Hey Fam!!
sorry this week is going to have to been a short e-mail. we dont just have to much time.
But things here in angola are going great and i am still loving it!!! Thanks for all your letters also its always great to hear from all yall :) But it sounds like this has been just a crazy week for all of you!! Man and treck is starting up! you will have to let me know how all that goes!
well hey love you all sorry this is a short one this week but have a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious week!
Elder wilhlem
Monday, May 28, 2012
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Monday, May 21, 2012
5/21/12
Hey how goes it family!!!
Wow so this week was some of the most progress I have ever seen with all of the people we are teaching. I will just paste my letter I wrote to the president because it pretty much explains all that is going on with them.
President Walton,
This up coming week we do not have any investigators getting baptised but now we have two that are preparing to enter into the waters of baptism. The firsts name is Jendira. Jandira has been investigating the church for a while and only yestarday did she finally feel ready to take the step towards baptism. For a while we werent able to get over to her house because she has both school and work and has a really hard time finding other time, but she was able to come up with a time to be able sit with with us which is once a week on saturdays. Anyways we were talking with her and we had a feeling to ask her if she felt ready for baptism and she said she was so she picked a date and the date is the 9th of this next coming month.
The next investigator with a baptismal date is Eva. Evas baptismal date is about a month from now and we will see about her. she finally decided to get baptised because an even that happened in her life. She had gone to the doctor for a cancer test and was super scared about it. When it was all said and done she didnt have cancer but we could tell she was a little shooken up about the whole experience but she started to realize what was important in life. The only problem is we think she has a huge problem with drinking. Our next step with her is to help her quite drinking.
We also have had some amazing improvement with one of our Less Actives. His name is lirio and we were finally able to get him to go to church. He also brought a friend of his that we are also teaching. He is finnally starting to realize the impact he can have in other peoples lives.
The end :)
Ya I just added that last part "the end :)" I would never write that to president. haha but man one thing that I forgot to write in my last letter was that we have recieve 9 new investigators! 7 of them are related to a member in the church which is very helpful so there relitive can sit in with us. SSOOOOO EEXXCCITTEEEEDDDDD!!!!!!
Ok so just a quite story before I have to get going. So yestarday we were at an investigators house. Their names are claudio and genine. It is nothing with the lesson or anything no of couse not that went great but after wards they always give us a little snake like some juice and crackers or somthing. THIS time they pulled out these 5 big crabs that had probably been taken out of the ocean only a few hours before. Me never haveing eaten crab before kind of just stood there and looked at what lay before me wondering with my mouth half open how in the world to eat in. I mean I have eaten crab before but the meat was already out of the crab. So anyways The woman, Genine, grabs off one of the legs and hands it to me trying to descibe how to eat it. so I take it and kind of just sucked on it not having any idea. She then grabs another trying to show me by example, and starts chewing on it. Or so i thought. So I comenced to start to chew up the shell and all.... bad idea. haha to say the least I was lucky that crab didnt come out a hundered miles an hour landing on Genine. After I saw her finally take the crab leg out of her mouth I felt like an idiot. It wasnt chewed up or anything. What she had done was she worked the meat that was inside the leg with her teethout the the open end where it was broken off. WOW ya I felt a little stupid after that. Once I finally learned how to do it after some trial and error I finally got it!!! I will say that crab has been one of my favorit foods here so far!!!!
haha well hey fam love you lots and have a great week!!! stay beutiful!!!~
Elder Wilhelm
Wow so this week was some of the most progress I have ever seen with all of the people we are teaching. I will just paste my letter I wrote to the president because it pretty much explains all that is going on with them.
President Walton,
This up coming week we do not have any investigators getting baptised but now we have two that are preparing to enter into the waters of baptism. The firsts name is Jendira. Jandira has been investigating the church for a while and only yestarday did she finally feel ready to take the step towards baptism. For a while we werent able to get over to her house because she has both school and work and has a really hard time finding other time, but she was able to come up with a time to be able sit with with us which is once a week on saturdays. Anyways we were talking with her and we had a feeling to ask her if she felt ready for baptism and she said she was so she picked a date and the date is the 9th of this next coming month.
