Week 34: How to fix a washer? No problem!

Monday we got up and Elder Nelson and I looked at our washer that has been broken for about 3 weeks. We called the office to fix it but the first guy, all he did was take our Money and didn´t fix anything. They called him back and he didn´t answer so we where just waiting. When we woke up we just thought, lets just fix it American style. We went and bought some tools & ripped out the dryer motor and some other parts that were broken. We went and bought the stuff and threw it all back together and now that thing washes and drys pretty well! After we emailed home & then had two different family home evenings planned for the same time so we did splits with some of the Young Men. Productive p-day but not the funnest.

Tuesday we hit it hard back into the work. We started off playing some hard core basketball. We played with a couple members then we came home and got cleaned up and studied. We left in the morning but had little success. We didn´t have any set appointments so that is usually what happens when you leave in the morning. We came back and ate and stuff then headed back out. We met the mom of a new family who is pretty cool and interested. After that we went to our awesome investigator, Walner. He is progressing super well and we even got a member who knows creo to come with us and they were talking in that language and it was pretty cool! After him we went to another appointment and found the wife of the couple and talked to her a bit. She is really cool! We then let the member go and went and talked with a less active we found contacting. She is the mom of this family but is the only member. She has a good family and it will be nice to teach them. After that we went to our awesome appointment with a guy, Ishmael. He is the dad of a family of 3 and his wife. They are a reference of a member and we went by to see her but only her husband was home so we got to know him. He is actually really cool! He was really open and really wants to know more! After him though we went to another family home evening. We taught a lot of people the restoration and related it to building a house. We used people to fake build a house with support columns and it turned out really good! Pretty good day in general though.

Wednesday was pretty basic. We started the day off with about a 10K run with twins for about an hour and a half! It was pretty gnarly! After that we studied and showered & went to our district meeting. That was fun as they can be haha! After we just came home and ate. In the afternoon we started off at our stake center for interviews with our mission president. After we came home and met up with the twins we ran with in the morning and did divisions. I had a really good day and all my appointments went smooth and good. We talked with a inactive and animated her to start living the Gospel of Jesus Christ again. We talked to two other investigators but then went to our fourth family home evening this week! We had another really good turn out and Bishop & his wife even showed up. I talked with all of them about how the commandments and love are related. It was a good night and they even fed us and I left barley being able to walk haha!

Thursday we started the day off at Dariely’s house. She is an investigator preparing for baptism. She is scheduled to be baptized 22nd of April. We only went to her in the morning so we came back and did the whole lunch thing. In the afternoon we started at a Young men’s house and talked with his family who live in our Ward but go to a different one because they have more friends in the other Ward. We just talked with them a little bit and gave some words of encouragement. After him we went to a less active and talked to him. We shared the importance of a testimony of the Book of Mormon and how it can also bless our lives a lot.

         

Friday we played basketball in the morning. We came home as always to get cleaned up and studied. We planned the week today and that went well and it is always good to talk about how we can improve. When we left for the afternoon we had a member leave with us. It was a pretty normal day until our last appointment. We had the Bishop and his wife with us and taught this family who were super interested and asked really good questions! It was a super long lesson because they had so many awesome questions! We will but a baptism date with them this coming week!

Saturday we started off playing some basketball. I won both of my games. After that we got cleaned up and talked with on of our more progressing investigators. After her we just went home and ate lunch. In the afternoon we worked hard. I am writing this late and I don't remember what we did but it was a fast day haha!

Sunday was fun! We had a good turn out and we got a less active that hasn´t been to church in over a year and a half to come back! After church we just ate and sat on the roof and I fell asleep and got a little toasted. After that we just went to our appointments. We started at a less actives house. We continued to share how the Book of Mormon can also bless our lives and what it means if the book is true. After him we went to Walner, our awesome investigator! We gave him a Book of Mormon and started to talk about the Gospel of Jesus Christ as he prepares for his baptism. After him we went and talked to a couple contacts that are pretty cool. After them we went to another appointment we had and it fell through. We then went back to where we were before then talked with a family. It was a  pretty good Sunday!

