I had to email so many people back that I don't have time to write you guys. Sorry! I uploaded some photos on Dropbox. We're going to have a baptism this week! It's going to be awesome! Im okay mom, don't worry!
Love you guys,
Elder Wilson
8/3/2015
8.04.2015
I had to email so many people back that I don't have time to write you guys. Sorry! I uploaded some photos on Dropbox. We're going to have a baptism this week! It's going to be awesome! Im okay mom, don't worry!
Love you guys,
Elder Wilson
7/27/2015
Hola Familia,
So it seems like you guys have had a great week! You are already going back to school? Wow, time sure does fly fast! So I've had a pretty awesome and successful week!
Since my companion and I are both new to the area and are trying to get to everything- the converts, less active members, and the investigators, it has been hard, but the Lord has really helped us with this. We know the area pretty well and almost all of the converts, and investigators. When we put all of our faith in the Lord he will help us with everything! So we have a baptismal date set for August! We are teaching a 16 year old guy who wants to get baptized and his parents say it's okay! We also shared the message of the Restored gospel of Jesus Christ with his parents. They need to get married, so we're going to trust in the Lord on that one. The young man is going to get baptized on the 8th of August! If you guys would pray for him it would be awesome!
We also are going to help marry and baptize 2 families in August! We're trying to find the birth certificates so that they can get married! They're really progressing well. We just need to be obedient to the Lord and I know they will get married and baptized at the end of August!
So our area is a lot different from the other 2 areas that I have Iived! This one is flat and is a lot richer. I've seen Mercedes Benz and Audi cars in this area, so the people reject us more. It's still relatively poor, but all the people are happy!
I have a feeling that I'm going to learn quite a lot in this area! Well that's it! I hope that you guys have a great week! I'm sure i will! The mission is awesome!
Love you guys!
-Elder Wilson
7.20.2015
Hola Familia,
So It sounds like you guys had quite a great week! Well I'm not in Las Galeras anymore! We had transfers and now I'm in an area called Buenos Aires, like the capital of Argentina! and my companions name is Elder Mayta! He's also from Peru! So from what I've seen this area is much more flat then my other! Its really nice!
We both are new in the area. Elder Mayta has been here for only 2 weeks and I've been here for 6 days. We are getting to know the area together! I'm definitely going to learn a lot in this area! Right now I'm just trusting in the Lord and I know that he will show us where to go and who to teach!
We're teaching some really great people who are progressing! They attended church and are reading and praying every single day! They are really great! If we work hard and if it's the Lord's will, we're going to have baptisms in August. Their are a few families that want to get married in August so we're going to help them with that!
So thats really about it. I'm sure I'll have more to talk about next Monday. ha!ha! I hope that you guys are okay and that you have a great week!
Love you guys a lot!
-Elder Wilson
7.19.2015
Hola Familia!
This week is our transfer week! I've been here in Las Galeras for 6 months now! How crazy is that! Soooooooo... I'm probably heading off to another part of the mission now! I'm not sad, but I'm definitely going to miss the people that I've met here in Las Galeras and the wonderful times and sacred experiences that I've had. Well thats if I go, there's still a chance that I'll stay but it's very small. Maybe next week I'll be writing you guys from a different internet cafe! I'll know the changes in about 2 hours.
This week we've been teaching and finding new people to teach as usual, but we've been focusing on the baptismal dates that we have with our investigators. Right now were working with 2 people that are going to be baptized the 25th of this month. They're really awesome, they're doing all the things necessary so that they know for themselves that the church is true. As missionaries we don't convert ANYONE. I haven't converted anyone on my mission, the Spirit has. God uses us as a pathway so that the investigators can feel the spirit of God and be converted. We just teach the lesson, God does the converting. They're doing really well. It's awesome! I really, really hope that they get baptized this month!
I am extremely grateful for the prayers that you guys have been saying. I have really seen the results of them during my time here. All of the converts that I've had here in Las Galeras are attending church every week and the men are blessing the sacraments and passing it. One of them even gave an amazing talk in sacrament meeting. I am extremely happy about this. I dont think that I've ever been as happy as I am now in the mission. God makes us happy. Nothing else. He gives us commandments so that we can follow them and be happy!
Well, thats about all! Ill try to upload more photos today! I have like 300 more- hahahaha!
Love you guys so much!
-Elder Wilson
This week is our transfer week! I've been here in Las Galeras for 6 months now! How crazy is that! Soooooooo... I'm probably heading off to another part of the mission now! I'm not sad, but I'm definitely going to miss the people that I've met here in Las Galeras and the wonderful times and sacred experiences that I've had. Well thats if I go, there's still a chance that I'll stay but it's very small. Maybe next week I'll be writing you guys from a different internet cafe! I'll know the changes in about 2 hours.
