Yo.

So this week was pretty good. Yep.

Nice view of Wales

Monday! We called up Cheryl to set up an appointment. Cheryl told Elder Artates not to come around anymore (we got dropped) cause she talked to her pastor and her pastor told her a bunch of rubbish about us. So I was like NOPE not having any of that and cruised right on over to her house. I was pretty straight up with her, talking about the Book of Mormon, and restored Christianity, and she committed to read and pray about the Book of Mormon and the restored church! Undropped! Two thumbs up. (: haha we did it in a nice way so no worries.

In honor of DP

We met a really crazy lady. She was great. I also ate a lot of ice cream this week. We got dropped by a couple other people who we thought were promising. That was too bad, but we haven't given up hope on them. (:

We taught Alex again a couple nights this week. We had some proper good lessons with him, and he is now reading and praying. He's a homie. Him and his sister Christina came to the chapel and played some pingin and pongin then we had a lesson. Well a chat really about Jesus Christ. (: it was the good stuff!

Last week p day we cruised around the great orme chasing goats. It was a real good time.

Emma unfortunately cancelled tea this week so we weren't able to teach her. But! She signed up for tea again this week so hopefully it goes through this time. (: Kieran's mom still doesn't really want us missionaries coming around, so we're still looking for a way around that.

Oh yeah! Super solid thing that happened this week! In my first transfer when I was in Rhyl I was on an exchange with Elder Kaonohi. We were just rockin some tracting in Abergele. We met this nice lady Zoe, who her mother had passed away recently. We had a good chat with her. Then I forgot about it for a year. But Saturday night we were deciding what to do, cause we weren't really feeling what we had planned. And I remembered Zoe! So we cruised on over to Abergele, and the spirit led us to her house! Cuz I didn't really remember. She was in and we had such a great chat. We really felt the spirit and it was just good stuff. So that was the best. Unfortunately she is moving, staying in the area though. She isn't giving out the address yet, because she doesn't have the house for sure and doesn't want to jinx it. So we gonna be praying hard to be led to her again. (:

Boyo

That's pretty much my week! Oh yeah Emma came to church as well which was great. I love you all! Keep fightin the good fight! (:

-elder edwards

Kong strong

(written September 18, 2017)

Hey! This has been a killer week. We out here in Colwyn Bay, we doin it for the children. Haha but yeah it's been real good.

Elder Artates is the man fo reals. I love serving with him haha. So we have bunk beds, and I'm on the top. One night he came in and climbed into his bed and he said get outta my bed. I was like what the heck is this kid talking about. I was already up top. I was like what, and he said there was a man in his bed. So I asked if the man left, and he was like yeah he's in your bed now. I said what does the man look like. He said A clown. I was like what eva and he just started howling with laughter. Haha only Good times here. (:

Elders Artates and Edwards.

Lots o miracles this week! We have really seen God's hand this week. It's His work not ours. We walked out to a little village this week and met a man named Shane. Man he really needs a testimony of Christ. He feels like if there's a God he's gonna go to hell for all the bad things he's done. He's been living with that guilt for a long time. He took a Book of Mormon and we left him with Alma 7. That's one of my favorites y'all should check it out. We will be seeing him on Tuesday. Good man Shane.

We met quite a few other new friends this week which was really good. Emma, a long time investigator came to church yesterday! She's the one that I taught while on exchanges when I was serving in Rhyl. She is great. We are going to hers for tea this week, so keep her in your prayers! Hopefully we can get her dated for baptism again.

We found A&W Rootbeer in this totally dodge shop.
It was the best day of my entire life. I made a rootbeer float. (:

Kieran came to church again as well! He is the son of a member. He came wearing a suit! Haha he is the best, and apparently he's been researching the church on his own! Me and him talked for a while after sacrament and he's into like nitro circus and all that good stuff. So we bros. (: things are looking good for him!

When your homie Stevie B leaves for a phone call

Also the best part of the week is my main homies Sian and Rob came down to Colwyn Bay for some lunch. My fav people. (: so good to see them again.

Don't even know

Things are going great here! I love serving the lord. I know for sure, that it's His work. He will hasten the work in his own time. It's up to us to give our everything, and rely on Him. There's a quote I love, "do your best. Your very very best. Say your prayers, work hard, and leave the harvest to the lord." I try really hard to emulate that in my life! I know that God lives and He loves us. love y'all!

-elder dallen edwards

Hello!

