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
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