Hey!!

well it was good to talk to you guys!!!! You guys looked good and it seems that everyone is having a great christmas!~ im glad :) i just hope everyones was better than mine cause i got a call at 1130 christmas eve from my land lady and she said that the apartment was flooded with 3 inches of poooooooooo!!!!! Nasty man nasty but its all good and we cleaned it up pretty good and hopefully it doesnt get all stinky :) anyways but my christmas was nuts and crazy. haha i was just running around like a chicken with my head cut off, but we had fun :). But ya i had a visa trip this week and i whent to Maryupole. A place just a couple hours away from Rostov. So the mission driver took us to the border and back but we had to walk across the border and we got stuck on the border for around 2 hours freezing our little butts off. It was way cold, but in the end we got across the border thanks to some random dude. he showed up got us across without a problem and dissapeard. i swear he was one of the 3 nephites. it was way nuts not going to lie. but we got across the border and after i crossed i noticed that one of the ladies stole some of my papers out of my passport. so i had to hike back tothe border and ask for my papers. so after another 30 min i got my papers back from the wench that stole them. she needs beat up. but it was crazy and im still alive thank goodness with all my toes. but christmas eve we had a party at the branch building in krasnodar and we got the zone together and had lunch. We had roast beef and potatoes and all that good jazz. then we had a talent show. I read the story of Rindercella. if you havent seen it look it up on youtube. im pretty sure its on there. ya but then we finished the night by singing for the branch there we sang jingle bells of course. they loved it. then we hit the sac and got on a train christmas morning at 530 and got to sochi at noon thirty then we cleaned up the poop mess haha. not too cool eh? ya but other than that you all know but ill attach some pictures. i love you guys. tell john and jamie congrats!!! thats so cool!!! the bomb :) i love all you guys i hope christmas was bomb! 

love me.

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Elder Big D Wright

Whats up

Well shoot everyone, how are you? Well im doing alright, im not doing to bad just chillin in the warmest place to be in russia during the winter time. So i dont have too much to complain about. >:) But this week has been pretty hectic and i dont like it too much. I have been on a train half the week and next week ill be doing the same thing all over again. bummer. But thats alright, whatever works i guess. I have to go back to ukraine for another visa trip. Gee time flies eh? it just seems like yesterday i was in kieve at the temple, but the trip this time isnt going to be as cool. we are going to the border and back with the mission driver. So that should be pretty painless, well hopefully. So anyways this week was transfers as you already know i think........ anyways and i picked up my new comp elder Roberts from north ogden. He is a stud , he rides motorcycles,snowboards and he even likes country music. ha.... thats very very important. jk. No but he is a stud and we are going to have a fun time. But the highlight of the week was his first hour out of our apartment door he had pretty much prostitutes trying to do  buisness with us, and 3 drunk russians tried to party with us and give us vodka cause were americans and i guess since were americans we have to try russian vodka. And they grabbed him and tried to drag him over to the bench to have some hahha. then me the senior companion pulled out my numchukcs and beat them down and we rode off into the sunset. not together just walking side by side. :) hahah. anyways we had some crazy first days together. but the best thing about this week was today, we had mcdonalds and while we were sitting there these two ugly russian girls kept staring at us and giggling like dummies and so i gave them the FIG. so let me explain the fig. the fig is a hand gesture where you put your thumb in-between your pointer finger and your middle finger and it just looks funny. But In russian it pretty much means (bahha you suck) haha so i gave the girls the fig and we left :) haha it was hillarious you should have seen their faces. it was awesome. anyways but the week was hectic and not that cool. And next week isnt going to be as great either except for getting to skype you guys. and i sure hope it works!!! If not oh well, my companion has a new ipod with skype on it and we can try it on that. It seems to work alright but not as good as a computer of course. so ill probably most likely be skype'ing you sunday night at 9 or 10 AM utah time. since you guys are 11 hours behind us it will be night time for me. But i will for sure tell you a more exact time later. anyways i better get going. enjoy the picture. i thought you guys would enjoy it. 

MERRY STINKING CHRISTMAS

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Elder Big D Wright

HEY!!!!

