Diana E-mail August 27, 2013

HELLO FAMILY!!!!!

well this week has been great sorry i didnt email yesterday we went to the temple today so they made it our p-day sounds like everyone is doing great! and i am so glad you got my pictures i was so worried about it i am glad you liked them!!

The temple was so amazing I needed to go so bad, the only thing was that it made me miss my temple. the Seattle temple is amazing and its so pretty. i think there is about 4 floors maybe a little more (its a really big temple) and the Moroni is huge!!!

  Well nothing really too exciting went down this week. we are working really hard to get investigators and people to teach  but everyone here is pretty well off. they all work for Microsoft and are really smart so they are rollin' in the dough and dont think they need religion in there lives. but they are all super nice about it. the houses are so beautiful and big!! 

 we do have this lady who we are just in love with her name is Allison and she knows that God loves her but she is just not interested in organized religion but she likes having us over and she feed us dinner not this passed Sunday but the last one I hope someday she will be ready to be baptized.   

 

 well i love you all and i hope you are all happy and doing great. know that i know this church is true I know that my Heavenly Father knows me and loves me deeply. the book of Mormon is true, we ran in to this man who told us to read the bible and pray to find truth instead of listening to what people tell me. well i have read the Book of Mormon and it is truly the words of God. I have made a promise to God that I will defend this gospel and i am everyday we meet people who think we are the "church of the devil" but i know that there is only two churches the Church of the Lamb of God and the church of the devil and through the power of the Holy Ghost i have come to know for myself this is the church of God again i love you all and i love your letters keep on keepin on!!

love sister whetter

Jesse made it to Argentina

Momma! im so sorry i wasnt able to talk to you again yesterday!  The plane ride was really long i tried to sleep on it but there were movies on and the lights were terrible. but the good side of things was that i had a window seat right behind the wing and i got some amazing pictures of the sunrise in argentina, and the weather is cool so that felt amazing stepping off the plane into 35 degrees! when we got on a double decker bus at the airport we had to drop off the other missionaries at another airport. so we got a full tourist vision of buenos aires so that was lucky! i have so many pictures i have to show you next Monday! and the people here are so much more different than 5 ft nothing juanitos running around everywhere! they look like normal americans but just talk spanish :) just thought i would let you know that im doing great and that the area is amazing and really beautiful! I Love you all and cant wait to tell you about my first week on Monday! because mondays are my P-days! bye ill keep you in my prayers!

Love,

Elder Whetten

Pictures of Diana in Washington - her first area - Woodinville, Washington

 Diana's first apartment - she lives in the apartment about the garage.

Diana and her companion

Pictures from Sister Diana Whetten from the MTC

More MTC pictures from Jesse

Elder Whetten - August 21, 2013

Mom i dont know when you will see this but ive got some big news! im not getting rassigned!! this week i got my travel plans and im going straight to argentina! i leave monday at 7:30 in the morning so if you were sending me something i probably wouldnt send it:P just thought i would tell you that real quick because my distict is heading to the residence. i will get back on soon today and see what you have to say about this news:) i love you mom. and i know theres a reason why i get to go straight there:) ill talk to you soon:)

love,

Elder Whetten!!

Diana E-mail August 19, 2013

Well Good morning family!!! 

 This week was pretty fun. Sister Payne and I spoke in church yesterday. It was so fun i loved it. the ward is starting to trust us and i  love it. the people here are so amazing!!! Everyone is so kind. I wanted to go on the zip line today but sister Payne said no. lol but its probably better that i stay off of it for now lol.

On Thursday  we had a Zone conference and it was so amazing. Pres. Choi and Sister Choi talked about a lot I made a video and so i will send that sometime. 

so i have been out on my mission for a month how crazy it feels like just yesterday i was saying good bye to you guys. Where did all that time go?

 so yesterday Sister Payne and i decided that we wanted to go to this lady's house who we gave a message to a few days ago but she really was not interested. but we wanted to see how she was doing so we drove up to her house and she and her husband were outside and they invited us to sit with them and talk and they both love God and have such a strong testimony of His love for them. it was so amazing to talk to them. So we were talking and they invited us to stay for dinner. and i was starving so we stayed and we had such a great time we talked about what happens after like and the three degrees of glory and judgment it was so cool. as we were leaving the lady Allison said that she thought we weren't going to come back because she said she didn't want to come to our church.

it just showed me that there is more ways than one to share the Gospel. every church out there has some truth to what they believe and  they are not wrong they just need more. so serve people that will build trust and show people we don't just want them to be baptized we want them to feel loved  and welcomed, no matter what they believe and when THEY are ready they will ask you questions about the church  just prepare and be ready for there questions.

 I love this Gospel so much I know its true! Heavenly Father is prepare people for all of us to teach not just people in Washington, and not just people in Argentina He is preparing people in the little town of Safford Arizona, so be ready and they will come. I love you all so much and a day doesn't go by that I am not missing you, but all is well. so keep smiling!!!!

With all the love in Washington, 

Sister Diana Marie Whetten