Week 8/9... Off to KOREA!!

So finally I get to head out to Korea! I am so happy that I am able to be out of the MTC very soon, actually in exactly 3 days, but I am very sad to be leaving my friends and the great people that I have been able to meet at the MTC!  The MTC is such an amazing experience, and I absolutely love being able to learn about the gospel and to come closer to my Savior Jesus Christ!!  So in the モルモン書 Or 몰몬경 or in English, the Book of Mormon is a very true book.  One verse that I want to share is from Moroni 7:41.  It states, "And what is it that ye shall hope for? Behold I say unto you that ye shall have hope through the atonement of Christ and the power of his resurrection, to be raised unto life eternal, and this because of your faith in him according to the promise".  Come unto Christ!  Live his word and keep his commandments!  I really want to challenge all to pick up a Book of Mormon.  Don't read it like just to read it.  Have a real intent!  When you don't bash on it, and rather read it with real intent, God will show unto you His amazing restored gospel.

Ok, anyway, that was just a short little thing I wanted to share with all :)

Ok, so, this week has been so fun!!  The focus levels have dipped a little bit because of it being the last week at the MTC, and all we want to do is to go to Korean, but ... that hasn't happened yet!  I'm so excited to be able to head out already!!  I can't believe my nine weeks are up here, and that it has gone by in a blink of an eye!  I know a lot of Korean now too; so I'm pretty happy.  :)

So this week's update is a pretty cool/sad/spiritual update.  So P-day ended last Thursday.  I'm ready to learn, but for some reason, all the elders have like a P-day hangover.  Actually that's an everyday thing, but P-days are more than usual.

Friday was TRC day, and we work hard and plan lessons and learn Korean and then we get to skype actual native Koreans and it is so fun to do Skype TRC!!  I love being able to talk with others and to be able to get to know them from all parts of the World!  This language is such an amazing language too!!  I love being blessed to be able to speak this and I always keep up on my other languages! 

Saturday we had the most spiritual experience ever at the MTC!!  The district always stresses about not being able to speak Korean, not being prepared, feeling insecure and afraid.  Our teacher, Sister Washburn planned something that no one else at the MTC had ever done.  She had one of her teachers bring in English Second Language Students to come and testify to us.  It was a very spiritual experience.  They were from Thailand, Belgium, West Africa, and all bore their testimonies about the Church of Jesus Christ, and their conversion stories and why they know this gospel is true.  Many of them are the only ones in their family that are of the Church of Jesus Christ, and many of them don't have family support.  Yet they come out, they chose to serve a mission because God and the Savior asked them to, so they follow after their words.  Their testimonies were so strong!!  I felt the spirit, and was holding back tears and then Sister Washburn asked if we wanted to share anything and I just bore my testimony, and expressed my gratitude and just straight up started balling.  :)  I am so grateful to have a loving family, and to have been able to grow up in the gospel!!  Anyway, they were fantastic, and I will send pictures of them later.

Sunday was very nice!  Sunday is always a very relaxing day of rest.  1 day of rest is absolutely fantastic and definitely keeping the Sabbath Day holy is amazing.  You receive so many blessings based on keeping the Lord's Commandments!!  I absolutely love Sunday's!  So on Sunday everyone was like Elder Wilson is going to give the talk next week because he has the best Korean so he won't be giving a talk this week.  I was like ohh okay.  The zone is like I'm giving it this week haha!  Before our meetings we don't know who is going to have to talk and you give all your talks in Korean!  It is pretty funny because people stress about it a lot.  I was talking to the Koreans and said that I just prepare two bullet points, two scriptures and let the Spirit guide.  They were like us too!!  HAHA :)   I thought it was absolutely fantastic and I love being able to have such fun people!  

We also went to the temple, and that is always a blast!  We took pictures and I love my Zone!!

Monday was a very nice day, and we are making very good progress with our two "investigators" (teachers who pose as investigators).  I think we are going to ask one of them to be baptized either today or tomorrow.  I feel that when you teach, you retain 70~80% of the language you use and that is the best way to remember vocab and language.  Many are hesitant to teach, but I love teaching because not only does it allow me to learn the language, but also it gives such an amazing spiritual experience!  I love feeling the spirit, and you feel it all the time as a missionary, but it is fantastic because it just multiplies so much when teaching!  I love being able to teach about the gospel!!