Hey all you funny looking people. :)

Its really cool to be able to email all of you. its really dope not going to lie. So this week was really good, we did lots of work and we got a lot done. But for some reason the most important stuff didn't get done. It really makes me mad!!!! Like, we have an investigator name Armen, he is married to a member here and they are expecting a baby! So he is really excited for that and he wants to be sealed in the temple, so he will be getting baptized i just don't know when. That's why we had 2 appointments this week with them to set a date for baptism. And guess what......... they all fell through!!! First his wife got sick so they had to go to the hospital, then his mom was here and family comes first so that didn't work tooo well. Ya, so we didn't set a date with him. ya . anyways so that was the bummer of the week. But i do have some really cool news. Transfers are wednesday and president is hooking me up with a greenie straight from the mtc. so ya im pretty stoked about that one. His name is Elder Roberts, and he will be getting into Russia tomorrow night, and I'll meet him in krasnodar on wednesday :) so thats pretty sick. so that will be interesting. Well Iwas glad to hear that the christmas parties went well and that no one died at our crazy wright family parties. haha :) i sure do miss those parties. You guys sure are alot of fun:) so what else happened. oh ya, i about died from being fed to death!!! haha we were at a members house last night cause they needed the sacrament. They have been sick for a while, so we went over there and they fed us hot dogs, soup, and sour kraut.!!! sorry if thats not the way you spell it.l but it was awesome! Almost as good as grandpa wrights sour kraut. it was awesome!! I started putting it on the hot dogs and eating it and they gave me the funniest looks ever hahah. i almost died laughing. literally, i started choking and almost threw up ahha :) but it was great. But it made me miss you guys alot. not the throw upping part but the thinking about grandpa and stuff. made me trunky! hahha sad to say but i have been having trunky thoughts lately. sorry but its christmas time and there is no way getting around it! but shoot this week we have been working with posters on the steet lately contacting. and it is the bomb!! We had 10 steet lessons this week and we gave away 6 BOM's so that was way cool and way more effective than just walking around the city aimlessly. And the people seem to like it, even if they dont want to talk i give them christ pictures and everyone loves christ so they at least take the picture. So maybe they will see those later and call us up. Seeds , seeds, seeds, and more seeds :) haha thats alright though. But this week was really good. I'm glad cause last week sucked. This week we got like 20 feet of rain and we about drowned. Hahah. but its alright, i can swim. sorry this email is so random. I just keep getting random thoughts and typing them. so hopefully you get something out of this e-mail haha :) but anyways i'm doing fine. I did open the package and i did steal the decorations out of it. and i might have opened sams present to me!! hahha so awesome!!!! Now i have a lego action figure next to my alarm clock!! so cool! Thanks sam!!! your the best. so ill save the rest of them for christmas but i couldn't help but snoop haha :) anyways i better get going. i love all of you. I'll attach some pics from last pday we went hiking in the mountains with the youth from our branch. its way cool. love you :)

dont die.

love me.

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Elder Big D Wright

Rostov Chronicles (November Mission News Letter)

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Hey, What the heck!

Hey everyone, thanks for the e-mails! They are the bomb and they are part of the life blood of a missionary, so thanks! :) well shoot this week was pretty good. Well reaally boring but really good. We had thanks giving. Me and my comp and we cooked turkey and mashed potatoes. That was pretty good. so we had a party ourselves :0 it was good. :) And another cool thing we did was we booked some tickets for a Big band jazz concert! It was the bomb!!!!!!! we had so fun and the band that playes was awesome!!!! They were so good, and they played that one song off of the old chips ahoy comercials. hahah i was freaking out it was awesome haha i knew it would make dad jealous so i had to tell you guys ahha. but all in all it was one of the coolest things we have done in a long time.

But other than that sochi has been really really rainy lately! Kind of a bummer. Especially on missionary work outhere. When the weather is bad the work is bad, unfortunately. But the people all are running around trying to get out of the weather and when we go knocking they wont let us in cause they think they will get sick. All in all Russians are wusses.. Kinda ticks me off a lot. But what can you do, so what else happened this week.......... Not really much happend. Just been tripin out of my mind cause Elder Nancollas decided to be a bum on me and go home so that kinda mademe really really .... really x 10 trunky. So this week has been creeping pretty slow. Good thing we had some good stuff to do to distract me, cause it was way slow not going to lie. Ya but anyways i love the smokes out of you all. Well im glad that you guys got to see him at his welcome home. thats way cool of you guys to goout there :) He is a stud. Well shoot anyways the branch in sochi is probably the worst branch i have been in. Its one of the branches if i lived here in Russia and i lived in the branch here i would stop going to church. Pretty lame not going to lie. so my comp and i talked to the branch president and his councelor and we gave them a bunch of tips . its probably really bad to do that but we did cause it needs help. We told him to get some branch missionaries goin to get the non actives back.there are 120 people on the branch list and 21 came to church sunday. so he decided to call 5 branch missionaries and a coordinator. So thank goodness he agreed with us. So hopefully by the time i get outof sochi there will be a branch of 30 maybe 40.. hopefully. it really needs it bad. ya but the branch president is a way cool guy he just doesnt knowwhat todo. His calling would be very hard and i feel for him. Especially when there is such a big task at hand, poor guy but it needs done. Ya so that was our week really frustrating but really cool at the same time. I hope everyone else had a better week than mine. But being honest it wastn too bad. well shoot ilove you guys tons. Be good. Dont die. :)

love Me.

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Elder Big D Wright