Dear family and friends,

 

Happy thanksgiving last week! It sounds like you all had a pretty nice thanksgiving, a lot of you went down there to the yellow house and i bet that sure was a lot of fun. Also congrats to Jaine and Paige on the mission calls that is way exciting! Are they going to be going Spanish or English? Wow that is crazy how many people are going on there missions right now, the field is white and it is going to receive a lot more harvesters. In my mission a lone we have almost 200 missionaries here but in 2 or 3 more transfer we are supposed to have 250 missionaries in our mission so the number will increase a lot. Well as for me this week has been super awesome, I got transferred and I am in Los Alcarizos it is back in the capital. I am with Elder Von Gunten and he is a super cool kid from West Jordan Utah, I am his 2nd comp in the mission so it has been pretty fun so far this last week and i feel like we will have a pretty successful transfer and that we are going to work hard. So I got here and we are have basically been opening up a new area that no missionaries have been before and we have been finding a lot of cool people out there that haven't heard about the gospel before and they have been very accepting to the message. We found one family that when we got to their house they all came and sat down and we taught them the Restoration and we told them that they needed to pray to find out if it  was true. Well we passed by a couple of days later and the mom had read the pamphlet and had prayed for the last 3 nights asking God to give her an answer about our message. She says that she isn't sure yet if she has received an answer but we told her that she just needs to keep praying and that God will give her the answer so she is really cool. And we also had another lady named Cindy that agreed to a date of baptism so we are pretty excited about her and I think she really will keep progressing. There is also another couple named Ishmeal and Dulce the wife is super cool and she told us that she prayed and recieved a great feeling even goosebumps after. I asked if she believes that the church is true and if Joseph Smith was a prophet and she said yes and I asked her if she wants to get baptized and she said yes but that she needs to change a lot of things in here life and that she wants to be sure before she makes the covenant. I told her that if she has the desire to change than that is more important than anything. I told her that she is completely free to choose who she wants to become and that if she has the desire to change than she is more than capable of doing it. And that what determines who she is doesn't depend on things that happen or have happened to here but what determines here is how she decides to react to certain situations and how she acts, that behavior speaks a lot louder than words. So I hope that she starts changing and I know that spirit will have that affect on her heart, we will see what happens.  So really we are just getting the ball started here and i know it will be rolling here soon. Also, this thanksgiving I actually ate turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, and pie. We live in a 4 man house and they had been planning on cooking a thanksgiving dinner so I got there and it was all planned out and I just helped pitch in on the money and then ate a pretty awesome dinner. It definitely doesn't match up to a Montgomery family thanksgiving party but it was pretty good. I took pictures of it I will send them to you all next week. Anyways this week has been a great week just learning a little bit more everyday and trying to get a little better each day, the field is white here in Los Alcarizos and we are going to start harvesting it. I love you all and I hope you have a good week.

 

Love Elder Wadman