Hello everyone!
How have everyones first couple weeks
of the year been? We can officially start saying I come home this year.
Which is nuts. After this transfer I only have 5 transfers left. Its a
little wierd, and they say this last part of your mission is the
fastest. For the first time in my mission I have been feeling trunky!
(or anxious to be home)I think it has a lot to do with my companion
though. He goes home at the end of this transfer in february, and well,
He's always talking about home ha. I cant blame him though, the man
hasnt been home in 2 years! Sometimes he gets me really excited about
going home though, and then I realize I still do have 8 months left
though ha.
He is still super focused on the work though. We have a goal
to have baptisms every weekend before he gets home. And we started it
off well! We had the baptism of a young man named Leo yesterday. (I
shall attatch a photo) And the rest of weekends look like theyre really
lining up well so that we can hit that goal:)
This week was very busy, but we were still able to get a good amount of work done in our area. We had the transfer meeting on tuesday.
My companion and I stayed together. We got some really good elders in
the zone. And we got sister missionaries for the first time in the
history of the Izucar zone! We share our branch with them and Everyone
is really excited for them to be here. We are too, they'll do good.
Then we had zone meeting this week. But because our zone
is so big the elders dont come to us, we go to them. So we actually did 3
zone meetings over the course of 3 days.
As I was
preparing and praying for what to share in my zone meeting, I was able
to come up with a lot of good things. President Reeves asked us to talk
about reaching our potential, so I focused on that, and I talked about
discouragement, and how destructive that can be to us as missionaries.
But it really is true for all of us.
I won't share with you everything I shared with the
missionaries, but I'll share a quote I used from President Uchtdorf:
"Brethren, our destiny is not determined by the number of times we
stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and
move forward."
I really like that quote. We're not
perfect, and we're not supposed to be. Perfection comes in the next
life. To God, it doesn't matter how many times we've messed up in this
life. We still always have the oppurtunity to leave bad habits behind.
To forget past sins and move on. The Atonement of Jesus Christ covers
whatever we've done in the past, we just have to do our part. Every
single one of you have divine potential. Your father in heaven loves
yous, and wants you to succeed. Never be discouraged at the things that
happen in this life, they are part of his plan.
I love you guys, and hpe you have a great week!
Love,
Elder Wilson
