The Best Job in the World

whats happening fam!! i am actually in central merida right now in a ciber! i love coming to merida! boy was this week such a week! i feel like each week i just come more and more  stronger to loving this work. i feel like i have he best job ever in the world! and you could say its the best paying job, but not so much money! we found soo many new people, one of my favorite was a contact i did coming back from merida, this girl sat next to me, so i talked to her the whole way back and felt the spirit soo strong, and now we are teaching her and her daughter! we are still working with this less active, in which started going to another church for many years, so like 3 weeks ago, we were teaching here and invited her to just ask god in a prayer which is the true church. and i can testify that the spirit answered her prayer right when she asked. and she knew that the other church was not going to progress and then felt comfort with the things of this church and is going to church every week now. it was amazing to see the holy ghost answer prayers, and i know he does!! its awesome!! we just need to ask him with a sincire heart! we also had church yesterday, and i taught about the gifts of the holy ghost and had her share her experience when we were talking about the gift of wisdom. i LOVE teaching gospel principals. i love to have fun with my class. when we first started last transfer, no one really participated, but now, they are a lot more open and talky with me this transfer! i think i gained their trust! haha. we are teaching a lot of couples and helping them with their marriage through the gospel of jesus christ. at night, i told my companion that we should be marriage counselors! haha. i love seeing the changes in the couples, and the power that the atonement of jesus christ has! 

we also have english classes and this week the class, mostly members, had a list of phrases they wanted to translate to english! and let me tell you, this was probably my favorite class ever, because their phrases were soo random and funny! haha. ill send the pics with this email! more stuff happened this week, but i can remember it, becasue i never write anything down! haha. sorry. Today i went to the dentist, because it has been like 1 1/2 years since ive been. and let me tell you, that was a bad idea, i should have waited, because im never going back. their numbing stuff really doesnt work and i was suffering the whole time, and my tooth hurts more, so ill probably have to check that out in 7 months when i get back. haha. well ima head out for this week. but i love you all and i know this gospel is true and that the atonement of jesus christ has a power that can change the heart of every man!!!!

Lots of Love!

ELDER WASDEN  

English Class

English Class

Crowns are soo awesome! One of our less actives was Queen this year for the carnival!!

Every time we walk down this street of the family puc cua, our recent converts, the kids always come out running for us in a distance with excitment! they are one of those precious moments that i love! haha. usually there are like 7. 

Scorpions are spo awesome!!

They put this pole in the middle of the street!

English Class

english class! so they asked us to translate some phrases that they use a lot and these are the words and phrases haha

my best pair of shoes. dont even have soles. haha. mexico! 

heres a better view of our house/house of prayer

strike a pose! 

making maíz, grinding up corn! 

after this pic, he suddenly started crawling towards me which made me and my comp scream

english class

we are always finding scorpions in our house! 

me and Argelia! she speaks only maya

" Remember press forward with a steadfast faith in christ!!"

Whats going on fam!! i know its been a while since i wrote for this blog an im sorry. i know im a slacker when it comes to this stuff. hit me... its sure a good thing im here in mexico! haha. Everything is going well here! and yes we did have transfers like 3 weeks ago the first day of february! and i am stil here in Cuzama en el pueblo, but my compi went home, echeverria already finsihed. but my new companion is Elder Foster. he only has like 7 months in the mission! he is from Utah! we are both going pretty well, we are like 2 peas in a pod. i love it here in Cuzama. the first week of february, they had a huge carnaval here for a whole week. so it was like a party in the pueblo and nobody was in their houses becasue they were all in the center of the pueblos in the afternoon! haha. but it was cool to see some of the events that passed here. i got to touch a bulls butt!! haha, it was close to the fence. it was a bull of our recent converts and he invited us to see it! so it was awesome! haha. sunday i gave another talk, we pretty much have to give a lot of talks here. haha. but i also teach the gospel principals class every sunday, and last week, i was giving an example of how innocent kids are and had a book of mormon and a stuffed bunny, and i called Matias who is an adorable 5 year old, and told everyone that he would grab the bunny, and so i called him from our primary bedroom and he came out and i told him to pick one and he picked the Book of mormon. and i thought to myself that was a complete fail, as they were laughing. and then like 10 seconds later he comes back out and tells me, that he didnt want the book of mormon and that he wanted the bunny instead, and so we switched and i pointed to my class and said, "HA"! my example worked. its was a funny moment. we are activating a less active member here that got baptized a long time ago and she recieved a testimony again as we taught her the restoration, so she is now comeing back to church now and that was soo awesome to see. 

did i tell you that we were in another pueblo and we saw a van full of utah mormons,  their license plate even said utah. and they all rolled down their windows and shouted HI ELDERS!! haha, it was super awesome to see them! 

we are also prepping out recent convert nelson chale to recieve the priesthood of melchezedek! i am soo excited for this family, i love them soo super much!! last sunday, our power went out becasue we didnt pay it. we just forgot, it always happenes to all the missionaries becasue we just get soo busy. have you ever tried planning in the dark! yeah it doesnt work! haha. well ima go because ima see if my computer is fast enough to send pics t send you!! i lvoe you all soo much, and remember press forward with a steadfast faith in christ!!

