The week of Gun shells and Weed

haha true to the title this week was full of gun shells and week :) so funny ill tell you the stories in a bit.


Anyways this week was pretty slow but pretty awesome at the same time. Well last monday we had a party at president N's house and we had a huge water fight! :) and i hurt my foot so that was a bummer and we had to sit at home for 2 days. lame but its feeling better now . then my companion was sick so we stayed inside for another day. I was about to shoot myself staying inside for 3 days ugghh!!! so lame i hate sitting inside, not going to lie i was pretty depressed just sitting there and when im just sitting there doing nothing i think about home so that was lame. But were better now and we are walking the streets of Rostov like missionaries should. But now were doing fine, this week while walking the street my companion and I were hungry so we decided to get some food and we got some stuff called shaurma. sounds like something that comes out of a lamma. but its actually really good its like a russian burrito. but while eating the shaurma i looked down by my feet and i noticed a bunch of Weed! haha i laughed for like 4 minutes. it was just there chillen by the sidewalk. so funny . so i took some pictures and we moved on. Then we had a big conference with all the branches in Rostov. We all gathered into the center branch and it was pretty cool . we had 212 people in attendance and i had to sing in a choir with my branch. that was scary. Also our investigator angelica was there and she brought a friend from english club also. sot that was great to have the there. But also President Lawrence from the europe east area presidency was here again and he spoke twice at conference. He did really well and he spoke all in russian which was pretty funny. but he did really well. And so we were sitting there in conference and i happened to notice a 9 mm gun shell sitting on the floor so i picked it up and some other missionaries saw me pick it up and i said " i guess someone got capped in here" haha it made everyone laugh and then a member from behind me tapped me on the shoulder and he said ' umm elder thats mine sorry i dropped it" so i gave it back to him and we all laughed. its was pretty funny. so i guess a member her is a murderer or a head hunter or something. That was interesting and to make things more awesome, ok i shouldnt say awesome how about interesting a lady fainted in the middle of the whole thing and they carried her outside. and then while outside she fainted again and she fell flat on her face. it looked like it hurt so bad. poor lady. but she is doing fine now. so conference in rostov was pretty awesome and entertaining. I also saw a ton of old investigators and a ton of my favorite members there and we talked and talked and talked. I think i was invited to dinner 3 times while there. that was fun. But that was our week and really nothing else happend. I hope next week is better and that we can find some more people to talk to.We also had transfer calls this week and my companion and i will be staying here in selmash for another transfer.. so thats the whole news of the week. Ill go to the office and add a bunch of pictures for you guys.i sure miss and love you allhave a great weekDrive fast and take chanceslove me.-- Elder Big D Wright

Well what up?!

Hey guys :)
So nothin much is going on here just sitting here on p day writing you. Skype was awsome yesterday and im glad i was able to see everyone! ahhh yeahh! haha anyways it was a good time and im glad to see that Sam is as ugly as ever :) haha  well on a different note this week was pretty alright, not very effective but it was alright. We had the 9th of may going on and its a huge party for all of Russia for the end of WWII so it was pretty nuts cause they are all into that stuff and they partied all week long so it was hard to do anything. But ill attach some pics for you guys to check out. But this week litteraly nothing happened haha :) except we had a investigator at church this week and we are meeting with her thursday to give her a baptismal commitment, so that will be sick.
 Well i was talking to the office elders about what cory said about someone from the mission going to stay with him, and they said that plans were changed and it was supposed to be the office elders staying with cory. The hotel at the finland temple was full so they were going to stay with cory for a while but i guess they found a different way to do everything. dang eh? oh well.  But anyways im finding it hard to write you guys cause we already talked yesterday haha. And nothing happened this week really, so ill send you another email full of pictures to explain the week i guess. :) i have a bunch for you and i think Dad will enjoy the millitary vehicle pics more than anyone haha :) Well i sure love all of you guys and i miss you. Go hit the lake for me and take daphne out for a spin. :)
love you guys
peace love me.
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Elder Big D Wright

