Week Forty-five and a half: President's second to last week

Elote!
 I finally found corn like in nacho libre! i feel like i have filled an emptiness that has been in my soul for years.

This week was full of tender mercies! i didnt even realize in until now, but thinking about the past week i can see the Lords hand helping me out in small but big ways. I found a lot of stuff that i can do differently in my assignment that i didnt know how to do before and now i can work more effectively and with a lot less stress, we got to eat a giant BBQ with president, his wife, his daughter, the assistants, and all of the missionaries in the offices, and a thousand other small things.

Elder Guillen's Birthday. we bought him a dairy queen cake

Elder Zurita and me eating an entire 3 milk cake (pastel de tres leches)

We woke up this morning and saw we had a message from president and i was expecting an emergency or he needed us to run and do something for him that moment, but it turns out he just invited us to eat at his house! we had a BBQ and relaxed at the mission home for about 4 hours and got to joke around with the president which is something we almost never get to do. So thats pretty much all i did today and im suuuper full!

BBQ with President, the assistants and the secretaries!

BBQ with President, the assistants and the secretaries!

The investigators we have are really having troubles with keeping commitments and i think we are going to start working hard to find new investigators. Beatrice is amazing, she is christian but she has a hard time accepting that one church is the right one and she doesnt think that its important to have an organization. Hopefully this week she can come to church and find out for herself why we teach her the things we do!

Beatrice! we took her to the temple and had a great lesson!

Everything is coming up really fast. President will be leaving the 29th and just has a few more days! its crazy in the offices because we are trying to prepare everything and im trying to close the books from Pres. Camarillo so Pres. Egginton had a clean slate.

Tomorrow we have stake conference and ill be able to see some of the members from my first area and hopefully my converts will be there and ill be able to see how they are doing!

Challenge: Smile! A few months ago we went to visit a reference we had received and after knocking for a good 5 minutes we decided she wasnt home. as we were leaving we walked past an older woman and in stead of saying hi to her or something like that we kind of ignored her and started thinking of the next plans we had. about 5 seconds later we realized that the woman lived in the house we were looking at just a few moments earlier. we then went over and spoke with her. she said we should have been kinder and said hi to her and smiled because thats what nice people do and it helps brighten other peoples days. we ended up talking with her for a good little bit and we came back another day to find out she was catholic through and through, but she taught us a lesson that we should always smile and say hi to someone because we never know how that one smile or one word could change someones day or brighten it a little bit. Smile!!!

I hope you all have a great week! thank you for all your love and support! les quiero mucho! con mucho amor, Elder Wagner