October 21st Email

Hello! Thank you for the emails!! It has been a pretty good week! Some of the people are slipping more and more but there are some difficult circumstances. But one of our investigators is getting married in the next few weeks which I am WAAAAY Excited for!! Oh and We went on two exchanges in a row! That was interesting and for one I was in Aberystwyth again which is a Beautiful place. There were some big storms this week and the waves were really big:) Oh! Craziness!!! So Elder Chris Anderson? Well we got an Elder Here new from Albania and Elder Anderson served in his ward and when Elder Farrici was having visa issues but was set apart as a Missionary Elder Anderson was his companion! Elder Farrici is way good, and i am AMAZED at how fast he is learning English. He will do Great. That is good to hear about Mom's Birthday:) I thought of you a lot:) Hopefully you all start feeling better!!! We have a Busy week coming up again, and have interviews tomorrow so that should be good! So I have been reading about Josiah today in 2 Chronicles. He is Amazing, his dad was a bad guy but there is a phrase where it says something like Josiah SOUGHT The God of Israel, that is Powerful. Despite his rough upbringing The Light Of Christ rang True to him. I Love you all a lot, and am Grateful everyday for you. Smile Big, and i will too:) I Love you, I am Happy in The Service Of the God of Israel. Love you!!

Oct 14th Email

Hello, This last week was pretty sweet. We are now ALSO trying to help two more of our investigators to prepare for Baptism. Some of the people we are teaching are having a bit of toss and turn on the sea's of oppostition but I really Believe with Faith in God we can help them:) Gadfield Elm is the oldest running Chapel the church has in the world. It is in the middle of nowhere. Wilford Woodruff taught people there who were Baptised. I am not sure if you have heard the story about people sending police to arrest him in the middle of his sermon and when the police went there to arrest him they were converted and Baptised?:) So It was good. Unfortunately our coach was pretty late so we were quite rushed but it's all good! Com si com sa. That sounds Amazing that everyone was over there last night! Hope it was good:) Hopefully dad you got some good sleep! you Deserve it!! We are Happy over here, trying to do our Best. We also had Zone meeting which I Hope was good. I felt The Spirit. My Testimony of The Restoration has increased. It is Amazing that someone in this day and age communes with God, a boy only 14 saw God, and his Son Jesus Christ. How True it is!!! Well I Love you all. thank you for everything. your Prayers have, can, and will Produce Miracles Because of Faith and Hope. Keep moving forward. I Pray for you too by the way. I Love you.

October 7th Email

Hello!!!! It was a Great week. General conference was Needed, and Appreciated for me. The Lord Blessed us with Miracles this week. Elder M. Russel Ballard as he spoke was in Europe I did not get to see or hear him but President Rasmussen did. So M. Russell Ballard told him to invite The Members of his Mission Leadership Council to Baptise. So it was an Apostollic Invitation for me to Baptise,. When we heard that invitation a week and a half a go we had 0 people preparing to be baptised. As of right now we have five people preparing to be Baptised. Miracles have been happening here! It is so Amazing to me. Oh and I am not sure If I told you but Elder Jones is back in Leicester but in a different ward, a person we taught there has now since moved into the Evington Boundaries and is now Preparing to Be Baptised too:) The Lord is good. I am way Excited to go to Gadfield Elm this week, and I feel recharged from Conference which is good because I feel so tired all of the time haha. But Life is way good over here, and I am glad to hear that you all had a good week. We don't have as much driving in this coming week but we have Zone Meeting, and Gadfield Elm so the last half of the week is pretty booked. So it will probably fly by haha. Well I better Email President Rasmussen now But i Love you. Thank you for Everything. I am Smiling. Hope you are too. God Bless you!

September 30th Email

Hello!!!! So it was a good week!!! That is awesome that elder gee served in England. Some Accents are a bit tough, in the Merthyr area they call it "The Valley's" And their accent sounds really silly:) Hey So on October 11th we get to go to Gadfield elm which is the Oldest chapel in the church or something like that. So I am super Excited, I am not sure but I think the story is there was a man names Thomas Knighton who led a church of breakaway methodists and they met Elder Woodruff and got Baptised and then the chapel was dedicated to our church. The History is Amazing here! I also learned some stuff about the J.R.R Tolkien so when I was in Sheldon and Harborne there is an old mill site that he would go for inspiration to write. And we went to Birmingham this week and there is a small mountain range we have to drive by, it has completely slipped my mind what it is called. But I heard that the looks of them are the inspiration of the white moutains of Gondor or something like that. My mind is getting a little bit fuzzy on that one. But I thought it was way cool. One of our investigators is getting Baptised!!!! Wohoooo!! She is so Amazing! And there was this man we stopped by, he is a former Investigator. The Conversation was going well so I asked him if he wanted to get Baptised while we were talking to him on the doorstep! he said it's something he wants to prepare himself to do!!! So we are going to teach him this week and help him prepare for it:) I wish I could have seen the smile's on Elder Barker's and my Face haha. So things are good, and we have some other really good people we are working with. So right after this we have to go to New Quay for the Aberystwth district P day because there is only two teams in the district, one set of sisters and set of elders haha so we are going there. It should be good it is just rough because a lot of our P day is going to be driving but oh well:) And we are also going to B-Ham again tomorrow, so loads more driving. But we are keeping our line in the water with the time we do have and The Lord is Blessing us for it. We started teaching this guy who knows loads about History. Supposedly Joseph of Arimithea is buried in Cardiff, Not too sure about that but it would be interesting to hear where that came from. I do Love it here though, Wales is an Amazing place. I better get going now but it was way good to hear about that fieldtrip mom! I hope you all have a good week, and I will too. I Love you. And I do have a Testimony of the Lord:)

