Final Week

This week will be my final week emailing as a missionary. I wanted to simply share a scripture to end my mission. 

It is 3 Nephi 11:14~17

14 Arise and come forth unto me, that ye may thrust your hands into my side, and also that ye may feel the prints of the nails in my hands and in my feet, that ye may know that I am the God of Israel, and the God of the whole earth, and have been slain for the sins of the world.

15 And it came to pass that the multitude went forth, and thrust their hands into his side, and did feel the prints of the nails in his hands and in his feet; and this they did do, going forth one by one until they had all gone forth, and did see with their eyes and did feel with their hands, and did know of a surety and did bear record, that it was he, of whom it was written by the prophets, that should come.

16 And when they had all gone forth and had witnessed for themselves, they did cry out with one accord, saying:

17 Hosanna! Blessed be the name of the Most High God! And they did fall down at the feet of Jesus, and did worship him.

So in this group of verses, Jesus Christ comes down from heaven to visit the people of the Americas. In doing so the people are in astonishment and they see for themselves Jesus Christ. They were also able to so unto him and feel for themselves who he was. How great it is to be a follower of Jesus Christ. It is wonderful to follow him and get to be his disciple. 

Finally 3 Nephi 5:13, and it reads "Behold, I am a disciple of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. I have been called of him to declare his word among his people, that they might have everlasting life." I am a missionary for the church of Jesus Christ, and a representative of Jesus Christ. He loves me and I love him. He is our savior and the only way. If we follow him, we are able to have eternal life through him. Being a missionary is wonderful and the blessings of it are amazing. I love being a missionary and am sad to go and leave Korea! And signing off for the last time with love...

Love Always,

Elder Joshua Wilson

Week 104:One more

And although the topic of this email says one more, it doesn't mean one more week and then I'm home, but it means that we had one more investigator decide that he wants to be baptized! We are planned to get him baptized on the 29th or October and I'm super excited for him! Although I won't be here in Korea, I'm extremely happy that he decided to after being away from the missionaries for a while.

So for my second to last spiritual message, I've been reading through the scriptures about who the Savior is and what he was like and I was able to watch the movie the testaments and really ponder this week about if I met the Savior today, what would it be like. And I ended up coming across a scripture in 3 Nephi Chapter 11 Verses 7~11 and I won't copy and paste them here, but it is so amazing how Jesus Christ comes down to see not only his people after the resurrection but also goes down to others and administers to them. How marvelous it is that Christ loves us and God loves us so much that he helps us come closer unto him through his only begotten son! I love this gospel and the doorways it opens! Our Savior lives and our Heavenly Father truly does love us! 

Ok in quickly summarizing my week, last week we chilled out on P-day and got to talk to a bunch of people during the week and got to go out and visit many members and we got to meet with a lot of investigators and people! On Tuesday we were able to have dinner with some members and got to go visit with people! It was amazing and Thursday we went on exchanges and went and worked on a mandarin farm and one of the Elders got bitten by so many mosquitoes. And we were able to play basketball and talk with many people and meet with multiple investigators and it was a great week!

Love Always,

Elder Joshua Wilson  

Week 103: Two more...

So this week I will just give a really short run down of the big things that happened this week because time is running out!!!

This week I was able to learn a lot about patience. 

Lately, I have been reading through Preach My Gospel about Christ-Like attributes and learning who Christ was. As I have been able to study the scriptures, I know that Christ really does love us and knows our trials and wants us to succeed. He wants us to try and went things don't go our way, to try even harder and then will he help you! It is wonderful being a missionary and I love every moment of doing this work!

So we climbed Halla mountain this week for P-day and were able to go to the Brusos house for dinner. During the week we had different meetings and we got to clean the church for like 8 hours on one day. We went out to Busan too, for a meeting and for exchanges with the AP's. Then on Saturday we cleaned the church some more and set up for district conference and I translated for a solid 3 hours then. We also had 2 more people decide to get baptized. One is a man that is about 49 and has a family and the other one is 12 and he is awesome! On Sunday we had church and a baptism for a member and that was great and we got to serve a lot and then we got to go visit members! It was a great week and I love being out here in the missions! It is sooo weird how fast the time is going!

Love Always,

Elder Joshua Wilson