Elder Wasden: 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