Surprise Pictures from the Mission President!

From Porcupines to Poisonous Snakes

Transfers and Broken Water Pumps

Túx ká' bín! thats Mayan for "whats going on?" this week has been an interesting and busy week like always! today was transfers, and i am still with my papa, or trainer. the beginning of this week was a challenge, because our water pump broke and our supply from our water tank was gone. it took like all week to fix so what my comp and i had to do every morning was walk about 4 quartos away from our house with 2 water jugs and fill them with this filtered water we had to pay for and we hiked it all they way back to our house and we would use that water and take our showers and do all our hygiene stuff and if we were lucky there would be enough to drink. but yesterday the pump was fixed and now we have some water back! hooray! this week i also finally convinced my comp to start running and we are exploring new parts everyday, its beautiful. and we also scout out the areas we are going to contact people!  this week we went to the tienda or store at the end of our street to teach this muchacho named jose who worked and lived there. but he is such an amazing guy, we read more of the book of Mormon with him and he is very open in learning more about the gospel. we also have this other family, sandra and her 4 little boys. they assisted church last week, and we taught her more about the restoration this week. Saturday at the end of the day it was really rough, it was really dark at night and the area that we were in we had no luck at all, i felt inspired to pray with my companion and i asked that we would find a family that need to hear about the gospel and that would be open to us. and right after that my companion told me to lead the way, and i led us about a block away and i was led to this one house that was hidden a little behind some trees with a little light, so i announced us that we were on there property by saying "buenas noches" (we dont knock on doors here and just clap close to their property or say buenas or hola) but after that out comes a father and his 7 year old daughter and we start to get to know them, they are such nice people and i gave the little girl a piece of candy because she was soo adorable, but after talking to them for a while, it turned out they are a family with 4 kids and they just had a recent death in their family and we told him a little bit about the plan of salvation and we set up another time to meet with them this week! its amazing that the lord can answer our prayers if we just simply ask in faith, its amazing what he can do, just by following my prompting and just a random house i would have never thought to choose. potente! well that's all i have for this week, NOS VEMOS! 

Mucho Amor

Elder Wasden

New Address and Pictures

Elder Baily Ryan Wasden

Mision Mexico Merida

Calle 70 #521-A entre  65 y 67

Col. Centro

Merida, Yucatan , C.P.  97000 Mexico

Ward Missionaries and Porcupines

Tu´ux ka bin!! thats mayan for whats going on! and hach wi´iheen, that means that i am hungry! i learned that word pretty quick! jaja. 

well this week has been a really fun and busy week! as you know it was new years, and apparently a new years tradition down here is that they like to make a person with pants and shirt, shoes head, etc and stuff it with fireworks and fire crackers, and some of them they put their president of Mexico's face on it because they ´love´ him soo much! jaja. but at midnight they light them! i can just tell in 2 years I'm coming back so i can stay past curfew at midnight and watch one go off!! lol. for new years eve us and our whole district and some elders from another district went to a member family's house named the carillo mays, they are such an amazing family that i love! and we ate a ton of tacos, tamales and cake! it was soo good. this week i also went on exchanges and went with another elder in our district named elder garcia. he if from the Dominican republic! earlier in the week we went to a family's house that we are teaching named the poot briceno´s and when we were there i had the opportunity to pick up a porcupine!! their family thought i was crazy by doing so but knowing me, i had to! as i was holding it, there dog came up to me. and if any of you know when porcupines are frightened their spike come out, and i was not about to be poked and i was trying to get the dog away at the same time of holding the porcupine and the dog barked and i can now say on my mission was the first time i was pricked by a porcupine! jajaja. but it was soo worth it! it hurt but i would do it again because they are soo cool! there are a lot of people who cant read here in tekax which means they cant really read the book of Mormon, but we slowly help them come to the understanding of the church and we read with them. its harder but its working. also a message out to everyone! help your ward missionaries as much as possible, find friends that they can teach and go to those lessons with them, because it is sooo helpful for an investigator to be referenced by a friend and that they have a friend as they accept the lessons from the missionaries! you may not realize it but trust me, members are the key to success in missionaries! so please ask your missionaries if there is anything you can do to help them and if you could go to lessons with them,and when they do come to church make sure they feel welcomed because that is a big change in their life to adapt to! because us Mormons, just like a different lifestyle, we have different vocabulary and just just think of all the inside Mormon jokes that only Mormons get. but point if just help your missionaries! well remember i love you all and keep doing you best at everything you do....except bad stuff...!! 

NOS VEMOS BUENAAA!!

Lots of love!!

Elder Wasden

Pictures, Pictures and More Pictures!!

This cake is a tradition, who every has the piece with the little baby doll in it, has to buy the pizza. there were multiple dolls in there, and my comp and i got one

 

 This is a bathroom that I'm a little too tall for! jaja