Christmas Skype Pictures

Cookies and Push Ups

Bax kúu yuchu!! That's maya for que paso! and that's Spanish for whats happening! there are so many people who speak maya,i have no clue why they sent me to a Spanish speaking MTC. jajaja. this week has been an amazing week. let me start off by saying that i am officially addicted to pan! pan is this sweet Mexican bread  that guys on bikes ride around selling and every time i hear them clap the pan clap i get pretty excited! so don't be surprised if i come back really overweight from the pan down here because it is soo worth it! haha. this week my comp and i moved in this other house where we are staying now, its pretty cool because we are in our own area now. showers in the morning are actually pretty interesting. first we take a bucket of water, then we warm it up on the stove and use that water to take our shower! and we wash our clothes by hand,so when i come back to the states be prepared to have a cheaper water bill mom! jaja. this week we had a lesson with a family in our branch and this lesson was about the atonement. so we bought some cookies and brought them over to their casa, and explained how Jesus Christ atoned for our sins and paid the price, so first we brought out the cookies and told them if they wanted one the price was 20 push ups per cookie! none of them wanted a cookie until we revealed to them that as i was a representative of Christ that i would pay the price and do the push ups for them. they guiltily took the cookies and feeling bad and eventually they didn't want me to go through that many push ups. lets just say after that lesson i was pretty buff! i asked my comp if we could do that lesson more so by the time of our next transfer i would  be toned! jaja this week with our progressing investigator family, we finally got the full family to participate in our lessons. they are reading the book of Mormon and have committed to baptism! hopefully they keep attending church. i love this family soo much, they are full of energy every time we are there. and every time they see us coming down their street the two youngest girls, ages 9 and 11 and their dogs are always the first ones to greet us with excitement. for Christmas eve,us missionaries planned a branch activity and it was a big turn out! we showed some Mormon messages, had the youth perform a traditional dance and then after had 2 pinatas ready to finish the night of fun. and then to end it we had our potluck dinner thing. weird order but it all worked out and was a lot of fun and really brought our branch together! we are planning another activity for the branch this Friday. about Lehi's dream. ill tell more about that next week! well as i always say, i'm loving it here more and more everyday, the people are really nice here. i love sweating everywhere i go because of the humidity because it makes me glisten! oh yeah, and even down here i happen to look like Obama to people in the branch! hahaha .lets just say i take a lot of pictures with them! well that's all for this week! i love you guys and i want to let you know that this is the lords work and i'm soo happy and honored to be doing it! everyday He has blessed me in so many ways and i know he loves each and everyone of us. everyday we leave the house my comp and i always bear our testimony in Spanish! and just by doing that it has strengthened my testimony each day. i know this is the true restored gospel! and i'm glad that i get to share it everyday, even though its hard for me because of the language, but i am doing my best! love ya lots! 

El evangelio es verdadero! 

Nos Vemos, signing out

Elder Wasden

Christmas Devotional and a an Investigating Family

For my birthday this week, my comp and another companionship bought me 2 giant Mexican pizzas and had a little pizza night. let me tell you i love Mexican pizza!! last week we took a bus to peto and we all met up as a zone and sang in centro! then after we went around contacting people! it was a fun night. this week we have an investigating family! they are such an amazing family. its a couple and 3 of her daughters. we are working on the other 3 kids. but 5 of them came to church with us this Sunday and accepted our lessons. the padres names are maria louisa y josé, and the 3 daughters that came too were Yasuri, Llamili, y Luz. we have another lesson with their family tomorrow! praying for them everyday! this week we also discover a new part in our area with our branch president, he drove us too this other pueblo or village like 25 minutes away from our pueblo of Tekax! it was a pretty cool area! yesterday we took another 3 hour bus ride to Merida and had a Christmas devotional! there were like 250 missionaries. we had some missionary experiences like talks in the chapel, and each zone sang a song we practiced. then we had a big dinner, and then a talent show and then we exchanged gifts kind of like a secret Santa but we know who our person we are exchanging gifts to each other. ill send some pics of my week because pics take a long time to upload! nos vemos y Le amo. me encanta estar aqui en Tekax porque esta muy bonita y los personas de tekax son muy amistoso y estoy apriendo la idioma cada dia! voy a hablar con ustedes jueves! nos vemos! Elder Wasden

Jesus is the Gift of Christmas

Que tal! or should i say BaxcaHoalic! that's Mayan for whats up. its awesome I'm learning Mayan out here too, its more difficult to learn 2 languages but I'm getting through! Cox.janná means lets eat! that's my favorite, i bet you know why! its been amazing here in Tecax Mexico! i am loving it more and more everyday! there is a lot of work that needs to be done, right now we only have a church that's a 2 story house, but hopefully after we are done with it, we might need to build a whole church! this week we woke up with a scorpion in our casa. guess who got to kill it! this guy! but i played with it first! so for Christmas, we have been handing out these cards which say él es la dadiva. and it pretty much says how jesucristo is the gift of Christmas. and so we hand them out as an introduction and explain our church. so as we were walking to a members house one night, we pass this little market store and my trainer hands me a card and tells me to go get a reference. so i had to, i walked into the store and my comp told me that i had to buy something. at this point i had no clue what i was doing or what to say, so i grabbed the first thing i say while walking around the mini store and i grabbed baby food. i walked up to the counter with it and she gives me a weird look, so i said..."tengo habre" which means I'm hungry. and then i said come fue su dia which is how was your day, and she look at me weird, and didn't say anything. my comp said that i said it in a loud and excited tone and was laughing at this point. so i gave her the card and she looked at me again after looking at the card, and i had no clue what to say so i was like que tenga un buen noche! that was part of my week. i also got to drink a coconut. im running out of time! i have to go to tecul. love you and i hope you having a great week! 

Mucho \Amor

Elder Wasden

First Days in Merida

New address:

Elder Wasden

Misión méxico Merida 

C70 x 65 y 67 #521a

col. Centro

Merida, Yucatan 97000

hows it going! it has been another amazing week!  yesterday was my first day out, and we didn't sleep Sunday night and just stayed up till we left at 2am and we took a plane to merida and got there around 7 and had breakfast at our presidents house and went to the church centro and had meetings there all day! i was soo dead! it is soo humid here, you cant walk anywhere without sweating a little bit! we picked up our materials last night and i picked up my hammock to sleep in for my mission. and as we were walking to the bus station i never knew that the merida temple was literally right by where we were the whole day, so i got to see the merida temple. it was soo beautiful! as we took a bus for 3:30 hours i got to know my companion a little bit more until i passed out because the lack of sleep for 48 hours! we got to the town of tekax last night at around 11pm and we got dropped off by the bus and we had no clue where we were going because the area just opened up and now we are here. eventually 2 elders walked towards us and helped us and brought us to there casa where we stayed there that night. and it was my first night here sleeping in my hammock! im not quite use to sleep in one but eventually ill get the HANG of it! see what i did there? ;) i have an amazing trainer for the next 12 weeks, his name is elder judd! once again did i mention that it is soo hot and humid down here! and this is the coolest part of the year right now! haha. there are a lot of stray dogs here as well. today i tried this food that i still have no clue what i ate but it was good. well i don't have much time left, i have a lot to do today! and plus im paying to use a computer in this little computer shop down here! ill send some pics! love you y nos Vemos!

Elder Wasden

 

 

The Mexico CityTemple

He didnt have time to send an email as most of day was spent at the temple.

 Only a few more days left in the MTC!!!