A week in the life

Hey! This week included, all sorts o stuff... so yeah. I'm getting tired of these day by day thingy emails so imma try to just do some highlights. (:

Tuesday we had a multi zone conference! It was ultimately good. Got a lot of spiritual insight on how we can move the work along. It was super good I loved it, something that really stood out to me, was how our faith as missionaries can affect other people being converted. Obviously they still have agency, but in a talk we watched, Neil Anderson was speaking. There was a super good quote that went something like "there is a power that can cause things to happen that need to happen. There is a power that can stir something in people's souls. My faith can cause somebody's soul, that is dormant but good, to awaken unto God." That really stood out to me. I realized while it may not always be the case, my faith can enable the spirit to stir somebody's soul. So I have really been working on increasing my faith. Good stuff. (: I love missionary work. At the multizone I also got to see all the homies, which was super fun. 

One day we were out tracting this slightly countryside road, it was a beautiful day but it was just a kind of boring day haha. Nobody was answering and the couple people who were answering weren't interested. We knocked and street contacted for ages. We finally met this man who was acting really funny, he seemed like he wanted to rage at us or give us a hug at the same time. Maybe both. Anyways We just started saying something, can't remember what, and he invited us in. He is a major gospel scholar. He's got like a finity bibles and such. We talked for ages about Christ and the Book of Mormon stuff. He's definitely got some potential. We're going to have to show him through the bible though that the trinity is not true doctrine. Haha should be fun. All you gotta do is read your bible, it tells us that god and Jesus Christ are separate being. Anyways he's a great man and I'm looking forward to seeing him again. (: 

This dude was so nice. Crazy good at guitar as well.
Met him today in Chester. So sick.

We met loads of new people this week and it was really great. We also met some people who were trying to wreck us. Haha we had a born again man come up to us and start tryna tear us apart. He pulled a DVD out of his bag to give to me. "Out of the kindness of my heart I will give this to your for no price." Cheers buddy. 😂 haha it was an anti DVD and I was like nah mate. Then his buddy came up and was filming us. He was asking me why I was a Mormon. I was like I'm not going to talk to you while your filming me just trying to attack me and my faith, if you actually want to talk you can put away the video camera and we can talk. He didn't know what to say but he put away the camera. 😂 we peaced outta there. They definitely weren't interested. Good times though. (:

Also, that's Elder Godfrey if there's any confusion as to who is my new companion. 😂
We got some haircuts as well today. (:

Also we met with a girl named Bianca! We taught her the restoration and she seemed to really like it, she promised to read the Book of Mormon and pray about it so that's good stuff.

I had a great experience for me this week! A couple weeks into being here in Chester I got on a bus and felt like I should talk to this man. I sat in front of him cause it was the only seat. Satan was really working on me to get me to not talk to this man, so I put it off and put it off. When I was about to turn around and talk to him he got off the bus. I felt absolutely terrible that I hadn't talked to him. The prompting had kept getting stronger and stronger while I was on the bus as well. To say the least I felt bad. So this week! We got on a bus and there was this man! I was like no way I gotta talk to him. The only seat available was behind him. So I sat behind him. Satan must've really not wanted me to talk to him because all the doubts and fears came back. (Sharing the gospel can still be scary sometimes 😜) he had headphones in. The prompting kept getting stronger and stronger as well. So finally I just tapped his shoulder and we started talking. So nice and super funny. We didn't have much time but we had a good chat about god. Got his number and he peaced out. Happy to have gotten that second chance. (: it must have been really important for me to talk to him, because Satan was trying as hard as he could to get me to not talk to this man. So yeah, good stuff. (:

Me and Stiff.

Also the delivery dads Elders Stiff and Cowdrey were in the area on Friday so they came over and had tea with us. So good to see them. Legends. (: me and elder Stiff were rockin some wheelies.

That's some of my week! It's been a good one! Me and elder Godfrey are loving it here in Chester and working hard! Love you all! Thanks for the support! Have a great week!

-Elder Edwards

Stiff popping them wheelys in the flat like a legend.

Oh my days so blesssssssssssssssed

(written April 30, 2017)

Hey! It's been another week, in which has been pretty good. So ya... Monday! Was a pretty good p-day. Hit up some castles with the zone lords. It was a good time cruisin around. After that we just went and chilled out a the chapel. We had a tea appointment but they forgot about it so we snagged some quick fish n chips. It was pretty good. I think in Rhyl I wore myself out of fish n chips because it's not as good as it used to be. Still good. 😜 but know, you can have too much fish n chips. 😜 we tracted a street with a pretty killer name that night. Dinghouse Wood. Straight up. Hahaha best street ever! Well the name is, the people weren't so interested but that's alright. 😜

Tuesday was district meeting. It was great. I really enjoy being able to plan those and conduct them. It's a really good time. Not sure if conduct is the right word but whatever. After that we visited a couple members, had a tea appointment which was solid, and tracted. Nobody was much interested then either. We called Dale to confirm for our appointment Wednesday. He was great, was looking forward to it and planning on it.

This man is legendary on a guitar. Forealz.

Wednesday. Had a street display. It was great. I love street displays. Been a while since we've done one. After the street display we were gonna meet with Dale. He didn't show up and hasn't answered his phone since. It was a bit disappointing but it's all good. Just how it goes. We're going to keep calling him and hopefully he will answer at some point. We snagged some Macky's. Always great. (: That night we tried by James again the 9 year old legend. We chatted for a while then had a great lesson on baptism and the Holy Ghost. James loved it and really wants to get baptised. We set a date for the 20th of may. He was super excited. We're super excited as well but I'm not so sure how it'll work out. Since James is 9 he's completely dependent on his parents for coming to church. And his parents are completely 100% not interested. His dad has said for the past 2 weeks that he will bring him but he didn't come either time. So James might have to wait till he's a bit older. We will definitely keep trying with him though. He's a great kid.

Thursday we had an appointment all the way out in Chester. We didn't think the kid was gonna show up but thought we better go anyways just in case he did show up. It's hard to know. He didn't show, Then when we were trying to cruise to Flint the bus driver man ignored us and drove by so we were waiting ages. So it took 5ever. The rest of the day was super slow. None of our investigators were in and nobody was interested. It was all good though.

My boy.

Friday. We tried by and saw a couple people which was good. Had tea with the Twogoods which was great. Saw John on the bus that night. 'Twas good to see him. Talked a lot about Jesus Christ and it really seemed to sink in. Talked a lot about motorcycles as well. 😜

Saturday we had a street display which went pretty good. Elder Godfrey got the heck bashed outta him twice. By two grumps. Poor elder Godfrey. Good lad. I met some nice people in the street display. One was Nick who's from Australia. We had a great conversation talking about loads of stuff. He started out our conversation by saying I don't believe in anything you believe in. 😂 haha but I explained a bunch a stuff using the bible in a non bashing way 😜 and he ended up taking a Book of Mormon so that was great. We will hopefully meet up soon. We saw Dave that night which was a good time. He's great.

Church was pretty great. Not much to report about Sunday, it was pretty average. Today we got to go to the temple. Ah it was amazing. It had been way too long so it was a really good time. So peaceful. I love the temple so much.

So yeah. Not crazy lots to report about this week but we keep on keeping on. I love this work! Thanks for all you all do for me! Love you all! Have a great week!

-Elder Edwards