Exchanges

Hey everybody I hope you all had an amazing Thanksgiving and a great week. This week was a good one and a pretty fast one. We had 2 exchanges this week so I feel like that sped things up. 

First things first exchanges. For those of you who don't know what an exchange is, it is when I go with another missionary and his comp goes with my comp. We had 2 this week and for both of them I was the one who stayed and led my area. It was a good experience and I grew a ton as you could imagine. For one of the Exchanges it was me and Elder Lofthouse. He has the same amount of time as me on the mission so it was a great experience to grow. I truly felt the gift of tongues and interpretation of tongues too. We were able to teach a couple lessons and find a few people and it was so fun. My Spanish grew so much from just that one day. 

One of our investigators name is Renaldo. He is a super cool dude and is progressing but never comes to church. Guess what.. HE CAME! We were sitting in 2nd hour and he still wasn't there and so I said a quick little prayer that he would be able to make it and a few minutes later nothing. I had basically given up and came to the conclusion he wouldn't come. But with about 15 mins left he walked in the door. This was a testament to me to not give up so fast on your prayers. God will always answer your prayers even though it my take a little longer than you'd like. 

We also have a family we are teaching but it is kinda a tough situation for a weird kinda funny reason. 2 of the people are interested and want to come to church and hear the gospel. The other girl just wants to talk to us and flirt cause we are white. We are about to break her heart this week when we tell her our purpose is to bring others to Christ not to the states. 

Overall the work is slowly moving. Angelica still comes to church so this week we are gonna invite her to baptism again and talk with her parents praying that they will accept it for her. Only 2 weeks left in this transfer and I really want to see her get baptized. Pray for her please and that her parents hearts can be softened. 

I say it every week but read the Book of Mormon. If you read my emails and have been seeing that but aren't reading it, Read it. This is for you. I know that book is true. I know that it WILL bring more peace into your life. It WILL make you feel happier. All you have to do is open it and start reading. Love you all so much! Have a great week!

-Elder Wilde