Week 32: Cutting My Own Hair & Hanging Off a Bus

Group

3/13/2017

Monday: Today was pretty cool! In the morning we went to the stake center to have a zone activity to play basketball and soccer indoors with AC. That was super fun and we also got a food delivery guy. After that my companion & I  have been thinking it may be worth it to go a little further to buy groceries at what is called Price Mart.  It is exactly the same as Costco in the states. We went there to check out the prices and stuff and decided it would be better. It was so nice to walk in there and see high quality things again! We then went home and got cleaned up to talk with home. After we went to a recent converts house and she taught me how to make rice pudding, I think that is what it´s called in English. Super good then shared with them a bit and called it a day!

Tuesday: Today was very slow but we had an awesome night. In the morning we just cleaned the house a bit because some of us are sick and others are sore. After personal study we went to one of our better investigators. She is progressing well and we are getting the mom more involved. After we contacted a bit. We went home for lunch and I cut my own hair. Not to bad but not to great haha! I am learning! After lunch we had our first 5 appointments fall through. We had to stop for a bit and meet a guy at our house to fix our washer. He took it and won’t bring it back until Saturday. That sucked. We contacted a TON! We found some pretty good people but not like jumping up and down pee myself good. We then went to a ¨family home evening¨ we put together with about 20 people and talked about the families and enduring to the end. We cooked a cake and brought it and also brought some soda. We played games too and was a great way to end the night!

Wednesday: Today was a pretty slow day. I woke up with a sucky cold and couldn´t breath through my nose so we didn´t do any exercise. I just listened to some talks and read some of the Liahona. After personal and companion study we went to the district meeting. That was good and animating. We talked a bit about charity and how we have to develop this attribute as missionaries always dealing with these people. For lunch we just bought empenadas and I had some rice pudding leftover. After lunch we took off and visited a family and shared with them a new way to find references. We stopped by some old investigators I had and they said they missed us and wanted us to pass by again. That was nice to hear. We went to the other half of our area finally. We are trying to divide the area so that we can work one half one day and the other half another day to be the most effective. We visited the members and less actives around there. It was a lot of walking and we contacted a bit but didn’t find any awesome people. Hopefully another day. We started back closer to the house and we had a member family feed us some food which was a nice surprise. After we went to an appointment we had but the mom wasn´t there but we got to know the dad and he is super cool! It was a slow day but wasn´t bad. Pretty sick but nothing drugs can´t fix.

Thursday: Today was for sure not the most fun day. I woke up with a cold and just felt like poop. I just grabbed my speaker and put on some general conference talks and listened a lot about the plan of salvation. When we left for the day we went to a less active who is doing a lot better. She is making good decisions and I hope to see her at church this Sunday. We got to talk to a another less active that has been difficult to contact in my time here. After we found a new investigator who is cool and doesn´t claim a church but has desire to know. After him we had a member leave with us to an appointment but the investigator wasn´t there but we talked with some of the friends of the member who are really cool. They are a whole family! We also had another member leave with us to another appointment that night that went awesome! The mom of this investigator wasn´t super interested but is a lot more now! They might go to the stake conference this Sunday! All the appointments in between fell through so thats why it wasn´t the best but not a terrible day.

Friday: I woke up sick again and a little worse. I just felt super sore and the medicine wasn´t doing a whole lot. I just slept in and then when we left in the morning we had a member give us chinola and I made chinola tea that is probably the best drink I have tried in my life. We also made some spaghetti for lunch and I felt a little better after that. I took a pretty big nap and woke up a lot better. We had a member leave with us for the day and we went to the other half of our area. We talked with a lot of less actives and taught a lot of them and got them animated for the conference this Sunday. We found a couple more partial families too and I really want to work on completing them. We have about 5 right now that we know of. After our appointments over there we went to the chapel to teach our class. It wasn´t terrible but not many people showed up. After the class I talked with Bishop for a bit about our people then we went to a members house and they fed us hot chocolate. Pretty fun day!

Saturday: Was a pretty good day. We started it off playing some solid basketball with some members. That is always a blast and a great way to start my day. After we got cleaned up and stuff we went out and we mainly just handed out invitations to this stake conference that was today, Saturday and Sunday. We got the invitations on Friday which made it difficult. We reminded as many people as we can and talked to every one about it. We had a couple appointments we went to but it was mainly just telling people about this thing. We walked a lot and then had to come back to the house because the guy who ¨fixed¨ our washing machine was there to return it. We brought it up the stairs and the dang thing was practically the same. He had already left so it was just a whole be waist of time. I told the office I know how to fix it and I know where I could buy another motor if they pay me back and I will fix the thing for free. They told me they would get back to me. After that we went to the priesthood section. It was really good and we had Elder Ca… from the seventy talk and also my mission president spoke. Good way to end the night!

