build a Christmas tree. I will send a pic next week when we are done. We went to Rhuddlan castle and it was way fun. Then we worked on our Christmas tree for a bit and are now emailing. (: I hope you all have a killer week! Keep it Rhyl for me! Love you all!
-Elder Edwards

A boy and a castle round 2.

A week--it had some stuff in it I'm pretty sure

Most enjoyable.

Hello all! Its been a pretty killer week! Monday funday was quite solid last week! Played some pool and got up to the usual shenanigans. Always good times. (:

Tuesday we had district meeting as per usual and it was quite good asper usual. The zone leaders made a sneak attack on our district meeting so that was good as well haha. They rest of the day was good we reacted in Prestatyn and met this super solid dude named Scott. Unfortunately he was at his mates for the day and doesn't live in our area. But he accepted a baptismal invitation so hopefully the missionaries in Chester can help him progress. (: We had tea with Graham and Chez that night which was good, we had gammon with pineapple and egg and chips. Super good. I enjoyed it immensely. We also saw Carl and Cassie that night and had some mad good hot chocolate. They're great. (:

Ah yeeeeh.

Wednesday we put in some solid tracting but didn't really find anyone who's interested. That night we met with this lady named Josie and her niece Danielle. Apparently Josie has been going to church for 20 years and hasn't been baptised. A member of the ward told us she is afraid of water. She told us she hasn't made up her mind yet. They are super super nice so we will have to keep helping them out and try to figure out just how we can help them. Then we had a lesson with this man named Steve. He writes his own music and so we were asking him about that and he put some on while we were talking. Haha that was pretty funny, sounded good. We tried to start teaching the restoration but he's just one of those people who wants to tell us everything they think, over and over and over again. He's the nicest man though. We need to just force the restoration on him. 😂 he also started smoking while we were there at his house so that wasn't the most pleasant. He's great though and he has the biggest Labrador I have ever seen. Such a solid dog. I want it. 😉 wink to the parents.

Is this how you ride one of these things?

Thursday was good, we had 2 appointments with investigators fall through which was kinda lame but is all good. (: we met this man named Danny while tracting. So nice. We talked to him for almost an hour on his doorstep. Way solid. We talked about loads of stuff and was super interested. Haha he also told us about in revelations it talks about the mark of the beast will be on the right wrist and will make so people don't have to buy or sell. (I looked it up afterwards) he then told us how somebody is making some sort of chip for the wrist that holds all your info and credit cards and stuff. He was like "awfully close for me, that's the mark of the beast" haha it was pretty funny. He might sound crazy but he definitely wasn't. Food for thought I guess. 😂 that night we went with our ward mission leader brother Lowe to Sian and Robs for continuing the new member lesson. It was super good and very led by the spirit. Its always great to have brother Lowe because he just straight kills it.

Preach it from the trees.

Friday we went to Mostyn and had 3 appointments with investigators fall through. That was lame. But still all good. We took a quick break after like 2 hours of tracting with nothing and swung on the swings for a bit. (: good times. Pics to follow. 😜 we had tea with Sian and Rob as well and that was great. Saturday we had a street display with the other elders. It went pretty good. It had been a while since we had done one so that was fun. That night we had an appointment with this lady Hilary who we kind of dropped for like 3 months but thought to give it another shot. It actually went quite well. Taught the restoration and it definitely went better than when we taught her a while ago. We saw Tina that night as well and that was great. Sunday was good.

Not weird.

After that we went and caught Peter in. I was sick of him not following through with things so I invited ourselves in. 😂 It worked out quite nicely though. We had another super spiritual lesson and taught the restoration. It helped him quite a bit. He is a quiet man and quite the hoarder. There wasn't even a place for us to sit so we had a standing lesson haha. (: he said he's done things in his life that he has felt like the worst person on the planet for so it was perfect to lead into baptism. I asked him what it would mean to him to be free from every single one of those feelings. He exclaimed quite loudly "it'd be bloody wonderful!!!" Haha it was hilarious. He agreed to be baptised and we are going to work towards the 21st of December. Exciting! (:

Cave starin'

Monday funday has been quite solid we went and hiked around Abergele woods and took about 3000 pictures in our bro photo shoots. That's where it's at. This morning during my personal study I started the Book of Mormon again. Ive read it a billion times but the first line really stood out to me today. The keystone of the true church of Jesus Christ starts out with, "I Nephi having been born of goodly parents." That stood out to me so much. Its the first thing that is in the Book of Mormon. It must be pretty [important]. I was just thinking of how grateful I am to be able to say, I Dallen having been born of goodly parents. (: thanks for all you do parents. You are the greatest people on the planet. I hope you all have a killer week love you all!

-elder edwards

Samwise Gangi or something I think.