Hello everyone! 

I hope you all had a merry Christmas! This past week was great! We got to celebrate Christmas, and I hit my five-month mark! We had a very Christmas-themed Zone Conference, which was awesome! Our wise Mission President helped us understand the story of the birth of Christ a little bit better. Each zone also performed a humorous skit which was entertaining! My zone did a remake of the "Safety Zone" which is a video program that you watch in the MTC to learn how to be a safe missionary. I thought we did pretty good! It was funny! 

We spent Christmas at the Dean's house. They are a really great family in our ward. They fed us lunch and then we visited all of their children and grandchildren who are all also in our ward. It was really fun to be with them! 

This morning I was listening to General Conference talks while I was getting ready.  A talk came on by Elder Holland, called "Behold Thy Mother". I wasn't really planning on getting teary-eyed that early in the morning, but thanks to Elder Holland, I did. So if anyone wants to hear a talk that will make you cry, that's the one! He said that, "no love in mortality comes closer to approximating the pure love of Jesus Christ than the selfless love a devoted mother has for her child." I definitely agree with that! 

Anyways, other than that, Elder Kozma and I are still working to find people who want the gospel in their lives. It's not easy, but sacrifice brings forth the blessings of heaven! I know that the greatest things in my life have come because of my own sacrifice or someone else's sacrifice. So it's definitely worth it and we just have to stay faithful! 

I also want to say thank you to everyone who sent me Christmas cards and emails. It means a lot! Love you all! Merry Christmas!

Elder Wray

Pics:

One day this past week we were out street contacting and it started pouring rain, and nobody wanted to stop and talk to us (You can't really blame them when it's raining that hard). So we decided to go tracting instead, but we didn't have any success at all. So when it was time to head back home I was feeling slightly down, but then we walked past this park, and I saw two kids throwing a football. I don't think I've seen anyone playing football in the UK since I've been here, so I was so happy to see that! It made my day! So of course I had to go throw a couple passes to them. They were both from Romania, and they are Raiders fans. They're definitely some studs! 

Elder Kozma and I probably had too much fun decorating our Christmas tree!