Fam Damily Week 22

Hey everybody, I got to baptize the Sister missionaries' Investigator this week, She is a basketball player six two, and she is the girlfriend of a member here who is a pro basketball player. But her name is Astrid Berenice Sanchez Curmina and she chose me to baptize her because one day we were at her boyfriends house eating and she said I had a noble spirit... so yeah. I'm noble. just thought you all should know haha  

Then this week we had an awesome lesson with our golden investigators Elizabeth and Alejandra, their Baptismal date was changed to the first week of march but they came to church and that was awesome. Also we have one investigator Leopoldo who is living the word of wisdom and trying to quit smoking and he is doing so good. already gone down from 11 smokes a day to 4 and by week 3 he told us he will quit completely. He is progressing really well and reading the book of mormon and told us he thinks Joseph Smith is a prophet of God so that is all good with me. This week my companion got to speak in church too so that was way cool, only 4 weeks and he is speaking in church, I really felt like a proud papa. He is the best and we are such good friends. 

Also the last 4 weeks we have been digging a hole for a member in the ward. Hermano gabriel. He loves missionaries because he says we are the only people who have always loved him and had patience with him. The hole when it is finished will be 1.5 meters wide, 4.5 meters long and 1.5 meters deep. If you don't know how much 1 meter is, about 3 feet. so yeah, it is a huge hole. I will send a pic when it is finished. But this week instead of digging it we moved his three cactus he had out of the way because that was where he wants the hole. We are only about one third of the way done after about 8 hours worth of digging. It's hard but pretty fun too. Like everything in the mission. Hard, but fun. 

I speak pretty decent spanish now, my goal is to be able to tell people I am argentine and have them beleive me. I think by the one year mark, I will speak well enough to do it. thats my goal at least. 

Not a whole lot of super exciting stuff this week, sorry, just not the most exciting week ever. 

Fam Damily weeeeeeeeek 21? I think?

So now that I have a big chunk of my mission behind me I feel pretty old wise and experienced. Haha just kidding I am still about the same.  But most importantly I am feeling like I got this, it is a good feeling, to know that you know what to do, and how to do it. I am not as tired when the alarm goes off at 630 in the morning, or at 4 in the afternoon after eating a big lunch. I am more focused and more in sync with the missionary schedule, rules, and work. I can feel myself becoming what the Lord wants me to be. It is a good feeling. I invite you all to try something me and my companion decided to try as a recommendation from some missionaries in our district. In the attitude of fasting and prayer, make a list of all the things you think the lord wants you to change, and really pray to know what his will is for you in your life. Write them all down somewhere where you will review it daily, morning and night. Then make a promise to the Lord that you will behind all the bad things and start doing all the good. Fast from those bad things for 40 days, and Don't let a single day go by without looking at your list and adding new revelations from the Lord and reviewing your progress. You will fail in some things, and will need to pray for strength every day but the lord will make up the difference if you do your best. You can be a more capable tool in his hands, you just need to show him you are willing to do his will, and he will use you to further His work. 

This week we had an awesome experience with our investigadora's husband Frank (not his real name). He has a good vision for his family, and that vision is a family dressed in white in the temple. It turns out he has had a really hard time with his wife lately, he was praying to know what to do. He was about to leave his wife and daughter for good when He saw us in the street one night while driving his taxi. He stopped and talked to us, asked us to teach his wife and daughter the gospel. Then he said that night he prayed to know if he should stay with her even though she had done some very offensive things and hurt him very deeply. The spirit told him, quedaste con su familia. ella no entiende mal y bien, y ella le necesita para entender el evangelio. si quedara, valdria la pena. le ama a ella, no salga

Stay with your wife and daughter, she doesn't understand good and evil, and she needs you to help her understand the gospel, and if you stay, it will all be worth it. You love her. don't leave. 

He took that as his answer and has worked so hard to help his family accept the gospel. and he is fighting the adversary every day for his eternal family. He understands perfectly that this is a war, a war with a great prize. Eternal families. The lesson I learned from Frank is this: 

FIGHT FOR YOUR ETERNAL FAMILY!

Also I want to tell you about Miguel Angel, he is a member that helps us a ton. He spends every night in his humble little home praying that his neighbors will accept the gospel, and accept the missionaries, he has literally shared it with everyone in his whole colonia, (neighborhood) including the local christian pastor who seems very interested in the church (and has about 70 in his congregation ) But the part about him I love the most is he showed me the little mat he has next to his bed where he neals to pray every night, he told me I don't know how many times I have sat hear pleading with the Lord to give me the opportunity to share the gospel with my neighbors and I don't know how many tears I have cried when they just won't accept it. But he keeps working, keeps sharing and keeps living the gospel. Every morning he works in the streets to smooth them out  (theyre dirt roads) in his Mormon service vest trying to talk with anyone who goes past. 

He is an example to me of the importance of Sharing the Gospel. It is everything. 

SHARE IT!!!

I love you all and miss you all.  

My companion and I are doing great, even though we are having a lot of trouble finding new investigators right now, but all is well and we are having a lot of fun

mucho amor

Elder Wilson

Week 20

Well the mission is only 102 weeks. I have just realized I am about one fifth of the way through. Wow. Two years is not a long time. 

Cool experience this week about eternal families. We have two investigators with baptismal date, our plan was to teach about the plan of salvation and then put the goal of: getting sealed as a family in the temple next year,  in the next visit. ( the hermano is a member, knows all about that stuff, his wife and daughter are investigadoras) anyways we taught the first half of the plan of salvation and the next appointment we were going to put that goal of getting sealed in the temple. and at the end of our lesson, the hermano was like. 

Guys I want to say something, I really want to take my family to the temple and get sealed, and I want you guys to help me, so don´t leave us, I know we have a long way to go, but I know my family belongs in the church. BOOM! SPIRITUAL EXPLOSION

It was so powerful, we put the goal right there, will you guys work towards being an eternal family and do all that it takes to reach that goal? They accepted

Other than that family, this week has been slow and not a lot of people have been home. But the golden family is still working towards their baptismal goal. So all is good. 

Overall, I feel this week that that the Lord is just pushing us to our very limits. He wants to know how much he can trust each one of us, and he will work with us according to our obedience and willingness to do what he asks. Make him proud and do your very best this week. 

Blessings are always greater than sacrifices. 

I hope you are all doing great, I miss you and I love you and I know that the Lord has a lot in store for us if we obey and do our best. 

Elder Wilson