6-22-2009 E-MAIL

Hey everybody, well idk anything else about Bolivia. I was thinking I'd be going to the Embassy today, but I'm not, maybe tomorrow. Eld Ferrer has the lady that handles all the Visas in his ward and he has a cita with her tonight, so he's gonna find out when I'm going. The work is actually getting better in my area, we baptized a girl this week, named Joselym. And we have another girl this week, her name is Maribel. She's amazing, she left her job yesterday so she can come to church. And we are working with a guy named Juan Fernando. We met him last Thursday, and Friday morning he accepted to be baptized. But the problem is normally he’s only in town on weekends, cuz he's training to be in the DEA of Peru. But I’ve never met anyone so prepared. And its all thanks to a member friend in the DEA. He told us he sees him reading the BOM every night but never bothered asking him about it.We asked him after the first lesson how he was feeling…’’ITS TRUE’’, oh wow it was awesome, he said everything made perfect sense and no one had ever taught him like that. We challenged him to get baptized and he said ‘’congusto'’(with pleasure, get it?) But the thing that scares me is we don’thave a lot of time to teach him, and we are probably getting closed. But the thing is I know if we don’t baptize him, he’s going search out other Elders to help him… But I wanna do it.I'm really going to miss my ward here, not that many people come, but there are 5 or 6 super strong families that keep everything going. And they love the Elders so much, and I feel so bad cuz they give us all this stuff,but they don’t have very much money. So we just do service haha.Oh ya and… I HAVE A YEAR, or well, I will in a bit. We're having a little ho-down in our house, its gonna be a good time.

Mom-I hope you feel better, I really don’t need any white shirts yet. I'll let you know when I do.

Dad- ¡Felíz Día Del Padre! And good luck in France.

I don’t get to study anything, its really frustrating, we are always having to go into Lima in the morning. Kim-ya send me some pictures. I feel bad that my area is getting closed.

Valynn- Bolivia and Peru are pretty similar, but Santa Cruz is all jungle.

EE-I'm just gonna burn my shirt, and some ladys in my ward are making me a cake. Let me know what you're havin.

kk-keep me up to date on the baby. And yes I'm afraid the food will be worse over there.

Love you guys Elder Wilson

6-15-2009 E-MAIL

Hey everybody, how's it going. We had a pretty good week up here in Cieneguilla, we went to a little resort up in our area and played some soccer and American football. The place also had a monkey, so we took some videos with him. By the way I'm gonna try and burn some cds with my pensh lap top.I think we can do that. We also had a multi zone conference this week, and the elders who are ending their missions always give their last testimonies. The Assistant stood up and asked Elders Hale, Berger and Cook to come up and give their testimonies. I'm buddies with all those guys and it was awesome to hear them. and then they announce, '' we'd also like to ask all the other elders who are leaving for home to come up, Elder Jacobsen, Elder Ward, Elder Smith y Elder Wilson''.well I just threw a little party in my head. I also got a nice surprise from Elder Smith, I lost a towel when I was with Elder Dodds, and it turns out Elder Allen had it. 10 months later I finally get. Which is nice cuz my other towel hasn't been washed in 10 months, and well, it was due. This week I did divisions with Elder Ferrer and we got to eat with an American family. They gave us tacos, which were awesome, but the best part was. ROOT BEER, haven't had that in quite some time, it was great, we almost cried.Our zone leaders talked to us a little bit about our area. After this transfer there's going to be a lot less missionaries in the mission, so they have to close some areas. And since our area isn't exactly on fire, they've already told us to just try and baptize the people we have, but not to look for new people. So now we are just concentrating on the few people that can be baptized b4 the month ends, and also in just reactivating people.

Mom-I'm not in the group that's leaving this week, but they have told us that by the first week in July we will be out of Peru. I also got your one year packages today. I went to the office so I got them right as they arrive to the mission. I might have more mail that was already sent to my zls so we'll see tomorrow. And thanks for looking up those charges, I was getting a bit worried. They teach us to honor our parents so if you want me to spend more.I'll have to oblige.

Grandma- thanks for the gift, 25 dollars can go a long way in Peru, and waaay longer in Bolivia, its like 175 Bolivianos. OK love you guys, Ill let you know more bout Bolivia later.

Elder Wilson 10 DAYS!!