Mom and Bros and Dad! I am so happy to have been able to see you on Christmas Day! I cant believe that the year already ended and that in 2015 i come home! Time is flying by soo fast! I hope you all had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Being in the mission is an experience very different, being away from home and all. I thought i was going to cry at first not being home for the holidays, even though it has been tough and all the lord has blessed me alot and i know that he lives and that this is his work. I thought that i for sure wouldnt do this if it werent true and all. I really miss you all and i hope that you all send me a picture of the apple cider midnight toast haha! I will keep sending pictures to you guys everyweek. For Christmas on the 24th we did the mission christmas party with president, then in the night we ate a ton in the bishops house and then afterwards on christmas day i skyped you all and on newyears we dont have permission to be out anylater than 8:30 so i think well just be in the house and order a pizza or something. The light of tons of Fireworks and it sounds like a war ahahahaha! I already have to go becasue my companion is already done writing and is waiting for me so i dont want to make him wait alot but i hope you all know that i really love you alot! thanks for the pictures and the emails! Love you!=D


Elder Wikstrom

*This was a transfer week, but Brady stayed in the same area. He got a new companion, Elder Merma.

i have a companion who is from a peruvian family but he was born in maryland and speaks english and spanish. hes really awesome. ill send you a picture!=) this was just taken like an hour ago from now.

Elder Merma and Elder Wikstrom

Mission Christmas Party

Elder Wikstrom, with President and Sister Ayre at
mission Christmas Party

Redneck Christmas

Despedida

I love it when the members go to the despedidas and share pictures they took with my son. :)

Elder Wikstrom and Lalo Krenz

Elder Wikstrom and Gaby Krenz

Christmas 2015

We love talking to Brady on Christmas. We had a hard time connecting this year. We could not see him and he kept cutting out, but he could see and hear us. We finally had to go to Jeff's work to be able to have a good enough internet connection to talk to him. We are grateful the family that was hosting him for the call allowed him the time to connect with us. 

Merry Christmas

hey mom hows it going? do the dwsers still drink dew and dws at 8 till 12? or are they all being slackers? does duck dynasty still play? what are the famous quotes of nowadays? im stuck in 2013 still thinking of those quotes and them tv shows like fresh prince of belaire and duck dynasty and codmw3. what do the kids do nowadays. and dad, hows the feller doing? any new jokes. hows work at kents and archibalds? New workers at kents, and the managers are the same still? new designs or prices, argentina is freakin expensive man! a coke cost 25 pesos for a 2 liter and we live on 1000 a month. but i really love the mission and you guys and all but i like the mission and couldnt imagine life without it! i feel like i am a resident here and everything is normal, itll be so wierd at home. did you know that when guys greet each other here they do a cheeck kiss. the only country in the americas that does that. everyone else only greets ladys like that. anyways any news about argentina in america? apperantly the government here is more for russia than for the USA. but i never hear anything happen. anyways mom i love you and hope to see you on christmas and that everything turns out ok with the dangole skype. if not see you moms day hahah jk mom i love you ! see yall on christmas! at noon!
heres a throwback of sanpedro!

love you Elder WHALSTRUM

hey there fellers i will call on skype at 4 oclock my time so like 1 your time i think. just so yall know right down questions de argentina and i will answer them and i will write down questions for you. and will talk, i am practicing my english to talk good with you guys my mind is in spánish mode=)

here one of a service project we did. i think i almost got
heat stroke doing this project. it was like 100 degrees
outside with lots of humidity

16 Months

This year for Christmas it feels weird to think that this is the last one in the mission. wow. I love this area and the mission and even though its a holiday and i miss the familiy i feel great here and know i am at right where i need to be at! The mission is the best experience ever haha its just like the movie the best two years hahaha. THanks for sending the friends a christmas card, matias and gaby got theirs. THe driveway to the house looks great. I really miss your home made cooking, stuffed peppers and enchiladas chicken rollups and cordonbleu and all the good things you cooked, no one cooks the same here, bread and pasta and more bread here hahaha. na there is a family that give us so much good food and always makes sure us 4 missionaries in the ward are all taken care of. the familia Galeano are the best! so awesome! theyre funny too, the lady was a hardcore evangelica at first and converted to the gospel of Jesus Christ and they are super awesome. tomrrow i get to go to belgrano (rich town) to get my nail taken out haha fun fun! awesome.

