Juticalpa Week 24

yep so on martes president ferman called and im training! 

so the next day i went to teguc for the mtg, it was cool, im super pumped to train. yeah it was a long day i was just in the bus all day kind of hectic because we are so far out, and we kept on changing companions along the way to teguc. But yeah other than that, we didn't work hardly at all because silva got chikungia, so that was kind of disappointing. 

on Friday we had a zone meeting in catacamas, and Saturday was our district leaders bday, elder rodas. it was super fun we bought and cake and ice cream for him haha ill send the pics. We also found a guy, a friend of a recent convert who really has a bad addiction to alcohol and he really wants to change, we helped him a lot and he came to church! all 3 hours! which was cool because this Sunday the hours changed, this tiny little capilla has two pretty big ramas, and now our church starts at 8 and sacrament mtg at 10. with sunday school at the 1st hour, only had one come for principios del evangelio. But sunday night we had a super good lesson with angel, from familaia juarez, we pretty much explained the plan of salvation to him with lots of detail bec he had a bunch of questions (its interesting bec we hardly teach the plan of salvation with such detail, but by the end he understood it all and realized how important the book of mormon is. I really pray that he receives an answer. the spirit was super strong in the lesson. 

well next week i will be with a newbie!! It will be fun and a good experience. This transfer definitely wasn't easy,. but i learned a LOT and I hope to continue to learn how to apply the Atonement of our savior Jesus Christ in my life and in the lives of others. 

Love yall!!

Love, 

Elder Wagner

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Juice Addiction!!

Juticalpa Week 23

hey family!! had a pretty good week, good to hear from yall

on martes we had entrevistas con presidente ferman!!!!! it was awesome!!  president ferman actaully talked with me! He told and helped me with a lot, like with correcting disobedience and stuff with companions i really love the guy and how he works.

oh and holy crap a murcielago (a bat!) flew into our apartment!!! in broad daylight!! it was nuts haha it was just flying around lol. 

but yeah wednesday we went back with familia juarez, theyre so postiive and they have so many questions!! I just hope that they can truly pray and humble themselves and receive an answer that the book of Mormon is true. 

On Thursday we had a really good noche de hermanomiento with our investigators, but on friday we didnt have much luck finding and elder silva decided to waste time in a members house. 

and then Saturday I was super sick i crapped my pants in the middle of the night and threw up and then we just visited our fechas and i went home and slept. i had hardcore stomach pain, but by Sunday i was fine. IN branch council we are working really well with the members in retention and orientating our investigators, we have 6 fechas for the month of august and this week we look to find more. It will be hard probably because this is the last week for elder silva here in juticalpa.

funny moment of the week: a drunk guy was dancing super crazy with his giant beer bottle to the song IM ABOUT TO LOSE MY MIND UP IN HERE UP IN HERE

hahahaha i was laughing so hard hahaha.

yeah so now im back to 100 health and i hope to work out the end of this transfer well. this transfer has been a little rough, but i have learned a lot, including spanish.

love yall!!!

thanks for all of your prayers in my behalf!

love, elder wagner

Juticalpa Week 22

Hey fam and friends! 

Sounds like y'all had a really good week, so did i! 

Lunes after we wrote we played some kickball with peeps from the zone, pretty fun haha. And then! a family that we had contacted was home, and they were super positive!!! We just taught leccion 0 and made a return appointment to teach the restoration to answer the question why are there lots of churches. they were in teguc all week until last night, and we taught l1! it was super long, they had lots of questions, and The Spirit was there super strong, the Lord serioiusly helped us so much that lesson . They're going to read the Book of Mormon! Honestly they are so awesome, its a young couple who are married, and the guy is a lwayer. I really hope and pray that they'll pray and resceive an answer from the Lord. 

With retencion, we go the rama to call ward missionaries, so now we have 3 ward missionaries (but they're girls,,, so it only helps the sisters haha) but nonetheless we have some pretty good prospects to help build this rama. With the members we really have to exercise patience but the work is coming slowly with them. All this week we got a bunch of our investigators reading and praying about the libro de mormon, which is sweet, we have like 11 names for agosto that we could put fechas con, this week we are really going to put some fechas and verify about their reading of the book of mormon. The book of Mormon is how people gain testimonies, it is so powerful and I am always ever grateful for it, and how powerful it is in la obra misional. 

