Wowowowowow!!! What a
week....
It's seriously been so crazy. I have so much to tell you guys, I
literally don't even know where to start..... and they give us so little time
that I don't know how to fit it all in.
Umm, okay, so I have
never worked so hard in my life in one week... the amount of things I have
learned is just insane. I spent so much time on the Restoration, Plan of Salvation, baptism, and just like reading Book of Mormon and have found so many amazing
scriptures that have helped me get through the week...
WE had an
investigator yesterday. Her name is NY and she is from Madagascar. She is
attending some community college in Utah. She had a Mormon friend that invited
her so that she should learn more because she had so many questions. She is from Catholic background...
Okay, wait it's
seriously so hard e-mailing you guys because I literally have so much to say. I
don't even know what to say haha.
Okay, so we met with
NY and had an hour. My companion and I met with her, and I planned the
whole lesson, and I was so pumped to teach because I worked so hard and was
just so ready... I literally just got in there and
was like WHAT'S UP? How are you? l got to know her for like 20 minutes, just
asked so many questions, talked to her about my life, and we were SO comfortable. I just love her! She's so awesome and sweet. Anyway, I wanted to
teach her about baptism. I started talking to her about the similarities
between the Catholic church and Mormon church to kind of build a foundation of
trust between us and what not. Anyway, then I talked to her and wanted to know
how she was baptized and what not, so she told us, and then we basically went
over how we are baptized
Priesthood authority
All the way under the
water
Holy Ghost
Read some great passages from the Book of Mormon to her. It was so sweet!
Ummm, then my companion
out of no where was like, "Will you get baptized in two weeks?" and I literally
was SO mad because I was like pouring my heart and soul into this lesson
and was killing it and she was so into it and feeling it, and then he asks her
to get baptized and she was like, "Ummm, no, I'm sorry. I'm not going to do that this
is my first lesson, and I was likE ... "OKAY, so I think what my companion was
TRYING to say was we invite you to be baptized when you know the things we
teach you are true and you have faith in this church (something along those
lines) and she was like, "Ooh, that makes so much more sense. Thank you for saying
that because I'm not ready." I was like, "Oh, yeah, of course. We want you to
know this is true before you do that. Anyway, so we had like 5-7
mins in the lesson, and I wanted to talk about the similarities between the Bible and Book of Mormon, but that the Book of Mormon has the restored truth of this gospel,
and my companion was like, "No, Elder Wilde. It's time to close this and end with a
prayer, and I got SOOOo mad in my head... I was like, "No, Elder. I think we
have a few minutes." He was like, "No, we need to end with a prayer," and I was
like, "Let me just finish with something, so I basically told her about the Bible
and how some of the truths were taken out of it due to the apostasy and the
prophets being killed off and how Joseph Smith restored the gospel and then was like "Okay, the Book of Mormon has the RESTORED and full truth," and I said so much other stuff, but anyway, I was like, "I invite you to read the
introduction, 3 +8 witnesses and testimony of Joseph Smith. I gave her a Book of Mormon,
she accepted the invitation, and we are meeting with her again on Wednesday. GET THIS. . . okay so after we ended with a prayer, we went outside and my companion was like, "That was so risky of you asking her to read the
testimony of Joseph Smith," and I was like in my head, "ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?! YOU
ASKED HER TO GET BAPTIZED...!" I was so frustrated.... ummm,
Anyway, we, also,
have a fake investigator named Jim that we have had two lessons with and both
went great. Taught about the Plan of Salvation because he had some friends pass
away and wanted to know about afterlife and what not. KILLED that lesson. It
was awesome, and then we talked about the restoration the next lesson we had
with him. We invited him to read the same things, so we gave him a Book of Mormon, and
yeah, that was awesome, good practice.
Okay, I'm sorry my
spelling is SO bad, but I'm just ranting to you guys 'cuz I love you and want to
tell you so much. Okay, you
guys need to go read some things for me. So, when I got really
frustrated one night and was missing home, and the other Elders in my dorm
read this poem, that will help you through hard times... It's called "He's Been There Before" by Elder Whittle... literally spoke to me so much and I
was just, "Ugh, I loved it so much... youll see why...
(Click on the link above to read the poem Elder Wilde is talking about.)
Okay, and then on Sunday devotional, we listened to an Elder Bednar talk he gave at the Missionary Training Center on Christmas called, "The Character of Christ," and I was just like, "WOW wowoWWOWOO O, I love this so much...." It talked about helping others and just putting people before you and like serving and how loving others can go so far. Yeah, I just changed from that and was like, "Wo, I love this so much... the MTC is so much
fun. I love all the Elders and don't want to leave them..."
I met the guy Morgan
Smith is friends with. His name is Elder Tuttle, and then I met the
kid the Jensen girl knows. His name is Elder Mounch. We are all are like best
friends lol. We hang out 24/7. I'm so close with both of them, and they are both
going to Philly.... literally I have been doing companion switches to hang out
with them. We all go work out in the morning and talk about life and stuff. It's
way chill haha.
(Elder Wilde with Morgan Smith--their Bishop in Danville's daughter, who is going to Portugal and is, also, in the MTC)
(Elder Wilde, also, ran into one of his mother's best friend's son in the MTC. He is going to Taiwan on his mission.)
Ummm what else......
today is obviously my PREPARATION DAY. I went to the temple and honestly after studying so
much, I understand so much more of what is taught there.... I just
understood it... it was awesome, what a lovely time.
Okay, so next Tuesday
morning, I'm going to the airport from 6-9 AM and they are letting us call
somewhere between that time, so please be awake 'cuz I'll be calling you guys!!! I'll be calling Mom 'cuz I know her number by heart lol.
Umm, I've been writing
in my journal every night. I've been taking the most amazing notes. My notebook is
like art, you seriously need to see it haha.....
Umm, super duper miss
music... like every night me and my elders and other elders throughout the day
when we need a break... we all just rap together LOL. It's so funny, but it's the
biggest stress reliever and we talk about sports and stuff... it's so fun.
The
thing that sucks here is the food... I HATE the food... it's horrible.. Also, we
have three teachers who rotate... and there is one teacher i LOVE whose name is Brother Clark. He is SOOOO chill....... I love when he teaches because he
connects with us and makes it fun and actually cares about us. But again I'm trying to become
patient with the other two teachers, but ugh it's so hard...
Okay, so I must admit
prayer is the biggest day maker.... literally like I was, "oh, yeah, everyone
just says that but, NO wow.... it makes my morning and makes my night.... and
every other second of the day. I do it all the time and it's awesome.
I seriously miss all
you guys so much, and my dogs. Oh, my gosh! I miss them so much......... and friends, but I'm not focused on that at all during
the day, just at night before going to bed and all of us Elders are talking
about life back at home. It's good to take a step back into
reality and just you know like talk about things, relieves so much
stress....
Anyway, there is so
much I could tell you guys more about it, but I have so many other people to
write. I love you guys, and I hope you all have a great week.
REMEMBER, I'M CALLING
TUESDAY!
Elder WILDEEEE!!!
!<3
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