The next investigator with a baptismal date is Eva. Evas baptismal date is about a month from now and we will see about her. she finally decided to get baptised because an even that happened in her life. She had gone to the doctor for a cancer test and was super scared about it. When it was all said and done she didnt have cancer but we could tell she was a little shooken up about the whole experience but she started to realize what was important in life. The only problem is we think she has a huge problem with drinking. Our next step with her is to help her quite drinking.
We also have had some amazing improvement with one of our Less Actives. His name is lirio and we were finally able to get him to go to church. He also brought a friend of his that we are also teaching. He is finnally starting to realize the impact he can have in other peoples lives.
The end :)
Ya I just added that last part "the end :)" I would never write that to president. haha but man one thing that I forgot to write in my last letter was that we have recieve 9 new investigators! 7 of them are related to a member in the church which is very helpful so there relitive can sit in with us. SSOOOOO EEXXCCITTEEEEDDDDD!!!!!!
Ok so just a quite story before I have to get going. So yestarday we were at an investigators house. Their names are claudio and genine. It is nothing with the lesson or anything no of couse not that went great but after wards they always give us a little snake like some juice and crackers or somthing. THIS time they pulled out these 5 big crabs that had probably been taken out of the ocean only a few hours before. Me never haveing eaten crab before kind of just stood there and looked at what lay before me wondering with my mouth half open how in the world to eat in. I mean I have eaten crab before but the meat was already out of the crab. So anyways The woman, Genine, grabs off one of the legs and hands it to me trying to descibe how to eat it. so I take it and kind of just sucked on it not having any idea. She then grabs another trying to show me by example, and starts chewing on it. Or so i thought. So I comenced to start to chew up the shell and all.... bad idea. haha to say the least I was lucky that crab didnt come out a hundered miles an hour landing on Genine. After I saw her finally take the crab leg out of her mouth I felt like an idiot. It wasnt chewed up or anything. What she had done was she worked the meat that was inside the leg with her teethout the the open end where it was broken off. WOW ya I felt a little stupid after that. Once I finally learned how to do it after some trial and error I finally got it!!! I will say that crab has been one of my favorit foods here so far!!!!
haha well hey fam love you lots and have a great week!!! stay beutiful!!!~
Elder Wilhelm
Thursday, May 17, 2012
5/17/12
Hey family!!
Hey sorry I wasnt able to write on monday. We had some lessons a little bit earlier so we didnt have much time. so we are just doing our emails now.
Just wanted to say to allyall i got to talk to THANKS!!!! It was great to see you all and someone has got to tell me if mom cried after to find out if my impressions were right:) haha sorry mom. But you are look great and thoughs kids are getting so big it is crazy!!
Ok anyways so this week in Angola was just amazing!!! This past week we had a lesson with a new investigator. We got the reference through her sister who is a memeber of the chuch. The investigators name is Irmã Paula. She is an older lady and she has about 8 kids and most of them live with her. (her kids rang from 20 to 33 or so) we are so excited to start teaching her and her family!
but anyways i need to get get and i love you all so much!!!
Elder wilhelm
Hey sorry I wasnt able to write on monday. We had some lessons a little bit earlier so we didnt have much time. so we are just doing our emails now.
Just wanted to say to allyall i got to talk to THANKS!!!! It was great to see you all and someone has got to tell me if mom cried after to find out if my impressions were right:) haha sorry mom. But you are look great and thoughs kids are getting so big it is crazy!!
Ok anyways so this week in Angola was just amazing!!! This past week we had a lesson with a new investigator. We got the reference through her sister who is a memeber of the chuch. The investigators name is Irmã Paula. She is an older lady and she has about 8 kids and most of them live with her. (her kids rang from 20 to 33 or so) we are so excited to start teaching her and her family!
but anyways i need to get get and i love you all so much!!!
Elder wilhelm
Monday, May 7, 2012
5/7/12
HEY FAM!!!!!
