Week 45 - May 26, 2026

Power of Prayer

I really don't know what to write about this week. I can't lie. I'm sorry, Grandma.

Highlights 

🌊: Our boy, Viktor, got baptized. He's a goat. He wanted to really be sure about law of chastity rules. Yes, Viktor, you can hold her hand in the street outside the church and in the church.

🔥: The entire Soto family pulled up, and the kid is hyped to get baptized next week by his dad. He told everyoneeee. Girl also had a lit time building Noah's ark in primary. 

⚡️: We almost got struck by lightning. It was about 10 feet away from us. That was kinda crazy. They still didn't even let us into their house.

😁: Today we had a friend we were teaching ask when they could get baptized. And we asked what day they were thinking of and they said just before you leave. 🥹. Goats out here. God is blessing us.

⛈️: Stormy season is starting here and it's incredible. We love it so much.

👨‍🎓: Everyone is graduating from high school right now, and its loki making me feel like I've been gone forever.

🐶: We found another Roscoe replica, and he wouldn't leave my side. Made me really happy and really sad. I know he be in dog heaven right now fs.

Spiritual Thought

“One Sunday, while driving to a ward conference, I poured my heart out to the Lord. When I arrived at the meetinghouse, a bright-eyed Primary boy stopped me and said, “We need to talk.” With a very serious look on his face, he asked—almost in a scolding voice—“When are you going to stop being a naughty boy?” I knew I was in some kind of trouble. Before I could respond, he added, “Every morning and every night, my parents ask us to pray for you.”

Elder Clement M. Matswagothata

If you don't think anyone is praying for you, pray for someone else. If you think someone is praying for you, pray for someone else. But I know that there is always someone thinking of you and praying for you. The power of prayer is something so real and is something I've grown to see. He eagerly waits to hear us and answer us.

7 Ask, and it shall be given unto you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

8 For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.

I hope you all have great weeks. Shoutout Samuel Hunt por cumplir un año más.

Elder Wilde 

Week 44 - May 18, 2026

Sea Niño

Highlights

🔝: Sometimes I forgot I'm on the mission out here with Morby. Sometimes we are here and everything just hits the fan, and we just start crying laughing. Always works out in the end. 

🍪: The little stores every 5 steps are now selling these Oreo packages that have like 15 Oreos in them and it's like 75 cents. Morby and I really take advantage. They are way better than the states idek what's going on. If something good, bad, or meh happens, we have to help ourselves with Oreos.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👧: We got to go to the temple with the Soto family, and it was amazing. The dad and son got baptized (mom was sobbing). The Spirit in the baptism was crazy. It was my favorite baptism yet for sure. After the baptism, the oldest son told me that after his baptism, he felt a peace he's never felt before. Love to hear it. God is really that guy fr.

🌊: Our boy Viktor getting baptized this week. After he watched the other baptism, he came up and said, "I want that, 3 o'clock next Sunday?" Ya, we can make that work. 

🎂: So here and in most Latin America countries when it's your birthday, you take a small little bite of the cake after singing. And on his first day of the mish, we shoved Morby's face into the cake. So, this time all of us were just watching and Morby all of a sudden pushed his entire face into the cake by himself. I thought, "That's what you had to do”. It was one of the best moments ever. The members were just staring at him in shock. I had tears going down my face from laughing so hard.

3️⃣: Morby has been making a lot of hot takes this week. But he's 90% sure we found one of the 3 Nephites.

🎵: Morby and I have fire walks. It's usually me singing a song then I'll ask if he knows it and he almost never will. So, then I just keep singing. Good times.

Spiritual Thought

22 Therefore, whoso repenteth and cometh unto me as a little child, him will I receive, for of such is the kingdom of God. Behold, for such I have laid down my life, and have taken it up again; therefore repent, and come unto me ye ends of the earth, and be saved.

I really like this scripture because I think a lot of times we think we need to be something bigger than we are to meet God's requirements, but at the end of the day, he asks that we be as little children. He doesn't ask for perfection, just that we do the most simple things we can as a child would.

