Oi familia,
Como está todo mundo? whats new? not much new is going on here. basically the same old stuff, work, work, work, and baptisms. oh and muito stress. but it's going good.
this week on saturday we baptized a woman named Débora. she has been going to church for more than a year now and was never baptized because she had 17 years and her mom wouldn't sign the form. but she made 18 yrs. in July and still wasn't baptized because she didn't like Elder Pereira. but me and my comp arrived there, and we talked to her and she wanted to be baptized! i was so excited because i had already talked to her mom about 4 times to let her be baptized, and when i left the area i was really sad to not be there for her baptism, but everything worked out and i was able to be there and be one of the missionaries who baptized her!
and then on sunday we baptized a rapaz with 10 yrs. his name is Vinicius. his tia and prima and 3 other primos are members of the church already and now we are trying to help his sister be baptized to. it was pretty sweet!
so remember when i was in this area before and how i was always stressed out. yeah, well now i remember why and how much i didn't like this area. áte this was my least favorite area, but things are a little bit better this time around, although i still get stressed out way easy, but the bishopric is working with us better and so that's good. i just have to get the ward to work now, actually both wards. usually the frequencia is about 60 to 70 people. which is really low, but on sunday it was 30! in both wards! how pathetic huh! nobody is doing anything here. i think that is what gives more stress. the bishopric in one ward are complete slackers, and nobody does there home teaching or visits or anything! man, my testimony has really grown about home teaching! it is so important, you wouldn't believe how important it is! it is really tough when the members don't want to work, after church we were asking and almost pleading some members to stay to watch the baptism so we could have a witness and people to sing the hymns. i was really frustrated, but luckily we have about 5 people that are supporting our cause. so everything worked out.
so i am going to send home pics of the baptisms this week and of my bday present that i bought. there is a member in João Pessoa that works with leather and i had him make me a cap for my Preach My Gospel. it is way xike! i think i'll have him make one for my bible to.
and we had a conference with Pres. yesterday so i will send a foto of our zone and some of the guys from the ctm.
Mom and Dad, thanks so much for the e-mails and for all of your love and support. I love you both so much! thanks for everything!
Chanae- hey sis, sorry i missed your bday. i didn't realize that it was so close. so sorry i missed it and Happy Late Birthday!!! so go and make another cake and eat a piece for me okay!!! I love you chanae!!!!
and Michael and Dallin- sup Bros!! hey hows high school life going? Whats new? I hope you guys have a great week and that all goes well in school! I love you both!!!
thanks for all everyone!!!! I love you all so much!!!! The Church is True and Jesus Cristo is our Salvador!!!!!!
Your son, bro and Elder
Elder WiIson
Dear Família,
hey everyone, so whats going on back home. hows school going?
so this week you would not believe what happened. so after i sent an email to you guys last week we went to the center of natal and i bought a sweet soccer shirt and then we were headed back home when the asisstants called me and told me i was being transfered! Remember how i told you that the other area i passed in (cidade do sol) had been closed, well apparently the president of the stake went over there and layed into the bispado a little bit and then talked to presidente, and then Elder Lopes and Eu got transfered BACK to cidade do sol! can you believe it. i passed 5 months in this area already and now i am here again. man i was so freakin stressed out on monday, but i think it will work out okay. the bishopric is willing to work and help us out and the members were really happy to see missionaries in the ward again.
on saturday we baptized a man that had been going to church during the 3 weeks that the area was closed. his name is Fabiano, he is way cool and he basically taught us the first lesson! i was way impressed. the baptism was pretty sweet to. and this sunday we have 2 woman that we will baptize and young girl with her brother and 2 other young men! so i hope all will work out. we are pretty excited and we want to end this transfer with fogo.
quick question, did you guys get the other e-mail i sent last week, i sent 2 home with a bunch of pics. just curious.
today we had a pday with the zone and we played soccer. but now i have 2 huge blister on each foot! so this week will be fun to walk around.
so i will send home some pics of the baptism this week and some from 2 weeks ago because the pic is way legal and i don't know if you guys recieved the pics or not.
well i guess thats about it for this week. not much more is going on here. good luck with school michael and dallin (dang i'm freakin old, a senior and a sophmore!). and i hope everyone has a great week! I love you all!!
Elder Wilson
Dear Família,
this week was okay, i was the whole week long because we have been working like crazy, and i decided to go running saturday morning which killed my legs. so now i am even more tired! :) but i am doing good.
yesterday we baptized a young man named Elcimar, he has 17 yrs. He's a little crazy, but he passed the interview just fine so we baptized him. it was pretty sweet!
so not a whole lot happened this week. my comp hit his hump day mark and so he made a cake ( i told him to just buy a cool one, but he decided to spend the same money and make one! brillant right?) the cake was actually not bad, but it was freakin ugly! hahaha, i'll have to send a foto! and in one more week i will hit 11 months! almost one year, so now i can almost start counting down and not up! crazy huh!
oh i will also send the fotos from last week to, because it is pretty sheiky! so other then that not alot is happening. today we will go to the center of natal and eat come açai (a shake made from a fruit called açai! best thing in the world!!) and maybe i'll be some cool futebol shirts!
dang, so sorry this is so short, I hope you guys have a great week! it sounds like lagoon was a blast!
