Whats Up :)

So how are you all? im doing good. Just chilling here in sochi. :) Like always 

Anyways so this week was rather dull. Well other than the fact that i met a very interesting person at church. Dan Merkley decided to show up to sochi branch yesterday. if you don't recognize the name he is the actor from the notorious LDS film Baptists at our BBQ. ha ha weird huh? ya anyways he just showed up from nowhere and now he is living in sochi . He works for the Olympic committee for the winter games coming up so he has to be here. so ya ill be translating for him in church for a while. Well untill i get shipped out haha. so thats kinda cool. I was just sitting in church then one of the members came tyo me and asked " there is a guy here. is he your investigator? " so i looked and i saw him. And i knew who he was, but i didnt want to say anything. Its weird cause we watched that movie on p day last week. so i knew him right away and we shook hands and we got introduced and all that and he told me what he was doing. so ya Mormon star in sochi haha. funny. He is a cool guy

anyways this week nothing much happened. We had family night on tuesday and i almost destroyed a dude. He is notorious for ruining lessons. He is  a 25 yr old with a "so called desire" to research all gospels. Anyways he showed up to family night and ruined my lesson and ruined a potential investigator witin 30 minutes. He inturrupted the lesson and started telling me i was lying about my own religion so he started to go off telling everyone about the church and about what we believe. He was about 80% correct but 20% was just wack! But thats how the devil works. He will tell almost the whole truth but at the end when he has you believing him he will just tell a little white lie that no one catches and through small and simple means does he carefully guide the children of men down to hell. ya so that was going through my mind the whole time while he was talking and as soon as that came through my mind i inturrupted told him not to inturrupt and i told everyone if they want to know about church teachings and doctrines to ask the people with nametags. He gave me a dirty look and i gave him the "say one more thing and ill kick your trash" i was so mad. But ya that ruined the lesson and then we tried to salvage the night but it wasnt very good. so we ended up just giving up and leaving. night ruined. :S poop. anyways that was the frustrating thing for the week..

But the rest of the week was alright. Nothing bad to report. We woke up this morning with more white snow on the ground. it snowed another inch :) ilove snow. haha. anyways. i best be going. We are having fun. My companion is a stud and we tell scary motorcycle stories to each other haha. we have fun. anyways sorry but no pics this week :) im out. i love you all 

Dont die.

love me

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Elder Big D Wright

Zone Conf. Week

Well this week was zone conference and ill cut to the chase :) i got dressed up and got makeup put on me gross! the sisters had a talk about the spirit and missionary work and they worked it into makeup somehow and i didnt really listen i was too busy trying to get the devil paste off of my face to listen. Nasty. haha But zone conf was in krasnodar where it was a lovely - 15 degrees. l;asdkjfaklsdjf;laskdfjlaskdfjlaskdfjlsd Ya it was cold and we had to wear hoodies underneath our coats. But it was alright. In krasnodar we also bought new beds to take down on the train. The mattresses were rolled up and in vaccum bags and they were tiny. So we bought some new beds cause our old beds were nasty. Think about having two beds in a apartment for 5 yrs with stinky sweaty elders sleeping in them every night. ya nasty. so we begged for new beds and we got them :) haha lucky us. then we headed back to sochi where the sun is out and the birds are still chirping. today is probably a nice 35 degrees :) haha. Anywyas i got mom and dads package full of apple cider :0 thank you.! and i also got a letter from Kristy wright. And i got a package from janna! :) I got spoiled :) thank you everyone. and i have on question. how does everyone know im a koolaide freak? haha well you hit the spot :) thanks again. I know my family loves me :) hah

so anyways nothing else happened this week. Seriously. lame. But the A. P's are coming over tonight to spend the day tomorrow with us. so that will be fun haha. But i really dont have much to to tell you guys. But ill attach a pic of my gross devil makeup . i hope everyone gets a good laugh at it hahah i sure did. love you all 

peace.

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Elder Big D Wright

Well shoot everyone,

How is u alls.? Well im not doin to shabby ,sorry for not writing on the normal day but we had a nuclear threat so i had to run for my life before i had a chance to email you. But im still alive and i personally handled the whole threat. So ya :) But im actually doing really good cause this week we saw lots of cool stuff!

