We have yet to get any pictures of Elder Wilkerson since he entered the MTC. He said he has some but hasn't been able to download them off his camera to the computers. He said he would ask around this week to find out exactly what the process was to do it. Since he is in the west campus, he has to wait until he can go to the main campus to use the bigger computers to download?....I'm assuming they have laptops or something like that down in the lower campus...don't really understand that, but...thats what he told us. We are hoping that on Tuesday (his PDay) we will receive some pictures. I did get one that was posted on facebook by a friend of mine, Jan Hanberg. These three awesome Elder's were all in the MTC for a short time together. Elder Hanberg (on the left) and Elder Moon (on the right) were friends and schoolmates of Cameron's, they all played football together. It put a big smile on our faces to see them all together again! What an amazing group of men!
We got 2 letters this week, an email...and a "snail mail" letter (HAPPY DAY AT OUR HOUSE!). At the beginning of Cameron's letter he stated: "Just thought I'd take this opportunity to write you and tell you about this crazy day. You will never believe where I am right now! I am on an AIRO plane (his words) back from Las Vegas!! We had to fly here to get our visas from the Mexican consulate here in Vegas because the one in Salt Lake can only give so many per month. So me and a bunch of Elders that I don't know got a day trip to VEGAS".....He said that his Spanish is getting "slightly" better, but coming slowly. He loves the letters he is getting and hopes that everyone continues to write. He said letters get a missionary through long days. He is enjoying the food, but is not indulging too much as he wants to stay fit. He is working out daily (I guess all the missionaries do this) and say's he thinks he's even lost some weight. They go to the temple every PDay and he really enjoys that. He worked in the temple every week before he left on his mission and said he has gained a great love for the temple. He said that some of the Elders that he liked and was close to all left for Mexico last week and that was pretty hard on him. One of them left him the "brotherhood" blanket....the Elder signs it and when he leaves he gets to give it to another Elder, they keep passing it down, down, down....and it continues on and on. Cameron was pretty excited about it and said he is staying warm (I had asked if he needed me to send him another blanket since it was getting cold, all we sent was a thin one...he assured me that he was doing good with the "brotherhood" blanket).
All in all, Elder Wilkerson sounds good, healthy and busy. We continue to keep all the missionaries in our prayers. These young men are such valiant servants and such a great example to me.
We love our missionary!
