Wright Clan News

If you’ve written to Jon but haven’t heard from him lately, apparently he’s been having some issues with the account.

His monkeyboy409 address still works, and he (re)sent a bunch of emails that didn’t make it through the first time.

Here they are.

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Tue, 11 Apr 2006 14:36:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: “Jon Wright”
Subject: first missing email
To: Mom

hello mother and father whom i love so much. so today i deposited my $421 tax return so im oh so fine on money. we have no miles left for the month to drive the truck so we are going to be riding bikes till the end of the week. its very tireing but im doing allright. well things are going well here. my foot is fine, my health is good. last sunday or so we gave a ton of blessings. we confermed 3 people we baptized and gave 2 other blessing for the sick. 3 of the 5 were in spanish. it was a good experiance. right now we are working on some re-actavations and we found a cool new family to teach. im really likeing this mission alot.

well dont worry im not counting but today im 1/3 of the way done with my mission. thats so weird. its going really fast. like really fast. but im loving just about every minute of it. except for the part were my comp dosent feel like working which isnt very often but it still happens sometimes. well mom and dad it sound like your having quite the adventure in china. its still alittle weird for me to think that my mom and dad are on the other side of the world. so spanish is coming along really well. im working hard at it. im trying to finish the book of mormon in spanish. im actualy understanding just about all of it. its still weird how the gift of toungs works. like when im speaking english i kinda forget i know how to speak spanish. but then it just clicks on. and i can say what ever i want. its really cool. im so greatfull for all the blessings i have been given.

this mission change has been such a blessing. i feel i can now say with a surity the lord knew exactly what he was doing when he sent me here. my testimony is growing alot. im studing way hard. i had to sen dhome history of the church. my zone leader asked me to, i didnt want to at first, i thought it was dumb and i should be able to have it, but i humbled my self and did the right thing. so i feel good about it. well mom and dad, i love you both sooooooo much. your the best parent a missionary could ask for. than you so much for sending thouse cards and everything. the pictures always make me smile, and its super cool to get real mail from you. im sorry that i dont have time to send you hand writen letters. i will try and send one when i get the time.

i love you both so much, thank you so much for everything. OH MY GOODNESS MOM I WANT TO PICK AT YOUR BRAIN WHEN I GET HOME. im so interested in like hebrew and like the history and geography of the areas jesus walked and taught. and dad your wisdom on the scriptures and doctrin. i still am learning things from that article you sent me. haha i never knew how smart you two were untill i came on a mission. i bet that makes you all happy. well keep on keepin on. you two are amazing. thanks again for everything
Your Littlest Missionary
Elder Jon Wright
Jon

From: “Jon Wright”

Subject: missing email number 2
To: Mom

wow i tryed to email you last week, im bummed casue it was a way good one. i did write you. but i guess it didnt go through. that sucks. well things are going good here. sorry i spend so much money, well two days ago i was in the hospital cause they thought i had skin cancer, i have a mole on my back and it could be nothing or it could be very bad, the hospital said if it is skin cancer thats what it would look like, so tomarrow i need to get it removed. im not to excited about it. but oh well. i was in the hospital for 10 hours. we didnt get home till like 5:30 in the morning. we went to the hospital at like 7:30 the night before. it was sooo long but we taught 2 really good lessions. so it was cool. i really liked general confrance. i didnt get to see the saturday afternoon session cause we had to do something. but i saw the rest and they were way good. i really liked elder uchkdorfs talk. he is awesome. and elder monson was awesome. about the makafekis, i really enjoyed it. well i just sent dad a hand writen letter. youll be getting one to. so, everything here is awesome. i really like my area, im still in the same one i started in. well im not sure what more to say. nobody is writing me lately. i tryed to write wayne, and mark, and a bunch of other people last week and i guess it didnt work. oh well. hopefully youll get this one. well today i got way sick and have been pooping like crazy, but im holding togeather for the most part. well. i love you both so much, and i hope all is going well.
love elder Wright

Jon

missing email number 3
To: Mom

hey mom hey dad, well the time has come to were i can actualy ride a bike, like im alowed to medicaly. and last month we had to ride bikes, i didnt have one so i used this other elders bike, its a piece of junk. its like a wall-mart bike. and as much as im going to be rideing. im going to need a bike that can take the years. so ya. the bike i was using isnt even mine and its falling apart. so im wondering. if you wanted to help me out. if not its ok. i actualy have tax return money i can use. but i was just wondering what you wanted me to do. so ya email me back and let me know. everything is going super well. i really love the mission. im working super hard. we taught like a 2 hour lession today to a guy who thought he was jesus. turns out he wasnt, haha. but ya not sure how he is gonna do. well i love you both so much. dad you have a letter on the way and mom im writing you a letter soonlove you Elder Wright

Jon

missing email number 4
To: Mom

ok so i wanted to let you all know that im not dying. i have a growth on my back that needs to be removed. but i think im ok. they need to do a biopsy on it. to make sure that there is nothing weird. but im pretty sure everythings all good. the mission presidents wife told me to write you and tell you that so you dont freak out or anything. she said that she was once the mother of a missionary, and when a mom getts a letter that somthing might be wrong, they atomaticaly asume the worst. she told me to tell you that if there is any problems, or if they find something bad, they will get in contact with you.

well i love you. im not sure if you got my email about needing a bike but if you could tell me what i should do about one that would be awesome.
love your favorite little missionary
Elder Wright

im ok just the email is being dumb.