This week we've been teaching and finding new people to teach as usual, but we've been focusing on the baptismal dates that we have with our investigators. Right now were working with 2 people that are going to be baptized the 25th of this month. They're really awesome, they're doing all the things necessary so that they know for themselves that the church is true. As missionaries we don't convert ANYONE. I haven't converted anyone on my mission, the Spirit has. God uses us as a pathway so that the investigators can feel the spirit of God and be converted. We just teach the lesson, God does the converting. They're doing really well. It's awesome! I really, really hope that they get baptized this month!
I am extremely grateful for the prayers that you guys have been saying. I have really seen the results of them during my time here. All of the converts that I've had here in Las Galeras are attending church every week and the men are blessing the sacraments and passing it. One of them even gave an amazing talk in sacrament meeting. I am extremely happy about this. I dont think that I've ever been as happy as I am now in the mission. God makes us happy. Nothing else. He gives us commandments so that we can follow them and be happy!
Well, thats about all! Ill try to upload more photos today! I have like 300 more- hahahaha!
Love you guys so much!
-Elder Wilson
7.06.2015
Hola Familia!
So I forgot that last week was the 4th of July... Does that mean I'm not American anymore? I suppose so hahahaha!. No, I'm still a Gringo like you guys! So I saw the pictures on dropbox. Looks like you guys had a lot of fun on the 4th of July and at the Futbol game!
I've been living through the Copa America. Whenever Peru was playing NOBODY was in the street. Everyone was in their house watching the match and whenever Peru scored a goal it went from complete silence to complete chaos. People starting screaming goal, there were fireworks horns and everything! It was awesome! We definitely knew when Peru won! It was really awesome and funny! Peru won 3rd place! Peru plays pretty well. I wouldn't be surprised if they're in the next World Cup. One of my Zone leaders is from Chili. Hes really happy! hahaha!
This week we've been teaching and preaching like always. We found a new family that wants to get baptized, but like the last family they need to get married. We also are teaching a few other people that are starting to progress. They're reading the Book of Mormon more often and are starting to attend church! It's really awesome!
Yesterday was fast and testimony meeting. It's most likely the last one I'll have here in this ward because I have been here 6 months now. I bore my testimony about how keeping the commandments of God makes us happy. It was great I felt the spirit strongly while bearing my testimony.
Also, I had a cool missionary moment yesterday. We were walking to our next appointment and there was a group of about 50 people that were all talking about paving the road with concrete. The road is all dirt. One of them yelled out " Creo que este gringo puede pagarlo! " (I think that this American can pay for it!) The gentleman thought that I couldn't understand him, so he yelled out something a little bit rude. Well I understood and said to him "Hermano no puedo pagarlo! No tengo plata por una pista asi!" (Brother, I can't pay for it! I dont have money for a street like that!) He was extremely surprised that I understood him and starting laughing. We walked about 15 steps more and I received a strong impression to go back and contact the 50 people that were there. So I did it. I turned around went back and said:
"Hola hermanos, bueno para que sepan, nosotros somo misioneros de la iglesia de Jesucristo de los santos de los últimos días, compartimos un mensaje sobre dios y Jesucristo, y ustedes están invitados a la iglesia en domingo a las 8 de la mañana. Yo los prometo en el nombre de nuestro señor Jesucristo que por escuchar al mensaje que nosotros compartimos ustedes van a cambiar y mejorar su vida, van a dejar las cosas malas atrás en su vida y van a nacer de nuevo. Entonces están invitados a la iglesia en Domingo a las 8 de la mañana." ("Hey brother , we are missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We share a message about God and Jesus Christ and you are invited to church on Sunday at 8 am . I promise in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that by listening to the message that we share, you are going to change and improve your lives, will leave the bad things in your life and be born again. You are all invited to the church Sunday at 8 in the morning. ")
You guys can go translate that. They were all silent. None of them spoke a word. They only said "Gracias". It was awesome. I won't forget that experience. I felt the spirit work within me to call those people to repent of their sins and come unto their Savior Jesus Christ. I love being a missionary!
Love you guys!
-Elder Wilson
So I forgot that last week was the 4th of July... Does that mean I'm not American anymore? I suppose so hahahaha!. No, I'm still a Gringo like you guys! So I saw the pictures on dropbox. Looks like you guys had a lot of fun on the 4th of July and at the Futbol game!
I've been living through the Copa America. Whenever Peru was playing NOBODY was in the street. Everyone was in their house watching the match and whenever Peru scored a goal it went from complete silence to complete chaos. People starting screaming goal, there were fireworks horns and everything! It was awesome! We definitely knew when Peru won! It was really awesome and funny! Peru won 3rd place! Peru plays pretty well. I wouldn't be surprised if they're in the next World Cup. One of my Zone leaders is from Chili. Hes really happy! hahaha!
