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hola familia!!
pues este semana. decedí que voy a escribir en español! solo porque yo puedo! jaja. discúlpame por no escribirles la semana pasada! pero estas ultimos semanas han sido muy buenas! olvidé a decirles que tuve la oportunidad de entrevistar algunos candidatos de bautismo de las hermanas en mi distrito! se llamaban William y Christina! tarde una hora con cada uno de ellos! y sentimos el espiritu bien fuerte! son personas muy amigables, y me estaban contando toda de sus vidas y mucho de los cambios que han tenido en sus vidas por el evangelio! estaban bien preparados, y ellos brillaban como una luz de sus testimonios! les amo mucho y estoy muy felices por este paso que han tomado en sus vidas! de hecho, tuve la oportunidad de estar en los servicios de su bautismo! fue muy hermosa!
en este semana, hemos trabajado mucho con los menos activos, mas mostramos el amor que tenemos por ellos! y este semana, hemos visto muchos milagros, muchos de esos menos activos fueron a la iglesia, y estan empezando a regresar!! tenemos mucho planeado por ellos! el senor nos esta bendiciendo y poniendo muchas personas preparados en nuestro camino. literalmente este semana, 2 personas han llegado a nosotros para decirnos que querían escucharnos o que querían bautizarse. estamos siguiendo trabajar duros! les amo a todos que estan aqui!
este semana me tocó dar un discurso en la reunión sacramental! este fue el tercero vez aqui en este area! lol. a mi me encanta dar discurso, discursé del 5° principio del evangelio... perseverar hasta el fin, y de la relacion que tenga con la obediencia a los mandamienos! me encanta dar discurso, mas cuando siempre me dicen que yo pueda escoger la tema segun las necesidades del barrio! lo disfruto mucho, de verdad! jaja.
se que no me falta mucho aqui en la mision, pero siento que con cada semana que llevo, incrementa mi amor que yo tenga por este obra marvillosa del senor! me hace no querer irme! jaja. porque cuando una persona se sumerge en el evangelio, llega a abrir sus ojos espirituales mas a las cosas que hay que cambiar en su vida! estoy muy agradecido por el evangelio, y mi salvador jesucristo, y por las cosas que me haya enseñado. nunca hubiera llegado a saber estas cosas si no hubiera venido aca! amo a mi padre celestial y por la oportunidad que me ha dado para servirle! les invito a cada uno de ustedes que puedan buscar una manera para servir al señor este semana, para que pueda ver las bendiciones que tenga preparado para usted! les amo con toda mi corazon, y espero que puedan orar mucho por el don de lenguas. y para ti mamá, ya conozco su conocimiento de  espanol, no va a poder entenderla! jaja, pero te amo! :P
que tengan una buena semana!
ELDER WASDEN

here is us at the baptism of William and Christina!! such amazing people they are!!

We taught brother Gaudencio how to use his new tablet that he bought! he is super funny with it! i love this guy soo much!!

brother parra invited us to eat some nachos at his restaurant!! super delicious it was!!

here is my beautiful brain!

READ YOUR SCRIPTURES EVERYDAY EVERYONE!

OH SNAP!! What a week! i cannot tell you any more of how much i love this ward! this is going to be my last area!! it is super crazy! i soo hope they just dont change me out my last transfer! lol. but i absolutely love working here! 

So this week we found a dead cat right in the front of our house! there are a lot of weird things that happen at our house! we have a room out back that we dont have keys to and animals live in there, like a big family of cats and they brought a dead animal in there so now everywhere smells like death! haha. 

oh yeah you wont believe who came to merida this week! well remember Adan, the RM and Karina from Cuzama? their parents of adan live in my ward and Karina and the kids came to visit! so i got to see them all, karina, Ingrid, Melissa, and Lupita! it was great to see them! i love them soo much and we talked a lot about cuzama and i pretty much bore my testimony with them of many things and encouraged and challenged them to read their book of mormon again! becasue when she told me all the things that were happening in cuzama with everything, the spirit told me that they werent reading their book of mormon! i aksed them and it was true they stopped reading, and i rechallenged them again to never stop reading! they realized it was true what i said! i have come to know that many people become less active and get further away from God when we stop doing the small things like reading our scriptures, and saying our prayers! READ YOUR SCRIPTURES EVERYDAY EVERYONE!! i know you cant go wrong with it! we can ask god for many things and we can talk to him through prayer, but how does he talk to us? i know that he answers us in many ways, and the scriptures are the main way that God can talk to us with the help of the spirit! but ask yourself, when was the last time i read the scriptures? if its been a while read a little bit right now. read everyday, even if its just a little verse! i know our heavenly father loves us and wants to guide us in this tough world!

