not a whole lot happened this week :/

Well, not a whole lot happened this week, unfortunately. We were sick this week, and could only work a few hours at a time. But, we worked hard regardless, and we were still blessed. It was really awesome being able to finally teach some English speakers. Haha. One of them also speaks Spanish, but thankfully prefers English.
Also at church, there was a girl that just showed up. She had been to church at the BV ward a couple times, but her friend that she went with moved to Provo to go to school, and is now in Spain on a learning abroad trip. Plus, she hasn't been in years, but she decided to just come. It's quite awesome. Hopefully she will be able to get permission from her mother to learn from us.

There wasn't a whole lot more that really happened. Haha. It's too bad. But hopefully more will happen this week. Love yall!

Elder Shain C Wiederholt
888 Oakwood Rd Ste 310
Charleston, WV 25314

Things are going good. All of our investigators are currently Spanish speakers and so it makes things really interesting. Whenever we go over to teach them, we take with us a couple spanish speakers to translate for us since we obviously lack the spanish speaking ability. It's interesting because although we can teach, we're not able to create any sort of relationship with them, and then also theres all the little things that someone might say in a lesson that could clue us something as to what they need, but whenever our translators translate for us, they just summarize what they said, and we dont get the details. It makes it so that we have to go in  and teach 100% by the spirit, and it's tough. But totally worth it because we started to bear testimony and it totally filled the room with the spirit.

And one of them, Luz, totally felt it. The amazing thing is that her name means "light" which in a gospel context isn't light by which we see an object, but at the same time it is how we're able to "see" things in a gospel perspective. That's why when Brigham Young was talking about the "Man without Eloquence," he said that when a simple man that had no talent for public speaking could only say that he knew that the Book of Mormon was true and that Joseph Smith was a prophet, that mans testimony filled him with light. It's an incredible thing, and something I definitely something I want to study more about.


We had an awesome experience being in a parade on Saturday. I just can't get away from them. It was my 3rd on the mission, and we might be in the July 4th parade too! What we did was we got into a back of a pickup, and stuffed it with cold water bottles and ice-pops. Then all four of us would go grab a bunch of stuff and pass it out to people that were watching the parade. It was way cool, and was an awesome way to be charitable with no strings attached, which everyone seems to thing that it's meant to be. Just to assure myself that charity is meant to be no-strings-attached, I read 1 Corinthians 13 and Moroni 7, which together explain perfectly what it means to be charitable.

I love being a missionary. It's great. :D

Pictures:
Elder Confer and I before service
Myself with an ex companion of Fletcher's
Myself preparing to cook
Us with the Rockbridge Elders "doing service" at a childrens park called Boxerwood, and then getting a picture with a prop there. :D


Love Elder Wiederholt!
888 Oakwood rd ste 310
Charleston, WV 25314

Stone henge in Virginia??

This week has been awesome! We've found a couple people that we're really excited to start teaching. It's really amazing how Heavenly Father blesses us when we do something as simple as a fast, too! It's crazy, even just yesterday we fasted as a zone of 18 people, all for us to be able to find people that are really prepared. Well, that was only yesterday, and we ended our fast at dinner with some members and the zone leaders. We left dinner, stuffed of course, and went on our way to an appointment like 30 minutes away. We were a little late, and it fell through, so we made our way home to take our studies.

A house that's been standing out to us was along the way home, so we stopped there and knocked on the door. It was in the middle of no where, and we had no idea what we were gonna say or do. Well, we didnt have to do anything, she spoke first, introducing herself. It sounds like its not a big deal, but if you've been a missionary, you know how rare that is. She then started asking all these awesome questions, and told us that we were lucky to stop by right then, because she just got back from a week-long trip in DC. Oh yea, she was visiting the temple's visitors center. TOTALLY ELECT. 
It's just so crazy how if we put faith in a sacrifice that we make, even if its something small, like a couple meals, and hold through to the end, the blessings will come. And not just blessings like everyday, mundane things that we thank God for, but legitimate miracles. What are the chances that would've just happened. Also, we keep running into people that speak ONLY spanish. It's great, but we cant talk to them. They welcome us back and we teach them with a translator. I kind of wish that I took Spanish in High School now. Haha. Oh well.

Last pday we went to a little thing in our area called the Foam Henge. It's actually not little. It's a life-size replica of the Stone Henge and its also in the middle of no where, like most things out here. There's a famous artist that makes all these sculptures out of foam and makes them completely public. He usually does some awesome April's Fools day jokes. This year, there was a 40 foot russian submarine just hanging out in the Maury River right next to BV. Anyway, he's a way awesome guy, and his daughter, Sunny, is investigating the church right now. He might be next. Watch out Mark Cline! Haha, just kidding. I'll attach pictures!

Oh yea, a dragon fly landed on my leg and stayed there as I walked for 10 minutes. I got a picture of that too.

Well, those are the highlights of the last week. Sure do love ya!

~Elder Shain C Wiederholt

2754 Maple Ave C-9

Buena Vista, VA 24416

888 Oakwood Rd Ste 310

Charleston, WV 25314