July 30, 2018

GETTIR DONE!!

Hey Y'all!

Hard to believe July is just about over. Next week at this time ill be writing my last weekly email to y'all. Weird to think, so we are going to stop talking about that now lol.

This past week was great! Miracle after miracle. I love being a missionary and being on the front line of God's love being made manifest to his children. He truly does love us and wants the best for all of us. And to think all we have to do is just look to him and align our will with his and BOOM. He helps us out! I love it. 

Joel and Kelly made it to church with us this week. It was super good. They loved it and said they plan on being back next week. The Saturday before church we had a lesson with them and Bishop and Sister Hanson at the church and it went so well! they are planning on getting married August 18th and will be baptized September 8th. I'm so excited for them and the steps they are making in their life. I love being able to see the gospel change their countenance and who they are! truly is remarkable!

Troy is still on date to be baptized this weekend, Hes super excited to enter the waters of baptism and start preparing for the temple. I have felt so blessed to have been apart of his conversion. Hes a wonderful guy and has a rock solid testimony of the gospel. that's what missionary work is all about. Getting to see others strengthen their faith in Christ, and in turn having yours strengthened along the way. I'm looking forward to his baptismal service and being able to confirm him this Sunday. GOD IS GOOD!

other than that this week has been pretty good, the time is flying and I'm about to start my last full week as a Missionary. I'm ready to give it my all this week and see all the blessings that heavenly father has in store not only for me but for all the amazing people here in Rockbridge County. I want to close this weekly with a scripture from the Book of Mormon. 

Jacob 5:62

  62 Wherefore, let us go to and labor with our might this last time, for behold the end draweth nigh, and this is for the last time that I shall prune my vineyard.

Love you guys. till next week!!

Elder Wilson

We had to enter stuff in the planner and I got bored lol

Tracting in VA be like..

July 23, 2018

Miracles are all we know!

What up Y'all!

I wanna start this letter off by saying shout out to the little bro for getting his mission call to the Philippines Loaog Mission! I think I spelt that right.. Anyway, I'm pumped for you man!! you are going to do great things out there, you're going to see and experience amazing things in the service of the Lord! It truly is an amazing blessing to be numbered in his missionary force.

Well things here in BV have been great haha. This passed week honestly feels like one big dream. Crazy how fast the weeks are flying. I only have 2 more of these things left! We have been doing a lot of service for a lot of the members here which has been fun. Its given us a lot of opportunities to get to know some of the members. Since we cover so many wards we have close to 900 members we have to get to know. So we take every chance we can get haha. Other than service we have had the opportunity to teach a lot of people this past week. We also saw a lot of miracles as well.  Elder Moody and I were walking home one night and we just had a lesson with a less active part member family and when the lesson was over it was like 9 o'clock and we still had like a 20 minute walk home haha, they asked us for a ride but for some reason we felt prompted to just walk home and both wondered why.. anyway when we were about 4 minutes out from our car this guy stopped us in the street and said "Hey guys I just wanna shake your hand real quick, I met with missionaries in the past and I wanna start meeting with you again so me and my FAMILY can be baptized!"  What a blessing that was! The next day he was put on date for the 8th of September. 

We had exchanges with the Lexington Elders as well and that was a blast. I got to go with a new missionary who is in his first transfer of his mission. His name is Elder Bartholomew, and hes a stud! It was cool to see his ambition for the work. It made me think back to my first transfer in the mission and reminded me how exciting everything was at the point of the mission. Anyway on our exchange we talk to one of the coaches for the SVU football team and set a return appointment with him for Sunday evening. When Elder Moody and I went back last night we taught him about the Book of Mormon and what it is and what it can do for us, and when we finished he said "You know the first time I heard about his I was skeptical about it, But hearing it now I think this actually could be true!" He committed to read the BoM and said that he wanted to meet again the next Sunday!

Miracle after miracle. The Lord truly is blessing us this transfer. I'm so grateful to be apart of this wonderful work. I love being able to stand said by side with the prophet Mormon in saying "Behold, I am a disciple of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. I have been called of him, to declare his word, among this people, that they might have everlasting life." (3 Nephi 5:13) Feeding the sheep brings joy and everlasting happiness. I invite you all to reach out to a loved one this week that stands in need of love. Minister to them and help them feel the love of God. I promise as you do so you will find joy.

I hope you have a great week! I love you all :)

Elder Robbie Wilson

Betty, Elder Linford, and I 

Betty, Elder Linford, and I 

Elder Bartholomew and I

July 16, 2018

We Came To Play

What up Y'all.

well holy cow what a week its been! Hard to believe that its already Monday again. This past week was super crazy. We had so much happen and saw a lot of success. the windows of heaven is definitely opening up! We had to do a ton of planning this week which is both good and bad. Not gonna lie its getting harder and harder to find a desire to plan haha but I love it because when we plan things the spirit is so much stronger than when we just "Holy Ghost it". Any way ill try to get everything in here with out writing a huge letter haha.

