Elder Robbie Wilson

April 23, 2018

My Words Are Your Nutrition

Hey Y'all!

Soooooooooo this past week was long, but short, but long at the same time... its great!

haha we did A LOT of walking this past week, Ive walked through the souls of my shoes that I just bought like a few weeks ago.. lol that's what happens when you get 20 dollar shoes right? haha it will be fun making this last till I go home.

Nothing to crazy happened this past week, we had Zone Conference which was really fun! We taught about the importance of personal and companionship study. We had each of the missionaries study a certain topic of the Gospel of Jesus Christ for 15 minutes then had them split off into groups so they could learn from the other missionaries with their same topic. Before all this though we had them exercise, eat breakfast (a peanut butter ball), and begin with a prayer. It was cool to see how strong the spirit is and how much you can learn from the spirit when you TRULY decide that you want to learn. Desire will take you a long way in the gospel!

After Zone Conf we had exchanges with the AP's which was a lot of fun, I went with Elder Lindford who was a ZL in BV a year ago so we went around saying hi to some of the members and investigators that he taught and then called it a day, nothing too crazy but it was fun to be with him, he's a great missionary and is really fun to talk to, we mostly talked about the mission and hunting, haha what more could you talk about? lol.

After that exchange we had another one with Clifton Forge which was good, I went with Elder Sorensen and it was good! the kid is like half my size so I looked like I was walking around with a kid haha it was pretty funny, we were laughing about it. We played a pretty funny prank on his comp though. We went to this less active family the Najarians, and they were supposed to prank Elder Sorensen but totally forgot so I told them that they HAVE to prank his companion. haha so when they showed up we went and hid in the side room and Avery answered the door and yelled at them that he told them to never come back and to get the F*&%^ off his porch!! haha it was hilarious and not at all what we had planned but it was super funny because the other missionary had no idea what to do.. when we walked out from the side room he looked so confused.. it was great! we all laughed pretty hard about it!

Anyway other than that we are now just preparing for our upcoming "Meet The Mormons" movie night at the SVU center sports arena that Elder Hadley and I are putting on, we have gotten the word out to the whole school staff and programming people so we are now just passing out fliers like crazy going door to door, so its been great! The work seems to be looking up here in BV, just pray it all runs smoothly!

SO yesterday I had to speak in church and the topic that I was given was how to obtain a testimony of Jesus Christ, so I just want to share a little scripture that I shared that is the beginning step for all of us in this sacred opportunity and responsibility that we have to do this.

Alma 32: 27

27 But behold, if ye will awake and arouse your faculties, even to an experiment upon my words, and exercise a particle of faith, yea, even if ye can no more than desire to believe, let this desire work in you, even until ye believe in a manner that ye can give place for a portion of my words.

Just as the scripture says, the beginning step of anything in the gospel is a righteous desire and faith. As we exercise faith and show Heavenly Father our righteous desires, he will grant us accordingly! I want to invite you all to think of ways that you can gain a desire to strengthen your testimony this week, and if you don't have one, then I want you to find ways that you can obtain one! I promise you that this will bless your life for all time and eternity, trust in the process and trust in His timing, He is at the head of this church! I love you all and hope you have a great week!

Elder Robbie Wilson