Oh and on viernes we had intercambios, and Elder Rodas, our district leader came with me to our area. He is super awesome and has really helped me.

But yeah this week was sweet, flew by! I love the fotos of my nephew!!! He is a champ. 

mom: wow congrats to mr. coleman!!! That'd be awesome if bro biron gets the centennial job! 

for laundry here i just pay this guy at a laundromat, 

i got ta go love yall!!!!!

love, elder wagner

Juticalpa Week 21

Hey fam and friends! 

This week was a good week overall, definitely with ups and downs for sure. 

On tuesday, we took a bus to campamento and had a double zone reunion con presidente ferman. Dude! I love the guy! Like literally the thing i loved so much about what he talked about was retencion!  pres ferman wants us to work with the members and retener!!1 It was awesome!! Like i feel like the chapters in pmg were always disregarded, the ones about working with the members and teaching leccion 5. 

Anyways, it was awesome, and it lead to later this week us and the hermanas having a reunion con the branch president! The branch president here is pretty new, but he is willing to work with us]! But yeah i love presidente ferman. 

On wednesday none of our contacts were home so we visited this big catholic family, and we taught the restauracion and i felt the Spirit so strong as I bore testimony of how we can pray to know the truth. I just love when we can feel the spirit in the lessons, aunque sometimes the investigators don't progress. Feeling the Spirit, to me, is a good indicator of how i am doing as a missionary. 

On Thursday we had noche de hermomiento, and we brought this 15 year old inv walter, he is cool haha, everyone here is playing clash of clans! haha so thanks to my experience in that field, its a good way to break the ice hehe. 

But yeah friday and Saturday were good we had lots of news and lessons, but sunday only 2 people came to church, but the one who came, karen, the aunt of walter is getting baptized the 25th. I love juticalpa! oh yeah on sunday it was like impossible to work everyone and their mom was at the estadio at the soccer game, literally no one was in the streets. 

Lots of work to do here! lots of bugs here too, and my pants always get muddy haha so thats annoying! 

Love yall! 

Love, Elder Wagner

Juticalpa Week 20

hey fam! 

i had a way better week this week, thanks to all of your prayers!! wow, also awesome with the 1st grandkid!!!! IM AN UNCLE!!! congrats kevin and jessica, seth looks like a pretty sweet nephew. hehe. but yeah i had a super awesome week! 

lunes, throughought that day and martes, i really felt y'alls prayers in my behalf. first week here in juticalpa was rough, i think i just was super homesick from comayagua, i really missed all of my converts and investigators. However, juticalpa is awesome!!!! 

on martes elder silva and i really hustled got a bunch of really good lecciones and news. 

on wednesday, we put four fechas with the family that we had contacted my first saturday here who went to church! theye are so ready]!!! There are so many people ready here, we just have to continue to balance teaching and finding more prepared people. 

ON jueves i think elder silva got chikungia, but he still worked which was sweet. also, my new favorite word in spanish is ´crapear´ hahaha all of the latinos use this word!! haha. also we taught thesse catolicos who were only primarily interested in us because i was from the states, but then we taught the restoration and they just ate up the angels part! i really love using this gospel pic book to demonstrate the lost authority and then the return of the authority throught the angels pedro santiago y juan with jospeh smith. I love the gospel!! and the misssion!! 

on viernes we had zone mtg in catacamas which is like 1 hour from here, this is a really spread out zone, but it was good. also, mom, here is the mission blog, mhc1518. tomorrow we have an activity with president ferman. he didn't change many rules, only with drinking water in the members houses. 

sunday we fasted, whew it was rough! but fasting was so rewarding!!! i love how easy it is to feel the spirit whilst fasting! i also taught principios del evangelio class in church on the spot, that was fun. my spanish it really improving, but i still have a lot to learn. 

thanks for all of the prayers!!! happy 4th everyone! also go usa! we saw part of the womens cup in a lesson yesterday haha. 

love, 

UNCLE Elder Wagner

Juticalpa Week 19

hey peeps! 

this week was crazy we finished up in comaygaua showing our fechas to the hermanas and then packed and got up at 4 to catch  a bus to teguc. 

