Elder Robbie Wilson

May 15, 2017

Merry Mother's Day!

Hey Y'all!

well sheesh what a week! Not gonna lie this past week was a long one but I think that's mostly because I was so dang excited to skype my wonderful family on mothers day! I want to wish all the mothers out there a Happy Mother's Day! You have no Idea how much your children appreciate all that you do. You are a blessing to everyone. So keep being wonderful mothers :)

My Mother's Day was pretty great! Us and the Vinton 2 Elders got to go up to Mack and Abbie's house to skype our family and eat dinner! it was a lot of fun and a happy time was had by all :) It was super fun to talk with my family. Its always good to be reminded that I am my parents favorite child still :) some things just never change haha! But ya things here in Vinton are going great! We have plans to pick up two new investigators this week which should be good! This past week we also got to do exchanges with the other Elders and I got to go with Elder Henstra who is the new Elder in our District! He played baseball too so we got to talk a lot about ball and he told me how bad the Giants were doing... Sad day, but we don't talk about that! haha but it was overall a pretty good week.

On Wednesday we had Zone Conference and boy was that GREAT! We focused a lot on reactivation of old members and how important it is that we bring the spirit to their homes and help remind them of the peace and comfort that comes from living the gospel! It was super cool because we have actually talked about reactivating a lot of the ward here because only 25% of the members show up. I love when the spirit can make things feel so directed towards you!

So for my spiritual thought this week I want to talk a little bit about what we talked about in Zone Conf. Since I have been out on my mission I have really gained a great appreciation for 1 Nephi. there is so much that we can Liken unto our self's in that book! In Zone Conf we covered Chapters 17 and 18 which are the chapters that talk about Nephi preparing to build a ship and one verse that sticks out to me in particular is 1 Nephi 17: 13 and it says;

" And I will also be your light in the wilderness; and I will prepare the way before you, if it so be that ye shall keep my commandments; wherefore, inasmuch as ye shall keep my commandments ye shall be led towards the promised land; and ye shall know that it is by me that ye are led."

The thing that I like most about this is that it says that all we have to do is keep the commandments of God and we will be led and directed by him. how great is that blessing? Now you can think of the promised land as being temple worthy or serving a mission or even eternal life. All we have to do is keep the commandments and God will prepare a way for us to make it there just like He did for Nephi in helping him build a ship! I love you all and hope you have a great week!!

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