Prayer can make changes in our lives and the lives of others, this is a great Truth (2-15-16) Caden reached the 6 month mark!!

Well, this week was amazing! I´m having a problem right now remembering though what it was that happened that I wanted to tell you... I´ll just go for it and hope I remember. First off, 6 months in the mission, it´s unbelievable how fast it´s going by! Friday night we took some pictures to remember it all, also drank some tererê. It´s this plant thats crushed up, you put in suco de limão and drink it through a special straw, the stuff is really big here, and so good. I´ll have to send you guys some someday, I think you´d like it. But it was pretty neat to hit 6 months, but already! how crazy, it´s going by 2 fast for me. But I´m really starting to get accustomed to the mission. I´m making friends with the members, there´s a couple families I really like. I can really comunicate with people. someone asked if i was fluent, I don´t know if i´ll ever be fluent, but I felt really comfortable with the language about 1 month ago, and now I just feel like I grow a little more each day. everything is really great. Alex is doing great! He received the Aaronic Priesthood yesterday, and went with us to visit people, he really likes it and wants to do it more. You would not believe the testimony he has of the Gospel now! He always asks, when can i have this, or a patriarchal blessing, go to the temple, always wants to learn more! He´s super excited for it all. We had someone new named Artur in gospel principles yesterday, and Alex at the end of the class was like, hey, don´t worry, we´re all here to learn new things, and your super welcome here anytime! Also, just ask if you need any help. I´m telling you, he´s a stud. Wow, one thing that´s really changed here is the Ward. They´ve made some improvements, and you would not believe the things that are happening here! It´s really great, i feel so much more secure about the Ward, and am pretty proud of everything that´s happened here, not going to lie. Well, the work is really progressing, and my testimony really grew this week. A question arose with a member this passed week and I had some doubts about a doctrinal question. The truth of the matter is that God responds to our faithful questions, and mine was answered, clearly, leaving no shadow of a doubt. Prayer is crazy on the mission, it can make changes in our lives, and the lives of others, this is a great truth. Preach my Gospel has a really great "personal inventory" on your prayers that you can do. I invite everyone to give it a look sometime. Anyway, ter mais todo mundo! Elder Wyatt

Giving out wheelchairs for a service project. (2-8-16)

Well, it was a good week, on tuesday and Wednesday we did a service project. The stake here received 109 wheelchairs for people here, so we helped put them together one day, and the next day we helped distribute them as people came to pick them up. There was a mountain of people at the stake center, and all the missionaries from the zone were there helping too. So, I got to see Elder Sant who´s still in my zone. Did I tell you he´s training too? I think there having a lot of success there in Andradina. But it was really a neat experience, you can´t imagine how many people there are that are needing these things. That´s something interesting since I´ve been here, I don't know if it´s only because I´m out walking the streets talking to everyone, or there's more in Brazil, but there is a lot of people with deformities of feet, hands, legs, lots of things. Don´t know, but there's a lot here. Anyway, I was glad to help out some, and I also met a married couple of missionaries who are serving in São Paulo as church welfare missionaries. they´re from Idaho and the husband served here in Araçatuba in 1971 when they just had a branch here. it was neat to talk with him. Other things that happened was it was really difficult. If you didn´t know, this weekend and until tuesday is Carnival. Everyone is drinking, partying, or left for a bigger city where they have parades and dances and things. So, basically it´s really annoying, because no one wants to receive us right now. Luckily here in Araçatuba there´s not a bunch of public things. So, we work, it´s just a little harder. But, I´m almost certain I told you the name of my comp. Elder Jeronymo, but anyway, that´s his name, and he´s doing great! Improves a little each day, he wants to work hard, and do everything right. i was pretty blessed with him, basically all I´m doing is helping him destroy 2 words from his vocabulary realmente (really) and Né which is like a word people use after every sentences, but it doesn´t even exist. Anyway, we´re working with that. Haha, and he still has plenty he needs to learn, but he´s progressing wonderfully. And yes, I teach gospel principles class every Sunday when we can get someone to church. And other great news, this week I hit 6 months! Anyway, Tchau! Elder Wyatt

1st Pic: Cadens new companion Elder Jeronymo, Alex, Caden, and Felippe the ward mission leader. 2nd Pic: Caden and Alex on his Baptism Day

Alex is amazing and a miracle! (2-1-16)

