Last week in MTC

hola!! guess what! i leave this tuesday for the field!!! so probably dont send anything else to the ccm, just send it to the mission home which you shoul dhave the address or just look online. but its crazy, i have loved the ccm but am so excited to get out into the field, and as you all know, i will be having hermana withdrawals when i have to leave hermana mellor, williams and garcia. love them but am so excited to meet my new companion. we got to go out to the plaza this week again, and lo and behold, i was the sr companion who is supposed to know spanish! all the new north americans get to go with a latin comp but this time i was the ´latin´and i was with hna peterson from missouri. we had a blast. people here are so nice and even though we dont speak very well, the spirit touches people and they are willing to listen. one guy yesterday told me that there was something different in my eyes and that even though he had rejected the bom from his freinds before, today was a special day and he wanted to accept our book. i told him it was the light of christ and that he cuold feel that way everyday if he would follow the example of Jesus Christ and be baptized. he cant wait for the missionaries to come over. so fun. Guate is great, we get to go to the temple again today and we are just surrounded by the spirit all the time, watching talks by the prophets, going to devotionals and we sing all the time! my comps and i did a special musical number for the devo last night, it only works in spanish, but we sang joseph smiths firtst prayer to the tune of come thout fount, acaapella, its really cool how it works out. sorry i dont have much time, ill email you next week from the field though! love you all, thanks for your support! muah!

Guate MTC Week Three

hola!!! guate just keeps getting better and better! i love it here! we had a few huge rainstorms this week that were amazing! we dont leave the ccm very often, but yesterday we were walking to our investigator appt at the casa cre, where we teach our teachers for practice and our teacher asked us to contact the temple guard who isnt a member! we did and he wants us to bring him a bom today! im so escited to talk to him more. also, this week i had a great inspiration, get this: Heavenly Father has been teaching me ´the power of an hour´. we really can get so much done in an hour or even a half an hour if we set our minds to it and ask heavenly father to help us accomplish the task. it really is amazing, you should try it! also, funny things happen everyday, we have the cutest latina sisters here right now that help us with our spanish and its way fun to laugh with them when i say stuff like ´tengo mucho hombre´ instead of hambre, for i am hungry, you spanish speakers will appreciate that. life is great, i love this gospel and i am so grateful for the opportunity to serve! i love all of you! thank you so much for your support! buena suerte on finals for those of you who have them this week and next! we´re off to the temple now...going through the veil in spanish! haha love it. oh and soccer is so much fun, we play every morning, well i play every morn for gym with all the latin elders, its a balst. love you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Guate Week Two

hola familia! how are you all! i hope everyone is doing fabulous! whoa, i{ve been here for more than a week and what an adventure it has been. i love it down here and there is so much to tell you, so im just going to start!
The best part of the day was this huge market we went to! we spent a couple hours there and contacted three people too! hermana mellor, who is my comp again, i dont know if i told you, but i guess she felt the spirit tell her to talk to the guy who i wouldnt buy peanuts from because he wouldnt give me a good price! so i had just walked away, and hermana goes and hands him a book of mormon. the other three hermanas had just walked away and so i was left to interpret the spanish for them. haha it was funny but the guy listened to us and his parents were right there selling fruit and so he said the missionaries could come over and teach his family! I am starting to understand more spanish and it was a miracle i understood him, it was so awesome!
we contacted the lady we all bought matching guate skirts from, and then this other guy walked up to us and saw we were missionaries,he told us he was a member living in cali and he wanted us to come teach his family that lived in guate too! way cool. the market was nuts guys, way more insane than the ones in cusco! and ps we ate lunch at wendys-that was fun ordering in spanish.....hahaha but anyway, we are the only five missionaries at the whole ccm because everyone else left yesterday and the other miss. dont get here until tomorrow, so basically we got the special treatment yesterday, the caterer even forgot to bring dinner ( i love latin culture) and so presidente said no problem, welp sisters-look slike we are going out to dinner! so he took us to a guatemalan steak house. being a missionary is the best! i wish i could tell you all the details of everyday life, but i will tell you more on mothers day i guess. haha we are about to go buy stuff from a lady who sells stuff from the back of her green car on the side of the ccm, carro verde haha its great.
but guess what?we got to go to wal mart yesterday! it was so fun. hna steimle took us yesterday, mol you would love her. they are from pasadina, cali. i havent had any migraines this week! wahoo!
yesterday we went with hermana steimle, the ccm presidents wife and president to a guatemalan map so we knew where we were and where we would be going, and then we saw this cute orphanage next to a new dentist office they are building for the orphanage and missionaries, so cool! i love you all and know this gospel is true. i{ve been studying a lot in the book of mormon how many promises there are that god gives us if we follow his commandments, you should look for them, its a fun study. love you all! hers my testimony, part of it, in spanish! La Expiacion de Jesucristo es muy impotante in nuestras vidas. yo se que Jesucristo murio por mi pecados y su pecados y todos los pecados del mundo.depues tres dias, Jesucristo resucito . estoy muy agredecido por el amor que Jesucristo y Dios tienen por mi.Yo se que Jesucristo vive! Digo estas cosas en el nombre de Jesucristo, amen. xoxoxxo!

