January 24, 2011

Hola,

The beginning of a transfer is always a little different, but we started it off really good.

First of all, we went running every day (Tuesday - Saturday). That's the most consistent I've been with morning exercise my whole mission.

We had some pretty cool experiences this week. We got this referral from an investigator and tried to find them but we couldn't. This guy said we could come back. We forgot he said to wait until Saturday. We were going to go knocking in the same area so we stopped by and they invited us in. Long story short, this lady's son got shot and killed in Juarez 3 weeks ago and when she saw us the first time she knew we were sent from God. We taught her, her daughter, the daughter's husband, and the grandma about the Plan of Salvation. It was pretty amazing. Stuff like that doesn't happen in real life.

Then we also taught this lady who was a referral from 2 months ago that kept avoiding us. She showed up at a member's house while we were eating dinner, so we taught her and she likes us now.

We also had a lady come to Church for the first time that we've been teaching FOREVER. We took drastic measures to get her there. We may or may not have ding- dong-ditched cookies that said "venga a la iglesia". It worked. It wasn't my idea. She has a baptismal date now.

We actually have 3 dates now, and the less-active lady we've been working with keeps feeding us and she came to Church again with her 3 kids and 2 other kids. It's going to be a good transfer!

Love,


Elder Wiest

January 18, 2011

Hola,

Well, probably the biggest news of the week is that I've started using after-shave. I like it. Last P-day we were at the store and I saw after-shave and I didn't really know what its purpose was, (I still don't), so I bought some to try it out. I feel pretty mature.

Other big news is that we got texting on our phones. It's weird.

Less important news, I'm staying in Canutillo with Elder Thomas. Its' the first time I've ever stayed with a companion for more than one transfer.

Canutillo has been treating us pretty nicely. We finally had someone come to Church on Sunday -- a less active part member family we found knocking. It was awesome.

Update on the dog bite Sister: She spent the week in Las Cruces with her Aunt and Uncle and is doing a lot better. Sister Good came and spent the week here, and as of tomorrow she'll be back home in Idaho. Our Sisters are getting white washed. Two of the biggest Elders in the mission are coming to the area where the dog bite happened. Love it! Also, Elder Steed is going to Albequerque, sad. But we'll have a pretty cool district this transfer. Transfers go by sooo fast these days. I can't believe it.

Tell everyone about www.mormon.org. Get a profile. Ask your missionaries about it.


Love,


Elder Wiest

January 10, 2011

Hola,

Our week was a good one. The Fast for sure helped us out. We found some pretty cool people this week. We found this family with a super less-active wife who wants to come back and a non-member husband who is great. They have three little kids. They fed us ribs for our first visit! They had some crazy stuff happen to them and so they came over from Juarez about six months ago. I'm excited for them.

We had quite an adventure Saturday night. I won't go into too much detail because it's a very long story...but one of the Sister missionaries got attacked by a pit bull. We spent a long, long time in the hospital and didn't get home until past our bedtimes. That Sister is a trooper, though. She ended up with 16 stitches and she came to church the next day! Our investigators have no excuse for not coming to church now.

As of last night, I have 144 bottle caps.

I gave a talk in Sacrament meeting yesterday (in Spanish). Our little Planning Session where we came up with the idea for a Fast for missionary work has snowballed into a stake-wide Fast next Fast Sunday!

Transfer calls are this weekend.

I hope you will all keep Sister Jarmin and the Oregon Ducks in your prayers today!!


Love,


Elder Wiest

January 3, 2011

Hola!

IT SNOWED!!!!!!! It's been freezing. S.N.O.W. I couldn't believe it.

2011! We had a pretty good week this week. Same old, same old. Triple birthday district meeting celebration. Elder Steed turned 21 on the 19th, then I turned 20, and our Zone Leader turned 21 yesterday so we had cake at district meeting.

Speaking of food, I've eaten one tomale almost everyday for over a week.

The branch had a New Year's Eve party this past week. Elder Steed asked President if we could go and he said, "Yeah, sure, just as long as you're home by 9:30pm". "Ummm, the party doesn't start until 10:00pm...". "ABSOLUTELY NOT". We didn't go. In fact, I was so tired I didn't even stay up until midnight. I'm kind of a party pooper.

On Thursday, we had weekly planning and we went into it not very excited. But for the first time on my mission I had revelation during weekly planning. We set up a Fast for fast Sunday. We came up with a message and then went around to every member in our area to Fast for the missionary work but more for the people in the area that are lost/looking for the truth and are ready. It was awesome. I got really pumped. During the weekly planning, Elder Thomas said, "We should fast". Then I said, "We should just start right now. I just ate a ton of pancakes". We both didn't really wanna start then so we decided to get other people to Fast with us. But to be honest, it was awesome and we got a lot of support. I have no doubt we are going to see some miracles.

Love,


Elder Wiest