Great grandfather? 2-26-2018

Hello pueblo of Zion, my salutations I extend unto you.

Well transfers are today. My companion Elder Alonzo left, and I got Elder Eastmond, from Lehi Utah! It's his first day here 😶. I love him already. He is such a great guy. But it will be tough cause he can't speak spanish!!! We will work hard this transfer in language study haha. I'm still in San Pedro 1, but now I have 8 missionaries in my district, which is a tonnn, but oh well. The work presses forward, I''m only in charge of more than half the entire zone...

In other news I have a great grandson! 

Me 

Corral, Paz, Eastmond

Corral has trained Garcia and Patton

Garcia has trained Foster and again today!

Foster is training Perez. 

5 straight generations of trained missionaries, and I'm the grandpa 😊

This week was awesome, we had so much work and awesomeness. We are still teaching Angel and Jhadys but Angel has to get divorced so he wont be baptized until April. Jhadys in March. Fani and Elias are great, will be baptized in April. We want Martha to get baptized and Antonia and Diana, but we will see how it all goes!! 

Nothing crazy happened this week but its cool i have to keep it short anyway cause im short on time. 

Spiritual thought:

3 Nephi 7:24. 

This applies to baptism, obviously. You aren't repented if you aren't baptized. But let us remember the sacrament is necessary as well. We aren't truly repented until we partake of the Sacrament. So if you're less active, get your rear end to church or else you aren't really following God's will and doctrine. Have a nice day! 

Pics:

1 Me and Eastmond

2. Me and Alonzo

BK & Baptisms 2-19-2018

What is up to all of those United States Residents?! p.s. sorry if you're on my list but not a US resident or you live in another country, greetings to you too. 

I was missing the States a lot this week, but a Navy Lawyer (she is literally a lawyer for the Mexican Navy. I mean, they say armada but its the same thing) invited me over to her house to get to know her (she is inactive in the church but through God's hand, we found her). Well, I guess getting to know her was treating us to Burger King and cake, followed by her presenting her two unbaptized nephews, Fani and Elias, to us (who have a TON of gains to get baptized). 

Martha and Homberto went to church again, but this time Homberto was smiling!!! I guess he is really starting to warm up to the church. I'm just ready to throw them in the water right now. They are awesome. 

A less active member moved into our ward last week and asked us to visit her and her family. Her husband and daughter aren't baptized but practically begged us to baptize them in the first lesson. They also came to church this week. So things are going well over here. 

Besides all of them, there are so many other awesome people we have found and are teaching. I can't believe how much this area has changed since we arrived just 5 weeks ago. 

I had the dopest matrix moment ever this week. We were just strollin down the street like a couple of villans when I saw this white dog laying down on the sidewalk. Well, there is no sidewalk, so he was just on the side of the road. He saw me and didn't really do anything, so I kept walking when he jumped up out of nowhere and tried to bite me but I have ninja reflexes thanks to the Holy Ghost and did like a sick 360 gainer out of his reach. Okay I didn't do the gainer part cause I am scared of doing flips but I totally whipped him with my agility and then clonked him in the nose with my bag and he left crying like a pup. Score: 1 Wilson, 0 dog. 

Valentine's day kinda sucked too. WAY too much PDA in the streets. 

I don't remember what day but we were over in the middle of nowhere, on nothing street and our appointment fell through. We still had 20 minutes till our lunch but I felt like we should go early and seeing as how I'm senior companion, I obligated my companion to follow me. Just kidding I didn't force him. So we got on the bus for Topilejo and rode down the mountain like normal, and got to the bus stop for the lunch, and hopped off (I'm a cool kid and I hop off the bus before it stops 😎) and it was all normal, like any other day, when this young lady just bursts into tears in front of me. She explained that she was a member and was waiting for her husband and 2 young kids to meet her, who were coming from Topilejo, and that they hadn't arrived for a long time so she started to panic. But when she saw the Topilejo bus arrive and watches us hop off she just started sobbing cause she felt like God was answering her prayers and it was just an awesome experience. We sat down on the curb with her until her family arrived and off they went. It's cool being a missionary.

I had my 3rd major earthquake experience this week too. I was teaching a lesson as I sat on a wierd short concrete wall, when my legs started shaking as if I were on a swing. Then the super scary earthquake sound came and everything started moving. Panic struck and everyone was crying like last time but it wasn't even that strong of a quake. Well, it was but not like the one in September. it was cool I guess but now I live with a constant fear of the stupid earthquake alarm. that thing is scary to hear now cause its just related to destruction and fear. Good times in the field!!!!! I guess this one was like 7.5 and it was from Oaxaca. please dont say oh ashaka, its pronounced wah ha ka hahahaha. 

