Hello familia!
This week has been so slow. We have been eating some sketchy food I guess because we had 2 days this week that were kind of sick days because my companion had terrible diarrhea. So theres that. Man I cant believe you guys are not having a grand ole time. I guess its the homesickness speaking but I could think of 100 things Id like to be doing at home haha.
We had a teacher in the MTC tell us a cool story about really understanding the scriptures we read. she shared 2 Nephi 5:27 -" And it came to pass that we lived after the manner of happiness." It sounds really insignificant when we read that one. she was stressing the importance of knowing the background of a scripture and how much of a change it can make to helping others understand the scriptures. Just reading it we don't understand that Nephi and those who followed him almost lost their lives. Lamen and Lemuel were mad at Nephi and wanted his life. Luckily the Lord told him to separate from the group. He just lost half his family, was deeper in the wilderness of an unknown land and I'm sure questioning what he was doing. But in the scripture he says that because he and the family that came with him were obedient to the commandments of the Lord "[They] lived after the manner of happiness" They were happy, even in such grave circumstances. Read for learning and the Book of Mormon becomes a whole different story.
We lost 3 investigators last week so this week has been so slow. They told us they don't want to change and are not interested. Its still blows my mind people see God and religion as something they will get around to later in life. I want so badly to tell them that their Heavenly Father and Creator has provided a way for you to hear about this grand message and you are saying maybe ill care about you a little later in life. Its sad honestly.
We talked to a guy yesterday who started the conversation with "What are two Mother_____s of your color doing on the streets of south LA. ITs simple, we have a message to share and I feel like us being where we are shows how important it is. He listened to us tell him who we were and what we did and then paused. He looked at us both and then said "I just got chills from what you said" He said his whole body was covered in chills and "all these little hairs are standing up" haha it was surprising to me. I was getting numb to how important this is. I was forgetting people don't know everything I do and don't have the help of the gospel. He was difficult to make a follow up appointment with but he told us to come by any sunday night so we will see what comes of it. But if he was able to feel the spirit that simply he shouldn't have a problem later. I really hope we are able to find him again.
That's all I have for this week. Love and miss every single one of you reading this :)
les quiero
Elder Wilson
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