Week 31

Well, Alot has changed recently. They ripped me out of the paridise weather of Puebla and Sent me to the New Orleans of Mexico. Hot and Humid, with lots of cockroaches and bugs and various mexican spiders.  I heard mom is giving 25 dollars to whoever can guess, so congrats to whomever guessed close to Izucar. I am in a pueblito about 30 minutes outside of there named Atencingo. It is basically the equivolant of an Idaho farm town, but instead of sugar beats and potatoes it is all cane sugar and corn. By the way, cane sugar smells really weird so dont ever live next to a sugar factory or cane sugar farm.

 New game, my companion is from what state in mexico?

His name is Elder Juarez and he is 3 months away form finishing his mission. He is a great missionary who works hard as long as I give him a little push because after 21 months, apparently you start to have mental tiredness that is unmatched by any other experience in life. Elder Scott said the same thing.

We dont have a ton of investigators right now, but from what I have seen this week, we can really help this branch grow. The recent converts are golden (including the Branch President) and they all have a good missionary spirit. Our big problem here is there is a huge number of less active members almost 4 times as many less actives as active members. Mostly due to being offended, working on Sundays or just not having a testimony. We have a goal of finding and baptizing  at least four people and have a few prospectives. 

I really like my new area even though it is hot and huge and a ton of walking.

I havent heard about the people back in 16 de septiembre yet, I will let you know when I know. Hope everyone is doing good and have a great week.

Love

Elder Jacob Wilson

HE GOT BAPTIZED ON SATURDAY!

Elder Read with his new companion and the nice wonderful member who gave us the reference of Jose. His name is nisefero. Now, think of the nonmembers you know who could use a visit from the missionaries, then picture you and them in white on their baptism day, and send in the reference with a name and address to the church! Love you all, and remember that missionary work is a church wide effort, not just full time missionaries. 

Jacob helped teach this man and but was transferred to his 

new area Wednesday, the baptism was on Saturday. 

Fam Damily week 30

Dearest Family, 

This week.. wow. One of the best of my whole mission. We committed our investigator Jose to be baptized this saturday. I have changes and will be in a new area tomorrowwith a new companion but I am still so happy for Jose. I am hoping I can get permission to come back and watch the Baptism. Jose is about 50, looks kind of like a Mexican version of dad haha. He loves the gospel soo much and it has brought him so much peace and Joy. He is divorced and lives alone so he is hoping also to find a member he can marry. :)  He has not had a single problem or even a hiccup in living the gospel, the commandments, praying, reading, assisting church. He is one of the few people out here that we call golden investigator. He absolutely is the most prepared and ready investigator I have ever seen or heard of. 

Tomorrow I will be heading to the changes meeting, which means all the missionaries who have a change of assignment will go to a meeting and then we will be assigned our new area and new companion and then I am off to a new part of my service in Mexico. I am going to miss this ward, they are great, the members here love the gospel so much and do a lot to share it with everyone. Most of all I will miss visiting Jose and Alejandra. They are going to be in my heart and my prayers I think for the rest of my life. I can personally testify that sharing the gospel with somebody who accepts and lives it builds a relationship that is as special as any I have had. This gospel is real. 

Next week I will be writing from a new area, with a new companion and a new chapter in this story. 

Have a wonderful week all of you and remember that missionary work is the greatest of all the works ever. 

Found a cool Joseph smith quote today. 

When you feel pure intelligence flowing into you, it may give you sudden strokes of ideas.

The spirit is real, it inspires the hearts and minds of men to valiantly do the will of God. So go find a spritual corner this week and let the inspiration flow. 

Elder Jacob Wilson

Week 29

Hey family, Happy Easter, sorry its late. 

I hope you all had a wonderful week. I sure did. 

This last week we had 5 investigators that went to conference. 3 of which havent been to church since we first taught them in december. They loved it and loved the chapel and everything about the conference. We will be teaching them again tonight. They have been a huge test of my patience since we started teaching them but always progressed little by little and now They are finally taking steps towards baptism and conversion and I am so happy for them. 

The Man Leo, he always says, these two books they support each other, they ought to be the same book as he holds up his book of mormon and his santa biblia. He is getting a testimony of the book and the gospel and it is going to be so cool when he finally gets baptized. 

Another investigator Jose is absolutley in love witht he church. He is so happy to meet with us and to come to church and has a baptismal date for the 25th of april. He is going to be such a good convert. He said when we sat in the chapel, somebody put there hand on his back to just greet him and say HI. He told me when they tapped his shoulder he felt like it was family that was reaching out to him. He had never met the man in his life, but felt a very familiar family connection with him. 

The conference was great, we all watched it together in a little room with candy and soda and stuff and we watched it in english with all the norteamericanos in the zone. 

It was a good time. 

Not much else happened this week. The weather has been great: not to hot and sunny all day and nice and cool at night. 

The hardest strggle of the week is that my keyboard doesnt have a fnctioning U key. so that scks. but hey I cant complain too mch.

I love you all. happy easter

have a wonderful week. 

Love Elder Wilson