Guate Week One

hola!!! I am here! I made it from Dallas to Guate just fine, I sat next to some people who were nice but they told me all about their church and I told them all about ours. They were witha whole big group coming down here to build one of their churches and i probably could have converted them if their pastor wasnt glaring at me. hahaha they were nice though. I also had a cool experience, a man came up to me as I was gathering all my stuff when we landed and introduced himself as the area seventy Elder Augusto. he had heard me talking and assumed I must be a missionary, so he helped me the whole way through customs and got me to where the MTC people picked me up. he carried my 46 pound backpack for me, my huge bag weighed 78 lbs and my other one was 54 lbs plus my side back and pillow were overflowing with my spanish scriptures and other stuff. I was so happy when I stepped foot in the CCM, President steimhle was there to greet me, Miguel and Percy(the ones that picked me up) were my new best friends and all my hermanas were around the corner and jumped out when i got there!! and I got to drop my stuff. ha It was a great reunion and we´ve had a lot of fun catching up these last couple days. there are some other sweet hermanas here, and guess what! im so glad i traveled on monday and got to be here yesterday because we went out into the city square, which is 45 mins away from here on a bus, but is in my mission, and we got to proselyte and talk to as many people as we could! They sent each native american missionary with a latin and the gringos mostly just stood there and testified when the latin all the sudden stopped talking..haha that was our cue because i had no idea what my companion was saying 98% of the time. it was hialrious, but such a cool experience. they talk really fast and the old guys with no teeth dont really speak very loud or annunciate much haha. but it was so cool because we gave 4 Books of Mormon and got 8 contacts that the missionaries can go teach. there were about three of the four books that we placed that were really interested, I could at least get that much from the length of the conversation and their body language. and i would ask hermana ponce after if I had read the investigator right and she said yes to those three. there was only one creeper who kept asking where my family was from and wanted to know our address.
The Latin hermanas are all stellar. they help us with our spanish and we help them with english. i really do love spanish and I feel like Im not behind the other hermanas and im grateful they are doing a lot of review of what we learned in provo right now. I taught my first lesson in spanish yesterday, that was...interesting. its great that the spirit does the work. elder oaks said in the devo we watched: "the spirit will teach louder than your words ever will". the food is fine, you better believe we have beans for every meal! I havent seen anythign I absolutely couldnt eat yet so the food has been fine. the CCm is way nice! we have a window view of the temple and its literally twenty steps away. . i love you all so much. i love it here and am so excited to be a guatemalan for the next 17 months! i cant believe ive already been gone more than a month. we do get dearelders here, so feel free to write soon. Heavenly Father blesses his children when we obey his commandments. The SAvior wants us to put out rburdens on him. read mosiah 24 14. gotta go! love ya! hermana wetzel

Left the Provo MTC

"Solo Sister Wetzel" with two companions: Elder Ward (left) and Elder Bott

Sister Wetzel with her MTC district

Sister Wetzel left the Provo MTC today! This is a huge blessing. She was given the medical clearance to leave because her migraines have greatly subsided. Thank you so much for all of your prayers in her behalf. She said she can feel your prayers.

She spoke to the family today from the airport. She sounded great! She is full of the missionary spirit. She is headed to the Guatemala MTC. She expects to be there 4-6 weeks.

We love you Peach!