Well I guess ill start with the sick snow storm that came into sochi! Awww i miss the snow so bad! Snow is the bomb. But ya it snowed at least another 4 inches this week so my comp and i made a snow man ha :) Then some of our english club members found us and we took a pic together. That was fun. Then the next morning someone came and destroyed him. all that was left was his big butt. so now we have a huge snow butt on the street, thanks to the missionaries hahaa. And that night we found a steep street and we slid down it on our feet , we didnt have a sled :S but oh well. It was a fun day and im sure glad I got to see the snow :)

This week We have been calling the X-box guy and he has been out of town "wink wink" and he says he is busy. So that ship got sunk pretty quick, i knew that story was way toooooo cool to be true. ya but we will still invite him to family night tonight. For family night tonight we are going to have a spiritual thought about repentance for 15 min then as always we will drink some beer some vodka and whatever else we can find while playing a nice game of UNO :) haha when i mean beer and vodka i mean Fruit tea haha and we will have some other games after. So it will be fun, not going to lie i think tuesday nights are my favorite of the week cause we get to chill with the youth in the branch. way dope. Oh P.S. the girl that was baptised with Elder Reinguard and I just got hitched!!!! She met some dude from Taganrog (on the border of the sea of azof) they met at youth conference like a month and a half ago! Kinda weird but they are in Love awwwwww how sweet :) love is dumb. thats why God invented Trucks, snowboards, boats, motorcycles and x box. Im pretty sure Satin invented love and women to distract the perfectly good man to a life of endless torment and sorrow.   there is even a book floating around the mission about world religions and i was reading about a religion around the middle east that believs that women are the cause of and i quote " Mental anguish and pain" and you can quote me on the quote on quote.:) And now i am a firm believer.

But they are happy so thats all that matters :) They are a good couple. He actually just moved in with her this morning. They called us late last night and asked us to meet them at the train station and we carried all his crap from the train to the car. That was a work out. It wasnt very much fun, whoever said service makes you feel good should be put in time out. Cause it was lame. haha. but im glad he moved down and now they are together. so ya. So there is some awesome progress from our new convert Veronika. She is the bomb.

But our other investigator Armen is doing alright. His wife is pregnant and now she is back in the hospital due to complications. So we havent been able to meet with them at all. But the sisters in the branch have been going to the hospital regularly to go check up on her. My comp and i are trying to firgure out how to go with them to visit. Hopefully we can go see them soon at the hospital. ya but and also we have another new investigator Ura. He is coming to FHE and we will see if we can set up another appt this week before we head to zone conference on the 10th. So ya another 12 hours of sitting on a train to go to a conference for 3 hours. lame but they are actually pretty fun to be at cause we get to see all our buddies, and we like that cause we are marooned 6 hours away from the nearest elders. So its as good time to catch up with everyone. and this is the last time i will be able to see elder Hodson. he is leaving like the 8th or ninth of march . going back home like a looser. No bueno :) but im excited for him i just have to call him a looser so i dont get trunky. haha. He is my X companion from back in the day in Severny Rostov last summer. He came into the MTC a transfer after i did. So its really weird for hi to be going home and im still chilling here like a champ. But anyways im excited to see him.

but nothing much else has been happening. Just chillin doin work, like always. Anyways i better get going. i hope you all have a great week and ill try not to get shot this week. Have fun everyone

Drive fast and take chances

Elder Big D Wright

p.s what do you get if you mix a elephant and a rhino ? :) bahaha

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Elder Big D Wright

I think I'm finally in RUSSIA!

Well as my subject says i think im finally in russia. Cause it finally got cold!!!!!! Not way too cold but cold for this part of Russia. so ya im typing rightnow and my fingers want to fall off.!! its cold in here.

No but this week was good, we have been finding some people and we found a cool lady on the street this week with lots of potential. Enough potential it almost scares me to teach her. so ill be getting some members on the lesson with this lady. We were on the street just sign boarding. (pretty much means we have boards about the BOM and stuff explainging what it is) So we sit on the sidewalk and use those trying to get some attention. So this lady just walked up to us and started talking to us explaining that she would like to strengthen her faith and all that good stuff. :) so ya. she is cool and we are trying to set up an appointment soon. Not going to lie time has been flying by here. its crazy how that happens. oh p.s. guess what we had the senior couple come from Krasnodar tocheck up on the branch and they brought me mail. I got all the family letters from the kids and i also recieved the christmas letters from mom and dads christmas party and Grandma Bells christmas card too. what a sweet heart. i miss grandma bell. someone go give her a big hug and kiss from me. isnt she the bomb.?!@ :) oh and i got loaded from Aunt Kristy. she sent me a candy package :) so as of now she is winning the who loves dallin more contest. haha. looks like the rest of you are going to have to steop up your game. :) jk SO THANK YOU:) you guys are the bomb. And im sure lucky to have all of you guys. No one could ask for a better family. you guys rock. Everyone go watch rachel playball for me. i wish i could go. but obviously im a couple thousand miles away. :) hahah funny how that works. anyways nothing really happend this week. just the same old stuff. nothing too ground breaking. except i lost my sd card converter so i cant send you pics until i get a new one :S dumb huh. so anyways i best be going. ilove you all. peace :)

