"All Hail the Queen" Sister Abigail Wright's England London Mission 7/14-1/16 : Norwich Week 7... YES I am staying and training!

Hello Everyone!

So I apologize that I don't have time to send personal emails this week! I will try to next week! And this will be shorter than normal but it should have all the essential needed info in here. Well this week was transfers which is why this email is coming on a Tuesday and not a Monday, but week 6 went well here in Norwich and my next will be spent in..... Norwich!! WHOOT WHOOT! Im staying here! However, my companion is moving to Milton Keynes. :( I will miss her so much! She has been a lot of fun and the work has gone really well here the last little while!

Oh and I should probably also mention that IM TRAINING!! AHHH! Im really nervous but a lot more excited. I know that the Lord and President Jordan have a lot of trust in me to ask me to do this and I hope I will live up to their expectations. I know that I don't know everything about being a missionary, heavens I still don't even know where to buy a winter coat. But I know with every fiber in my being that the enabling power of the atonement is real, that the Lord will give me the strength to serve above and beyond my own capabilities, and I will definitely need it! I don't know who I am training yet, we won't know until tomorrow after they arrive and President interviews all of them! So I will have to let you know next week! :) Also, can we talk about conference for a minute?! Like WOW! It was sooooo soooo good! WOW! We got to watch all except the Sunday afternoon session, so we will have to wait for the Ensign to come out to watch those!

Onto other news, we had a baptism this week! It is the Turkish man named M. He is amazing! Even though he cant speak a lot of English he understands a lot and every time we talk to him he thanks us so much for how we have changed his life. He came to every meeting of Conference and just couldn't get enough. He is the most amazing person and he was definitely prepared by the Lord! We are so thankful that we were being obedient missionaries so that the Lord could place us in his path. On a fun note, for p-day today we went to the American Air Force base in Thetford (about a 45 minute drive) with all 4 other Elders and it was a BLAST!!! We ate Taco Bell and went grocery shopping and bought real people deodorant, chewy chips ahoy, and best of all.... PICKLES!!!!!!!!! (They are called Gherkins to English people and they are so gross! So I got some American good ones :)) Well sorry again that this is short! Love you all so much and thank you for being amazing!

Love your favourite missionary

So turns out, as you know from the other email I will be going into London tomorrow to pick up my new missionary so I will be able to get the package tomorrow!! YAY!! There are about 200 missionaries in the mission but I couldnt tell you Elder to Sister ratio, sorry. However I do know that about 13 sisters are flying home tomorrow so they might have to shut down some sister areas. The huge rush that came out at the age change is starting to go home. Sister McNamee is from Tennessee but joined the church while she was going to Ohio State. Neither of her parents are members and she actually left on her mission about 13 months after joining, She is AMAZING! The baptism was awesome! And we just have to do everything for a normal baptism except instead of having 2 weeks we have 2 days, so it ends up being a little stressful. And we did sing! We sang Nearer my God to thee, im getting better at this whole singing thing. And all of the Elders here are super Posh!! However, Elder Nolan, one of the Zone Leaders is moving :( He is going to Watford though!!!! I am so jealous!! He will be Zone Leader and Elder Hutchins companion there. President definitely knows me or I wouldnt be training! haha he knows all the missionaries quite well i think. Elder Giles passed away from a sudden heart attack. It was devastating. Him and his wife came in the same day i did so they had only been here for about 3 months. Loved conference!! We got to see the womens general broadcast and both of saturdays and sunday morning sessions. Havent been to the coast yet, not really time but It is in my zone so maybe one of these p-days. Sorry this is short. I love you so much momma and Im so excited to get that package, I have learned a lot of patience in the 3 months I have been here! I love you to the moon and back infinity times!

your loving, sweet, kind, generous, peaceful, beautiful and favourite missionary, (hahahaha ;))

Sister Wright