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO CR!!!! Pretty exciting, because on the same day as CR´s birthday we had the confirmation of Alex. Fala parabéns para CR. How exciting he looks like he´s getting pretty big! And Carder´s next, with his own baptism. Pretty exciting things are happening there then, I´m glad everybody´s so busy and happy. You´ll have to record some videos of sis for me so I can get it a view someday when I get back. Spaghetti was a good choice, I had the same thing on Sunday actually. Also, thanks for updating me on the Boy´s Basketball, and you have my address to give to Marylin right? Also, i´m glad you got the letters, hope they give you a little more information than my emails can. I think I´ll start some new ones this week, always have plenty of things to tell. Oh, and yes, I would love the picture book, for sure! So my old comp. was sent to Jabuticabal (I think I spelled it right) to be a Zone Leader of a brand new zone there. His shirt will be simpleto get to him, all the Zone Leaders go to Ribeirão Preto every month, so I can just send it with my zone leaders and they can get it to him there. He was pretty excited about the shirt so I´ll make sure and get it to him. So anyway, I just wanted to talk about a few things today, namely Alex and E. Jeronymo, my new comp. Alex is amazing and a miracle. You know how we call people "Investigators" well Alex literally is one, He was already in a lot of other churches, and he left a lot of other churches, because what he found in the Bible and what he found in other Churches wasn´t the same thing. So, he´s always been searching for the truth, but didn´t know where to find it. So, one day he finds our church site on the internet, and decides to check it out. So he goes by bike, in church clothes like 45 minutes to the stake center for church one Sunday. The Zone Leaders found out who he was, and where he was from and sent him our way. So I had heard about him, but had to wait a week to meet him. in the beginning he had a lot of doubts, he knows the bible really...really well... but he always came to the conclusion that we were right. Also, his mother didn´t like us, so he came every wednesday and saturday to English class, were I taught him English, and afterwards we taught him the lessons. He, during this month and a half has not missed one Sunday, even when he was working in another city late saturday night, he came back to go to church! I´m telling you, he´s a stud, and half the time he was teaching me. He has a good amount of scriptures memorized. But last week, he decided he was ready, and he really was ready for baptism. It was a really amazing experience to be apart of helping him reach this point, the best thing is that he´ll be a huge help to the ward here. the Lord really gave us a miracle with Alex. Another thing, my new comp is amazing. i´m really excited to train him, which isn´t really training at all, just helping a little. He knows it all very well, I´m only helping with like the way to teach, some parts of the mission life, rules, simple things like that. For sure we all have plenty to learn, and still are, but we´ll both learn a lot together. i´m pretty excited for this tranfser to see what happens, I think we´ll see plenty of miracles. We only had one half week so far, but this next full week we´re planning on giving it our all, and it´s going to be a good one! Com Amor, Elder Wyatt

I'm going to be a Trainer! (1-25-16)

Well, this week was pretty crazy. It was normal all the way up until Wednesday... When just before 9 while i´m teaching English my comp. Elder teodoro gets a call that says he´s being transfered by emergency. (normally this means something bad, but in this case no). He was called as a Zone Leader in a brand new zone they are opening, and needed to go there a little early. So, basically he´s a really great missionary, and president Brum trusts him a lot. So he left the next day at 9 in the morning, and i got put in a trio with paraíso until now. Saturday we recieved the transfers, and Elder Wyatt....stays in Boa Vista. Also, I´m going to train, so I´m actually in ribeirão Preto right now, because I´ll wait here until tomorrow when all the newbies arrive. Anyway, lot´s of crazy changes, but I´m super excited! I´ve wanted to train since I finished my training, so I hope that I´m able to help this new missionary out a little. I plan on him coming out of training as the best missionary around. Other crazy thing that actually happened today. I ran into Elder Buckner, the missionary that was a little bit difficult in the MTC. i don´t know if i told you this, but he didn´t make it to Brazil, he stayed in Arizona, and I heard later on the he returned home. Well, he did, and now he´s come back and I ran into him today! But, it was really pretty awesome, he asked to talk to me aside, and he apologized for how he acted in the MTC. Said that he thought a lot about things when he returned home, and that he really wants to be a good missionary, one who does things right. I just was like well I wasn´t perfect, sorry, things like that. But, it was really nice to talk to the guy. he´s changed a little bit, and I think he´s going to be an alright missionary, and I´m kind of proud to be a little part of that:) Anyway, things are going to be crazy now with the training, but I´m still super excited! Love you all and have a great week! Wish Kam good luck for me in everything with sports and school! The boys as well. Tchau Elder Wyatt

