January 16, 2017

Rain Rain and More Rain...

Hey ya'll!

Man what a week it has been! I'm just happy its finally over haha! this past week I'm pretty sure it rained EVERYDAY! I have never been so sick of rain in my life.. Elder Stephens said it only gets worse in the spring too.. sooo looks like ill be wet for the next few months ;) haha but the rain does bring warm weather which is always nice! Everyone said that February is bringing a lot of snow though so that should be fun. I've been wanting snow for the past 3 months! So one month of snow will be fantastic, other than after that it will be really wet..

Anyway due to it being really wet lately its made it really hard for Elder Stephens and I to get out and about but we tried our hardest not to let it get to us! on Friday night we had an appointment with the Sumter family that fell through which sucked because it just so happened to start raining right as that happened so instead of letting Satan get us down we decided to go out and knock doors! it was a rough hour of knocking but the last door we knocked the lady told us to come back the following day. When we went back we taught her about the Restoration, and right before the lesson her daughter came in and sat in on the lesson which was super cool. They were both super receptive to the Gospel and committed to read the Book of Mormon and pray to see if its true! It was probably one of the best lessons I have ever taught! they both were complementing our teaching skills afterwords which was super cool! But ya the overall lesson learned here is don't ever let Satan get you down when something falls through, be like Alma and look for another way to be happy!

The Sumter's are both doing great as well! they weren't able to make it to church this week because their van blew up and Danielle had work so that was unfortunate but they will be getting their baptismal interview hopefully this week and will be baptized next Thursday! I'm super excited and cant wait to see them enter into the waters of baptism. they are doing so great!! last night we were talking about how far they had come and it was so cool to see their attitude towards everything they have gone through and how grateful they are to be apart of this gospel now. it truly is the lords gospel!!

Nothing else this past week really happened other than my first district meeting went well. haha I was super nervous before but I was able to contain my nerves and deliver a pretty good lesson. Thank goodness its the spirit that teaches and not us right? ;)

Well for my spiritual thought this week I wanted to talk about repentance. yesterday at church we had a class in Gospel Principals about Repentance and what it truly means to repent. Something that stood out to me was that EVERY MAN needs to repent. It doesn't matter if your the prophet or just your average Joe, you should be constantly trying to better yourself and be constantly changing your self through Christ. Remember that the atonement is our gift from Jesus Christ. Its there for us always. whats the point of having an atonement if we never use it? If we are constantly repenting, not only are we becoming better followers of Christ but we are growing closer to our heavenly father and are building a relationship with him that can never be broken! it all ties back to God is our LOVING Heavenly Father!! I love you all and hope that you guys have a great week :)

Elder Wilson

Me and Elder Stephens after being out in the rain all night!