This mission thing is crazy. I'm in a place called Meridian, Mississippi. It's kind of sketchy here but the people that do let us in are sooo nice and everybody is humble for the most part. We only really teach the black community because the white people are kinda stuck up and jerks. Except our ward is where all the nice white people are. Most people are chunky out here, the only skinny people are usually like druggies and it's easy to tell. Everyone waddles up here cuz they all big.
My companion and I get along, his names Elder Sewell and I'm his first trainee and he feels like hes doing it wrong but I like his humility. We are both hard workers and im like SUPER talkative to everyone and then he like hits them with the gospel really good so that's how most of our lessons go because I don't know as much as him yet.
Anyways our area is MASSIVE and it's just me and my companion all the way out on the edge of my mission. No other missionaries out here. Everyone has to drive like an hour or 45 minutes to get to church, luckily we only live like 15 minutes from it.
The cities around us are sketchy too, like I serve in the hood and have already met some characters. I've only seen this stuff in movies and now I see it every day. There are police officers EVERYWHERE and downtown all you hear are sirens. But I feel pretty safe here.
The biggest downside to my mission is that we have to tiptoe in our apartment because the guy beneath us is a SCARY buff undercover cop guy and he yells at us even when we just walk too loud, that happened my first night here. I have tip toed ever since.
Other than that this place is so sick, everyone is so humble, they all live in these tiny broken down houses or apartments but the members love us and feed us so much and ask us if there us any way they can help us, and I try to tell them that we are here to serve them but they just laugh. Anyways I love old black ladies now they are my favorite type of people actually just all old ladies out here love us.
Cool experiences happen so often it's hard to remember them, we see the lord's hand in our life so much its not even funny. Like it is rare to not see Gods part in the work we do. Just know He is there and I know Jesus is still sitting in the living room playing with hailey which is sooo comforting to think about when im missing everyone back at home. Look for the way He blesses your lives and you won't be disappointed. ANYTHING GOOD, comes from God... remember that!
Love Elder Wilson hehe
So send me letters and stuff also you can email me or Google hangout me with this email all you want, im also on Facebook and messenger but I'll only be responding on P-days which are mondays.
1.Our bishop here always sends us memes that he makes... it does feel like we have been here for forever.
2. Temple Theatre in downtown meridian, built in like the 1900s and we did a service project in it just me and my companion. pretty sickkkkk
3. me and elder sewell getting ready for bed.


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