Argentina!!

Hello from Argentina!!

Wow, Dallin! It is just amazing on the progress you make each week. The blessings just continue to shower in! Argentina is so awesome!! I am serving in a ghetto and trashy kind of area called Rodeo del Medio. But I love it here!! I am getting trained by Elder Johnson from Ogden Utah haha!! Elder Johnson is a stud missionary. I really am lucky to have him as my trainer and am super excited about working with him. Everything is so different here and it is very difficult to communicate. Not only do I have to get used to just only spanish, but learn costellano as well. But it gets just a little bit easier each day. So we had a baptism last saturday for a 16 year old kid named Matias. It was crazy. Our church is a tiny little building with just a few rooms and no baptsimal faunt. So we had to make the faunt in the kitchen using some polls and basically a green tarp. And then since its winter here and a little chilly, we had to boil water on the stove in a big pot and dumping it into the faunt until it was full. Then after used buckets to scoop and carry the water out the door into a grassy area. So it took us about 6 hours to fill the faunt and two hours to take the faunt down haha. A whole day ordeal, but it is so worth it for a baptism. But we also have a batpism for a 9 year old girl named Valentina this Saturday! She has been wanting to get baptised for a while but her parents wouldnt let her. But finally they budged. She would travel an hour each sunday to attend church with her Grandparents who are members. Her mom said she can only get baptised if its not in our gross tarp-like faunt. So we are traveling almost 2 hours to our stake center for it haha! But it is going to be awesome! The food here is just good as I was told. It is delicious!!! There asados (bbq´s) are unlike anything I have tasted! And that is saying something when I grew up eating Dad´s grilling! The members feed us here really good as well. Lets just say it is a good thing that we walk everywhere with all of this food we are eating! I kind of feel bad with the place we are living though. All around us are these tiny little mud hut like homes, and then in the middle is some super nice pench´s (apartments) that we live in. President Avila really like them because it is a gated complex, and is a super safe place to live. And our area is kind of a rough area haha! Well sounds like life is good at home, but a little crazy as well! Like usual. I loved the email from Dallin. It made my week. Short and sweet. Jess how is your daughter doing? Sounds like you are doing awesome!! Well I am always so happy to hear from home. Thank you all so much for your love and support. I love you all, and have a great week.

Elder Wengert-W9

Off to Argentina!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello family,

     I can't believe the improvement Dallin is improving so much. It is such a blessing to see him approve so much from so far away. So exciting news, I have my VISA!! And I leave this afternoon. My flight leaves Manchester at 5:15 and I fly over to Atalanta Georgia and then on over to Buenos Aires. So a nice short 15 hours of flying haha. It is so weird. I have been waiting for this time since the moment I opened my call, but now that it is here, I am kind of sad to leave. I have truly learned to love everyone so much here. Even those who have yelled at me and everything. But I am still super excited to go to Argentina. That is exactly where I need to be now. I did my work here in New Hampshire and now off to teach the Argentines!! But what a way to end my time here with a baptism yesterday. But not only for Prakash, but it was a triple baptism. Two other investigators that were being taught by other missionaries from our district. So it was so cool. Prakash was on fire and then is now going out teaching with us at times starting on Sunday. But it was amazing to see his progression starting from when we first arrived here. Well I am so sorry this email is so short today, but there is a lot I have to do before I leave. Thank you so much for everything. I love you all so much! Have a great week. I'll email you next week from Argentina.

Elder Wengert-W9 

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Miracles

Hello everybody,
Oh my goodness, the miracles just keep flowing in. Dallin, it was
so amazing to see the pictures of you sitting up, smiling, and awake.
Such an inspiration to me. The Lord truly knows what he is doing. But
the week to so good. Prakash keeps on progressing so well towards his
baptismal. He had his interview yesterday and it was so good. But
because of Prakash we now have 9 Nepoli investigators that we teach at
Prakash's house. And Saturday we had many lessons that we taught and
it they went so well. So we invited those investigators to be
baptized, and we now have 6 more investigators committed to baptsim.
Three of them are set for August 3, and the other 3 we don't have a
set date yet. But it is so amazing to see the Lord touch their hearts.
They still have a lot to learn and to grow before they can get
baptized, but they all have that burning desire to follow Christ. And
that is the first step towards baptism. But it is a new week and we
are excited to go. Yesterday was so great at church. We had 4
investigators come to church and we got a less-active family to come
to church. When we first got here into Manchester the ward wasn't too
supportive of the missionaries and missionary work, but it was so
wonderful to see the ward slowly get more and more excited about it.
Even to the point where we have members come up to us and ask when
they can come out teaching with us. It is so awesome. So this week
Bishop asked us if we could help move a lady from a public storage
unit to a shipping unit so her stuff could get shipped to california
where she was moving to. We show up and it is a beautiful sunny day,
just perfect. But in the matter of minutes it totally changes from
that beautiful day to a huge storm. It was poring so bad haha. It took
six loads and we were soaking wet!! But it was fun and the lady wasn't
a member and she starting asking questions about us and all of that.
Some times we just have to be the seed planters and send them off to
other missionaries. Nae nae, Happy Birthday!!!!! You are getting crazy
big haha!! You can't start high school yet, shouldnt you still be back
at estes or something. And I can't even be there to beat off all of
the boys away from you. Well Tanno, that is your job now ok!! But
Jordy and Naes, how was EFY? and now girls camp right?! You lucky
girls. Well I'm sorry it is kind of a short one this week, the
computer hasn't really been working with me this morning haha! But
Dallin, I'm so proud of you and how much you are progressing. I love
you brother, you are the greatest!! I love all the rest of you and
have a great week!!

