June 8th and 15th,
2012
Letter to family/friends:
This week was a great week!
Our "investigator" Josue was being very stubborn and not wanting to
change his life. We had a lesson with him where the Spirit was so
strong! I could feel the Spirit in my heart telling me to say this and
that, we truly were messengers of the Spirit that day and allowed the Spirit to
teach to his needs and the things in his heart. During the lesson I
was prompted to commit him to pray to know the truth as well as be baptized
into the church and he accepted. I did it without fear or doubt, the
Spirit was so strong and told me what I need to do! He gave the closing
prayer and the Spirit was ever stronger. Elder Valdez
asked, "How do you feel?'' And Josue said, "I feel a
burning in my heart." I proceeded to tell him
that was the Holy Ghost. Since then he has been progressing
well. I was an amazing experience! I want to go to the field even
more now!
For the Tuesday devotional Elder
Marlin K. Jensen spoke! He shared John 3:2 with us, where Nicodemus came
to Christ and said "Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from
God". He proceeded to say that we need to be teachers like Christ,
that we need to desire to be great teachers to the people we will teach.
I think that is very important, I want to be a great teacher, and a want people
to recognize my desire to teach! I hope a can become a better teacher as
time goes on. It can be difficult to teach to people’s needs when you go
in with the mind set of "We're teaching lesson 3 today." More
often than naught if I follow the Spirit I will not teach everything I planned,
but that's fine. When you teach to people’s needs the lessons are always
more powerful and meaningful.
Well now I'm halfway through with
the MTC! Time is going by fast, I'm learning plenty every day, I just
hope I'll be ready when this next month ends!
Good luck everyone! Luke
1: 37 (Elder Valdez's favorite scripture) was very useful in our lesson!
-Elder Willden
June 15, 2012
Letter to family/friends:
This week went by very fast!
We have finished teaching one of our investigators and now we have two new
ones. The 2 new ones are going to be portrayed by other missionaries;
I'll get to be an investigator as well. It's interesting, but I think it’ll
be a great growing experience.
The other day we decided to only
speak Spanish until we're done with the MTC, this is my 3rd day in a row only
speaking Spanish. It's not too bad I can do it and I can notice a great
difference in my ability to speak faster and learn how to use better grammar.
I know we will be blessed if we keep working on keeping this goal!
Also this week my companions and I
have been improving a lot. We changed how we studied and now we spend
more time together going over Preach My Gospel with our investigators in
mind. I think we are going to grow a lot in these last few weeks!
Of course we have a long way to go but I'm very excited.
Less than 4 weeks until I'm in
Nicaragua! Apparently there is a Native for Nicaragua living 2 doors down
from us so I am going to learn more about Nicaragua and let you all know more
about it.
Until Next Week!
-Elder Willden
