April 4, 2016

Hey everyone!! This week was awesome!!! Mostly because of General Conference! I feel so motivated to be better and help others be better from the messages that were given. 

My new area is awesome and my new companion is awesome too!! He is from Guatemala and he is the happiest guy I've ever met! We get along great and are super motivated to work hard in this area and find the people who are ready for this gospel.

I will write a more detailed email next week because I'm out of time, but I hope you all have a great week and try to be better every day!!!

Love

Elder Wilks

The District and PIZZA!!!

March 28, 2016

So my last week here in Progreso was awesome!!! Edilberto got baptized on Saturday!!! I remember my first day in this area when I met this guy and he had already been investigating the church for like 6 months and it was so hard to teach him because he was not very receptive at all!!! Little by little he has opened up to this gospel and has read the book of mormon and has a testimony that it is true! It really has been such a blessing to see the conversion process of this 60 year old man. He is a completely different person and I know that it is through the gospel that he has been able to change so much! 

Changes are this Wednesday and I am getting changed to an area called Planeta! It will be another cool opportunity to be able to serve as zone leader in the biggest zone in the mission! We will have plenty of work to do and I'm super pumped for a new area to serve in. 

Love all of you and wish you all the best! 

Elder Wilks

Baptism and Hermano Rogelio!!!

March 21, 2016

This week went well! We were able to have a lot of powerful lessons with the investigators we are teaching and we are hoping to have 2 baptisms this saturday! 

I hope everyone has a great easter this year!! If you haven't already, go to this website and watch the video!!

https://www.mormon.org/easter 

Love 

Elder Wilks

March 14, 2016

Wow it has gotten really hot this last week!! Every year right before easter it gets really really hot and everyone leaves to go to the beach to swim and vacation. So that makes it really hard for us as missionaries because its insanely hot outside and there is nobody home to teach. good thing that doesn't start until next week though. 

This week was great we had our Multi Zone conference with President Klein and it was really awesome. The theme was "Revelation". We all studied more about revelation through prayer, scripture study, and church attendance. It has helped us all realize the importance of that in the conversion process and we have already been able to see huge results from what we learned. 

We are really close with a couple of investigators. One of them is Carlos. He is the one who stopped doing drugs as soon as we started visiting him. The only thing we are waiting for is for him to make some adjustments in his life to keep the law of chastity. The other one is Edilberto and he is one of those people who has been investigating the church for over a year but he is sooooooo close. He's read over half of the book of mormon and he chose the 26 of this month as a baptismal goal. Please pray for them so that everything will go well and they can make it to Baptism!

Love all of you. Hope everyone has a great week!!!

elder Wilks

Cocanuts!!!

March 7, 2016

Hey everyone!!! Sorry I don't have any time left!!! This week was awesome! Elder Patterson and I felt like our area needed a little boost this week so we didn't do divisions and we just focused on our area and had some awesome results! We have found a bunch of people to teach and area really excited to help them in their conversion to the true gospel of Jesus Christ!

I love you all and hope everyone has a great week!! 

Elder Wilks

Here are some pictures from today! We went to the beach in Tela for a p-day activity.

February 29, 2016

This week was an awesome week!!!

We werent able to have the baptism on saturday but we are working hard and having faith to be able to help more people come to the waters of baptism. 

We went on divisions with the elders in TELA this week and well if I could explain that division in one word the word I would use is "wet". it was raining ALL day!!! The streets were literally like rivers because there isn't really any draining system here so we were walking in water up to our knees pretty much the whole day!! It was actually a lot of fun. While we were walking through all the flooded roads I thought to myself, "why am I so happy right now?" considering the situation we were in, we shouldn't have been in a very good mood. The answer is simple, its sharing the gospel!!! Sharing the gospel with other people is what brings real joy and happiness into our lives. Try it and I know you will feel it in your own life! 

sorry for the short message! Love all of you hope this week is awesome for everyone!!!

elder Wilks

February 22, 2016

This week went by so fast!!! 

