Three Weeks to Go!

Well this week has been an amazing week like always! so me being the friendly guy i am, saying hi to everyone, i shook this one guys hand and i didn't find out till later that it was President Boyd K. Packers son! This week our previous zone leaders district left the MTC to go to Peru! they were such awesome missionary's. So remember the tacos that i ate last week with cow brain, my companion totally got sick from it, and since I'm pretty sure we have a good relationship i decided it would be funny to make throw up sounds with him to make fun of him for not having a strong enough stomach! well lets just say i learned a pretty good lesson about humility, because it hit me like 3 hours later and my comp got me back for making fun of him and laughed at me! so remember... be humble! jajajaja :P This week had an investigator come in the MTC so we could teach her. her Spanish was so fast i only understood like half her Spanish, but i knew a ton of phrases. she told us all about her life and how it was difficult for her because she didn't have a big income and it was hard for her to support her family. so we taught her a little about the law of tithing and about the plan of salvation! she is such an amazing woman and it is amazing to see how interested she is in the gospel. like i said, i know i wont be able to see her progress because i will be in Merida Mexico in 3 weeks, but all that matters is that we planted the seed for her and the missionaries after us will help her. she has an great future in hand for her and her family! i know it! I had the opportunity to give a blessing at night to this hermana in the MTC who was feeling horribly sick.  so  the very next morning, we heard from her that she was perfectly fine. Its amazing how the power of the priesthood works! and i do have a testimony of priesthood blessings. Yesterday, we also had the opportunity to hear from one of the 70. Elder Paul B. Pieper! He came to the MTC and talked about the work in the mission field here in Mexico. Also got to watch a broadcast by Elder David A Bednar, and lets just say he has the best cookie monster impression! jajaja. he is one of my favorite general conference speakers. i am loving the mission more and more everyday! and i cant be any more excited to serve in the Merida Mexico mission! TGIT (The Gospel is True), its a district thing. 

alright i got to go , love you all! 

Elder Wasden

Crazy MTC Week

Today has been the most exciting, heart filled, crazy MTC week experience yet! some of our zone finished their MTC experience! Elder Randall and Elder Tarawhiti! such awesome missionaries! my companion and i woke up at 2AM to say good bye to them. i also said goodbye to my Latino friend who is such a funny guy and i don't know if he even understood anything what i said because my Spanish may be a little rusty! jaja. This week we got a lot of rain and thunder storms and boy did i love it! This week we got to hear from Elder Richard G Scott and he talked about the challenges of being a missionary and how our trials help us learn and build character! that was always good to hear! I am blessed to have an amazing night teacher, hermano alverez! he is hilarious. (also 22 and single...ladies) jk jaja. Im improving my soccer skills a ton down here, but yesterday in cage soccer, my companion accidentally broke someones nose with his knee. so now i like to play with my hands on my face to keep me from having a broken face and to stop touching the ball too much! Our pday yesterday got changed to today this week because some of us got to leave the Mexico MTC to do some visa stuff. so they dropped us off in the middle of |Mexico city at a consultant. and did our visa stuff. after we had time, so we walked around the streets and we also had the chance to go tracking in the real world. we met this guy named Jaime and we told him a little about our church with the little Spanish we had and it was really hard to understand and speak everything but i think my companion and i did great! or at least that's what im hoping and thinking to make me feel better. jaja. two other companionship and i were hungry so we went to this street vendor, and we got some tacos, as we were buying them he told us they were cerebro de vaca. which i had no clue what that meant, so I'm like what the heck. so we started eating them and we found out that cerebro de vaca was cow brains. i wouldn't recommend them, especially if they aren't really cooked,but we downed some coca colas so we should be good! this week we also found this gigantic moth which was literally as big as a bird! we found it because we heard some hermanas scream at it. i tried to get it and take the typical missionary picture with my name tag right next to it, but it was so big it took my name tag and threw it and started beating me up and then it flew away, only because i let it win! gotta love it down here! ;) jaja. i cant wait in 3 weeks to start heading to the Yukatan! its coming up very quickly! Im very grateful to be serving out here and thankful i chose to come out here to serve the Lord and go on a mission. I know it will be a life changing experience, not for just me, but to the people of yukatan! i cant tell you how much i love my district! i know the gospels true and i have a testimony of the book of Mormon. I'm starting to read it in Spanish now. Gordon B Hinkley once said if you finish the book of Mormon in your mission language, you will be fluent by the time you are finished. so i thought i would give it a try! :D well i need to close for now! but i love you, and its so great to hear from you! ill send some pictures from my week! te quiero y espero que tengas una semana incredible!

