Week 3 Change 4

Sorry this is late getting posted!

Hey! I'm online a little early today but I'm going to be on for a lot longer because we didn't get permission to leave our sector to go to the mall.. Here in Guayaquil everyone is celebrating "Parties of Guayaquil" is what they call it and all the kids are out of school and no one has to work. It's pretty much a huge holiday where people either go to the beach or stay at home and drink and so because of that it's dangerous and we have to stay in our sector. It's not that big of a deal for me, for more time on the computer I would stay in my sector every week if I could. Well we had a baptism this last Saturday, I now have 10 baptisms! I took a bunch of pictures with the 11 year old kid that we baptized. We are going to baptize his grandpa on the 6th of July, he has a little problem getting to church on Sunday's. Other than the baptism nothing really new, I'm still here working with my Guatemalan companion Elder Garcia and were working well together. He's teaching a lot of the ways that he likes to teach. I hope you are doing really well!! I love and miss you tons!! ELDER WILSON

Kyler sent me another email as well. Here's a little of what he had to say.
Hey so I got your package this Wednesday!! I was soo excited and I have already got to use the Chalula and it took me all of about 3 days to eat all the jerky. Latinos don't like beef jerky which I was excited to find out because that only meant more for me lol!! It was soo awesome and I also got a letter from you!! I was soo happy. Thanks soo much!! Oh ya and the ranch didn't come with instructions and I have no idea how to make it. Can you maybe send me a little instructions because I don't know how to make it lol.
Our chapel is really small which is lame because I came from one of the biggest most rich areas in Guayaquil with a huge stake center that had air conditioning and awesome members and now I'm in a poor area  where the chapel is tiny. Only the rich people have air conditioning here which means almost everyone does not have air conditioning.
Wow can you believe that it was about 7 months ago that we were all going to the airport? That's nothing compared to 24 months but it's a start and time for sure isn't in slow motion.
I want to thank you for everything that you do!! I REALLY appreciate all the packages and letters that you have sent me and I wanted to say thanks!!! It's awesome to have great family at home thinking of me. I love you and think of you all the time. I hope that things are going great for you and dad and Mooz in Cedar!! I love and miss you tons!! KYLER

Update Cont.

Kyler sent me an email that said the time is flying by for him. He said he gets sad when he thinks of home too much, but he is so busy there with his work and Spanish that it keeps his mind occupied most of the time. He says his Spanish is pretty good and coming along, but he's still not that good at it. He also said that he is getting our letters and packages, but it's slow and it all depends on when his zone leaders decide to go to the post office to pick them up. He said he is still suffering having to take cold showers and hasn't been able to get used it, but because they have no hot water he doesn't have much of a choice! LOL Poor kid:(

Week 2 Change 4

Hey!! So another week down here in Guayaquil. This week went by really fast and it didn't end up being as good as we thought it would be. We had a goal of 3 baptisms because we had a family of 3 that was really ready. As it turns out the father lives in Spain and wants to be here for his kids baptisms and so we didn't get the permission and only ended up having one baptism. We are really working hard here but a lot of times it's hard to walk all the days because when we don't have lessons we are walking either contacting or looking for someone that is an old investigator. That's when days go by slow and it's not very much fun. So what we have been trying to do it figure out how to avoid walking in the sun for 4 hours every day and that is by having appointments and lessons set up. I never really realized what it would be like here until I came and really got the feel for the heat and the horrible humidity. It's not that easy to get used to and actually I recently found out that it's actually winter here. We're in the coldest part of the year. For some reason it's just about the opposite of what I have seen my whole life. Right now it's cold (or for the people here it is) and in December and January it's hot. I'm really not sure how but I'm sure that I don't really want to be here for the summer. A lot of my clothes are suffering from sweat but I think that they will be able to hold out the whole 2 years.
How is everything in the states?? I love and miss you tons!! ELDER WILSON

Kyler Mission Pics 2011

Kyler Mission Pics 2011, a set on Flickr.

Kyler sent a thumb drive full of pictures and I thought you all might like to see them too!
Click on Kyler Mission Pics 2011 to see them all.
Enjoy:)

Finally I get to stay in a sector!

Hey! So I'm here in the same sector with Elder Garcia. We had changes in the mission this morning but finally I am staying in the same house more than a week. Hopefully I will get to see this sector really improve in my time here. I am going to work really hard to have good results here in La Toma, me and Elder Garcia are fairly new and so I  don't know why we're still together but we're going to work hard to make sure that we get great numbers this change. My companion has already had one change here so I think that he is going to get taken out before me. That means that I am going to have a lot of time here in this part. It's a good part of Guayaquil and I like the members. All is going well with me, how are things going in the United States??? I miss and love everyone! How was the forth? ELDER WILSON

New Picture!

This isn't the best picture and when I tried to make it bigger it just got worse:(

I don't have any when, where, and who details on this picture yet, but hopefully if Kyler writes today I'll find out. Matt was tagged by the lady who posted this on Facebook this weekend is all I know:)

Kyler emailed me today and gave me a little more info about this picture. He said: It was right after I got transferred to work here in Guayaquil. My companion was Elder Shannon and the reason there is a bunch of girls is because they are all the girls that he taught and baptized in his time there. They are all his converts and they are actually pretty cool!

Happy 4th of July!

Hey!! I hope that you are all having a wonderful 4th of July holiday. I'm sure that your not going to be online to read this but I figure I will let you know how things are going. So this last Friday my companion had to go see a doctor and the doctor told us that we had to stay in the house for another week because he couldn't walk a ton. So we had changes. The president wants me to be working and not sitting in my house with a sick companion so I have a new companion and a new sector. His name is Elder Garcia and he is from Guatemala. The sector is pretty cool, it's just pretty much normal Guayaquil, not rich and not insanely poor or dangerous. We have changes coming up this Sunday and I think that I will be packing and moving again but I am not sure, I guess we will see. My companion only has one more month in the mission than me and he just barely moved up to be my senior companion so it's a little bit different for both of us because recently we were both junior companions. I think that the president has a plan for me and I'm not sure what it is but I know that he knows my name and always tells me that I'm going to be a great missionary! Have fun on this wonderful 4th of July and send me pics of all the fun stuff that happens. I'll be here working.
Love and miss you tons!! ELDER KYLER WILSON