Tuesday was so amazing!! Tuesday it finally hit us that “WOW”--- At this time next week we will be out in the real world teaching many in Korean in Korea!!  I'm so excited!!  Class was fantastic and I've been learning so many different things from the Natives that are heading to Busan with us!  I talk to them every night, and I can feel my Korean getting so much better.  I absolutely love being able to talk Korean with all of them!!  Also on Tuesday, we got snow.  We have been getting snow a lot, but not to the point where it sticks!  It is so cool looking at the mountains and how much snow they get too!  It is such a beautiful sight!! Also Tuesday night was devotional night, and Elder Hugo Montoya spoke to us!  It was a beautiful talk and there was one thing that came to mind when he was talking, and he was giving a talk about our purpose of inviting others unto Christ. 

The thought that came to mind was a quote from one of my favorite movies "Miracle", when the USA hockey team goes on to beat Russia and win Gold at the Olympics while overcoming all the naysayers and many different obstacles.  A key moment in that story is when the U.S goes to Norway and ties with their National B team.  After a full on game and Herb Brookes hearing many things on the bench, he has the players do conditioning training.  He says to the players something like, "The name on the front of your jersey is a heck of a lot more important than the name on the back! Get that through your head!"  All I could do is think about the name that I have on the front:  예수 그리스도 후기 성도 교회 (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints).  I wear this name tag.  I am a representative of Christ in all I do and all I say.  I try my best to be like Christ.  I want to be the best example I can be.  I am not Joshua Wilson.  I am Christ's Disciple.  The name on the back can be different.  You can be a Wilson, Anderson, Fox, Hanes, Lunt, but one thing stays the same on the name tag, and that is the Name, Jesus Christ.

Yesterday was such a great experience!  We got such an amazing lesson from Sister Choi, and she is so spiritual!  She is such an example too because she grew up in Australia, didn't speak a lick of Korean, got called to Korea and self taught herself.  She didn't get books or study material.  She just picked it up based on people saying it!  She is so good at Korean!  But anyway, it was interesting because the lesson she gave us yesterday was on 3 Nephi 11:3~41. This chapter is beautiful and is talking about God talking to his people in the Americas after Christ's death and how Christ came down to them!  If you have a time to read it, please do!!  I absolutely love this, especially in verse 41 which states, "Therefore, go forth unto this people, and declare the words which I have spoken, unto the ends of the earth."  This is what is great!  Sister Choi actually asked us why we like missionary work.  My answer was I like missionary work because I get to see the joy that the gospel of Jesus Christ brings families.  Eternal truths such as families can be together forever, God has a plan for us, I know where I'm from, what I'm doing now and where I am going, and many other things bless others.  The purpose of life is to gain knowledge and to come unto Christ and be like him.  I absolutely love my Savior!

Every week my testimony of his sacrifice, of his glory, of Christ's life grows immensely.  In the temple this morning, I had the privilege to read Luke 6, and some scriptures I wanted to share are verse 20~23. They state " And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.

Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake. Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets."  

I love this.  We will have joy.  We can have joy.  Just partake of the bread of life.   I love the scriptures and being able to be a servant of my Savior!!  I love you all!! 

Love,

Elder Wilson

Korean Flag & Captain Moroni with the title of Liberty flag

In front of Provo temple

w/ Elder Lunt & Elder Trask

with my group

with Elder Yoon & Elder Jang

with Elder Bramwell from our family ward in Ohio

Week 7: Already?

Wow... Time goes by so quickly I don't know what I am supposed to do with myself! It is so weird that I have already been at the MTC for 7 weeks, and I will be headed out in 11 days!!  I'm so ready to be out of here, yet I cherish every moment that I am here.  I love being here in the MTC and glad I can be here learning the gospel!  It is so weird to reflect and see how much I've grown in these few weeks.  I am barely 1/12 done with my mission and yet, I feel as though I have been out for forever.  I love being able to do the Lord's work and invite people to come unto Christ.  I enjoy the word "invite" because us as missionaries are not forcing anyone to take lessons, or to hear our words.  We don't serve others to gain benefit, or to show off, but rather we serve others in order for them to feel the Savior's love.  We extend invitations to others, but that doesn't mean that they have to take them, so as Elder Henry B. Eyring said "Choose this day", choose what you want to do.  I love serving others because even if they aren't ready for the gospel of Christ, they see that Christ is always there for them.  I am not Joshua Wilson, I'm not doing this for me, I'm not serving a mission to impress anyone.  I'm here to be a vessel for my Lord so that he can work miracles through me.  That is my little spiritual tangent to start off with. 