Have a great day. Love you all

Elder Wilde

Week 43 - May 11, 2026

Sorry this email is super super long, but I promise it's worth a read... maybe. At least a quick skim 🫶

Highlights 

🍸: We were in a visit with a member and had a different member come with us. They gave us some drinks and when they weren't looking, the member chucked it out the window. Morby and I were dying.

💩: We were teaching this family that had gone to the church a couple of times in the past and I asked why she stopped going. She told us because she has to take care of her nieces because the mom is working and then the 3-year-old turned to me and sold her out that she was lying. Hint: One of us didn't go to church this Sunday. 

🦋: I hit some divisions w AP Vargas in Qechqi land. Sorry, mom, I had to drink the Pila/sink water. But it was super fun and super beautiful over there.

🔥: Our recent convert, Roberto, is getting the priesthood and going to enter the temple next week, so we are so hyped.

🦉: One of the members told me that Drake died in a car crash and I was actually depressed. Then he told me it was just a joke and that he was releasing an album which might've been worse.

👸🏼: Big Mother's Day wish to the greatest ever. Sorry your favorite son couldn't be there @QueenWilde.

Spiritual Thought

In the mission, you really get into a rhythm. A rhythm in just about every way. These last couple of weeks that we have been teaching the Soto Family have made me realize so many things that are so vital to the mission and sometimes get lost when you are in your “routine”.

A little background. Basically, the way the mission works out here is we find someone the first week. Then we go to church with them. Then after they go to church, we put them on baptismal date for about two weeks later and continue teaching them.

As we have been teaching the Soto Family, I have come to realize so many things. The night we found them it was pouring rain on a Sunday, and Morby and I just felt there was a miracle waiting. We had honestly had a terrible week but knew something was waiting for us. 99% of gamblers quit before they win type mentality.

We passed by their house and began to leave the neighborhood (they are our neighbors), when I felt without a doubt we had to knock on their door. They quickly invited us in, and we taught a quick lesson, and they invited us to come back. 

The dad and son came to church that Sunday and as our routine had it, we went to go put them on baptismal date. We started to teach and all I could think and hear was that, “Elder Wilde, just love them, and I will do what needs to be done”. I knew I could not do what I was thinking but instead follow the promptings. We ended up teaching about the Sacrament and ended up leaving with tears in everyone's eyes. The Spirit was so unbelievably strong.

Another day we came back and they explained to us at the end of the lesson that they have been waiting 15 years for the missionaries to teach them, to invite them to church, or even just to talk to them. Then they explained through some tears that the night we knocked on their door, one of their close family friend's daughters had died (Members of the Church). They said they felt even more of the need to learn about the church and that night, for the first time in 15 years, 2 missionaries knocked on their door. They told us how they knew without a doubt that God sent us to their door that night. Once again, the Spirit was just undeniable.

Looking back another part that has been left out was the fact that the day before knocking their door, Morby and I knocked every single door in the neighborhood except one. ONE SINGLE DOOR. We don't usually leave Sunday nights or have time to, but that night we decided to give our little bit of time that we had. And a little really does go a long way.

From that night forward, the Spirit prompted us in every way we needed, and we have continued to “love them and let God do his part,” and now this Sunday, the dad and oldest son have asked to become members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

If the story book couldn't get crazier, later that same Sunday, the mom called us to go over with their family. She was on FaceTime and gave us the phone. On the phone were two missionaries on the opposite side of Guatemala. They explained how they had one of the hardest weeks of their mission and knew a miracle was waiting. They left in the same pouring rain. At the same time. On the exact same day. They now are baptizing her brother and his wife on the same day as we will for the husband and son. Her brother for the first time in his life prayer and the next day the missionaries came. She told her brother that they were "Catholics and couldn't change" and she said that he explained how he's never felt a peace and surety that he does now and is the same thing her husband talks about every time we go to church and every time we are there in their house. She said it's not a coincidence; it's purely a miracle directly from God.

