You Just Have to Believe

President and Sister Smart

MLC Group

Silly Photo with MLC

Hello Everyone! After weeks like these you come to a complete awareness that there is some unseen power that leads and guides us…and that would undoubtedly be the Holy Ghost. This week was a busy.  On Tuesday and Thursday we were with President and Sister Smart accompanying them around to the 5 different zones. It has been so good to get to know them.  They are so happy and excited to be here and I know they will help this mission so much. I am grateful for their examples of dedication and love. On Wednesday we had an MLC.  The Smarts had had a busy week, but still delivered fabulous lessons during MLC.  Elder Gonzalez and I also taught about Ch. 4 in Preach My Gospel.

After the tour on Thursday I went on splits with a missionary that has almost 5 weeks now in the field. It brought me back so many memories that I will forever cherish of my trainer. This missionary was humble, full of faith and energy. What great examples they are to me. With the limited time we had to go out and find people we felt impressed to kind take a way we don't usually take to go to a neighborhood we usually go to. Once we crossed the street we contacted a young man and her grandson. His name is Joseph, he is 23 and he just moved here from Boston so he speaks English and Spanish. We taught him another day and he came to church! So that was a miracle for us this week! 

Later on Sunday night at 7:00 all of our plans fell through and usually here at 8:00 everyone is inside their house we had prayed to know what to do. I started flipping through my old agenda looking for someone who we could visit at 8:20 at night.  Then we saw a name and we remembered we had contacted this kid a while ago and so my companion said,  “I'll call him”.  He answered and said he could come by and at this point we were speed walking like a mile to get to this kids house.   We get there and his grandma comes out and says, “So Sebastian invited you over…well I’m a Christian/Catholic”.  She saw we were pouring in sweat and she was surprised we had walked all that way to see Sebastian.  So we went to his front porch and we started talking and he is the most mature/humble 14 year old I know. It blew us away. He has some certain sad situations going on in his life and later on we taught him how to pray and it was so so special.   It was just such a tender mercy for us to help be an answer to the needs of this young man. How can we not believe that God knows His children? All of our plans fell through, so we could go comfort a 14 year old a mile away.  It was amazing! I'll never forget weeks like these. I love you all and I thank you for all your love and support!!

-Elder Waidmann

Goodbye to the Bouchers

Saying goodbye to President and Sister Boucher

We said goodbye to the Bouchers this week! We will miss them a lot! They are amazing people who have changed my life in so many ways for good.

Our new President and his wife came, President and Sister Smart. They are so great and we know they are called of God. You can see and feel it. We are excited to be with them!

"Just Do It"

Hello Everyone!

I love you all!  Another week has gone by and the temperature is heating up here in PR. I know I'll miss it one day:) I'm grateful for my companion, Elder Gonzalez who is very patient and supports me and lifts our companionship up. He is a great missionary. I'm grateful for the Gospel that we have to share. We are just keeping on, keeping on, trying to find those children of God who are prepared. It hasn't been easy, but we know they are out there. We just have to diligently find. Please pray for our investigators, Angel Luis and Annmarie.  They are wonderful!

Whenever I am tempted to not talk to everyone in the street or parking lot whatever it may be, the words, "what's the worst they could do, say no?" Always comes to my mind.  I thank my wonderful father and brother that have taught me this truth. Just open your mouth and talk:) It's so simple, and it can change lives. Don't be afraid. Everyone NEEDS the restored gospel even if they don't know it. Love you all. Open your mouths and share it because the worst they could say is no, but the best is that they can find eternal happiness and joy.

Elder Waidmann

"We just want to help our brothers and sisters find the truth"

Headed to St. Thomas

Barbecuing for the new missionaries

It's okay Elder Gonzalez and I got lunch today 

Hello a todos! I hope you all are doing well. I'll throw down a quick summary of the last couple weeks. We've been pretty busy with mission things… transfers and conferences and preparing for new ones etc., but all is well here. We just want to help our brothers and sisters find the truth.  We are just trying to do all that we can do and by the Atonement of Christ and with the mercy He has for us, He will fill in for what we couldn't/can't do. We do believe in miracles and they will come as we serve faithfully. We also went with President Boucher to St. Thomas for half the day as he had to take care of some things over there. On to another week of serving our brothers and sisters, we love it and we are boricuas ya!

Love you all!

- Elder Waidmann

"The Spirit helps you learn things you've never recognized before"

Exchanges!

With Caguas Zone Leaders

Mi Dios está brutal!!

Hello!

I'm very short on time this week, but I'll write a quick summary. This week was great, it was mixed between training missionaries and working in our area as it usually is. On Wednesday we had a special MLC where all the district leaders were invited for the first half of it. My companion and I taught about revelation through church attendance. President Boucher taught about teaching repentance and revelation through prayer and Sister Boucher taught on teaching in the Savior's way. They both are incredible teachers and I look up to them. I love MLC because the Spirit helps you learn things you've never recognized before.

On Friday was our one zone conference and it was in Caguas. We taught on how to begin teaching from Preach my Gospel. We were nervous because of the lack of time we had to prepare, but we were still blessed to be able to have the guidance of the Spirit. It was good to see all the senior couples and spend time with them.

We set a baptism date with Luis this week. We are praying and working for him. We know it can happen. We will visit the two daughters of Sandy, Sanel and Lucia and hope they can continue progressing. Love you all!  We have 3 more zone conferences this week.  Thank you for your love and support!

-Elder Waidmann

Fotitos!

Intercambio with Elder King! 

Fast Weeks!

Hello Everyone!

Fabian's Baptism

Every week goes by faster and faster. We had the privilege of helping Fabian find his way back to his Heavenly Father and he was baptized on Saturday. He recognizes the Spirit quickly and he acts upon it. He is a great example to me.

After his baptism he asked if he could baptize anyone in the future.  I told him of course he could!! I admire him a lot he has made the pioneer decision and I am super proud of him.  My scripture for this week is Doctrine and Covenants 123:17. It reads, “Therefore, dearly beloved brethren, let us cheerfully do all things that lie in our power; and then may we stand still, with the utmost assurance, to see the salvation of God, and for his arm to be revealed.” We need to do all we can for him. Because He did all He could for His. I know God is our Father and that Jesus Christ his son lives. Have a great week and think of Him daily. Love you all!

-Elder Waidmann

Waiting for the baptism to start