Elder Toby Wilson August 23, 2021

  This week was one of my favorites by far. First off I would like to say thank you to all that wrote me back giving me advice on what to include!! The mission rule is that I can only email each person once a preparation day. So feel free to keep emailing me just let me know if you want a response because my days get really packed so I read responses throughout the week but if you want a response then I will 100 percent respond the next week. This week was like I said a really good week.   First I'll start with catholics, there is a huge catholic church where we contact people and this week was the baby Jesus idol worship week if you did not know. So they threw a huge party and roads were closed and people from all over came for this party. It was crazy and fun to drive by but it's hard to teach people who aren't open to hearing messages because they are catholic haha. Next thing this week is I gave my first blessing in Spanish!! It was so scary and I had no idea what I was...

  Oh hey, what is going one everyone?? This week was also super good. Let me clarify that a mission is not easy and there are so many hard things that happen through my week but the good out weighs the bad and so I'm never gonna worry about it. A mission is not all butterflies and sunshine but it is amazing and this week was great. Many things happened this week and I taught a lot. I think I may have mentioned Pedro last week. If not I will right now. Pedro was a miracle that we as a companionship ran into. Last Sunday we were teaching the crazy kids right and Pedro stopped us after calling out to us from his house so we walked over and he asked for come follow me and study materials and such. Super cool stuff so we went back for a lesson and he has some interesting stuff he has to figure out haha. Nothing crazy just beliefs he has to sort out. He came to church yesterday though which is so cool, I could really see us baptizing him this transfer. He is super cool Next is the h...

  Hey everyone!! I'm sorry if I like resent an email or something of the sort my Gmail is absolutely broken which is so dumb. I might send my updates some different way but I don't know yet. Anyways lots to tell t his week . I flew this last Monday into my mission, said goodbye to my district and woke up at 5 and took the train to the airport. We had a layover in Vegas and the airport is just like The strip. Terrible and dirty. Someone bought a ton of missionaries food in the airport which was so cool. Flew into Santa Barbara and had dinner. Me and elder Johnson slept at a members home which was super cool. We woke up and went to the mission office for breakfast and some meetings. We met our companions too!! Im in a trio wirh Elder Larsen and Elder teichert. They both are super cool. Elder teichert is my trainer and he is following up training Elder Larsen. The area we were assigned was Santa paula. The place is iffy haha. This ventura area was not how it was described to me ha...