October 15, 2008-letter

Dear Family

Once again I am on a bus leaving the Temple, headed back to the CTM. So sorry this will probably be really sloppy.

It doesn't fell like much has happened but at the same time alot has happened. This has been the craziest, most stressful, and yet probably the most fun I've had so far on the mission. The reasoning, well let me begin....

On Friday we went proselyting! It was so much fun. But it was so stressful getting ready to go. Trying to figure out what I was going to say in Portagues, and just the fact that I had to walk up to random people and just start preaching freaked me out. It turned out good though. They took us to the busiest place in Sao Paulo,(btw-Sao Paulo is the 2nd biggest city in the world!) There was probably more people there than in all of Ivins! And it was like that the whole 3 hrs we were there! It was hard at first, but after getting rejected about 10 times we didn't cave and just went for it. It was so much fun! We gave out 2 BOM and probably 15-20 pass along cards, and were rejected countless times! It was so much fun though! I get to go next week and I can't wait!

But because of proselyting, thats all that I focused on and I didn't realize (actually, no one in my district did) that we had to teach a 15 min. lesson in Portagues on Saturday. And when one of our teachers found out, she chewed us out for about an hour and a half. But they let us use the weekend to study and then do the lesson's on Monday and Tuesday. And this is what really made my week stressful! We weren't supposed to speak any English, just Portugues. I figured I could do the lesson, I mean me and my comp, but I was terribly wrong! We did the lesson last night and it was so terrible. We completely messed up. I was forgetting my lesson plan in portagues. Then I forgot my lesson plan in english! It was so terrible. But luckily my comp is way good at portugues so we were able to get through it. Except for when we had to use the Bible. It was in portugues and we couldn't find anything. We probably wasted about 5 min just looking! So yeah, it was terrible :) And this Saturday we have to teach a 30 min. lesson to members in portuguse. That will be interesting. I am really glad I was able to go to the Temple today. It really helped to clam my soul and now I am not stressed. I was able to spend alot of time in the Celestial room too, so that was really nice to be able to sit there and pray and feel the spirit so strongly. I don't know if I told you but I got to help with a blessing last week, My DL asked for one and I was able to anoint. He hurt his arm and leg and was really worried about them healing. I was super nervous though.

I love you all so much!! Tell Grandpa Campbell hi for me and thanks for his prayers. Send my love! Thanks for being the best family ever!

Elder Wilson

P.S. Micky, Dallin and Chanae-FIST BRO!!!