We are planning a baptism this weekend and 2 or 3 more on the 27th, we are hoping and waiting for maricles to be able to meet the goal of 2000 baptisms in the mission for the year 2014! I am so excited to be apart of it all! VAMOS BUENOS AIRES NORTE! anyways i hope you have a good week this week and enjoy work! thanks for the money and the prayers and all the unrcognized things you and dad and brothers and grandma and grandpa and the other people do for me! I sent this to matias for his wedding anniversary video hes going to do: "los matrimonios y familias que logran a tener éxito en el fin de todo son los matrimonios y familias selladas en el Santo Templo del Señor. "Marriages and friends are forever" "El que quiere lograr la vida eterna se casará; o mas bien el que se casa por la eternidad en el Santo templo del Señor tendrá la opurtunidad de tener la vida eterna." I thought about that for a minute but its totally made up as if i were writing scriptures haha in other words dont take it as doctorine.hahaha annnnnnnnyways i hope you have a superduper happy anniversary! Tell the fam i said HI!" He and his family are so awesome! anyways mom and dad look what i made for dinner, egg with cabbage and Aji pepper and salt with a dash of love haha

i love you mom and dad! have a great week! talk to you on next monday. On the 24th christmas eve its called the noche buena here we have from 930 to 2 in the with the mission and in the night we get to eat with the bishop and his family! Its going to be awesome i will try to find us a day on christmas when i can write! take off christmas everyone! love you all!

Elder WIkstrom

the food is called arroz chaufa and its soo amazing, them
peruvians know what theyre doing with food man!

the bishop has a bad finger and the young men were pointing
at his finger haha!

there isnt much time cause today in tina its a holiday and nothing is open so i just wanted to send this little message and hope it helps ya out=)
" You were in the war in heaven and one day when you are in the spirit world you will be enthralled with those who you are associated with. You will ask someone in which time period they lived and you might hear "I was with Moses when he parted the Red Sea" or "I helped build the Pyramids" or "I fought with capitain Moroni". and as you are standing there in amazment someone will turn to you and ask "Which of the prophets time period did you live in?" And when you say Gordon B Hinckley, a hush will fall over every hall and every corridor in heaven, and all in attendance will bow at your presence. you were held back 6000 years because you were the most talented, most obedient, most courageous and most righteous. Are you still? Remember who you are."
-Boyd K. Packer.
quedáte tranquilo porque a vos te mando un correo el próximo lunes;)

here are some recent pictures of whats going on in south murca

Jose C Paz

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This weekend it rained like crazy, it was soo humid and hot and then it rained and the air cooled off enough that we have to wear a jacket now. We had stake conference here in Jose C Paz. saturday night and sunday morning during the storm, we were all worried that the investigadors wouldnt come because nobody wants to leave the house here when it rains and we have to do some walking to arrive and take 2 buses. Even with all the storm we brought a 15 year old kid we had been teaching because yesterday he was baptized! We are very happy that he took his disicion to be baptized. It was so awesome, the water was cold too! hahaha. there is a photo at the baptism service and then we took photos that night in the appartment that expresses how we felt hahaha But the important thing to recognize is that the lord did all the real work! in later weeks we are expecting alot more to come=)
This week we were waiting for a bus in the middle of nowhere. just a bumpy dirt road and fields of grass and trees and argentina as far as the eye could see, as we were waiting a car drove by really slowly just as the bus was arriving and a guy with his buddies rolled down the window and said "Hey beautiful ill take you up to the town for only one dollar." i thought we were all alone me and my companion and i said uuhhh nooo...but thanks laughing alittle. and he scould at me and said NOT YOU, the girl. and he drove away all embarrased and i looked behind and saw a lady there too and me and my companion and that lady were all laughing because i had answered the creepy dude and he got angry and drove away. it was so funny.


The experinces one has on a mission are the best the spiritual ones and the funny ones, there are plenty of the two. When we teach lessons the spirit is felt so strongly and i really enjoy helping others to feel of the love of god! WIth all that happens on the mission one cant possible doubt the truthfulness of the gospel. I know its true and that we have it to be able to live with god again in a state of endless happiness as a family=) i hope you all had a happythanksgiving! I bought a kilo of bread, put butter and sugar on it and slid that baby in the oven to heat it up and ate that with a liter of chocolate milk! uuuuhhhhhhmmmmmmm that hit the spot! have yourself a great week and ill talk to ya next week!

tons of people got baptized yesterday!
hopefully we make the Liahona

we had a baptism yesterday i baptized our investigador
Ezequiel and a 9 year old girl named Belen!

yes i bought that UFC hat here!