Showing posts with label Guaynabo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Guaynabo. Show all posts

Monday, July 24, 2017

He's In the Small Details

After lunch on Sunday!
Kanepa... my Favorite fruit in PR!
Hello to my wonderful families and friends!
Another week has passed and transfers have came and the verdict is........I'm finishing my mission here in Guaynabo!! It will be my 3rd transfer with Elder Gonzalez! I love him and am grateful for him and that he has to put up with me for almost 5 months of his life! This week was rough on finding new investigators, but ones we have found earlier are starting to progress. Recently I have read many letters from missionaries and have heard of all their great miracles and I always just kind of laugh or sigh and wish that could happen here in our area. And it was not util today and that my eyes have been opened and now I realize all the miracles that have indeed happened here in Guaynabo. We have been so blessed!

This week we taught an investigator that is named Gabriel. He is great! We have had difficulties meeting with him, but he did came to church this week! He even walked halfway there! He had a great time and said he learned many new things.  We visited Joseph on Sunday and had a good visit. On Saturday we had planned to visit a lady named Yorlenis with a member. She was there along with her sister, so we taught them both and we invited them to church and we received  the best answers I've ever got! Yorlenis said “yeah! Vamos!” Her sister Virginia also committed to come. They both came and said they had a wonderful experience at church. The sisters at church did a wonderful job meeting and supporting her.  We are so grateful for these miracles. We know the Lord is in the details.

A Dominican family, The Martes, from our ward had us over for lunch after church.  The food was soooo good! Rice, beans, chuletas, amarillos, tostones, aguacate, and salad.  I was in heaven. Loved it. They are a wonderful family. We have 19 new missionaries coming in tomorrow and 17 leaving… so the mission is changing more and more! We are excited and hopeful though:) we planned for transfers for 4 hours on Saturday. It was a very sacred experience. The Smarts are so wonderful and we do love them!

Anyways, I'm so excited that I have so much time left. It'll be a blast. I know we do have a Heavenly Father and He does love us! I know that because He has helped convey His love through me to His children here. I do love them. I know Jesus Christ is the Savior and that this is His church. I love you all. Have a wonderful week!:)


Love, Elder Waidmann

Monday, March 27, 2017

St. Kitts Adventure

Bro Hanley from St Kitts
In front of the church sign at the Church
Teaching an investigator in St. Kitts

Heading to St. Kitts
Streets of St. Kitts
The Snell's
View from the member's home
Hello Everyone,

Well now I have completed my first week here in Guaynabo! I am serving in the mission home now! I could the week as following: best/longest/craziest/plan changing week of my life. It has been a blast being with Elder Ferreira.  I am privileged to be able to work so closely with President and Sister Boucher! Every time I get to know them more, I am more grateful for them.  They are awesome!

So President calls us in on Wednesday and says “Hey we're going to St. Kitts from Saturday to Sunday” and we were like....”ok”. Haha… but we were internally stoked! We had a wonderful time and it was so cool to meet the faithful saints there. We cherished our trip even though it was very short. We stayed in a member’s home and we also worked with the seƱor couple missionaries that are there, The Snell’s. They are awesome. We love the saints so much that we really wanted to stay and keep working… such a great experience.

So Sunday after church we headed straight to the airport to catch our flight back to PR. Well long story short, my companion had visa problems and they wouldn't let him back into US territory.  We stayed Sunday again in St. Kitts and after a lot of re-planning/ searching we were able to get back to PR just a few hours ago. It just proves to show that after we do all we can the Lord helps us out.  It really was a miracle we got back. Love you all so much and sorry for the short email.


Elder Waidmann