Elder Robbie Wilson

December 4, 2017

2/3 of the way done!

Hey Y'all!!

Wow can you believe that its already December?! It doesn't feel real to me. Last year at this time I was about to enter into my "Dark Year" and now here I am preparing to enter into my "Light year" Though I feel like those two names should be switched around. Hard to believe that 2018 is only a month away... Time sure does fly, Just makes me recognize how much harder I need to be working!! I'm excited for the last 8 months of my mission. I'm so ready to put all of my experience and knowledge to the test!

So my new area is Clarksburg WV! Its my first time serving in West Virginia on my mission so its been fun to see how different WV is compared to VA haha the grid system in this state looks like someone took a pencil and just scribbled everywhere its hilarious. My new companion is the one and only mission legend Elder Dutson! He is a great guy and is a great example of a good leader. He motivates me to be better and to work hard everyday. I knew him when we were in the MTC so we have been good buds since day one of the mission so I'm pretty excited to get to work with him! This area just had 5 baptisms this past transfer so we have to start from ground 0 again but we are excited to get after it this transfer. We have already seen miracles in just the past 3 days. Yesterday while we were at church we were both fasting for new people to teach and prepare for baptism and right before 3rd hour of church one of the members came up to us and said that he wants us to teach his son so he can be baptized by the end of the month, so that was a huge miracle. Then later Sunday night I got to meet an investigator family that have been taught for a couple months, they were great people and told us why they started to learn with the missionaries, they said that they are looking for a church that they can be apart of and get there two little girls into. so we set up a church tour for them this Saturday so that they can get a feel of the chapel and what we do every Sunday. then hopefully they will attend church with us the following day! that was miracle number two! and then later Sunday night we went and taught a recent convert and his son who is super Hyper and crazy and we had a bomb lesson with him and put him on date for January 27th which Elder Dutson said they had been trying to do for the longest time but could never get him to settle down for lessons. so we have had 3 miracles in just one day. I love this area so much already haha I'm more than excited to get after it this transfer!

Other than that not much change has happened haha, we have Zone Conference this weekend which I'm pretty pumped for, we get to teach during the meeting so that should be fun and interesting but it will be a good learning experience for sure. Growth is always a good thing!

I hope all of you are doing things everyday to light the world and be a Christ like example to those around you. The Christmas season is a great time to get out and serve other people and to bring the spirit of Christmas into every ones life. I love you all and hope you have a good week. Stay safe and remember Christmas is only 20 days away!!

Elder Wilson