Elder Wengert, W9


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Hello everybody,

    Well Dallin, you have always been that example to me, and my hero. And heroes always win, so you've got this. I got a phone call from President Wilkey Friday night and I was super excited because of how great he is. But then he asked if I could go in another room that was more private and there he said a prayer with me and told me the news. Just a whirl of emotion surrounded me. I didn't know what to think or let alone feel. Elder Varney gave me a blessing which was a huge help, but I was still being selfish. I was thinking about me and how it was affecting me. But then my trainer came up to me and said "Elder Wengert, could I have blessing". I was a little confused at first but of course I did. But it was amazing. The blessing that I gave him directly was for me tambien. And it made me realize, I need to focus on other people. Stop being so selfish! Forget yourself and get to work!! So Dallin, even though I can't be there next to you, helping you, and loving you, I can do that from here, and do even more. A mission is as family effort. Families receive blessings for missionary service. So remember that you have to special missionaries serving and working hard for you. So many people are praying for you! Well it has still been an incredible week. Prakash continues to work towards his baptism. About a week and a half ago we asked him if he knew anybody that would be interested in learning about  Jesus Christ, but he wasnt really sure at the time. Pero, we come back to his house a few days later and there sitting on his couch is 5 of his friends. Waiting to learn from us. 4 of those 5 are now investigators and are having regular lessons form us. And now because of Prakash we are teaching his older brother as well. It is just so amazing to see. We also have a new investigator as well named Patricia. She is kind of crazy but she loves church so much. After her first lesson she told us that she wanted to get baptized and her daughters as well. But we havent gotten to the word of wisdom yet, and that is going to be a big issue for her. But she is looking very promising. Well last Thursday we got permission from President Wilkey to got down to Lawrence Massachusetts for the day. Lawrence is just about a Spanish speaking town. It is a town of all Dominicans from the Dominican Republic so probably about 90% of the population there is Spanish speaking. It was pretty crazy and even more ghetto than here in Manchester, but it was so awesome. A full day of just Spanish. We got to teach a few lessons, a bunch of street contacting, and even got to do a blessing. It was great. Well I am just about out of time. I hope all of you have a great week, and  please keep me updated. Dallin, I love you brother!! And I love all the rest of you!

Elder Wengert-W9           

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Hello!!!!!

      Wow, That truly is amazing about Dominic!! That just made my day!! He is just a great guy!! But Dallin and Amy, congrats with the baby!!! I am so excited!! Well it's been a pretty good week. Suk (Mom I told you about her, the one from Napoli) but she is a recent convert, but we are teaching her 18 year old son Prokash. And we have a baptismal date for him on June 23rd!! He tells us all the time that he wants to be a missionary. And he already is sharing his testimony with his friends. His last lesson he had two of his friends over to hear it and he had already showed them the video Finding Faith in Christ. So awesome. And then Suk and Prakash wanted us to come with them to a party for her niece turning 1. So we went wanting to meet her family and some new investigators. So we walk in and this little apartment is filled with like 50 Nopali people. But they all stand up and come running to us, shaking our hands, and offering us there seats. They sit us down and give us this huge plate of traditional Nopaoli food. For the most part like half of the dishes werent too bad, but the other half we had to choke it down haha! And it was like the hottest food ever. I thought my mouth was literally on fire. They just sat there laughing at us! But while we are eating they start taking picture after picture with us. Even worse than you Mom! But they are incredible. I just love the culture and they are the most loving people. We are teaching a few of them this week. We met an inactive family yesterday called the Katsikas. But just an amazing family. they have 4 kids. but the oldest is stevie who is 9 but hasnt been baptised yet. So we start teaching him tomorrow. He is terrified of water so w e will have to figure something out haha!! Well we got stopped by a jehovah witness a few days ago and he thought he had us but we simply just testified to him. We gave him a Book of Mormon and he is like "good, now I can find fault in it". And then Elder Lozano simply said "Christ, the perfect man, and they still found fault in him". Kind of shut this guy up and he just walked away. Way cool experience. Sounds like everything is going really good with everybody. I love your e-mails and pictures. Jordan, in your dodgeball picture, holy cow, you look so much like Tara, so crazy haha!!! Tan sounds like fathers and sons was fun! Im jealous you got all of the fajitas. And Nae Nae, way to jump up the big waterfall and show all the boys how its done!! Thats my sis!! Reminded me of an 75 foot cliff I jumped off of on a scout trip one time!! I was freaking out so bad and finally just went for it haha!! Jess, sounds like you are doing so great!! I get a tiny idea of your experience being here in New England. Some people have that very heavy english accent!! Well I love you all so Much and cant thank you enough for your love and support!!

