Elder Wagner Arequipa, Peru : Week 51

well what a week! hard work and blessings!! we worked hard all week and fasted a ton! it was a great week and you know what happened? We were blessed for it!!! we are teaching a couple that is not married and we talked about marriage, we challenged them to get hitched and they accepted! and with out a doubt they accepted to be baptized the same day!! it was amazing! we have been working sooooo hard and too see the Hand of the Lord work like that is amazing!! We are super happy!

In my reading this week, i was reading in the book of mormon and i found something really cool! when Jesus went back to the heavens, he came down again to find his disciples preaching! this made him super happy! he told everyone to kneel and pray and he went up and prayed to the Father and when he came back they were still praying, and this made him ever more happy and it says that "the smile of his face was upon them," honestly i dont think i have ever read a scripture that said that He smiled until today! it was amazing. and if you think its a comparison to when He was in the Garden of Gethsemane because when he went to suffer the apostles slept. this made him really sad, but in this story they stayed stong and faithful and that made him smile! could you imagine His smile? i cant, but i think it would be the most perfect, full of love smile then any other I've ever seen!!!

we have to do what he wants, so that one day we can see that glorious smile! that is a great motivation for me! and i hope that it helps all of you! a great big smile from YOUR Savior would be the best blessing ever to happen!

(this story is found in 3 nephi 19)

Today for pday we are going to play football and soccer! its gonna be fun with all the zone leaders and assistants!

we did a ward activity that the whole ward went and cleaned the church! it was awesome.....

Some of the cleaning crew!!!!

This is my pension she is the best (I guess I say that about all my pensions :)! They live about 3 blocks away, not too far! she is soo sweet and her husband lived in the states for a while! but like 25 years a go so he doesn't speak much English! haha but its funny cause he has his costco card and stuff like that so we talk all the time about America!

(My awesome pension)