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

Day 261

Familia y Amigos Mios,
im sorry i wont be writing much but i just want to thank everybody for helping me get to this point in my life.  i really have been touched by all of your examples and testimonies.  i dont have time to write a specific letter to each one of you but i know that i learned something from each and every one of you and i feel the need to thank you because without those things i have learned im not sure if i would be where i am now.  thank you for being my friends and i feel lucky to have the family that i do.
Elder Wilkinson

Day 254

Day 254

Family,
Well i am pretty pumped we just had 2 more baptisms and wow what an experience it was! we were planning on having the baptism at 1 in the afternoon and when we went to the islands to pick him them up the husband wasnt there and we got worried.  but his wife told he went fishing and would be coming back at 12-1 pm so we were kinda relieved but not completely so one o´clock came around and he still hadnt arrived.  then we started getting worried and tried calling the whole world to ask when he would be coming back but we couldnt get ahold of anybody.  so we decided we would go to the church and wait for members to come and tell them what happened and we would call them when he got there.  we ended up waiting till 5 and an other member that was with him fishing said he would arrive like 30 min later with the other group.  he said they had problems and they coulnt return until late.  so we started calling members and telling them we would have the baptism at like 6.  in the end we didnt have until 6:30 but we did have it and boy satan was not wanting us to have this baptism because also the water heater broke and we only had freezing cold water for the baptism and it was nighttime when we did the baptisms.  those other pictures are from a really cool old iron boat that we went to check out and found a guy that had listened to the missionaries in the past but is always working and when they go to his house he wasnt there very much.  we gave him a BoM and i think we will go see the boat with the zone today and we can check up on him and see if he is reading.  well its good to hear all the good news about kylee, tylan, trenton and tom send them my support and my hapiness for there good decisions!
Elder Wilkinson

Day 247

Family,
Hey everyone! i have a some cool things to say this week that happened!  the first is that we had a barbaque with the family we live with!  there is a store called plaza vea that is awesome and sells everything so we bought barbaque sauce from the states and ketchup, chicken, hamburgers, teryaki sauce and other stuff and we ate really good food i sent some pictures so you can all see how it was!  alright next we had a activity this last fri for holy week (as they call it here) in the uros and we watched the testaments with investigaters and members and we had refreshments and it was really cool but i feel bad because i didnt take any pictures :(  i dont remember if i told you guys but i also talked with another elder that came to puno from izcuchaca my last sector and he told that 3 or 4 of the investigaters that i found while i was there were all baptized! i cant wait for the next time i am in cusco so i can go visit them!. the last thing that happened was yesterday. i got a call in the night from my zone leaders and they told me that there was 2 white people from acorage alaska that wanted to go to church in the uros and that they would wait for me at the island so we could pick them up.  so we got there and they were waiting and we all went to sacrament together  and i learned really fast that they didnt speak any spanish so i was their translator the whole day!  and the branch president asked if they would bear there testimonies during sacrament and so they did and i translated for them..  it was a really cool experience and i will never forget it. i also am sending pictures from when the whole zone went to the uros because all tha baptisms we had!  next week i will be sending pictures of the baptism that we will be having this sat!
Elder Wilkinson

Day 240

Family,
Hola a todos!  im pretty excited to write today about the bellavista zone here in puno.  we just barely completed the month with 17 baptisms!  the record for this zone has been 12 baptism in one month and we killed it! and because we are doing so well president gave permission to go to the uros which my sector with the whole zone.  he has been really strict with letting people go to the uros but because he has seen how well we are doing he wants to reward us.  which for me it is normal to go to the uros haha but i feel good that the zone is doing so well and that we have changed the history of the zone and we were almost zone of excelence.  alright next i hope you all loved the conference because i really did!  we had the opportunity to listen to it in english through internet in the clerks office (photo included) but the internet was to slow to watch it :( i really learned alot of how i can be a better missionary and companion.  i hope you enjoyed the msgs and will try to apply the lessons learned in your lives because that is what counts in the end.  our works.  if we have desires to right but we never actually do it then it has no worth to us or god.  i didnt have time to read the letters but i will print them off and read them this week and answer questions next week.  in 2 days i have 8 months in the mission and doesnt seem like i have been out this long.  i feel alrady that peru is my home and that everything from home is like dream.  i have adapted to the culture the language and the mission rules and everything feels totally normal i dont know why im telling you this but i do want to tell you all that i am doing wonderful and i hopr the lord is pleased with all of my work.  well i gota go and i love you all!!