Anyways, this week has been a little more unusual than usual if I would say to myself.  Last week we got a 14th member to our district (group of individuals heading out on the same day to the assigned mission field), and we asked the sister if she liked our classroom and she said yes.  Unfortunately we would be leaving soon because our districts we are going to split.  We though that the split was going to happen two Sunday's ago, but it didn't.  So I was like ohh okay, I'm not surprised that we didn't split.  It is cool either way.  We love the people in 18 M so much!  But anyways, after last P-Day/ Thursday some things started to change.

This week was so fun and crazy. But all is well like usual.  J

SO here is the coolest update yet!

On Friday, October 30, we did the usual schedule.  I woke up, went to gym, came back, got breakfast, and went off to class.  During our time in the classroom, I studied the Bible and Book of Mormon for an hour and received a great personal revelation. Then after that, I studied the scriptures and prepared for lessons with my companion.  Then, we studied language for an hour; and that is fantastic because then my Korean can continue to get better.  After the language study time, we have additional study, and during that time, you can do what you need to do.  So during that time, our district was studying Korean in the computer lab, and Brother Hone (the supervisor for all the Korean missionaries) came in to talk to all of us.  He started talking in Korean, and I understood everything he said, but the rest of the people didn't, so I translated for him.  He said because we have 14, we are splitting our district into two groups.  So we were like “WHAT!?!?!?”  So, we got split and my district has Elder Mahler, Lunt, Fox and I with Sister Morris, Teekiu and Faanunu.  The other district has Elder Trask, Esplin, Foley, Allen and Hicken with Sister Anderson and Kramer.  It was very odd.   He also said that we were moving back to 7M, which wasn't bad.  He said that the Korean zone needs leaders and people to help in the building so that is one of the reasons we are moving back.

So we moved back to 7 M, and got situated in our new classroom.  Also, my job as online coordinator was to go teach the new district how to use the MTC computers. So I saw Brother Hone walking out, and asked if he had anything else to tell me before I would go do new computer orientation with the new district.  Well, he pulled me aside and said that Branch President Perriton had released me as an Online Coordinator, and that the Lord said that I needed to be called as a District Leader.   So, I am the new District Leader now.  So, it was a super odd time on Friday. But after the whole commotion, we settled in and that was that. Later that night we got to do Skype TRC where you get to talk to Koreans and Natives! We were supposed to teach a 30-minute lesson, but we accidently taught a 40-minute lesson.  The person we got was very chill and we had a great time teaching them.  I talked with him for 10 minutes and got every word he said.  I was so happy that our lesson went so well!  It was a fun time!  Oh, and the saddest part was that because of the split, we are no longer able to teach our "investigator" that lives with his grandma who was our Korean teacher.  I hope that the other missionaries will help him.

Saturday was a very long day, yet there are never any days at the MTC that are boring.  I love being able to study the scriptures and speak Korean.  I love being able to help others with Korean, and always be kind.  I want to be more like Christ, and to be his best servant I can be. So I had a very good day today, and I got to teach lessons which was so fun!  I think I have progressed the most as a Korean speaker when I do teach.  Teaching is always nice because it lets me review words and feel the spirit.

Sunday was a little longer of a day than most Sundays, but I don't mind whatsoever.  Sunday was actually such a spiritual enlightening day.  In the morning I attended branch council and reported on my district. Then after that I read through the scriptures and really pondered them. Around 9:30 a.m., I had my very first mission conference!  Mission Conference is where the MTC president and his counselors address all the sisters and elders.  I really enjoyed the messages that they shared about “Family.”  "The Family: A Proclamation to the World" says, "ALL HUMAN BEINGS—male and female—are created in the image of God. Each is a beloved spirit son or daughter of heavenly parents, and, as such, each has a divine nature and destiny. Gender is an essential characteristic of individual premortal, mortal, and eternal identity and purpose.... THE FAMILY is ordained of God. Marriage between man and woman is essential to His eternal plan. Children are entitled to birth within the bonds of matrimony, and to be reared by a father and a mother who honor marital vows with complete fidelity. Happiness in family life is most likely to be achieved when founded upon the teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ. Successful marriages and families are established and maintained on principles of faith, prayer, repentance, forgiveness, respect, love, compassion, work, and wholesome recreational activities".  

