Hey family so this week has been soo good!! We have had such a great week! These last few weeks our missionaries in our zone have worked so hard! I am really proud of them and the hard work they do! They make me good enfront of the leaders of our mission! Well this week we recieved a new reference form a member and this girl wants to be baptized! We taught the first lesson and now she has been to church for a few weeks so we gave her a date to be baptized and she she was really excited and will be baptized on the 29th of this month! I really hope that i wil be here for that!
I love this place so much! We have La Familia Espinal who accepted a date to be baptized but we have to wait for them to be married but they have a date for September! But that's all the time que tengo para escribir!

Elder Westenskow!

Hey familia!! I am soo glad to be able to talk to you guys today! I feel soo blessed to be here on the mission! So this week has been really awsome and we have had a bunch of success! I am really glad that you guys were able to go the Home coming of Elder Curtis! He was a really good friend of mine! So today i had to go to Santo Domingo to get my visa renewed because Saturday they will start to deport peopel who dont have documentos! Mom so today i was able to see Elder Henriod!! He is really big now! I felt soo small compared to him! Mom i love you soo much! We got to go through the temple today and it was amazing! I have never felt the spirit soo strongly in my entire life! I really felt peace and comfort and was able to take 30 minutes to pray and ask for for guidance! I really feel like as a Leader i have been able to grow and become what god would have me become! I love feeling guided by the spirit! I love My savior and but family i dont have more time to write soo i will talk to you guys next week!!

Les Quiero mucho!!

Elder Westenskow! 

Hey family! This week has been really good! We have worked soo hard these last few days to find new people to teach! Yesterday a member of the church left with us and gave 4 new families to teach and it was amazing! W e had such a successful day! I am really seeing a difference in the work and im glad to be part of it. We have a totally different spirit here in this last week! We are really excited for this new family, La familia Martinez! They are soo amazign! They have such a great spirit!  They really have such a testimony of our savior! We finally were able to contact the Familia Espinal and they were soo happy to see us! We talked about the Restauración  and it went perfectly! The spirit was soo strong in that lesson! They aceppted the invitación a to read and to pray and to be baptized in the church! I love how much faith these people have in our savior Jesus Christ! As they listened to the First Visión the Father feeling the spirit had tears in his eyes and looked aat his wife and said wow!! I am soo grateful this gosple! I love my Savior Jesus Christ! I am soo grateful for Joesph Smith and for the sacrificios that he made for this Evangelio! I know that he is the Profeta de la restauración del Evangelio de Jesucristo! Yo se que Jesucristo vive! Yo se que esta es la Obra de Dios! Well family this week not much more has happened! I know my letter is a little short this week but thats ok! I love you guys soo much!! I miss you guys soo much!! I pray that this week everthing goes well! I hope that all of you are active and are trying each and every day to read and pray and to strengthen your testimonio en Jesucristo!

Les Quiero mucho 

Elder Westenskow!

Hey family! So this week has been soo amazing! We have had a lot of opportunites to find some new people to teach! Today has been kind of rough because ya my comp went home to Mexico! He was a really great friend and really taught me a lot! My companion he is from Puerto Rico and he is pretty cool! His name is Elder Rodriguez! He has a great testimonio and hs such a great desire to work and be obedient! So from today I have 10 weeks left in my mission! I really dont want the time to go fast but it just seems to be flying by! I love these people so much! We are having soo much success and its becoming really exciting to see what will happen! The new presidente is really animated and has such a great desire to serve his Savior! I feel so great!  I feel healthy and strong and really to make these my best 10 weeks of my mission! I was excited to hear that Alex is home! The time seems to be flying by! I think im the next one in the ward to come home? I love this work! I love my Savior! I know that through me and my testimonio i can bless other peoples loves and also to help them get closer to the Savior! Sorry for such a Short letter!

Elder Westenskow!

Hey family this week has been really good! We have been really working hard! We have a few new investigadores that we are excited about! There is a new family and they are soo cool! I feel so grateful for these members that we have because they really try to give us references! Well today is transfers so 4 missionaries left my zone but the missionaries that are coming in are really good missionaries! So this family that we are teaching is real really cool! They told us that they wanted to go to church and so we will have to see. Is week we gave service to a member of the church and we were building him a house but we haven't finished yet! We did the foundations and that wasn't too bad! I only got a few blisters! They have been making fun of me because they say I don't know how to build a house but I'm just not accustomed of small shovels! I'm getting pretty tired! The best thing I can do right now is not think of it! I love this work! I love my savior! I love these people! I want to bless them in any way that I can! They are soo amazing! I really hope that the Lord gives me that opportunity to finish my mission here in Tierra Alta! Just three more transfers left! Me and my comp will have another transfer to work and then he will finish his mission! Well family this is my letter this week hope that you guys are OK!! Love you guys so so much!!

Elder Westenskow!!!!

ey family! This week has been good! We have found a few more familias so the work is really progressing! One of the Familias we are really for is the Familia Sanchez! They are soo special! They are going to church this week and they are reading the book of Mormon! We had a great lesson with them yesterday! We shared 3 Nefi 11 and it went great! We felt such a strong spirit in that lesson! We asked them if they would be baptized when they recieve an Answer and they said YES!! I really do love my area and my comp! I cant believe that he has to go! It will be hard! I am so grateful for the love of the Savior in my life! I love the spirit that i feel each and everyday! This has not been the easiest time of my life but surlely the most important! The spirit is our Comforter! Manuel , Familia Guzman, Familia Minaya, Familia Espinal are doing so well as well! I love them soo very much! They are such loving people here! The spirit just floods out of them when they talk and when they share with us their testimonios with us about Our Lord And Savior Jesus Christ! We celebrated the fourth in wendys it was really good! Monday we had a great day because we contacted this new guy named Claudio and he is really interesting! His daughter that lives in the United States is a member of the church! He has a lot of interest to learn the Gosple!

Thanks Family for your letters! 

Love Elder Westenskow! 

hey family! So this week has been soo good! It has been a long week because the mission presidente changed and now we have a new one! Our families are really progressing! My companion now only has 2 weeks left and he is very nervous to go home but excited at the same time! Yesterday we went  to Puerto Plata to go say bye to some of his people down there and it was very hard for him! I think it will be the same for me! So anyway this week we have had a lot of success with finding new people to teach! Manuel is really starting to gain a testimonio of the Gosple! The Familia Espinal and the Familia Guzman are really excited to learn more and to go to church! We have seen such a difference in our work and in the members! They are starting to leave and preach with us and now are giving us references! This work is so true! Tjhis saturday me and other american missionaries will be going to Wendys to celebrate the 4th of July! We have taught a lot lately about The Familia and it has really brought a great spirit to our Area! The family is soo important and the Lord ahora is really trying to strengthen the Familias! We are seeing a lot of families in this day falling apart and having a lot of dificultades! The Gosple doesnt take away the tests and trails, but it helps us overcome them! We need to be patient and everything will come out good! Well family i love you guys soo much and hope that you guys are ok! I will send a few pictures to you guys today!

Love 

Elder Westenskow!