Sunday:  Sunday started nice and early trying to find investigators for this conference. It was at a different chapel a little ways away so we took buses. We where about to get 6 investigator to go to this thing and a less active. There where a ton of people who showed up. I think about 1000 people or more! It was really good! After we all piled into the buses. I don´t know why but more people needed rides back home so they where SUPER full! Like the bus can hold about 30 to 35 people. I counted when we where driving and we had to have 50 people in this thing. It was so packed that Elder Nelson and I had to hang outside with 2 other people but we where standing on this bar outside and I had to just hold onto a seat through the window! The driver had no mercy and drove like there was no one there and they like to fit these buses through tight places. There was motorcycles driving by almost hitting my leg with their handle bars and cars almost hitting us with their mirrors! So much fun! We made it to our destination about 20 minutes later and my arms where pretty sore from holding on. We just went back to the house and took a nap then went to an investigators house. That was fun and we had a really good talk with them. After that we walked a ways to our other half of the area. We visited a lot of less actives and tried to find some new people. It was petty good but the night ended even better. We went to a investigators house and she actually read the pamphlet! You don’t know how hard it is to find someone who can read or who will actually read! She read pretty much the whole thing and said that she wants to know more about Joseph Smith. The lesson went awesome and the spirit was so strong! We even got her oldest daughter who is in college to sit with us and they really liked the message! She said that she has been praying to God to know what church has the full truth. I am so grateful that I can be that instrument in the Lord’s hands to find these prepared people. We got out of that lesson and Elder Moradel jumped on me in excitement haha! Then right after that we went to another investigators house and met the husband who is a Pentecostal. He was different than any other and said that he has even read the testimony of Joseph Smith and wants to know the origin of our church. He was so open to us and said that he doesn´t like to ask other people these questions because they can make things up because they don´t know the whole truth! It was another super good lesson and Elder Moradel and I where very happy the way that night ended!

This week was super fun and we worked hard! We are talking to everyone trying to find those who are ready & God had prepared for us! My testimony of this Gospel grows every day and it is amazing to see it change peoples lives! I am so grateful I can share this message of the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ!

Adios,

Elder Wolfe

Week 31: New Companion #5, Elder Moradel

Group Email

3/6/2017

Well another week, transfer, and companion. It wasn´t a super fast week but I think it is just because all the changes and settling in again.

Monday was pretty fun. We went to the stake center and played soccer outside. I got a little burnt but we played hard then went to pull out our money. We didn´t go to the grocery store because we wanted to wait until after transfers. I bought a Portland Trailblazers jersey that is pretty cool! After all that we came home and cleaned the house a bit then went to talk with you guys. In the night we visited a couple more people that Elder Pinto wanted to say goodbye to.

Tuesday was transfer day and it went pretty good. I had to be there at 7:30a and it took forever to get there but then Elder Pinto left for his new area.  I waited with some other Elders until the bus from the south came with my companion at 12:30p. I went to a nearby Elder’s house and we played some card games and dominos. After I got my companion we went home. We dropped his stuff off and then headed out eating on the street. We visited a lot of people and this guy likes to work hard! We saw alot of people and even found a bunch of news! He is also from Honduras and was actually friends with my other companion from before the mission. We just tried to visited a lot of people so that he could get to know the people here. 

Wednesday we started the day off with a good weekly planning. We are preparing for a big baptism night the 8th of April. We came up with a new idea on how to plan for our investigators that involves a timeline and sticky notes so we can be more effective with our time.  We will see how that work out. We ate and took off for the streets. We had a really good day to be honest. All of our appointments happened and the lessons were very good. We have two more people we are going to put baptism dates with soon. We are finding a lot of news that could really progress.

