Hey everybody! I hope you're all doing well! This past week went by really fast! Time is flying! We are in full lockdown again here in Wales now. We are teaching over Zoom quite a bit which is nice. We aren't teaching anyone who is close to baptism yet other than the Li children. Once their Father gets the priesthood he can baptize them. The only way that baptisms can happen in Wales right now is if the baptism is performed by someone in your own household, so we are hoping that can happen sometime soon!

Elder Tang and I have been playing a lot of basketball for our exercise time which has been quite fun! We also had one last dinner appointment with the Rasmussens before lockdown happened on Friday. That was really fun! The Rasmussens are awesome! They made us sweet pork burritos like the ones at Cafe Rio. I miss that place!

I was reading in Mormon chapter 1 this morning and a few versus, 14 and 15 I thought were interesting. The whole land was struggling at the time, but Mormon at a young age was able to remain strong. The versus say "And there were no gifts from the Lord, and the Holy Ghost did not come upon any, because of their wickedness and unbelief. And I, being fifteen years of age and being somewhat of a sober mind, therefore I was visited of the Lord, and tasted and knew of the goodness of Jesus." So no matter what's going on around us, we can still look to Christ and feel of his goodness. I find that pretty comforting!

I hope you all have a great week!

Elder Wray

Dear friends and family,

These past couple of weeks have been good! We have had quite a few meetings, but they were all over Zoom since the borders in Wales are all closed. I had my interview with President Hughes. I sure do love that man. He is such an amazing guy, and he has really had a huge impact on me. We have taught a few lessons to our friends and people who we have found who were previously taught by missionaries. We are also trying to develop stronger relationships with the members in the wards we are covering. Another thing that we did was we played basketball with one of our friends. He is a uni student in Cardiff. We started playing a game, and then some other kids at the park joined in with us, so we had a full street ball game going on. It was so fun! And then we played some football (soccer) afterwards which was fun as well. We also played this game called "rounders" with some members in our ward. Rounders is basically a British version of baseball. Anyways, it was the family against us missionaries, and there was a bit of some trash talking going on not gonna lie, lol. But we took the W. They said it was because we are American and we have baseball in our blood haha! I love that family. They are so fun!

A girl who was in my mtc group, Sister Nielson, passed away in a hiking accident in her mission in Switzerland last week. It is super sad! I feel really bad for her family. keep them in your thoughts and prayers! God really is there though. He is the Father of us all, and his love is always there. Bad things happen to good people, but the Atonement of Jesus Christ can make anything right. 

Love you all! Have a great week!

Elder Wray

Hello everybody!

I hope you all had a good week! Our week has been pretty good! We enjoyed watching general conference! I feel like I have a lot more hope for the future after watching it!

It's starting to cool off quite a bit in the U.K. and it's starting to rain more. Winter is approaching! The work is going good though! We're doing a lot with technology and finding new things to do, so that's good! We've been meeting and teaching new people which has been exciting!

I loved how President Nelson gave us an eye opener about the word "Israel" which has the meaning of "Let God Prevail". I really like that quote, and I hope that I can let God prevail in my own life, because I know that it will be much better if I do. I hope you all are doing well! Love and miss you all!

Elder Wray

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Cardiff football stadium and a cool building