Well it sounds like it was kind of a rough week... I am so sorry but i know you guys are enduring it well :) Hey that is so awesome though that ria and jake are up there!!! holy crap thats so cool!! what a bunch of rednecks. Tambem way excited for lara and todd to get up there to:) i cant wait to be able to egg your houses with out traveling the vast differences :)
But anyways be sure to give Bob a BBBBBIIIIGGGGGGG!!!!!! hug for me. I am glad she isnt suffering anymore. she had such a hug influence in my life you got rely relize what you got till its gone. I love you guys and Remember the lord is there for you anytime you have worrys or conserns. he will not give us anything that we are not able to ender. but i love you so much!!! this____________________big :)
This past week I was reading in the a book that president walton gave to the missionaries in our district. The book is writen by the same guy that wrote "how to win friends and influence people." And it has helped me live so much happier and to be able to concentrate on the work so much better. the book is called "how to stop worrying and start living." granted i know i only just started it but in the first chapter it starts of by saying that we need to "day-tight compartmentalize" this meaning to not worry about yestarday. its already gone and there is nothing we can do about it. and also to not worry about the future (this was the really interesting part to me). That is not that we shouldnt plan. thats not what that means at all. it is saying that all we can do is plan and then do it once it comes. "the best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm on doing todays work superbly today. that is the only possible way ou can prepare for the future." as I have taken this advise and focusing on the things that are directly at had i have found my ability to comunicate just shoot with the people. I would always worry about what i was going to say wouldnt make sence, i was worried about how long it would take to learn this language, i was worried about investigators not doing their commitments. it was stupid. working on the fosused task at hand will improve our ability to do many things beyond our capabillity. but anyways that was just something really cool that i learned that helped to much with the work :)
^But things here in angola are going great:) i still love these people so much and i wouldnt be anywhere else in the world. but anyways i will let the rest of you get back to your lives because there are better things for you to do:) i love you all so much and have a great week!
love
elder wilhelm
PS mother this is for you:) i will be able to go in and talk to you guys between 8 and 10:30ish on sunday. your time. so be ready :)
Well it sounds like it was kind of a rough week... I am so sorry but i know you guys are enduring it well :) Hey that is so awesome though that ria and jake are up there!!! holy crap thats so cool!! what a bunch of rednecks. Tambem way excited for lara and todd to get up there to:) i cant wait to be able to egg your houses with out traveling the vast differences :)
But anyways be sure to give Bob a BBBBBIIIIGGGGGGG!!!!!! hug for me. I am glad she isnt suffering anymore. she had such a hug influence in my life you got rely relize what you got till its gone. I love you guys and Remember the lord is there for you anytime you have worrys or conserns. he will not give us anything that we are not able to ender. but i love you so much!!! this____________________big :)
This past week I was reading in the a book that president walton gave to the missionaries in our district. The book is writen by the same guy that wrote "how to win friends and influence people." And it has helped me live so much happier and to be able to concentrate on the work so much better. the book is called "how to stop worrying and start living." granted i know i only just started it but in the first chapter it starts of by saying that we need to "day-tight compartmentalize" this meaning to not worry about yestarday. its already gone and there is nothing we can do about it. and also to not worry about the future (this was the really interesting part to me). That is not that we shouldnt plan. thats not what that means at all. it is saying that all we can do is plan and then do it once it comes. "the best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm on doing todays work superbly today. that is the only possible way ou can prepare for the future." as I have taken this advise and focusing on the things that are directly at had i have found my ability to comunicate just shoot with the people. I would always worry about what i was going to say wouldnt make sence, i was worried about how long it would take to learn this language, i was worried about investigators not doing their commitments. it was stupid. working on the fosused task at hand will improve our ability to do many things beyond our capabillity. but anyways that was just something really cool that i learned that helped to much with the work :)^But things here in angola are going great:) i still love these people so much and i wouldnt be anywhere else in the world. but anyways i will let the rest of you get back to your lives because there are better things for you to do:) i love you all so much and have a great week!
love
elder wilhelm
PS mother this is for you:) i will be able to go in and talk to you guys between 8 and 10:30ish on sunday. your time. so be ready :)
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4/30/12
Heyoooo!!!!
Hey fam thankyou so much for all of your letters=) they really make me smill!!!! It sounds like back home is booming with excitment. That is so cool I am so excited for lara and maria! WOW!!! I will be totally be honest and say I never expected them to move there, their going to be a bunch of rednecks!!!
Happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday dear kirstennnnnn. happy birthday to you!!!!!!!!!!!!! =) I couldnt not tell kirsten hello and not sing to her in front of all of you. now all the people in the internet cafe are looking at me very weird so i dont think i will sing anymore here. haha but happy birthday my favorit sister named kirsten :)
Here in luanda is going so stinken great!!! I really love the people here I dont think there are any other people this friendly in the world. so this week has been a great week with missionary work. If only i could understand what they said:) haha its so cool to see all the miricals that go on the harder you work. when i first got here with my companion he had 3 active investigators and were working with others. but after this week we have recieved 4 more investigators and I will tell you one quick story of what happend yestarday after church. so there was this women that none of us had seen before so my companion and i went up and talked to her she said she was interested in the church and had been to church a few times before and said she wanted to know more. so we asked her when she would have time for us and she said right know if that would be ok. so we broght her into another room where we taught her the whole first lesson and after we dont know quite why but we asked her to be baptised right after we talked about the book of mormon. (she had already read some of it and owned one) she look at us and said I have read this book and I have listened to your words and i feel like a should be baptised!!!! YYYYAAAA!!!!!! We were so pumped and she will be baptised in a month. and this upcoming week we have 2 baptisms we are preparing for.
well anyways i love you all and am so greatfull for you!!!
Elder Wilhelm
Hey fam thankyou so much for all of your letters=) they really make me smill!!!! It sounds like back home is booming with excitment. That is so cool I am so excited for lara and maria! WOW!!! I will be totally be honest and say I never expected them to move there, their going to be a bunch of rednecks!!!
Happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday dear kirstennnnnn. happy birthday to you!!!!!!!!!!!!! =) I couldnt not tell kirsten hello and not sing to her in front of all of you. now all the people in the internet cafe are looking at me very weird so i dont think i will sing anymore here. haha but happy birthday my favorit sister named kirsten :)
Here in luanda is going so stinken great!!! I really love the people here I dont think there are any other people this friendly in the world. so this week has been a great week with missionary work. If only i could understand what they said:) haha its so cool to see all the miricals that go on the harder you work. when i first got here with my companion he had 3 active investigators and were working with others. but after this week we have recieved 4 more investigators and I will tell you one quick story of what happend yestarday after church. so there was this women that none of us had seen before so my companion and i went up and talked to her she said she was interested in the church and had been to church a few times before and said she wanted to know more. so we asked her when she would have time for us and she said right know if that would be ok. so we broght her into another room where we taught her the whole first lesson and after we dont know quite why but we asked her to be baptised right after we talked about the book of mormon. (she had already read some of it and owned one) she look at us and said I have read this book and I have listened to your words and i feel like a should be baptised!!!! YYYYAAAA!!!!!! We were so pumped and she will be baptised in a month. and this upcoming week we have 2 baptisms we are preparing for.
well anyways i love you all and am so greatfull for you!!!
Elder Wilhelm
Monday, April 23, 2012
4/23/12
Hey there everyone!!!!
Hows it hanging!! You all probably wont get this till you wake up but is all good. So how is everything going back home!! It sounds like some pretty exciting stuff has been going on over there and I am so excited for you all!! =)
I just wanted to tell you just a little bit about my new companion! He is awesome!!! When I first met him he was kind of quiet but he has really opened up to me. his name is Elder Walker and he is from somewhere is UT. not to sure where though. He is probably one of the more patient people I have ever met (Which is going knowing me right=) But he has help me so much and explains in such a simple way to me and the people we teach. I am pretty excited to be working with him and getting to know him so much better!
But anyways this week has been going great! Angola is actually nothing you like you would think it would be. I know when I looked out the window of the plane I saw one of the bigest cities I have ever seen! It was truely amazing!!! Still havent seen any crazy cool animaly other than a bunch of stray dogs and and few chickens but thats partly because I am like in the center of the city. Its really kind of cool how friendly the people are here and how willing they are to help you with most anything.
For example the first day I was here my companion and I were coming back from an appointment with one of our investigators. When this fella that was probably in his 50s or so walk up to us and asked us which part of town we were headed and he offered to help us(not saying I understood a word of this but my companion explained in a little latter for me =) but anyways he brought us to where all of these big cab/van things were and found the right one for us and we were on our way. I will tell you about the cabs in a bit =) But anyways while we where walking to the cabs we gave him a restoration pamflet and wrote our number on the back and told him to call us if he seemed interested. So we got in the cab and bid farewell to our newly found friend and kind of thought he wouldnt call us or anything but so we get home and then our phone suddenly rings and it was him just making sure we got back home alright! haha ya they are so friendly here. later we called him and made an apointment with him and we will be going there this friday. You could honestly walk up to any person here and just talk to them. Its pretty cool!
