Monday, July 18, 2016

Hello everyone!

This week has been a little uneventful, but! I can say that my ankle is doing a lot better! I am walking around now, not more than 4 blocks but that is a start! I should be heading to a new area next week!! Thank you so much for all your prayers and support y'all have given me! I have really felt all the love from you guys.

As for my uh...other symptoms, I had two tests done; one with some of my blood, and the other with some of my uh...poop. We got the results back and we were shocked with what was there! Before I tell you what the results were, I am going to start by saying don't worry, I am alright, and doing so much better! I had 3 different bacterias...Tífico "O", Paratífico "A", and Proteus OX-19. But I am much better now and am on a lot of different medicines, I will show a picture of all the ones I am taking.

On the other bright side, we had another baptism this week! He name is also Juan Carlos. He is the golden investigator that I had that one lesson with. When he bore his testimony after the ordinance, it left all of us in shock. It was one of the strongest testimonies of the Gospel I have ever heard. I got the goosies during it. I simply can't repeat it too, it was one of those moments that you remember forever. I got the feeling that I will have a lot of those here on the mission.

I made German Pancakes here for those at the office! They turned out pretty nice, especially for my first time in making them! Everyone loved them, though we didn't have syrup to go with it so we just used some old honey. It actually turned out pretty tasty :) I will only have opportunities to cook oven foods in the offices though, because this is the only place that has an oven in the mission. But that's okay! I can make other things.

Love you all!!

Moroni 7:33

-Élder Wilkes

President George posted this picture on Facebook. It was a wonderful surprise!

This is Elder Wilkes with Elder de Jesus baking brownies.

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Monday, June 27, 2016

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: ...

Thursday, March 2, 2017

P-Day is Thursday this week because we are going to the temple that day, so P-Day was moved. Wow! This week was insane!! This will probably be my biggest email ever. As you all already know, we had transfers and we knew I was leaving but didn't know where. Monday night we found out I will be going to the Murray 2nd Ward! And my new companion will be Élder Solis! He was born and raised in Miami Florida, but his parents are from Guatemala. His first language is Spanish, and he just finished his training before I came so he has about 3 and a half months in the mission. He is awesome, loves swimming and volleyball, plus he is also a professional dancer. There are also sisters in the ward now as well because the area is huge. What stinks is that they are on bikes and we are in a car because of my ankle. I would love to drive them places if I could, but I can't. They are awesome though! Their names are Hermana Oteo who is from San Diego, but her parents are from Mexico. She ...

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