SO to start off the week, since we are on the SVU campus we get to see all the church events happen. Well these past few weeks they have been having EFY and one of the counselors asked us to bear our testimony to all the EFY kids. So Wednesday morning we got to share our testimony in front of 350 teenagers. haha it was a lot of fun and a great experience to teach and expound our testimonies to so many youth, many of which are planning to go on missions! after that we had exchanges with the Lexington Elders, that was a great success. We were able to get into a lot of people homes that we have been trying for a while to see. Gotta love the exchange magic :)

Thursday we had Zone Conference which was my last one. We had to teach for a total of an hour at that, which was a great time! afterwords I had to bear my departing testimony to the zone which was a lot harder that I thought it was going to be. after zone conf we had exchanges with the APs which was great. I got to go with Elder Linford who is one of my good mission buddies. He goes home with me and he served in BV a year ago so he was saying his last good byes to a few people. But we found a total of 2 people on that exchange so it was a great success!

Yesterday elder moody and I had to speak at church. He spoke in BV, I spoke in YSA and Rockbridge. I never thought Id speak twice on one Sunday, but anything is possible right? ahah It was a good experience. By the time 9 o' clock rolled around last night we were both wasted and ready for bed. All in all it was a good week though, We got facebook which was really weird.. still don't know how to feel about that, we picked up 5 new investigators this week. and Troy is still progressing very well towards baptism. I love teaching people the message of the restoration. What a blessing it is to be used a tool in the lords hands! I'm grateful for all of you in my life. I hope you are all doing well!!

Have a good week, I love y'all :)

Elder Robbie Wilson

I saw brother Hodge when we were doing bishop store house! love that man!

Wednesday EFY hashtag was #friendsdayWednesday and they told us to get a selfie with one of your besties so me and Moody hit it up with the team Jesus selfie :)

Elder Moody and I found a colored school building in the middle of Rockbridge county 

Some of my pals at my last zone conference :)

July 9, 2018

That's Just My Life

Sup Y'all.

This past week was HECTIC. I'm so tired, we have been grinding day in day out. The 4th was super bomb. We spent it with a family called the Clark's. They invited their non member friends over so that was a good time, we got to share a message about the Book of Mormon with them after the dinner, though they weren't all that interested, they were happy that we shared a message of hope with them! Afterwords we watched some fireworks, that was lit.. haha punny!

MLC was super good! we talked a lot about consecration and the effect it plays on us as missionaries and each of our individual areas. President and Sister Lindhardt are truly amazing people and really know how to urge and inspire us to be better every time they teach us. I'm grateful for their influence on us as leaders and missionaries as well. Hard to believe this week will be my last Zone Conference. Time is a weird concept isn't it? time is just a memory.

So the smart phones transition has been interesting. Every time I use the thing I feel like I'm breaking the rules in someway.. its interesting haha but they are going to do a lot of good for the work. There are so many new tools and ways to reach out and invite people to the Gospel. Gets me amped to come home and apply all the things that I'm learning!

for my spiritual though I want to share a scripture from the New Testament.

30 And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast itfrom thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell

When the Savior is talking about our Hands he is talking about the friends and people in our life that may keep us from finding happiness or living the Gospel.  I want to invite you all to look at the people in your life. Those who may bring you sadness, those who are negative, liars, thieves, prideful, anyone that may keep you from living the life you want to live, to cut them out of your life. I know that may seem harsh or it may seem like a hard thing to do. But there is no sense in having people in your life that keep you from happiness. I promise you that if you do this you will find the happiness in your life that you are looking for. All you need is family and the Savior. Never trust in the arm of flesh. They will always let you down. I hope y'all have a good week.

Elder Wilson

Elders in my MLC Group

Happy 4th!

The Baety's from our ward

July2, 2018

July!

Hey Y'all!

Well this week I will be hitting my 23rd month mark.. that's just crazy to me! Feels like its been 2 months since my year mark. I look back at my mission with great love and appreciation. Just to think that none of this wouldn't have happened had I chosen not to go on a mission! Crazy.

So this past week was pretty nuts! We had transfers which is always a hand full. Plus on top of that we had to make the transition to working the three different areas. I have to admit its going to be super nice having a car. I look forward to not being in the humidity as much. Plus it will help us to get a lot more work done! so there is benefits to everything. The cool thing about covering 3 different areas means we cover 4 different wards too.. Yesterday we sat through 7 hours of church.. talk about a spiritual feast! haha it was great, but by the end of it we were wore out! It did make it a lot easier to fast though haha. 

This past week we put one of our new investigators on date! his name is troy and he is a YSA. He was taught by the other Elders before they left but he is a stud! hes on date for the 4th of August so we are super excited about that! if all goes well there is no doubt in my mind that he will be ready for that date. It will be a cool day because that will be my last weekend in the mission. #blessup

other than that things seem to be going pretty good! we are working out guts out as usual. This week we have Missionary Leadership Council and will be getting our smart phones so that should be a fun transition. Next week we have zone conference where the rest of the mission will get their phones. So it will be a crazy couple of weeks! it'll be over before you know it!

I hope y'all have a great week. Remember to read the Book of Mormon daily. The Lord is in the details of your life. He loves you and wants you to turn to him. DO IT! you will never regret choosing Jesus in your life :) I love you all and hope you have a good week :)

Elder Robbie Wilson

Our old District

Hammocking