January 14th

Dear, Family and Friends.
First look up Luke 7:37 and you will love it!! Look for the funny thing in there and tell me if you find it? Also I forgot to ask a long time ago what happened to the Boise temple and the remodling? Yes I got my card ready when I got home after emails and got my temperary licence card. Also I think for just incase I need and insurence card or a copy of the front and back if you can't give me one? Something like that? That is awesome about all the snow it just barely got cold again today. I will have to find out more on email I think that if other people email I will just take a picture and read it later It has to do with having the email time for your family? That is super sad about Knzie and Chris :( I can't remember if they were married in the temple. Time is going so fast it is crazy!! HAhah Karlee is now almost a missionary!! Crazy!! Yeah tell Clayton comparing yourself to other missionaries can kill someone just be better than you were the day before that is why it is called the present! :) The guy that we are teaching ride now, Ed, Is super awesome and looks a lot like Bruce Wilos. And all also went to alot of thing in temple square at all the christmas stuff also walking into the temple and then turning around when guys in white suits started walked toward him hahaha. I think I forgot that Shawn was getting married that is crazy!! Also I didn't know that Kenna was dating Alex that long or even dating crazy! hahaha I am so greatful for the prayers that you have for me and My companion they are so awesome I can't remember if i told you to Pray for his family too. It is nice to have prayers for the missionaries families too. :) I forget a lot of thing I just sit down and type and forget something that you guys have told me. oops haha I love my companion and this work so much I have never been so blessed and learned so many things!!! I love you guys with all of my heart and pray for you guys!! Take picture of all the snow :) I got my flu shoot and hated it!!!! MY shoulder tuwitched and flexed when the needle was in and then it hurt so bad!!! I can out of the booth with me holding my arm while it was dangling there like a dead fish. And then started to whine and The other elders started to laugh at me and then the other lady at the desk. It hurt for like 3-4 days!!! haha Well love ya tons!!!!!!!!!!
Amor Elder Wilding!!! :)


Dear, President Trayner
This week we were able to have more success in more places and struggled in others. All and all in was a good week.
We had the interview for Ed to be baptized next weekend we moved up his date a week becuase he his super ready. He hasn't missed on day of church or one appointment had he watch most of the D&C movies and liked them. He is doing really good living all the commandments. He is another huge blessing in our area.
Lupita and her family came to church. Lupita is doing super good she is reading in the Book of Mormon and almost feels ready for her Baptism. Still working with her little brother Frankie and her little sister Mari and they both came to church too.

We worked super hard to find this week. We recieved some awesome referrals from the Bonilla family that Sister Bonilla's family all live in our area. We went by her parents and her little sisters that live together there were bussy but seemed nice and proming. Then we went by her older sister who came to church a lot went she was 12 and her and her husband want to have a lesson in the Bonilla's house together. Also when by an old investigator and talked to his mom and she wasn't to interested but now wants her whole family to come to church and help from God. She has 7 kids and is living with her oldest son.
Our work this week is now to make sure that the BD go down and to turn all these awsome prepared people into investigators.
We are doing really good Elder Hardin and I and are excited for this next week to come.
Amor, Elder Wilding

January 7th 2013

Dearest Family and Friends!
My lincence will be heading to the Mission office and I haven't recieved my card yet. The temp is pretty cold no snow I like it I like having to bundle up and be warm. We had members that don't have any heat and they are not use to the qweather and they had to bring all the materies out in the living room and use their stove for heat which isn't quite to good for the Carbon dioxide :/ Last week we did super good on people coming to church and this week we only had one which is better than none. really you are doing the whole down stairs? Tell Dad I want a Wood burning pot belly stove down there to the right over the gun safe on the wall!! OHH that would be so nice!!! :D Take my  blanket a curl up next to it!! Then grap anything that will snuggle with me, Snuggle and watch movies bahaha meaahh! :p I can feel and see anwsers to your prayers for me and my companion everyday that we are out here in the Lord's great vine. haha the sickness is going around super bad down here. My companion got a flu shot right after we went to a members house and we walked in at it looked like the black flu hit!! Like 3 people laying down sick in the living room and 2 others walking around like Zoommbies. Then My companion loves it when I run over to sister Sustaita who is sick who has a sickness of some sort then run over and touch my companions arm hahah ops ;) Oh man Karlee leaves so fast!! That is crazyy she just got her call!! Well Love you tons got to go!!! :)
AMor, Su Hermanito Elder Wilding! :)


Dear, President Trayner
This week was a better week we have more investigatiors that are really good at keeping appointments so it was easier to have some more members present for our lessons. We had a harder time on finding this week it is a part member family where the mom is a member and stopped going to church when she got married and starting going to the Catholic church with her husband. We had a lesson with her and her 3, one who is 6 years old, boys and they all expected BDs. The boys names are T.J. who is 18 and wants to be a soldier of God, I told him once he knows it is true he can serve a mission and be a soldier of God haha; The other boy is Andrew who is 13 who is a super cool kid too. They told us that the hard part will be getting their Dad to meet with us is what they said. They didn't come to church and we are hoping to have a lesson with them tomorrow.

