Hey everyone!

How are you all doing?? I hope that your month of May is finishing up well and that you are all getting ready for Summer! Here is is Winter, and being at an elevation of over 9300 feet, it is COLD! There's not even snow! ;) Even with all that, I am loving my time here in Tupiza :) This week was a special one as we had our Zone Conference in Potosí and the Branch had a baptism, so I would like to focus more on those things than anything else. First off, the Baptism. A woman named Rosa had the wonderful opportunity to be baptized this last week. Almost all of the Elders here in Tupiza have had the opportunity to visit her and help her in this process, so it was SO cool to see her get baptized and confirmed this past weekend, and she did it in style. She didn't want to get baptized in the font that our church building has. She wanted to be baptized the way Christ was baptized, so we went to the nearby river for an unforgettable experience. I will definitely send pictures in a sec, but just know that it was amazing to see Rosa and Elder Perry enter the river for her baptism. I'm so happy for her and wish her the best as she begins her new life :) For our zone conference, it took up our whole Thursday with travelling and the 5 hour long conference. We woke up at 5:30 to get ready a little early, and then our bus came WAY late, making us not leave until 9 AM. We got to Potosí around 2 PM and had a couple hours to visit members (being Elder Vergara's last area) before the Conference at 4 PM. I don't have time to go into the details of everything, but it will suffice to say that it was amazing and well worth the travel. We were able to receive great counsels from our President, his wife, and his assistants, as well as several great messages, so I just loved it :) After we finished the conference around 9 PM, we had to hurry back to the bus terminal for our 10 PM bus. We got home at 4 AM Friday morning, 22 and a half hours after waking up the day before. Though exhausting, it was well, well worth it, and want to focus a small thought around this :) Well, I just want you all to think about how much of a blessing it is to have leaders in our lives. We believe that we literally have a prophet of God on the Earth today. What a blessing that is! Now, think of how amazing it is that we have access to all his words, and the words of the apostles, inside of our pockets with our cellphones. What a blessing that is too! Now, as a followup question, how many of you take advantage of this wonderful opportunity?? No. I'm not trying to make you feel like a terrible human being, but seriously, think about this. We have amazing, inspired men to lead and guide us in this world. Their advice and counsel really and truly will make our lives better if we make the effort to search it out. As for me, with my cell phone being a Nokia that looks to have come out of the Space Age, I have to travel 5 hours in a bus to hear my leader's counsel, and it is so worth it. Now, as my final question, what would you be willing to do to hear the words of God's Prophet? Think about this in all honesty and then thank God for the blessing of technology. Now, use it! I promise that if you all will make the words of the Prophets a daily part of your lives that you will find the answers that you are searching for in your lives. That is a promise. Don't believe me?? Then try it! ;) Well, I love all of you guys and thank you for all the support that you give me. You are all amazing and I hope that you have an amazing week! Next week I will have transfer news, and though I don't expect to be going anywhere, we'll have to see! Love you all and I'll talk with you next week!

Elder Wynn

El Cerro del Elefante. This is the mountain that has the cross on it.

The Baptism by the River

Elder Perry and Rosa in the water

I love you so, so much!

Love,

Elder Wynn