February 28, 2012

Hello Everyone
This past week has been such a strange week. At first we had P-day, then we had Zone Conference which was such an awesome experience. I learned so much and it basically summed up what I have learned this past transfer about finding people. They talked alot about the spirit and following the promptings that it gives us. I have really needed to work on listening and acting on certaing promptings. I also learned about having the right attitude about finding. Which isn't always easy, finding is one of the hardest things you do on your mission. And this mission is 60% finding. Our goal is to have 20 lessons a week and 20 hours of finding whether it be by tracting or Street finding or bus finding. We try and talk to everyone which is fun sometimes but alot of the time it can be difficult if not annoying. This past week I was given a Qur'ran by one of our potential investigators. (We traded books) And one of our members showed us some crazy scriptures in the book. It talks about Abraham and his father (POGP) and a few other things mainstream christianity didn't have. It shows us that mohammed was an inspired man for his time and that he knew a lot. It is really great to talk to other religions, most of the people in Ilford are from the middle east and most of our investigators are either Pakistani, Indian or African. It is so much fun to meet so many different kinds of people. They are so wonderful and are such funny people as well. Me and E. Murri have a good friend that we call KaKa (His last name is Kakakaehl) he is a recent convert from pakistan and he is here in the country for schooling. He doesn't have any cloths for church that he can wear so E. Murri gave him an extra pair of trousers and I called up G2 for the old Suit coat that I remember being in there and have them bring it to zone conference. We gave them to kaka along with an extra white shirt and tie and he came to church looking quite dapper. I was so happy to have some nice cloths now. It is very hard for alot of these people to buy anything, jobs are very few and far between here in England. It is very very tough to get an income so alot of people are struggling. It's so nice to help people where you can and to be their friend and they can be apart of a ward family. I really want to hear from you all very soon and I hope that you are all enjoying your springtime and that you are doing well.
Love
Elder Wilson

February 20, 2012

This past week was great. We had my first baptism. His name is Ghansham (Sham) and he is from Punjab India. He is a great guy and he started reading the Book of mormon a month ago and he is already in Alma. He loves the book of mormon and is such an awesome guy. He is very quiet and sort of does his own thing but he loves church and he loves to learn about the gospel. We are really busy here in Ilford and this transfer has flown by. It ends February 29 and I might leave. I hope not because I love it here and I want to stay a few more transfers. We have done so much but there is so much more to do. We are finding more people and we are being blessed with a lot of success. I hope to hear from you all soon and I have sent a lot of letters out this week so hopefully alot of you will get one in a week or so. Zone conference is tomorrow and I am so excited. I love zone conference because we learn so much from our leaders and we get to see all our missionary friends. Which I am really looking forward to.
I love you all and would love to hear from you. If you want to hear about something particular here in England send me an email and I will write you a letter.
Keep strong and carry on.
Love
Elder Wilson

February 6, 2012

Hello Everybody,
I can't believe it has been three weeks already that I have been in Ilford. It seems like yesterday that I got here. Me and E. Murri have so much fun everyday and we enjoy working hard and learning. I haven't had good companionship study yet with any of my other companions until E. Murri. We both love talking about the amazing things we had learned that morning and study about some really great things. I hope we get to stay here in Ilford for one more transfer. It is so much fun to be here and to have so many amazing people to teach. We potentially have 3 baptisms this month. Which is amazing and they will be my first 3. I am quite excited for my friends. They are so awesome, they love church and they love learning from the scriptures. I really enjoy this area it has such great people. About 80% of the people here are from the middle east and Asia. We are teaching 3 people from India, 2 from Pakistan, and 1 from Afghanistan. They are great and they have come from humbling circumstances. We are also teaching a man from Germany, and a man from Romania. Who are also great and are extremly intelligent. They have come to the gospel knowledge of truths before we even shared it with them. Peter our friend from Germany understood Adam and Eve and the Reason the Fall was necessary before we even taught it to him. It was really great to see how he came to these answeres. I am enjoying myself here. Two nights ago it started to snow for the first time in London this year. We woke up to about 4 inches. How exciting. England shuts down at about 5 or 6 inches because they aren't prepared for it. Just 4 inches and roads where shut down and buses were closed for a while. Its funny to see it all go downhill so fast. But we enjoy ourselves and have alot of fun.
I hope you guys are doing well and I would love to hear from you all.
Love Elder Wilson