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| At the wedding! |
Dearest loved ones!
How are we all doing? I love you all thank you for all the
love and support! It seriously helps so much! So wow what a week! Okay so we
had a zone conference and we got to watch a LDS Christmas video that hasn’t
been released and wow it is so powerful. It comes out on November 29th so check
out
lds.org or
mormon.org on that date! PR celebrates Thanksgiving and I am so
grateful for that.
We got invited to our
neighbors house and he is so awesome. He is Boricuan but has lived in New York
forever so he has a sweet New York accent … you would love it Brandon. The
other elders in our apartment had 2 baptisms on Saturday! It is a couple and
they got married on Friday so they could be baptized! At the wedding I ate what
I was told was roast beef by another elder, but really turned out being turkey
liver.
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| Before baptism |
Haha. The trick was on me!
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| Baptismal Font Selfie |
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| At the baptism |
I know this work is real and true, I know it. The spirit is
so real and powerful enough to soften any heart! I am thankful for the gift of
the
Holy Ghost to testify and lead and guide us in this work! I love being out
on the street and talking to people on the streets here in PR. We visited a
husband and wife on Sunday who were pretty old and they are both really sick.
We gave them
Priesthood blessings and wow it was powerful. After we gave a
blessing to the husband he said wow that was so spiritual and comforting that I
was falling asleep. Ha! When we were leaving he said a prayer and in it he said
how grateful he was for us that when we come we fill the whole house with the
spirit of the Lord and how we bring so much hope. That really touched my heart
and helped me to have a desire to talk to every person we could in PR. I am so
grateful to be a representative of Jesus Christ. It is a calling like no other!
Our investigator came to church and she loved it! She was answering questions
in class and she described church as interesting and cute.
It was funny. Her husband thinks we are crazy
and that he thinks we should be spending time at college and with girlfriends. I
had a prompting and I said in my best gringo Spanish that finding girls and
doing those things are not important to me right now. We are here because God
loves all his children and we know this message is true and have a desire to
share it with you. Anyway, she is progressing and the Lord has prepared her so
well, she is awesome and we hope she will be baptized next month!
My favorite lesson was with her this week and
then after she makes her awesome Cuban food. Its great!
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| Hitchhiking because we were almost late! First time in my life! |
We have a family with baptism dates for the 26th so we are
praying they will progress. We are going to see the painter lady this week as well. I am excited! I know that missionary work is real, it is so
powerful, its the hardest work, you get no breaks but wow its indescribable how
amazing it is. Try to put others before yourself this week and I promise you
will be so much happier! I Love reading in the
Book of Mormon! Read
2 Nephi4:15-35. So amazing how the prophet was just like us and have problems but
through God we can overcome anything! Love you all! Stay positive and be
grateful for what you have.
Peace and love from Puerto Rico,
Elder Waidmann
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