Bore da

Laurel here--finally posting last weeks letter!!
Also... "Bore da" is Welsh for good morning. :)

Hey all! It's been a pretty solid week! I hardly remember any of it but I'll try my best. 😜

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday we did missionary work. It was really really slow and nobody wanted to hear anything we wanted to say and there's not a lot to report. Sooooo yeah. (: it was great! 😜 

We knocked anyways.

Thursday! We had a pretty killer weekly planning! We didn't really have any investigators to plan for because we dropped a ton of people because they just simply aren't progressing. So we tried to figure out other stuff to plan for. I was thinking about my ancestor John Edwards who lived in Wales, wondering if he lived in North Wales which is part of our mission. So I looked it up but he isn't in our mission so I was like dang we can't tract his town. 😜 

Downton Abbey or something.

Then I was thinking about Dan Jones. For those of you who don't know, Dan Jones is a Welshman who was a convert to the early church. He was actually with Joseph Smith in Carthage jail the night before Joseph and Hyrum were murdered. Joseph asked Dan if he was afraid to die. Dan said something like "engaged in this work, death would not have much terror" don't quote me because that wasn't quite what he said but it was something like that. 😜 Joseph then prophesied that Dan would serve a mission in his homeland of Wales and complete his life's work as the lord intends.

A couple years later Dan Jones served in Wales and played a key role in over 6 thousand people being baptised. I love the story of Dan Jones and wondered where in Wales he was born. I searched high and low to find it, but it's hard because the limited use of our iPads. But finally in the October 1987 friend I found an article that talked about Dan Jones. It said he was born in the little village of Halkyn, Wales. And that is in our area! We got super pumped and actually felt really good about going out and tracting this village. We are going on Wednesday and having Dave (a member) drive us out there. Haha so there's a bit of church history for yous. (: That afternoon we had a lesson with Julie! It went super super good. It was the first time she let us in her home. We took Brother Ron Sparks with us. We had a great lesson on the plan of salvation and Brother Sparks was just the perfect fellowshipper so that was great. (: Tracting that night we met a very kind lady named Jill. Jill's son died about a year ago and she has been searching for answers ever since then. We are going back there tomorrow and are very excited! (: She is a great woman. 

Friday we tracted in a town called Flint. The streets we tracted there was a castle right next to it! Literally a 2 minute walk haha. So we had lunch chillin in the castle courtyard which was pretty dope haha. (: That afternoon we found two new friends who are both really great! Cicilia and Mike. They are great people and I look forward to being able to work with them. 

That night we walked ages out to contact a media referral. His name is Sergio and we finally caught him in! He is from Luanda and has been in the U.K. For 2 months. While he has been in the U.K. his family in Luanda was baptised into the church. So his family sent him to us as a referral. Haha we got there and he already had everything his mom brought to him, Book of Mormon, all the pamphlets. He accepted the invite to be baptised which was amazing. (: not sure if he'll be baptised here or when he goes back to Luanda but I look forward to working with him. (:

We're in Rhyl right now and had to take the classic bathroom selfie.
Who remembers these?

Saturday and Sunday was basically just conference. I loved it! So good. I especially loved Ronald a Rasbands talk about being first responders to the spirit. And how if we don't respond the first time we are prompted it weakens our connection with the spirit. But if we always respond first, we will be so close with the spirit and be a strong tool in his hands. (:

So that's my week! It's been pretty killer! Thanks for all you all do for me. Love you all! (:

-Elder Edwards