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Staying in  Colchester and with Sister Matthews! Sorry, I'll send a
proper email next week, we don't have time. But they say a picture
tells a thoughts and words, so here are some pics.

teaching

Love fresh fruit

Sister missionaries are so boring!

Cooking frozen eggs.... yup that's right. FROZEN!!

Don't hurt me.

I talked to president about coming home on November 30th or December
26th. He said because it's the middle of a transfer I can't come home
on the 26th so that it is either November 30th or January 11th. I
thought that would make the choice really easy, and it did.... But not
how you think. I'm going to extend until January 11th. School starts
on either the 9th or the 6th, I can't remember. But President said as
long as you register me I can go back and just go to classes a couple
days late. It makes sense because people add and drop classes for the
first couple weeks of a semester anyway.

Well, that's all I have to say about that.

the group at Colchester Zoo

Yes, I know I'm a day late. 😬😎

Hey everybody!!

Hey!! So sorry, we had interviews yesterday, so our p day was today
and we have been at the zoo all day. :) I'm alive don't worry!

Interviews with President and Sister Stevens

Me and Sister Matthews

teachin at the Zoo

Colchester Zoo

Morning football & sunshine ⚽️☀️

HAPPY MONDAY!

I hope you all are doing well. We definitely are! ☺️ I considered writing an emoji story for this weeks email... But then I realised that some of you probably wouldn't be able to view the emojis so I changed my mind. Sorry. One day I'll come up with a way to make these more exciting.
This week has been pretty normal, so this might be short.
Update on Fe: she is doing phenomenal!! She loves the gospel and is willing to do anything, ANYTHING to follow Christ. The faith in that 17 year old girl blows my mind. We met with her a couple times this week and then she came to the ward camp win us on Friday. (We obviously didn't sleep on the beach with the rest of the ward, we just went for the campfire on Friday evening)

Sister Matthews, Fe and Sister Wright

Sadly she wasn't able to make it to church because she got really sick Sunday morning. But we will see her this week. Keep her in your prayers!

Tuesday we had an exchange with the Gorelston sisters, Sister Tavares and Sister Batjargal. Mom, you're definitely going to hurt me for this, but we forgot to take a picture. 🙈 So sorry!! They are great though! I was with Sister Tavares. She is 28 and is the only member in her family. I learned a lot from her!! I meet all these sisters who have come out here with little to no support from home and I really don't know how they do it. I couldn't do this without each of you! I guesS it's just more proof that the atonement is real!

Friday we had zone meeting in Ipswich. I always love getting together with other missionaries and seeing their faith and strength. I realised this week how much I learn from the people around me. I know that we are exactly where we are supposed to be.

Oh and I guess I should give you some info on the subject line... ITS FINALLY ALMOST WARM HERE IN THE SUMMER OF ENGLAND. Like almost all week I didn't have the thought, "I'm freezing" so hey maybe summer does exist.

We also decided we needed to get creative with our morning exercise cause we were getting bored. So we have started running to a park that is between our flat and the elders and playing football with them every morning. It's usually just two on two, but when we both have exchanges it gets a little more fun ☺️

Well I love you all! I am so lucky to be able to be doing the most valuable work in the world. I love this job. I would do it for the rest of my life if I could. I know the gospel is true. I know God lives. HE LOVES YOU AND ME! Today we read the parable of the lost sheep, I was reading the institute manual and I just want to share a quote with each of you that I love! 

“The lost sheep are not just the people who don’t come to church. … The lost sheep is a mother who goes down into the valley of the dark shadows to bring forth children. The lost sheep is a young person, far away from home and faced with loneliness and temptation. The lost sheep is a person who has just lost a critically needed job; a business person in financial distress; a new missionary in a foreign culture; a man just called to be bishop; a married couple who are misunderstanding each other; a grandmother whose children are forgetting her. I am the lost sheep. You are the lost sheep. ‘All we like sheep have gone astray.’ (Isaiah 53:6; emphasis added.)

“The times of feeling lost are not always times when we have wandered from the straight and narrow path. Not at all. We may be precisely where the Lord would have us be." (Bruce C Hafen) 

We are all lost sheep, and how eternally lost we would be without the Saviour and His atonement. 

Love you peeps!

Your favourite missionary,

Sister Wright 

Happy Birthday 'Merica 🇺🇸🍦🎈

Hey!

First of all to my fellow Americans: HAPPY 4th OF JULY!!!!

This week has definitely been amazing. As Sister Stevens says, "these are days never to be forgotten! These are journal writing days!" And although I haven't updated my journal yet, these definitely are journal writing days.

Last p-day (Monday) my long lost bff from Norwich, Petya, came to visit! We had loads of fun and good conversations about the gospel, she will get baptised one day. I just know it!!

Sister Wright, Sister Matthews and Petya

We also learned a very important lesson on Monday.... That God knows us PERFECTLY. Like literally, our stomachs too. Monday evening we were kinda hungry and needed to email so we look at each other and say "McDonalds" (some of you wont be surprised) So we go and we are ordering our food like normal, blah, blah, THEN the girl taking my food order, Fe, points to my badge and says "what's that?" I explained that we were missionaries and a little about what we do. She said she was kinda interested and gave us her number, we gave her a dropped call so she had ours, then went and ate our food. WELL, GET THIS! While we are still at McDonalds, we get a text, FROM HER! And set up a time to see her the next day. To cut a long story short we taught her twice this week and she was able to come to church. But the coolest part..... SHE BORE HER TESTIMONY!!!! She still has some concerns before she will be baptised, but she bore a powerful witness of the love she feels from God as she reads the Book of Mormon and how in the small time since she met us her life has changed. THE SPIRIT WAS LIKE PUNCHING EVERYONE IN THE FACE IT WAS SO STRONG!!! We are seeing her tomorrow, I'll keep you updated ☺️

Wednesday we were on exchange with Norwich, Sister Powell and Sister Smiddy, it was great fun! And Wednesday night all 4 of us, plus the other Colchester Sisters, Sister Guimaraes and Sister Soulier, slept in our flat. It was MADNESS! But we had to get up early to take a train the next day to London for the mission tour with the Europe Area President, Elder Kearon. IT WAS INCREDIBLE!!! He spoke a lot about becoming the message. And the joy we should have as we talk about these truths that bring so much joy. My favourite quote was "We thrive under opposition." AMEN!

We stayed the night in London at some of the Visitor Centre's sister's flat. Then went back to Hyde Park chapel Friday morning for Mission Leadership Conference. IT WAS INCREDIBLE. Elder Kearon and his wife were able to be with us for the whole first half of the meeting until lunch. The spirit was incredible. I know we have it with us everyday and we feel it when we listen to our leaders, but this was something else. We all stood in silence and he was leaving and there wasn't a dry eye in the room. He just stood there and looked at us for so long. After he left none of us wanted to move. I can't even describe to you in words the joy in my heart and the peace in my soul as we met that day. HE LIVES!

Others an all that, it was a normal week. Haha

American Football on P-day

I love you all and I'm so grateful for the emails you send. I love hearing from you. The gospel is true. The Book of Mormon is the word of God. CHRIST LIVES. I know it. I could not be more sure of anything else. I love the doctrine of God. May we all strive a little harder to be a little better. As the watch company says, "Do good. Be good."
I love the Lord, I love this work, I love all of you!
How blessed we are!

Your favourite missionary,
Sister Wright