Pure Love of the Gosple

Hello World!! Im back! boy have these last 3 weeks been super busy! well im am back to my normal health and still working hard. i thank you all very much for your love and prayers! i sure felt them in this side of the world. well boy do i have soo much to tell you, but im pretty sure i will not be able to tell everything in this short time that i have! it wasnt my favorite thing to have happened to me here in the mission but it was the lords will, and i thank Him everyday for the growing experience! i was reminded by an amazing family member of a quote from Richard G. Scott, that we all go through trials, but,"Trials are not consequences  of our disobedience, but that they are evidence that the Lord feels that we are prepared to grow more." so this time i just remembered the savior and got right back up again and continued with the Lords work! the lord is always aware of our weaknesses and is always willing to help us back up again! the savior and His atonement is meant for EVERYONE!!! i feel like here in the mission i have learned to apply it more to my life each and everyday! I LOVE IT!!!

 so in our ward, a missionary just finished his mission. and we have been working with his non member parents, and ever since he got back, he has been helping a ton with their conversion process! they are investigators of gold! they will probably getting baptized the following week! Uciel, the RM is super cool, we are pretty much best friends and he is like one of us, we are pretty much triplets! haha. 

so this last saturday, the stake had planned a big stake primary program planned for all the primary kids. and us elders, were asked to be part of this activity which was meant to help all of them understand the importances of the sabbath day. so the sister missionaries in my district, joined us and we all lead this activity and it turned out to be super fun, not just for the kids but for us missionaries too!! i love doing stuff like this! i got to see some of the other familys from my old area from Zazil Ha. for the activity, we put on a puppet show for the kids, on keeping the sabbath day holy it was super funny and fun! lol. and after we did some activities to involve all the kids!

boy am i proud to be a member of the true church of jesus christ! and you just know that feeling you get? when you just wish EVERYONE could be a member just to see the blessing be poured upon them and their families in their life! well thats the blessing of missionary work, you get to see the happiness the gospel of jesus christ brings to many poeples lives. you get to see the happiness it brings to your own life! im so grateful to be a missionary here in this chosen part of the world! i know that our heavenly father and jesus christ love us soo much and i invite each and everyone of you to pray and think for a family member or friend or does not have the gospel in their lives, someone that you really love and want for them to be happy. and invite them and the missionaries over to have dinner one night in you house. i know that it will bring great joy into their and your lives!

i love you all and thank you for your love and support! keep smiling, stay happy and remember Him at All times, and in All places!

Lots Of Love,

ELDER WASDEN 

Back in the City!

bix a beel ulákoh!! (how are you family!! in maya) WOW!! can i just say, it is soo crazily awesome to be back in the city!! we are in an amazing area here in Maria Luisa! here, the members are amazing! we are trying to work with each family a lot with our investigators. i just love our bishop, he is really nice. we already have a baptism planned for this saturday of a nine year old of a partial member family. we are super excited! so hear this... my first week here in the area, i get sick. makes no sense, huh. for the past 6 months i have been in the small villages where its more sketchy the food, and when i get to the big safe city, i get sick. i got a stomach infection. so i was super sick with fever for like 2 days and in the bathroom a ton, haha. we went to the hospital, they gave me my drugs and i took the for like a week and now im better witht he help of a priesthood blessing from my companion! so get this, my first sunday here, i gave a talk in sacrament meeting about the holy ghost! i gave the talk like a boss even though i was still healing from the sickness. but i love giving talks becasue i can just share with everyone what i feel about the gospel! i probably shouldnt say that, because bishop danz will make me talk in sacrament meeting every sundaywhen i get back! haha. thats soo crazy how the boundries have changed there, and ill be coming home to a different bishop! its all good, becasue bishop warren and danz are both amazing men! 

