Hey family!!!
Well finally a normal week of not just a lot of madness and hell! Thank goodness. for both you and me! Mom and dad are already hitting the lake! Holy cow it is that time already! That really is messing with me because here it is starting to get colder and not warmer. Man, strange things! By the way Lara I am so glad you are feeling so much better:)
Ok so this week was a lot of fun. It is pretty much all back to normal now and all is well. Sorry I am not going to write a whole lot today because we don't just have a ton of time, but I have just one quick cool thing that happened this Sunday, but first I must write a little bit about last week to explain. So last Sunday we went to go pick up an investigator to walk with him to church. It turned out that he wasn't there at his house which was kind of a bummer. anyways there is a guy that lives by this investigator of ours that normally was drunk and always told us to come get him to go to church so we decided to go and get him and we brought him to church. We could tell he was on a hang over so we didn't have much high hopes for him but he went to church and left after all the meetings and we hadnt heard anything from him since. But this Sunday we didn't go and get him or anything but he just arived to church by himself cleaned up and wearing some niceish clothes! It was just amazing to see how in a week and just have gone to church could change someone:) so we are going to pick him up as an investigator!!!
Anywaays, love you all so much and I am thankful for the best family in the whole world:) Have great week!
Monday, June 25, 2012
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Monday, June 18, 2012
6/18/12
Dear Family,
Hey it was so wonderful to get all of your letters this week. Sorry if I scared anybody:) but it sounded like everyone learned from it.
This past week had been kind of a jug jug step by step week. Although it was a very long week got through it and a lot of cool things happend. The robbing really slowed down the work, Really kind of frustrating. Along with all of our stuff the most valuble thing they took was our phone and our planners. Why you may ask? espcially because the phone was probably 5 dollars. Well between our planner and our phone we lost pretty much all of our contacts!!! It was almost impossible to get ahold of anybody to make apointments, so this past week has been a ton of beating on doors with no results. ugh.... we have recovered most of our contacts thanks to our area book and the work is starting to speed up again. This next week should be much faster!! fingers crossed.
Oh ya I have to explain the situation with why we need to decide to stay 3 weeks longer or shorter. So here is the deal. In a normal transfer or period of time you are in an area is about 6 weeks or so. As you might have notice I am aproching my 9th week to finish my first transfer here in angola. The reason we had a 9 week transfer is to cordinate better with the new missionaries coming in next week and to make things easier on the new mission pressident when he arrives. So here comes the dilema, president Walton told us we need to decide this week whether we want to extend or shorten. I am going to tell him tomorrow in our interview. I have prayed and thought about it a lot.... I am going to extend for another 3 weeks:)
Well I love you guys so much and I am so grateful for you all! Have a great week!
Elder Wilhelm
P.S. We moved into our new apartment this week!!!!!
Hey it was so wonderful to get all of your letters this week. Sorry if I scared anybody:) but it sounded like everyone learned from it.
This past week had been kind of a jug jug step by step week. Although it was a very long week got through it and a lot of cool things happend. The robbing really slowed down the work, Really kind of frustrating. Along with all of our stuff the most valuble thing they took was our phone and our planners. Why you may ask? espcially because the phone was probably 5 dollars. Well between our planner and our phone we lost pretty much all of our contacts!!! It was almost impossible to get ahold of anybody to make apointments, so this past week has been a ton of beating on doors with no results. ugh.... we have recovered most of our contacts thanks to our area book and the work is starting to speed up again. This next week should be much faster!! fingers crossed.
Oh ya I have to explain the situation with why we need to decide to stay 3 weeks longer or shorter. So here is the deal. In a normal transfer or period of time you are in an area is about 6 weeks or so. As you might have notice I am aproching my 9th week to finish my first transfer here in angola. The reason we had a 9 week transfer is to cordinate better with the new missionaries coming in next week and to make things easier on the new mission pressident when he arrives. So here comes the dilema, president Walton told us we need to decide this week whether we want to extend or shorten. I am going to tell him tomorrow in our interview. I have prayed and thought about it a lot.... I am going to extend for another 3 weeks:)
Well I love you guys so much and I am so grateful for you all! Have a great week!
Elder Wilhelm
P.S. We moved into our new apartment this week!!!!!
6/18/12
Dear Family,
Hey it was so wonderful to get all of your letters this week. Sorry if i scared anybody:) but it sounded like everyone learned from it.
This past week had been kind of a jug jug step by step week. Although it was a very long week got through it and a lot of cool things happend. The robbing really slowed down the work, Really kind of frustrating. Along with all of our stuff the most valuble thing they took was our phone and our planners. Why you may ask? espcially because the phone was probably 5 dolors. Well Between our planner and our phone we lost pretty much all of our contacts!!! It was almosyt imposible to get ahold of anybody to make apointments, so this past week has been a ton of beating on doors with no results. ugh.... we have recovered most of our contacts thanks to our area book and the work is starting to speed up again. This next week should be much faster!! fingers crossed.
