Hey!!!

Well not much happened this week cause it rained all week long!!!!!!!! But these are some pics from last week. We hit up a famous park here it was sick. But we were with a weird dude that kept making us take pictures of plants. hahah he was a freak, but he was just trying to be nice. But annoying. But nothing happened this week and i dont have time to write you guys haha. anyways i love you tons. ill write you better next week. Im doing fine. Im not dead. So i guess thats cool :) miss you guys. love me.

Elder Wright.

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Elder Big D Wright

YOOOOOOOOOO

Yo what up family and dear friends. so thanks for all the emails and thanks for everything you guys rock!!!!!

well shoot anyways this week was nuts. We got back from zone conference just a couple days ago, that was all bomb and all that stuff but im glad to be back. In zone conference we learned a ton, so when i say that i mean kinda. haha. But it was good and im glad we had it, especially cause sister nechiporov made taco soup. THE BOMB. haha i sure miss moms cooking right about now haha. Dad always said i would and yes.... I do. yup yup yup. Anyways this last saturday we had a branch christmas party which was pretty sweet, but it was weird for me cause we have christmas on the 25th and they have theirs on the 7th of jan. way funky. But it was fun we had a ton of food and we had a ton of people there, im pretty sure there was around 40 people there so that was nice. Im glad they all showed up, at the party there was dancing games and we did a small talent show. and guess what i had to do....???? well somehow they heard a childrens song. you know ( my bonnie lies over the ocean my bonnie lies over the sea . ) ya well someone heard that and they all chanted me up untill i sang it for them. haha it was rediculous. so i sang for them and they all freaked out and theyall loved it. I never thought i would ever sing that song again, way funny but whatever. Its all good. so they had a good time. But then we had a few more people show up to church because of it, we had 28 at church and we even had a baby blessing. They asked me to stand in the circle and i had to tell them how to do it. They have never done a baby blessing before, so i had to show them how which is weird cause i have never done one either but i have seen plenty of them. The kid was so stinking cute i wanted to bring him home haha. But that was nice and it brings a different kind of spirit into the sacrament hall. That was nice. But sunday was good i had to teach priesthood, we started the new year and we are teaching out of the george a. smith teachings of the prophets book. And i was reading it and he was a stud. it was a really good chapter, he did alot in his life and if you havent read it you should. it was great. The past couple weeks i have been realizing how much better my Russian has been getting. I finally hit the point where i can pretty much understand anything in church in the street. well as long as they dont use slang. if they start using slang im a gonner. but its nice to finally understand and be able to speak like i want to. Im not perfect by anymeans but i can get around :) anyways i recieved some letters at zone conferance from the kids and from Robin. And i even got a package from uncle todd!!! how bomb is that. So thanks uncle todd  your the bomb. All the letters gave me a huge boost and now i have some energy in my step. not going to lie i was pretty much out of energy. But letters always help you realize everyone back at home loves you and are cheering you on. that helps a ton. so thanks everyone. And im pretty i laughed so hard i cried reading robins letter to me. oh my gosh her letters are the bomb. haha. so you guys will be getting letters soon. when i say soon i mean in like 2 months haha. hopefully it doesnt take that long. :) anyways i better go. I love you guys. Me and my comp are going on a tour around sochi today with a dude. It should be fun. and we are going to see Stalin's Villa.the place where Stallin chilled for the weekends. So that will be interesting. oh and so last night me and my companion whent to a members house and got lost trying to find it haha. but we got there and the member has a young grandson and they are way poor and they do so much for the missionaries so guess what we did. We took the toys that we got from christmas and we gave them to the kid. He loved them and his favorite wast he lego war robot that sam sent to me. :) He was so happy it was awesome to watch. It was definately the best part of the week. anyways wish me luck. I love you guys and miss you guys. :) peace!!!


love me. Elder Big D.



Elder Big D Wright

Hey Everyone!!!!

What up!1/?? well nothing much is happenin here. Thanks everyone for the emails they are dope and they save missionaries from their madness. So thanks. :) well happy late Birtday to dad. i think he is old enough to write a will, hopefully the corvette is going to his favorite son.:) Just kidding dad. Well anyways this last week was nuts and it wasnt very productive at all, but we did some fun stuff for example. We got lost for a couple hours, we did some member hunting and also got lost hahah, were stranded home for the new years holliday craziness here in Russia, and then we are getting challenged today to a basketball showdown with some russian punks. I will destroy them. The only good russian basketball player is A. K. and he sucks now. so it should be fun haha. But really this week was pretty fun. it flew by and im pretty sure the rest of it will fly by too. Just seems like yesterday i was skyping you. That was fun not going tolie. But it made me soooooo trunky hahaha .Everyone is gettting so big!!!! oh oh oh!!! I formally congratulate uncle joe on his new found glory!!!! Congrats SEND ME PICTURES!!!!!!!  i heard it is so sick!!! anywyas we will have to call dads truck and joes truck the twin sisters. :) thats so cool. haha im so excited for it and im on the other side of the world!!!! haha. Good on ya mate!!! well shoot back to stuff. This week was pretty cool, we did find a new investigator named michael. And he was looking through family pictures and he saw a picture of Amber Martin ( one of my best friends) and he wants me to hook him up with her and invite her to sochi ahhaha . So amber if you want to come to sochi russia and get hooked up with a 70 yr old come on over hahaha. its so funny, he asked me to send a picture home even this week and he even combed his hair for it hahahhaha!!!!!! i was llaughing so so sososoososos hard. I about peed my pants. ill attach the picture so funny. But ya this week was fun we had to stay inside for new years eve and new years day. so we cleaned our "poop" apartment and we studied a little and watched some movies. so it was pretty cool i guess. and we also made me a cake for my 2 year anniversary of going to the mtc haha. funny eh? That seems like forever ago but at the same time it only seems like yesterday we whent to the mtc and dropped me off. Weird.  Ya the cake was the one mom sent me for my b day. we finally got the cake mix out and did it. And the cake was bomb! so good. so we had a good time :) new years is the biggest holliday for Russians so they go all out. it was nuts they had fireworks going on all night long. i had to turn on music to go to sleep. it sounded like a war wasgoing on outside. butit was fun. president let us stay up and welcome in the new year. so that was cool but it threw off my groove and i have been doggin it everywhere. :S but ill live.Sunday i had a talk in church. I gave a talk about the sabbath, it whent well i told everyone in the branch that they need to be better about feeding the missionaries haha :) they got a good kick out of it. Iwas dead serious about it though haha. and last night we had a lesson with a member and she fed us and we read the story about how the hymn "silent night" came to be. its actuallly a really cool story and you all should read it. Its way interesting. anywyas so this week was pretty good. And by the way for aunt laurena yes my keyboard is in russian. But there are small english letters on the keyboard also. :) so im pretty sure kyle will be fine. anyways i got to jet. my computer is telling me i have about 30 seconds to get off :) anyways i love you all next week is going to be crazy i have more trains to ride. ill pretty much be gone tilll saturday. joy. more trains. anyways love you thanks for the emails. :)

love you


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Elder Big D Wright

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