Thankgivurs

Hey! This week has been pretty sick! We had the slickest thanksgiving dinner, the Carder family had us over. It was well good. I ate so stinkin much, and it was excellent. The members here are still great, they still feed us all the time and it’s great. (:

Alex is doing pretty good. We see him everyday. He’s a major bro. He’s making super slow progress, but progress nonetheless. We feel really inspired to keep working with him even though it’s slow going, and it’s nice having a good homie to go to since nobody else wants to talk to us.😜 I feel like I say that a lot, and I don’t mean to complain, just how it goes here in Colwyn Bay. Great place though! Love it. Anyways, yeah Alex. We started messing around with his air soft guns, and I usually leave his house with multiple more welts on my body. It’s pretty great. Getting shot point blank is a blast 😜  

Also got to see Sian and Rob this week! It was great to catch up and eat some good food. (:

Oh yeah! Big ole miracle! Ya boy t dub! So we were waiting at a bus stop a week ago and this dude walked past us then turned back and came up to us and was like yo I’m a Mormon. We was like yo! And we got his number and all that good stuff so we could play football with him sometime. Then he rolled out. We were like heck yeah. Then this member whose name is Regan had us over for tea, and he is her cousin. They are rooming together while they are both going to college, and he hasn’t been coming to church for quite a while. But we went and had tea with both of them and it was super solid. Tomas is Finnish and a major bro. We homies now. Back home I used to watch these dudes on YouTube who are from Finland and they just do stupid things like joust from the tops of cars. They’re hilarious. So me and t steak had a good laugh over them. We shared a message and he was really grateful for it. So that was really great! 

We’ve been seeing a lot of good things happen here in Colwyn Bay over the last little while, a couple of less active members who have been coming out on the weekly so it’s some good stuff. We’ve been focusing a lot more on helping the branch peeps out.  There was a fam Christmas party that we were invited to. Us and ya boy Alex were the wise men for the nativity. 

That part was fun but then Alex bounced outta there and We got roped in to having to stay for the whole thing afterward because they needed us to lock up. Tbh (to be honest) it was a little bit miserable. Haha the whole time we were just getting attacked by kids. Like 3hours straight of getting attacked. But it wasn’t in a fun way. These kids were vicious. I love kids, but these ones were nutters Lol.  

So yeah! Things are good, Arrington is the man and we’re having a good time out here. This homie in our ward was like you two seem like brothers. Killin it. (: 

Well I Love you all! Have a great week!

-elder Edwards

I broke my coccyx but I still believe in Heavenly Father

Hey all! It has been one. Sick. Week. Haha Arrington (new companion) is the man. We are having hecka fun and working super hard. We saw Alex like every day, he’s doing good, unfortunately he didn’t come to church even though he said he would. It was a lil sad but he’s still the man. Nothing much else happened... lots of cruising and trying to find people, with not a lotta people listening. All good though. (:

Elder Arrington

Elder Edwards

Sorry I feel like this email is hecka lame. But little story. 2 weeks ago me and Stutz were hiking around this mountain. There was this steep muddy path and I had the bright idea to sprint down it. And film myself at the same time. (see video below) Well. I slipped, and landed right on a rock on my tailbone. Like really hard. It hurts to sit. Haha the mission nurse told me to take hecka ibuprofen but I don’t want to. It’s getting better quick though. The legend Arrington dropped the line “I broke my coccyx but I still believe in Heavenly Father.” It really helps with our finding.  😉

With Elder Stutz and Steve.

Well that’s about it! Steve and Emma got married yesterday! 😊😊😊so excited for them. The best. 

I think I’ll share a little thought... there’s this picture I’ve got on my iPad, I will include it.

It’s about how pottery can get broken, but you repair it with gold. One of my very favorite people I’ve met on my mission was having a hard time a while ago. We were at his house J chillin and I shared that picture with him. I told him how when he got broken, and his life was shattered, God repaired him with gold. The man seriously has a heart of gold. I know that that happens to all of us, sometimes we get broken and chipped, but God repairs us with gold! Everyone of you are amazing! You are all gold. (: 

love you all! Have an excellent week!

Edwards

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My boy

I typed out my whole email, and then it disappeared. |: flippin iOS 11 trickin me out. Haha I will try to put effort into this email for the second time, no promises though.😜  

District

This week was excellent because Alex came to church again! That kid is the best. He is really startin to feel the spirit and it’s the best. I like teaching somebody my own age as well. We saw him quite a few times this week. Watta bro. He’s the best. (:

Cruisin

Emma and Steven are getting married this weekend! I’m so pumped! Steven is taking us to a lake today to muck around at which should be a good time. (: 

Yeeee
(see video at end of this post)

My fav people the Baileys are leaving us. They are the senior couple in the branch. Their mission is over now, it’s pretty lame. All goods though, they did a lot of great work here. (:

Baileys (:

Thaaaaats about it! Haha we’ve been doing lots of finding and such, but nobody wants to talk to us. Lol. All good though! 