VICTORY DAY

Well hello from the mother land!
So today is Victory day here in Russia! Its the day the Russians celebrate the end of the 2nd World War. And today they are throwing a nation wide party and im going to go watch it haha :) President N even said to go so we are going to go party with the russians today :) there is going to be a huge war parade with soldiers and tanks and Missile trucks and just plain missiles on trucks haha ;) so cool so cool and im going to go see it all! so bomb! Anyways thats why our P day was changed to today because we wouldnt be able to work at all today anyways, so we get to party instead of work ahhhh yeahh. So ill get some cool pics this week and send them too you. so this week was pretty lame, lots of angry people were on the street and they all yelled and threatened us all week long, it wasnt a very fun week ill just say that. But we didnt have too many problems just drunks and agry people trying to pick fights with the two americans, and it doesnt help that my companion is way tall and about as nerdy as a guy can get so we get picked out of the crowd and its pretty bad. But its ok im over it. Im still alive so thats what matters i guess :) But this last week the whole city was preparing for the big party so everyone was cleaning the streets getting the old communist flags out, planting flowers and buying lots and lots of food and beer haha :) Its going to be awesome. And because of all this partying and getting ready our work week was crap and we didnt get anything done but we did have zone conference and that was good. It was President Nechiporov's last zone conf with us and it was kinda weird cause he didnt talk much and he just sat there the whole time kinda looking depressed. So i think he is pretty sad about the whole thing, its really weird to have him leaving. But he needs to go home and take a break haha i think 3 years as a mission president would suck. ya suck. anyways nothing else has been happening really except i tought my comp how to do tin foil dinners haha. When he cooks he uses about 2 bottles of ketchup in the food and it makes me sick so i will be teaching him how to make chilli and spaghetti without all the ketchup. haha its pretty nasty .
Well the cool story of the week is awesome! So last week we gave a blessing to a crippled man who had a stroke and it messed him up way bad. he comes to church every week and he ca n barely walk so is a stud and an example for all of the members here. he shows them that no one  has an excuse not going to church. and he wanted to bear his testimony in sacrament meeting but he cant cause he cant speak very well since his stroke. so he asked for a blessing from my comp and I and i gave the blessing and told him his thoughts and mouth would work according to the will of the lord and guess what. This last sunday he came in a white shirt and tie and passsed the sacrament and he bore his testimony. It was the most awesome thing in the world. he stood up limped to the front of the podium and he bore his testimony more easier than i can. His words came out in perfect order and he didnt even stutter once. It was like he had never had a stroke. it was amazing and it was a huge testimony builder that the lord loves us and he is willing to help us com unto him and do what we need to do to help our friends families and our loved ones. everyone was teary eyed after that and it was awesome :) big smiles :)
well that was it for this week i hope you enjoyed it and i hope you like the pics :)
love you all
Love me Elder Big D
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Elder Big D Wright

Well another week gone and.... well... gone :)‏

Well shoot all my fam friends and random people that find this stuff floating around on the Internet, whats up?


well nothing much here has been happening. Im here in selmash Rostov just about 30 minutes outside of center Rostov the main mission city. Selmash has a couple Universities and tons of students running around drunk doing dumb things haha, but im pretty sure thats about the same for us in the US. :) So there are tons of young people here in selmash, and lots of them are from Africa so they are all black :) soooo coool and they are way way way way way way wayw wyawyywyywywyayywyyawyyw way nicer than the russians here, therefore i like them :). Well also my favorite part about the area is the soccer stadium here! The Rostov soccer team stadium is about 10 minutes walking distance from my house and every Thursday i can hear the roar of the crowd cheering haha :) its pretty cool but i keep a good distance between me and the soccer stadium after the games. if you dont know why just go ahead and go to YouTube and type in (soccer crowd riots) haha you will see why ahaha. but ya its funny to see cause before the game starts about 300 police officers and swat teams surround the place just in case a riot breaks out :) pretty cool to see actually haha. Well what else about my area........?........ actually my area is pretty lame not going to lie other than that, we have a good branch there are about 25-30 people that come to church every Sunday so its a pretty small branch but they have one of the nicest buildings here in our mission.we also have been meeting with a couple members and they are the bomb here. Most of our branch is actually Armenian so they all kinda look like Hispanic haha :) but they are way cooler. but nothing else too exciting. One of the few reasons i like this area is because im close to center Rostov so i can get my mail quicker haha :) the area is pretty small and the contacting loop takes about an hour and a half to get around. so we do the loop multiple times daily. of course thats no bueno but what can we do. But i am glad to be in rostov because there are lots of missionaries around so we can chill. Down in sochi i was in solitary confinement for 6 months straight. I guess president doesn't like me.  oh ya by the way i was greeting people into the branch sunday and all of a sudden President and his wife showed up and they walked in the front door and said .. surprise elder wright were here. I was like ahhh freak i hope i dont mess up the sacrament prayer haha. but sister nechiporova did give me some chocolate ahhh yeah :) well at least i know she likes me haha, but they pretty much gave their mission were going home speach and it was kinda sad. But i had a talk with him after and he is pretty trunky i think and i think its funny haha. cause he pulled me into a room and gave me the whole dont be trunky talk and i think he is telling me that cause he is reminding himself haha :) President is so awesome But i guess ill try not to get trunky. I wont though i still have a long time to go. anyways nothing much has been happening in our area. we have had a ton of lessons on the street but thats it and we got quite a few numbers as well so i really really hope we get some new investigators cause we need at leas 1000. Life is so much easier when you have investigators> cause if you have some then you dont have to walk the boiling streets of russia all day long. uggh. anyways i have to write president and all that cool stuff i love you guys tons. have a great week and ill be sure to send pictures today :) love you peace :)


love me
Elder Big D

Elder Big D Wright

DRUM ROLL PLEASE

Well shoot the time has come to tell you my release date! so here it goes.......... im still not sure haha. got ya. anyways i emailed president N about the whole deal and he is not going to be here when i leave so he forwarded my email to the new president. And he says I could go home the 28th of August, but im not sure if thats what is going to happen. I might stick it out a bit longer and go home a month later. but we will see i still need to figure it out myself. Ill let you know as soon as i know. But ya.

