July 3, 2017

America The Beautiful

Hey Y'all!

Wow what a week its been! this past week went by super fast but it was a good one! made a lot of good memories and had a lot of fun doing it! I don't know where to begin so I guess Ill just start at the beginning of the week! 

So Tuesday we had exchanges with the Zone Leaders which is always a good time! I was able to go with my good buddy Elder Burgener who is a total stud! He didn't really have anyone that we could visit that day so we tracted. ALL. DAY. LONG. haha it was a lot of fun and we handed out 6 Book of Mormons and found 7 new potentials investigators. It was a lot of fun though. It was fun serving with someone who I could talk about baseball with. He had a few scholarships offered to him but he said that he needed to serve the Lord before he made any decisions. He's a good guy and I learned a lot and had a lot of good laughs with him. Later that night we made ties and skinned and stuffed a dead squirrel haha. so that was pretty neat!

Not much happened the rest of the week except on Friday I got to go on an exchange with Elder Crouch which is always a blast. we have really become super close with each other! We had a hoot of a time and worked super hard! We went tracting with a member from our ward and were able to hand out 10 Book of Mormons in just an hour and a half!!! Talk about blessings right? I definitely have a firm testimony of member missionary work. If you ever have the opportunity to go out with the missionaries, do it! You will see some great miracles that will come from it!

Then on Saturday Elder Basteen and I had the opportunity to go to a Jehovah's Witness convention!! It was a pretty cool experience. It definitely testified to me that our church truly does have the FULLNESS of the gospel. I'm grateful though for the opportunity that I had to go and witness what they believe in and some of their perspectives. They were a very nice group of people as well. After the convention was over (its like a general conference for them) a bunch of the members came up to us and were shaking our hands and getting to know us which was cool! gotta love Christians :)

So ya,other than that not much happened. haha it was a good and very fast week! Hard to believe that we are already half way through the transfer! Time is flying and I hope it slows down a bit so I can enjoy it a little more. 

For my spiritual thought I just want to thank each of you that have served for our country. We are so blessed to live in the promised land of the Lord and we are even more blessed to have such courageous men and women that are willing to put their life on the line to serve our country and protect each of us. I hope you all have a great week and enjoy your holiday!!! love you all :)

Elder Wilson

The stuffed squirrel!!

The ties me and elder Burgener made!

Twinners 4 Lyfe

Our wonderful exchange picture