Why does everything in Russia smell like onions?!‏

Seriously though! Why does it all smell like onions haha. JK JK no but for real i was just walkin around and it smelled just like onions! It made me laugh cause i knew that i was going to tell youthat the first sentence in my letter home :) haha. Well shoot anyways im kickin it in Sochi with myew companion and we are having a blast. We went down to the beach today and took some piccs and threw some rocks in the water to make all the fisherman mad haha. they were pretty ticked. But we have had some fun already. And we have a baptism this sunday. And the cool thing about everything is that she wants to be baptised in the sea. So ya thats what were doing and were going to pick out a place tomorrow with a member. so its going to be waycool and im way exxxxxcited. it will be sweet. So anyway, we left rostov wednesday night and we rode a train down to krasnodar. The first area i served in when i came to russia the first time. It was really weird going there. I had some mixed feelings walking into the train station. It was way funky ill tell ya. But im over it now. Then we spent the night in Kransodar with the elders there. Then we got up at 4 30 and caught our train and we got to sochi around noon and got to the apartment and dumped off my bags and went to get my butt registered in sochi. Which is kinda scary cause we have church members do all the legal stuff since we dont speak russian perfectly. And the register here in sochi is 83. hha and he only has one good eye so a 83 year old dude is running around with my passport for a couple days. hahaha. THat would be way funny if something happend then i would get sent out to moscow to the embassy for  while. haha. that would be sweet. Well shoot then thursday i met with the girl who is getting baptised. SHe is 25 and she is awesome. She is going to be a great member and im glad she is getting dunked.  She will be the first baptism here in sochi in 4 years. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Crazy huh! ya thats a way long time. hopefully we will find some more people down here. There are currently 3 investigators that have some potential. So hopefully everything goes well with that. ill have to tell you about that later though. alright then friday we had some meetings with some other investigators that i dont remember their names. but they were pretty cool. but then sunday we had church of course and its a small branch. i counted a whole whopping 19 people at church. it was pretty wussy not going to lie. especially when there are 150 members here in sochi!!!!! so we have our work cut out for us here in sochi. since everyone here is travelers we dont really teach on the street. So we are stuck with finding members. its not bad at all but its just annoying sometimes. But ya after church we had a member meeting . And we got there and the members house was literally not lying to you 10 feet by 20 ft. It was tiny but she said its just a apartment they rent in the winter time. i guess they live in rostov, but she is an amazing piano player! She playes professionally for the ballet. Cool eh? ya and she is making me sing in church. but at least she is letting me pick what im singing. ill be singing abide with me tis even tide. the dopest hymn out there. :) its my fav. ya anyways but we were at her house and she fed us. well more like she shoveled food in our mouths with a pitch fork!!!! There was so much food that it was redculous!!!! haha i felt so sick afterwards. aklsjd;flajsdlf;kajlfjsl it was really tastey but it wasnt good after the 4th or fith bowl!!!  wow. They think the missionaries starve or something i swear. but it was way nice. Im pretty sure the people that help the missionaries are getting blessings dumped on them :) So it was way nice of her. But then today we walked around sochi taking pics and messing around. This place is so amazing!!!! Its so pretty i have  never seen anything like it. If anyone wants to come to russia and be in the tropics this is the place to go. No wonder the olympic commitee picked this place! its amazing! wow. Well anyways ill attach some pics and all that good stuff. so ya today after this we are going to chill at home and write some letters. ya so thats the crazy first week in sochi. Hopefully there will be a ton more.!!! President must like me to have sent me down here.:) anyways i love you all. i best be getting gone. :)

