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Photos: Me and all my healthy food! My companion and I with our hats on all ready for the weather. My companions food.... she isnt very healthy! haha. My part of the cupboard is the part with crackers, oats and peanut butter haha

Roller Coaster!

Greetings All!

The week started off great with a really good family home evening with two of our recent converts and one of our investigators. We gave the lesson and since it was also a girls night we decided to teach about The Perfect Man haha. We used examples of people from the scriptures who were good examples of the men we should be with and had a halarious time making lists of good qualities haha. We decided that other that Jesus Christ, Moroni from the Book of Mormon looked like a pretty good candidate hahaha #MormonHumor. The scriptures Alma 48:11-13, 17 were mostly what we talked about haha. 

Our investigator Selene who is 10 cam running up to us the other day saying that she recieved her answer and wanted to be baptised August 1st!  We have been teaching her a while and are really excited for her. 

Thursday at 12am I woke up vomiting which was not cool! Anyone who knows me will know that I would rather break my leg than be vomiting. I was not empressed since last week I had the flu and I have already had a tummy bug in the mission. 

I eat fairly well, but the higiene standards here arent very high and we are outside all day so it is not really surprising that I keep getting sick here, I bought some vitamins today and the mission has just annouced that they will reemburse fruit and vegetables up to a certain amount, so I went on a health food shopping spree, which should help me not get sick again. 

It was not cool that I was sick that day especially because it was Argentina Independence Day and we missed the ward activity :( But probably for the best since theyre celebrating the day they were freed from Spain and my companion is Spanish haha

We had a training this week for new missionaries (my comp) and their trainers (me!) with president and it was such a good day! President always talks a lot about pride and humility and it really motivated me. 

As missionaries we dont put the name of Jesus Christ on our chests nd get sent out as servants of God so we can take a bow, shake some hands and glory in praise. At least we really shouldnt!

We put on that badge, roll up our selves and get to work, understanding that the higher the calling/position the higher the servive. In Mark 10:44-45 it says "And whosoever of you will be the chiefest shall be servant of all. For even the son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a randsome for many". Its not likely that I will sacrifice my life for this cause as did Jesus Chirst and many of his apostles. But I hope that I can sacrifice a humble 18 months as a servant for all. If I bring one thing back from this 18 months I want it to be humility. There is a quote by Dieter F Uchtdorf that really explains humility to me,

 "Some suppose that humility is about beating ourselves up. Humility does not mean convincing ourselves that we are worthless, meaningless or of little value. Nor does it mean denying or withholding the talents God has given us. We dont discover humilty by thinking less OF ourselves, we discover humility by thinking less ABOUT ourselves.. It comes as we go about serving God and our fellowmen.

I was thinking a lot about pride this week. How many of the worlds problems and family and relationship problems would be solved if we were all a little more humble. Quicker to say sorry and to ask for help, slower to think about ourselves and quicker to help others without expecting a reward or praise. 

The answer is serving others! And LOVE, pure LOVE! I think theres a song about that somewhere... If there is not, there should be!

I hope that you all have a great week!

Fwd: Annoucing the arrival of my first daughter.....

Annoucing the arrival of my first daughter.....

On tuesday we went to the mission home for our new companions.... and at 4pm I welcomed my first daughter to the Mission Field. Hermana Rodriguez from Barcelona Spain! She is great! We get along really well! Her brother served his mission in Australia Perth! 

She has a lot of adjusting to do and we were both sick with the flu this week so it has been a rough first week for her. But we have a busy week this week!

I dont have anything super exciting to report really... Except we almost caught our flat on fire lighting some candles and putting them in a glass jar that then shattered, that was quite excting haha.

Today I finish the the 3 gospels in the bible for the first time (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) and I really have enjoyed learning more about the life of Jesus Christ. I can see how it has helped me a lot as a missionary and a person. Here we see a lot of poverty and ruined families and we hear about the real dificulties that the people here face. As a missionary we really see what a difference the gospel can make in the lives of families who embrace it. Even the families who seem so perfect from the outside. 