This week we've been teaching and preaching like always. We found a new family that wants to get baptized, but like the last family they need to get married. We also are teaching a few other people that are starting to progress. They're reading the Book of Mormon more often and are starting to attend church! It's really awesome!
Yesterday was fast and testimony meeting. It's most likely the last one I'll have here in this ward because I have been here 6 months now. I bore my testimony about how keeping the commandments of God makes us happy. It was great I felt the spirit strongly while bearing my testimony.
Also, I had a cool missionary moment yesterday. We were walking to our next appointment and there was a group of about 50 people that were all talking about paving the road with concrete. The road is all dirt. One of them yelled out " Creo que este gringo puede pagarlo! " (I think that this American can pay for it!) The gentleman thought that I couldn't understand him, so he yelled out something a little bit rude. Well I understood and said to him "Hermano no puedo pagarlo! No tengo plata por una pista asi!" (Brother, I can't pay for it! I dont have money for a street like that!) He was extremely surprised that I understood him and starting laughing. We walked about 15 steps more and I received a strong impression to go back and contact the 50 people that were there. So I did it. I turned around went back and said:
"Hola hermanos, bueno para que sepan, nosotros somo misioneros de la iglesia de Jesucristo de los santos de los últimos días, compartimos un mensaje sobre dios y Jesucristo, y ustedes están invitados a la iglesia en domingo a las 8 de la mañana. Yo los prometo en el nombre de nuestro señor Jesucristo que por escuchar al mensaje que nosotros compartimos ustedes van a cambiar y mejorar su vida, van a dejar las cosas malas atrás en su vida y van a nacer de nuevo. Entonces están invitados a la iglesia en Domingo a las 8 de la mañana." ("Hey brother , we are missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We share a message about God and Jesus Christ and you are invited to church on Sunday at 8 am . I promise in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that by listening to the message that we share, you are going to change and improve your lives, will leave the bad things in your life and be born again. You are all invited to the church Sunday at 8 in the morning. ")
You guys can go translate that. They were all silent. None of them spoke a word. They only said "Gracias". It was awesome. I won't forget that experience. I felt the spirit work within me to call those people to repent of their sins and come unto their Savior Jesus Christ. I love being a missionary!
Love you guys!
-Elder Wilson
6.29.2015
Hola Familia!
It looks like you guys have had quite an amazing and eventful week! Full of Youth Conference and other awesome stuff! I hope everyone had a great time at Youth Conference and that they paid attention to what the Speakers had to say.
So we've had an amazing week also! The family that we have been working with finally got married and baptized! The wedding was beautiful, El Parque de las Aguas is extremely beautiful. The Couple was very happy that they got to have a wedding as beautiful as it was! Hopefully I'll put up photos today or tomorrow! The following day the family, members of the ward, and us gathered together in the Chapel for their Baptisms. It was an amazing experience that I will never forget. It is something very sacred to me and in a year I'll probably share it with you guys, but if I wrote it on here it wouldn't do it justice. So I'll tell you guys about it in a year!
I'm so happy that the Lord gave us the opportunity to meet and help this family. To help them get to know their Savior and to make covenants with him. It is a miracle that this family got married and baptized. Our Heavenly Father is a God of miracles and if we have sufficient faith he can work miracles in our lives! (see Ether 12:12) If we have faith, we have to be willing to show it by making changes and repenting of the things that we have done wrong and asking the lord for forgiveness. (See Alma 34:17)
So during this transfer I have really gained a testimony about keeping the commandments. By keeping all of the commandments that the Lord gives us, we Will Be Happy. God doesn't give us commandments to put restrictions on our lives and to make our lives boring. It is the Opposite! Sometimes we ask ourselves why God wants us to do certain things or not do certain things and we try to make judgement about why he gave us a certain commandment. There is something very important that the prophet Nephi teaches us. (Im going to write the Scripture in Spanish and translate it literally so that you guys can understand it.) it says,
"Dios no hace nada a menos que sea para el beneficio del mundo; porque el ama al mundo, al grado de dar su propia vida para traer a todos los hombres a el. Por tanto, a nadie manda el que no participe de su salvacion" - 2nd Nephi 26:24
Literally it says " God doesn't do anything unless it is for the benefit of the world, because he loves the world, to the degree of giving his own life for the world in order to bring all men to him. Wherefore, to none he commands to NOT participate in his salvation" That's what it says translated literally.
God has done everything, does everything, and will do everything according to his wisdom. (see 2 Nephi 2:24) Sometimes we don't understand why a commandment is the way it is, but it doesn't matter, Our Heavenly Father already knows why, and it's for our benefit. I promise you guys that by keeping the commandments of God You Will Be Happy.
Well I hope you guys have a great week this week! I know I will!
Be safe and remember to do the things you should do!
Love you guys!
-Elder CJ Wilson
It looks like you guys have had quite an amazing and eventful week! Full of Youth Conference and other awesome stuff! I hope everyone had a great time at Youth Conference and that they paid attention to what the Speakers had to say.