At a boy michael and dallin!! go and get those s, hey and get some to write me to! :)
thanks for all the letters to! i received a bunch of cartas azul! it was pretty sweet! please tell everyone thanks and that it was great to hear from them all!
I love you all so much and thanks for all that you guys do for me!!! i know that this is the true church of God!! Jesus Cristo is our Savior and Redeemer and and the book of mormon is the word of God! I love you all so much!!! good luck with school!!! love ya!!!
Elder Wilson
Hey Família!
how is everyone at home doing? thanks for all the emails! it is great to hear from everyone and know what is going on back home.
so this week was pretty good but i am glad that it is over because i am and was stressed out de mais!!! (to much). so this week we baptized 6 jovens! it was pretty sweet!!! it was the most that i have baptized in a week! and in 2 weeks we have already baptized 10! we baptized 6 and the other dupla baptized 3! so the foto this week is even cooler than last week!! but unfortunately i forgot my to bring my camera. sorry. i even forgot my money today but my comp said he´d hook me up. so i will have to send the foto next week. but i am already stressed about this week because we only took 1 investigator to church. so we have to work like crazy this week to try to find more people to teach and prepare for baptism. but we have about 3 people that we can baptize this week. we just have to tirar there doubts and pray that they will have the desire to be baptized.
so all is going good with my comp. he likes to work hard so i am glad about that. some days we have been waking up early to study earlier so we could leave earlier to teach more people. this week alone we taught more than 40 lessons, and usually a dupla teaches 20 in a week. but we did splits to so that helped us teach so many. My comp is a little wierd though. but all he talks about is g irls and i am constantly telling him to shut up, especially because brazilians aren't shy about saying anything! but at least we are working hard. so our baptisms.. we baptized 3 young woman 2 y.m. and a primary boy that loves church! (i taught him how to say your crazy and now he just runs around saying it! its pretty funny) their names are Maricia, with 16 yrs., her sister mikyelly with 14yrs., oseane (rosy) with 15yrs., david w/ 13yrs. and antonio w/ 13 yrs. and Denilson w/ 11yrs.
so you can you believe it will make 11 months this month! only one more year and i am in Casa!! that is crazy that one year has almost passed by already!
so that is pretty sweet that you guys will put grass in the backyard finally! que pena that i am not there to help! :) hahaha.... but i'm sure that i will enjoy it when i get home!
Hey chanae! those pics are pretty sweet! thanks for the email! i hope you know i was just kidding you about never emailing me:) but it worked neh, you emailed me! ;) so are you still at tuacahn? whats bryce been up to these days?
Michael- hey congrats on getting your job back dude. thats good that you are working again. so what else is new? what have you been up to this summer, just skim boarding? dang, i miss the water and going to the lake!
Dad- the weather here is so freaking hot! not to bad, but it is summer here again, it really never cools off. so during the night, it's like at home during the summer, the nights have the same feeling. so how is it with out the boat, do you guys still got to the lake with bryce and the jet ski´s?
thanks for all that you guys do for me! i love you all so much! i know that this church is true! Jesus Cristo is our savior and redeemer!! I know that we have a living profet in our days!!! and that Families are eterno!!! Eu estou praying for voces everyday and i know that Heavenly father will bless us if we are faithful! I love you all!!!!!
Your son, bro, and elder,
Elder Wilson
Dear familia,
Thanks for all of the e-mails!! it was great to hear from all of you! Sorry but this e-mail will probablay be a little short today, i am short on time.
so i got transfered. back to natal, and actually back to the same zone. if you remember, i was in the ward cidade do sol with elder pereira, well presidente closed the area because they were still having problem with the bishop and e. pereira and his comp started working in potengi, (which already had a companionship there). so i got transfered to Potengi as senior companhion and i am with Elder Lopes, who was comp with elder pereira just barely. so i basically just returned to where i was. but we had to start from nothing. because there is already a dupla here, so we were running like crazy to get a teaching group and find baptisms. and guess what, we found 4! my first sunday as senior and 4 baptisms. it was pretty sweet!! i am sending home a bunch of pics, one is with us four missionaries and all of our baptisms (the other couple had 3 baptisms) it is an awesome foto!
we baptized a girl named Deuse (daisy) with 15 yrs, and two young men with 14 and 13 yrs, Danilo and DuDú, and a 11 yr old boy, lucas. and this next week we already have 2 firme for baptism! with a few other possibles. so it will be sweet!
Well thanks for everything! i'll go home now and make up some cake! thanks for evreything! i love you all!!! the church is true!!!!
Elder Wilson!!!
p.s. that pic of my birthday party was freaky hilarious! and the cake looked pretty dang good!!
p.s.s. so its true.. chanae still exists!!! i hadn't recieved a letter from her for so long i thought she had fallen of the face of the earth!.. Just Kidding chanae!!!!! i just thought i'd let you know i love you!!:)