Elder Wengert-W9

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New Hampshire!!

Hello everybody!!

     Happy Mothers Day to all of the amazing mothers out there. It was so nice to hear from Mom, Jordy, and Tan-Man!! Sounds fun back at home, but not as fun here in NH haha! Well I am in a three-some right now. They kept Elder Varney and I together and our trainer Elder Lozano from LA is double training us. It was way fun. But we are assigned to the South Manchester area. So were are basically right in the ghetto of Manchester. We meet so many interesting people here, but you just have to love them no matter how many teeth they have, smell terrible of a mixture of 10 different drugs, or what they just got of prison for haha! But there is actully quite a bit of Spanish speaking opportunities here. Probably 50% of our time is in spanish right now!! We have already had some amazing experiences already. We were trying to find a referral that we had received saturday but the address was only the corner of a certain intersection, and there is four corners. So we go to every house, and it starts poring rain like crazy!! And no luck, we never found her. But instead there is a teenage girl named Tianna sitting on her steps just watching the rain haha! But we start talking to her and her mom comes out so we talk to them and put them under our umbrellas. So we are taching them while we are getting soaking wet. But end of story we have a return appointment with them and it looks very promising, especially with the daughter Tianna. And after that we had dinner and a meeting at bishop Dixons house. But we felt so bad because our suits since they were so wet smelt like wet dog our something haha. But it was good. We got to meet the ward yesterday which was way awesome. Many of them are your typical Marana people haha. With their tennis shoes, no teeth, and talk to you straight for the whole 3 block period. But they are so great and I look forward to workign with them. Well I am almost out of time. I hope you all have a great week and I look forward to hearing from you! Love you all!!

Elder Wengert- W9

3 more days!!

Hello everybody!!!

So monday morning, 4 am, I leave to go to the New Hampshire, Manchester mission to serve until I get my visa. I seriously am so excited and cant wait. I know this is where the Lord needs me right now before I get to go to Argentina.The only thing I am a little nervous about is the spanish speaking population in New Hampshire and how much I will get to use my the spanish I have, I just don't want to lose what I have learned here at the MTC and have to learn it all over again when I get to Argentina. But it will all work out! But there are so many people getting re-assigned. My whole district got re-assigned except for one Hermana who is scheduled to stay at the MTC for another because they ran out of re-assignments. But we are all basically in the four corners of the US. Seatle Washington, Tempe Arizona, Orlando Florida, and then Manchester New Hampshire. So we are all really excited. Man Mom, sorry I didnt get to talk to you yesterday. I tryed calling you first and you answered, but after you said hello it cut off and I wasnt able to get back through to you. So I called Dad. But it was so good to hear form you Dad. Just hearing your voice was great. But I will get to call Monday. Im hoping to call when everybody is there. When would be the best time for that? I will be at the airport pretty early, so I can even try calling before seminary and everything. Just let me know! Well Elder Varney and I just got released as Zone Leaders last night, and I have to say, its pretty nice haha. As much as I enjoyed it, its pretty nice not having to have all these meetings, and have Sunday all planned out, and all that responsibility haha. We just get to prepare to leave. Well I hosted Wednesday but I never got to see Randy while hosting. And after hosting Elder Varney and I had to go to what is called "Beginning Teaching". Which is an activity where all the new missionaries that came in that day watch missionaries teach a few lessons and kind of learn from that. But Elder Varney and I were recommended by the teachers to be those example missionaries. It felt so easy since it was in english haha! But we get invited in by the investigator and we walk into the house. I look out into the audience and right there in the front row is Elder LaFaye. Man it was so good to see, and after I got to give him a hug and talk for a few minutes. Great!! Dad, sounds like good times, playing out at Red Rock. Sorry I couldnt make it haha! Well we had a way awesome experience on Tuesday with TRC. We taught a man named Nathon, and he was an RM who served in the Dominican Republic and has been home for a little over a year. But we got into how he wants to help his friends who have gome innactive but they live in Nevada and he here is going to school here in Utah. But we helped him a bit with that. But at the end we felt prompted to ask him to share his testimony with us, and he just broke down in tears. After a few minutes of crying he shared such a powerful testimony with us and then we shared ours with him. After he thanked us and said he needed that. But then yesterday we recieved a package in the mail from him that had some of the mini preach my gospels, some snacks, and then way awesome letter. He said before he was doubting his testimony and the truthfulness of the gospel and through us he was able to rediscover that testimony of his. I just put a copy of the letter in the mail for you. Thought you would appreciate a copy of it. Devin, it was so good to see you! How is everything at home? Nae's Im still waiting on your pic? haha! Jordy, im sorry to hear about  your game, but sounds like you had a good season! And way to make good decisions. Jess, sounds like you are dong so awesome. Im so happy for you!! Well I hope you all have a great week,  my next email will be coming to you from New Hampshire haha! Love you all so much!

Elder Wengert - W9

Hermano Woodhouse and I. Such an awesome teacher!!

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