oi family!!!!!
thank you everyone for writing me!!! and thanks for all the letters. i get mail about every 2-3 weeks ish, it depends on when the zone leaders go to joão pessoa, so this week sat to be exact, i got 11 letters!!it was sweet!!!!!! thank you so much!!!! oh, and yes mom, :) i figured that the cars and yo yos were for kids, but i have to admit that i have been playing with the yoyo. :) and thanks for the recipes dad! we can't find dry ice, but we can make the other one, and yeah, i really don't like yeast rootbeer so i am excited you had a different one!!! oh thanks for all the instant breakfast to!!!! i am way stoked to drink it! now all i have to do is buy a cup bigg enough to put it in, and then find some decent milk to drink it with, but i am totally stoked!!! and thanks chanae for the big w! i love receiving it and getting caught up with the family!
just a reminder... you guys need to call here at 4 o´clock my time.. so 12 your time because i can't call out. so i hope it isn't a problem. i sent the number in my last e-mail.
So this week has been another week. alot the same. except we have done alot of walking this week. more than usual because our group of investigators is small and we didn't have very many appointments and alot of the ones we did have fell through. but I am doing good. sunday we had two investigators show up to church. Raquel and her little brother anderson. we have the baptismal date for next week. Raquel thinks it's a little early but people usually say that when they have doubts. so we just need to throw away the doubts and then get her baptized. it's kinda crazy how quickly we baptize people. in the first lesson we commit them to baptism usually in a week and a half to two weeks. just enough time to get them to church two times. and the second time is usually the baptism. crazy huh. but it works. and Mission pres knows what he is doing so we follow the rules and try to baptize like crazy. something interesting pres said.. we have two main purposes here on the mission.. 1st is ourselves. who we want to be when we go home. 2nd is to baptize. i never really thought about the first one before. like i knew i would change (hopefully:)) but i didn't count it as a reason to be here really. interesting..
but the work is going. its funny, in the ctm i thought i was doing so good at portugues, but once i got here i realized i don't know anyhting. but with the lords help i am slowly learning:)
oh, so i don't remember the pin number for my debit card:) so could you please send it:) and just so you know, i wont e-mail next week because of the phone call. oh another thought. i was wondering if you could send me a card reader to go in the usb port, so i can send pics home over the net, my comp has one and i might use it, but that would be nice to have. oh dad... i almost forgot.. i thought you might like to know.. today i bought 10 bananas, 5 mangos and a cantalope for 3 reais, so like a buck and a half! and they are all fresh ready to be eaten! cool huh!:) oh and i am going to buy a hammock today! I am totally stoked!
umm.. so we are teaching this way cathlic family, and they are so cool! they have amazing love for each other and are way close. but they have a hard time to be willing to follow an answer from god if they get one. it kills me, if god tells you to do something, what are you going to do.. do it! but thay are all moly about it (wishy washy). It's partly because they think the lds church is basically the same as the cathlic, all though we point out differences in baptism and like mary for instense, they are like, não é mesmo coisa. (same thing) it is really frustrating cause i love this family and i just want them to know the truth and get baptized. so hopefully the spirit can work on them:)
Mom and Dad.. thanks for all the e-mails and letters and for all of the love and support you give me! I love you both so much and am so grateful for all that you do for me! thank you so much! I am totally excited for the phone call next thursday!!!! I can't wait to talk to you all. :) and i was wondering if you could send a recipe for pancakes and cornbread:)
chanae-thanks so much for all the letters and for the hand turkeys! i made a hand turkey and he is an abomination!!! i was going to send some pics but it's not working.. so maybe next time! but good luck with the test and graduation!!! and yes my speakers have a jack for a cd player and i have a cord here as well:) and do we have a jericho road cd...that would be fun to;) but don't worry about it cause its not that important.
mikey- sup bro!! hows life treatin ya? whats new? so the other day i saw a kid that looked alot like you. it was wierd. but only from far away:)
dallin- dude! don't kill yourselfe with all that running! :) thats crazy man, you are awesome! 50 miles a week ,that would kill me! keep working hard to reach your goals!! and that is way cool about you writing music!!! i am way jealous man!!! i miss music! but it's all good! good luck!!
crap.. i was gonna write a letter to the relief society but i am out of time! please tell them thanks and that i will write next week or send a letter. sorry...
I love you all so much!!!!!!!thanks for being the best family in the world!!!!! thanks for all of your love and support and for all that you do for me!!! wish derek good luck for me!!! merry christmas!!! drinks some hot cocoa for me and sing some christmas songs!!!! much love!!!!
Elder Wilson
to answer some of your questoins.... yes i am about a 45 min walk to the beach. it is not in my area, but if you walk about 20 min you can see it! it's really cool! it is summer right now! oppisite of home. there are a ton of fruit trees. we have two coconut trees in our backyard that we get coconuts from and drink the milk. it is way good! straight off the tree! they have a ton of mango trees tambem! kids play with anything and everything. about the same back home. a big thing is home made kits! they are really cool! I had a member give me one! all the homes are made out of these weird bricks. nothing is made out of wood here. it's weird! but cool! i will take some pics and send them home! love you all so much!!!!!!!
elder wilson
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