September 23rd Email

Hello!! This last week was way good too. My New Companion is Elder Barker from St. George Utah! He is awesome, likes sports and stuff. We get a long super will and have seen some good stuff this week. We started teaching a couple, the guy was initially interested and his wifedidn't want to hear any of it but after we shared Joseph Smith's first Vision her entire Countenance changed. It was way Interesting to see. We had some older ladies singing in the library so I have been kind of listening to it they sang Les mis type stuff It was pretty cool. So Elder Jones new Companion whom he is training knows The Hall's! I think he is Whitney's friend so that is pretty cool. AND he is back in leicester not in westcotes but in the city, that lucky dog. But yesterday they had the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the chapel being in Merthyr, Elder Kearon was there. It was so Amazing being there. I can not believe that I am in a Country that is so Saturated in Restored Gospel History, and was part of the backbone of the fibers of the early days of the Restored Church. I LOVE WALES!!!!!!!!!! So this week we have to drive B-Ham on friday then again next tuesday. And that is three hours just there, six hours round trip haha. so lats of driving which I don't mind too much. Driving is pretty sweet. Things are good though, we have a pretty solid week coming up So I am really excited about it. We have an Appointment with this guy tonight who is in a band and I asked him who his inspirtation was and he said a familiar name to me:) JOHNNY CASH!!!!!! Oh man, we are going to teach this brother The Restored Gospel. I better get going here pretty soon, But I am happy and am in Love with Wales. We were able to hear that going away welsh song yesterday too. You should look it up it is awesome. I Believe in the work I do, and I take Heart when things get hard because I really have seen God guide me. I Love you guys, have an amazing week. Love Elder Wilson

September 16th Email

Hello, This last week was pretty good. The finding of people was a lot better but we got flogged by loads of them which was a bit of a bummer but It is how it goes. We also figured out on saturday that Elder Jones will get transferred this week and I am sad about that. But it Happens, so just keep on going. Plus my Next companion will probably be way sweet we will figure out who he is tonight. so there is an american couple from Arizona, they are from Chandler and we met them a few weeks a go and they said they would come to church and they did! They aren't members but they Love the church, they are wonderful people. They are taking us out to lunch today so that will be awesome. It is funny hearing american accents haha. Oh and there was a chinese kid Baptised here this week that was way awesome! it sounds like things were way good for you too! I am trying to think of something else that happened? Hmmmm well we are teaching a lady and she is way awesome!! Oh and the Irish lady gives us loads of food. She is so nice to us, and I feel bad that she is always feeding us but I Know that The Lord is Blessing her for it. The more I see Missionary work the more I see that this is God's work and it is done in His way. But also He will sometime's let us struggle, and stretch which feels uncomfortable but it is always worth it. We also had zone meeting this last week! We talked about Helping people make and keep Commitments then also discussed Zion's camp, I hope it was good for the Missionaries. Well sorry this is short again, The Work is still good. I am smiling, and Singing too! So life is good. I am Grateful for God letting me serve here and serve with Elder Jones whom has changed my life. I am Grateful for the people that we will find ready to make those Covenants with God. I Love you guys, and I Hope and Pray you have a good week. Love Elder Wilson

September 9th Email

This week was great! Sorry again that I didn't write a lot last week, well not a lot anyway. I am feeling very happy! We had some good experiences last week. Yesterday before call ins we were cycling around the farming area by our home. Which was way way cool! We met a lady who lives at a place that kind of looks like Aunt pats! I Hope that was Amazing by the way!! It sounds like it was Hilarious. But we are going to be teaching her family this saturday and I am way Excited. Hopefully they will let us do some service there:) We also were in some random villages trying to get in contact with some less active members. we met a cool guy, and the village was right at the bottom of a mountain so there was wild life. He was telling us that they have Honey Buzzards? Apparently they fly up from North Africa. You should do some research dad! Oh also we found this guy that was walking in a field by some houses we were knocking, and he had a hawk on his arm and a dog right by him. Me and Elder Jones thought that we definitely have to talk to this guy:) He wasn't interested in the gospel which was depressing but he had some sweet animals. He told us he hunts ferrets with his hawk and dog. The Dog will go scare the ferrets out in the field then he lets the hawk off his arm and it will go snatch them up. Pretty cool!!?! This week was actually really wonderful. We got in contact with Some Potential Investgators who we can start teaching this week so I am having lots of Hope and am so very Happy to be in wales. Both Elder Jones, and I have just felt at Home here. It is not so crowded but still people to talk to, and the weather is cooling down and I am digging that. Not that it was hot hahaha. Early this year it was but it has been pretty good lately. It is starting to get dark again fast though which makes finding akward... But we can still do Great things! This coming week should be way amazing too:) We have Zone Meeting and we are going to do it on Making and Keeping Commitments, and then the second part will help Motivation and we are going to watch a Doctrine And Covenants DVD called Zions camp. Tell Matt Congrudulations. Well the time is short. Thank you for everything, I Love you. And I Believe with all of my Heart that God is at The Helm of This work. Nothing is going to stop it:) Love you. Thanks Again! Elder Wilson