Week 21 - December 8, 2025

Most Beautiful Time of the Year

Ok little bit of a less ideal week in the field but that's ok. It only means we got big things on the way out here, so I'm hyped. 

3 For behold, the field is white already to harvest; and it is the eleventh hour, and the last time that I shall call laborers into my vineyard.

Divisions w/ Elder Richards

Had to start off the divisions showing Elder Richards all about. Insert Juan De Dios Reyes Melchor. The goat of Rabinal. He even was taking us to lunch… I don't know if I've seen Elder Richards so nervous when all the sudden, JuanI takes us to the most ghetto hole in the wall pork spot and they just grab the food straight from a bowl and give it to us. We know the Lord has things in store because we somehow aren't sick. But we had a couple lessons that day and I learned so much again. Biggest take away was truly just it doesn't matter if you know every word of scripture word for word. They have to know you care. You have to see how much it matters to you before they think of how it could matter to them.

Random Things:

🧗‍♂️: So, the Hermanas have been asking for weeks to go on this hike as a zone. So, we finally did it. It was actually a lit hike but just wait. Those Hermanas that wanted to hike so bad ended up quitting about halfway up the mountain. We were like this can't be real. But we got the job done--don't worry.

🌊: We have been teaching this lady for about a month and thought the baptism was going to happen because of how excited she was to receive all these blessings until she told us that she actually changed her mind and doesn't want to get baptized right now and needs to focus on her illegal immigration to the US, so there we are.

🛸: New Sarita ice cream dropped. Oreo cookies and cream ice cream sandwich. I mean, are we serious?  I'm gonna have three a day. Unreal pick up for the mish.

Argentina Mendoza Mission

Have to give the biggest shoutout to the Wilde family's new favorite missionary, Hermana Calderwood. She accidently misread Guatemala Cobán/ Belize mission for Argentina Mendoza, but we will get there. But Argentina Mendoza is so lucky to have her for the next 1.5 years and she is going to do amazing things and bless the people there so much. Even if she's doing it all in an Argentinian Spanish accent, she's going to be the most amazing missionary and i couldn't be more excited to see the lives she changes. Farewell is December 28th pullll upppp. Cardboard cut outs of me are allowed, just thought you should know.

Spiritual Thought

This week I've been reading a little in this book called, "A Case for the Book of Mormon."  This book goes over many "attacks" on the Book of Mormon and how it responded or responds.  It talks about how it has been attacked for 200 years and there yet to be a dent. But one passage in it I really really liked, and I thought was a crazy way of looking at it. One of the "attacks" is that Joseph Smith wrote the Book of Mormon. The passage responds with a challenge:

Write a history of ancient Tibet covering a period from 600 BC to AD 450. Why ancient Tibet? Because you know no more about Tibet than Joseph Smith (or anyone else in the 1820s) knew about ancient America. • There is to be no research of any kind

• Your history must be 531 pages and more than 300,000 words in length

• Other than some grammatical corrections, and a few other minor changes you must make no modifications in the text. The first edition, as you dictate it to your secretary, must stand forever.

• You must change your style of writing many times to represent various authors.

◦ Subsequent archaeological discoveries must support the truth of the objects, events, and names you refer to.

• You must invent about 280 new names of people and places that will stand up under scrutiny through the years as to their proper application and derivation.

• Thousands of great men, intellectual giants, national and international personalities, and scholars must accept your history and its teachings as true.

• Tens of thousands of salespersons (i.e., missionaries) must give eighteen months or more of their lives, paying their own expenses and bearing witness of the truth of this book.

• You must finish writing this book in 65 business working days or fewer.

When you start thinking about it from this point of view, it only starts to feel crazier. Either Joseph Smith “wrote” the book and is the greatest author of all time and an author that lived with very little education who managed to write the most impressive “fictional” testament of all time that “luckily” aligns with the world he knew almost nothing about. Orrrrrr. The Book of Mormon is another testament of Jesus Christ and was TRANSLATED through the power of God to give us another witness and fullness of the gospel that Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world. Through the gift and translation of the Book of Mormon, we are able to grow in the knowledge of our Savior. 

4 And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost.

5 And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things.

I testify that the Book of Mormon is a work through the power of God. Through consistent reading and thought you will grow in your testimony and faith and you will have access to the complete knowledge of the gospel of Jesus Christ. I know that the Book of Mormon is the most true book in the world and is another testament of Jesus Christ meant to bring us to him.

I love you all have amazing weeks.

Elder Wilde