8/27/12 Pictures

Here is a picture with some of the missionaries in my zone. We went to a mall to eat then after we went to the churh to play games as a zone. It was pretty sweet day!

8/27/12

Hooolllaa!!! Hows it going? It sounds like everything is going good at home and in mexico:) It has been a wonderful week here in the mission. As you all know we had a missionary conferene with elder holland, elder maynes, and elder useda. It was excellent! I loved it. It was one of the most powerful meetings that i have ever been in. We all got to shake their hands. When i got up to elder holland in the line of course we didnt have much time to talk but he asked How are you doing sister? I said good and then i chuckled a little bit. Then he said youve got a good laugh. Then i chuckled some more. And moved on in the line.....I dont know what to say to an apostle in like 5 seconds. Needless to say I feel spiritually recharged after this weekend. Also in my zone we got to hear elder useda and elder holland on sunday because we had a stake conferene. It was poderoso! At the end of elder hollands talk he gave a blessing to everyone that was present and to all of our loved ones. It was very interensting because he started it off like a real blessing. He said that we should think of this blessing as if he were putting his hands on each and everyones head. In the blessing he blessed us with strength for each and everyday and if we have faith in christ he will lift our burdens. On saturday Elder holland talked how the mission work is the life blood of this churh. He said that the missionary work is not over until christ comes again. He talked with a very pure and direct perspective about how everyone in this world is our brother and sister. Each and everyone of us need this gospel and the power of the atonement. Then on sunday he talked a lot about families and temples. He said that if we need to remember what heaven is like or if we are having a hard time GO TO THE TEMPLE. He said that the temple is the first sacred place here on earth were we can find divine peace. Than he said the second most sacred plae here on earth is the home. These are just some of my notes from the meetings we had. I hope i didnt bore your but i feel so happy and blessed to be apart of the true church of Jesus Christ. I know that this churh is true. I know that our leaders are men called by our loving heavnely father. I felt like the lord was talkiing right through these wonderful men right too us.



Well i love you all so much. I pray for you each and everyday. choa! Hna wilhelm

8/20/12

Hello! Hows it going? I love hearing from you guys. It sounds like everyone is doing great. I love the good ole sj life:) well this week has been kinda crazy for us. Hna Laura decided to get baptised it was so wonderful to see her do this. This little old lady is so cute. In the bathroom after her baptism she was just crying and praying giving thanks to our heavenly father. It was sweet. I love seeing the happiness that we can get if we live the gospel. We are searching for more people to teach now. We are kind of short on investigators. But remember fabiola? Well we talked with her yesterday and she excepted a date for the 1st. I really hope that she can make it to this date. She is so wonderful but she has a lot of oposition from her family.

Today will kind of be a different pday. A week ago the mission got news from the church head quarters that only the misionaries in the quito area or within two hours would be able to attend the conference because the didnt want us to loss a lot of time travelling. Pts Ghent was super worrried and sad about his because he wanted all of the missionaries to have the same chance. So he prayed and fasted and came up with a solution and the church headquarters approved. Today all of mission Quito will be start wokring like normal at 1 pm today. So that we dont loss hours of prosilitying. I thought that was a great idea because it will be awesome to see all 205 of us missionaries together at once. I am getting super excited for the conference on satruday then on sunday elder holland will be coming to our stake. SWEET! haha well i will let you know how it goes. I LOVE YOU ALL! Hna Wilhelm

8/13/12

Here are some pictures that we took from last night. A member made dinner for our zone.

8/6/12

Hoooola mi queridisima Familia,

Thank you so much for all of your letters. it sounds like home is just bombing with excitement. I love you all so much. I am so happy that everyone will be living in sj. I cant help but think in the future now i really want to live in the promise land of sj with my own family. Man kirsty you are about ready to have this baby. Its going to be awesome and wierd to meet two new babies when i get home. Sophie and bridges:) Grampa Wilhelm truely is the sweetest man. it is too bad that he has to deal with this ballon thingy. it was just this last week that i was reading our4 family history stories at night before i would go to bed. And i read some of Gpas stories. he is a wonderful person.

Well we recieved some pretty exciting news here in mission Quito. It has been quite some time now that we have been hearing that there will be a mission conference in august. They have been teasing us kind of through out the weeks giving little bits of information. First we heard that there would bge 3 70s coming. Then they tould us it would be 3 70s and an apostle. Finally this week they anounced who will be coming.......Elder Jeffrey R Holland will be coming to visit us and 3 70s:) We all are getting so excited. Thats not all of it. We will be having the mission conference on a saturday. Then on sunday elder holland will be coming to los chillos for our stake conference. I hope i will be around for that because we are ending another change. So i will hear if i have changes or no this next sunday on the 13th.

We are wokring hard her in sangolqui. its seems like there has been a lot of opostion working against us but we have seen alot of progress also. We were visiting wht hna laura this week. We were explaing a little bit more about the doctrine of baptism. We were super into it using scriptures and bearing our testimonies then hna laura stopped us all of a sudden. and said When i get baptised my baptism dress cant only come donw to my knee. That will not work. i need you two to find one that will go down to my ankles. If not i will have to make one. hahah this lady is so cute. She has one of the strongest testimonies about jesus christ that i have every seen. It is so wonderful to see her desires and excitement for baptism.
I just want you guys to know that i love you so much. i am so grateful for the gospel of jesus christ. i know that he lives.

Love,
Hna Wilhelm