Oh ya I have to explain the situation with why we need to decide to stay 3 weeks longer or shorter. So here is the deal. In a normal transfer or period of time you are in an area is about 6 weeks or so. As you might have notice I am aproching my 9th week to finish my first transfer here in angola. The reason we had a 9 week transfer is to cordinate better with the new missionaries coming in next week and to make things easier on the new mission pressident when he arrives. So here comes the dilema, president walten told us we need to dicide this week wetjher we want to extend or shorten. I am going to tell him tomorrow in our interview. I have prayed and thought about it a lot.... I am going to extend for another 3 weeks:)
Well I love you guys so much and I am so gratfull for you all! have a great week!
Elder Wilhelm
P.S. We moved into our new apartment this week!!!!!
Hey it was so wonderful to get all of your letters this week. Sorry if i scared anybody:) but it sounded like everyone learned from it.
This past week had been kind of a jug jug step by step week. Although it was a very long week got through it and a lot of cool things happend. The robbing really slowed down the work, Really kind of frustrating. Along with all of our stuff the most valuble thing they took was our phone and our planners. Why you may ask? espcially because the phone was probably 5 dolors. Well Between our planner and our phone we lost pretty much all of our contacts!!! It was almosyt imposible to get ahold of anybody to make apointments, so this past week has been a ton of beating on doors with no results. ugh.... we have recovered most of our contacts thanks to our area book and the work is starting to speed up again. This next week should be much faster!! fingers crossed.
Oh ya I have to explain the situation with why we need to decide to stay 3 weeks longer or shorter. So here is the deal. In a normal transfer or period of time you are in an area is about 6 weeks or so. As you might have notice I am aproching my 9th week to finish my first transfer here in angola. The reason we had a 9 week transfer is to cordinate better with the new missionaries coming in next week and to make things easier on the new mission pressident when he arrives. So here comes the dilema, president walten told us we need to dicide this week wetjher we want to extend or shorten. I am going to tell him tomorrow in our interview. I have prayed and thought about it a lot.... I am going to extend for another 3 weeks:)
Well I love you guys so much and I am so gratfull for you all! have a great week!
Elder Wilhelm
P.S. We moved into our new apartment this week!!!!!
Monday, June 11, 2012
6/11/12
Dear family,
Well this is going to be a different letter this week:) haha so much stuff happened this week and sorry I wont be able to put on pictures and I will tell you why in a second.
First things first. This week we had a zone activity, sorry mom I know this is going to make you jealous:) So we went to an island right off the shore of angola, called the slave island. It is called the because back in the day as the portugal and other contries would ship slave out from africa this was a major island that they would ship them to first to make it more excesible for ships to pick them up. But I will be honest none of us payed to much attention to the history of the place and much as the beach!! Wow that was one of the most pretty places I have ever been. From the beach you could see all of angola with all the the huge buildings to the byhoos( small shake huts made out of cement.) It was so amazing to sit back and look at the city to give you a refresser of why we are here. then we just played sports and made sand castles and all that fun stuff. Yes even walk along the beach and waves would crash up onto you and as the water receiding having sand cover your feet:) ya it was super fun. I got tons of amazing pictures and good memories. I am really going to miss president and sister walton. they are going to be leaving soon because there time is up here on the mission.
The baptism was amazing! she was so excited and yestarday she recieve the holy ghost and confirmed a member of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints!! She has a ton of friends in the church so I feel like the transfer from us to members will be easy.
So this past week my companion and I should president a house the we had found through a member. He and sister walton just loved it. So they already gave them the church contract for the house and it is getting confirmed right now!! but we will see. that is one thing about angolan realestate is you dont have the house untill you have the keys in you hands and it is fully paid for, but chances are we have it and will move in the next 2 weeks or so.
So this is the very interesting part of this week which just happend yestarday. Know that I wouldnt tell you about this unless president told me to tell you. Last night my companion and I were just getting do with a lesson and were on our way to another appointment. It was late and we were in kind of a hurry so we cut through some roads and some alleys as we have many times before. out of the corner of my eye I saw two guys running. When a feeling of calmness just came over me. Suddenly the two men surrounding my companion, my companion being much shorter of the two of us. They yelled "Vou ti matar" meaning I will kill you, and they also started yelling money. I grab one of the guys by the shoulders and held him there as my companion was quaralling with the other. I Had a feeling that I shouldnt resist and shouldnt fight them. From the corner of my eye I could see my companion taking off his backpack. So I let this man that I had in my hands go and handed him my backpack. They grabed our bags and took off through the streets. Nether my companion or I were hurt. As we continued walking we got to talking and Elder Walker had seen a handle in the guys pocket that took his bag. We are not quite sure if it was a gun or a knife but it was a tender mersy of the lord that calmness had overcome both my companion and I. If that feeling of calmness hadnt have come we might have fought with them and the results could have been a whole lot worse. I know he was guiding us and protecting us. He does every min of the day.