Our recent converts Agustina and Lorena are really a true model of this, they both had harsh lives and when they embraced the gospel they have found real happiness and a new sence of self worth. They let go of the habits that were harming their lives and in such a short amount of time I have seen them both change so much! 

I was so pleased to here that Balta, a man that I began teaching with Hna Orgill in Olmos, was baptised last week! It made me so happy!!

Hermana Rodriguez and I are ready to work! I have 13 months left here to give my soul, mind, heart and strength to these people and I hope that when I go home I will be able to say that I made a diference in the lives of these people and in the process became a better person.

Thank you all for your love and support!

Hermana Wilson

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I am gonna be a Mummy!

Not much to report for this week, we had a baptism on Saturday, a beautoful girl called Augustina who is 16 and amazing. It has been an honor to teach her!

I am going to be a mama! I am going to be training a new misisonary who will arrive tomorrow, I still dont know who she is yet, but I am excited for the opportunity. It´s a lot of pressure though! But I am sure I will learn more form her than she will from me, we are gonna have a great 3 months together I am sure!

One of the elders gave me a It´s a Girl, BLUE balloon and everyone has been really supportive, I cant wait to meet her! 

Today our mission divided into two missions, I stayed in the South mission but the majority of the people that I know went to the east mission, so it hurt my heart a little to say goodbye to some of the great friends I have made. 

This week it RAINED, so much! The streets have bad drainage so they all just flooded which wasnt cool at all! The humidity is incredible, I just cant handle it, neither can my hair as youll see in some of the photos haha. #MissionLife

Love you all!

Hna Wilson

Fwd: Another 6 weeks have past! I am gonna be a Mummy!

Not much to report for this week, we had a baptism on Saturday, a beautoful girl called Augustina who is 16 and amazing. It has been an honor to teach her!

I am going to be a mama! I am going to be training a new misisonary who will arrive tomorrow, I still dont know who she is yet, but I am excited for the opportunity. It´s a lot of pressure though! But I am sure I will learn more form her than she will from me, we are gonna have a great 3 months together I am sure!

One of the elders gave me a It´s a Girl, BLUE balloon and everyone has been really supportive, I cant wait to meet her! 

Today our mission divided into two missions, I stayed in the South mission but the majority of the people that I know went to the east mission, so it hurt my heart a little to say goodbye to some of the great friends I have made. 

This week it RAINED, so much! The streets have bad drainage so they all just flooded which wasnt cool at all! The humidity is incredible, I just cant handle it, neither can my hair as youll see in some of the photos haha. #MissionLife

Love you all!

Hna Wilson

Super fast week!

I have no more tiome to write, but things are good!!

We had another dog follow us this week, he is really obedient, he walks between us and no a step ahead! Hes great, I think I am starting to like dogs.... I dont know what is wrong with me! We called him Nefi (Nephi in english) and he is pretty cool. Plus he doesnt get in fights with other dogs so that is a plus!

This week was really fast! We have been preparing two people for baptism and we had exchanges!

Next week I will have a new companion which will be my 4th companion in the misison field and I will have to know the area.... I am going to get lost!!

We made friends with our neighbour and she brings us treats haha. We got locked out of our apartment for 4 hours coz we left the keys in side and she let us climb from her patio to ours so that was nice. We have began teaching her too, but she is more interested in hanging out that hearing the gospel. Shes 26, her name is Noelia. She wanted to ake us to capital city to go roller skating today, but we cant leave our area haha. Shes great!

Today I bought a new camera and we went to a Walmart and I found PEANUT BUTTER!! t was pretty cool!!

I am loving the work, I see the blessing the gospel is in the lives of the faithful and it is an honor to be a apart of bringing this joy to the lives of the Argentinian people.

I hope youre all well!!

Hna Wilson