To: janetwright44@yahoo.com

k so i have sent you all like 6 emails in the last few weeks but it appears you havnt gotten any of them. im not sure whats going on. i got a call this morning from the mission office and they said you all were freaking out cause i havent writen you. but i have. i even have all the letters saved on my other email address. its so dumb. i hate dear elder. some people get my emails. im not sure why you dont. but im going to start emailing you from this email address. i just sent off a letter to you. and i sent one to dad earlier in the week. so i hope you all get them.

well im gonna try and send you all the emails through this email acount. ill
just copy and paste them

well i love you all and i hope you get them

elder wright

ok so here are your answers
yes alex is still on his mission
we email every now and then
i just wrote spencer so ya we keep in touch
i think alex is doing fine
my foot is better but still hurts alittle some times
i didnt get transfered so im happy about that and i have the same
companion as last time E. Rowley
its still pretty cold to me here
with jesus the christ im doing really well. i take note on every
chapter and am learning a ton.
Elder Talmage did write it in the temple. it was an offical assignment
from the prophet to finish it. The book started as lectuares that he
gave at the university on temple square in about 1914 which he called
“Jesus The Christ” and the members of the 12 and the first presidencey
asked him to complie his remarks and his teachings in to a book. but the
life of an apostole is a bussy one, so he never had time to finish it.
then the prophet said, stop everything else that you are doing and
finish that book. he wrote it in one of the uper rooms in the temple which
is now called the james talmage room. well. there ya go. now you know
the history of the book. i felt it was very interesting or i wouldnet
have told you. well any way, two days go we had our baptisms they were
amazing. the spirit was so storng. it was a really good experiance. and
yesterday i got to give somebody the holy ghost for the first time. it
was awesome. well mom i love you very much thanks for the money, opened
another account with wells fargo. basically just to save money. like my
tax return is coming in soon. and people have been sending me money. so
i try and save it. well any who. you wanted to know who im writing. i
write steph, this girl named shelby, this sister missionary named sister
neff. a girl named molly bytheway. (john bytheways niece) i havnt
writen krista, and i dont plan on it. um and then a few elders from
nicaragua

At Mom’s request, I am posting a few of Jon’s most recent letters. In the spirit of “the real thing,” they are unretouched, so we can all experience the Jonisms we all know and love.

Feb 27, 2006
ok so before i forget you asked about the chruch. well its a branch.
very small. we have about 15 active memebers. my comp and i always pass
or bless the sacrament and every other week we speak. so that keeps us
bussy. we have no ward mission. its just us. we do have a council
meeting every week before church. i have been sick alot latley i think i am
allergic to green chile which is bad cause thats all they feed you here.
so far i have thrown up like 11 times and i have been really sick the
last 3 days. but im doing better now. um. so things are going good here.
we just set 3 more baptizmal dates. but im not sure if i will be here
for all of them. i have a feeling i will be transfered soon. i dont know
why. oh well. um…. so i got a package from spencer it was awesome. it
seems like as far as mail goes i have been alot more loved lately. i
like it. well thats ok about the psp it will most likly be alot cheaper
in 17 months. YAY today i hit 7 months. dont worry i dont count the
days. i just know that every 27th is my month mark. so. ya. dont worry im
not trunky at all. im really really loving my mission. well any who. so
i have spent 40$ just on medicen the last couple of days. being sick is
exspencive. i should just be healthy all the time. i dont know if you
guys wanted to re-emburse my sick funds. also dad offered to put some
money in there for church music cause i have none. other than my ipod.
but thats just like 4 cds and i have heard it all many many times. but it
still puts me to sleep every night. ok so. sorry to always ask for
money. but uh… ya. LOVE YOU
k thats my report for this week.

Tue, 07 Mar 2006 17:38:09 +0000

alrighty sorry that i wasnt able to write last time. but i wanted to
say thank you for the money. thats so awesome and nice of you. gee wizz
you guys are way to cool. so i cant avoid green chile. its every were.
im in the green chile capitol of the world and it still makes me sick
every time i eat it. but thats ok. my mission presidents wife is trying
to find something that will help my stomach calm down. um… so
tommorrow im going to a baptist church to answer some questions. basicaly waht
happend was that our #1 investagador is being atacked by them and there
giving him all this anti mormon stuff, so since he didnt have all the
answers he asked if we could come back him up. they invited us to come
on wednsday. so im going to fast and i have been studying like crazy.
but i think i will be alright. im not going to bash. im just going
because alot of kids there had questions. and i wanted to help tyler realize
what they are saying isnt true. and prove it to him out of the bible
AND the book of mormon. well any way. he is still pumped for baptizm
regardless of what they say. so this week i have my first baptizm and the
week after i have two more. and after that we should have 3 more on the
25th. so thats not bad. im pretty excited. my love for the scriptures
is growing alot. im doing my best to not get sick but i cant really help
it. well i love you guys a ton. thank you so much for everything. your
the greatest.

