Well!! it was amazing to see you guys again on skype, hope everything is still going well! hey i got another joke for ya, "hows the life of a dog in mexico?" - "RUFF"!! hahaha boy that cracks me up!
boy do i just love christmas!! this week i had an experience that might have just changed my life forever. this week i experienced my true conversion to the gospel of jesus christ!!! i feel like i just view everything in a different way now! it has been a really spiritual experience these past weeks!!
yesterday, my comps and i were walking and we pass 6 drunk men. and they called to us, normally we pass by them or stop and just give them a pamfelt becasue they dont rememebr anything, but we decided to stop and we went back there and started preaching to them, it got to the point where they just kept talking and yelling when one of my comps was talking, so i stood up high on the tall rock and looked down on all of them and started talking about the word of wisdom and how they were all children of god and that their bodies are gifts from god. all of them were shut in silence while i was speaking and out of those 6, the spirit touched deep down to 2 of those people and now we have 2 appts. with 2 of them. so i got down and we headed on our way!
this week has been such full of excitement!! the beginning of this week we had big training meetings with the whole mission up in merida that called 8 principios or 8 principles where we learn about the basics on teaching every 3 months! this week all the missionaries in our district came to our village and we all did an activity and sang in their little downtown in the middle of the pueblo or village. we sang for everyone, i played my ukulele, and we showed a lot of videos of the church! it was amamzing! on christmas, we slept the night in merida after the other training meeting becasue we missed the bus to Cuzama! so we stayed in the house of the secretaries, which is the biggest house in the mission becasue there are always missionaries who have to sleep there when they stay in merida! but its like a missionary man cave! we bought a pinata and we hit it and got candy and everything on the roof balcony! it was a bunch of fun! thats how we spent our christmas eve! then we took a bus to another pueblo Telchaquillo and ate with some awesome members and wrote the fams in the house of prayer in which is just soo flippen awesome!! after we stayed the night with the missionaries in their small house and when we woke up, ´president of the mission took us back to our pueblo to baptize and interview and help us.
friday we went to the house of some of our investigadors. mom and dad, laura and nelson, and they have 3 kids nelson(16), Nelsy (11) and Matias(4). nelsy got baptized a couple weeks ago. and saturday we baptized the mom laura. so that same day president of the mission has been with us the whole time to authorize everything! after the baptism president took us ALL out to eat in this tourist restaurant! it was delisous! haha. after he told us to prep the husband for baptism so he could be baptized the next day sunday and recieve the priesthood. normally we have to wait a week to give the priesthood but president is building the priesthood power in this small area! he is an inspired man by god! so after we ate, we went to the other pueblo or vilage in there they live and went to their house at like 6pm and us missionaries stayed there until 9 at night. we did arrive really late to the house becasue there arent much buses or convis late at night so we had to wait longer to get back to our pueblo! but the next day, laura and matias came to church but we knew the husband had to work so we finished the services and later in the day, we prepped everything and the father and the whole fam came to Cuzama, and we had the dads baptism service and i baptized Nelson. and after the service we went back to our house of prayer and had another separate church sacrmental service authorized by the president to confirm him a member and later give the priesthood to him! the only person left is the son nelson who is going to get baptizd next week. but this time his dad has the power to baptize him now as a newly ordained priest! so that will be an amazing experience!! boy do i just love this family soooo much!!! just think, one day they will be sealed in the temple as a family!! im super excited for them!
i love this work soo much and im blessed to be a missionary here! i know this is the place of where i am suppose to be in my life for these to year. we need to always trust in the will of god! i love this gospel becasue its true, i love my savior, and im grateful that he has helped to have this change of heart through his servants, and for the knowledge by the spirit he has given me! i love you all lots and have an amazing week!!
ELDER WASDEN
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when we were going to Telchaquillo on the bus. one of the greenys, the companion of elder Cadena fell asleep on the sholder of a man next to him! hahahaha. it was such a funny moment in the bus!!
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before the baptism of Nelson sunday afternoon! then we confirmed him member at a later church session at like 7pm!!
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| this is the Fam!! minus there other son! |
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| What a true companion! Elder Echeverria from guatemala helping me brush my teeth!! |
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