This week has gone pretty awesome! Taught my first actual lesson with a golden investigator, who we hope to baptize in 2 weeks! (He is in the plaid shirt in the photo) I also had my first baptism yesterday! It was amazing!
I am taking it easy, well trying to, we walk to the chapel to do splits and everytime I feel like I trip and hurt my ankle a little more, but I can feel it getting better. However, I am not taking ibuprofen...está bien! It doesn't hurt that much!
The church is in a circular form. We live about 5 minutes North East of the church, down a street called Juy Juy.
Honestly, I think Tuxtla is larger than Tucson! It is huge! And we are surrounded by mountains, if you think Tucson is surrounded, think again! I legit feel like we are in a bowl! It is green everywere! And even though we are finishing up mango season, we are still eating mangos everyday! It is really weird slurping a super juicy mango out of a hole! This is how we eat mangoes: so first, you squish it till it is all nice and goupy, then you cut a hole and slurp the pulp and juice out, then you cut a larger hole to get the pit out and eat the left overs on the pit. There are some fruits here that are so good you can even imagine!
One is called lichi, it has a brown shell and once you peel it back, there is this fruit that looks like a grape once you remove the skin! It is my favorite!
Another is called carambola, it looks weird! It looks like a star with green tips, but it is just barely sour to the point where it is perfect. I could eat it all day!!
My are is called Barrio Moctezuma, and I am in el estaca (Stake) de Tuxtla México! We took over for the sisters! My first area is white washed! There were about 7 or 8 transfers of hermanas before us! And I love teaching the classes, apparently the hermanas only taught some hymns in English lol, pero está bien! I have already taught how to introduce yourself, say a prayer, and bear your testimony in English! It is so much fun!
I forgot to tell you all! Mi obispo (Bishop) is only 31 years old! He was called when he was 29! And the secretary, is 23!!! The patriarca (Patriarch) is also in our ward, we had lunch with him yesterday! He is pretty cool. That reminds me of another thing, lunch! Lunch (comida) is the biggest meal of the day, and they have it at 2! It is really weird transferring from dinner to lunch.
One of our investigators is amazing! He really is a golden investigator! He is 31 years old, and the hermanas have taught him, but we basically have to start over though. They got about halfway through lesson 4 but he didn't know what the restoration was when we talked with him. So we taught him about faith, and it was really good. He even said "I want this gospel in my life".
I cannot express how much fun it is blessing other people's lives. I feel like one of the sons of Mosiah right now. And my companion and I both feel like we teach like Alma and Amulek! Two of the greatest missionaries in the history of the world! But it is not because of us, we are just pencils. The Lord is the hand that guides us and writes for us. It gets really easy when you figure that out. President Holland once said " You can’t do it your own way. Don’t even try. That’s part of the worry—you don’t have to do it, you can’t do it, you shouldn’t do it. Stop worrying that you have to do this. This is God’s work! He will watch you! He will answer your prayers! He has legions of angels and teams of chariots to run to your aid this very hour. He will bless you! This is His work, but you have to do it His way! That’s the contract." I love that! We are doing His work! Not ours, His! I just love that. And I can testify that this is His work. The bringing to pass of the immortality, and eternal life of man. Amazing.
I love you all! I really do!!
-Elder Wilkes
Elder Wilkes and a member friend
Elder Wilkes and Gabriel, who likes to go on splits with the Elders
Elder Wilkes with the ward mission leader
"When your Samoan friend gives you a lava lava, you take selfies!"
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