Elder Robbie Wilson

April 16, 2018

Let It Rain Let it Pour!

Hey Y'all!

Well what a week its been! This past week was a good'n!! haha we did a lot of walking this week which has been nice, getting me in good shape that's for sure haha. We saw a lot of good things happen this week that we are excited about and a lot of funny things happen too!

So to start off, we had MLC on Wednesday which was pretty fun! the night before we went up to Roanoke and stayed the night there with the Zone leaders there which was a blast but before we got there we had dinner with the one and only MACK AND ABBIE MOYE!! haha it was so good to see them and catch up on all that they were doing. I love those guys so much. MLC was pretty good too, It was good to hear from President Lindhardt again and receive some further insight on how we can be more effective leaders and missionaries in the WVCM. I love learning from him because he has so much insight on the principles of gospel that really provoke deeper thought and understanding, its awesome!

after MLC we came back and had just a normal week, because our area is so small though we don't really do to much tracting so we have to get creative when it comes to finding so we have been trying to spend more time with them members so that we can earn their trust. Its been a lot of fun getting to know all the young college couples in the area haha, its so nice to be around people my age again! anyway one day this past week me and Elder Hadley were walking down the street to go see one of the members in the ward and she was outside and Elder Hadley said her name was Jenny so instantly the thought of Forest Gump and started yelling in my Forest Gump accent "JENNY!!!!" and then Elder Hadley started doing it so we were just in the middle of the street sounding like a bunch of Weirdos and we stop for a split second and as soon as we do we here these two girls start laughing so we look over and there was two college girls sitting on their porch just busting up laughing at us from doing our Forest Gump voice haha it was hilarious.. you had to be there ;)

Later in the week we had another funny incident.. we were stopping at a gas station to snag a drink and these guys were outside so we asked them how they were doing and one guy said "BETTER THAN YOU!" so we just laughed and kept walking inside, got our drinks and on our way out he asked us if we were Mormons so we said yes and he right away started to condemn us and told us all the original anti stuff that you hear so Elder Hadley just walked around the van and said "How about you come talk to us when you put the cancer stick down" (the guy was smoking) and I couldn't help but bust out in laughter and the guy just kind of stood there looking like a clown haha it was great.. then later that day we were walking to one of our appointments and we ran into the guy AGAIN and so he slowed down and started talking to us and started saying the same thing so finally I just "how about we agree to disagree and be friends" and he said "I just hate to see you go to hell" so I laughed and said "hey don't worry buddy me and you will be buddy buddy up there in heaven one day" and because he was on a bike he started to ride away so I yelled out "AND WE CAN RIDE BIKES AS LONG AS WE WANT TOGETHER, LOVE YOU!!" haha it was pretty funny, I guess the guy has been known to anti the missionaries before.. what a guy!

anyway our investigators are killing it! Larry wants to get married so he can be baptized and Brandon Garrett is really starting to open up to us which I guess he has never done before so that's exciting! pray that everything goes well there!!

anyway I hope you all have a killer week!! love you :)