Love you all

Drive fast and take chances

-- 
Elder Big D Wright

Hey guys

Well shoot this week was pretty lame! Jk it was actually really cool :) we had a lot of fun and we did alot of stuff! My comp and i went to the big market and bought some winter gear. Its starting to get pretty old around here so we bought some gloves and hats and stuff. haha my comp bout a huge shapka. the big russian hats. haha. dont worry ill get some for everyone before i get back. haha its pretty funny though. its huge. haha. but ya thats what we did last pday. k so let me run through our week for ya since it was rediculous. k monday we went to the market and spent all day out there. then had family night and did that. Tuesday president asked us to take sister price. (the lady in the office) to the huge mall an hour away and keep her safe and translate for her all day. so we partied at a mall all day!!! ahah it was the bomb. we went into a furniture store and tried out all the couches. it was the bomb then she bought us all ice cream haha. Felt like America in there. But that was dope and in the mall there was a legos shop and they have a huge Russian Stacking doll life size made out of legos! so dope ill attach it t the end of the email. I bet sam will like it haha. what a nerd :) Then Wednesday we had 2 meeting. one with Irina our last baptism and her son David he is getting baptised the 19th. That was good then we went back to my old area severny and had a family night with my favorite family there the Semenenkos. They are so cool So that day was bomb. Then We got a call that night and found out that another senior couple was coming up from krasnodar so that they could get all winterized. So we  were told we would be translators again for the next day. So Thursday we went to subway :) then went to the market and bought i swear a million things which is embarrasing here. It was just really funny cause we have the only good market place. So when sister potter. (the couple that came up from krasnodar) saw the market she turns to all of us and yells! YYEEEASSSSS ITS MY TIME TO GO SHOPPING!!! haha just imagine a shopoholic woman kept from a market/mall for 7 months. haha ya well thats her so we went nuts. i bet they spent 500 bucks haha. it was crazy and we got tons of funny looks from everyone there. It was pretty cool though. Then after that they made us dinner for helping them all day. Then Friday,l yesterday we had a halloween party with the branches here in Rostov. that was thebomb!! haha ill attach some pics from the party. But i was in charge of musical chairs. so i got on the computer and downloaded some BOSTON!!1 haha we played musical chairs to the song SMOKIN!!! it was a stinking RIOT!!! it wa soooooo fun hahah it made want to listen to old school rock all day.!!! so bomb. we did that had a talent show i did nothing haha. then we had bobbing for apples, cookie makeing, doughnut eating and running around having a blast. haha i gave vampire teeth out to the little girls in the branches and i got a pic with them. Ill attacht that too. it was a blast. haha im sure going to miss Rostov. So here next week im getting shipped down to Sochi. Thats a 11 hour train ride south. THats like driving to california!!! gee its a long ways away from Rostov. I could die and no one would know about it.! but thats kinda cool too i guess :) haha ya so ill be at the black sea pimping it up doing my thing with my dope native companion. His name is Elder Reingard. He is the bomb. so ya Ill definately take some pics for you. And ill visit the place where they will be holding the skiing part of the olympics and ill send you pictures. it will be cool. but ya today we are translating for a elder from the quorrum of the 70 :S!!!!! yikes. its cool to be translating for the dude but its way scary to mess up. which is a guarantee. im not a native speaker yet. yikes so im scared. but oh well it will be alright. ya there is a huge europe east are conferance her and i have to help translate with my comp. all the europe east area leaders and mission leaders will be there :S ya im scared ahhaa. oh well. so anyways that will be interesting.then tomorrow we have a leaving party for elders swallow and Nancollas at presidents house. I think thats another reason president is sending me south is to get me away from elder nancollas leaving. cause he knows we are best friends and he doesnt want my thoughts going home on the plane with nancollas. ya.... so im pretty bumed. but on the other hand im going to sochi. so ya thats the bomb :) ya shoot well thats about it. i wrote alot today.. my bad. anyways i love you all. have fun be safe dont die. :)

 

love you

 

 

Elder wright.

 

Pics

first one is the district here in rostov haha we have a good time.

The next is me and all the pimary girls in rostov. The one on the left asked me to baptise her when she turns 8. But thats in 2 years so ya. she is still pretty mad at me... yikes.... haha

The next is the dopest dudes in rostov getting ready for a halloween party haha :)

Enjoy cause we are so good looking i should charge you guys for these pics. haha

-- 
Elder Big D Wright

Hey, What's Up!

Alright well this week was a bitter sweet week huh? ya well Im sure glad that our family is in the church thats what i have to say. I guess i didnt really realize how dope our family is cause we all go to church every week. We all have callings of some sort and we all know the one thing that matters most. God loves the smokes out of us! Thats why he gave us all the chances in the world to progress be happy and in the end party it up with him in his house. haha im so thankful for you guys being good and staying in the church. you are the best family in the world. lets all try a little harder to be better so we can see Angel Grandma again :) Im pretty sure her spirit is around us all the time. Dont you love that!? Now since we have her (the big guns) im pretty sure were all going to make it back. :) What a wonderful lady. I love her so much. But now she's with Grandpa and thats awesome:)

Well this week was pretty good until two days ago. transfers are coming up and guess what. Im getting transfered out of the office. I guess i was just way to good for the office. haha no jk. But they are kicking me out and throwin me out to Sochi. haha!!!! ahhhh yeeahh. Sochi is a tight place but i wasnt ready to leave Rostov. ESPECIALLY cause my comp and I set another baptismal date last night with our investigator David. He is Irinas (the one that just got baptised) kid. He is 19 and he is the bomb. So he is getting baptised the 19th of November. Too bad ill be long gone by then. :( but oh well it will be alright. He still counts as a baptism for me :) he is so cool. We are taking him to the market today so i can go buy a shapka!! one of those russian hats haha. So ya thats what im going to be doing today. He is way cool and he is getting really close to being ready to be baptised. but not just yet. so im way excited for that.