So we've had an amazing week also! The family that we have been working with finally got married and baptized! The wedding was beautiful, El Parque de las Aguas is extremely beautiful. The Couple was very happy that they got to have a wedding as beautiful as it was! Hopefully I'll put up photos today or tomorrow! The following day the family, members of the ward, and us gathered together in the Chapel for their Baptisms. It was an amazing experience that I will never forget. It is something very sacred to me and in a year I'll probably share it with you guys, but if I wrote it on here it wouldn't do it justice. So I'll tell you guys about it in a year!
I'm so happy that the Lord gave us the opportunity to meet and help this family. To help them get to know their Savior and to make covenants with him. It is a miracle that this family got married and baptized. Our Heavenly Father is a God of miracles and if we have sufficient faith he can work miracles in our lives! (see Ether 12:12) If we have faith, we have to be willing to show it by making changes and repenting of the things that we have done wrong and asking the lord for forgiveness. (See Alma 34:17)
So during this transfer I have really gained a testimony about keeping the commandments. By keeping all of the commandments that the Lord gives us, we Will Be Happy. God doesn't give us commandments to put restrictions on our lives and to make our lives boring. It is the Opposite! Sometimes we ask ourselves why God wants us to do certain things or not do certain things and we try to make judgement about why he gave us a certain commandment. There is something very important that the prophet Nephi teaches us. (Im going to write the Scripture in Spanish and translate it literally so that you guys can understand it.) it says,
"Dios no hace nada a menos que sea para el beneficio del mundo; porque el ama al mundo, al grado de dar su propia vida para traer a todos los hombres a el. Por tanto, a nadie manda el que no participe de su salvacion" - 2nd Nephi 26:24
Literally it says " God doesn't do anything unless it is for the benefit of the world, because he loves the world, to the degree of giving his own life for the world in order to bring all men to him. Wherefore, to none he commands to NOT participate in his salvation" That's what it says translated literally.
God has done everything, does everything, and will do everything according to his wisdom. (see 2 Nephi 2:24) Sometimes we don't understand why a commandment is the way it is, but it doesn't matter, Our Heavenly Father already knows why, and it's for our benefit. I promise you guys that by keeping the commandments of God You Will Be Happy.
Well I hope you guys have a great week this week! I know I will!
Be safe and remember to do the things you should do!
Love you guys!
-Elder CJ Wilson
6.22.2015
Hola Familia!
So it seems like you guys have had quite a great, but busy week! I hope you guys enjoyed the camps you went to and that you learned a lot! I had a pretty busy week too!
We've been waiting for the birth certificates of the family that are going to get married and baptized, annnnnnnnnnnd THEY CAME! Monday night we received a call from the offices that they arrived and we needed to go to Comas, (The other side of the mission) to pick them up and get some other stuff, so that they could get married! So we rushed and got on the bus that took us to Comas. The next day we went to the center of Lima and registered our family to get married in El Parque de la Aguas! We're really excited! We also met a new investigator that wants to get baptized! He's 20, his brother is less active, but he wants to come back to church too! The Lord really does bless us with work, IF we work. We have to demonstrate our willingness to follow the rules of the mission and obey the commandments, so that he can bless us with ALL that we need. Without God we wouldn't be able to do anything!
We have baptisms this week! The family is going to get married and baptized! I'm extremely grateful for the opportunity that I have to help them feel the spirit and be converted by it!
I'm gonna record a video, and TRY to upload it for Carter. No promises, but I will record something!
So that's about it! I'm not sick and I Love the mission!
Love you guys a lot!
Elder Wilson
So it seems like you guys have had quite a great, but busy week! I hope you guys enjoyed the camps you went to and that you learned a lot! I had a pretty busy week too!
We've been waiting for the birth certificates of the family that are going to get married and baptized, annnnnnnnnnnd THEY CAME! Monday night we received a call from the offices that they arrived and we needed to go to Comas, (The other side of the mission) to pick them up and get some other stuff, so that they could get married! So we rushed and got on the bus that took us to Comas. The next day we went to the center of Lima and registered our family to get married in El Parque de la Aguas! We're really excited! We also met a new investigator that wants to get baptized! He's 20, his brother is less active, but he wants to come back to church too! The Lord really does bless us with work, IF we work. We have to demonstrate our willingness to follow the rules of the mission and obey the commandments, so that he can bless us with ALL that we need. Without God we wouldn't be able to do anything!
We have baptisms this week! The family is going to get married and baptized! I'm extremely grateful for the opportunity that I have to help them feel the spirit and be converted by it!
I'm gonna record a video, and TRY to upload it for Carter. No promises, but I will record something!
So that's about it! I'm not sick and I Love the mission!
Love you guys a lot!
Elder Wilson
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