so this week, something funny happened, we were with Landi and her 3 year old daughter! and i talked to the little girl for a while as she was playing and she shows me her coloring book of a cat, and it looked like her white cat "Coco", so she wanted to draw him in, and she started to draw the picture of the cat using the color brown. and i told her, that her cat "Coco" wasnt a brown cat, and she stops and looks at her picture and then looks at her cat Coco and goes up to it with her brown marker and starts coloring her cat brown so it would match her picture!! hahaha. it was super hilarious! i just love children soo much!! they make me soo happy! :D 

this sunday at church i noticed a new family of 6 and so i went back there to get to know them, turns out, that that there was a young couple that were members all the way from Finland. the husband was an RM and the wife, a 2 month recent convert! but they were visiting their cousins, a non member family here in merida who live in our area! its was a mom and her 2 daughters, when the meeting started, i went back to my seat. before the talks started, the husband (RM) came to me and asked me if i could translate for her wife who only spoke english! the RM knew english too, but said i would probably do better than him, because his root language is spanish. so happily, i accepted. and went over to sit with them, behind them and started to translate! but, a minute into it, i just totally failed. i couldnt hear well as i spoke and i had a ton of troubles trying to remember the english words. i began to make large pauses not knowing what to say, and she just looked at me and waited. and i just looked at them, with a smile and with an embarrasing laugh and said, "I am sooo super sorry!" because i was soo awful at it! lol. then i whispered to the wife and asked her if she had ever heard of the Gift of Tongues... and she said yes and so i told her to pray a lot for it! and they both just laughed! hahaha, they are great people! their family eventually decided to stay for the classes, in which i taught. i taught about the atonement,and seemed like they liked it. in the middle of the 3rd hour of church i was thinking about them of a way of how we could contact this family and find a way to go to their house to go teach them. at the end of church, all i thought about was the sports activity we have fridays. so after asking them about visiting in their house, the mom and the older sister said that they worked  and didnt seem that interested, but Leilani the younger 20 y/o asked about the sports activity and said that she wants to go, because she like sport and she heard about the anouncement in the sacrament meeting! so i knew that the lord was preparing this family and its all going to start with her, i just sure hope she makes it! its going to be ana azming week!

in these past few weeks here, i have been able to see the miracles that are happening in this area by our effort! it is super awesome and i just love keeping ourselves busy, even though the members keep reminding me that i dont have much time left jokingly! i feel like these people are my family, well they are! 

The Lord is guiding his work!! i know this is a super sketchy ending but i dont know how to end such an awesome email that i wrote such as this one! so im just going to end it like this...............!! Amen :P

Well i love ya fam and ill be sure to send some pics!

Elder Wasden

me and carlos!!

here is the dead cat we found infront of our house! super sad,  i know this picture doesnt show my sadness but trust me i am, it was a selfish cat becasue it died not thinking of others who would have to come clean up after him. and he left us with the dirty work! haha jk 

my comp and i as ironman!!

me and the secretary Elder Evans in the offices of the mission

My family from Cuzama! Karina, Ingrid, Melissa and Lupita!

My comp and I making empanadas with Landia and her mom!

our little family home evening for a sister in our ward we all watched meet the mormons

Love this fam!! jessica and eliseo and their daughter Kimi!

The importances of families in the plan of God!

BOY what a week we had!! it was awesome, i dont know if you heard about the tropical storm that was on the news? it hit us just a little bit, it was going to hit us but it shifted tuesday night and went more sound!! we got lucky! but i did love the rain! now it is super hot here right now! 

but this week we met a less active family named the Segura Peña family, that it has been over a year since they have been to church, my comp and I decided to have a FHE with them! boy did we fall in love with this family! its a couple its a couple with 2 little daughters! the dad is soo hilarious! i love him. we all put cookies on our foreheads and tried to use our face muscles to move it to our mouths! so this week we are also planning an activity, me and elder chi came up with it, so its kind of based of meet the mormons, every family in the ward will do a video to show what their family is like just a bunch of fun videos of their fam and we will have a giant movie night in the church watching all these videos! we have seen some and they are excellent. we are focusing on the importances of families in the plan of God! its going to go great!!

So this week was an excellent week in our area because we had 2 more baptisms! Martin and Geni!! it was excellent! i have been teaching them for many weeks and it was great to see them take this step in there lifes. we could see at the beginning how hard satan was working to prevent this covenant with God but like alwasy God won again! im super happy for them. we had the baptism sunday morning before church services and confirmed them after. sorry we dont have photos of the baptism because we started late and had to finish before the church services. it was great though, i love them soo much! 

some other sad news, on of the sisters in our ward died last night, sister magdalena. she was an amazing sister and everyone loved her soo much, she had liver failure and passed away in the hospital. please pray for each and everyone of the family members of the Careño family! becasue she was still young, like in her 50´s, and had a big impact on the ward, soo please keep them in your prayers! it makes me soo greatful to know of the perfect plan our father in heaven has for us, and how each and everyone of us has the oppotunity to see our loved ones once again if we stay true to the faith and push ourselves to endure to the end! i love my heavenly father and i know that he is always with us during our trials. never lose hope because our savior is always right there behind us to lift us back up again! 

well i love you all and no worrys, i be sure to send some pics of this week!

signing off, 

ELDER WASDEN 

he was the tropical storm coming out of nowhere! 

at least we wont run out of water here!

What a Beast i am!

Its like States if Grace!!

eating empanadas with Dani!!

here is one from the baptism of Martin and Geny!

this is literally like the 3rd mirror i have broken here on the mission! you just cant trust me with these things!! haha

Pictures!!