Dont be afraid or anything. We feel fine and I still feel safe as I walk the streets today. but I love youguys and I hope you have a great week:) by the way I have something to ask of you really quick. I have an option to ether shorten my mission three week or to lengthen it three. What should I do? I will explain latter:) well love you guys have a great week!
Elder Wilhelm
Well this is going to be a different letter this week:) haha so much stuff happened this week and sorry I wont be able to put on pictures and I will tell you why in a second.
First things first. This week we had a zone activity, sorry mom I know this is going to make you jealous:) So we went to an island right off the shore of angola, called the slave island. It is called the because back in the day as the portugal and other contries would ship slave out from africa this was a major island that they would ship them to first to make it more excesible for ships to pick them up. But I will be honest none of us payed to much attention to the history of the place and much as the beach!! Wow that was one of the most pretty places I have ever been. From the beach you could see all of angola with all the the huge buildings to the byhoos( small shake huts made out of cement.) It was so amazing to sit back and look at the city to give you a refresser of why we are here. then we just played sports and made sand castles and all that fun stuff. Yes even walk along the beach and waves would crash up onto you and as the water receiding having sand cover your feet:) ya it was super fun. I got tons of amazing pictures and good memories. I am really going to miss president and sister walton. they are going to be leaving soon because there time is up here on the mission.
The baptism was amazing! she was so excited and yestarday she recieve the holy ghost and confirmed a member of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints!! She has a ton of friends in the church so I feel like the transfer from us to members will be easy.
So this past week my companion and I should president a house the we had found through a member. He and sister walton just loved it. So they already gave them the church contract for the house and it is getting confirmed right now!! but we will see. that is one thing about angolan realestate is you dont have the house untill you have the keys in you hands and it is fully paid for, but chances are we have it and will move in the next 2 weeks or so.
So this is the very interesting part of this week which just happend yestarday. Know that I wouldnt tell you about this unless president told me to tell you. Last night my companion and I were just getting do with a lesson and were on our way to another appointment. It was late and we were in kind of a hurry so we cut through some roads and some alleys as we have many times before. out of the corner of my eye I saw two guys running. When a feeling of calmness just came over me. Suddenly the two men surrounding my companion, my companion being much shorter of the two of us. They yelled "Vou ti matar" meaning I will kill you, and they also started yelling money. I grab one of the guys by the shoulders and held him there as my companion was quaralling with the other. I Had a feeling that I shouldnt resist and shouldnt fight them. From the corner of my eye I could see my companion taking off his backpack. So I let this man that I had in my hands go and handed him my backpack. They grabed our bags and took off through the streets. Nether my companion or I were hurt. As we continued walking we got to talking and Elder Walker had seen a handle in the guys pocket that took his bag. We are not quite sure if it was a gun or a knife but it was a tender mersy of the lord that calmness had overcome both my companion and I. If that feeling of calmness hadnt have come we might have fought with them and the results could have been a whole lot worse. I know he was guiding us and protecting us. He does every min of the day.
Dont be afraid or anything. We feel fine and I still feel safe as I walk the streets today. but I love youguys and I hope you have a great week:) by the way I have something to ask of you really quick. I have an option to ether shorten my mission three week or to lengthen it three. What should I do? I will explain latter:) well love you guys have a great week!
Elder Wilhelm
Monday, June 4, 2012
6/4/12
Hey family!!!!~
Hey sorry this is going to be a really quick one this week we hung ourselves on time with an apointment we are going to have to ruch to.
It sounds like trek was amazing and so very spiritually experiences that accourd And some great testimony builders. I am just glad everybody is safe and made it out alive! I prayed nowone would be killed :) But hey I love you guys so much and I hope you have an awesome week. Next week I will try and send you some pictures of all my experiences so far on the mission. and next week we are haveing a baptisme :) we are pretty excited!
Elder Wilhelm
p.s. sorry dad i will get my move to you next week.
Hey sorry this is going to be a really quick one this week we hung ourselves on time with an apointment we are going to have to ruch to.
It sounds like trek was amazing and so very spiritually experiences that accourd And some great testimony builders. I am just glad everybody is safe and made it out alive! I prayed nowone would be killed :) But hey I love you guys so much and I hope you have an awesome week. Next week I will try and send you some pictures of all my experiences so far on the mission. and next week we are haveing a baptisme :) we are pretty excited!
Elder Wilhelm
p.s. sorry dad i will get my move to you next week.
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