Day 289

Family,
hey everyone i am doing good here and i cant belaive that my birthday is coming up!  and i am alomst at the 10 months mark.  its crazy that i feel like i have only been out here for a little while.  i dont have a lot of time becaus e we have a service opportunity today and we gotta get going but i love you all and keep the faithe and dont forget to keep the missionaries in your prayers.
Elder Wilkinson

Day 282

Family
Hey everybody! I hope you all had a good mothers day because mine was awesome! having the opportunity to talk with the family was really cool especially through skype! i dont have a ton to say because i told them all about what is happening here.  so i will just explain the photos that im sending.  a couple of them i am holding a big wood plank which is actually like a island cutting knife haha you have to lift it and slice it back down to cut down through the island.  we were cutting the island in half so that they could put more root (the part that actually floats) in the middle and then mor reeds on top to expand the island.  is was quite the experience haha i have a cool video of when we actually seperated the island but i cant send it through email so i guess you will have to wait haha there is also a picture of the moon which doent look to amazing in the picture but when i was looking at the moon that night it was thew biggest moon i had ever seen in my life! it was huge! i heard that they said something about it in the news because it was one of the biggest moons we have had. there is also two othe pictures of the islands and the city at night when we were there i thought the pictures turned out pretty cool. the last picture is me standing on a mini island that sometime the people use to put their pigs or the guinea pigs i thought was kinda cool. alright well i am doing good and if any of you guys gets bored i am always here mon. to write and letter back so just send me a little somethin and let me know your alive doing good haha
Elder Wilkinson

Day 275

Hey everybody! sorry i am sending 2 emails today i made a mistake and sent the one with just photos and i didnt write anything so here is the one with my letter.  so there has been few cool things that have happened here first being that we went to sillustani  to see the chullpas which are pretty cool so i sent photos of what they are so you can see them.  i cant believe how many place of ruins there are here in peru and in my mission.  our missnion president is really cool and alows us to go see them on p-days and when there are transfers.  also we just had interviews with president and he told me and my companion that we are going to have a boat in the uros that we can row aroung to the islands and that way we dont have depend so much in the members to pick us up everyday,  because its kinda hard for them to stop what they are doing foir a day and carry us around to all the islands and use up their gas.  so i think it will be pretty cool and better for the missionary work.  i sent a picture of me rowing haha im actually pretty darn good at rowing.  i find it funny to think about all the other missionaries are going to have huge legs from walking everywhere but im going to get those big arms that i have always wanted to have hahaha hey thank you all for the emails i love hearing how everybody is doing even though i dont have a ton of time to answer questions and stuff i always read the emails and enjoy them very much.
love from me to all of you and take care

Day 268

Family
alright family we are doing awesome here in the uros!  we just finished the month with 2 more baptisms and in total we had 4 for the month of april!  our goal was 3 so we fullfilled it nd even passed it up! we are thinking abour our goal for this month and think we will put another 4.  we are working hard and the lord is blessing us for our work.  in fact the zone is doing so well that we have changes tomorrow and the president calderon only changed 3 missionaries because he doesnt want to take the missionaries out that are helping everything to flourish.  i was sure i was going to have a change but i will staying her in the islands for anothe month and a half at least.  i love the people there and i am looking forward to another transfer to work with them again
Elder Wilkinson