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Monday, May 8, 2017

Hello everyone!! 
This week was an amazing week! 


We found a super golden investigator in the trailer homes. We gave him a Family: A Proclamation to the World. 15 minutes later we were walking by his house and he was sitting on his porch reading it!! It was super cool. He is from Mexico just east of Mexico City. He has four kids and a wife. 

I was able to baptize my first person this Saturday! She is super awesome. She is 11 years old. Her mom was the person Elder Solis baptized when I first came into the area. The baptism was perfect. We did it on the first try! Elder Solis confirmed her a member of the church the next day. 
This past Sunday, one of our investigators, L, told us he had a dream. L was the one who we had trouble with because of his grandma. We finally got him to commit to baptism on the 20th of May about 2 weeks ago, and he asked Elder Solis to baptize him. But on Sunday, he told us he had a dream that I baptized him, and that Elder Solis wasn't at his baptism. So now he wants me to baptize him and thinks that Elder Solis is leaving the area this transfer. 

On Fast Sunday I bore my testimony on the atonement. I used Alma 7 verse 11 to help me. In it, it talks about how Christ suffered both our spiritual AND physical pains, not just spiritual. Knowing that, I know that Christ felt the pain I had in my ankle, and the spiritual hurt of going home. I know that he helped me through that tough time and that I wouldn't be here on a mission if it weren't for Him. 

Elder Solis and I went to Temple Square this morning. We went to the “real” Family History Center and the Church History Museum and Joseph Smith Memorial Building, too.

Moroni 7:33 - And Christ hath said: If ye will have faith in me ye shall have power to do whatsoever thing is expedient in me.


-Élder Wilkes

In the mountains!
Visiting the temple on P-Day
Wolf pack four

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