Buongiorno! And almost Buon Natale!!
Well, another week is in the books! I can't believe how fast time is going by! It is just such a blessing to be a missionary, I am so glad to be where I am.
I hope everyone had a great thanksgiving! WE DID TOO!!! We had one of the members here cook us an AMERICAN Thanksgiving meal. It was so good! Way better than the McDonald's we had last year, haha. But, by the way, McDonalds is considered a "high-class" place in Italy. It is pretty hilarious! They are like "ooo, American food. Fancy." ha!
Let's see, nothing really too exciting has happened this week...or maybe I just can't remember...
--Well, we had a wonderful Christmas Zone Conference...yesterday! Which is why it is Thursday and I am writing you all today. We had to change our P-day. But we did a big training on the new church message "He is the Gift". It went really well! It is such a wonderful time of the year to "Share the Gift", and bring others to realize the real reason for the season. ( Oh by the way...side story about the zone conference-- So me and Anziano Taylor were assigned to do the training since it was here in Alessandria, and so we were helping President Dibb set up the projector before hand. We were struggling to get it to turn on and so I walked over to it and was like "Oh! Well I know what's wrong..you have to do it like this...*hand motion* ACTIVATE! *push button* ....and it totally worked! Haha! I was just going for the joke, but hey, whatever works. President was like "well done Elder Wilson, well done." I was like "well, it is my home turf here, so I can make things happen sometimes"... So there's a little insight into the behind-the-scenes daily life of Anziano Wilson) :)
--My companion and I are going to start going around christmas caroling and handing out Pamphlets and Books of Mormon wrapped up in wrapping paper as gifts to everyone. My companion is a big-time broadway/opera singer...so he is pretty good. ...watch out Italy, here we come!
--We put up Christmas decorations!! I put up all the snowflakes that you all made for me last christmas. It looks so festive! We are excited for that, so thank you all! :)
--More on this later, but we had an majorly successful lesson with the Young Single Adults this past Sunday! We talked about how great of missionaries they are because they have the most powerful tool for sharing the gospel ever invented...the internet!
--We made some pretty good pizza the other day. Except we made double what any person in their right mind would eat...and ate it all. But it was good!
--Daniele, our investigator that is closest to baptism, is such a champion! We found out this week that in addition to being a star kickboxer, singer, and painter...that he is also a part-time runway model! What!? He was like "yeah, I went into three competitions a while ago...but I only won two of them..." No big deal. Add that to the repitour (not going to even try to spell that correctly), of the most amazing investigator ever! December 12th is the day of his baptism! :)
--I had the opportunity to do a scambio with Anziano Lefler, one of the assistants to the President this past week. He is a great missionary, and it was a great chance for me to learn from him. He helped me correct a few mistakes in my language that had been common mistakes I was making often! At least now they are corrected! We had some great experiences contacting people on the street; including talking to this awesome woman who always carries around a bible and reads it as she walks from place to place! She was like "Noone serious about the word of God would walk around without a bible!..." We pulled out the bibles from our bags and she loved it! Also, we taught a family that speaks only Spanish. I don't know what that may sound like to you...but when I say "taught", I use that in a really general sense; we don't actually speak Spanish at all, so that was pretty interesting! But fun!
Miracle: This week's miracle is tied in with the mission's vision to help our members start using social media to share the gospel!
This past Sunday we had the opportunity to teach the lesson for the GANS' family home evening. We decided to make it a game, and did JEOPARDY! We had different categories such as " Facebook" "Twitter", or "A Day in the Life of a Missionary", that basically just emphasized the difference between how many people we as missionaries can talk to per day, and how many more people they can contact, with just the click of a button. We watched a Mormon Message about our Savior with them at the end, and then invited them (using the last JEOPARDY question remaining) to each put a mormon message on Facebook! They were really touched, and inspired after seeing just how many people (thousands) they can touch every single day. It was a great success!
Everything is going really well! We are working hard to share the Gift with everyone. It is a great time of the year!
I love you all a ton! Thank you for your support and prayers. What a great time of the year! Have a wonderful week full of gumdrops and candy canes and (oh my goodness...candy canes. I miss candy canes.) But have a wonderful week!
Love,
Anziano Wilson
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