An old pic. Love those dudes #EKitchOffACliff

Transfers! Elder Stutz is bouncin outta here and cruising up to Kendall. It’s been fun he’s a good lad. New comp is elder Arrington. Don’t really know anything about him. Should be good. (: 

love you all! Have an excellent week!
-elder Edwards 

Sacrament drum off

Hey! It's been a pretty good week, slow, but still good. (: I was talking to This man Richard one day this week, and he was telling me he was going to come to church for sure this week (this being the like 27th time he's told me that and never came) then he said church would be a lot better if we had 2 sets of drums. Then for sacrament we could just have drum offs. I thought it was a rather killer idea, and think I'll suggest it to our branch president.  Thanks Richard. (;

We saw Alex quite a few times this week. He's doing well, we played ping pong one night with Alex and our branch mission leader and his wife one night. It was great. It was good for him to hear the testimonies of some people other than us. (: Unfortunately he got sick Saturday night and had to cancel on church. ): hopefully this week though.

Emma and Stephen are still getting ready for their wedding. Good people. (: excited for them to get married already so we can start teaching her again. 😜

Not really sure what else to tell y'all... we met a couple new friends this week. One is Nathan. He's a major bro. Me and him are super similar and we talked for ages. Hopefully we can see him soon. He's having a rough time. ):

I had a hecka good day on Tuesday. Ive been trying different ways to contact people, cause people seriously don't like listening to us. On Tuesday I saw a group of 4 kids doing some flips and stuff, so I joined em! And it was the best time. (: haha I had so much fun with those dudes, doing flips, and they all said they'd check out Mormon.org. So that was real fun. I'll send a video or two. (:

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I bore a testimony similar to this in sacrament yesterday, and thought I'd share it with yous. (: so there's a book by Bear Grylls called "Facing the Frozen Ocean". It's about Bear wanting to cross the Atlantic, starting in Canada all the way to Scotland in a tiny little boat called a RIB. I think it stands for rigid inflatable boat. Or something. Anyways. It's a tiny boat, has no cabin, and is only like 10-15 feet long. It's hecka small. And they are completely exposed to the elements. Bear had a five man crew for this expedition. So they start cruising, and they run into some insane weather. They face multiple massive storms. And they are all just absolutely terrified.

Bear talks about how in the middle of that storm that he has no control over his fate, how he was comforted. His dad passed away a couple years before, and bear talked about how he felt the presence of the "unseen crew" as he described it. He could feel his dad, and he could feel Jesus Christ there helping them. Way out in the middle of the Atlantic. I know that our Lord Jesus Christ is so very aware of each one of us. Whether we are in Kaysville Utah (yeah boy), Wales, China, or anywhere else. The lord will be with you wherever you go. 

Please don't forget that even if you may feel like your crew is only yourself, and it's you on your own, there is always the unseen crew. Our loved ones, and the man that we can put complete and total trust in, Jesus Christ. He will never fail us. 

Also if any of you are having a hard time, or a looking for a killer book, I highly recommend "facing the frozen ocean". It helped me through a really hard time. I know Christ lives! I know he is with each one of us. I love you all!

-elder edwards

Elder Edwards with companion Elder Stutz

Llywelyns hall older than Edwards wall

Found this on my map 😂

YA BOY ALEX CAME TO CHURCH!! Best Sunday ever! Haha so Alex who we've been hangin with/teaching since I got here came to church! It was absolutely the best. He was really nervous about coming, but just kept saying thank you over and over again for getting him to come out. He absolutely loved it. So that was basically just the best thing ever. (: he hasn't really been willing to read the Book of Mormon or pray, but the spirit really got him good yesterday and he said he was gonna start reading and praying! What a bro. It was the best day of my life.

Emma came as well too! So it was just the slickest day. It makes me so happy when I see my friends experience feeling the love of God for the first time, and seeing them be so happy. Being a missionary is great. (:

J chillin

In other news... there isn't much other news haha. Last night we tried by this kid Oliver and he was like yooooooo, let's go for a cruise! So we got in his car and just cruised around hangin, having a chat about Jesus Christ and all that good stuff. TBH it made me mega trunk. It was really nice to be hangin with someone my own age cruisin around in a car again. Also he played us his Christian rap music. 😂😂😂 haha this stuff was legendary. It was like hardcore rap music, but singing about how great God is and all that stuff. Oliver is a bro, it was a slick time. He gonna read the Book of Mormon now.

Dolph

I've been pretty sick all week, but kept working all week and it's proper worn me out. Well tired. All goods though. Also the whole week was pretty slow haha I think like 2 people would talk to us up until Sunday. 😂 gotta love This place. Wales is number 1!

Me and Elder Sengson

I had a pretty sick exchange with Elder Sengson from the Phillipines this week! It was a good time. We're mission brothers, Elder Korth trained him as well! Haha. (: dad Korth.

Kinda weird pic

I think that's about it! Love you all! Keep fighting the good fight!
-Eduardo