ELDER WASDEN

mexico yucatan, every year in february they have whats called a carnival with a bunch of events in the villages. with school competative dancing, bull chasing, singing, lots of floats that pass and its awesome!!

here are some of the schools dancing, im sure thise were the elementry school

in spanish, "fish" is pescado and "sin" is pecado. so i told my president that i commited a pescado! thats right i kissed a fish! but we broke up, but i know its all good because like they always say theres a lot more fish in the sea!

GUESS WHAT!! i went to a meeting in ticul and i saw a lot of members from my first area Tekax!! its been more than a year! soo crazy!!

always have to throw in that other pic! haha

Elders of the Zone Tiul

silly pic with my Tekax family

here is the bull chasing that they did at the carnival! it was soo awesome. after my mission i am soo totally going to do it!!

my comp elder Foster and I walking down the street.im too lazy to make a cool caption for this but maybe ill do it later! haha

We have a dog, that always follows us and protects us hahaha

every year here they have a thing called Carnaval! where all the schools have selected people to dance for the pueblo and they have a village king and queen and everything and they perform it in town center. its a big event! and pretty awesome

I LOVE THIS DOG!!

some of the family Puc Cua. the 3 girls are our converts and the others are the future ones. but not the bird, becasue we cant baptize birds!

PICTURES!!!!!!!!!!

i just felt i should send all the pics this week. from the last month and transfer! but we already had transfers last week,and i stayed here in cuzama. my new come is elder foster! and ill tell morenext week. and send more pics from this trasnfer

>Love you all!

Elder wasden

my comp sleeping! he was just about finished with his mission already!

entering the cenote, Maria ester

the baptisms of our converts! thats right in the cenote!

baptism of dulce maria

baptism of maria victoria

baptism of maria ester

hermana Ellgen shared her gushers with me!! they were sooo amazing!!!

in a cenote in the back of a house of one of our less active members

beans, rice, and some other stuff we found to make! soo good!! 

district meeting in the house of the elders in the village of Acanceh! 

divisions with elder smith! we got stuck at night in another pueblo far from acanceh and all the transport vans had already finished for the day. so we started walking like 30 minutes and an ambulance saved us and offered to take us back to our pueblo! what a nice guy! hahaha, but it was an amazing walk and a lot of the spirit we felt ask we talked! 

divisions with elder smith!

heading to the baptism of our 3 converts. maria vicoria, maria ester, and dulce maria! truck bed life!

after cutting hair

we entered a cenote! a cenote is a hole in the ground where there is like an under ground water hole. i dont know what their called in english!

exploring the cenote

Manuelito from Campeche came to visit me 

Went to Los Trompos Pizza!! 

look what kind of cookies we found! love being in the offices and love sister garcìa! in which is our mission mom, haha

looks like daliana is going to drive Barney around! haha

This is literally the 2nd mirror i broke in a week, after repeatedly asking the offices for a new one! UGGHHH!! lol

my comp found a wall with his name

in these vans you are suppose to be able to stand up straight in it. welcome to the american greengo life in yucatan! :P

before cutting hair

driving the moto taxi with my best bud Matìas

our recent convert family, Nelsy and Matìas! I LOVE THEM!!!

we teach an english class every thursday, some of our member family attends and looks like they already learned how to form sentences! haha. ana and beto are brother and sister! lol

Daniel, one of the children of our investigator wants to be a missionary like me. haha. he already has the good looks ;)

Daliana and I at church! 

my comp and i, were walking home and we felt to stop and stand outside of this little church and so we listened for a little bit and then a random guy from inside invited us to enter to listen and so we did. we listened until the girl preacher, who was the head of the church to end her speech and then he asked us if we had anything to say, and my comp and i looked at eachother surprised and excited and we accepted the invitation and took turns preaching to all of them about the real nature of god and a little about the restoration and the priesthood. and they asked us to finish the prayer with them so we did. it was a little different in the way they did stuff, but we are actually teaching the girl preacher head of the church and many of its members. it is a pentecost church. so that was a neat experience

us in the moto taxi with alex

spraying my comp with silly string

our zone of Ticul

selfies with the Echeverria

goofy face