Week 25: Some Experiences and Feelings

Hi everyone ! I know last week I mentioned that I would be hitting my 6 months this week but I feel like I need to say more about the last 6 months I have been able to serve the Lord up in the great white North! I just wanted you guys to know that i am so grateful for my misison. I have learned so much. Some lessons have been humbling, painful and others i didnt want to learn. There have been tears. There has been some of the longest days of my life. There has been doors slammed and days where i feel like i couldnt take another step. But, there has been days of sunshine. Many wonderful days of which I have enjoyed. Days when someone has let us come into their home and offered to share the warmth of their fire and a hot drink in -30 degree winter days. Days you're exhausted, but excited to keep working. Days when the light of Jesus Christ brings happiness into someones usually heartbreaking life. Words aren't adequate to describe these days, to describe how it feels to see the atonement of the Savior at play in the lives of those you have come to love dearly. I will admit, this is the hardest thing I have ever done, and I've had to work harder than I've ever had to work, and give every last ounce I've had to give even on days when I feel like doing nothing. And I love it ! Not because it's always fun, or I've seen a lot of baptisms on my mission, or because people are always nice. I love it because my relationship with the Lord has strengthened a lot in these past 6 months. Ive learned more deeply what it means to love and respect someome who you spend everyday with and do everyrhing together (companion) I've come to understand better gods plan for us, I've learned that the atonement is central to everything we do. I get to see the atonement at work everyday in my life, in my companions lives, and in the lives of the people that I teach. We all need the Savior. We need his love and mercy and forgiveness. We need to know that we are not alone, and that anything that we go through no matter what it is, Jesus Christ walked the path before us, and overcame it all. He paved the way, he made it possible for us to return back to our Father in heaven who patiently waits for his children to come to him. There truly is no substitute for the peace and true happiness that comes from experiencing this in our lives and the lives of others. There is no substitute for living the Gospel of Jesus Christ. There is no place I'd rather be right now. I love Canada, I love the people here, but above all I love the Lord, and I know I am loved by him. I want others to know that and feel the joy that comes when we really do know that. It makes all the difference! 

That Is just a little summary of my experiences so far and I hope you all have enjoyed following along with me ! 

This week was another great one, the sun has been out the past couple days and it's been beautiful. We have a lesson with the Fox's at 10 today. So here in a little. Last meeting they said yes to baptism in June so they are just praying for a date now! Hopefully we get a specific one today. We shall see. Also we put Ola on date for June 29th this week and it was SWEET the lesson was so good. We are excited! 

 Today is zone pday so we will be playing kickball and enjoying the weather ☀️ gotta get that tan on hey 👸🏾 

ALSO! today the Lord is blessing me with a sweet baby nephew. I am an aunt today! Congrats to my older sister Elena and Kyle on your beautiful boy. I cannot wait to meet him. What a perfect day to call home. We are blessed !❤

Well that's enough about me 😉 I hope you all are doing well and enjoying life. I think of you often and pray for each of you ! Keep up your great work, have the best week❤

Sister Anna Wilson 

Week 24: 6 Month Mark!

This whole week has been grey and stormy and even snowed a little again. I wish the Sun would stay. Hahah I think it comes to visit Canada for 5 seconds a year. Anyways this week was pretty good we did a lot of service and thats always great 

Thursday we went on the Reservation and picked up Drug needles for a couple hours! Dont worry mother I had gloves ;) 

Friday we did service at Epic (a youth center) and painted and helped with some renovations it was a good time. We also went to a family named the Morphis's. They are my FAv, the whole family is So talented. They all sing and have voices of angles and they are Frenchies so they sing in french and it just makes it prettier😉 They travel and do little shows. They are making a CD and im gonna buy one and send it home its so good. Anyways they were renovating their basement and we went and helped and they put on a little show for us afterwards and it was beautiful and they tried to teach us to play the violin and they were all laughing cause we were so terrible at it hah! 

Saturday and Sunday we focused on Finding and we have some potentials so hopefully we pick them up this week 

Monday and Tuesday were finding days just did a lot of stop bys and all that ! we have a lesson Today with Mable and Richard and were teaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ and their sons want to talk to them about baptism today so we will see how it goes and i will keep you guys updated !

not too crazy of a week, were working on making our teaching pool bigger so finding finding finding. Last Wednesday was so nice so we went to a park in Lethbridge and played soccer and went to sushi since its our fav! also I cant remember if had mentioned earlier but my companion loves photography and so were always snapping pics here and there when we can. We took some at the park last Wednesday and they accidentally turned out to look like engagement pics. haha i thought i forgot to press the button to take the pic so we were laughing and turns out i actually did press it so it snapped some pics of us gazing into each others eyes laughing. So enjoy.  

