January 23, 2017

Hello Friends and Family :)

well well well, another fast week in the books! I feel like I was just writing all of you clowns yesterday ;)

This past week was honestly not the hottest for Elder Stephens and I. We worked our butts off but we just couldn't seem to catch a break. But that's ok because not every week on your mission is going to be what you want it to be!

On the bright side though the we were able to get the Sumpter's baptismal interview scheduled for the 30th of this month which is super exciting! So they will be baptized on the 4 of next month which is actually most likely my last weekend in Ashland so that will be a pretty sweet way to go out :) But ya for those of you who don't know the story of the Sumpter family, I have been teaching them since I have gotten here. they have been taught by missionaries for almost a year now and have been through a lot. But right as I got here they decided to turn their lives back to god and fully devote them selves to the gospel. it has been so cool to see them change and sacrifice certain things to follow Jesus Christ! They have been such a testimony builder to me!!

Not much really happened this past week though other than that. It was kind of a slower week unfortunately but I know as we exercise faith that heavenly father will put people in our path to find teach and baptize!

Fun story yesterday at church Ray came running in to let everyone know that there was a car on fire in the parking lot and told a bunch of people to move their cars and so that was a pretty big fiasco haha. Church was a little bit delayed. I told Ray that it caught on fire because it felt the spirit of god! ;) you know like the song? the spirit of god like a fire is burning ;) man I'm hilarious!

For my spiritual thought this week I want to talk on the power of prayer. I have a firm testimony that the power of prayer is real! with out it there is no other way that we can communicate with our heavenly father. Its just another way for us to prove to our selves that god is our loving heavenly father and he cares for us and he wants to hear from us. Its through prayer that we can talk to him about not only what we need help with but mainly whats on our mind! god is a great listener and he is going to do what he can to help us feel his love. its just up to us to have the faith to know that he will will answer them. Remember god works on his own time. and sometimes you may not get the answer you want. It may be a no, a yes, or not right now. Whats important is that we remember that god knows whats best for us no matter the situation! I love you all and I hope you all have a wonderful week :)

Elder Wilson

Weekly Planning got us like..

Up in a Holler of KY!

The wonderful car fire at church :)

So this is at the one of the members in our ward the Wilburn's! They have a bad foundation and they asked me and Elder Stephens to fill some of the cracks in it for them before the snow hits! so we got to crawl around in their little mine shaft with all of the sprickets! (half spider half cricket)