Specific Place to do One Specific Thing

wow what a week this has been. this was my first week in my new area. the puebo is named pueblo nuevo! or in english, new village. this village is really small and im pretty sure i almost know everyone in it! jajaja, but the members here are amazing! and boy do they spoil us! one member named juanna, makes pasole con coco, so i fit in here pretty well! there is this member that every morning she makes us breakfast to start our day. she helps us missionaries out a ton, we are greatful to have the members here. because we also travel during the week to 7 different pueblos near our pueblos where we live. our house is just a little brick house without real doors or windows and I LOVE IT!, and our roof fell off this week, so i had to get up to fix it! jaja. but i am loving it here in pueblo nuevo, the work here is really slow, and i know that president garcia sent me here for a reason, to strengthen the members here because there are a lot of less actives. but we are going to change that! this week i also found out that i am in the same district with my same companion from the MTC. i dont have that much time again this week, because i am talking with my president right now and him and i are working on a plan to help this little pueblo, before they have to pull the missionaries from it, every area i am in, i know that i have a purpose and that heavenly father sent me to this very specific place to do one specific thing, now i just need to find that thing. i cant even explain how much i love this work with all my heart, i may be losing me english but i am gaining much more! i love this gospel with all my heart. and i am proud to say que soy un miembro de la iglesia de jesucristo de los santos de los ultimas dias! vaya bien y les amo!}

Elder Wasden

elder tousa and i and a FBI uniform i found!

elder tousa, elder bejar, i and the guld of mexico in campeche (MTC District)

our little house

welcome to campeche!!

does anybody remember this guy!!! Elder Parrot!! from paradise

our church here in pueblos nuevo

our classroom for priesthood ;)

Turning to our Heavenly Father for Guidance

Hola!! i don't have that much time this week, but we had transfers today and guess who got transferred out of his new area... that's right this guy, right now i am in the state of Campeche. i am going to a puebo called pueblo nuevo and its a really small pueblo with like 4 streets. i cannot wait. i am going to be a senior companion. right now i am in campeche and i am in a Internet place, but the village we are going to, doesn't have cell phone reception, no big shopping stores, and no Internet places, its kind of like Sterling City above paradise and magailia, but the puebo is less scary and a lot hotter. next week ill tell you a lot more of campeche. this week we had the baptism of an investigator we had named Leti, she is such an awesome person and in these past 4 weeks, she has gained a strong testimony of the gospel. this week we also had a zone meeting, and there is a sister named hermana acosta who is from california, and she finished and is going home this week. so if anyone passes her, tell her i said hi. my last supper with hermano romeo y carmen y su familia, they reminded me of my first week, when i knew no Spanish at all, and so when we use to talk to them, i was always in my own little world, playing with ants and stuff like that, so he wanted to make fun of me for that for the last time. jaja. i love that family so much, they are hilarious. this week i learned to rely on the spirit more and follow its promptings, because on morning, we came back from running and the power was out, so there was a lot of stuff we couldn't do, and we had food in the fridge that was going to go bad, and we didn't have that much light to do our stuff. and during my studies and we couldn't run our fans because of the blazing heat, and so i prayed that we would receive the power again soon, and like 30 minutes into my studying, i felt the impression to go downstairs, and at first, i was like, nahh, I'm studying, I'm too busy and downstairs is pretty far from where i am and it takes energy to do that. but the impression came again, so i decided to follow it and i went down stairs, and led me to a switch that we had no clue was there, and so i decided to flip it on, and i went back upstairs and the power was on. i know that we can also turn to our heavenly father to guide us in anything, big or small. we only need to put our trust in him to guide us to where we need to go! i love this gospel with all my heart and the blessings i receive everyday! hope all is well and take care, or ....calantebaex 

con mucho amor

Elder Wasden

morning runs in tekax

morning runs in tekax

district of tekax

district of tekax

baptism of hermana Leti

What an Amazing Week!

