Hola!! this week has been a great week. we have these investigators
named maria y flor. we have been teaching them for a while now. flor is a
little girl who has 9 years old and she is one adorably sassy girl. but
we honestly love those two. the first time we met them was about 4
weeks ago on the street,and flor was really shy and didn't want to shake
our hands when we first met them both, and now i can say we are pretty
much besties. jaja. but this week we invited them to a baptism with us
in oxcutzcab, and they came, we picked them up and took amoto taxi or
motorcycle taxi to the church where we all took a convi to go. when we
got to the church in oxcutzcab we gave them a tour of the church and
later watch the baptism. they loved it and thought it was beautiful, and
we also invited them to church again after many times the past few
weeks but they finally came with us, and when they came they were immediately greeted by members. maria and flor made many friends and
totally felt welcomed. i couldn't have been more happier to see that.
they were involved in the classes, the members told me and also asking a
lot of questions. and we are going to teach them again this week. i
love that family. as a missionary, church is just not the same, we are
always thinking about our investigators and how they are doing. its
awesome at the same time. we have been working with the members a lot on
family history. also for valentines, there was a parade out side our
apartment, it was pretty fun and funny to watch. plus we got free
candy. this week we went to Xaya again, this pueblo in the middle of
nowhere. but its really easy to get there but its hard to come back. so
we took a convi to xaya, did our stuff there, met with a family there
who are members but nobody there can afford to come to tekax, neither
that family to come to church every week, so we have a sacrament meeting
and a little class in the house of the members. we are going to build
xaya and introduce them to the gospel. It is the first time missionary's have ever stepped foot in that pueblo. so
we are very thankful to be the ones that start it, just from this little
hut as a church. but we believe we can do it. eventually when it was
time to go back to our other pueblo, the convi that said he would be
there at a certain time, never showed, so we were stuck in xaya. so we
hitched a ride in this car with 3 other old Mayans that spoke nothing
but Maya and a little English. and tried to have a convo in that tightly
packed car with 5 men. jaja. they dropped us off in a pueblo called
tixmueak. and we got stuck there but we were about 20 kilometers away
from tekax, so after trying to wave down the 3 cars that passed by and
having none of them stop, we decided to start walking after many coin
flips to try to find an excuse to not walk but the coins never lie so we
started walking, we predicted we would hopefully be back in tekax in
about 2 or 3 hours after walking for a long time we got to know
each other a lot better. jaja. eventually after a long time, we were
saved by this only car that passed by. and this car that picked us up
happened to be an ambulance. so we rode in an ambulance back to tekax!
it was a pretty interesting week. but yes that was my week! by the way i
want to let you know that i did get all the letters like last week, and
thank you everyone. it was really fun to read them! also mom, can you
please give grandpa my email. gracias! well hope you have a great week
because i know i am loving it more each week. pues ima close cuz i need
to go, so peace out for this week.
Lots of love
Elder Wasden
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