MTC Week 5-September 1, 2017

Sweet pic of the Book of Mormon (My weapon of choice).

Hullo my peeps! This week went super fast, so it seems weird that I am already writing you again. We got our flight plans today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't even tell you how excited I am! We are leaving September 12th at 7:30 (which means we're getting up at 2:30...) and we fly to Detroit. From Detroit we fly to Montreal and we should be arriving at 5:15. Just a week and 1/2 left! It is good and bad, because we are learning so much here and the spirit is always strong, but I am ready to go help the people in Canada. It is a pretty sweet job to be called to give people blessings and the light of the gospel. I'm glad I still have a while to do it haha.

  

The sickness is starting to pass. I still cough a ton in the mornings and nights, but my voice is beginning to come back, so I am hoping the next time I email I will be good as new.

Impressive work on the shed by the way padre, I was thinking it may not be done by the time I got back haha.

I SAW ELDER COOK! It was awesome, and now I have seen him all over the place. He's still the same guy, and he is glad to be out here which was great to see. He does get to leave at the same time as me though so he's pretty much cheating haha.

Some of the elders in my district in our classroom. We are on the 4th floor so we always have a perfect view of the sunset. Although sometimes when I forget I look at the window and blind myself for a solid minute or two.

This week Elder Furness and I have continued to teach Romina, but we also started to teach Alain. He is a new member of the church that struggles with some of the commandments. We had a great lesson with him! I also have had some crazy experiences with prayer this week. One of the coolest ones was in our lesson with Romina. She is Catholic, so had previously been refusing to pray because she believes prayer should only be personal, but she finally agreed to pray with us and I asked her to ask God if he wanted her to be baptized. She did, and the spirit came into the room so powerfully. All of us got a little emotional at that point, and she started to have a desire for baptism. She still turned down our invite to baptism, but now she is really thinking about it, and is even bringing her family to church every Sunday. 

This week we hosted, so I was able to take some of the new missionaries to their residences and kind of explain to them what goes on at the MTC. We just gained some powerful new missionaries, and there were like 575 of them! 

This is a bunch of the Elders from my Zone after a session at the temple. We have a mix of French, Malagasi, and Haitian speakers. They're pretty great. 

The language is still coming along and improving, and it is nice to be able to go into lessons and just talk with the people I am teaching instead of guessing at what they are saying. I am sure the speed of conversation will double though in Canada haha. We will see how that goes. 

I have heard about the hurricane, and it has been incredible to see all of the missionaries who have family in dangerous and terrible situations and are still doing their best to focus on the work. We have been praying for their families every day. Elder Alejo was pretty worried for his fam, but I guess they escaped most of it and there was little damage to their house. Even Elder Cortez's fam were hit by the edge of  the hurricane, but they are fine as well. They were so relieved. 

I also learned this week that we must make a choice as to who we want to serve. Being neutral and idle is another way for Satan to stop us from progressing and helping those who God wants us to help. Have courage because God is on our side!

This week I can share with certainty the fact that God answers prayers. We just have to be ready to accept and act on the answers he gives us, because they are not always what we want, but he knows best. I am grateful for prayer, because it has helped me more than I can explain while I have been here in the MTC. And I have felt the strength of all of your prayers. Thanks for all of the support and love! 

I'm super excited for next week, and for Montreal. Don't forget that the Lord has a plan for you! 

Elder Wilson

Story of the week- Elder Cortez forgot a spoon at lunch, so he nonchalantly waited for an elder we didn't know to start praying and stole his spoon off of his plate. He then didn't say a word and started to eat his soup while all the people who saw him were pretty much crying haha. What a guy.