I'm not talking about being inspired by our stomachs (1-18-16) Pic: Caden with the Stk. Patriarch and family

Hey everyone! This week was really really great! And yes mom, it rained, a ton.... It rained one night harder than I´ve ever seen it rain before. It was Thursday evening, about 7;30, and we had had a great day. We found one incredible family, and had some other good lessons with some investigators. Also, it was the last day before our money dropped again, needless to say we were starving, and without money, so what did we decide to do? We decided to visit Irmã Ana. But, I´ll explain to you how inspired it was, and I´m not talking about just inspired by our stomachs. So we walked to her house, aftr she arrived she said she´d make us some salgados, so we said we´d come back by in 30 minutes. So we headed off a few blocks from her house, to a recent convert, but she wasn´t there. Next to a investigator, nada. And it starts to rain a little, so we decided to head back to her house. then it starts to rain a little harder, and a litttle harder, and some more, until we had to get under something. So we run under a tree, which does nothing, and start looking around for a dry place. Literally the only place is a church, directly across the street from us.... So we´re like yes, or no, and it´s both of us, yes. So we run over and into the church, who´s having their meeting, and you wouldn´t believe how well we we´re recieved! 5 people, and the preacher all run over to us, offer chairs, towels, and generally made sure that we were ok. so we sit down for a little bit, oh btw, they were watching a video of two preachers argue over 1 Peter 3:18-22, about the spirits in prison, and they had no idea what they were saying at all. Elder Teodoro said, "Joseph Smith te amo." It´s amazing the clarity that we have with modern day prophets, thank goodness that the church was restored. Anyway, we didn´t want to stay long, because it´s not to great for 2 missionaries to be stuck in another church, not exactly following the rules. So we decided to run for it, in the pouring rain, with rivers for streets 2 blocks to Irmã Ana. So we did so, to find the her house was being flooded. So we started to move things around, were able to save tables and chairs and things, also, Ana is 79 years old. So anyway, long story short, we were really inspired to be there at that time to help her, and it was without us even knowing it, we were just hungry. it´s really great to know that the Lord is directing this work. Anyway, the whole week was just great, Elder Teodoro did a baptismal interview for the LZ in Higienopolis, and we had a lot of good quality work this week. I also got rained on a ton, and all my clothes that i washed clean also got rained on also. But the promise is the more rain you take, the more beautiful your wife will be, at least that´s what they say. hope all is well, keep up the good work. i only sent your letters out like a week ago, so it could be a little while sorry. But love you all, Tchau! Elder Wyatt

I found out my new mission president coming in July is an American from Virginia (1-11-16)

Well. this week was interesting to say the least. I´m going to have to be brief, I had a email to respond to President Brum and don´t have much time. But, some things that happened... one, found out who the new Mission President will be, I don´t remember his name, but he´s an American from Virginia. He´ll arrive sometime in july and president brum will end his mission. I really like President Brum btw, the more I hear about him the more i learn that he´s just solid. Also, we had 3 divisions this week with other elders, so it was crazy. Two were with new missionaries and I took them here in Boa Vista, and the other was with the Zone Leaders, so I was with Elder Ananias in his area. This week was also very difficult, right now there really asking a lot of us, a lot of things to do. i don´t know, both me and my comp. feel really inadaquate and feel like it´s impossible to get it all done. But, after a lot of prayer and planning, we succeded. Now, first off, numbers are not the most important thing in the mission, much more important is the people they represent, but I had the best numbers I´ve ever had. We worked really hard, and relied a lot on the lord, and a lot of miracles happened. that´s something pretty amazing. Also yes, it has been raining a lot, and thank goodness for that, really cools it all off:) I bought a ping pong set! All of the chapels here have tables, but nothing to go with them. So I bought paddles and balls, and a net to play on P-Days. Also bought some books from deseret. And on the Package nothing special, I could use like one package of deodorant to keep so i don´t run out, but something to snack on, I love it and my companions always do too. I like ties if you pick one up, but no worries about anything, I love it all! Ãnyway, loved the pictures! Thanks for everything! Love you all! Elder Wyatt