well my new area is LAME! But its alright. the branch is amazing so that makes up for the whole thing. But i think ill like it but there is one problem, im in rostov this summer and its already 80 degrees and the only thing we have is a fan....... ya....... pretty bad sit. but maybe if i butter up sister nechiporova and i f i get lucky i can get another fan haha. oh my gosh mission life in rural Russia is crazy. so im pretty much going to die from heat here in Rostov. so don't be mad at me if i come home looking like a skeleton because i will sweat off every single pound i have. Anyways about the area and about the area. There is currently a pool of 3 investigators which pretty much none of them will be going far soon. there is one named john who is from africa. yes i have a black investigator finally!!!! ahhh yeah. black people are so cool. anyways he has a b date for may but its not going to happen cause he needs some documentation. he came to russia durring the U.s.s.r. period and when the whole government was changed over to the existing one his papers became invalid and the government doesnt care about it so he is just stuck here. so he has been trying to get more documentation so he can leave back home. so he said the passport and documents will be here within the month so im crossing my fingers everyting will work out.
Anyways we ahve some other investigators that i have not met but hopefully soon we will meet then i can tell you about them. But ya not going to lie i dont have much to tell you about this area cause i just barely got here. anyways this computer wont let me send pics to you so ill try and send some from the mission office computers. Anywayys i love you all. please dont die.

love me.
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Elder Big D Wright

Transfers! And trains yet again Haha

Well what up my awesome sick dope family. And of course friends ;) anyways this week was dope! we had some good lessons and we kicked butt and took some names. This week was pretty cool, well first off ill tell you i have finally been transferred to Rostov in the area (Selmash) It will most likely be my last area where i serve. nope that doesn't make me trunky at all :S. But yes it kinda does. The transfer will be taking place this Wednesday , so ill be leaving Sochi tomorrow! But the bad news is i have to ride more dang stupid gross nasty trains. buhkajdlfjalksdj. But its ok.

We also have some amazing news :) Anna is going to be baptized the 13th of may. aaahhhhhh yeahh! Of course i wont be here, just my luck eh? This has happened to me twice on my mission now! My comp and i set a b date and i get transfered to another city far far away haha. lame sauce that's what that is! But I am way happy for Anna and she is the bomb. Her husband has been trying to straighten up so he can baptize her, he is a cool guy and i hope he gets ready in time :) He actually will probably be coming to utah in August to September so you guys actually might get to meet him. sick huh? ya he is dope. Anyways other than that we watched conference yesterday and Saturday. Anna came to both sessions and she said they were interesting and the talks sounded familiar. so thats a good thing haha. But she is cool and she will be a strong member in this branch.
Well since i have been packing my bags getting ready to get out of here i have been buying a couple cool souvenirs as in olympic trading pins haha way cool. And today my comp and i need to go chill on the beach before our train leaves tomorrow morning. oh oh oh saturday night we had a sick dinner on the beach. there is a bbq guy down on the beach that has some really good stuff and the chairs were right on the beach overlooking the sunset. it was probably the most epic thing i have done in sochi. And tonight we are planning on doing that again because it was so goooood :) haha it sucks that i just barely figured this out 3 days before i leave haha. but isnt that how it always is. lame oh well but this week has been pretty good. I said goodbye to the branch yesterday and i was sad. I have been here for 6 months and they are like my family already. :( im still kinda sad about it but im glad to get transferred so i can get a new area and a new view. In Selmash i will be serving with elder Weidermier. he is about 6'9" and he makes me feel really really small. Just like dax does haha. But he probably weighs in at 165 haha he is soooo skinny. but he is a funny kid and i hope things go well with him. but anyways today ill be emailing president about my release date l;ajsdlkfajlkasjdlkajsdlkfjalskfj. thats coming up quick. the Ap's called and told me to email president cause they are starting to plan transferrs again and they need my realease date. so ya. Dont make me trunky or ill punch you all in the face. :) haha anyways i love you all and i better go before i say something stupid. PEACE
lOVE
ME E FREAKING WRIGHT
p.s enjoy the pics.
-- Elder Big D Wright

ЗДАРОВА!‏

Well what up to all the pimps back at home.

well i dont have too much time this week to email but i will give you the low down on all the sick dope plain awesome stuff happening here in sochi :)
Well this week we had a total of 21 lessons. what the crap i know! i have no idea what happened hahah. all the people came out and they are all happy , funny eh?
but our new investigator anna is doing good and she came to church and we are trying to get her baptised soon :) that will be cool haha. But what else happened. oh ya we saw a sick fight outside of our window and a dude got knocked silly from an open hand slap to the face hahah :) i laughed. it was sweet. but nothing else happened. i love all of you and ill write better next week. Dont die
love me 
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Elder Big D Wright