The same day. In the same dumping rain. With the same prompting. 

It may not say it in the missionary objective, but I believe our true purpose as missionaries is most importantly just to love those you are serving and from there, God will do his part. Don't fall into the routine but rather fall in love with the people that you are serving, and the Lord will always always always carry out his work. When we rely on his Spirit to guide us, we will always find what he has for us. We find the happiness he has for us starts when we look to truly love those around us first. My companion asked me our first day of the transfer if I truly "enjoy" the mission. I don't just enjoy it, I truly love it. 

2 Nephi 27

23 For behold, I am God; and I am a God of miracles.

John 15
12 (And) This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

D&C 82
10 (For) I, the Lord, am bound when ye do what I say.

He truly is a God of Miracles

Elder Wilde

Week 42 - May 4, 2026

 He Knows Where Your Heart Is

Highlights

🌊: Himilse got baptized. She has been going to church for almost 10 years, and the Lord prepared her for us.

⭐️: Transfer news. Morby and I are staying for another elite transfer here in Coban 2 and we are so hyped. We are feeling blessed.

🐕: Morby and I found a really cute dog in the street. Named him Barney. He's got a nice smile with his tongue out. He's a Rottweiler + Weiner Dog Mix… we think. Great find.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦: We had one of the most spiritual lessons ever with the Soto Family, our neighbors. They told us about how they've always been interested in going to church, but for the last 8 years have been waiting for the missionaries to invite them. They were exceedingly grateful for us coming to their door and explained to us how they have already seen the change in their lives from our messages and from God.

🚪: Morby and I love passing by the houses of people who have slammed doors in our face and saying something about how badly they want to hear our message. I know it sounds dumb, but we start crying laughing every time.

➗️: Hit some divisions in Chisec. That place is depressing and Morby and I didn't stop sweating for a single moment. Dripping sweat even at night. The baseball tarantulas also aren't the first choice.

🚻: The beginning of this week we received some unfortunate news from the laundromat. “I left your clothes in bleach all night but just couldn't get the armpit stains out”. Morby and I just looked at each other and started dying laughing. Classic. White shirts aren't too white anymore.

🏀: I met the legal guardian of Keba Keita and Fouse. He runs basketball camps in Mali then brings them back to the states. Crazy stories.

💩: Morby is fighting for his life in the bathroom the last couple of days. Pray for him. And me. It's hard studying w/ it in the background. 

Spiritual Thought

Sadly, in my time here in Coban 2 I haven't really had any support from the bishop in the slightest and actually the opposite. It's been hard hearing what he said about me to people when I personally am just trying my best and trying to do everything I can. This week was specifically hard. Morby and I truly have been grindingggg out here and feels like “giving it all.”  At the end of the week, we had our baptism and it was just going to be something small with only her family and a couple of us and the first counselor. We were taking our pictures, and the bishop came and just grilled me for the baptism and tried to cancel it. He has tried to get me moved out of the area and has gone to my Mission President to talk bad about me. Walking into his office after the baptism to tell him sorry and thank you for coming was a hard one and maybe had a couple tears involved. I didn't understand and still fully don't. It's a little hard feeling like you are giving all and only hearing negative.

After the baptism, an answer from God through a member, came. He pulled me aside and told me how they were all so grateful for me but more than anything, that “God knows where your heart is”.

I want to bear my testimony that I know God knows where our heart is. He knows the plans he has for each one of us. He is always preparing the path for us and if we can turn to him and give him everything we have, like the boy with the 5 loaves and 2 fish, he will ALWAYS perform his work and his miracle despite the thoughts of all those around us. I know that when we are able to come to lean on the Lord in everything, we are able to see that he truly does know where we are and that is really all that matters. I am so grateful to be a missionary and have the chance to feel the pure joy of loving the people here every day. I know this is his work and he loves us perfectly and unconditionally. En el nombre de Jesucristo amén.

17 And behold, I tell you these things that ye may learn wisdom; that ye may learn that when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God.

Elder Wilde