DID YOU SEE CONFERENCE!!!

i know its been like 18 months in the mission, but i always have a troubles trying to find ways to start the emails every week! but hey, this one counts as a different way doesnt it!! haha. its funny that many people here, tell us that in other churches, they never feel like they can progress or that they are progressing. and this is the time when we come in and teach them how they can continure progressing even until to become a God like our heavenly father! thats actually a think i never thought of before the mission, that why i love learning more and more about the gospel the 2 hours i have everyday! 

last monday, we ended up doing service for a sister less active and she literally has like a  jungle forest in here property. and we just had machetes and cohuas! my comp and i attempted it in the morning thinking that we could finish it in no time, like 10 minutes in we figured out and came to humble ourselves more to find out that we are just 2 americans who have absolutly no skill with couohs or machetes. so we came back later that day when another brother would be with us to help out and boyi do they know how to chop and cut! haha. 

we still didnt finish it becasue there is SOO MUCH!! 

so this week, we also have our progressing investigators who we taught monday night the restauration and it went perfect! we also got the 14 year old son gustavo to go to the stake youth campout of ALL the youth! we prepared him the day before and he said it was amazing and he loved it! it was good to see that he met some other youth his age who have standards because here in the village we dont really have that much youth yet! but hey, we are working on it! the 2 days he was gone, one night we have a FHE in the house of a member and the mom, marcelina went and we all enjoyied an awesome lesson prepared by the missionaries and the sister anna! it was great, we ate tortas after and they were soo delicous!! 

This week during our weekly planning we did clean out the area folder and organized EVERYTHING a lot more and now it is more neat and awesomer! even if awesomer is not a word, it still is awesomer!! 

This week we also got to do divisions with the zone leaders! zone leaders in all the mission are trying to do divisions with eacher companionship in the zone! so we both went to their area to work with them for a day, and i went with Elder Bahr! elder bahr is like the peanut butter to my jelly! haha, i love that guy. we had a lot of spiritual experiences that day with the people we contacted in another pueblo that day. it got late there that we missed our bus, and so we waited at the entrance of the pueblo or village and waited for someone to take us.(yes we did hitch hike) we alwasy do it in the small areas, but this guy in a truck picked us up and we rode all the way back to Ticul in the bed of the truck enjoying the beautiful creation of the stars god made! it was soo awesome! when we go back, elder bahr and i both had the desires and impression to drink a natural juice and so we searched in many streets in center ticul looking for a place that sold natural juice. not just any bottled juice but natural homemade juice. we asked everyone, and contacted them as we went. as we go to a place, we ordered our juice. and we started talking to the worker and turns out he was from El Salvador, south america, and he has only been here for 1 year. but he took the discussions from the missionaries down there a long time ago and he went to church 3 times already! we gave him another book of mormon to read and take with him. it is amazing how the lord guides us to his children who are chosen and ready! it was a neat experience. when we finished after that we started heading home like 15 minutes early, becasue we remembered that it was APRIL FOOLS DAY! so we got to the house, we took EVERYTHING and hid it in the back room and knocked over some chairs and made it look like someone robbed the palce, we left the door wide open and with all lights off and hid in the back room,a nd just waited. when our companions got to the house they were scared to enter, they eventually entered and they had socked faces, we then opened the door really fast only to see faces of terror to yell APRIL FOOLS! haha, it was great! i love them soo much and i love the little fun we do in the mission! lol. 

one a more spiritual note! DID YOU SEE CONFERENCE!!! boiy was it amazing! we traveled to a city called Kanasin to go see it with some other elders! us american elders separated ourselves from all the latinos, and we watched the conference in a separate room with a flat screen and watched it in english! it was soo good!! i especially love the last talk, by Elder Jeffery R Holland! It just helped me understand more about the atonement of jesus christ in everything we do! it was very inspirational. The lord doesnt bless those who are perfect without trials, but he blesses those who are at least trying to improve in all they do! the atonement is for everyone and thanks to Jesus christ we dont need to be afraid of tomorrow but we can look into the future of tomorrow with a steadfast, faith and hope in christ! i am soo great ful for the privilage to be lead by a prophet of god in these latter days! i know thomas s monson is a prophet and i know he has 12 apostols who teach, testify, and show the love of Christ! i love this restored gospel and i have seen many of the blessing in my own life thanks to it! i challenge each and everyone of you to look for the blessings that god has given you thanks to the restored gospel and then give thanks to god for each and everyone of them. everything we do, it should be not to glorify ourselves but to glorify God in everything! i love you all and thank you for all your love support. have an amzign week! and WATCH CONFERENCE if you havent!!

honey bunches of love, (gasp! i want honey bunches of oats now i totally forgot about those, haha)

ELDER WASDEN

Alex helped me make my own weight set!! GYM TIME!!

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