love me. Elder Big D

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Elder Big D Wright

Hey What's up

Well what up fam and friends. Well its good to finally get to write to you guys. I was just about to write you guys and then we got a call from the B Pres and he asked us to go baby sit the branch building for a while while a tech guy worked on the computer. So bummer. Anyways life here is good this week, we had some crazy things happen though. Well first off right after i finished writing you guys last week we had some extra time before work hours and so we decided to go check out the electronics at a store near by. So we whent and found a x box 360 all set up with the x box connect thinga mabob. and so me and my comp started playing the connect adventures and messing around. It was way fun haha. and while we were playing i didnt notice right away but we started getting a crowd watching us. It was weird:S but oh well right. So we were there looking like freaks dancing in the  middle of the store and we had like 15 to 20 people watching us kick trash. and then the game ended and the people left. So we started another game and while we were there looking like dummies a guy started to talk to me, and he was just talking about the game then he noticed my accent and he asked me where i was from. So i gave him the lo down on what i was doing, told him i was a missionary for the church and all that good stuff. Then he got interested so i stoped playing the game. And we talked for about 20 minutes right there around the tv section haha. i gave him a Book of Mormon. we got his number and he asked us to call him sometime this week. ha! How cool is that. Im soooo good i can get investigators while playing x box. SEE MOM I TOLD YOU PLAYING X BOX WASNT A WASTE OF TIME.  haha. so that was awesome and we are trying to get him to come to family night this tuesday. We only do it on tuesday cause everyone is working  and stuff. But it works out for us so we will keep it like that. :) Anyways so that was cool.

Well and it finally snowed down here for the first time. :) it was pretty sick.! It was like a white out for like 3 hours. And we even got a couple inches of snow, dont worry its already melted but we did manage to get some sick pics!!!! haha ill send you some. But it was way fun and it made me miss home pretty bad. I love the snow. :S oh well. Another crazy story this week just happened yesterday. We have been going to a less actives house for the past couple months cause he is kinda fat and he cant come to church. :S And he is getting old but his wife comes every week. So we take him sacrament every once in a while, and they feed us this funny looking russian soup with bottled cabbage and potatoes. :S its alright. anyways he said he had to go to the bathroom and their bathroom is outside and down the hill a bit. so he walked out there and did his buisness and started on the way back and he tripped and fell down a pit about 4 feet deep!~! He nailed his hand on sheet metal and sliced that open pretty good and nailed his knee way hard. And the whole time i was just sitting inside next to the windo just chilling. I heard something fall but i thought it was just the cats messing around outside the window. So we just kept eating then about 3 minutes later a lady started yelling at me through the window. saying " WHY ARE YOU JUST SITTING THERE!" so i said what happened? so we ran outside there to see our buddy 4 feet down all bloody and moaning! alskdjfl;akjdlkadflks so we got him out with some help from the neighbor kid and we got him inside. his knee is all messed up and his hands are all cut upt and to add to it he has a broken arm. every time he moves he about passes out. ksldjflkjalksdf . ya. so we gave him a blessing and they said that they would take him to the hospital. so we are going to be calling them here in a bit to check up. But crazy story eh?!~ way scary.

But on the way home from that apt. We were intercepted by a gang :S 8 drunk russians drinking more and eating raw fish. weird. but they gave us a hard time for a sec then they found out we were americans and they chilled out and started being funny. i think my new comp about pooped his pants. haha his face was hillariously funny. haha. :) good times. anyways they saw my comp had gum and they were asking what kind it was and my comp held out the pack to them to try some and they said no. we dont want any. then i said "Its from America|" and they about killed each other trying to get to it haha. one guy even asked if he could have another peice to give to his wife. so my comp gave them the whole pack. so funny :) i died laughing and so did they . but we ended up being friends and now i have gang member friends that said if i have any problems with anyone to call them and they will come back me up. which pretty means they will kill them and dump their bodies off into some random ditch :D hhaha. Im pretty sure were hooked up now haha. that was fun. we had a good week. We found some guys with potential. and hopefully we get some momentum rolling here in sochi. Anyways that was the week pretty much. but i best be going not much time. I love you all though. Dont die. Drive fast and take chances. :)

Love me. Elder Big D.

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Elder Big D Wright

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