Ok so the taxies here. When you need a taxi here you pretty much stand on the side of the road and when one comes by they yell ourt the route that they are headed like the part of town they are going to. and you kind of wave them down if thats the part you want. So when you get in its pretty much a 9 seater van but they make it like a 15 seater =) lets just say no seatblets. So you are ether sitting on someones lap or someone is on you. And when you get to a place you need to get off you just yell out here! and they will almost stop in the middle of the road and you jump out and give the guys your money and you are off on your way. haha ya its crazy because it is how most people around the city get around.
But anyways I love you all so much and thank you for all you letter!
Elder Wilhelm
P.S. The mission pressident said because we have no mail cominging here to us (partly because the lack of addresses) that you can give that email address to others that are not in your family for the time being untill the figure out how to get mail sent over here.
anyways love you all =)
Hows it hanging!! You all probably wont get this till you wake up but is all good. So how is everything going back home!! It sounds like some pretty exciting stuff has been going on over there and I am so excited for you all!! =)
I just wanted to tell you just a little bit about my new companion! He is awesome!!! When I first met him he was kind of quiet but he has really opened up to me. his name is Elder Walker and he is from somewhere is UT. not to sure where though. He is probably one of the more patient people I have ever met (Which is going knowing me right=) But he has help me so much and explains in such a simple way to me and the people we teach. I am pretty excited to be working with him and getting to know him so much better!But anyways this week has been going great! Angola is actually nothing you like you would think it would be. I know when I looked out the window of the plane I saw one of the bigest cities I have ever seen! It was truely amazing!!! Still havent seen any crazy cool animaly other than a bunch of stray dogs and and few chickens but thats partly because I am like in the center of the city. Its really kind of cool how friendly the people are here and how willing they are to help you with most anything.
For example the first day I was here my companion and I were coming back from an appointment with one of our investigators. When this fella that was probably in his 50s or so walk up to us and asked us which part of town we were headed and he offered to help us(not saying I understood a word of this but my companion explained in a little latter for me =) but anyways he brought us to where all of these big cab/van things were and found the right one for us and we were on our way. I will tell you about the cabs in a bit =) But anyways while we where walking to the cabs we gave him a restoration pamflet and wrote our number on the back and told him to call us if he seemed interested. So we got in the cab and bid farewell to our newly found friend and kind of thought he wouldnt call us or anything but so we get home and then our phone suddenly rings and it was him just making sure we got back home alright! haha ya they are so friendly here. later we called him and made an apointment with him and we will be going there this friday. You could honestly walk up to any person here and just talk to them. Its pretty cool!
Ok so the taxies here. When you need a taxi here you pretty much stand on the side of the road and when one comes by they yell ourt the route that they are headed like the part of town they are going to. and you kind of wave them down if thats the part you want. So when you get in its pretty much a 9 seater van but they make it like a 15 seater =) lets just say no seatblets. So you are ether sitting on someones lap or someone is on you. And when you get to a place you need to get off you just yell out here! and they will almost stop in the middle of the road and you jump out and give the guys your money and you are off on your way. haha ya its crazy because it is how most people around the city get around.
But anyways I love you all so much and thank you for all you letter!
Elder Wilhelm
P.S. The mission pressident said because we have no mail cominging here to us (partly because the lack of addresses) that you can give that email address to others that are not in your family for the time being untill the figure out how to get mail sent over here.
anyways love you all =)
Saturday, April 21, 2012
4/21/12
Dear Brother & Sister Wilhelm-
You son has arrived safely in Angola. Attached are the following pictures: (1) Elder Wilhelm at the airport this morning with Elders Hansen and Tilley. (2) Elder Wilhelm in the “mission home” with his companion Elder Walker from West Jordan, Utah. (3) Elder Wilhelm with Sister Walton and me looking towards the ocean from the “mission home”. Thank you for sending such a well-prepared mission. We are very grateful to have Elder Wilhelm here in Angola.
Thank you.
President Walton
You son has arrived safely in Angola. Attached are the following pictures: (1) Elder Wilhelm at the airport this morning with Elders Hansen and Tilley. (2) Elder Wilhelm in the “mission home” with his companion Elder Walker from West Jordan, Utah. (3) Elder Wilhelm with Sister Walton and me looking towards the ocean from the “mission home”. Thank you for sending such a well-prepared mission. We are very grateful to have Elder Wilhelm here in Angola.Thank you.
President Walton
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