I absolutely love what it says about families.  I love my family very much and I know they are ordained of God. J

After the Mission Conference, we went to Church and at church we had fast and testimony meeting.  I bore my testimony and wow, when you bear your testimony in any language, your heart burns and you are so at peace.  I love the feeling of the Holy Ghost!  Also Temple Walk was sublime, and we had a district meeting where we set goals for the week! Honestly, everyday here is my favorite day. J

Monday was good as well. I got to play basketball in the morning and just absolutely wrecked at that.  I love being able to play basketball every day at the MTC!  It is such a blessing!  Then we taught lessons to our investigators after lunch and dinner, and that was genuinely amazing!  Also our friends were leaving the MTC on Monday, so we took pictures with them!!

Tuesday!  We got a native Korean elder, and he didn't have a companion so the supervisor asked who was the best elder with Korean... People were like “Elder Wilson~!”   So, he got paired up with me and I showed him around.  It was a very very fun time.  He told me that my Korean is good, but I was like “nahhhh. “  Anyway, it was fun!  And our classroom activities went well!  Our teaching went so well too!

Wednesday was a hosting time and we got to teach our teachers.  I love being able to teach.  But in all seriousness, it is amazing being at the MTC!

Today, it was snowing a little bit in Utah!  So great!  I love the snow and I can't believe it is snowing already!!  I love being here!

Here is a little more of a spiritual thought!  Mosiah 27:36 states "And thus they were instruments in the hands of God in bringing many to the knowledge of the truth, yea, to the knowledge of their Redeemer."  As a disciple of Jesus Christ I am always his instrument.  I am always helping bring truth to the world.  The gospel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is not about Joseph Smith, or him translating the Book of Mormon.  The Gospel is based on Christ.  Christ is our Savior and our Redeemer, and because some things have been lost, Joseph Smith prayed to Heavenly Father and received an answer.

Ephesians 4:5 states "One Lord, one faith, one baptism."  Yet there are so many denominations.  Just a challenge to all, do as Joseph Smith did.  Ask of God with real intent, and a broken heart and contrite spirit.  He will answer.  Watch this link please "https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2013-06-002-origin?category=mormon-messages/mormon-messages-2013&lang=eng"

I love this gospel with all my heart, and know that you do too.  If there are ever any questions ask of God!

Love,

Elder Wilson

Korea-Busan group

Elder Trask & I --- Best Buds

What We Do on Halloween

Week 6: Finally an Apostle!

So this week has been so cool!!  I don't even know where to begin with because everything has been so insane and cool here.  There has been some great, some weird, some amazing, and some hilarious things that have happened here over the past week! 

One spiritual message before I begin is Jacob 4:7 in the Book of Mormon.  It states, "Nevertheless, the Lord God showeth us our weakness that we may know that it is by his grace, and his great condescensions unto the children of men, that we have power to do these things."  

I am weak. I am not strong. I am just a human, I am nothing more than a mere servant to the most high God, to my Savior, yet he knows me better than I know myself and loves me for who I am.  Therefore in order for me to be more like who he wants me to be, I will do all I possibly can do to be like him, and be who he wants me to be.  He takes his time and focuses on us, is always watching us.  We may ask "Why me?" "It is just me," but why not say "Because it's me, and because I'm his child, he loves me the most. Therefore he will always be there to help me, even if I stumble and fall.”  And, that should be our mindset!  J

This week has really been such a blessing here!  I am so glad to be at the MTC with all my friends and my family.  Although they aren't my FAMILY, they are my family. I love my teachers, Brother Chandler, Brother Memmott, Brother Campbell, and Sister Washburn, and Jackson!  They are such amazing people, and are by far the best people to be teaching me this beautiful language of Korea! So onto my week!

Thursday as usual is Preparation Day!! It is so fun!  Every P-Day we get to go to the Temple, we also do like a Chips-and-Queso” day!  It is so amazing!!  I Love it! We also nap and basically P-Day is so relaxing!  I absolutely love Thursday's for this reason!  We always play Sand volleyball if the weather is nice and I absolutely love playing sand volleyball.  I get to dive all over the place and it is so sick! I absolutely love it!

Friday was such an interesting day too!  

