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.