Ed Russow came to church for the 3 week in a row! He is progressing really good we taught him the Restoration and he told us that he knows that Joseph Smith is a true prophet. Next we taught him the word of wisdom and he had a tea problem but he gave us all his tea, which was a lot, and said he would stop drinking it.

Then our other investigator Henry dropped us and said that his health is too bad and he wants to be taught in the future. We testified to him and he was sad that he and to stop meeting with us.

Lupita the investigator in the other part member family didn't come to church. We are working with her to have her own answer to know that it is true.

Amor, Elder Wilding

January 2, 2013

Dear, Family and friends!! :) I am so happy to have a new full year to be a missionary down here en the best place ever!! It is freezing down here and I am not use to it at all!! It is like 45 degrees can you believe it!!? ALso raining! I am so blessed to have such a wonderful family I can fell your prayers everyday!! I want you to also always to remember to pray for my campanions tambien. Elder Hardin isn't having a hard time or anything like that but it would be nice if he had a few more prayers heading out to his direction and his family members. We are doing so much better with the work here we had 4 people come to church which is pretty much the highest the area has had for almost more than a year I think. So that is a huge blessing!! The mission finished up the year with baptising the second highest baptizing #! Our goal this year is to finally brake 1200 in a year!! Pray for that # too!! It would be so amamazing to be here to see our mission make history down here!! :) that is so sweet you had the oprotunity to go to the temple con Karlee!! I Love ya so much!! Oh also for new years we got to watch forever strong!! It was sweet!! haha Love ya!!
AMor, Elder Wilding


Hopefully shawn will read it to you and can understand my bad spanish!! haha
Dear, President
Como ha estado? Voy a ecribir en espanol. Ojala sepa ud. las cosas por que soy malo con ecribir en ingles y tambien en espanol. :)
haha La ultimo semana era muy bien tuvemos mucho exito con traer los investigatores a la iglesia. Tuvemos 4 investigatores 2 con fechas de baptimal!
Ed Russom vino. El es el hombre que fue a la temple square y las missioneras lo hablaban aceca del libro de momor. El tiene dos domingos in a row a la iglesia. De rampente El recibio una respesta del libro de momor ayer!! El lo leia varios vezes!!
Luego, Lupita con su familia vinen tambien. La madre de ella es un miembro pero sus hermanos no son. Frankie y Mari vinen ellos son hermanos de Lupita.
Henry no vino y no le vemos esta semana pero vamos alli hoy para que sepamos la razon El no vino?
Por Hallar esa era un pocito deficil solo hallamos dos nuevo investigatores :/ !que lastima!
Elder Hardin e yo estamos trabajando duro tambien con nuestros miembro que viven en nuesta area y tambien estamos conociendo mas miembro que no viven en nuestra area para que tengamos mas miembros presente y nuestros investigator tagan cuates y amistad.
estoy agradacido para tener un nuevo ano en mi vida como un missionero aqui en la mejor lugar en todo el mundo. Ojala supiera mi carta en espanol. Los amo mucho!
Amor, Elder Wilding

Pictures (email December 26th)

So when talking to Kyle on Christmas we made him feel guilty about pictures! Here are some pictures going all the way back to the MTC! I sure do love this boy!

This is Kyle's MTC companion! I don't remember his name!

This is Kyle's first baptism!

This is Kyle and Enrqueta with his companion for Ohio!

December 26

Dear, Family and friends!!
Wow it was crazy to hear the voices of the fam! haha I think that you guys can be able to know more that is happening down here on my mission is to go on my email after I have looked at Presiedents email and the APs email if you want? There is a translation button on the top If President writes in Espanol? :) I am so happy to have been able to talk to everyone and I hope that you know I am super happy haha changing everyday in a good way but as you heard I am still happy goffy me which is good!!? :) This one  is going to be short cuz I want to send my card home here really soon!! LOve you tons!! And Melissa I love your email!! Justin yes i approve as him as your boyfriend I am so happy for you guys!!!! Send me the anouncements!!!! Meaaahhh :p

(I am not dating anyone! I am going to have a blog to explain my part)



Dear, President Trayner
I am so excited have had the oportunity to have my first Christmas as a missonary here in McAllen Texas Mission.

We have been working to find more investigators this past week to make all our other numbers to go up too. We were blessed to have Herny come to church in this bussy time of the year his wife dropped him off becuase his eyes aren't that good enought to drive. He sounded like he was planing on coming back next week.

