Last Week In The Mission

Hi guys :) so this week was good, we had lunch with some members from Temecula that wanted to see me before I leave. They are the best. We went to the fish shop. I have been wanting to go there ever since I got here. My whole mission I've been craving fish and chips with clam chowder and I finally got it!!!! It was so good:) 

 

 

So this week Sister Stout (The lady we live with) left to go on a month and a half vacation to her cabin in Island Park Idaho. So she wanted to take us out to ice cream before I left. She told us to be at Handel's ice cream at 3:30 and we even left the house the same time as her. So we show up and are standing in line... just waiting. Finally it's been about 15 minutes and she's still not there so we called her and she told us that she had decided to go somewhere else with her granddaughters without telling us.. so we got stood up by an 88 year old haha. She is such a funny lady. So we got ice cream anyways:) 

 

 

On Saturday we had a crazy morning. Some elders from another ward asked us to visit one of their members because she is a woman that lives alone and she feels more comfortable speaking I'm spanish. So we show up and immediately just starts crying and telling us that she hurts everywhere and she's scared of everything. I mean just bent over in pain and can't even take a few steps without grabbing her legs or arms because they hurt so bad. But I can't lay down to rest because that doesn't help either. At one point she fell unto her bed and was in the fetal position and just kept saying she didn't want to live anymore. All of her pain is mental. The doctors have done tests and told her it all comes from her depression. It was really scary and we had no idea what to do so we called some Hermanos from la iglesia and they came over and brought her food and gave her a blessing and got the church involved in trying to get her into a program to help her. We were there for about 5 hours because we couldn't leave her alone. But she is all taken care of and we will continue to visit her to help her feel loved. 

 

 

Well this will be my last email that I send out because next week I will be busy in the morning and then I leave to go to the mission home in the afternoon. 

 

 

I am so incredibly grateful for my mission. It has helped me grow my testimony of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I have changed so much into a much better version of myself. I know that it is through the atonement of Jesus Christ that it is possible. I'm so grateful for the people I have met while I have been here. They have changed my life and taught me so much about what it means to be a disciple of Jesus Christ. I have seen miracles every day and it is because God loves us. When I have been obedient and willing to serve and work hard is when God has blessed me the most. The Power of repentance is real and I love it so much. I know that Joseph Smith restored the church of Jesus Christ again on the earth and through that restoration we have the priesthood keys again on the earth. I have received countless witnesses of that power throughout these past 18 months. I know that the Book of Mormon is the word of God. It has brought me an incredible amount of peace throughout my life but especially throughout my mission through daily study and application to my life. I want to thank all of you who have supported me and prayed for me while I have been out. Sometimes I just wish I could be a missionary forever. I am extremely sad to leave but also excited for what the Lord has in store for me. 

 

 

I love you guys so much!! See you next week!!

 

 

Hermana Wilhelmsen