Sat, 11 Mar 2006 18:11:30 +0000

k so today i have a baptizm next week i have 2 more, the week after
that we should have 3 more and the week after that we will have another
one and maybe even 2. so thats a posible 8, with at least 4 for sure. not
bad for just a months time. im realy excited, i think i might be
getting transfered. so im not sure if i will get to see the last few. but i
hope i can. so this week we are going to the temple. im way stoked for
that. its gonna be awesome. well we eat at members houses almost every
day. im trying to let them know that green chile is bad for me but they
are just like “oh youll like this kind of green chile, its different”
NO ITS NOT, BUTT HEAD. oh well. im still living so thats good. the other
day i had to pay 85 bucks cause i got something stuck in my eye. and i
couldnt get it out. so i went to an optomitrist. any way. i think the
mission will reemburse it. so thats good. um. so i get to email you
today because we had to make up programs for our baptism and the only way
to do it was use the computer. im not sure that many people will show up
to the baptism, im hoping so, but i duno. well i love you soo much
thank you for everything you guys have done for me. i look forward to your
next email, oh ya and i got your cards from china, thank you sooo much.
i love them. oh ya. if i get transfered my address will change. so dont
send anything else in the mail for a while. cause i might have moved. i
think you still have my mission address. that always works so if you
send anything to that ill get it no matter were i am. well thanks again i
love you

Tue, 14 Mar 2006 03:08:09 +0000

ok so my baptism was alittle funny. we filled the font and began the
program, when it was time to baptize we came to find that just about all
the water had drained out. so we paniced alittle bit. turned on the
water again and sang a few hymns. it was kinda funny. i then baptized
little anna paola alcala sanchez, in about 2 feet of water. haha. it was
god though she loved it and the spirit was very strong. ok so you were
asking about the excorsism house. basicaly. Aside from ours i have never
felt so close to a family before. i consider tyler (14 Years Old) my
little brother. he is soooo cool. and he has told me the same. that im
like his big brother and he loves me. thats not something a 14 year old
kid useualy says. so he is way awesome. we get along perfectly. and then
there is amanda (age 9) she is about the cutest little girl i have ever
met. she is adorable. and she knows the gospel is true and wont let
anybody tell her otherwise. same with tyler. they are some of the
strongest kids i have ever seen. they will both be baptized this week. the mom,
leean, has kinda filled in as my “MISSION MOM” she is amazing. she
needs to quit drinking coffie and smoking before she can be baptized, but i
belive that once she sees her kids get baptised, she will feel the
spirit very strong and have a desire to change. the kids read and pray
every day for there mom to get baptized. it spirit is totally different in
the home since we first came over. i really have fallen in love with
this family, i want to come back after my mission to hang out with tyler
and amanda. well so thats them. today we went to the book store after
we went to the temple and i bought them there own quads with there names
and everything. they are very excited. i also bought a couple of cds,
and jesus the christ,(a really nice little version). i began jesus the
christ, and i can feel my self coming closer to him. i love being a
missionary, so much amazing stuff is happening. well you also wanted to
know about me puking. basicaly, i throw up then i smile. and i get back to
work. its not plesant, but its beter than throwing up and not working.
pertty much the onlything that helps me feel better is working. so my
eye. its super windy here. so i was outside and some like sliver of hay
flew into my eye. it hurt like crazy. but the doctor got it out. so
thats what happend there. um. they baptists told us that they didnt want
us to come over but i talked to them on the phone and few times.
basicaly they either agreed with everything i said, and when i asked a
question they said “god dose not want us to know all his mystories” or in
other words. they didnt know. so pretty much i shut them down. but i was
very polite about it. they threw in a few personal atacks but i told them
that that wasnt christlike and asked them to apologize and then they
felt really stuiped. basicly they invited us thinking we wouldent come.
then when we said we wanted to, they were like “ummm wel you wouldnt let
us come to your church” and i said ” well actualy every church building
in the entire world says visitors welcom in big letters, so yes we
would be more than happy for you to come” she had nothing to say. well.
thats what happend. i shut her down. but i didnt win. cause her heart
wasnt changed. (but it still felt pretty good) any way. i do not want to be
transfered at all. i love this area. its so nice. and we are doing
soooo good. i really wana see everybody progress to be baptized. well this
is a pretty lengthy email. so i better quit now. well i love you all oh
so much. your the best parents in the world.