Hello everybody! Just so you know, I'm still here in Sunland Park, and I'm still with Elder Bennion. The address is still the same so don't be scared to start writing letters again. A lot of the zone has changed, however. We had to take out a comapnionship from El Centro because we had more Spanish missionaries leaving than coming in, and we might get to add an english companionship at some point in the transfer. It's a weird situation which depends on whether we can find a senior couple to help us out at the office.
We've seen a lot of success this week. Right now we've got six investigators with baptismal dates and we're planning on setting at least four more this week.
One of the coolest experiences I've had is teaching Tsuyoshi, a japanese exchanges student who is staying with a member familiy. Since he's from Japan, he's got a completely non-Christian vocabulary and a lot of the concepts we're teaching him are completely new. It's really cool to see how differently he approaches and view things. WE got situations where he says things like "I don't know what it is, but at church I feel.... power." or stops us in the middle of the plan of salvation and says "Wait... we can live, WITH god?". So it's been really cool. When you teach Catholics all the time, things like resurrection, revelation, the kingdom of god, baptism, the fall, faith, repentance kind of tend to be the air that you breath. Even if our investigators don't completely understand those doctrines initially, they've at least heard of them before. Tsuyoshi's marvel at them helps me to realize how marvelous they really are.
Last night we went over to the house of an investigator, Fred, to teach him a lesson. He was really sick and couldn't go five seconds without coughing. We gave him a blessing and he didn't cough again while we were there. It was really miraculous.
Also, we helped to teach seminary yesterday. They were studying about the missionary travels of Paul and thought that it would be a good idea to have the missionaries talk. All I can say is... Thank you Sis. Longhurst, Sis. Beckman, Sis. Cordon, Bro. Christensen, Bro. Ray, Sis. Wiley and everyone else who managed to put up with me! Man, teaching the gospel to teenagers at 6:30 in the morning is not an easy task. The lesson went fine, but we definitely had to fight against the gentle hand of sleep for the minds of the students.
Well anyways, that's about it for this week's edition. I love the work of the Lord! I'm so greatful to be able to serve him in the capacity of missionary. Thanks for all the love and support, everybody!
Love,
Elder Wilson
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