Buenos Tardes Familia!! espero que todo esta bien! i keep feeling, that i know it is the same work everyday, but more and more different things just keep happenign each week! there was an experience last week that i didnt have time to tell, but we were coming back to cuzama from another town/village we have and we felt to go visit the family Ayil was a less active family, and we went over there, and we visited them, and we found out that the mom was having trouble with finding work and she was about to accept a job to work
on sunday so she could get back on her feet. this was of course after she just started coming back to the church after regaining a testimony and now the adversary is really trying to get her back by putting pretty offers in front of her face, but we reminded her of the sabbath day, and the faith in god. mainly about the promises that god gives us about the financial things. and we were able to help her feel the spirit to remind her what satan was trying to do, trying to keep her from going to church. she said she even felt a bad feeling just thinking about it. because the was thinking about accepting the job offer, but that ws when we came! i know the lord sends us to specific places because that is where we are called! God loves his children and is alwasy there to protect them from danger when we are truly willing to follow him. that
sunday she went to church and denied the job for what the spirit told her! and we also had 2 other less active young women who went to church last week too! so that was a blessing to see the start of their family! we are growing this village really slowly but only with the help of the lord! this last p-day last week, my comp lost his wallet in the back of a taxi here in mexico, we havent found it yet,after saying a prayer, we had to go back to the offices to order his new cards of the mission and his assurance cards, the that was a hassel.
as a district we all went to a place called Sams Club which is kind of like a Costco, but it was soo amazing, it made me miss the stores in the states, but we of course had to eat all the samples! haha. the next day in our district meeting we ate a giant cheesecake that we bought for real cheap and we ate it as a distrct! just us 6 elder and what a great experience, to have real food! HMMMN!!!
we have this investigator that lives in a village named Homun and we have been going a lot with this family. this family, ever since we started taking the lessons with them, they have been made fun of and laughed at by other people because they see that they are talking with us. it makes me thing that it NEVER happens to any church other than us! its just because satan works hard against people to prevent them from entering the church of God. They told us about the other people, but they also told us that what they are hearing feels right and they know its true! and that moment my heart was just touched! they are soo amazing, we have only been talking with the mom and son, marcelina and gustavo, but carlos the Dad, always works in merida and is never home. we thought he would be the only thing that would prevent this family and they thought that too, but this week, we talked to him the 2nd time, because we found this fam because we contacted the dad one day but he was drunk. and the lesson we had with HIM and his family went good, but he said he was not going to be able to go to church becasue he would go to work, but he got sick that day in his stomach, so we picked up the wife and kids in a motorcycle taxi and we went to church. and during the meeting, we see that carlos the dad, rode his bike ALL the way from Homun to Cuzama just to come to the church! that was a great sacrifice, and this day in the church, we felt it was just perfect for everyone because there whole family was together in the church! it was an amazing sunday!! we could really see the blessing that god shows us and the miraces!
this week my comp did get food poisoning and star-medica the hospital was really far in merida so we couldnt really go, so we had to stay in the house the whole day and i took advantage of this day to read my scriptures and study the WHOLE day!! boy did i love that too!
this week we also went with the family Chale, some recent converts and we taught them the plan of salvation, but with my little cut out layout laminated images. but it would be fun if we didnt teach them, but that they would teach us the plan of salvation. so we gave them the laminated cut ots and we acted like investigators, so they had to put all of them in order and teach us about every part of the plan and boy it was fun! hahaha. at the end they even made me one of my favorite drinks here, Cebada, which is barley! ill show you when i get home! haha. but HMMN is it good!!
Lastly yesterday was Sunday,and we had a district preisthood conference, like stake preisthood conference with the president of the mission. and i got to see all my members from tekax my first area, they were surpised i could talk spanish! haha. but it was grat to see each and every one of them. including rodrigo and a little boy from a family i helped teach with elder McDonald, but they are working on getting sealed!! also my convert Leti Gongora from tekax, got married with another member in tekax!!!! :D and they are going to get sealed in the temple too!!!!!! but after their year mark as member!! i was soo excited to hear all the progression that has been happening over there! i honestly love this work and i have been able to see all the seeds that i planted in my other areas are starting to grow. i know if i just keep throwing the seeds, it will one day plant itself in good dirt and grow! i lvoe this work soo much and i love talking to people and serving God by serving others! i know that this is the only true church on the earth and i know that Jesus is the Christ and my savior! i will serve him for the rest of my life until i pass over to the spirit world only to keep serving just as He did. he is my example. He is my savior, He is my older brother, He is the center of my life!! i love you all with all my heart and im glad that heavenly father put me here on this earth with all of you, my loving family and friends!
Lots of Love
ELDER WASDEN
PS. ill send some pics dont worry!! :D
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