January 2, 2017

THE NEW YEAR IS HERE BABY!!

Dear Family, Friends, People who don't read my emails, People who don't email me anymore, The people Who I don't really know but love anywhere, house cat, bottle nose dolphin

Hey everyone!! how was your guys week?? Mine was great! I cant believe that year is now 2017! I can now say that I go home next year haha so look who's not so green anymore right?! haha crazy to think that I've been out for almost 6 months!! Time flies :)

This past week was a good one, all though it was transfer week and new years, we still worked hard and did what we could! this week we went over to the Sumter's to spend some time with them and before we started the lesson they started telling me how they are planning to move to Utah in two years and how they cant wait to see me every day! haha I was laughing pretty hard thinking they were joking but they were actually being serious and plan on moving to Utah! haha didnt know they liked me that much ;) But Danielle is now starting to quit coffee so that she will be able to be baptized with the rest of her family on the 21st of this month! they are all super excited to start their new year off with being baptized!

Speaking of new years, I actually had a great new years as a missionary! President had all of the missionaries in by 6 pm so once me and Elder Stephens were done weekly planning we just hung out and played cards all night until the new year. It was super fun! hard to believe I wont get to see any of your wonderful faces this whole year.. and vice versa for all of you ;) 

Things out here are going great though. being a district leader really has no different feel to it other than I have to get numbers each week which I find more fun then anything haha! tomorrow we have a zone conference so I'm pretty excited about that! it will be good to see all the other missionaries in the zone and see who left and who came in!

For my spiritual thought I want to share what we learned about in Sunday school yesterday! so yesterday at church we had the opportunity to sit in on a teacher training class for all of the members in the ward that teach a class and it was so cool! alot of what they said tied back into missionary work and what our purpose truly is as members and teachers in this wonderful gospel, and that's to teach the doctrine of Christ. Because when we know the doctrine of Christ we know what god expects of us and what we need to accomplish while we are here on earth so that we can make it back to him one day. If we do all we can to spread the doctrine of Christ and do so in a Christ-like way, not only will we be blessed for it but the spirit will be there to guide us and will bring the message unto the hearts of the children of men. I want to invite all of you to read Nephi 31 in the book of Mormon. this chapter specifically talks about the doctrine of Christ and the blessings that come from living it and teaching it! this specific chapter has blessed me and my mission so much. I love you all and hope you have a great week!!

Elder Wilson

The Hillbilly Flee market, these things are fantastic!!

Mom sent white hot chocolate, shes a saint!!

I had to say goodbye to one of my favorite Elders in the district last week! Elder Mcclune is a stud and I'm grateful to have met him!! I look forward to partying it up with him at USU when I get back!