Some of the missionaries in my district said that Four Square is such an intense game and it is hard, so I balled up for 45 minutes and then played Four Square for 5 minutes.  It was funny because they got destroyed. 

It is hard to believe that the older district would be leaving on Sunday and I love them so much! It is so weird watching them pack!  

In the evening, we had TRC where we teach members in only Korean.  I can comfortably teach a lesson and hear, and respond without having to guess anything they say.  I absolutely love it.  My companion blanked, but that is okay because he testified great.  He was a little frustrated with himself on his Korean, but I said it doesn't matter.  As long as he will preach with the spirit, then it is amazing!  But I thought it is cool that I could understand everything.  Then we did Companionship Inventory where we review our goals and the week, and we are really as one as a companion.  I literally think what he is thinking, and when he is looking up a scripture, I'm like “I got it,” and he is like “how do you know that was the one I was thinking of?”  I have no idea, just another great blessing of the Lord. J  I absolutely love this gospel, and it is so cool!  After TRC and us going back to the residence, I was writing in my journal.  Then I hear a HUGE scream from an Elders’ room  --yelling “Mouse!!”  Everyone was just staring and not doing anything and screaming.  So I got a box and with four elders, we caught the mouse after trashing 3 rooms it went into.  We named the Mouse "Kim" because it's Korean, and when we were going to let it out, it had eaten through the box and fell onto my leg.   I caught the mouse and it jumped.  It ran off and it was such a good night!!   So funny.  J

Saturday was a decently long day too!  I was able to just really hang out and talk in Korean the entire day.  I love talking in Korean, and watching people be like “Wait... you know four languages?!?!”   I'll be talking to some Hermanas and they will be like “No way!  You can speak Spanish!?!?! “  And I'm like “Ya,” and we have long conversations in Spanish, and then they say Goodbye and I'll see some Japanese elders and I'll start talking Japanese to them and the natives will talk back, but the non-natives will just be like “He speaks Japanese!?!?  He was just speaking Spanish, or English, or Korean.”  Then I'll go back to speaking Korean, and then I switch to English and they are like “No! I can't do this anymore!!”   lol   J   I think it is so funny.  J  Then, just to throw people off I use a little smidge of French and they are like “Five!?!?” and I'm like “nope.”  J   

On Saturday during personal study I got to read Jacob 2 in the Book of Mormon! And one thing that I want to share from there is Jacob 2:18 which reads "But before ye seek for riches, seek ye for the kingdom of God."  Seek out God and seek to be his servant. Be his servant always and he will bless you with riches. But we should constantly be looking for Christ and being examples of him.  Anyway, my Saturday was pretty insane.

Sunday was very fun too!  On Sunday we got to chill out, and I went to a couple meetings in the morning, and that was fun.  I got to read the scriptures and I absolutely love doing that!  During our district meeting (community of missionaries going to Korean of my group) with the branch president (leader of all the Korean missionaries), the Branch president said that it is only natural in companionship or entire classes people progress quicker in the language.  And everyone was like “yea... Elder Wilson progressed a lot faster than us. So... Hmm..”  I said that I'm just thankful to be blessed by God to learn, and that I love the language and will do my best.  The branch president asked the class how we can improve and how we can be more unified.”  My companion was like as we have acknowledged that Elder Wilson is better than most at Korean that we try to plan things out and we work off each other.  I just love my companion. So then after that we went to sacrament meeting which is on the MTC campus and that was super fun!  While walking up to the Provo temple, I took a lot of pictures with people leaving especially the native Koreans.  They seemed to have stuck to me, and I love them so much!  I miss them a bunch!  Then I went to Choir and that was so chill, and devotional on Sunday was from Chris Randall, the Director of Administration at the MTC!  It was such a good message.  He talked about self reflect on your call --- Are you certain of where you were going? Did you have no idea? Were you disappointed? And, he had people stand up too.  In all honesty, never once was I ever disappointed with my call.  I speak Japanese, I love Japan, I am Japanese. But the Lord sent me to the place where I will be the happiest and grow the most and I cannot be more thankful for being sent to Korean. I love Korea and Korean already and I have only just begun. J

One video that he brought up was a MTC devotional from Jeffery R. Holland, and one thing he says was "What you want investigators to do, God wants you to do", "You want your investigator to pray more, God wants you to pray more earnestly.”  