i just wanted to start off by saying, wow was this a big week that was very amazing! at the beginning i also received letters and a package, and boy did i love it! i dont know what to say, but only that i just LOVE reading letters from home! well the beginning of the week we had a noche de hogar or a family home evening with the family Carillo May and we talked about missionary work and helped them with ways to share the gospel, after we went to there cousins across the street and ate the best tamales i have ever had! no offense to all my tamale making friends back at home! this week, we also did exchanges again, and i went with an elder named Elder Montes in the area of Tekax 1. i got the chance to teach the investigadors that Elder Garcia and i found like 2 months ago when i did exchanges with him. they are the family colli. after i got to see another family from the last time i was with elder mcdonald, and they are a big family with like 7 kids, and i finally remembered all their names. last week we contacted a person, named Apolonio in a moto taxi and we started teaching him, when we talked to him the first time he told us that his son died recently. so when we went over there we taught him and his wife margarita the plan of salvation and about the temples too and how they can live with there son again. about 2 lessons later, apolonio took us home one night in his moto taxi and told us that the only reason he accepted us was because he wanted to know where his son was. and during this time he told us that after hearing us, he found his answer he was looking for. they are such amazing people, and not only are they our investigadores but they are also our friends. and for some of those who know from past emails, i am in love with this drink called pasoli con coco. and we went to there one night, and i found out that not only did god put us in their path for a reason, but also that my heavenly father loves me so much that he put them in our path for a reason a little smaller but, because she makes pasoli con coco, and i just about cried when she brought out a giant glass of it for us. i was soo happy, i had to hug them...well only Apolonio, because Margarita is a woman...! this week we have 3 baptisms, one of our investigadores he name is Leti and our other investigadores names are Maria y Flor. as we are prepping them for baptism, we also had to teach them both about the word of wisdom. they all drink coffee, so we had to help them stop drinking coffe, so we asked them if it would be easier to resist the temptation if we took it and dispose of it. so all of our investigadores liked that... well they didnt really like it, but they thought it was a good idea. so i think not i have a giant coffee jar sitting on my studying desk and still have yet to dispose of it. but i am soo excited for them this saturday. yesterday we had a last minute training meeting in Merida so we had to wake up at like 3 in the morning to be in Merida at like 7am. and that ios why we didnt have PDay yesterday. but on our way back to tekax in the afternoon, i sat down next to this man who had about 50 years. but i sat in silence for about 2 minutes and then i decided to put my spanish and maya to the test. so i turned to him and said 'bax caah walik suku'un' which in english is kind of like 'whats up bro' and after that he said mixbal, which means something like not much, but i started talking to him in maya for like 5 minutes with like all the maya that i know, then it got to the point where he won, because my vocabulary in maya can only do soo much. haha. (some members are teaching me to pray in maya) but i started talking to him his name was jose, for a while for like an hour and we talked about our families, we showed each other pictures, and i asked him what he wanted for his family, and we talked about a lot of stuff, i shared with him about the temples and families and how they are eternal and started talking about the pascua... or easter. and we talked about a lot more stuff that i dont have time to tell the whole lesson, but at the end of my testimony, i showed him a short video about easter thats on lds.org, its called gracias que el vive. but i showed him that and bared my testimony about how he himself could have a familia eterna gracias a jesucristo. not only could i tell but i could see that he felt the spirit, and it was soo powerful. but we became great friends. he wanted to learn more and he is going to go on the lds.org website to search more. i got his name and address so we could go to his house and teach him, but he lives in ticul which is about an hour away from my area. but he is a cook and he told me to come over for dinner sometime, so hopefully i can be called there some transfer. but he ask for my number so that he could reach me, of when the other missionaries can come over. he also gave me a four leaf clover that he had kept in his wallet for over 10 years, but he told me to keep it, to have good luck. i just love taking busses so much. but when he got off in ticul, an engish speaker came up to my comp and i and she asked us if we spoke english, and we talked to her on the bus for a while, i also met this other latino who is from mexico city and lived in nevada for 16 years, and speaks english, his names sergio and now he is 22 and lives in playa de carmen. but i talked to him for a while and he said that he took the lessons as a kid with his parents but never continued, he wanted to continue and so i got in contact with the missionaries in the cancun mission to teach him, because i have a friend that was in my district from the MTC in Playa de Carmen. so we are going to see how that goes. with the canadian we met on the bus, she was going to tekax too and so she didnt know any spanish so we helped her get around, and we are hopefully going to teach her this week while she is here. well that was pretty much my week, so i am going to close so i have time for pictures!

Con mucho amor

Elder Wasden 

a food called puchero. it had a bunch of random stuff in it that we had no clue what was in it, but i was actually not bad

letters from the warren family and a calendar with pictures from the chatfields! LOVE IT! muchas gracias

free coffee!! jk we still need to throw it away

the canadian we met on the bus

la familia canche basto! celstina, carmen abigail, jesus antonio, y antonio

remember last week when i cut my own hair, well i didnt want to say until i accepted it, i forgot to put the tip on my buzzers and i cut off my sideburns. but i do miss them

me teaching this huge dog in the streets about the law of chastity, because there are sooo many wild dogs here in Mexico!

sandra, edwin, axel, y darian