3 Nefi 11:29-30

Ether 4:12

Photos:

1. Cake

2. Food

3. My house

The big 2-0 February 12, 2018

I'm freakin old, when I left on my mission I was 18, and now I'm 20??? So much time has gone by!

This week was great! We had an amazing week with a lot of people who responded to the Gospel. My favorites were Martha and Humbert. Humbert is kinda stiff necked, he is stubborn so he doesn't really accept us too well, but his wife Martha is like pure gold that fell from the sky. She is a bit older, but not too old. She lived an action packed life, but felt like something was always missing. So she went to her Catholic church and had a lot of doubts on what to do, and how to get closer to God. So she prayed to him and found us the next day! Well, I mean, we found her. Well, actually, my companion doesn't contact so I found her and she liked begged us to visit her. We showed up and it was like peanut butter and jelly on a turtle. She just ate up everything we taught and she showed up at church! She is so determined and has completed every single commitment to the details. She deserves this Gospel so much, and it makes me so happy that she finally found it. 

Another family is Cristina and Alejandra and Ana. I mentioned them last week but this week they all showed up to church at 8 in the morning after getting back from a vacation at 4 AM. That shows dedication to me. I am hoping they will progress even more. I mean, they did technically sleep the entire time from how tired they were but they showed up, that is what counts. 

We also found an inactive family, but their 17 year old son has a HUGE desire to be a missionary, so I think it is awesome that God put us here to help him get out on a mission. I know it wasn't coincidence we found him. We were late one night out in our area, but I forgot a bag so we ran back to get it.. A lady passed us and said Good night to us, and we kept walking cause it was late. We ran into her AGAIN when we were going to the bus stop and she stopped us by saying "Elders". My comp kept walking but I turned around faster than a roadrunner on a roller coaster. She invited us to her house and thats how we found them. I really hope we can get him out on a mission! 

This week my head still hurts cause a sister invited us over to eat and her doorway was so low I slammed my forehead into it and it hurt so bad. 

Other than that, nothing crazy happened this week. It was a chill week but filled with good experiences. Time is flying by! 

My Zone Leaders bought me a cake today to celebr8 the Bday. Chido right? We are gonna go right now to buy a ton of tacos and pizza and other unhealthy food items to just go nuts in the house and eat till we pass out. 

Pics

 memories from Chinampas - Luis and Veronica

 same - The Lemus Family 

same - Hogwart and Diana

Reason to be here 2-05-18

This week was super great! We worked soo hard and found a bunch of people, and I'm convinced that they are the reason for why I'm here. We found 2 families this week.

One is a grandma, her daughter, and her granddaughter (Cristina, Alejandra, and Ana). Ana was diagnosed with a Bipolar disorder not too long ago, and the family is now ready for the restored Gospel. They are super interested, and we got to visit them cause I started talking with Alejandra outside of a store one day randomly. 

The other family is Lizbeth, with her two daughters Quetzalli (which means precious), and Leilani. They are just the cutest two girls on earth. They both made me a drawing on our first visit there and want to be tall like me when they grow up haha. The two girls LOVE the Gospel, the 3 of them normally go to a Baptist church, but Lizbeth made it clear that she is not a member of that church, and her only focus is finding the church that gets her closest to God. 

We also found an awesome super dope family that is just starting to become less active, and I feel like we found them right at the perfect time to get them back into church. If they come back to church and don't fall away like their path was taking them,everything here will have been worth it. 👍

We also found some other peeps, but I will wait until next week to talk about them.

An investigator came out and told us we were from the Devil cause we didn't believe in the Holy Ghost. And that we worship Joseph Smith naked in our secret temples, and that we go baptize dead people there at night. We're not even gonna try to go back. 😂😶

I was walking down the street and a little chihuahua lookin thing yapped at me on the other side of a fence. So I said "oh no! a Rottweiler!"🐕 and bent down to say hi to the dog WHEN A ROTTWEILER CAME OUT OF nowhere and tore down the fence cause it wanted to eat me so bad. Luckily it was chained up. so i am still alive. 

Like I said in my picture caption in the other email, they took out the Sister missionaries from our neighboring area so now we attend 3 wards' meetings every sunday. If you can't handle 1 3-hour block, try 3. 😴

Never have I experienced more temptation than yesterday when I saw the Super Bowl on in a members house. I got out all right 💪🏈

Alma 22:14

1. this picture is awesome because everyone there has been trained by elder Rosales! (the short one, almost right in the middle). he trained me and 3 others, we trained, our trainees trained, and so on. my mission family is huge!!!

2. i mean it technically wasnt really my baptism, but the two kids were in a neighboring area and the missionaries were pulled out this week, so we took over for them and baptized the two kids. the little girl is named Sophia, and she is SO sweet.