KIZZY IS THE BOMB

Hello my people!!

So this week has been SO AWESOME!!

 To start out, Kizzy got baptised! WAHOOOO!!!
Fun fact: Kizzy is vegan.
So we (Kizzy, Sister Cardoso, a member named Tracy, and I) made vegan
food on Friday for her baptism on Saturday! That stuff is so good... I
told her I would consider going vegan it I wasn't on my mission. Then
I remembered milk... And I think I've overcome my desire to go vegan.
My mom did always say I would make a good vegetarian though.
Her baptism was perfect! Lots of people were there, the water was
warm, she went all the way under the first time, it really couldn't
have gone better! Elder Stoor, one of the Elders from the Gillingham
1st ward, baptised her. She is now preparing to go to the temple and
is so excited to learn more about the gospel and the Book of Mormon.
She just texted us last night telling us how much she loves 2 Nephi 2.
Man she is so good!! I firmly believe her and I will be friends
forever.
Then we had another miracle on Friday. These people called us one
night early in the week at 1:00am. It woke me up, I didn't recognise
the number and didn't answer it of course, and just went back to bed.
Then the next day the same number texted us and said they wanted to
meet us, we were kind of scared to be honest but decided we would go
meet with them. We went with Brother Mannouch (ward mission leader) on
Friday. It was Chas, his sister Rebecca, and her partner Tom. They
were so sincere and so excited to learn about the Book of Mormon! We
even put Tom and Rebecca on date to be baptised on May 28th! The Lord
is definitely in the details of this work and we couldn't do it
without him!!
Sorry this is short, we are going to go golfing for one of the Elders
birthdays! Haha it should be interesting.
I love this work, I love the Lord, and I love all of you. I'm
especially grateful for how blessed we are to have temples on the
earth. I know without them and the work that goes on within them, we
wouldn't be able to return to live with Heavenly Father. Will you all
please go once for me? I miss it so much.

YOU GUYS ARE SO AWESOME! Thank you for your prayers and the love and
support we feel from you.


Your favourite missionary,
Sister Wright

Sister Cardoso, Wright and Kizzy

A Coke and a SMILE

Always learning

Always in Canterbury.

Hello everyone!!!

This week has been somewhat uneventful, so this might be short. However, we are doing great!! Sister Cardoso is settling in and we have just gotten right to work!
We have SO MUCH fun together! I love her so much and she is hilarious!!

We found a couple new friends this week, Elle and Alex, and we are excited to see them next week! We also got a little creative in our reactivation work, there is a girl here named Clarice who is less active, but her parents are super active and great! We go to their home for dinner but Clarice always runs away when we start to give a lesson or anything like that. She is also going to college for hairdressing, so Sister Cardoso and I came up with the perfect solution! If she dyed my hair, she would HAVE to sit and listen to us 😏😂 so I took one for the team. But she definitely felt the spirit and it was all worth it! Side note to that story: we started doing my hair a little later than planned because both of us were running late, so I had to come home with the foils still in. That was interesting!

I guess I should also explain the subject line of this email. We went to Canterbury last monday for p-day, awesome as always except they wouldn't let us in the cathedral 😔 then we were back there on Friday for Zone Meeting, then AGAIN on Saturday because Kizzy came with us to a baptism they were having there!

And the best news of the whole week: KIZZY IS GETTING BAPTISED NEXT SATURDAY!!! Keep her in your prayers and I will tell you the story of her baptism next week!

I love you all so much! This week I'm especially grateful for the Book or Mormon! We can change so much as we take what we learn  and apply it into our lives. Isn't that exciting?! I love this gospel, I love this work, I love my Saviour!!
Your favourite missionary,
Sister Wright

On the island this week for a blitz!Had to take model pictures.

Told you I came home with foils

Zone Meeting Canterbury

Elder Cook (from Heber) was a little nervous for me to cut his hair...
Don't worry it turned out smashing!! ☺️

IM A MUM! ❤️

Hello my peeps!!

I love you all so much! WASN'T CONFERENCE AMAZING?! I learned so much!! I'm so grateful that even though I'm all the way across the pond, I can still hear the prophets and apostles and receive guidance and direction through the spirit. I can't wait to study each talk so I can learn more! We all LOVED Elder Stevenson's talk about keys, and we decided this week as we go finding we are going to ask people about their keys, to their cars and their homes, and then relate it to how important it is that we have the priesthood keys restored to the earth!

As you all know, I got my trainee this week and you guys she is AMAZING! Like so amazing it's not even funny. Her name is Sister Cardoso and she is from Brazil. She has never  taken an English class and was only in the MTC for 3 weeks but speaks so well!! The spirit is so strong when she teaches and she has so much knowledge. She is so excited to serve the Lord and is so diligent! I'm pretty sure President sent her here to train me! We have so much fun together!

When we went to get them we met at St Pancras station like normal transfers, then Sister Johannes (aka Jopanna) and I rode the tubes to South Kensington. We were having the trainers meeting and eating lunch like normal, assuming we would be waiting for them for about another hour or two hours when the Assistants, Elder Williams and Elder Chronister, ran into the cultural hall shouting "THEY'RE HERE" we got shuffled out the back door and hid in a stairwell for about 15 minutes while they all came in until we could go out into another room while they had their new missionary meeting. 😂 it was classic.

