Edwards r ded

Waterfall with the boys.

I’m dead. Today as a district we went and hiked up to Aber falls, and I was doing some flips and it was hecka slippery. I was running pretty fast to do a flip and slipped as I did it and came down full force on head/shoulder. My shoulder feels like it’s gonna fall off. But I did it again to show the flip that it don’t own me. I landed it, but it made it hurt even more. One of these times I’m gonna learn my lesson and quit being a hoopdy. Sorry mom. It’ll be fine in the morning though.

Nailed it.

As for my week! It was pretty solid. All the new peeps we found last week bailed, then the peeps we found this week bailed too, but then we found a solid new friend last night! His name is Ryan, he’s about to have a baby and him and his gf have been wanting to look into religion cause they want their baby to be baptised or something. So we talked for a bit and got an appointment to come back so that’s solid. He was a nice dude, had a real nice hoodie too. 

Washing the mud off from trying to tunnel to the
center of the earth with my head.

We had an entire quorum of cats following us as well while we were tracting. That’s a lot of W words, well while we were Teresa came to church again! She’s been hard to contact lately but luckily we were on the same bus as her the other day so we got to talk to her for a bit. Then she came to church. Nice one.

For young men’s this week we had a nerf war. It was pretty legendary. Kieran came! We really need to start teaching that kid, he loves coming to church and activities and stuff. 

Nerf war with the lads.

A member here scared me to absolute death. She fixed a rip in my suit trousers for me and when she brought them back, she was like “there you go! 2 inches off the legs!” Terror in its purest form. Luckily she was trickin me though so it’s all good.

Were playing ping pong with Alex this Thursday then we’re hopefully going to get him to a baptism down in chester this weekend. We’re kinda losing him, so we gotta tryan get him back on track. Hopin he comes to the baptism. Good lad, he shaved his beard and looks pretty fresh.

Thaaaaats about it. Having some good times here in Colwyn Bay, oh yeah! Got to watch the broadcast thing by president Nelson. Well good. Nice to have some wise old dudes to tell us all the good stuff. Lucky that Jesus Christ’s church is led by good men that the Lord can work through. 

In church we had a lesson about service in priesthood. There was a quote that something like, if we don’t serve others, our lives have little meaning. I thought about the man Thomas S. Monson. That dude served like nobodies business. And the whole world loved him. What a great example and leader. President Nelson is going to be amazing as well, he spoke to our mission in 2016 and it was well good. So yeah! The Church is in good hands! Love you all and hope your weeks are excellent. (:

-elder Edwards

Coccyx pain continuation

Hey all! It’s been a minute since I sent out a group email. So I’ll tell ya bit about how Christmas and New Years was. They was dank. Grammar champ.

Anyway! We had a pretty swell week indeed. Trying to think of stuff... oh! I had a killer exchange with my boy chilli piri. Me and elder Chilpagiri went on an exchange here in Colwyn Bay way back in the day when we were being trained. Cause I started off in Rhyl and him in Colwyn Bay. We took the same picture that we took way back. So that was fun to think back and all that stuff. Kinda weird as well. We had loads of fun though, visiting a bunch of members and people he used to be teaching. So yep. Twas a well good time. Hahaha back on our first exchange I spent like a half hour teaching elder Chilpagiri “utahnese” the native language of utahns. So I made up like a bunch of words and would correct his grammar and stuff on them, it was great. We still speak a little Utahnese.

First exchange with chilli 

Second exchange with chilli

Alex has been really slowing down lately. He doesn’t seem too interested anymore. We’re gonna do some serious praying though and share a lesson with him sometime this week that’ll hopefully help him start being interested again. All goods though, we still prayin for boyo. 

I got back in contact with this dude I met when I first came to Colwyn! His names John and the first time I met him he didn’t want to meet up again, but this time he gave us his number. Back when I met him he said he had felt like in a spiritual drought. We gave him a Book of Mormon and stuff, then finally saw him again the other night. So that’s solid. Stoked on that. 

We also met a really nice couple John and Samantha. A member of our ward gave us some gift cards so we used those to take them out to lunch and gave them a Book of Mormon and stuff. Twas a good time. They’re really really nice, I’m excited to see them again. 

Bowling on Pday

Thaaaaats about it! I missed my Afro a little bit this week, my coccyx hurt a little bit this week. Not sure if yall remember but that was from me running down that hill like a hoopdy, then falling and breaking my butt on a rock. Not recommended. It hurts for a long time.

   

We went to a trampoline park last p day, went bowling today, ate some good chicken, I thought I became a scouser when Jimbo fed us some scouse food, but then Jim told the whole ward in testimony meeting that I wasn’t a scouser just because I ate scouse food. So that was a big letdown. Basically shattered my entire life right there in front of the whole ward. I only cried a bit though. 

So that’s a bit of an update for me! Still love wales, still love being a missionary. I love this gospel and the opportunity I have to improve and be better. As the great burgdaddy would say, “gospel love”. Love you all!

-Elder edwards