Thursday we had splits because Elder Moradel had a meeting.  He is the new district leader. I was with a new guy who is in training. We had a fun time and we only got to visit a couple people but he was a cool kid from Idaho. We visited a less active that is trying to make money to join the police and he has to work Sundays. He only makes about 150 Dominican pecos and that is about 3 dollars every day. He works from 7 in the morning until super late at night. Very sad so see that. After that I got back with companion and we visited some of our really good families. They aren´t progressing as well as we would want them too but they will get there. We talked to a couple of our new contacts from the other day and one was a very great lady. We found another guy who is super cool asking the best questions like, “why are there so many churches?” & “where do we go after this life!” We were super happy to find him and then we went to visit a less active that isn´t doing so hot.

Friday was an awesome day. In the morning we had a district meeting that is so much better then our past ones. We ate lunch played some card games then took off. We had a member leave with us and a lot of the appointments fell through so we tried to find some new people. We found some more members and sadly one of the guys fell away from the church. After that we talked to a some of our investigators and walked with them to the chapel because we went to the temple! We had a lot of people go to be honest and it was really fun. We just took a bus to the temple, shared a little, & then came back. We were way late though! haha!

Saturday we started way early at 5:45a to go on a run with a member. That was super fun! We had a couple appointment in the morning too and found a couple news. We then went home and ate & had a very full day ahead of us. We were very booked and we had an opportunity to find another cool family. Their  daughter has an almost one year old baby and she is 15. That’s not the worst though apparently!  We got to put new baptism dates and we are really going to progress this area! We have some new ideas and the dedication to work hard so I am super excited!

Sunday was not too bad but not to many people at church. We had another super full day but wasn't anything super special!

The mission is so much fun and so fast when you work hard! 

Elder Wolfe

Week 30: My First Earthquake

Group 2/27/17

Another super fast week here on the mission! The truth it felt like yesterday I talked with home! We had a pretty good week. 

Tuesday we had splits again but I went to my area with Elder Nelson. We saw a lot of people but none of the appointments where outstanding. We taught this new family we found last week that are really cool. Their neighbors sat down to listen too. 

Wednesday was pretty laid back. I got a lot of personal study in. We visited a couple recent converts in the first part of the day. We usually try to pass by them once a week and read a chapter in the Book of Mormon with them or share a message. After that we went to another new family. They didn´t read but we told her how much this message could help her family. After her we went to a lady’s house. She wants to go to church and learn more and stuff but she is really lazy. She doesn't want to keep a lot of the commitments we leave with her. After that we helped a lady move. We just moved her bed and box frame. There is this dog that lives next to her that is so big and looks like it could kill some one in under a second! Super cool dog! It was almost jumping this 6 foot fence!

Thursday was good and we got out in the morning and visited one of our strongest investigators. She has a baptism date for the 8th of April. She is progressing really well and is learning about the Plan of Salvation right now. We went back home for lunch. Once we headed back out again we met with another one of our investigators. She is super nice but doesn´t quite get the point of our teachings and is probably not quite ready for the Gospel. We had a member leave with us and we went to the other part of our area to see a couple people. We saw members and less actives then came back around to see another awesome member family. After them we went to the reference they gave us and met a couple new people and shared them a message. We finished the night at another reference from the Bishop. They are pretty cool and read the pamphlet this time. The only bad thing was that we didn´t have water all day. 

Friday was fun. We first started the day off with a nice run. I went with Elder Solis from Mexico and we have done this run twice now. It is on this dirt road in the country part of our area and is about 5-6 kilometers. Super fun and really gets that heart going haha! After that we got washed up with a bucket again because we don't have water then we went to our district meeting. This is when all the missionaries in a certain area meet together to talk about how we can do better and what we need to do. After that was lunch and we just went and ate some crap. We then saw one of our pregnant investigators. She doesn´t feel to great but wants to learn. The plan is to teach her all the lessons in this time while she is always at the house then once she can walk to church we will see if she would like to take the step of baptism. After her we went and saw an old investigator we dropped about two weeks ago. They are good and want us to pass by again haha. We then went to another new investigators house and he knows a lot about the Bible but doesn´t go to a church. He was very open and liked what we taught and I think he will progress. We then went to one of our awesome family investigators, then another family near by that have family in the church but don't want to convert quite yet but we always keep in contact. After that we went to the church to teach our class. Not many people came this week. Pretty fun day in general though!