Ya but so ill be heading to sochi at the begining of next month. President changed my transfer the day he told me. Originally i was goiing to still be in the office but then he decided i was cool and that he liked me and sent me to the warmest place in the mission for the winter :) haha president is the bomb. He is hooking me up way hard core with sochi. it is the place to be here in our mission so im stoked for it. Ya so thats the big news for this week and all that good stuff. Thanks for all the b day wishes.! President called me on my b day and sang to me with his wife and daughter. Not the best song i have ever heard but it was way cool that they remembered. Well he better remember cause me and sister nechipirova share the same bday cool huh :P ya anyways that was fun to have the same bday with her. and sister price had me over for dinner and gave us apple pie!!! agghhhh it was the best! so ya birthday week was the bomb.

ya so this week was good. I love you guys tons. Keep up the partying. Do lots of dumb stuff. But not too dumb. 

 drive fast and take chances :)

love me

Elder Big D Wright

Check this out i made the front page of the news paper here in Rostov. The whole aticle is talking about is if we are just missionaries or are we CIA agents hahah :) And me and my comp are the face of us now haha. funny huh? And they have President Nechipirov on the next page too. haha just thought i would share that with you.

http://www.info-prav-centr.com/index.php/tv-prog/81-tv4/876-2011-10-19-07-57-40

HEY

Hey well another week has flow by. The mission is good and is treating me well. I got over my flu bug and now im back in the office burning up the keyboards like a good office missionary haha. lame, but oh well what can a guy do?. So everything has settled down and not much has been happening since the baptism. Life is back to normal except for zone conference on thursday. that was alright. the best part about it was good food for lunch. Sister Nechiporova made mashed potatoes and Meat loaf. way good. And since i was sick she gave me and my comp the extras to take home. SCORE! haha that was nice cause we dont cook that good at all. haha. we are on a meager diet of missionary 5 second meals haha. Which isnt horrible but isnt amazing either. :) but oh well. And while on the street the other day a subway worker was on the streets handing out ads and she gave me and my comp a handful of 50% off of the menu ads so we went to subway and drank MT DEW!!haha  that was the bomb. Mt. Dew is a sign from God that he exists and that he loves us. I think the first presidency should come out with that statement and make it scripture :) So all in all you can tell how the experience was :) But other than that we have been working with Irina which she is doing good. She went to conference and she loves President Monsen. She said she laughed way hard when he first spoke. President monsen is the bomb! what a stud. Anyways conferece was great. Us missionaries had to watch it on a laptop in the office and stream it from online. but that alright it still turned out good. On sunday we ended up watching conference for 6 hours in a row with conference and priesthood session. wow that was a long time. but it was good and Elder Holland threw down the hammer! Holy smokes! haha what a stud. If you didnt listen to that one you need to . cause it was way good. Well shoot im glad i got to see conference finally.

well i guess im about through with writing.  there isnt much to tell you about me. cause nothing is new. haha. Well shoot im outta here.

Love you tons.

Drive fast and take chances.

-- 
Elder Big D Wright

What Up/ One Year Mark!

so pretty much i dont have that much time to email you cause i have been emailing you guys for forever hahah! well i love all of you and i hope everything is going well :)

dont die.

drive fast and take chances.

--
Elder Big D Wright

HEY

Hey so the baptism was a success! It went good and i baptized her and it was bomb :) haha love you all ill talk to you guys next week :)

 

love me

-- 
Elder Big D Wright

HEY

well im not going to write much at all. cause ....... uh i dont know. i guess there isnt much to tell.. Irina is getting baptised today at six. My comp and i went and cleaned the baptismal font last night . we scrubed and scrubed the sucker white hahah. it was gross. but it looks good now. Well the weather is getting way cold and we are almost ready to wear coats. which by the way i bought my winter coat. I now look like Russian mafia. ill have to send you a pic next week. Ya but its pretty sick! hahah . Me and my comp are doing well. Contacting isnt working anymore on the steets. we contacted yesterday for 3 hours and litterally talked to 1 person. No one would even stop and talk to us. pretty funny i guess. but i have had worse days than that. The office is going good. I have to do monthly reports monday :s not looking forward to that but thats ok. transfers arnt till the first of November so i think my companion is leaving the office and ill be taking his spot as executive secretary. which will be crazy :s uggh. but oh well. hopefully i make it through the winter in the office that would be dope. Ya but today we are going to be busy getting ready for the baptism. Crazy cool that she is getting baptized. many long hours of preparing her for this step is finally coming to a close :) way dope. hopefully everything is going to go well. Oh ya there is going to be two babtisms today. anoter set of elders have a baptism as well. so that will be cool to have two in the same day :) well shoot im not too sure what else to tell you guys. Thanks for all the emails and thanks for all the loves and letters. :) they are what keeps a missionary going! seriously. you guys are the bomb. tell kyle congrats and good luck! tell him to take lots of mt. dew into the mtc. that stuff is gold in there. hahah :) me and him will be alot closer here in february:) that is so sick Bancock are you serious hahah! thats awesome.! tell him congrats. tell him not to get stomach worms haha. k sweet im outta here. love all of you. dont die or anything.

 

Drive fast and take chances. Except Robin.

If you dont know why you should text her and find out why hahah :)

love all of you
-- 
Elder Big D Wright