So how is everybody? The weeks always seem to fly, but it also seems to be getting harder and harder as time goes on. I don´t know what it is with this kid, because I really haven´t had a hard time getting along with many people in my life. I am guessing it is just one of those things that I need to figure out. But I have the other elders that live with us that are really good friends and so it gets better when they are there. We just don´t have anything in common and I still don´t understand what he is trying to do..because he never tells me, so I just go with it. Eh,it can only get better from here I am thinking.
I have a very cool story that happened to us yesterday though. First of all maybe you can see from the last two pics that I am soaking wet. Ya it poured saturday night and all of sunday. And we were just soaked when we got back, because saturday night we had to walk back from the stake center and it is about a half hour walk give or take a little. And when we left there was not a cloud in the sky so I didn´t have a jacket or anything with me. So ya all of our stuff was soaked. And those pictures are of right when we got back. The other is a party thing that we had a member´s house in our ward that invited all of the other missionaries over for lunch on one of our pdays. They are an awesome family. But ya I figured I would just give you a little snipet of what is going on with those.
Anyway back to the story. So after the siesta we didn´t want to have to go really far away in our area because it was pouring rain. So we planned to visit stuff close to the apartment, so we could be back in time. Or in case it got really bad. Ya I don´t think other people understand the meaning of storm. The missionaries or the people in general. It was a little windy and just a lot of rain. I was thinking that they would die if they had to live through one of our snow drift storms.. haha but anyway the roads were lakes and we had to try and figure out how to cross them without getting too wet or having cars fly by and drench us. I used my jackets and my top was perfectly dry. My pants and shoes however were soaked but hey that´s life. We weren´t having any luck and there was a member that had referred us to a lady that we thought we should go visit, but do to the storm didn´t know if we should because it is on one of the opposite edges of our area. Because we didn´t have any luck elsewhere we both felt that we should go and see her.
So, we started to make the long and dreary walk haha. It was a little more than twenty minutes. I am telling you time because I have no idea how to gauge distance here and we walk pretty fast so if that can help you with distance I don´t know. Anyway we were a block or more away from the lady´s house and she was about to walk in to her yard and spotted us she knew it was the missionaries because no one else was out, and I mean no one! She decided to wait for us at the gate and asked where we were headed when we said to your house she just got so excited. Her friend that lives with her really wanted to hear more about the church. So we went in and her friend was so happy. She is an older lady and very nice... she just loves the church already. We started talking and she basically asked when can I get baptized before we had taught anything.
We set a date with her to be baptized and she said if you help me I would love to. Yeah, we were feeling pretty blessed at this point. Well I can´t speak for him, but I was thanking heavenly father the whole time we were in that lesson because everything we said she just loved. And she loves to read and so we gave her the book of mormon. She was just so happy and prayed in the first lesson which doesn´t usually happen. We just answered all of her questions and she was so happy to hear all of it.
When I didn´t think it could get any better the member had another friend there that was smoking and was telling us that she was a sinner but joking. She was a very nice lady and was in the other room for the lesson, but before she left she came out and had some questions for us. Apparently she investigated and was taught by the missionaries about two years ago she is also one of the people we have tried to contact before but couldn´t ever find. We figured out who she was when she told us where she lived. When we said her name and asked if that was her she just started crying. And was just so amazed that the other missionaries had written her name down and that we had found it and tried to find her.
So we taught her a brief little lesson and she asked if we would say a pray with her. So I got to say it. And I don´t know if anyone else has had an experience like this before, but it was a prayer that I was not saying. I was just saying the things that the spirit put into my head. None of it was me and I just felt so strong. It was so cool. Because you always know that the spirit is there, but it was just one of those times that it was so strong. It was just cool. And apart from quitting smoking she has already been taught and wants to be baptized as well. So yeah..we had two very good investigators given to us from heavenly father and in all reality if we wouldn´t have followed that prompting to walk in the rain all the way out there we wouldn´t have found the lady we have been looking for. It was just a really cool night and an awesome experience to see that the Lord´s hand is always in this work. Learned that if you try to do what you think, you aren´t going to get anything done.
That is my spiritual story for the week. The other days haven´t been too exciting, but that´s okay because that hour that we spent at that house made it all worth it. On saturday we walked over an hour to a part of our area that we don´t get to go to too much and none of the appointments we had set were there. So we had had some dissappointments and it was just good to be reminded of what can happen when you let the Lord help you with the work.
New rule; now we can´t wear rings or pins or anything like that. Because the silver just attracts the robbers and it isn´t safe. So I had to stop wearing my ctr ring. The lady that washes our clothes every week has been asking how to get a ctr since I got here. Because she has been a member for thirty plus years and has only had the brass ones that turn your finger green. I was already planning on giving it to her because I knew she wanted it but didn´t know when I was going to. But now that we can´t use them any longer, It just worked out.
So when we had lunch with them (the husband that is a nonmember that we have been working with). It was an Asado. Which is a bbq, but sooooo goooood. haha. I hope you can guess who I am copying there. Anyway I figured I would just give it to her for everything she does. But no she loved it of course, and as soon as I gave it to her she asked me what my shirt size was.. I guess she was already plotting to give me something for it. I didn´t want anything in return for it. I just wanted to give it to her for everything she does for us. So I haven´t gotten it yet but sometime soon I will be getting an argentina jersey is what she says. I hope she forgets and doesn´t do it. But I don´t think she will.
Anyway it is just so cool to see how selfless all of the members here are. They give us lunch everyday. I know they have other things that they could be spending that money on that they need more, but they feel privileged to give us lunch. I wish everyone were like that. We wouldn´t have any problems if everyone could just look out for others. It is just so humbiling to see how much everyone does for the missionaries even thought they don´t have much to give. Of course I am very grateful but I just feel like they do too much. I know they will be blessed and I pray everyday that they are. It is just very good to see how the gospel changes people´s lives and how much they do for us.
But time is running out...
I hope all is well and that everyone has a great week. Pray that I can have patience with this kid please. Because that is what I am trying to do.
I love you all.
Love,
Elder Wheeler
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