Saturday we went and played soccer and basketball at the church. That is always super fun and a couple members came. After that we went to the house to study and eat! The rest of the day was fun and I went with Elder Nelson again. We went to a less active then to a investigator family. Both are doing alright but not the best. We taught a really good lesson together that really grabbed their attention. They were asked question and realized a lot of things that weren´t quite the same in their lives. After that we had two of our appointments fall through and so we contacted for about 2 hours and found no one good. We then heard word about a baptism at our chapel so we got as many of my investigators and we took them to the chapel to see. I got six to come! After that we watched the restoration video with one of our investigators. Super cool day and got some serious work done! Super fun to see the light of these people change when they start to have the Gospel of Jesus Christ in their lives. 

We got the call today of who goes where and stuff. Elder Pinto my companion is going to be district leader in Las Caobas Buenas Aires. He will be in the same Zone as Elder Pearson. I will be receiving another Honduran who is from the same group as Elder Pinto. We don't know much about him but he does play basketball! It was fun being with Elder Pinto and interested what the future holds for me.

Sunday we went to church and that was fun. We then came home and took a cat nap then headed out to say bye to all the people for Elder Pinto. Its kind of fun because we see our favorite people. We played a little dominos and also got fed a dinner at our Bishop’s house. When we where eating we felt an earthquake. It was the first one I have ever felt and it was pretty strong! It rocked my chair quite a bit! You experience a lot of things on the mission! 

That was my fast week! Work is progressing bit by bit and I am learning more every day! I will never be the same person I was before the mission. The mission makes you who God wanted us to be! 

Elder Wolfe

Jeff cooks most of the meals for all 4 Elders.

 An investigator family

 More investigators, they're tiny!

A member family

Week 29: Bucket showers, no water for 5 days, & taxi drivers with machetes.

Group Message 2-20-17

Another really fast week here on the mission! We are heading into week 6 in this transfer already! It was a pretty good week in general too. We started it off great with an awesome P'DAY.

Tuesday was awesome because we got our money. We went and bought our food. We shop at a big groceries store like Fred Meyers. It is some french store that is pretty cool with good prices. I always buy the cereal that mom never buys us kids.  Lets just say that my breakfasts have been pretty good these past 6 months. After that we had house splits. I went with Elder Nelson, another American. We had a pretty good time and we had a member with us so we didn’t get to speak much English sadly. It was cool to see his area. A little more country then mine.

Wednesday started off rough because we had to go back to immigration. I went about 8 weeks ago but they couldn´t find my papers so they sent me home empty handed. I went again today and finally I got my card. Apparently I’m legal now. That took forever! We got home way late. We ate a bit then took off for the streets. We found a new family that is really cool. They are referrals from a member. We also found another even cooler family! They are a entire family of 6! All age of baptism and they seem very interested. The dad really wants to learn more! The only sucky thing is that we ran out of water so we go to the room and take other peoples water.

Thursday was a good day. In the morning we got to go visit one of our more progressing investigators. She is doing great and we got to talk with her mom too. We had a couple appointments fall through so we saw a couple less actives. We then took off to the stake center to have interviews with the president of my mission. That was nice and I received  some good advice. After we found another new investigator and then went to a recent converts that is going to teach me how to cook something new. We came home to no water still so we have been taking bucket showers.

Fridays are always pretty good. We started the day off with a good district meeting. I got to share a message on the importance of members. After we went home and made some lunch. Got a little more studying in too. Our first two appointments fell through so we got some real nice contacting time in and found a couple new investigators. We also set a baptism date with one of our investigators! She knows the church is true now but it will be hard getting her to church because of her job. We will keep praying though! We then went to the church to teach our class (how members can be missionaries). It went well and we brought little candies for the members to participate. Worked real nice. After that we had a meeting with the leadership. We came home to no water still so another bucket shower!

Saturdays are also always awesome. We play a little ball in the morning with some of the members. We went to the stake center and our taxi drive had some problems with his boss and they tracked us down and stopped him and he, my taxi driver, was super mad and pulled a machete on the guy and was about to go ham (crazy) haha! Pretty funny! He was so mad and was driving like idiot haha! After that we went home and went to someone’s house to do service. We scraped their walls so they could repaint. Pretty dirty after that.  We came home to our house with out water for the 4th day. We had to go to the first floor with a little bucket and grab water because all the tanks on the roof ran out of water. Makes you take unlimited tap water for granted. Let alone tap water you can drink! (Referring to the states.) All the appointments where going great that day too! We set another baptism date with one of our investigators! Seeing some good progress here!

