October 20, 2010

Querida Familia,

Thanks for all the e-mails everyone! it was great to hear from you all and to hear about everything!
so while i am thinking about it, my address is actually different than the one on the letter i sent you. it is 953 McKnight Cir. #4 ..... and then the rockford il stuff. we live in a little circle and i didn't realize that it had it's own name, so.... if you send any letters, please send them to this address.
as for all of your questions mom.. i have no idea. ;) i honestly had no idea how many days i had left till i read my e-mail today. hahaha. um, the week i am coming home, i probably won't be e-mailing you. that whole day i will be traveling to the mission office and then doing who knows what. and then i will be home on thursday, sooo..... i still haven't received my itinerary yet though, so i don't really know what time i will be home or anything.
so with my bike, a member here that works for this shipping company said he could send it to Vegas, and then someone would have to pick it up from there. and it would only be like 40-45 bucks. which is really good actually. through ups it will be like 100 bucks. but i wouldn't pay, it would be when you pick the bike up. or he said he can send it to salt lake, but vegas is closer. then after it arrives we would have to pick it up with in 7 days. so let me know what you think. preferably as soon as possible (through a letter). so then i can get this worked out. and if it is better i can wait to send it till the last week i am here, so then i can go and pick it up once i am at home, although i would have to use someones vehicle. but let me know please.
so on Saturday we had a Baptism!!!! it was pretty sweet!!! we had more "potential investigators", or in other words non members, show up to the baptism than members! there was lots of people, and we hope that more baptism will come from that to. oh and it was crazy. i had to translate the meeting into english because there were some investigators there from the other Elders. that was quiet the experience. and then on sunday we had a high councilman come and talk to us in sacrament meeting, and he only speaks english. well the bishopric asked me to translate for him during the meeting. wow, i just about died. needles to say i was super nervous. in the end it came out okay, but i definetly need to practice though. it's pretty hard to translate english into spanish. especially when you haven't quiet dominated the spanish language yet. but it was a good exp. i was praying like crazy through the whole thing.
yesterday we had a really good appointment with our part member family. we wanted to give the husband and the brother a baptismal date, but we didn't feel like it was right yet. so that was kinda a bummer, but we did have a very spiritual lesson with them and they will get baptized, just not right away. but hopefully soon.
well, i guess that's about all for me. i hope you all have a great week and that all goes well for ya! thanks for all of your love and support! I love you all!!! be sure and read the book of mormon daily so that you can get spiritually fed! don't let your spirit die of hunger! Eu Amo Voces!!!

Elder Wilson


p.s. um, about the package... maybe just send some more muffins. me and my comp downed those. and now the sisters think i am the muffin man. hahaha it's pretty funny. other than that, we are doing good. thank you!!! I love you!!!!