HI MOM!

Thank you for sending me that message! It helps me out a lot! I WILL be better this week, I promise! I got up at like 7:55 today, hurried and got dressed and did studies at 8:00. I just don't feel very aware of what time it is, but I am completely responsible cause I hear the alarm at 6:30 every morning and I just fall back asleep. My companion gets up at 6:30 every morning, he is awesome and a really hard working kid! We don't have any problems. We are getting along great and we both love being each other's companion. What you said makes me feel better and like I can do it! Thanks so much mom for that. I love you so dearly!

Are you ready for conference? I for sure am! I love conference. I hope we can get some people there though! Last night we went by to see that kid, Juan Martinez, to see how his reading, pondering, and praying went. Well, when I show up in front of the door he saw me and he ran away into another room. I don't know why. A little kid answered the door and said, "He's not here", right before we said anything at all, so we asked her. She went and told him and then came back and said, "He said he's at his grandma's house right now and will be here tomorrow." We were like laughing because she was so innocent and just being a messenger and we said, "Just call him, we saw him." She went and never came back, but the door was still open a little until the wind blew it open and we just left. I don't think we'll be going back to see Que Paso (what happened). It's too bad cause he was 19, the mission age.

Right now we are talking to Maxi, his brother Emiliano, Brian, Nelson, and trying to get them baptized! They are all 18 or 19 years old except Emiliano is 10. Alson, we talk to Lalo Rodriguez, the dad of Juan and boyfriend of Maria. Well, they are going to get married now. They're taking out a turno today and that will give them a date of marriage. They want us to be witnesses and sign the marriage papers and then we will baptize Lalo. Hopefully I will still be here for all of this. We have been drilling marriage into them and gave them and they've been praying and reading and going to church now and they want to pay tithing and fast too. We are soo happy for them! Lalo is a guy too so it won't be the traditional baptize a kid thing that happens to lots of missionaries! Other than that, we are trying to help the members and less actives become strong and stay in the church and be active and we know that through that we will be able to find, teach, and baptize and confirm! That is the vision of the mission for success. We are going to have success and be successful. I am going to be more obedient, not just more but exactly obedient in all things, at all times, and in all places so that we can have this success, cause I am holding us back right now, and I will report to you next week cause nothing really changed from the last week yet so I promised you and because I want to be able to hold my word, I WILL do better. I love you mom. Things here are really good and if there is something you want, just let me know. I can pick up some Argentine products for ya'll! I love you a buns load mom, more than you ever know! and Dad too!
Talk to you next week!

Chau,
Elder Wikstrom
ps the way I understand copado is awesome.