Sorry this email is probs gonna be well short, not in the biggest mood for writing. But! It's been a great week!

We had a zone conference where we learned how we're gonna use Facebook for online proselyting. That was pretty good. We also had interviews with president which was a good time. He's a good man. 

Not a whole lot to report on this week, we've got quite a few people we're trying to teach but it hasn't quite happened yet. We've been seeing a lot of members trying to help them out, and been trying by loads of inactive members. Haha we always get good responses from them. 😜 man opens door "nope! Nope! This is a strictly no jesus household!" Man shuts door. Haha it was funny. (: 

One man we are working with is super good! He hasn't been to church since he was a teenager but has been wanting to turn his life around. We saw him this week, and had a great chat about the Book of Mormon and Jesus and all that good stuff. Unfortunately he can't come to church, because he takes care of his 10 year old grandson who has a couple mental problems. But he's doing everything he can to change even though he can't come. Hopefully he'll be able to come soon. Also his grandson is the funniest kid I've ever met. He told me he's already married, him and his wife had been seeing each other for 5 years before they got married, and they both like different football teams. I asked him how he made it work even though they support different teams and he said we make our relationship work because we look past our differences, and a whole bunch of stuff about how they make it work. Funny kid. (:

Sister lomas brought her non member son to church yesterday! And he was super super nice! We're going to stop by them this week and try to start teaching him. We're still working with a couple other part member families, which is going good as well. We also found quite a new friends, not all of them kept their appointments though. Good peeps tho. (:

I watched the Mormon message, "you never know", last night. It's a good one. Sometimes we feel like we aren't so great, and that we can't do everything we want to. And we feel like nothing really comes from our efforts. But President Hinckley said we never know how much good we do. That's true, there's no point in beating ourselves up because you never know how much good you do. God knows though, and he's grateful for us and the effort we do. Love you all! Have a great week. (:

--elder edwards

Sharin the gospelz

(written September 4, 2017)

Hey yall. It's been a pretty good week. It went by well fast tho. Pretty sick. Lots of finding this week. We've been trying so hard to get someone to teach. We will get their eventually I'm sure. 😜 we tried all sorts of stuff in our finding. We even tried venturing out into the wilderness of Wales and knocking this tiny village and all the surrounding farms. It was a lot of walking. It was a nice change though! (: unfortunately we still weren't able to find any interested people, haha I think people thought we were crazy when we told them how far we had walked. 😜 we talked to some nice people though so it was a good time. So yeah lots of finding. 

We decided we're going to move away from finding and focus more on helping the members who come to church, and the ones who don't come quite as often. That's gonna be the main focus. And finding whenever we're not with members. (: Just trying to help out the branch because it's struggling. 

There's so many amazing people here! We attended the funeral of a well loved ward member Kath Parker. I never got to meet her, but everyone who spoke really seemed to love her a lot. It was a nice service, and it reinforced my testimony that life continues on and death is part of the plan! Just the next essential part in our progression. (: her fam asked me and Artates to say the prayers as well.

Big big miracle last Monday night. We were tracting but weren't getting anything at all. I was like aight we outta here. We prayed and both felt like we should go down to the promenade and tryin talk to some people. Then we talked to John down on the promenade. Oh man. John was the flippin man. So very prepared. He was stressed that night and felt like going on a run. We talked about how God led us to each other. Talked about loads. Spirit was super strong the whole time. He's felt like he's been lacking spiritually lately. So that was dope. When we asked if we could come around, he didn't want to give us his number or address he wanted to "leave it to god." Haha little frustrating but fair enough. I kinda like it actually. When god leads him to missionaries again, it will reinforce in him that he needs the missionaries and the Book of Mormon. So not sure if it's gonna be us that God arranges for John to meet again. I hope it is haha. (: good man John.

We're working with this one part member family. Mainly just befriending them right now. So yeah they good. 

I've been thinking a bit about enduring to the end lately. Man it can be pretty hard. Sometimes we feel like we're giving our all, but we don't measure up to the expectation. But I know for a fact, that God looks at the desires of our heart. Doctrine and covenants says that God blesses those that keep his commandments, AND STRIVE TO DO SO. That's pretty amazing. I'm grateful for that. Cause sometimes, trying is all we can do. But God is patient with us. He loves us, were his children. I know that's true. I know God lives. Love yall. (: deuces. Oh by the way, elder Artates is the man.

- Elder ya boy edwards