ALSO CONGRATS to my girl Jordan for her mission call !! Tempe Arizona is getting the best of the best.💃 Missions are the greatest !!!!!!!! so excited!

p.s I hit my 6 months this week! time is flying and loving it all. Hope you guys arent missing me TOO much 😉

Stay tuned for next week ! 

Sis Wilson 

The video and last pic is of us at a lesson at Jennifer's and Her granddaughters dressed the cat up so I was fixing his hat and he was lookin fresh 💯

Week 23: Spring (Officially) Sprang

hey wassup hellloooo! Dont have long today so sorry, short email this week. :) 

Spring is here and it feels so good. We are blessed !! 

Friday we had a lessson with Richard and Mable and they mentioned they want to learn more still before they commit to baptism but they are reading the BOM and all that so its going good ! 

Saturday we spoke at one of the elders baptisms that was fun ! We had a lesson with a lady that we are teaching her name is Tess and she is super solid but the only problem is she wants to be baptized sometime before she dies and she wants to do it in a lake. Hahah we talked about some concerns she has. So we are working on that 

Sunday:  A great sunday! loved talking to you momma. Hope you all enjoyed Mothers day with your fams! 

Monday was a busy day and full of good stuff. Lessons, service all dat 

Tuesday: Zone conference in Lethbridge. Super long day hahh but it was the best. We had interviews with President after and he told Sis Ma'ake she will be finishing off here in cardston which means i will probably kill her (be her last companion before she goes home) 

If I am it will be a party !! we have too much fun together. Its good though, we work hard but play hard too. Gotta balance it out hey 😉

I love all the things I am learning from my mission. Things that will help me for the rest of my life. I just love my mission in general. So much. Hahah before I came, I said  Im a little rough around the edges but im all yours Heavenly Father. Hes working with me, smoothing out my edges, making me better! Im grateful for all the hard and the good that I experience out here. Thanks for all your support, you keep me going ! sure do LOVE YA. 

Sis Wilson 

Matthew 18:20

"For where two are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them"

Love,
Sister Wilson

Week 22: Another Spiritual Week

I swear I just wrote you all like yesterday, time is flyinggggg! It snowed again woot woot.

hmm a couple thing that happened this week !

Thursday: We picked up an older couple out on the Reservation named The Fox's. It was such a solid lesson, probably the best one that me and sis Ma'ake have taught together so far, the spirit was gonna make the room explode. We came in with the intention to invite them to start reading the book of Mormon but the spirit was like no tell them to pray about baptism! So I was like Mable and Richard, will you pray about Baptism ??! and they were like yes we have been thinking about that actually and they shared a couple cool experiences with us. They are part of the Anglican church though so it might be a little hard for them to leave after so many years but they are solid ! We have another lesson tomorrow with them so we will follow up about our invitation and ill let you guys know how it goes next week.:)

friday: Took a little girl out for a temple tour who wasnt a member , she loved it it was sweeeettt

Sat:We helped with Alberta's Highway clean up and it was cool it kinda took forever and messed a little of our schedule up hahah but it was fun ! 

Sunday:It was Stake conference so we went to that, but normal sunday it was good 

Monday: We had a Zone council meeting and all the missionaries in the South came to Cardston. Me and Sister Ma'ake came a little early and made all the missionaries pancakes and French Toast so we had a little breakfast party before! Then I had to give a Training on working with members and discussing what works in our areas, and honetsly I hate giving them hahah I get nervous but its whatever Im getting better about it. #NoGrowthInTheComfortZone #NoComfortInTheGrowthZone 😜

Tuesday: we put Sheldon on DATEEEEE (lesss goooooo!!) but we had to pass him off to the elders.sad, cause he was like an inch out of our area lol. But yeah we had a pass off lesson and this was actually the first time he took us to his home but its not really even a house its a latch on trailer that he got for 100 bucks and before that he lived in a tent for a little which idk how he made it out alive cause you cant survive the winter here in a tent... but anywhays he took us out to the reservation and he lives down  by a ditch and we had to walk a ways to get down there but we were terrified cause he was like oh yeah watch your step ladies dont touch the logs or tires that are all on the ground, they are booby traps .so me and my comp look at each other and are like sweet man thanks for the warning hahah so we were hopping all around trying not to die. But we had such a great lessson and he opened up so much about his life and how hes just doesnt wanna drink and smoke and not have a temptation to cause thats all so heavy on the reserve its so sad. But we were like sheldon we have something we PROMISE that will help ! and he was like really can have it ? and were like uhh duhhh so we whipped out the Book of Mormon and just told him all about the book and told him it was also about his Native American ancestors and he got super excited and was like yooo I can read this !! Ill start right away and then we brought up baptism and set a goal for June 8th! heck yeah, Sheldon is such a baller !! were sad we had to pass him off but we will for sure go to some lessons still AND his baptism 😉 also were gonna start getting the relief society in the ward to like try and donate blankets and some other things for him cause his living conditions are terrible, my man sheldon cant be out here livin like that! 

