10/15/12

Hellllooo!! Hows it going? Well it was a great treat to hear from you all this week. I love my family! I am so happy to hear that mom and dad are all moved and in their new house. That is so wonderful....also that i dont have to help witht hte food storage:) Well it has been a pretty good week here on the mission. We have been searching more people and you know we have seen miracles.

We found a hermano named Roberto who is absalutely awesome. The story about how we found him is kind of funny. Me and my companion had contacted an older man a couple weeks ago as we were walking to one of our appointments. We asked him if we could go teach him and his wife in his house but he wouldnt have none of that so we just invited him to general conference thinking that we would never see him again. Well the weekend of general conference went by and we didnt see him. But on wedsnday we were walking in the same neighborhood and this old man came runining after us and calling us. We stopped and he said can you guys come teach me in my house today. We were like of course. He seem super excited to hear us. So we went to his house later that day. His wife wasnt there so we could go inside without another adult women present. He was like ok than ran to three or four neighbors homes and found an older lady to be in the lesson with us. We get in his house then he said ok i would like to do two things. There were like four nonmembers there him, his two sons, and his neighbor. He said First i want the gringa to read an english book out lound and we will record it. (He is an english teacher for kids) Then second i would like you hna wilhelm to teach your message in english then you companion can translate it into spanish. We were like haha wait wait wait i can do this small service and read this book but we are hear to teach a very important message not only so that you can hear a gringa speak english. I read the book. Then me and my companion started a lesson of like normal like wiht a hymn and pray. The only person that was really listening and seemed interested was roberto the son of this hermano that we found in the street. The other son seemed very stand offish and wouldnt even touch our bible...he would only read from the catholic bible which is basically the same thing. And the neighbor lady was just nice to be there so that we could teach a lesson. In the end we were happy to have the lesson because roberto wanted to keep learning and the next day in a lesson he excepted a baptismal date. He also went to church. I am just happy that we followed the spirit and we found a new investigator.

It is crazy how fast the time is flying i cant believe that in december i will be home. It will be wonderful to see all of your beautiful faces again. I love you. Love herman wilhelm

10/8/12

Hi dear family,

Ok so i will write just a little because i dont know if i will have time to write later. Me and my zone are in Otavalo whoop whoop haha it has been a pretty crazy day with lots of traveling. I got to buy some clothes for those cute lil nieces and nephews that i have. I bought them all otavolian indian stuff haha it was so fun picking it out. i hope i got all the right sizes. I also saw some mow mows put they were like 16 bucks for each one. I think i will see if i can find some more cheaper. But they are just how you like it mom, kirsty, lara, and maria haha. It was so funny because i started picking out stuff and tried barging. But my companino was like no that is expensive and she called over the elders. (10 elders) They all started talking down the price for the baby clothes. It was so funny. They even helped me pick out a few things too. It was a littlle stressful having so many opinions and making a decision myself. Well it has been a miracle week here in vargas. We started out with just one investigator last week. Well we found a couple more. We found a brother and a sister who are just so sweet and nice. I know we have felt the hand of the lord in this work this week. I love missionary work. I lvoe meeting new poeple too. I know this church is true with all of my heart:) I am so grateful for my wonderful family and am so excited to see you all! I love you hna Wilhelm

10/1/12

Dear querida familia!!!!! Hello hows yall doin haha i need to practice my hick english before i get home. Well I love hearing from you all as always. Thank you for your support and your love. It is just so tender to think about my wonderful family:) The Santa Ana Zone is a blast i love my new sector and my new companion. My compies name is hna bajana she is from ecuador from the coast and she is awesome. She has like 2 months in the mission so i am finishing up training with her. But serious she is like training me haha shes pretty awesome. We have only one investigator right now but i know we will find some more if we are diligent. Her name is Hna Leonela and she has been listening to the missionaries for like four months now. She cant get baptised yet because she needs to get married. But they have made a goal to get married in this week. Other than Leonela we are searching searching searching. Its a little bit hard to contact here because it is a city. But we have faith that we will find those that are waiting.

Today for pday we had a zone actividy and played volleyball and ate lasana. It was delisous not quite as delisous as moms lasana but hey i will give it a break im in ecuador. Well i really dont have much to report I feel like this letter is so short in comparison to spencers letters haha well jsut know that i love you all so much! Love Hna Wilhelm