Skip to main content

Monday, October 30, 2017 - Eduardo!! (Eddie)

 Hello Friends and Family!! 


This week went by super fast!! I just want to let y'all know, both Elder Trincado and I are staying here. There are only two sisters from the district that are leaving, so not very many changes. Also, we have had a 3rd power outage in just this past month alone. Only one of them was scheduled, the other two were random. 

Well. There is so much to talk about! First and foremost, we went to the mutual activity in the Kamas branch, mostly because one of our investigators decided he wanted to go, also because they were doing a Fear Factor activity. The first level they had to eat cow tongue, which is actually pretty good. The second level they had to eat about a 16th of a habanero pepper, most everyone was hurting after that little guy. The third level they had to eat a raw egg. The next level after that they had to eat half of a habanero pepper, and at that point everyone was dying from the heat, mostly because they thought water would help them. The fifth level was the best one, they had to eat a live cricket. The final round they had to get as many tiny rubber bands in a cylinder filled with crickets in 30 seconds. The person with the fastest time wins. Videos below! 

We went on exchanges with our zone leaders on Friday which was pretty fun. They are pretty cool. I went with an Elder Taylor, hailing from Spokane, Washington. We basically just went around knocking on doors the whole day. It was pretty boring, but we were able to 1) get to know each other more, and 2) contact at least a few people. We also had a lesson with a part-member family which was good. We read a chapter out of the Book of Mormon Stories with them. 

We went fishing today!! It was so much fun!! This was Elder Trincado's first time fishing ever!! He didn't catch anything sadly, though it still seemed like he had some fun. We first went fishing in Rockport Reservoir which is about 10-15 minutes north of Kamas. We weren't getting a single bite there though, plus, it was pretty shallow. So we went up to Echo Reservoir, about 10 minutes north of Coalville, to go try our luck there. It was pretty cold, about 25-30 degrees, and it was windy and cloudy. It was still pretty fun. I was able to catch the 2 fish out of the three of us there (we went with our Stake High Councilor over the missionary work). They were both rainbow trout, the first one was 9 inches and the second one was 13 inches. 

On Saturday we had a superb lesson with one of our new investigators who's name is Eduardo, but everyone calls him Eddie. He is SUPER solid! When he turned 18 two weeks ago, he decided he wanted to meet with the missionaries. So one of his friends got in contact with us and we had our first lesson two Saturdays ago. I thought it went pretty well, so we set up another appointment for this past Saturday. During the lesson, the Spirit told me to extend the baptismal invitation, so I did. To our surprise, he said yes!! He then told us that he had been praying about it and felt like it is what he should do!! Elder Trincado and I were so excited! So now we will be having one baptism this coming Saturday, and then his baptism on the following Saturday, November the 11th. Can't wait!! 

Love y'all!! 
-Élder Wilkes







Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

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: ...
Post a Comment
Read more

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 ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Thursday, June 8, 2017

Hello everyone!  This week was pretty good and super long! First off, the weather up here is starting to remind me of Tucson!! I love it, it is only averaging above 90 degrees right now though. I keep trying to roll down the windows but Elder Gonzalez is used to 75-80 degree summers lol. We were actually tracting one time at some condos/apartments and an English sister who lives there offered us some cold water. He said no but I told her to get him one anyways and I told him when she went away that he would thank me in an hour. Sure enough, when we got back to the car an hour and a half later he said, "I am super thirsty." hahahaha it was very funny, and yes he did thank me ;)  We received a super solid referral this week! E___ and her family, from Columbia. They are super awesome. Her husband is a member so we just need to baptize her. She loves her family, most importantly has a strong love for her kids, which is perfect when teaching how families can be together f...
Post a Comment
Read more