Monday 25 January 2016

Re: TRANSFERS! I Love Chileans!

Photos explanation: 
1. Me with book of mormon
2. One morning when I was sick, my companion got all artistic taking photos. 
3. Recent converts twin girls, I am their nanny at church, she straps them in and I rock them to sleep in Gospel Principles class jaja
4. Duarte Family
5. Our investigator Elvira.
6. A YSA from my last ward who was as a mini missionary for 2 weeks because one elder got sent home sick. 

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Micaella Wilson <micaella.wilson@myldsmail.net> wrote:
Well I am all unpacked in my new area Monte Grande which is the Stake Centre here and I have been called as a Sister Training Leader which is going to be a new experience. I will be doing exchanges with 1/3 of the Sisters here in the BA South mission each transfer to see how theyre doing. So I am going to learn a lot and get to see a lot of the mission. 

My new companion is Hermana Fierro, she is from... wait for it...... CHILE! We have 4 sisters in the mission from Chile and I have now had 3 of them as my companions! Ive had more chilean companions than North Americans, thats a rare thing! I figure that God wants me to visit Chile and have free acomodation, or maybe I am going to marry David Archuleta (dude who was on American Idol, and served his misison in Chile). 

We had a worldwide live missionary conference this week which was really motivating! I really loved the whole thing! We got to watch it in English in the offices which was great, but it was really weird hearing people talking in english!

I spent 2 days in bed with the flu which wasnt cool, there is a dingue fever outbreak here and so everyone was like "Yeah it would be Hermana Wilson who would get dingue fever and then theyd close the mission down" haha. I did not have dingue! And I am bathing in mosquito repelent so dont worry haha. 

On of my best friends here in the mission, Hermana Spruill went home today which was really sad! Lots of people that I know here are finishing and it is starting to dawn on me that the mission actually ends! WHAT?!

Otherwise... it was a normal week!

I hope you are all doing well!
Here´s some photos of my last week in Burzaco 

TRANSFERS! I Love Chileans!

Well I am all unpacked in my new area Monte Grande which is the Stake Centre here and I have been called as a Sister Training Leader which is going to be a new experience. I will be doing exchanges with 1/3 of the Sisters here in the BA South mission each transfer to see how theyre doing. So I am going to learn a lot and get to see a lot of the mission. 

My new companion is Hermana Fierro, she is from... wait for it...... CHILE! We have 4 sisters in the mission from Chile and I have now had 3 of them as my companions! Ive had more chilean companions than North Americans, thats a rare thing! I figure that God wants me to visit Chile and have free acomodation, or maybe I am going to marry David Archuleta (dude who was on American Idol, and served his misison in Chile). 

We had a worldwide live missionary conference this week which was really motivating! I really loved the whole thing! We got to watch it in English in the offices which was great, but it was really weird hearing people talking in english!

I spent 2 days in bed with the flu which wasnt cool, there is a dingue fever outbreak here and so everyone was like "Yeah it would be Hermana Wilson who would get dingue fever and then theyd close the mission down" haha. I did not have dingue! And I am bathing in mosquito repelent so dont worry haha. 

On of my best friends here in the mission, Hermana Spruill went home today which was really sad! Lots of people that I know here are finishing and it is starting to dawn on me that the mission actually ends! WHAT?!

Otherwise... it was a normal week!

I hope you are all doing well!
Here´s some photos of my last week in Burzaco 

Monday 18 January 2016

Last week of my 7th Transfer in the mission!

Hey Everyone!

This week was great, we had interviews with President Thurgood and it was great to talk personally with him and recieve his advice, he is truly an amazing leader and we all love him and Hermana Thurgood so much!
Hermana Thurgood brought us peanut butter which is a rarety here and there was also a TOASTER! Also a rarety and so we had peanut butter on toast and I almost died of excitement haha. 
We had some great workshops with the assistants and zone leaders, my companion and I had to do a role-play lesson infront of everyone and it was probably the best one i´ve ever done, wasnt even a real lesson but we all felt the spirit. Those watching said they wanted to be baptised again haha.
I lvoed everything that we learnt from the leaders it was really inspiring. 

We have a great new investigator Mercedes who is amazing, she has a baptism date for 13 february but it is likely I wont be here for her baptism since we have tranfers this coming monday and it is likely that I will be leaving. 

Thursday my companion and i were having some serious Lasagna cravings and expressed this to a member who was accompanying us to an appointment and he began to crave lasagna also. So we made a plan to convince his wife to make us lasagna saturday! Turns out that she didnt know how to make lasagna.... so they bought all the stuff and we made lasagna and also a lemon cake for dessert! It was great fun!
They have a halariously cute 4 year old called Kevin and he has so much attitude it is really funny! Here´s a few of our conversations:
1.
 Kevin: "Hermana Wilson, I am not eating today?"
 Me: "Why not Kevin?"
 Kevin: "Honestly I am just quite annoyed with Mum, so I refuse to eat!"
2.
The elders taught Kevin to say this: 
Me: "Kevin where´d you buy your swag?"
Kevin: "You can´t buy swag Hermana, you´re just born with it!"

