Happy New Year!! :)

Hello all! This past week has been pretty killer. 😁 I last emailed on Christmas Eve. That day was a good one, we visited some members and such and had tea with Sabrina, Dave, and Carson. Carson is the funniest kid around. We had a crazy wrestling match with his WWE action figures. 😜 we had loads of fun they are great people. (: 

Carson is the man. 

Christmas morning we got to sleep in! A whole extra half hour! Heck yeah! 😁 haha it was great. We burnt our strange plastic waffles quite badly though so that was a shame. Christmas Day was just great. We opened our packages and such and it was a real good time. (: 

Christmas morning.

We only had sacrament meeting, then we went to Brother Lowes for the afternoon. It was a real good time as well, so nice to get some time to just relax. After we stayed there for a while we headed to the chapel and chilled for a little while. Then Skyped our families! 😁 It was the best thing that has ever happened to me. Ive got one heck of a killer family. After we had all skyped the other elders came over to our flat and we had some crazy good burgers. Burgers with stuffing on them was 100% delicious. 😁 

Laurel here: The view from our living room--Farrell hooked up the computer to the TV so we could talk to Dallen larger-than-life. So fun to talk to him and meet these other missionaries who are so important to him.

Christmas was a great reminder that I have some really great people in my life. It was so nice to talk to them. Best Christmas present Ive ever gotten. (: our mission president challenged us to do a 45-60 minute prayer so we did that Sunday night. I'd never prayed for more than like 5 minutes then did a 45 minute prayer. I thouroughly enjoyed it. Highly recommended to anyone wanting a spiritual boost. (:

Monday was Boxing Day so there was no buses running. That really stinks when you are 100% dependent on buses and didn't realise they wouldn't be running when you planned the night before. 😂 haha we figured it out though. We had a lunch and a tea appointment so that was great. I was most triumphantly full afterwards. Ive been most triumphantly full all week. 

Tuesday we went to a nearby town for some tracting. We met some nice people and one pretty solid potential investigator named Abeer. She was super nice. We saw carl and Cassie that night which was super fun as always.

Wednesday we had a zone meeting. It was great as always, its always so fun to see loads of other missionaries. Afterwards Elder Jensen went to Colwyn Bay for exchanges with Elder Cossa and Elder Tarbet stayed here in Rhyl. We had a good time trying by loads of people and doing some tracting. We went to our elders quorum presidents house for tea that night. Him and his wife are great. He looks just like frodo in case anyone was wondering. We played one of those games that married couples do to see how well you know each other. Andy and Vicky got 7 out of 12. Haha Me and Elder Tarbet got 10 out of 12 even though we'd only been companions for like 6 hours. Killed it. All luck though.

I was fixing my tie in the wind and Elder Jensen snagged a pic and it looked kinda neat so here ya go!

Thursday we exchanged back, helped the McAllisters jump start their car and push it up a hill, then had tea with Sian and Rob. It was good to see them. They are great. (: we saw Peter after that and had a good lesson with him. He is a really good man and always enjoys having us over.

Stree displayin.

Friday we had a great street display. It'd been a while since we did one. They are always great. We saw Graham and Chez that night as well, their family is hilarious.

Saturday we had another street display and it went super good. We had loads of extra chocolate so we were giving it away to all the people of Rhyl. It was a good time. (: we got New Year's Eve evening off. The other elders came over to our flat. There was an old loaf of bread that wasn't going to be eaten. You know what that means. We had tea with the McAllisters that night. 

When moms away the boys will play.

New Years was great, us 4 missionaries spoke in church about what Christ means to us. Talking to people on the street is no problem anymore but giving a talk is still scary. 😜 It was good though I enjoyed the opportunity. Peter came to church again and really enjoyed it. He is doing really well. We had 2 tea appointments that afternoon then just chilled with the other elders. It was glorious to have a day of no proselyting. Haha oh yeah New Year's Eve we went to bed and set an alarm for 5 minutes before midnight. 😂 haha need the sleep. I hope you all have a killer week! I am grateful to be here and grateful for all of your support. Love you all!

-elder edwards