December 25, 2017

December 25, 2017

Christmas here is still always so weird. I still don’t feel like it’s Christmas.... haha buuut oh well.

It has been good though. They celebrate Christmas with La Noche Buena. And so yesterday there was a lot of fireworks, and we ate BBQ with some members.

This week we had our Christmas conference and it was great. We did a white elephant gift exchange. I got a remote control car... just my luck haha.

Today was fun, we got together with the district and we ate pancakes and fruit and then we did a gift exchange.

We had a really awesome investigator come to church. His name is Nicolas and he got to go to one of the open churches. We are hoping that he will be able to progress.

Like I said, I loved seeing you guys yesterday and it’s so crazy to think how that was my last and how the time has flown by. 

Love you all,

Elder Wolf

December 18, 2017

December 18, 2017

This week was good. We have some awesome investigators but we are just trying to help them progress. One is the Gonzales Family. Angel Gonzales went to church this week.  He told us that he has already made the decision to get baptized but he would need to get married first.

We are working with a lot of other people too.

It’s been hard this week to have time in the area. We have had to go to some other areas that are more than an hour away to do interviews and help them out, and we have just had stuff all this week. I love being able to help when people need us, but it makes it a little harder to be in the area and work with the investigators.

The packages got here and I can’t believe that Christmas is this next week. It has come too fast! But we are looking forward to it!

We are preparing for a Christmas conference that we are going to have. That should be really fun!

That’s about it!

I loove you all! I’ll try to send some pictures.

Elder Wolf

A sister that always cuts our hair. Her name is Silvana Diaz.

Then this is my comp and me at a lookout close to our house.

December 11, 2017

December 11, 2017

This week was full of miracles. As always the mission is a rollercoaster, just gotta remember that when you go down you´ll come up again. 

I think this week we saw a lot of opposition. And it’s ok because we just thought, “Well there are better things waiting for us.”

One lesson we had was a big testimony for us.  Earlier in the last week, we talked a lot to this family about going to church. They said they usually can’t because they play soccer. We promised them that if they looked for a way and prayed and asked for a way to go God would give them a way. We asked what they were going to do. They said, we are going to pray so that the game gets changed. We were surprised and thought wow, that’s a lot of faith. But we said, its ok, we want you to be praying for that and we will be praying for that too. That Sunday, they didn’t show up to church. We went to their house and asked them what happened. They said, oh we got up late, and then it was raining so much that they canceled out soccer game. Both of our jaws just dropped. They had been praying but in the moment forgot and didn’t realize that God answered their prayers. We talked to them and reminded them of what they had asked for. Their jaws dropped, too. It was a very spiritual experience, and we said well if that wasn’t a sign that God wants you to go to church, we don’t know what is. :)

We also found a family this week. The man of the house had gone to church a couple times and really liked it. We went to his house and talked to him. He had an old triple, (BoC, D&C, and PoGP) and he says that he reads it every day before work, and he notices that when he doesn’t read it, he doesn’t have a good day. He accepted a baptism date and he will need to be married. His name is Angel.

This week we got rained on a lot. We got stuck in a rain storm one day and we went into an ATM. It was better for coverage, buuuut there were also about 7 dogs in there hiding from the rain too, and it smelt like wet dog pretty heavily. It was a funny experience.

We´re having a lot of fun figuring out all the stuff for Christmas in the mission.

That’s about it,

I love you all!

Elder Wolf

These are pictures from the area. :)

  

These are pictures from my birthday. We were with the Diaz Family who are recent converts. They made me a cake and they are so nice.

  

This is also a picture of us when we got rained on.

December 3, 2017

December 3, 2017

This week might have been one of the most tiring weeks in my whole mission.  haha

Monday was transfers and there was an elder who was waiting for his companion so we stayed at his house. It is about 45 minutes from our house) and then Tuesday we had district meeting and we also stayed at the other elders’ house for the night. 

Wednesday I had to go to physical therapy for my ankle. It’s doing a lot better. Then that evening we met some new people to teach. Including a family called the Fernandez family. They accepted a date to be baptized. 

Thursday we traveled to another area to verify their planning, about an hour away. They were doing good. 

Friday we had a meeting with all the zone leaders. It went to about 3 o clock and then we went to go work in our area.  When we were in the street a dog jumped out and bit my comps arm, so that was crazy!  We went to a clinic, and then to the hospital to get him some shots and get it cleaned. We got to ride in a police car!  Always wanted to do that!

Saturday we had to meet with the zone and present the Initiative Ilumina el Mundo (Light the World Initiative). It was fun to be with the zone. We are really happy with all the missionaries that are here in the zone.

After lunch on Saturday, we helped out with an open church in another area. We contacted a lot of people and then we talked to a couple and started talking about what we believe in. We read a scripture in the book of Mormon and the lady started to cry. We talked to her about how the scriptures help us to feel better. We talked some more and then she stopped us and asked if we could read it again. We read 2 Nephi 25: 23-26.  She started crying more and explained that they were going through a hard time, and she has been looking and waiting for something like this. It was probably one of the most spiritual contacts I have ever had.  After 3 attempts they finally accepted the Book of Mormon, and what to learn more.

On Sunday we had 5 people in the church, all five were miracles! A young kid named Walter came on his own and then an investigator that we had also came. Eugenia. We are excited for them.

That’s about it.

Today we got together as a district and ate milanesa napolitana con papas. It’s a breaded piece of beef that you put tomato sauce and cheese on top, and we ate it with french fries.  We played sports after.

Love you all! I’m enjoying being companions with Elder Baker and enjoying being here. :)

Elder Wolf

So this is us in a police car, because a dog jumped out of a house and bit my companions arm. It was pretty crazy.

   

Then this is today. We made lunch with the whole district!