Hope that you are all well and happy! I love and pray for you all!
Hermana Wilson

Photos: 
1. My companion and I waiting for the bus, I have been comanded to wear a hat since I am the whitest black person in the mission.
2.A sign on the office door that cracked me up! In Spanish it says: "Please leave the door closed at all times" and beside it in english it says the contrary. Bit of confusion from the american staff haha.
3. My companion likes to tease me that my mission is nearly over by pointing out every plane that passes, however this time when she yelled out "Trunky!" she actually had reason, it was Aire New Zealand! haha
4 and 5: Selfies taken while cleaning this morning just before leaving to do some shopping, my companion has been convincing me to embrace the selfies. 
6: Lasagna with the Gonzales family! The two top chefs!

Monday 11 January 2016

Remember Lot´s Wife: Faith is For the Future

Hey All!!

This week I hd exchanges with Hna Holt and we had a great time, especially because Hna Rodriguez and Hna Hinrichs stayed that night because they had to be in immigrations the next morning.

I dont have too many events to tell about this week, it was a pretty normal, but awesome week. But I would like to tell you all about a speech that I really love by Jeffrey R Holland.
For the first time in about a year I re-read this inspirational speech the other day, it is called Remember Lot´s wife. For those of you who don´t know the story, Lot and his wife are two people from the bible who were told to flee from their city and not look behind them because the city was going to be destroyed. As they fled Lot´s wife looked behind her and was turned into a pilar of salt. This speech  is about looking forward, being forgiving, and believing that there are better things in the future than anything we leave behind. Im going to include a few of the parts I like the best but I encourage you to read it! It is a speech that can help anyone, religious beliefs aside. Or watch this 2.5min video.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYSFBG6L47Q

"I plead with you not to dwell on days now gone, nor to yearn vainly for yesterdays, however good those yesterdays may have been. The past is to be learned from but not lived in. We look back to claim the embers from glowing experiences but not the ashes. And when we have learned what we need to learn and have brought with us the best that we have experienced, then we look ahead, we remember that faith is always pointed toward the future."

"There is something in us, at least in too many of us, that particularly fails to forgive and forget earlier mistakes in life—either mistakes we ourselves have made or the mistakes of others. That is not good.....To be tied to earlier mistakes—our own or other people's—is the worst kind of wallowing in the past from which we are called to cease and desist."

"I can't tell you the number of couples I have counseled who, when they are deeply hurt or even just deeply stressed, reach farther and farther into the past to find yet a bigger brick to throw through the window "pain" of their marriage. When something is over and done with, when it has been repented of as fully as it can be repented of, when life has moved on as it should and a lot of other wonderfully good things have happened since then, it is not right to go back and open up some ancient wound that the Son of God Himself died trying to heal."

"If something is buried in the past, leave it buried. Don't keep going back with your little sand pail and beach shovel to dig it up, wave it around, and then throw it at someone, saying, "Hey! Do you remember this?" Splat!"

I really do love this theme. I have heard too much "people don´t change" or "so and so is like that, always has been and always will be!" and it saddens my heart, because I have seen people change and I have also seen people change and then loose hope because everyone treats them like they are just that same old persaon who made some big mistake or had some quirky nature.
Perhaps we are too quick to condem and too slow to forgive? Perhaps we hold to firmly to the view that we have of certain people that it is us who dont allow them to change. And we do that to ourselves too, believe that we are capable of being a little better each day.

I have had the true honor to see many people change and I know that with hope, faith and the gospel of Jesus Christ, anyone can start again and be better, happier and more like Jesus Christ.

Love you all loads!

Hermana Wilson

Monday 4 January 2016

Photo of the Zone and my Christmas Card for those who havent seen it!


Feliz Año!

Hola All!!

This week was pretty good, we had my companions birthday activity on Monday, had ice cream and cake and soccer. Was great fun!

My companion had heat stroke on Tuesday, probably from playing soccer so I had to play nurse. I delt with the situation very well! Normally if someone is vomiting I am out of there, but I was okay! Guess I have to be conciderate since I am always sick haha. 

We made toys with the relief society this week.... yeah I am  not going to attach a photo of the rabbit I made..... 

New Years we had Hna Rodiguez and Hna Hinrichs to stay, we had loads of fun. Rodri and Hna Latoja tried teaching me latin dancing which if you know me you can imagine would have been halarios!  We watched Tangled- the best Disney movie that there is! 

The rest of the week was pretty normal, and quite dead, everyone is on vacation. 

Hope 2016 is the best year for you all!!

Love,
Hermana Wilson