Do you ever feel like he isn't listening to your prayer? Cause I know there have been times where I've felt that way. Why aren't you there, can you hear me, are you there? But I know for a fact with a burning in my heart and pain in my chest, that I cannot deny that he is there. That he is always listening.   Just he does things in his own time:)

Enos 1:4-5 in the Book of Mormon state "And my soul hungered; and I kneeled down before my Maker, and I cried unto him in mighty prayer and supplication for mine own soul; and all the day long did I cry unto him; yea, and when the night came I did still raise my voice high that it reached the heavens. And there came a voice unto me, saying: Enos, thy sins are forgiven thee, and thou shalt be blessed."  Do we pray like Enos? Do we pray with intent?  Do we have faith in God that all things can be done through him? I testify that prayer is so essential!

Anyways so after the devotional, we went to see one of the church movies “The Restoration” (Joseph Smith's search for truth led to the First Vision and the Restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ) in Korean with all the natives!  I got all of it without subtitles, and the Korean missionaries all wanted pictures with me.  So I took a lot of pictures with them! I love them so much! After the movie, we all went outside and sang to the four missionaries leaving districts and said goodbye and gave hugs. I love them so much, and all of them were my mentors. We were so close and I miss them all so much!

Monday the residence was quiet, I was tired cause we stayed up until 1:00a.m. just hanging out. I love them! 

Monday was fun, and we had an amazing lesson with our investigator!  Our investigator is really progressing and it is so fun that we are able to teach them!  I love being able to speak Korean to them and I can't believe how fast this week has been going!

Tuesday was such a cool day! Our lesson went absolutely fantastic! We taught 이제승 and we taught about repentance! It was such a good lesson, and we always ask him if he has question about 교리 (Doctrine), but he says no, and we always ask what he understands and he gets a lot of it!  It is super cool that he wants to be baptized as well!  He is such a cool guy and I pray for him every day because his life is hard.  He wants to go to school, but can't because his Grandma needs help.  His Mom and Dad are divorced and always fight and he didn't like going back and forth so decided to live with his Grandma. He can't get a job because his Grandma needs his help.  But he says when he plays music, he can escape from the world.  He really loves God because God helps him out and hears him.  He didn't have faith in God seven weeks ago, but now, he really does believe in him.  Yep!  

Later that night, I sang in the choir at devotional!!  Devotional was absolutely amazing because not only was it broadcasted to all the MTC's around the world, but also because the Apostle Neil L. Anderson spoke!  He spoke on four topics: Sacrifice, Opposition, Adversary and Deliverance!  We got to sing “More Holiness Give Me,” and that was such a good, spiritual song!!  I loved it so much!  Many missionaries told me that I was on a screen for about seven times, but as our choir director says when you look at the screen, you are thinking about yourself, but not about Christ.  I will always think about Christ, so I had no idea.  Hah  J

One thing that Elder Neil L. Anderson said was that "Blessings will always come."  How true that statement is!  You may not recognize the blessings, and they may not be immediate, but they do come.  And I know that they do come!  Just be patient they all do come.  One of the biggest blessings I felt in my life was with my little brother James getting Ewing Sarcoma Cancer.  Many may view it as a trial, but no, this was a blessing.  My brother James is stronger than I am. He is the strongest.  He is an amazing person, and the best brother anyone could ever have.  Through his trial, I can see that God is always there and is always watching us.  He loves you and he can heal you.  Thank you so much, James!  I love my family so much, and miss them too!

Another thing that I really enjoyed was "Am I better today, than I was yesterday." Am i really better, and I progressing, or am I going through the motions and not helping others?  We must keep progressing.  

Finally another thing that I want to share was something that hit me hardest: "I (The Lord) will not leave you comfortless.”  He will always be there to comfort us and will be there.  All we have to do is to ask, and he will give 10000000000x more comfort than possible. I know this to be a true fact.

I love you all very much and thank you for all you do!  Thank you for being such great people, and as a challenge, this week I want you all to re-assess your lives. Are you doing all you can do to come closer to Christ?  Are you becoming more like him, and helping others out?  Do I pray with fervor?  

I love this gospel and I love you all. I would never trade this away for anything! 

Thank you for all you do!!

사랑합니다,

Love,

Elder Wilson / 윌손장로

The best way to start a great day!  6:30a.m. @ Provo Temple

w/ Korean group

Awesome reunion w/ Elder Fike (Serves in Barbados) from Laramie, WY