We were also blessed to have a guy named Ed come to church he has been taking lessons on the phone with the missonaries in Salt Lake and has almost finished the book of Mormon!

I love working with Elder Hardin he has and is teaching me a lot of good things. We are working together really good and hope to make the work fly in the area.

Also I want to share how I am greatful to have talked with my family it wants me to be better at the work everyday and be a better missonary. One thing that i though was a cool experience I had talking with them is My Mom asked me if I felt like I was on a vacation? I answered yes to her question pretty fast and they just laugh and then I explained why... I think of a vaction as being fun and full of laughter, learning, and I lot of other things. However, writing in my journal afterwards I thought and wrote that my mission is a vaction but more a journey in my life and for my life para siempre. Vacation/Journey meaning growing, learning, praying, growing closer to my heavenly Father, searching, being greatful for every moment and thing, loving, laughing, understanding, and a lot more that I could put write down.

How wonderful is it to be a missionary!
Amor, Elder Wilding

December 17

Dear, Family and Friends.
Don't know quit where to start with this letter but I will try and to my best para que sepan esa... Well start out with Monday we went to the mall trying to get a picture with Santa cuz Elder Stewart has done it for his life every year. it was to much money though so we didn't. We looked at watches and decided we don't have that much money. But i felt like a sin walking throught the mall it was been a long time sense I went to the mall and the whole world is going down in like 5 days!! the things that where in there... lets just say I wasn't in the Idaho Pine ridge anymore. But then tuesday I was on exchanges with Elder Stewart in my area and he drove the car and lets just say on the night a guys want to come rob 5 cars in our nieghborhood he forgets to lock the car and you know how I hate having a wallet and everything well it was in there and got stolen with everything in there and about 15 dallors. haha Also found out on the day of the zone christmas meeting day so i had to tell president and work with the mission office people on the day that know one is there haha. But know I am find I have enough food cuz you know me and my geines form mom i am enough in my food storage... Also I am not going to be transfered haha I will be serving my 2 years in Edinburgo northe por 2 anos meaahh. :p I so though I was going cuz I have been in my greenie area for a long tome but nope I am excited there is still so much work top be done in this area. I also recieved the packages last monday too!!! :) I also want a christmas tree so bad I have been buying smelly stuff at walmart that are like pine tree smell. Also on tuesday will Elder Stewart We taught a lesson to Eriqueta my recent convert and she read jacob 5 in the Book of mormon and wanted to understand it so we read it with your and explained it... and of course I can't explain it that good in English or know the words in English so in Spanish I just sat there smiling not knowing quit everything and when she would ask a question I just looked at Elder Stewart. Also in the Lesson I kept hearing something like female turkeys.... and I was confused and sure eniough her neighbor had turkeys. Also did you send pillow xcases for the little gift exchange in the mission cuz my compainoin got Idaho spuds and a pillow case that looks like something JJ made and another Elder in my zone got on tooo!? :) aLSO FELL alseep in Sacremtt meeting and about fell over on a member until he helped me and pushed me back up he was lughting at me hahah I have no more time but have more to say love yo ton s and knew you werre making cookies yesterday !1

December 10th

Dear Family and Friends!!
Yes I got the package and letter from Mis abuelitos!! Haha When I got the package I was so excited and eat 3 cookies with milk. Yummy i also bought sugar cookie dough cuz I can't miss out on that :) Also today it is 55 degrees brrrrrr I love the CD's too they help me out on my spanish studies!! :) The Idaho Calendar made my yell OH YES A IDAHO CALANDAR!!! Haha my roomates laughted at me :) Holy crap that is so exciting about Karster!!! Is it spanish speaking or english? I was prayin' for spanish :O Also super quick too!! That is sweet Dante is going on a mission too!! I am doing super good getting fat from all the food and christmas snacks :) I love Christmas so much really wanting some snow though. You'll have no snow? Que lastima! haha I am growing and learning everyday down here in the work of the Lord it is fun! :) That sounds bad about JJ back dolor. I wake up everyday a still have to strech my back cuz it is stiff but that is life. I think it doesn't help that no tengo mi lina! haha pero todo bien I love you guys so much a love your letters a cards and everything I am truely so blessed we the best family and friends. Melissa your quotes from the trip are the best!! ahahaahaha It seems just like yesterday we were headed down to California with are awesome quotes!! "I am going to open the door... are you ready?" bahahashahaha I love quotes ;p meaahhh well runing out of tiempo pero les vayan bien meahh. Os quierro con mi corazon!!  The Os was for Melissa Roberts! :) haha
Amor, Elder Wilding P.S. I love egg nog now until I look at the ingredients and saw that the first one is milk cream and knew that isn't too good for the body! meaah