It was an awesome week for our zone!! On Friday, Elder Patterson and I did a tour of our zone to go and do all of the baptismal interviews of the people who were going to be baptized! We spent over 3 hours in a bus that day and did a total of 9 interviews! Our zone is really spread out so we do a lot of traveling. 

Our area is doing well! We should be having a baptism this Saturday! We are excited for our investigator and really hoping everything goes well. 

I was reading in the Book of Mormon this week in 3 Nefi and I came across a scripture I really liked. 

3 Nefi 12: 10-16

 10 And blessed are all they who are persecuted for my name’s sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

 11 And blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake;

 12 For ye shall have great joy and be exceedingly glad, for great shall be your reward in heaven; for so persecuted they the prophets who were before you.

 13 Verily, verily, I say unto you, I give unto you to be thesalt of the earth; but if the salt shall lose its savor wherewith shall the earth be salted? The salt shall be thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out and to be trodden under foot of men.

 14 Verily, verily, I say unto you, I give unto you to be the light of this people. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.

 15 Behold, do men light a candle and put it under a bushel? Nay, but on a candlestick, and it giveth light to all that are in the house;

 16 Therefore let your light so shine before this people, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

Let your light shine this week and love god with all your heart, might, mind, and strength! 

Elder Wilks

p.s. Shout out to my little sister emma! Hang in there and get well soon!! 

February 15, 2016

Woo hoo!!! I am staying in Progreso for another change with Elder Patterson!! We are super pumped that we have more time to work together and see the work in our area progress! We have found a lot of people who are really prepared for our message and we are way excited for them to keep progressing in the gospel. 

One of our investigators names is Carlos. Carlos is about 45 years old and the first time we talked to him he told us that he has a horrible drug addiction. He has been in his addiction for over 20 years. So we explained a little about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and how it can help him leave his addiction behind and start a new life. So we have been visiting him for about 3 and a half weeks now and he has come to church every Sunday since we first met him. So yesterday as we were talking with him he mentioned something that just blew my mind! He said, "Even the thought of doing drugs again just brings a sick feeling to my stomach. I am never going to go back to that life." It is so awesome how the Gospel and Jesus Christ change people. Carlos had an addiction that most people would have to go to rehab to get rid of, but just in a few weeks he was able to leave it and know that a spiritual high is so much better than any other kind of high. I know this gospel is true and that it really does change people. It has changed me. I know that through Jesus Christ we can be forgiven of our sins and that he is the only way we will be able to obtain eternal life. 

I love you guys hope all of you have a fantastic week! 

Elder Wilks

Me and the KFC guy with a Book of Mormon

A service project we did where we built a wall! Construction is fun.

February 8, 2016

Hey everyone I have no time left but here are some pictures of the hike we went on for our leaders meeting with president Klein!!! 

Love being a missionary and seeing peoples lives change through the gospel!!

Love all of you happy week!!

Elder Wilks

January 11, 2016

Hey everyone!!!! This week were changes and my companion Elder Tumax went home to Guatemala!! It was sad to see him leave and I could see that it was really hard for him because he didn't want to leave the mission. So he left Wednesday morning and my new companion got here Wednesday morning too! His name is Elder Patterson!!! He is from Utah, but his dad lives in Fort Worth!! Its a little weird having an American companion but it is a lot of fun too!! I'm remembering a lot of english as I talk with him even though we talk in a really weird spanglish. He is a super funny guy and I am really excited to work with him here. 

We are super pumped for the new change and we have decided to change a few things in the zone to help us find more people who are prepared for our message. We are going to set the goal of contacting at least 5 new people everyday and inviting to baptism in the first appointment! We are really pumped up and ready to work hard and help all of the missionaries in our zone do the same!

I hope that everyone has a great week! Love all of you!!!

Elder Wilks

Last picture with Elder Tumax and First picture with Elder Patterson!