6/28/15

Heyyyy. 

Wow time flys by so fast.  We're doing really good here in Tuxtla. We had a hard week where almost all of our visits fell through but we're excited about the week to come. It's going to awesome. Thanks for the email and the prayers, I hope you all have an amazing week!

Elder Wixom

My District 6/22/15

Wow that sounds super fun! And if anything Justin traumatized us haha. This week was really great. I just wanted to bear my testimony to you guys really quick that I know this is the church Jesus made when he came to earth and it is the only place that we can find eternal happiness. I know God loves me and I love him and the missionary work it such a blessing, I invite you guys to look for opportunities to share the gospel. Anyways I hope you all have a great week, nos vemos!

-Elder Wixom

 

 Los Conejos!

 

Busy Week 6/15/15

Hey I love you guys! Thanks for the letters they mean a lot! This week we're going to the temple so we have 3 less hours to prepare today so I've got to run! I hope you guys have an amazing week!

Elder Wixom

6/8/15 My New Companion

¡Buenas Tardes!​

 Wow! so it sounds like los chuncos are doing great!​ And I know what you mean. I started bringing my notepad to all the church meeting and zone meetings and its amazing how much more you take out of Sunday's when you take thorough notes. That's something I'm going to want to do when I get back home.

 Elder Carreon and I  and getting along really well, he's 19 and from Puebla and he's a really really good missionary. Very humble and has a bunch of awesome ideas to help the ward. This cambio is going to be awesome! XD

This Sunday we weren't able to leave the church until 6 o'clock because we were waiting for the Bishop who had some important things to do. We were driving back thinking about who we need to visit when we get out of the truck and start walking down the sidewalk when we hear a women yelling "Elderes! Elderes!" Obviously we turn around and talk to her and she was crying because her baby has been sick with a fever for the last four days and she couldn't get him medical attention. She brought us to where she had been waiting in line to get her baby looked at and gave him a blessing right there. The baby stopped crying during the blessing and by the time we left you wouldn't even had known he'd been sick. It just makes you appreciate Gods hand in our lives and that when we need to be somewhere he provides the way.

Anyway thanks for the letters and the love and thank you family for your example to me growing up, I love you all so much!

Elder Wixom

 

My compadre Elder Carreon!

​¡Comiendo como chiaponeco! (dont worry its apple-soda)

 

New Companion 6/1/15

So my new companion got changed and now I'm actually with Elder Carreon. He's from Puebla(almost mexico city). He's an awesome Elder wth bastante spiritual expericnecs we're going to have an awesome cambio. Right now we've got a lot of intruccion about the sabbath day and fasting, I guess it might be worldwide. Anyway thanks dad for everything, I'm glad you guys are having fun back home. See ya!

Elder Wixom

5/25/15 Picture of Tuxtla

So Mexico is awesome.  Really really warm and really humid haha.  The rain just started and they tell me it goes on daily until November.  Yikes, but we're getting used to it and really it only rains in the afternoon.

Cambios are I'm going to stay here in Bosques but my companion is going to Chojolo. It's in the altos of Chiapas.  It's where all of the indigenous people live and it's where they don't send guedos. Tomorrow I'm getting my new companion whose name is, wait for it, Elder Luna! Same name different Elder haha but I'm really excited. Change is always really fun. ​

It sounds like you guys are having an awesome time in Idaho! That's great! And yeah Idaho is really pretty, I miss all the hikes and camp outs. But there's time for that after my mission. Here in Chiapas it's also really fun.

This Sunday we learned a lot about Fasting. Our Stake President came and gave a talk about fasting and then we taught our investigador Victor about fasting during Principles of the Gospel. After that we went and had our lesson about, you guessed it, fasting. The teacher didn't know our investidagor wasn't a member and started asking him about the basics of fasting and it was awesome to see how much he remembered. He and and a little girl named Hna Luz both have baptisms scheduled this Saturday so we're going to keep our fingers crossed that they're preparing. We're going to do our best to visit them daily.

Besides that life here is amazing! Have an awesome week, love you all!

Elder Wixom

 

pic of tuxtla!

 

Happy in Tuxtla 5/18/15

Ayy!

We are doing really good here in Bosque.  This week we talked with the
Bishop and our Lider Misional.  We're redoing our ward mission plan and
are going to focus more on how to spiritually prepare the members of
the ward to teach the gospel.  We're going to introduce it this week in
the consejo and then we're going to talk to all of the quorums about it
this Sunday.  We're hoping that this plan and some of the activities
we're putting together can excite the ward and help them feel the
spirit of missionary work a little bit.  If we can get them to do the
basic things we do to invite the Spirit we will be better able to
teach them the other things they can do to invite people to come unto
Christ.

One of my favorite teaching experiencias is kind of anti climatic. We
were on splits and I was with one of our zone leaders(Elder
Reyesleva).  The Hnas in our district had a woman they were preparing
ofr baptism so I had to do the baptism interview to make sure she was
ready.  We got to her house and she's super friendly and super nice.  We
start talking and she shares with us that she still has doubts about
the Book of Mormon.  We started talking and then my companion felt the
impression that we needed to sing a hymn. So we sang hymn number 61
or Venid a Mi, (I don't remember right now what it's called) .  We felt
the Spirit so strongly in that moment.  We were able to testify of the
veracidad of our message and it was amazing.  She still has questions
and the missionary's are still working with her but in that moment, it
was impossible to deny the Spirit. That's one of my favorite
experiences.

Anyways I love you all and have an amazing week! Thanks for everything!