More missionarying

Hello all! Its been a pretty killer week! Monday was some solid as you know we hiked around, and Elder Kitchen fell off a cliff. So that was some good stuff. (:

Elder Kitchen falling off the cliff.

Tuesday we had a solid district meeting, then tried by about a billion people. It was good. We met a super nice less active lady who had us in, another member Billy was there. Always nice to get invited in somewhere. (: We had tea that night with Barry Donaldson and his wife and it was great. Can't go wrong with a roast dinner. (: We had a great lesson just talking about the Book of Mormon.

Wednesday we had a great lesson with a former investigator. Talked a lot about the Book of Mormon and stuff and Jesus Christ so that was really good. I don't really remember what all else we did, kind of just trying by loads of people and tracting and such. Sorry this is going to be a pretty boring email, last week was a pretty average week.

Elder Korth's posterity.

Thursday we saw another former investigator. It was super good! We had a really good time just talking about God and the Book of Mormon and all that good stuff. (:

Friday we saw this less active couple and it was ultimately great. They were the nicest people ever. Hahah so the man was trying super hard to make me trunky. Trying his very best. 😜😂 haha so he goes on a ski vacation in Austria every year and he was showing me the web cams of the ski resort. 😜 we had a good lesson with them showing the light the world video cause they hadn't seen it yet. (: good stuff. We saw a member big Dave that afternoon. He is straight the best ever. (: he is hilarious, we had a good time doing some service for him cause he has a bad back. Good times.

Sunday was good, pretty average. President came and spoke to the ward so that was good. Sorry that this email was so bad. I love this gospel and my savior Jesus Christ and I'm grateful to be a missionary. Thanks for all you do! Love you all! (:

Oh yeah we went to a trampoline park this morning!! It was the most amazing thing that I have ever experienced in the entirety of my entire life. I was surprised by how easy it was to get back into it. Still got the double flips. 😜 so much stinking fun. Ah it was such a good time. We then did some service for this man named Abdul we helped him clean this crazy dirty restaurant that he is going to restore. So yeah that's what we did today. Peace out! 😁

Missionarying

Hey! This weeks been pretty killer! Last Monday we just chillaxed 😜 took like a 3 hour nap. It was pretty glorious. But it messed up my sleep schedule major bad.

Backflippin some trees

Tuesday we had district meeting! It was my first district meeting as a district leader, it went really well. Trainings from the missionaries were good, and it all ran smoothly. Good stuff. (: I gave a quick training at the end as well on Christ like attributes. Our president invited us to pick one each week and work on it before we take the sacrament on Sunday. It's good stuff I recommend it to everybody. (: After district meeting I went on exchanges with Elder Van Dyken one of the zone leaders in our area. It was a blast. We saw a recent convert and gave him a blessing because he's been pretty sick, then we went and met with this man Derek. A member of the ward basically taught him everything about mormons and said if you want to put a ring on it, you gotta do all this stuff. 😂 hahaha They are like in their 70's. He already believes its the true church though. We taught him the restoration and committed him to baptism. So good stuff for the zone leaders. We had some tea, then visited a less active, then visited Elder Van Dykens recent convert Tara. She is super nice and fed us more food. One of her friends Pravin was there. He is a free mason and told us some stuff about free masonry. Super interesting to learn about.

Falling off castles

The next day we finished up the exchange. It was a good exchange for sure. Elder Van Dyken is the man. We saw some people that afternoon snagged some Macky's and tried by some people. Pretty average day nothing too exciting. Oh yeah we got this pretty solid couple as investigators who we will be seeing tonight. Should be good. (: 

Elders Edwards, Van Dyken, Kitchen, and Stiff.

Thursday was weekly planning. It was really good, we set some goals for this transfer to have 2 baptisms and we are working really hard towards it. President sent a super good message about having faith, which is the power to baptise. It got us hyped and so we are having the faith to baptise. And trying to work smarter rather than harder. Good stuff. We had a killer afternoon and got like 3 more investigators. Good stuff.

Friday we had a lesson with a former investigator. He knows the church is true, he just doesn't want to change. Interesting. We'll see what we can do with that. (: we got a couple more investigators that day which was solid. Also I landed on my head doing this run up a hill backflip thingy so that was pretty fun.

Photo shoots for days

Saturday we had more Macky's (ugh) then had a street display. It was a good one, I met some pretty interested people, one who we will be seeing tomorrow. Should be good. Pretty average afternoon after that, just trickin around.

Sunday was super average. Pretty much nothing to report, except some tracting and church. 'Twas good though. (:

Elder Kitchen (top left) fell off that backwards shortly
after this pic was taken. What an animal.

Today has been killer so far. We went to a castle with Elders Van Dyken and Kitchen and had some good times, took loads of pictures. We were taking pictures by a waterfall and Elder Kitchen fell of a little cliff onto rocks. Backwards. Not even sure how the legend is alive. Just minor scratches. Killer day!😁

Hope you all have a great week this week! Love yall!

-elder Dallen Edwards

Notha one from burning ties back in Rhyl.

Chester!

Heey! What up! Haha so this week has been 157% killer! I'll start 'er off rn then....