Sunday was awesome! We went to an investigators house and picked up a whole family and went to church! We had a lot of investigators in church today! The topics where pretty good too! Solid time at church and after we even had someone feed us lunch!  We went and visited one of the awesome families that we met this week! They read a bit of what we left with them and taught another really good lesson! They are very accepting and we are going to finish the restoration next lesson already! Talked with another family we found today that are pretty cool but let see what happens with them! We have found about 4 really good families lately! Super fun and we ended the night at another full family we found the week before! They fed us too! Super fun day! We came home to water finally! Very needed!

This week was awesome in general aside from the water problem! The work is progressing and I home we can help even more people this next week!

Elder Wolfe

Week 28: Opposition in all things!

Group 2-13-17

Well another week down here on the mission! It was pretty fast to be honest but not the fastest.

Monday was fun because we went and played soccer with the zone. I love soccer so much I forgot how much fun it was. We played that for like 4 hours then we went and ate Chinese food. We went home and emailed you guys.

Tuesday was really special because we got to have a zone conference with another zone. It was mainly about the schedule change. I like it a lot and it is going to be a lot less stressful. They also taught us a couple things like always but that was the heart of it. After we just went to see a couple because the conference took pretty much all day.

Wednesday was a really good day. We got some serious work done. We saw a couple people then we met up with two members. We got to do divisions and I went with our ward mission leader. The first appointment I had with him sucked big time. There where these two people that all they wanted to do was content. The were very dumb people and their reasoning was so stupid. We would teach something so clearly and they would just not understand.  It wasn´t my Spanish either. I was getting really fired up because they where just super rude and so not open to learn. They think that their church was the first church and we explain how it couldn´t be because the church of Jesus Christ was not established the way theirs was. I tried my best and kept my cool as much as I could. After that we went to a investigator that doesn´t know a whole lot about religion and wants to so that made me feel good again. Finished the night with a nice meal!

Thursday started off pretty frustrating. We had a appointment with one of our investigators that was progressing pretty well. She said she always felt good when she was around us and likes what we teach. She wants to keep learning but she is scared of the people in her church and changing would not be good in that sense. We talked to her the other night and we told her she has her agency and if you feel good about something you should pursue it then set another appointment. Her friend from her church was at this appointment. She just starts going off about how she doesn´t need another church and how our church is wrong because we have Prophets and Apostles. We tell her that is the way Jesus Christ made his church and told her that God and Christ don´t change but she still didn´t understand. In the end the investigator still liked us and our teachings and was going to continue praying to know the truth. We gave her our number to call when she gets the answer but it was just annoying that her friend was there and started talking in her behalf. The rest of the day was alright. We had some good appointments but nothing crazy.

Friday was alright. We didn´t have district meeting so we where supposed to leave. Someone didn´t want to so I got about 3 hours of personal study in that day. I really like it, not going to lie. I am reading Jesus the Christ. Very good book! Also I am reading the teachings of Prophet Gordon B. Hinckley. I am also reading all of the general conference talks! So awesome that we can have all these word from Prophets and Apostles today! The work was pretty good! We saw a couple people and then we are teaching a bunch of members how to be missionaries. After we had a meeting so we only got to work about half of the day. Wasn´t too bad in the end though.

Saturday was pretty good because we played some hard core ball in the morning! You guys can´t believe how much I sweat! When it is really humid and 80 degrees I just get soaked in my own sweat! It is good in the since that I am burning all the fat off! After that we had a appointment in the morning with a lady we contacted a couple days earlier. She is actually really cool and we taught her and she was really open to it and even did some of the additional study in the pamphlet! At the end she asked how can she know what we do and see the way we run thing. Super cool when people ask that and we told her that attending church is a good first step haha! It was a awesome start to our day. We then went and saw some less actives to remind them about the church on Sunday. We had another appointment with a recent contact and we asked to talk to her dad and he is a hard core member of another church and just gave us a huge lecture of stuff we already new and I was so sick of listening to people like him. This week we have met with about 5 people like that and I just get so fired up and it takes a lot for me to keep my cool but I did it. We saw a couple other people and then called it a day!

Sunday was alright. It was pretty chill and we had a couple investigators in church at least. After church we just met with a couple people. Sundays are usually pretty hard to teach here for some reason. People are usually with their family and eating.

