Hello everyone!

This past week was great! On Tuesday this lady who one my previous companions and I started teaching in one of my past areas said that she had accepted a baptismal date for January. That really made my whole week! I knew when we started teaching her that she was really prepared to accept the gospel. I have been able to stay in touch with her after I moved areas as well, so that's been really cool! She has been a great example of faith to me! I hope everything with her baptism will go smoothly.

The members here in Cardiff have been spoiling us lately. We got taken to Toby Carvery twice this past week for Thanksgiving meals, and we are going again tonight with the young adults in the ward. Toby Carvery is super good! I'm really excited!

I'm really excited for Christmas and for the church's "Light the World" initiative to start. I think we can really end 2020 on a positive note by coming closer to Christ this Christmas season and by serving others. I know that we can really be God's hands and help him light the world. And light will always conquer darkness. Hope you all have a great week! 

Love you all!

Elder Wray

Hello everyone! 

I hope you're all well! This past week has been pretty good! We're still just finding and teaching people online which is going well. I think the highlight of the week for me was watching President Nelson's address about gratitude. It was pretty amazing! I love that man! It was really cool to hear about his life as well. And now social media is filled with positivity which is awesome to see! I'm super grateful for all of you! I'm grateful for my family and friends. I'm grateful for Jesus Christ and his love. There really is so much to be grateful for! I hope you all have a great Thanksgiving! Don't forget to count your blessings! 

Love you all!

Elder Wray

Hi everyone! 

It's Elder Wray here! How are you all doing?

This past week has been pretty good! Our mission is preparing for a big musical event that will be on January 8th. It will be a Facebook live event called "A Brightness of Hope". We are hoping to get a lot of people to watch it. So Elder Tang and I have spent some time working with the Merthyr Tydfil and Cardiff Stakes here in Wales to find youth and young adults who want to participate in the event and just spreading the word. It has been pretty good so far!

We got to play some basketball today which was really fun! We are considered in a "bubble" with the other Cardiff elders. So we got to play with them as well. We played a few games of 21 which was really fun!

We also watched a missionary devotional with Elder and Sister Bednar. I really liked it! They had some great advice for us. One thing that Elder Bednar said that I really liked is that we should never just "wing it". We should always try to be as prepared as possible, but change our plans in the moment if we feel that we need to. I feel like it's really easy to just "wing it" with many things in life. I know I have been guilty of that before. But things definitely go a lot smoother when we are prepared, even if things don't go exactly how we planned it would. I'm loving my time as a missionary! I've really come to know my Saviour, Jesus Christ, better. He really is the best healer, comforter, and example. 

Love you all!

Elder Wray

Caerphilly Castle!

Pen Y Fan and Cardiff Bay

What's up, everyone? 

I hope you all had a happy Halloween! We carved some mini pumpkins on Saturday evening which was pretty fun, haha! It's been awhile since I've done that. Lockdown has been going okay so far. We are allowed more time to exercise and do meditation exercises to help keep up sane, so that's good! We also have the Calm app on our phones which is super helpful! I would definitely recommend it if you want to start doing meditation, haha! Some members in our ward also held two Zoom workouts for us this past week. It was super fun! The father of the family used to do karate competitions, so he taught us some karate moves. It was so fun, haha! Then a few days later, his son, Finn, ran us through another exercise. He's only 17, but he is so ripped! He's a beast!

We've been teaching our friend, Casey, nearly everyday this past week. He's progressing quite well. He said that he believes that the Book of Mormon contains the words of Christ, so that's been awesome to see him develop his testimony of the Book of Mormon. We talked to him about baptism. He said he was baptised when he lived in Africa, but he is willing to consider being baptised into our church. He is a cool guy!

We watched a missionary devotional this past week. The speaker talked about a few things that Jesus Christ said in His life that we can try to implement into our lives. The sayings were "Here am I. Send me.", "Thy will be done.", and "It is finished." In summary he basically said that we can always do our best to be willing to step up to the plate and be willing to serve, submit to God's will and not our own, and work until the work is finished. I really liked it! I thought it was good!

Elder Wray