Week 60...

February 29, 2016

Wena Wena mis wachitos,

So this week was pretty dang cool. We got to listen to Elder Bednar on Wednesday and let me tell ya I loved the meeting. He was down in Good Air, Argentina, but it was still cool to see him through broadcast. He was speaking to all of Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Bolivia, more than 6000 missionaries. I learned so much, and we all left the meeting super motivated and ready to take out the trash. I was super impressed by his wife though! Wow, Sister Bednar is amazing! It just goes to show that my wife needs to be and will be 99094059304530954 times the person that I am. I nearly cried her message was so good. She actually said a lot of what Mom tells me... She talked about how as a mom she just wanted to be a fly on the wall watching her kid get ready every morning, watching her kid teach lessons, and watching her kid go through tough times on the mission and see how he reacts. She told us to be the missionaries that our Mom's think we are! No worries Momma, I'm doing' ya proud, heck everyday I come home dead tired and unfortunately you're not here to talk to. The one person I have to talk to is my Heavenly Father and I just talk to him for 20 minutes every night talking about my day and my stresses, my blessing, all the miracles, etc. If I could do one thing in my mish, it would be talking to my Mom on those really hard days. 

Speaking of Prayers... Elder Bednar talked about prayers and faith. He said something that I have been chanting for years! WE DON'T NEED TO HAVE MEETINGS TO TALK ABOUT ALL THE PEOPLE WE NEED TO HELP IN THE WARD!!! For the love of Mike, we always pray for the people that didn't come to church so that they'll be able to come the next week, but NOBODY EVER DOES ANYTHING! He says a good prayer would be saying "Heavenly Father, here we are, in church, and we realize that a lot of people didn't come to church today. Help us to get out the door quickly so that we can go to these people's homes right after this prayer and check up on them to see how they are. We have a lot of faith that if we ACT and if we WORK then you will help them to come to church next week. We only need your help in one thing... help us make sure that we don't all go to the same person's house to see why they didn't come to church. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.” 

I love the Apostles; I know they are men called of God and that they are special witnesses of our Savior Jesus Christ. I love being a missionary and giving this message every single day to so many different people. I know my Redeemer lives; I know that He knows each one of us individually. I know that families can be forever, and I know that people can change their lives completely through the priesthood, with the true gospel of Jesus Christ! People can change for the better with good Christian beliefs, but a person will always have struggles and stains from their past sins because they have never received the fullness of the atonement in their lives. THIS IS THE TRUTH. I have no doubt that Jesus Christ guides and directs this church through a living Prophet and 12 apostles on the earth today! 

The good news is that our Haitiano investigator told us that he's ready to be baptized. It was a huge miracle, he literally explained perfectly what repentance is and he just wants to be clean and follow Christ! I love it! We also have a family we have been teaching, we thought they were the most put together people in this sector... yeah, well we passed by Tuesday and it turns out…they aren’t as together as we thought…'m not lying... they seemed so well put together. The wife wants to be baptized though and she LOVES THE CHURCH!

Love Ya All!

Elder Weaver