Sunday, November 25, 2012

Happy Thanksgiving to all!!!

There is a girl that is in our ward that married a guy from here and she is from Ogden I think. Anyway they wanted to have a dinner with us that night with our investigator Carlos, so we are going over there.  Speaking of Carlos, he is the one that I found my first day here,  and guess what...he came to church on Sunday!!!  We haven´t been able to go over and have a lesson with him since then, but we are hoping to today, and we are really hoping that he liked church.  He had a question that he didn't want to tell us yet hoping that it would be answered at church, so I am hoping that it was. 

THANK YOU for all of the letters from the family dinner!  I love them!  I am working on getting everyone in the family written but just haven´t yet.  I have partial letters written.  I did how ever get a letter sent off to Karm this week finally, and one to Michele (who is Trinity´s Mom) she wrote me in the Provo MTC and I finally got one sent off to her.

I do have to say I talked to an Hermano in the ward that is excited to help me find some rocks.  Rock hounding continues in Guatemala!  Solo on p-days when we have time, but still!  You should look up the Jade factory in Antigua, I guess they have a huge one!  I only saw all of the little shops that sold the already done jewelry or figurines and such.

 Happy Birthday to Papa and Avery and Kelly!  I thought about you all on your birthday´s and we sang to you in Spanish and I had a sucker or chewed a piece of gum in the house for celebration:-)  They have fabulous suckers here called yogurt suckers!  They are like blow pops but instead of gum inside it is a starburst type thing!  Also they have all kinds of chips!!!  I love trying them, and have found some that are like willy wonka have a whole meal in a piece of gum, but it´s in a chip.  It is so weird but great. 

I got a letter from Gram and Papa this last week, and also Hna y Hno Harrison and Tamera and Daeneese and a Dear Elder from Brother Schmidt!  It sounds like we are all kind of experiencing the same struggles and such.  I am so amazed still with how hard it can be and how much work it takes to really know the Gospel, and it is still a life long process, but how easy it is to forget.  I just heard that Hostess shut down, that is sad because as gross as this is I´ve been wanting a twinkie! 

Preach My Gospel is such an amazing book and teaches us the basics in a simple way, read it and study it.  But most importantly read the scriptures as a family and pray before and after.  I know only through prayer that I am understanding the Book of Mormon more than I ever have.  I still don´t completely understand it all the time, but I love reading it!  Well here is just a few pictures, I didn´t get many this week.  I hope you know how much I love all of you and I am so grateful to all of you!  Have a WONDERFUL Thanksgiving!!!  Love you all!
SLY,
Hermana Wilcox

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