Today was great so far! We went and played basketball and soccer with another zone. A lot of fun and I got to play some fun basketball with Elder Pearson. I am super tired now! We also got all of our hairs cut (not just “a” hair cut) then made a pathetic lunch because I am to lazy right now to make a nice healthy one. 

Overall it was a fun week! Pretty fast and things are slowly improving! My testimony is growing everyday and I am loving the mission! Yea there a lot of things that I miss about home but they can´t bring the same happiness this can!

Elder Wolfe

Week 27: 6 Month Mark!

Group 2'6'2017

Well another week down here on the mission and also another month! I have now completed 6 months of my mission! It is going by so fast I cant believe it! I didn´t even remember until I was reading during personal study then checked the time and saw the date. It was quite the surprise haha! It is so weird to think that it has already been half a year. I have already seen a big change in myself and I can´t imagine what I will be in another year and a half!

This week was super fast again and was pretty good in general! We got a lot of things done in the house here and we started up a new activity at the church. We also found some really good new investigators!

To start off let’s talk about last P-Day. We we woke up at 5:15a in the morning listening to a church right next to our house singing with massive 3 foot tall speakers. It was not the way I wanted to start my P-Day but oh well. None of us could go back to sleep so we just got up and went to play basketball. We played until about 9a then went to go pull out our money for the next two weeks. That was very needed haha! We then went to the groceries store and bought our food. After that we came back to the house and we all took a fat nap. Elder Nelson from Wyoming and I fixed some of the light switches and got some bulbs. We also fixed the hose under the sink that has been broken for over six months apparently. The other thing we fixed, the best we could, was the washing machine thing. It wasn´t holding water because the shut off valve was full of food but the rubber seal is broken too. At least know we can fill it all the way.  We just always have to keep putting water in it. After, we went and emailed home. It sucked because a little over half way through the power went out and the back up batteries were broken. Pretty productive P-Day though.

Tuesday was pretty good because we had some really good first appointments. We have an older lady that is progressing a lot. We also have two younger girls that are keeping there commitments and are also progressing very well. We will probably put baptism dates with them this week. Our ward mission leader left with us after a bit & I left with another member. If we have two worthy priesthood holder we can do divisions so that’s what we did for the night. All of my appointments fell through but we got to talk to a couple people. I sat in on his seminary class for about 10 minuets waiting for him to finish. That was fun! It was a pretty good day in general!

Wednesday was a normal day of missionary work. The best part was that we found this very cool investigator and she has three kids. She wants to change and it is going to take a lot but if she is willing to, like she says, she is going to be an awesome covert.

Thursday wasn´t to good. We started the day off in a house of two very hardcore Pentecostal who´s knowledge of the church is from someone who wrote a description of every church and it is not accurate. They just wanted to contend and I just didn´t feel good after that lesson because they are so hard of heart and so mistaken. All of our appointments fell through after that. Just part of the mission though.

(It's a mission traditional in many missions to burn a tie at your 6 month mark.  There is another Elder in his house that came out with Jeff, so they both burned a tie. They wrote 6 months or "meses" on the tie.)

Friday was amazing. Mainly because I hit six months! The lessons we did have where really good and we got to do splits again with some of the members. We met up at the church because we started a new activity to train the members how to be better missionaries in the Lord’s work. It is a 8 week course and it is to help them not be as scared and how to be effective. That night we burned ties and partied hard with our Coca'Cola.

Saturday was also good! In the morning we played basketball with some members! That of course was a blast! We had a member leave with us all day and we visited a lot of people! We found one new guy that was really cool and he doesn´t have much of a relation with God but wants too. He didn´t know how to pray so we taught him. He is 40 years old and as far as we know this guys has never talked to God. Moments like this are really cool because when they do the prayer in front of you, it is just so cool to see and feel one of Gods sons or daughters talk with Him for the first time!

Sunday was great because we had an entire less active family to church. The parents haven´t been to church since 2004 and they are finally coming back! They walked in with all 4 of their kids! We also got to leave with Bishop and the his first counselor.  We had some solid new references and it was a solid day in general!

The mission is flying by and I am loving it! I am learning so much and there isn´t anything better to do with our time then serve the Lord. We are here because of him so we might as well show our thanks and do our part haha!

Elder Wolfe