Oí Família,
hey so how is everyone doing? whats new at the wilson round about? so guess what, this transfer i will hit the half way mark!!! in 1 year and 8 dias i will be in home!!! i already received the date i will go home because i have some friends in the staff and they told me. dia 7 de setembro i will be headed home!! and dia 8 i will be at home! legal neh!! anyways, i am doing good. we had transfers today. usually it is on wednesday but presidente cought everyone by surprise last night with the transfers. meu companheiro e eu stayed in the same area. and i am excited so that is good. with all of the stress that i get from this area i am still excited. i have some plans to see if i can get this ward moving, because it is just stopped. it has almost been 8 months since i arrived here the first time and the ward hasn't changed a bit. if anyhting it has lost members. which is really sad because i have already baptized more then 20 here, and that just me. so i hope we can get people excited.
So guess what happened. Yesterday i passed through a new experience that i never had in my life. I was assaulted! legal neh!? not really. i was doinga divisão with a member of the ward to take investigators to church, and when we were headed to the church a guy, about 23 yrs. old, stopped us and told us to hand over our bags. he was on a bike and showed that he had a "gun" under his pants. i didn't believe that he really had a gun and i told him that i wouldn't and started walking again, but then the member grabbed me, and scaired out of his mind told me we have to give them to him. so he handed over his bag and i just said that i wouldn't, because i didn't believe he had a gun and it was in the middle of the road 8 in the morning. and for this reason the guy was getting really anxious telling me to give it to him and the member was freaking out so i just gave him my bag. and the secound he grabbed it i remembered my camera was inside. then i started freaking out yelling at him to give me my camera. but then he took off on his bike. and then i started yelling in english, almost at the point of swearing i was so mad (don't worry, we didn't have investigators with us). but we returned home and luckily my camera was on the table! i was so relieved to not have lost all of my fotos! but it sucks because now i don't have a bag, and he stole my bible my triple, my foto album, and a bunch of baptism forms. so now i have to go back and do all of the forms again andbuy new scriptures and a bag. so basically it really sucks. so i will probably be getting money from my account this week to pay for everything okay.
but i'm pretty ticked that i gave him my bag, because i am positive that guy was lying. but nothing i can do now. pretty cool huh. here in Natal, satan is really working to get rid of the elders. 3 houses have already been robbed. 2 x with the missionaries sleeping at the time, and two churches have been robbed now. but it's because we are baptizing so many people. the north zone of the city has two zones, Pajuçara and Potengi, Pajuçara baptized 75 and Potengi baptized 78 in 5 weeks!! and the two stakes are getting close to divide. and i heard talk of a mission Natal Brasil opening here in one year! crazy huh, so it is possible that my mission could get moved in one year. pretty cool stuff is happening!!
yesterday we baptized 2 young men. one named alison with 15 yrs. and the other named ednan with 10 yrs. i already baptized the brother of ednan the first time i was here and now we just have to baptize the mom to have the whole family as members! and this week we have a man with 18 yrs that we are preparing to baptize! so we are pretty excited! wow, now that i have written a livro!
thanks for all that you guys do for me!! i love you all so much!!! hey, the next time you send a package, send a cd walk man (because mine died) and some fotos of the family, because now i don't have a whole lot. i still have a bout half but all the fotos of my last day at home and of the pics of the family together i lost, and half of the pics of chanaes wedding (freaking robber). but thanks for all!! i Know htat this is the true church of God!! Jesus Cristo is our savior and redeemer!!! I love you all!!!!
your son bro and elder
Elder Wilson
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