September 1, 2010

Dear Family,

hey everyone. so whats new this week? that totally sucks that michael had to get a screw in his mouth! is it really big? you should send some pics.
as for my comp and i, we are doing pretty good. nothing to new. although the other day i had a super amazing experience! so this kid that we are teaching, Sergio, he is part of the big family, completely blew me away on friday! we get to his house planning on inviting him to be baptized and to go over the 3rd lesson. so we start off the lesson and he just starts asking all kinds of questions. who was joseph smith? what did Christ mean when he said "other sheep i have which are not of this fold"? What does it mean to carry your cross? and if this, meaning the church, is the only way? after answering all of his questions, he busts out a few scriptures in the bible (this kid knows the bible better than i do!) around the theme of prayer. ask and ye shall receive... when two or more of you are gathered in my name there i will be also... stuff like that. then he says to use, "you two, are men of God, so if we pray right now, God will be with us." we agreed. then he said "so right now, we are all going to pray together. if this is true, i need to know so i can follow." so right then, we all knelt down and he offered one of the most amazing prayers i have ever heard! ( this whole time i was just blown away by the faith of this kid! i couldn't believe what he was proposing to us! it was freakin awesome!) and during that prayer i felt the spirit so strong. you could just say my whole body was on fire! it was truly amazing. so after the prayer i asked him how he felt. and unfortunately he felt nothing. so we went over how God will always answer us, but it will be in his time and his way. then we talked about baptism and that by accepting to get baptized and working towards a set date, then he would also be showing the Lord that he truly wants to know. and he accepted our invite to be baptized on the 11 of sept.! it was so sweet!!! now we just need to get the mom to church so she can get a baptismal date as well! so we are very excited for them.
other than that, the work is going on. lots and lots of door knocking!!!

thanks a ton for the letter.
well i hope you all have a great week!!! thanks for everything!! I love you all!!!

elder wilson