Hey everyone hows it goin?
things are going well here in beautiful paraguay. the weather is calming down a bit. here february is the hottest part of the year. it normally gets in-between 100 and 115 or 120 everyday which is nice and refreshing hahaha. its actually something that you do get a bit used to. a thing as missionaries that we learn during the summer is shade walking. what we do is we look ahead on the streets and find where there is the most shade because really the heat is just the sun. so you get under the shade and it cools down a lot. we walk throughout the day looking for the people to talk to and shade. its really nice when the sun goes down because it literally drops in temperature so much and its amazing. a very nice thing though is that even if people don t want to hear your message they are willing to give you something to drink. you could clap(that is what they do to knock on a door - they clap tw) a house and the guy comes out saying "no I'm ok come another day" you start testifying to him and its the same response, but then you say "ok, but do you have some cold water?" they always say yes. so that helps us out a little bit with chatting for a bit more.
This week was awesome!!!! we had zone conference which was great. they take around 8 or so hours and its all just awesome. learned a whole bunch on how to become a better teacher. from the time of the lesson, body language, to how to better use the spirit - all wonderful things that help a lot. got to see some of the elders from my old zone and saw an old companion which was nice. everything back in 3 bocas i hear is going well. the son is getting ready for the mission and the family is getting ready to be sealed in the temple as a family!!!!!!!!! YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!!! Here we a bunch of miracles. 6 of our investigators came to church. 3 of them for the first time and it was awesome. they felt the spirit and loved church.
this week also i was especially able to augment my testimony that our Father in Heaven truly does prepare his children to receive the gospel. while i was on divisions(their word for splits tw) with Elder Meadows (UT) we were looking for a reference and clapped an apt and a woman came out. we asked if this man lived there she said no and asked us who we are. we told her we were missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and we were called by a living prophet of God to bring this message to the people here in Paraguay. She then asked 3 questions: 1. What is the difference between your church and other churches? 2. While are so many churches who all say they are right? 3. How can I know which one is the true church? It was music to our ears!!!!! Sadly we couldn't pass because there was no man at home(propriety of numbers/ratio tw) but we set a cita for sunday. We got there on sunday all hyped all ready to go, and her boyfriend didn't want us to pass and teach. We tried so hard to get in to teach them. You could see that she wanted us to come and teach. The boyfriend though didn't budge. It threw us off for a bit, but a thing that i have learned is that you cant let those moments get ya down. Now she knows where to find her answer. Her time will come. We are gonna keep on looking.
So dad asked me a day run down a day in our mission here. so here it goes. 630 till 8 prep exercise, eat, shower, and such. 8 till 1030 personal, comp, and lang study. 1030 till 12 go out and teach or find new people. in every area there are "morning people" who are always there in the mornings. then we come back and either eat at a members, grab something real quick or make some food. then from 1 till 9 we are talking to everyone that we can. we normally get in 4 to 7 lessons a day. try to find at least 2 or 3 new people to teach every day. then come back at night plan for a half hour. get ready for bed, write in my journal, call and talk to members of my district see how they are going, or work on the little study projects that i have. 1030 in our 17 Celsius room for sleep time.
how crazy it is that a year is just around the corner i still feel like its been 2 months. wow time flies. but i am so grateful to be where i am doing what i am doing becoming who i am becoming. the mission just makes you so much better i cant really explain it. its like the time me, mack, mom and dad went to pick up evan from his mission and mom said "he looks like a missionary" thats how i feel. i love this work with all of my heart. the book of mormon is true! through studying it we will receive personal revelation it was written for us and is the most correct book on the face of the earth. it is Another Testament of Jesus Christ. I love you all so much and am so grateful for all that you do.
love
Elder Wilson
things are going well here in beautiful paraguay. the weather is calming down a bit. here february is the hottest part of the year. it normally gets in-between 100 and 115 or 120 everyday which is nice and refreshing hahaha. its actually something that you do get a bit used to. a thing as missionaries that we learn during the summer is shade walking. what we do is we look ahead on the streets and find where there is the most shade because really the heat is just the sun. so you get under the shade and it cools down a lot. we walk throughout the day looking for the people to talk to and shade. its really nice when the sun goes down because it literally drops in temperature so much and its amazing. a very nice thing though is that even if people don t want to hear your message they are willing to give you something to drink. you could clap(that is what they do to knock on a door - they clap tw) a house and the guy comes out saying "no I'm ok come another day" you start testifying to him and its the same response, but then you say "ok, but do you have some cold water?" they always say yes. so that helps us out a little bit with chatting for a bit more.
This week was awesome!!!! we had zone conference which was great. they take around 8 or so hours and its all just awesome. learned a whole bunch on how to become a better teacher. from the time of the lesson, body language, to how to better use the spirit - all wonderful things that help a lot. got to see some of the elders from my old zone and saw an old companion which was nice. everything back in 3 bocas i hear is going well. the son is getting ready for the mission and the family is getting ready to be sealed in the temple as a family!!!!!!!!! YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!!! Here we a bunch of miracles. 6 of our investigators came to church. 3 of them for the first time and it was awesome. they felt the spirit and loved church.
this week also i was especially able to augment my testimony that our Father in Heaven truly does prepare his children to receive the gospel. while i was on divisions(their word for splits tw) with Elder Meadows (UT) we were looking for a reference and clapped an apt and a woman came out. we asked if this man lived there she said no and asked us who we are. we told her we were missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and we were called by a living prophet of God to bring this message to the people here in Paraguay. She then asked 3 questions: 1. What is the difference between your church and other churches? 2. While are so many churches who all say they are right? 3. How can I know which one is the true church? It was music to our ears!!!!! Sadly we couldn't pass because there was no man at home(propriety of numbers/ratio tw) but we set a cita for sunday. We got there on sunday all hyped all ready to go, and her boyfriend didn't want us to pass and teach. We tried so hard to get in to teach them. You could see that she wanted us to come and teach. The boyfriend though didn't budge. It threw us off for a bit, but a thing that i have learned is that you cant let those moments get ya down. Now she knows where to find her answer. Her time will come. We are gonna keep on looking.
So dad asked me a day run down a day in our mission here. so here it goes. 630 till 8 prep exercise, eat, shower, and such. 8 till 1030 personal, comp, and lang study. 1030 till 12 go out and teach or find new people. in every area there are "morning people" who are always there in the mornings. then we come back and either eat at a members, grab something real quick or make some food. then from 1 till 9 we are talking to everyone that we can. we normally get in 4 to 7 lessons a day. try to find at least 2 or 3 new people to teach every day. then come back at night plan for a half hour. get ready for bed, write in my journal, call and talk to members of my district see how they are going, or work on the little study projects that i have. 1030 in our 17 Celsius room for sleep time.
how crazy it is that a year is just around the corner i still feel like its been 2 months. wow time flies. but i am so grateful to be where i am doing what i am doing becoming who i am becoming. the mission just makes you so much better i cant really explain it. its like the time me, mack, mom and dad went to pick up evan from his mission and mom said "he looks like a missionary" thats how i feel. i love this work with all of my heart. the book of mormon is true! through studying it we will receive personal revelation it was written for us and is the most correct book on the face of the earth. it is Another Testament of Jesus Christ. I love you all so much and am so grateful for all that you do.
love
Elder Wilson
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