so let me tell you a little bit about our house! so the missionaries before me, recently moved into this house becasue they had to move out of another house. so the house that we are in right now, is pretty sketchy! its made for short people, the door frames are literally up to my neck! so i have to duck in almost everydoor. the worst part it that i have already hit my head like 3 times this last week getting up at night to go to the bathroom! its a pretty sketchy house, we found a ratin our house last night and you know us men, being all tough, we had to kill it. so calmly, like brave men, we approached it to try to kill it! okay i lied, we both screamed like girls trying to kill it! haha. but mission was accomplished. we then repented after for breaking the 6th commandment, thou shall not kill. but im pretty sure our heavenly father understood our circumstance in this situation! :P 

president garcia is already finishing his mission this week, and its super sad to see him leave! but i have heard president ruiz is amazing too! we had a big conference with all us missionaries and president for the last time, and we got to say goodbye to him for the last time! it was an amazing conference! 

so today in the morning, i was pulling weeds out side of our house, becasue it was our p-day. and as i was pulling these weeds, i felt happy and powerful, because each of these weeks was supér easy to take out because the roots werent very deep. and i came across one week different than the others, and i put my hand on it and started to pull it, i noticed that it wasnt coming out as easy as the other weeds. so i use even more strength using my massive huge muscles that i have, but this one weed was not coming up. i was determined that it would never come out becasue the roots were soo strong and deep. and it reminded me of us as sons and daughter of our heavenly father. always, satan is trying to pull us out of the soil (the gospel of jesus christ) so that we separate and dry up and die, just like a week, but we can die spiritually. as satan is harvesting all the weeds (us) that are week, he easily separates the sons and daughter of god who dont have a firm foundation (or strong root) in the gospel of jesus christ! i know that if we truly build our foundation and really strengthen our roots DEEP in the light and gospel of jesus christ. satan will not have power to pull us out.  i know that this gospel is true and can really protect us from the dangers of this dangerous world, and i know that we can be truly happy by following the teachings of jesus christ. i challenge each and everyone one of you to examine your roots! are your roots strong and deep enough to resits the attacks and winds from satan. do what every you can to keep on growing spiritually, because spirituality never stays at the same level, it is either growing or getting weaker by the minute! so pick up your scriptures, say your prays. do what you can to keep gowing you roots!

i love you guys and i know my savior lives! hope you have an amazing week! i love ya and ill try to send some pics this week!

<Lots of Love,Elder Wasden

me and my china food! :P

Carlos and Lazaro

the rat we found in our house!! 

got my dinner!

and they say that the iphones are getting big these days, huh!

My compi elder chi!

 

the children of the family Uh! 

 

a piece of art in merida! 

 

sis.  Jimenez and Cervantes. and elder foster and I

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my painting next to brother Uh,haha. he needs a chair!

 

service project for the sister Ligia painting her house

 

torta with Joaquin and Lalo

 

armando came with us to teach

chile relleno!! my favorite!!

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just eating my pan (bread)

 

a convert and her family that i met! 

 

brother Uh

 

awesome boys right here. vistor, uriel and jonathan

 

me and my comp Elder Chi rockin the  sombreros!

 

this lost sheep didnt do his part! haha

 

the family Alejos! victor the little one is getting baptized this week. this was a less active family but they are reactivating

 

hittin it up in the back seat of the bus!! 

i paid my bus ride with all little coins. its like paying with all pennies! haha

i took my comp to try chinese food becasue he has never had it before! he loves it! and we both had to go to the bathroom at night but it was worth it! haha

missionary selfie!

last meeting with president garcia

a little pizza birthday party for Luis! 

my finger got stuck in the hylodraulic doors of the bus, i couldnt take it out until another person got off the bus! haha dont stick your fingers in bus doors!

our mission leader Jouquin and i before leaving to play some sports with some investigators we invited!

me giving Jouaquin a shot!

Transfers!

well this email is going to be super short! because i had transfers!!! IM NOT IN THE PUEBLOS ANYMORE!! im actually now back in the city of Merida as a district leader again. my new companion is really nice and amazing! his name is elder cervantes, He is actually a mini missionary that i am finishing his training. he has only been here in the mission for about almost 3 months! i am now in the area of María Louisa, Merida. its super weird being out of the pueblo and in the busy world again. tomorrow we have district meeting so i will get to know my new zone tomorrow! this new area has a great spirit that i love! i know that we will have a lot of success here! 

i love you all and take care!

Elder Wasden

my comp elder medina and i walking in the rain

 THIS IS A HUGE CENTAPID!!

ingrid!

last night with the comp!!