changes was really cool - porque there was a bunch a missionaries who had changes it was like the whole mission  was there is was cool to see everyone and stuff. and then i got sent to zona catacamas! it is the farthest zone, and now i am here in juticalpa with elder silva.  he is from nicaragua and he has the same amount of time as me. yeah the drive was super long like 4 hours in the bus, but juticapla is really sweet it is just a little smaller than comayagua there is stores and stuff, so it is not super pueblo. 

it sure was rough transitioning to this area, i came and we literally have like 2 investigators and so we had to really hustle and find some news, which we did. elder silva told me that he had never worked this hard on his mission, we have had a bunch of fun telling each other tribalenguas. we also don't have like any appointments for food so we have to fend for ourselves which is kind of hard haha. 

the Lord has really blessed me this week, and a lot of times i had to ask my self, what would elder dunn do? i really miss him, he is now a zone leader. on saturday we found some gold news, we just contacted this family and they went to church with us on sunday! huge blessing from the lord there, really taught me to open my mouth at every opportunity. church was sweet, except the chapel is super super tiny and there are two ramas that share it, we really need a new building, which is a good problem. and the members seem legit, and i cant wait to continue working with them like we did with elder dunn. 

juticalpa is lo mejor! i have the feeling i will be here for awhile. who knows?? learned a lot this week.

thanks for al l of your prayers this week! i truly felt them!

love elder wagner

Elder Silva & Elder Wagner

Comayagua Week 18

Sweet week! Except it kind of all dampered just now because we got a call that they are closing our area.... :( tomorrow is changes and I kind of expected that I would go, but not Elder Dunn too! I guess we will just have to put our trust in the hermanas who are here.

Anyways on martes presidente fortuna came with his wife to inspect our house, it was good haha, they said our house was super clean. Also: remember that woman we baptized a couple of weeks ago? Well this week her children (she has 4) have really seen her change and have really been so amazing with a desire to change their lives as well. When we first started teaching jenny the kids did not want to do ANYTHING with us, we tried teachinga lesson, and they just laughed the entire time. But now, I have really seen the poder de la Expiacion. Like, the 18 year old son has really strived to change, and he has really strived to stop his drug addiction. And the daughters too are so awesome! The gospel has so much power, and it really has blessed and united this once broken and torn up family. They went to church too! They are so excited to get baptized next month, it just makes me sad to leave them. 

On miercoles we had interchanges and elder henderson came here, it was a super good learning opportunity and at the end of the night he was like 'you want ice cream? lets go get ice cream, so he dropped like 500 limps on a HUGE thing of ice cream and caramel and sprinkles it was so good! But the ice cream here just isn't the same haha. 

On jueves the highlights of the day was definitely teaching jenny and her family, they are so awesome. It really taught me a lot, especially about having faith in the investigators, and giving them a chance. People sure do need this message, and i just have this huge desire to help everyone, and to find others who are as prepared as this family. 

On viernes i gave the tema in district meeting, it was really cool to see how my spanish has improved, but i still have a lot to go. Also, as we were walking home, i just had the subtle prompting to walk down a different street to get home, and we found these really two positive contacts! I know the Lord was preparing them, and that He guided us there. These little miracles happen like everyday, and I cannot even tell a hundredth part of how The Lord is truly with us in this world.

ON saturday we went to the place which is 2 hours walking, and 4 of them came to church on sunday!! They told us they had to wake up at 4:30 to get to church . The faith of these people is nuts!! The end goal is to eventually form a branch up there. 

But yeah sunday was sweet and we had 8 investigators! Really good prospects for the work in july! Just the only bummer salad is theyre closing our area! I guess its cause 15 elders are leaving this change and only 2 news are coming, so they had to close a bunch of areas. And we will see what happens with the new president coming next week! A lot of guys are excited to see the changes to the mission specific rules. But yes, I had an awesome week, and a SUPER fast transfer here in comayagua with Elder Dunn. Tomorrow we will go to Teguc to see where we are going, so next week I will be in a new area with a new companion, it is sad to leave comayaygua, but I cant wait to apply what Ive learned here with Elder Dunn in other areas. The church is true!

Say hi to Grandma and Grandpa for me! I love them and i am so grateful for their example! The mission is awesome! 

Love, Elder Wagner