We have been so busy since Wednesday! Running everywhere and teaching everyone and flip it's crazy! We are working really closely with Kizzy right now. She is seriously my favourite person! I have never bonded this much with an investigator ever. She isn't just someone I'm teaching, or even another child of God, she is my friend. I know I'm here for a reason, and if she is the only reason, then so be it! She teaches me a lot and I hope I teach her the same! I have a feeling we will be friends for a LONG TIME ☺️

Well, I should end this before it turns into a book. I love you all so much! I know without a doubt that the prophets and apostles are called of God and hold all the keys necessary for us to receive the ordinances that enable us to walk back into the presence of our Heavenly Father. This gospel is the only thing that can bring real hope and peace into our lives. I know the Saviour lives. He loves me and He loves each of you. He stands by us everyday as we face the crazy things life throws at us. The Book of Mormon literally teaches us EVERYTHING and I have especially seen that this week.

Love you all lots!!
Your favourite missionary,
Sister Wight

Selfie with President Stevens/ our babies/ some other Elders

#GillinghamDistrict

My daughter Sister Cardoso

Hiding from greenies!

#G2forever

Hello & Happy Easter!!!

So I was going to say it was a pretty quiet week, but a lot of things
happened, so I will just tell you about it and you can decide if it
was eventful or not!

We started and ended the week the same way: sick. 😷🤒☹️ it was
miserable! Tuesday we were both so bad that we had to stay in the flat
all day. Talk about going crazy! Ahhhhhh!! But it had been going
around the ward for a while so we were lucky that we made it this long
healthy. After about dying on Tuesday we decided we were going out
Wednesday no matter how bad we felt, so we coughed and sniffed our way
through a couple lessons and a dinner appt.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday were about the same as any other week,
just with more sudafed and tissues than usual.
Sunday was fabulous, of course! We had a great day and it was amazing
to be able to testify about the Saviour as the world remembers His
resurrection. There is so much power in the knowledge that we can all
live again, and that no matter what we can change. We have never gone
too far, or done too much, to be outside of the reach of the
atonement. I'm still so humbled and grateful when I think of that.

We are still teaching our friends Kizzy and Carol, and a couple
others. Kizzy is preparing to be baptised on April 16, so keep her in
your prayers! She is so excited!!

Okay now the part I know you've all been waiting for... TRANSFERS!!
Drumroll please.......
Sadly, Sister Haynie will be leaving. After an AMAZING 12 weeks, they
decided we were just too good together, so she will be moving to
Bedford!!
And I will be staying here and having a new baby!! That's right,
Sister Schumann is finally getting that sister that she always wanted.
(For all you that are a little unfamiliar with missionary language,
that means I will be training a new missionary)
We are sad to be parting, but excited for a new adventure!

I'm so grateful for all of you and the roles you play in my life! I
love being out here. I love this gospel, especially the Book of
Mormon. Im thankful for my Saviour and what He has done for us. We can
feel Him standing beside us as we do His work!

"It is so important for us to be one the Lord's side. But we should
never forget that the Lord is also on our side. Each of us will taste
the butter ashes of life, from sin and neglect to sorrow and
disappointment. But the atonement of Christ can lift us up in beauty
from our ashes on the wings of a sure promise of immortality and
eternal life. He will this lift us up, not only at the end of life,
but in each day of our lives."
-Elder Bruce C. Hafen

LOVE YOUUU
your favourite missionary,
Sister Wright

Us + the Thorpes (a family in the ward) + Roger

Us and Kizzy

#hallelujah

Hello everyone!!

This has been an eventful week, but I'll do my best to sum it up.

Tuesday we went on exchange so we were both in Illford! It was so much fun! It is way different than Sittingbourne, and it made me decide I officially miss London. There's too many old English people down here 😂 we rushed back Wednesday morning to make it to district meeting in Gravesend, and we did a blitz after. MOST FUN BLITZ IVE EVER DONE!! (A blitz is where a bunch of missionaries go out and find in the same area.) We drew the Plan of Salvation with chalk then invited people to walk through it with us, it had to be the most effective finding I've ever done! Then we ate pizza.

The rest of the week was super busy preparing for ROGERS BAPTISM!!! WAHOOOOOOOOO He was baptised on Saturday, it was a beautiful service and the spirit was so strong. All his family was able to come and a lot of the ward was there as well. One of our investigators, Kizzy, was also able to make it and she LOVED IT. We were talking to one of Rogers granddaughters and found out she had been baptised many years ago and lives in the ward boundaries, she agreed to start coming back to church with her granddad! WOW.

Side note: I don't know if I've told you guys already, but the ward is doing what we call a 40 day fast. Each day for 40 days a different member of the ward fasts for the missionary efforts in this area. WE HAVE NEVER SEEN SO MANY MIRACLES. The Saviour is definitely standing by us in this work, and how lucky we are to be able to help it progress.

