Photos from Walter Correa Silva

Coming in hot!

Well it´s been an amazing week! We have a crazy month ahead of us. So that you all know next week I´ll be writing on Tuesday! We´re going to the temple!!!I can´t believe how fast time goes, and we´re not going to wait a second!

With the familia Rojas we´ve been fighting for them to read. They´re coming to church every week and they´re seeing more and more miracles. The father looked at us at one point and began to ask questions such as, why doesn´t the church mention mary? Why don´t woman hold the priesthood? We responded with the book of mormon in 1 nephi 11 for mary and we explained the priesthood later. After sharing that experience from the book of mormon I saw a change in him. The next time we went, he answered the door and told us, well my wife and i have been talking a lot thinking about you two and the changes in our lives, and we think we need to read the book of mormn more! We havn´t put in all of our efforts and we want to do better!!! From tommorrow on we promise to read more and search for an answer to know if the church is true. I was so happy to see that change and I thought of how much the Lord can help us grow. And we can help others grow, but only if we love them. If the people feel that we are interested in their lives and questions, they will progress more! It was a huge miracle!

And we knocked on a door to find a family of adventists... Haha, we had an intense lesson testifying of Joseph Smith and the book of mormon. It was pretty intense. They wanted to convert us and we wanted to help them. They told us at one point, we´ll convert you or you´ll convert us! Haha, so we´ll see what happens. We´re excited and we think some big miracles are coming up! I love you all so much and I hope you all have a great week! 

Elder Wynn

It takes a village!

I´m 20 years old...wow, that´s wierd. Haha, well, I have recieved so much love and support today that I´m not sure what to do. As I´ve been writing a lot of these, I´ve had a lot of amazing memories from before the mission. And I justed wanted to say thank you to all of you!!! It´s a famous saying that it take a village to raise a child and I feel like I definitly needed that! Reading your emails, I´ve felt like I´m writing a lot of moms, dads, brothers and sisters and each one of you has taught me so much. Thank you all for you love prayrs, and for everything you´ve done to make me who I am today! I love you all. And I feel like you´re all family! THank you!!!

Well, I entered into my last change... I´m staying here!!!! :) I´ll finish the mission in guadalupe and I´ll have the oppurtunity to finish with Eldre Angulo D´León! It´s a bit wierd, I don´t feel like the adventure could come to an end. And I am still super imperfect, but I´m so grateful for who God has made me!!! The mission is the best exprience that has ever passed my life. 

This week maribel was baptized and conifirmed member of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints! :) She is 7 months pregnant so we had to fill the baptizmal found with boiling water from the stove top to try and heat everything up!!! It was an amazing time, and she bore a beautiful testimony. They are pretty excited for the temple in a year. I´m so sure that God does everything, and we just watch. It´s so amazing!

We also had an activity were every return missionary put on their nametag and we had a devotional. It was the most amazing fireside I´ve seen. We have been filming their storis for the last few weeks. And the night befor the activity we weren´t able to find a man named Juan Sanchez to share some stories. He´s currently less active. and doesn´t have much comunication. But out of nowhere Presidente Licera Called us and told us, I´ve got em here! Come running!!! We went and sure enough the two were there talking about Juan´s mission. We explained the intrview and it was really hard at first for him to talk, but he picked up the rythm and told us some amazing stories. The next day he came to church and whn he came to the fireside, he bore a powerful testimony! He said that he had dreamed of being in the church, and that it was time to change his life and come home! A wonderful week.

I love you all so much, and I hope that you are all doing great. I really know that God has a plan, and he always find a way for everything to work out. I hope you all have a great week!!!

Elder Wynn

Photos from Walter Correa Silva

What are you waiting for?

Something amazing I guess ;) Hello hello! Family and friends and neighbors, and everyone. Haha, Well this has been a really intense week with some amazing experiences. So here we GO!!!