Monday! I already told you about it but Monday was super fun. Me and Elder Cepeda said goodbye to Carl and Cassie and Graham and Chez. They all the bestest. It was sad to leave. It was a good time that night, just chillin and talking for a bit.

Elder Trunky portects us when we sleep.

Tuesday morning was the madness of taking 2 different buses with 6 bags of luggage. Complete madness. I think the bus driver hated us. 😂 np. He rejected a little girl on her way to school from getting on the bus. She ran to the bus and right as she got to it, he closed the doors and drove away. Complete savagery. Not in a good way though. It's a pain for everyone who takes public transport when you got a grumpy bus driver. Luckily we didn't get rejected though. We traveled down to Colwyn Bay to get the coach to transfer meeting. It was nice to hang with the district for one last time before a lot of us got transferred. The coach ride to transfers was like 3 hours. Real good time. 

Transfer meeting was good and then I met up with Elder Stiff! He is straight up the man. Canadian too. The drift king of Canada. We got a ride with the zone leaders back, did shopping for the week, and that was pretty much the end of that day.

Elder Stiff and Elder Edwards
boutta eat some baby food. It was mingin. We almost threw up. How do babies do it?

Wednesday was great. We basically just did some finding for most of the day. Elder stiff is hilarious and we get along super well, Ive been laughing so hard all week. He is a great missionary as well, really on top of everything and really obedient. So that is all good good stuff. (: it doesn't feel like a trainer trainee situation at all he just kills it. I wish when I was at 6 weeks out I was killing it that hard. 😜 We had a good time of finding, nobody was really interested we had ward coordination that night which was good. It's pretty crazy we have 3 sets of missionaries in our area. The zone leaders, us, and the Chester sisters. Haha loads of missionaries here. 

Elder Trunky close up

Thursday Elder Stiff went on exchanges with Elders Artates and Douglas so that me and 2 other district leaders and the zone leaders could go to a missionary leadership council. It was really really good, but mad long. It could've been a bit shorter haha but really good. There was loads of district leader tips so that was good. (: most helpful. After that we snagged some macky's then tried by a couple people then headed back.

Friday we weekly planned in the morning which was good. Not loads of people to plan for. We walked ages to this place called Soughton so we could tract the pant streets. All the street names started with pant. 😂 haha we laugh at the stupidest things. It was a good time though, had a couple good conversations and gave a book to one kid who was pretty interested. When we got back to the flat for tea we were just chillin out a bit and making up some gnarly football manoeuvres, like the up the leg thrower and up the other leg thrower to name a few. I did the roly poly where I held the ball with my legs then did a somersault. Elder Stiff tried it and kinda just flipped onto his back and the ball ended up perfectly underneath his head. He said "I call this one the chillax" for some reason I just busted up and could not stop laughing. 

How to missionary

For 15 minutes I couldn't stop laughing, I didn't want to laugh but it was uncontrollable. I was kinda recovering when we left the flat. Waiting at the bus stop I was fairly in control. On the bus I was singing I am a child of God in my head to keep from laughing but whenever it came into my head laughs burst out a little bit. The people on the bus prolly thought I was crazy. 😂 Elder Stiff literally broke my brain. My brain has never been that outta control before hahaha. 😂 I recovered and we went and saw this less active man. He was really nice, it's hard for him to retain stuff so we had to teach super simply. We then saw this investigator Damien. Haha so his decorations on his walls were hilarious, one of them being a single framed steroid bottle on the wall. 😂 he was a very nice and interesting man. When we got back to the flat that night, the memories of the chillax flooded back and I couldn't stop laughing again. It was an interesting night to say the least. The district leader stuff has been going good, doing call ins and such. Our district is us, zone leaders, Chester sisters, and Wrexham sisters. Nice size. (: 

The flat is mad solid.

Saturday we had a street display in Chester with the Chester missionaries. Remember a while back how I went to a cathedral in Chester on a p day? Haha so we did the street display right in front of that cathedral. Never thought I'd serve here. The city of Chester is so solid, we live about a half hour bus ride away from Chester in a city called Buckley. The street display was good, not a lot of people very interested though. We had tea that night which was solid. Elder Stiff kills the cooking game. Which is super nice for me because he enjoys cooking, and I just get to do the little things to help out. 😜 We tracted this street that night and got 2 solid investigators on the first 2 houses we knocked. Heck ya. They were both boys about our age, one of them plays loads of football so we are going to try to get a game going with him. So that was some solid.

Sunday was great! It was actually really exciting to me to kind of get a fresh start with members. At the beginning of my mission I was still super nervous about things, and didn't really go out of my way to interact with members. So I was just trying to get to know as many as I could which went really well actually. (: so church was great. We did some finding and eating that afternoon and that about it.

Another picture from Peter's baptism.

All in all this has been a solid week! I am so looking forward to this transfer and the new opportunities with district leader and such. It's so nice being companions with Elder Stiff, because we can laugh and have a good time, get along great, while working hard. And we both are
really trying to be as obedient as possible so things are going great!

I love this gospel so much. I love the Book of Mormon and the power I get from reading it each day. Anyone who is struggling, daily study of the Book of Mormon will get you back on track. There really is power in the Book. Love you all have a great week!

-Elder Edwards