Surprise!
On transfer week P-day is changed to Thursday so that's the reason for no email on Monday. But I'm still alive and well and most importantly, still in El Paso with Elder Thompson. Also, next week P-day will be on Thursday again because of Thanksgiving.
Despite the negative predictions of almost everyone, neither Elder Thompson nor I was transfered. Also, the mission office has made about zero progress on getting us a new apartment so please, keep sending your letters.
Thank you to everyone who wrote me this week, I really do appreciate it.
This week was a great one! First, a story.
One of our recent converts, Eddie, is an absolute stud. We took him out for burgeres one day and while we were eating taught him an after-baptism lesson about the Priesthood. We finish and we're walking out, feeling happy and content, when a man comes running up behind us and says "HEY, HEY GUYS WAIT UP!... If you died today, would you go to heaven?"
For all of you who don't know, this is pretty much the question that all ANTI's start out with. So we were in a little bit of a dilemna. On the one hand we wanted to just rip into this guy and let him know that he was living in the apostasy, etc., etc. But on the other hand, we had Eddie with us and we wanted to keep it civil.
Well sure enough this guy starts opening up some of your stalk ANTI stuff (Jesus isn't brother of Lucifer, Gods, etc. etc.). (These people crack me up. They think that they're actually telling me something new. "You probably don't know this yet because you're not high-up in the church but..." "They probably don't tell you but your church really believes...")
We were really scared for Eddie because he hadn't ever been exposed to any ANTIs and some of these things were new concepts to him. This ANTI could tell Eddie was new and was loving it.
I kept a cool head until he started talking about the trinity, truly one of the stupidest notions ever concieved of within any religion. I kinda got angry and in a semi-calm way taught him about the true nature of the Godhead.
He finishes but saying "Well, you just better check to make sure you're teaching the right Jesus". I'm getting ready to rip into him again when, to the surprise of everyone, Eddy buts in and says "We don't have to check, because we already know." and then bears some FAT testimony.
OH MAN! The anti walked away feeling stunned. It was amazing! Eddy is so solid!
I hope I was able to bring that to life for you because it was awesome!
The Carrillo family is awesome, the four of them are going to be baptized in a couple weeks, and the kids say they all want to be missionaries someday.
Things are getting rediculous for the Garcia family. Brother Garcia is working 12 hours a day for 50 bucks and can't come to church because he's working so much. As hard as it is for him to get by over here as a "potentially-illegal-immigrant" (Hey, I don't know for sure ;) ), it's better for him than going back to Mexico. It's really hard to watch that family suffer, yikes.
Albert, the man who is living in a trailer park run by some church, for whom we had to make an "Undercover Book of Mormon", has apparently fallen off the face of the earth. We're really scared for him.
We had an awesome half-mission conference where we got to hear from Elder Christensen, one of the GA 70's. I don't know if you know him, Dad, but he's really cool. He did some amazing training on recieving revelation and teaching our investigators to recieve and recognize revelation.
Well I've got to head off and write my email to President Higham but I am doing very very well and love it here in El Paso. May I never leave.
The gospel is true!
Love,
Elder Wilson
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