First we were walking through a park here in our area and I saw a man that his eyes were red from crying. We sat down by him and we asked if there was anything we could do. He didn´t say much, until we began to talk about his family and he told us that his son, had passed a wicked hard experience. He had recently joined a church, that didn´t let him play his instruments. (His son plays baritone and trombone, and studied in the best university in Lima for mucisians) His father loves hearing him play and sees that this church has been changing his son but not for the better. We said that we might be able to help and he began to smile and talk more and more, and then came the surprise... He told us, A few months ago I saw three books in the trash. I went and picked them up and I began to read one with a blue cover. I think the book is from your church! I love it!!! I´m reading in NEFI. Haha, out of nowhere we began to talk about the story and he told us it brought peace to his life!!!

Second, We were pretty sad when Maribel told us this week that she was confused and wasn´t going to be baptized. We had tried everything, and we felt pretty horrible. But after church we were talking with president Licera, and what do you know he had taken maribel and her husband to dinner the night before, with his wife and the first councilor and his wife! They talked about baptizm got all of their doubts straightened out, and put a baptismal date for this sunday!!! It was something so so huge! She will be baptized this sunday exactaly a year after her husband was baptized. It´s a miracle!!!

President Licera asked for us to use our filming skills, and we have interviewed a lot of return missionaries taking videos of them talking about their experiences. The Elder´s quorm president, Carlos Zamora told us, that walking through the streets one day a carpinter came up to him and said, why don´t you talk with me? I want to learn! So they began to teach him and the left him 2 nephi 31... They came back and the man began to cry and testify to them, ´If Christ being perfect needed to be baptized, how much greater it is that I have need to be baptized! I know the book of mormon is ture´. He was baptized with his all of his children and his wife. He has been a branch president and all of his children have served missions and the whole family is sealed in the temple!!! I hope to get all these videos on a USB to be able to show everyone these amazing experiences, there are a lot!!!

It´s been amazing, Familia Rojas is progressing a lot and they have began to come to church and read the book of mormon it looks like it´ll be just a matter of time! I know that this really is the true church and that the mission is the best thing that can happen to any person. I know that the book of mormon is true and I know that we can all be happy in a world where it´s hard to do so. I love all of you so much!!!

Elder Wynn

Wow...

Well this week was a bit crazy. We had a huge activity contacting with the branch in the middle of town, and we got up to 30 members some days!!! it was amazing to see fathers and sons, mothers and daughters and friends sharing their testimonies. It was a bit stressful organizing everything, but I`m feeling better now. Haha, ;) It`s amazing what God can do for us. I`ve had some times when I havn`t known what to do and I`ve been totally lost. But God carried this activity. And to be honest, we didn`t have the result that we wanted, but it looks like we`ll be having different results in the future. We`ll be seeing about it :)

Had an interchange with Elder Nuñez which was wierd being with him again. We started the first lesson and we did everything just like old times! We shared our testimonies with everyone and it was amazing to see one man commit to read the book of mormon, and later to commit a young man to pray to be able to see a miracle and be baptized. He told me he`d send me the foto of his baptism!

We also had an amazing lesson with Ricardo Rojas and his wife carmen. Their situation is a bit complicated, and we had to help. They were talking saying some mean things about eachother and my temper began to raise...but out of nowhere I calmed myself down and asked in a little prayer for the ability to love them. I was afraid that my words were going to come out harsh, but all was calm. Ricardo told us that he say no change, and I testified of the avalanch effect. If we start on God`s path not everything is perfect right away, but it goes improving as we go. Until we have 100 times more than what we started with. He sat there staring at me and could only say, I really like what you said... His wife told us, the next time you come all my children are going to be here to listen! It was a huge miracle and it`s another family that is goning to be getting ready really soon.

I have been learning a lot about responding with love. I know if we lean to control our temper, and speak with kindness to all people, God gives us the victory!!! He sees our desires to love his children and we are ok! He is  perfect and he has a perfect plan for all of us!!! Lov eyou all so much! Chou!!!