Sunday Roger was confirmed and asked if he could share his testimony, yes you read that right, HE asked if he could share his testimony. He bore a beautiful witness of Christ and the difference he has seen in his life since turning to Him. He also whipped out a scripture from the Doctrine and Covenants in his new quad. (So cute!!!!) one that we had never read with him before. YOU GUYS HE IS SO GOOD!!!!

We also got an awesome referral from a member! Our new friend's name is Ollie. He is 18 and is so sincere about learning. Miracles peeps, so many miracles.

Other news from the week:
*Sister Haynie has been super sick the past couple days. But we just keep going. Bless her. Keep her in your prayers.
*I ran into a pole when I was walking down the street. I don't know how it happened. Don't ask.
*We sang again in public and Sister Haynie made me sound amazing (no surprises there)

I love this work so much!! I love being able to give all my time and talents to the Lord. Our companion prayers each night are probably some of the most spiritual experiences I have had. Christ is here. He is in every tiny aspect of this work. I love the Book of Mormon and the difference it can make in people's lives. I love the gospel, I love his work, I love my Saviour, and I love all of you. I challenge you all to take time each day to contemplate the life of Christ as we celebrate the final week of His life this Easter week. He changed everything.

Your favourite missionary,
Sister Wright

Exchanged in Illford

Gravesend BLITZ (where a bunch of missionaries go out
and find in the same area)
We wrote the Plan of Salvation on the cobblestone street

Rogers Baptism

EASTER 💐🐣

Hey everyone!


EASTER IS COMING! We are so excited to use the new Easter initiative video that the church has put out. If you haven't seen it yet, go watch it!! (Then share it with someone!)

This week has been so good! Tuesday we were SO BUSY. Even with the bikes we were late to the stuff in the evening. It was so good to be able to teach so much! We saw Roger and he is so excited to be baptised this Saturday, almost as excited as we are for him to be baptised!! Please keep him in your prayers. He has overcome a lot and continues to rely on the Lord.

Wednesday we were in London for Zone Conference. We left early so that we could eat breakfast at a place called the Cereal Killer Cafe. They have any cereal you could imagine, with flavoured milk, and toppings! It was unreal and my love for cereal is at an all time high. (And not because it's the only thing I can cook, I learned how to make curry!) Zone Conference was all about the Saviour, and it was incredible. Sometimes I catch myself almost in tears when I think about how much He has done for us and the opportunity that gives each one of us to change. We have an infinite amount of second chances, isn't that something?! I have learned A LOT in the past year and a half, in fact, A LOT is an understatement. But out of everything my relationship with my Saviour is the thing I value most, the thing I rely on most, and the thing I hope I share the most. As I've thought about this Easter season something I said a couple weeks ago was made real and now I know that a lot of doctrines and principles and programs in the church can really make make a difference, but only the atonement can change our nature. I hope more than anything that it's changing mine to who he wants me to be. As we see more and more success we can feel Him standing beside us and guiding the work. How grateful we are for Him.

Well this is turning into a long email, so to sum it up, the rest of the week was normal, but great of course! Sister Haynie and I sang 2 musical numbers this week, one at the relief society birthday dinner and another in sacrament meeting. She makes me sound really good. (I'm still terrified to sing in front of people, I could talk and teach all day but something about singing is horrifying, or maybe just my singing is horrifying 😬)

Also, a less active said my "look alike" animal is a Manatee...... They are also known as sea cows.... #thatsembarrassing

I love this gospel, I love the Lord, and I love all of you!!!!
Your favourite missionary,
Sister Wright

#Hallelujah

Cereal Killer Cafe, London

Train foot high-5 with Sister Haynie

Normal is good right?

Hey!

So this will probably be pretty short cause it's been a super normal
week, but no news is good news right? Don't get me wrong, as always we
have seen miracles. But none like Roger. However he is doing great and
is scheduled to be baptised on March 19! He loves everything we teach
and is whole heartedly accepting everything. It doesn't mean he
doesn't have trials, he has had a hard time giving up smoking and
coffee, but he recognises that the Lord is there for him. He has such
trust in the Saviour and does his best in everything and can see the
Lord working in his life. The ward has played a huge part in his
conversion so far. It's so comforting to see when people other than
the missionaries save him a seat and talk to him and walk with him to
classes. We couldn't do it without them!

We are teaching a lady named Angela who is from New Jersey!! She grew
up over here, but moved across the pond when she got married. She
comes back here for 5 months every year to be with her mum. She is
friends with a member and the member brought her to church the last
two weeks!! We are going to see them on Saturday to have dinner and
teach Angela a little more so that's exciting!

Yesterday was Mother's Day! So happy day to all the mum's in 'Merica!
(Who says you can't be celebrated twice?!) the primary children sang
and handed out flowers yesterday at church. They handed one to all the
mum's then I guess decided we didn't fit into any category so gave us
a flower too. 😂 it was pretty funny, but brightens up our flat!

Well as you all know, I love this work and I love the gospel, and most
of all I love my Saviour! Go find a miracle today!!

Love you all!!

Your favourite missionary,
Sister Wright

Mum's Day in England 3.6.16 They thought we  should get a flower

Happy Birthday Nanny-Roo!!

You are always on my mind!