Letters from Dallen while on his mission... July 27, 2016-July 2018

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Subjects are the bane of my existence


Hello all! Hope it's been a killer week, in the various places of the world! Mostly hope it's been a killer week in Utah though because ya know, best place. Last Monday... I can't even remember what we did... we did some stuff though I'm sure of it... 


Tuesday! Tuesday we went to district meeting down in Colwyn Bay. It was some good. Afterwards me and elder Jensen stayed in colwyn bay for exchanges. They changed the way they do exchanges, now instead of companionships splitting up and working the 2 areas, now all four elders just go to the district leaders area. It was pretty solid though. I went with the illest district leader Elder Cossa. From the land of Zimbabwe. It was great, we tracted that afternoon in some place, not much interest but we had a good time. This lady got very upset with us for knocking on her door. Curse words were screamed. Spittle was spewed. Fingers were put up. Haha it's crazy how upset some people can get. All good. (: Then this kid who was really quite stoned wanted a Book of Mormon, but we convinced him to take a pamphlet instead and if he liked it he could get a Book. 😜 After that we met up with Paul, a member there in Colwyn Bay and snagged a bus to go and see their investigator Emma. She made tea for us. It was like the most delicious curry I ever did have. We then had a super great lesson on the Holy Ghost. Emma has been dated for baptism a couple times but it never ended up going through. The spirit was super strong and I really enjoyed it. We were able to date her for baptism so hopefully the Colwyn Bay elders can help her accomplish that date. After that we saw this less active lady sister McKenna. The lady has 10 smart phones, 3 laptops, and 4 iPads. I just don't even understand. 😂 she's hilarious, Elder Cossa called her phone and as she would be searching through all the phones he would hang up. It was most entertaining. She also told me about the time she called president Hinckley Chuck. Haha it was a most interesting visit. It's always fun working in somebody else's area. (:

All the homies.

Wednesday me and elder Cossa did some street contacting, studying, lunch eating then ended the exchange. Me and elder Jensen rolled on back to Rhyl. We did some tracting and saw a couple people that afternoon. Had tea and then went to travel to mostyn to see peter. We were supposed to see him, but the bus times were wrong and there wasn't actually a bus. So that was lame. We tried by a couple people and saw the homie Rob in spar again. We gave him a Book of Mormon which was solid. He's such a nice dude.

Thursday we had weekly planning. It was good. it was kind of a crazy day we were going all over the place for all sorts of stuff. We had tea with bishop which was solid. That night we had another lesson with Cassie's friends Kate and Fran. Kate especially is super interested and really wants to know if god exists. She had read the chapter we left her! Score! 😁 we had a great lesson just talking about prayer and scripture study. Good stuff. (:

This one time on a crowded train.😂
I was leaned back a bit, not quite that short.😜 Pretty close though. 

Friday we got a text from Peter saying he didn't want to be baptised anymore. I gave him a call and we set up to come around that afternoon. Like 5 months ago I was reading an ensign in the flat and had read this article about healing emotionally from experiences. I thought of it that morning and thought it was PERFECT for peter. So I found it on the shelf and read through it. Me and elder Jensen decided it would be great for him, so we took it with us. When we saw peter he thought he needed to work through some things from his past before his baptism. As soon as I started reading the article the spirit just filled the room. Peter got really emotional and it was just perfect. Afterwards I asked him what he thinks he should do and he said move forward and get baptised because he knows starting there will help him. So that was super good. We gave him a blessing and are moving forward with the baptism but moving it to this Saturday cause he needs a bit more time. Exciting! We had tea with the Jones's that night which was great.
Sorry almost out of time, Saturday we had a great street display where Elder Humphries got bashed by a Jehovah Witness lady and attack hugged him. 😂 He was not happy afterward hahaha. We saw Peter again then saw Graham and Chez. Great stuff. 

Cheesy pic
Sunday Peter came to church which was great. We tried by some former investigators that afternoon and met with a man named Steve. Good stuff. P day today was solid! Loads of people met up in Llandudno to hike the great orme. I'll send some of those pics next week cause can't today. Sorry this last bit was rushed. I love this work! I love all of you as well! Thanks for the support! Have a great week!😁

-Elder Dallen Edwards


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