3 September 2012 - Baptism

Letter to all:

This week we had the baptisms of Gensi and Cristian.  I baptized Cristian first, the first time I’ve baptized!  Elder Buc baptized Gensi, she was very scared to go into the water.

Their grandma is in charge of them and she said they have changed a lot since we started teaching them, more obedient and kind.  I´m so glad to be able to be of help to them.

Saturday night we passed by a house - a family of investigators to invite them to come to church...they were drinking.  It´s disheartening to see someone you care for and want the best for doing the wrong thing.  We just have to move forward and help them.

This week we´ve been looking for new families to teach.

Elder Willden

Jonathan looks like a giant!

August 27th 2012

27 August 2012

Letter to All:

Well my soles for my shoes are already worn down; I dropped them off with a member to put new soles on!  I can´t believe they´ve worn down so fast, but these souls should last longer. 

 And my bed is too small as you can see in the picture.

Well we didn´t have a baptism this week one of the kids drank coffee on Monday, but they´ll be ready for this coming Saturday.  It´s a bit of a bummer but it´s okay they´re baptism will be great on Saturday!

Many of our older investigators we have dropped this week and some of the newer ones were losing the desire to move forward, Satan works really hard to impede our work.  But by the end of the week one of our families showed progression and came to church and were really positive in our lesson. We should have their baptism the 15 of September.

We spoke with and investigator named Dolando, when we came to his house he was waiting outside with the Book of Mormon in hand.  He had a lot of questions.  He has a great desire to read the Book of Mormon and know if it is true. He´ll receive and answer I know it.  I can´t wait to meet with him again.

That´s about all that I can think of for this week.  

Something I missed last week...  We meet with a member last week and at the end of our short message she asked for a blessing.  Afterwards she told us she had a lot of pain that day and she tried to get a hold of the bishop and couldn´t.  She thought to herself, Well maybe the missionaries will come by.  And we did, we didn´t plan on visiting her that day, It´s proof that the spirit has great power in directing us where we need to go and who we need to talk with.

Have a great week!

Elder Willden