I sure am tired yall but who cares when youre having as much fun as I am teaching people about Jesus. I know that God has given us a plan for us to be successful and HAPPY. I know The Book of Mormon is the word of God and it can help us overcome temptation and we can come to know the Savior by reading it. I know it changes hearts.  I know that God loves his children, WE are his greatest possession and Joy comes when we serve his children, our bro's and sisters. We're all fam. Serve someone this week ! 

So I think its supposed to get a little warmer this week? fingers crossed? Will I ever be brown again? who knows...stay tuned ! 

LOVE YA. Stay sunny🌻

Sister Wilson 

Highway Clean-up (Service)

Playing with our neighbor's snakes. 

Playing with our neighbor's snakes

Booby-traps and Sheldon

Booby-traps and Sheltron

Pocahontus (aka: Me as the Cheif's new daughter)

Me and my girls I met @ Epic

Selfie

One Heart - One Mind

Week 21: May Day (It’s a Blizzard!)

When I first got to Canada I realized Canadians love to talk about the weather. Hahah they always say "how bout this weather eh?" and id just try to smile through the chattering teeth, half smile, acting like it wasnt the coldest ive ever been. 😁 But now I get it ! haha they take pride in the cold weather I think. We had a big blizzard hit us this week. Church was cancelled in the West stake, so all the other missionaries didnt have church but we did cause the our stake was like nahhh its all good ! so we got lucky and got to go to church 😉 Hahah we woke up to a winter wonderland. At first I was irritated not gonna lie. I mean almost a week straight of snow in freaking May ?? Then I was like well I could be bitter about the cold, but ill probably just be bitter for a long time cause I know there is gonna be more snow, orrrrrrrr I could be thankful and enjoy it. Hahha my attitude changed, and I was enjoyin that BLIZZARD 😉 How bout that weather eh??

This week was great! Treansfers were on Thursday and so we went to lethbridge and picked up sister Hasse, Sis Johns new comp. Helped them settle in and everything !

Friday: some fun weekly planning. Sister Hansen has been sick so we havent read with her for a couple weeks. But got her some medicine and ran some errands for her so that was great ! 

Saturday: We went to a baptism for this little boy in our ward, his name is Morgan and he asked all the missionaries to sing at his baptism. Well the other missionaries flaked and it was just us and Im not gonna sugar coat it it was bad. We tried, me and sister Ma'ake arent singers and the little girl on the piano kept messing up and we had to restart like 3 times. It was a gong show, we couldnt help but laugh afterwards and the bishop was even laughing. Haha you could ask us to do anything else, just not sing! 😁 

Sunday: Woke up to a winter wonderland like I said but church was still great! afterwards we stopped by a lady named Gale. Shes out on the reserve and shes a member just really less active. She just got diagnosed with cancer and so shes going through a tough time right now but she was so positive ! I shared alma 7 with her and we talked about it for awhile and she loved it. We also made some Banana bread for her in the morning and brought it over and she was super grateful. It was awesome 

Monday: we visited Jennifer and I got to meet her grandchildren. They were the sweetest and they showed us their Pow Wow dances. (Native American cultural dancing) We were dancing around the living room and having a blast. The natives are a very spiritual people. We gave them pics of Jesus and taught them a little about him. They were all smiles ! 

Moments like that, make me realize all that I have given up to be out here teaching these people actually is not a sacrifice at all, but a wonderful blessing that the Lord has given me that has changed me. 

Tuesday: MLC in Calgary. So long, but so good ! We were all hyped cause this month we beat the record of highest baptisms in the last 5 years ! we got 37! super cool. But one of the biggest things that stood out to me was loving our companion. I truly have loved all my companions so far but President really emphasized on serving them. Hahah I think I forget that sometimes, so im making that a goal this transfer! Its the small and simple things that just show them that you love them. Also, being an example to them and inviting them to "Become as he is"

I love my companion. We have such a blast together. Who knows, maybe ill make her breakfast in bed this week ?😉

Anywho, Im still doing good and loving the work! Im pretending that its spring here and wearing my cute spring dresses , sandals, and sungleses. A sister can dream hey ? 

Haha I love you, you know that ! thanks for all your support. Until next week.❤

Sister Wilson