10-26-2009 E-MAIL

Subject: I OWN THIS TOWN!

Hey Everybody, Well first of all: ¡congrats Kaylene and Josh! It's hard to believe that when I get home Jace will be more than a year old and Emily will be 8 months old and… Liam? IDK how to spell anymore will be 7ish months old. Crazy. Well, I guess we’ve passed the test of being practically by ourselves out here in Villa Montes… Cuz now we really are alone. The other two missionaries Elder Cajahuaman and Elder Michel both were moved… and nobody came to replace them. So now we have the whooole city to ourselves. I'm still with Elder Hurtado, so I have another 6 weeks to better my patience, but I know it’s good for me. We ended up moving from the flea house to the house the other Elders were in. It's sooooo nice. It's tiny but it looks like it could be part of an apartment in the states… tile floor… a ceiling, THE WORKS. But ya so we are totally alone. We are too far away from the zone to go to meetings so every Thursday our district (me and my comp) have our district meeting. It's just funny, but we try to take it serious. Pres Maynes called me and told me how much trust he is putting in us to be out here. He said it's up to us to be obedient, and the only person who will know how we use our time here is the Lord. He told us we have to be obedient and work really hard with the members to have any success here. I love Pres Maynes! He’s so great; I guarantee you’ll all be able to listen to him in General Conference in a few years. We had another crazy week. We had problems moving, and lost tons of time in that. Then the day that the other elders left we had a little camp fire activity planned, but a huge windstorm came in and knocked down trees and cut the light out. And then Sunday… we only had 49 people come to church, and no investigators came, I was so frustrated. But we have a lot of hope for this week. Our Branch President, President Miranda is finally healthy and back. And he talked to the priesthood about helping out more with visiting less actives and giving us references. The members had the idea that with 4 missionaries they didn’t have to do much, but now that there’s only the two of us they see the need to help. So we lost 2 missionaries but we’ve gained about 30 members to help us.So ya we have a lot of work on our hands, we have half a city to get to know haha. Its going to be a busy week.
Aunt LaRae- Thank you so much for your email. I think about Brian too whenever I teach about the Spirit World. I’m not sure if the Drakes remember me, but Bro Drake taught our Priesthood class in the MTC in Peru. They are so great.
Mom-My fleas are gone and my stomach is fine. I figured out how I got sick,I drank a juice at a members house cuz I’m just tired of drinking pop all day, but I don’t think the water had been boiled. I’m loving the packages,but I feel kinda spoiled haha. Dad is leaving again?
Crystal-I know what you mean about time flying… I now have less than 8 months. TWO THIRDS! My comp is fine, we just washed the wound with alcohol,now he is terrified of dogs. I honestly don't need anything. I spent about 3 dollars and fixed some holes I had in my pants, so all my clothes are fine now. Don’t worry about letters, Its basically impossible for me to send letters from here, I've been wanting to write Kort and Jarred and cyd and Beau and Vince forever, but I don’t even know if there's a post office here.
Valynn-Tyler Jamen and Kaitlyn are really getting older now… crazy. I always remember how strong the church is in the states, that’s what we are trying to establish here… it’s a work in progress lets say.
Grandma- Thanks for your email, I received two emails last week. I'm not sure how many you sent.
EE-Thanks for looking! I think the flea problem has left already. Good luck with waiting for the baby.
Kim- Oh Brennen… I feel a lot healthier now, but I lost a lot of weightreally fast this week… maybe I should keep drinking the river water. We have three people that should be getting baptized this month: Pastor, Rosa and Juan Carlos. But NONE of them came to church. So we need to get them a little more excited about it. Well, thanks for your emails everybody, I love you all so much.

Elder Wilson