Love 

Elder Wasden

Elder Wasden's Address

Hey there! A lot of people have been asking for Elder Wasden's email address so that they can email him. If you want to write him you will need to write him real letters and send them to the MTC. So here is his actual address at the Mexico Mission Training Center. Thanks everyone!

Elder Wasden

dic.10, 2014 / 11-C

Carretera Tenayuca-Chalmita #828

Colonia Zona Escolar, Gustavo A. Madero

07230 Mexico, Distrito Federal

Mexico

It's Finally Wednesday!

Madre! como esta usted!?(Mom, how are you doing?) ill save you the trouble and type in english! jaja. mexico is soo crazy down here and it is beautiful! our MTC is in the middle if mexico city and it is surrounded by HUGE mountains surrounding us in a valley area. some day you can just see clouds rolling over the mountains. so i got off the plane in mexico city and i walked to the customs line where they check your passport. longest line ever! so i finally get to the front and he directs me to a station to get checks and the girl is speaking spanish. and she looked at my passport and pointed to the other giant line. turns out i was in the mexican line and i had to go stand in the foreigners line. haha. but i met another missionary while i was picking up my bags, and we headed outside where we were greeted by some MTC workers who directed us to this white van where we met another hermana misionero (sister missionary) and we got out bags in and we started driving to the MTC. it was pretty scary, they have laws for driving, but they are optional. theres no lines to stay in, so imagine 5 lane traffic with no lines and everyone all over the road driving aggressively. we came like 6 inches to hitting someone merging, but its just how people drive down here. lol. i just hope i dont get a mission car! there are a ton of stray dogs down here too!  jaja. we got to the MTC where we checked in, and met some other missionaries. later that night i met up with some other missionaries that i met at the consulate. my new companion is |Elder Tousa. hes from north carolina. it has been an amazing week this week. but also one of the hardest and longest weeks of my life. lot of studying the language and the doctrines of the gospel, even in Spanish! its like a giant overload! lol. everyone is still getting use to the food, lets just say our digestive systems are acting up. luckily yesterday was Tuesday and they had Costco pizza night, and thats every Tuesday. they love us! we are already teaching our first "investigator" and the hard part is we had to teach him in spanish. so it was a lot of preparing. we told about the restoration and i could trell he felt the spirit. we even got him to say the prayer and to pray to find out if the book of mormon was true. i think we have another appt with him today, his name is jorge. i love our district, we have an amazing one, they are like another famalia to me. so almost everyday we have exercise around 2ish. and us elders played volebol con las hermanas en our district Saturday. and this week we played some basketball with some other elders, but Monday we got introduced to some cage soccer, and it is pretty fun and intense, so if i break something, dont worry about it. but when i get back i plan to be pretty good at soccer. jaja. it was our first Sunday in the MTC and it was great. we had testimony meeting with our district and another district we are close to. there were like 5 different sacrament meetings on campus. but ours we all had to bare out testimony in spanish. it was pretty difficult but i did it! they pretty much make us fast here because they dont feed us for dinner Saturday and breakfast Sunday. but i decided to fast for a day for the language and im starting to get better. its amazing of what the power through fasting can do! well i feel like i have a ton more to say but my times running up. te amo y no puedo esperar a oir de usted otra vez la proxima semana!
Elder Wasden