Week 11 Samegua

HELLOOOO EVERYBODDDYYY!!! Whats going on back in the states, i would love to hear?!  my week has been pretty bland honestly...  We have had alright success with the members!!  I want to remind everyone to never forget that there is always 3 people right with you the whole way, God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost! this week i was struggling with the fact that i thought couldn't feel the spirit at all..... i broke down crying and couldn't figure out why i wasn't having any huge experiences or golden investigators or really any success..... i felt sooo lost.... i didn't know what else to do, but to pray... and again nothing..... but what i was really doing was blinding myself! i was covering my own eyes with a desire to have some huge experience! i didn't look at the small things! I figured out i AM touching people!! my mission president told me, the spirit can be with you anywhere as long as you are listening and that i shouldn't be looking for some huge thing cause it probably won't come!  so i have been focusing on the little things, smiling, saying hi, baring my simple testimony, and simply loving everyone no matter how hard it is! this is the basics of the gospel! the simple small things that build our foundation and relationship with our Lord and Savior!! 

One thing we have had is a rescue!! We have been working with a lady that has been a less active for a long time, and have reactivated her!! she had her interview with the bishop and has been at church every week and she is doing really well!! now we are working at getting her mom back at church!! but ya sooo that makes us really happy, just to help her out and bring her back to the light and help her be happier!! 

Now we have a new investigator that is progressing soooo well! she is soo nice and has even asked when she could be baptized!! we were like ummm we will get back to you on that! haha but she needs to gain a testimony first because we want people to be truly converted, prior to baptism! so we are still working with her and helping her gain a great testimony!! I"m excited....she is awesome! 

Also, we have a guy named Pedro who we are working with, he is a less active member and he hasn't had the sacrament in 4 years!!!! it is crazy because he wants to be good, so badly!! he is having a really hard time in his life right now... health problems, dad died and mom in an old folks home.. its sad.. but he wants an interview with the bishop and wants to come to sacrament meeting again! but if he can't come he wants us to bring the sacrament to him, either way its good!!  you can see the desire in him like i have never seen before! it really is beautiful to watch someone want to have change so bad and come back to the truth.  He knows these things will bring him closer to the Savior Jesus Christ!! it is amazing!

We also have another investigator who is super cool! she wants to know the truth!  she asks so many inspired questions, not just the ones to get us out of her house!  she is really new to the gospel,  but we are excited to work with her and pray for her progression!

On Saturday we got to do a pretty sweet service project! we went to a less actives house and literally cleaned the whole back of her house! it isn't really a yard... it is just a little cement patio and then dirt and rocks! we cleaned the dirt of all the chicken and rabbit poop then we swept the cement and cleaned the chicken pen! we moved rocks and garbage and metal and we made her dirt look way nicer! :) for reals though! the reason we did it is because she said she couldn't come to conference because she had chores, so we showed up and did them all for her! it worked good though and she came to conference!!

We had a super solid stake conference this week! Elder Uceda of the first Quorum of the 70 was here! he is an amazing speaker!! he is alot like elder holland when he talks, but in spanish haha! he is a really amazing man and he taught us to change our ways of not going for baptisms but for conversions! it is soo amazing !! so we are focusing a lot more on strengthening the less active and recent converts, because they need to be ones with a strong foundation for our NEW converts when we baptize them!  He also talked alot about keeping the Sabbath day holy!  Around here it is normal to go buy a drink and dinner for the family on Sunday, just cause it is what everyone has always done! So he burned that in their hearts and how important it is to keep the Sabbath day holy!  So now our pension isn't buying anything on Sundays either, so that is good. 

We are going to a waterfall today for pday!  it is going to be sooo sweet! i will send a bunch of pictures of it next week for sure don't worry! i am pumped for the hike and then a bon fire on the roof of the zone leaders house!! it is going to be a great day for sure!!!

Treat/pastery of the week! Mint Casino cookies!! holy mooollyy!!! they are sooo good!! they taste like chocolate chip mint ice cream!! it reminds me of my momma because that's her favorite ice cream! So every time i eat them i think of you momma:) but ya soo yummy!!

Elder Cluff and i are singing for Christmas program! We are doing a silent night number haha! it is going to be legit!

oh ya, my new favorite scripture is Doctrine and Covenants 122:7!  i encourage everyone to look it up, read it and apply it to your life! 

love all of you!!! hope you have a wonderful week!! 

Con Amor 

Elder Wagner