Last weeks pday trip to the waterfalls! Super fun!!!
Any way back to the week! It was a solid week of work for sure!! there was a lot of success in finding and serving! I have been drained though... lots and lots of walking in the heat! but it is soo good! we decided on Halloween to go down this different street that we never went on before and guess what happened?!? we found a new investigator that is golden.... right now!!!! she told us to come in right away (that doesn't happen here, haha) and we had a great great great lesson with her, the spirit was there and she understood and wanted more!! elder birtcher was with us that day cause elder chipman went to Arequipa for his going home training, so he was teaching the lady with us and WOW!! i learned a ton from him!! anyway, we taught her and set up another appointment and so now we gotta help her gain a testimony!!
So funny story actually, so Birtcher, Boyd and I were knocking doors and birtcher was like, "ask the next person to be baptized first!" of course i said "ok!" haha so the next door we knocked at a lady came to the door and i was like "hello we are here to baptized you and help you come to christ!" she looked at me and smiled and said "oh well, my family is doing really good right now but the people next door have a lot of problems you should help them out!" hahahahahaha i was like ok... thanks! it was sooo funny!! Her response was great and she took it so well!!
So we celebrated halloween at the Zone Leaders pensions house!! we made tacos and carved squash! it was a blast!! I loved it a ton! i sent pictures of the carving and cooking! birtcher and i carved them all! it was a ton of fun and we also taught thier pensioin how to carve cause they dont do it here! also they dont know what tacos or burritos are....... that is the saddest thing i have ever heard!! they are deprived, not only the gospel but of good food!!!! gosh its sad... we will live i think! haha
Also there was a HUGE festival for the DAY OF THE DEAD on saturday! it is when all south america goes and visits graves on the same day! but i still think it is just a reason to have a huge party, sell things, and get drunk hahah! but we took it as an oppotunity as a zone to pass out pamphlets! we passed out pamphlets and then when it got dark we shined shoes until 8:30 pm for free!! we would like chase people around and stop them just to shine their shoes!! it was a blast!! Just imagine 20 missionaries shining shoes at one time! it was sick! people loved it!
One more funny story! while we were shining shoes, a guy came up and kicked our shine stuff away, then picked it up and ran away with it!! birtcher looked at me and was like "go get it!" haha so i started after him and i found him at the top of these stairs where he had put the shine on top of a statue(not high). i walked up to him and he rubbed his finger in the polish and then rubbed it all over my shirt, and ran off! i was like ok... so i grabbed it and went back and continued shining shoes]! haha i know i am protected by my savior and i know not everyone likes us, but thats ok with me! i am here to serve not to HATE! so i love that guy:) he is just a little off the path! but ya so that was funny!!
i bought a dart gun and so did elder cluff and we have been having a blast with those haha!! they are just little crappy guns from like the fair at home, but so fun!
HUGE NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WE HAVE A BAPTISMAL DATE!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHH our investigator Celeste set a date with us for December 13!!! gosh we were sooo happy!! we gave her a reading challenge of doing a reading activity in 90 days and she was like "oh, i can do that in 30 days"!!!! hahah wow she is awesome! I love the feeling i have when helping people in this work!! the gospel is true and i know that with every fiber of my being! nothing will turn me from my testimony and nothing will ever stop me from spreading the wonderful things the lord has for us!!
Scripture of the week doctrine and covenants 103:36, read it..... It's awesome!
Pastery or treat of the week is PANATONE! it is like sweet bread ( but not that sweet ) and has like fruitsnack chunks... i dont know how to explain it other than fruit cake that everyone hates in the states but they eat it alllllll the time here, especially in the months around christmas!! Boyd told me i will be eating it a lot in the next couple months!
i love all of you soo much!! you all have helped me and i would like to thank everyone! i love my momma, my dad, tyler (stud), turner (champ), and allie (princess)! love you guys more than you could ever imagine!!!! thank you soo much..... well thats all for this week!!
Con Mucho Amor
Elder Wagner
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