Finish

(written July 17, 2018)

Hey! Well the time has come. My last email as a missionary. Mad. But! We have had an excellent week. I got to say goodbye to a lot of people who I have really grown to love, which was sad, but nice to have met them and become friends. (: I love this place and I sure am going to miss it. Wales is home for me now, It is going to be sad to leave.

I will keep this brief, but these sure have been a good 2 years. I have learned a lot, experienced a lot. The thing I am the most grateful for from being here is what I have learned about my Savior. I really know he lives. And I know without a doubt that he loves us. I have had to rely on him so much. I would not have made it through my mission if it weren’t for his grace. I’m so grateful to my Savior, and it has been such a privilege to share his gospel with others. I love this scripture in Phillipians that says “I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me.” I love that.

And that is my simple testimony that we can do all things through Christ. He will take our inadequacy, he will take our weakness, and will make so much more out of us than we could ever be on our own. He is my best friend. 

I love you all. And I’ll see some of you soon. (:

Love, Elder Dallen Edwards

Snowdon

 (written June 25, 2018)

Hey all! It’s been a pretty great week! Last week for p day we hiked a pretty famous mountain in Wales called Snowdon. It was a good time! It was chuckin it down, so we got absolutely soaked. It was super fun though. We went with some mates of mine from Colwyn Bay ward. We’re actually hiking it again today! We wanna do it when there’s good weather so we can get them good views. It’s going to be a good time. (: 

Top of Snowdon

Yeah our weeks been pretty good! We’ve found a couple people who’ve invited us back which was good. We had a j dub bash us. Somehow he told me that because my country fought against hitler in world war 2 our religion is false. Not sure how he worked that one out. 

 

We also had a super cool experience this week! I’d been praying for a miracle, and we met this lady Lanie! She told us she wasn’t really interested and was going to close the door, but then I asked why she wasn’t interested. She then told us she had lost her faith mainly because everything was all about the bible and Israel and she felt like god should associate with his other countries as well. I was like he he, blamo! Check out our Book of Mormon! A record of gods dealings with the people in America! She was like woah this is a major curveball! She was super super interested. I opened up to 2 nephi 29 and read verse 7 which goes “Know ye not that there are more nations than one? Know ye not that I, the Lord your God, have created all men, and that I remember those who are upon the isles of the sea; and that I rule in the heavens above and in the earth beneath; and I bring forth my word unto the children of men, yea, even upon all the nations of the earth?”. She really felt the spirit and she was like you might just make me a believer again. So that was a super cool experience. It’s been a while since we’ve met somebody who was proper prepared so that was great. We’re really hoping and praying she’ll want to learn more! God is good, and he speaks to more nations then just one, cuz he loves us all. (: 

Also had my final zone conference. That was kinda weird. Gave my departing testimony. Never thought I’d be at this point. Trying to make the most of these last three weeks! Well that’s me! Love you all!

-elder Edwards

New Comp

(written June 11, 2018)

Hey all! It’s been a pretty dope week. I’ll see if I can think of some stuff we did.

My new comp is elder Murphy! He is a legend. He is well funny and we get along real good. It’s been a really good time so far. He is from Huddersfield, England and has a pretty dope accent. It’s funny when people think he’s from Utah haha. But yeah good times so far. Good last comp.

(video of Elder Farmer Edwards)

We met a man this week who has Marilyn Monroe appear to him in his house on a fairly regular basis. That was interesting. Nice man though. (: we did loooooads of finding this week, and we’re able to find a couple people who invited us back. Twas a good time. We’ll be seeing them this week. Oh! There was this super solid man named Mark! So we’ve been seeing him around town for a while and last time we saw him I gave him a Book of Mormon. Then we saw him on Friday and he was like I’ve been reading your book, then he started asking about the church of god and the church of the devil, from nephi 13 I think it is. So that was well solid. We’re seeing him this week and will teach the restoration. He’s hilarious he always says goodbye by saying “I hope you convert a beautiful blonde so you can marry her”

   

good ole people of Rhyl. Always an adventure.

The birthday was good, got to have tea with Sian and Rob which was pretty bomb. They are the best.
But yeah! I think that’s about it! Here’s a quote I like from ya boy C S Lewis:

“God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on himself. He himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other. That is why it is just no good asking God to make us happy in our own way without bothering about religion. God cannot give us happiness and peace apart from himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.”

I really like that, and I know that principle is true. God is the only way to find true and lasting happiness. And he wants us to be happy. He wants us to be happy forever and spend eternity with our family. And all He asks is for us to follow him. (: well I love you all! Have a great week!

-elder Edwards

(As this video shows... he still likes being upside down!)