Gringos

Howdy there my friends! Hot week here in Mexico and it is gonna stay that way for a while. Legit I about died Tuesday night when the AC didn't work and all the power was out. It was 90 degrees and humid as crap, but I made it and am living. I also got a new companion this week! His name is Elder Gardner and he is from Utah. He went to Westlake and is a funny guy. He is 2 transfers behind me in the mission. 

I was honestly a little nervous to get an American companion because of the language but it turns out I actually can speak Spanish and we had a pretty successful week. We found a good number of people to teach and I am actually super proud of how well we are working. The power of prayer is real and the gift of tongues is amazing! 

We had solid lessons with everyone on date and on the 22nd (Thursday) we have the baptism of Isai! I am SO pumped for him! He is just as excited and it is gonna be such a fun day. It's also his birthday so after we are gonna have a fiesta. With the other people on date we had some solid lessons and they are supposed to get baptized this next week. 

We had a cool lesson with a family on Saturday. Jaime is the dad, his daughter Melisa, and the nephew Cristian. Jaime and Melisa had a baptism date before the pandemic and it fell through. Since then they've been tough to put back on date. We taught them about real intent, shoutout Matt Riggs for teaching me about that. After sharing my thoughts with them the dad said he loved my thoughts and they were special... but he didn't accept the baptism date and so we told him to pray with real intent and see what happens. 

We had Zone Conference and I got to see my best friend after like 14 months of not seeing him! If y'all remember Elder Montes from the first time I was in Mexico you remember how much fun we had. I learned a lot of good things that will help me with the work. 

One thing I learned this week was the importance of thanking the Lord for what we have. I learned that when the AC went out and I was hating my life haha. Since that moment I have been thanking Him for AC in all of my prayers. The point is though, we have so much stuff it's ridiculous and what we need to do is give thanks! 

Anyways, hope y'all are doing well. Stay sweet. Love you all!

Elder Wilde