Hey fam,
So since we talked yesterday I guess I will just send some pics for you guys. These are some of the families from my ward. The ones that we are wearing the jersey with. That is the lady that gives us lunch every thursday and washes our clothes too. And the others are ones we had lunch with. And i think there is one of one of the investigators that we are working with right now. Maybe not I am not sure what I attachet now. But ya here are some of the pics and I will get the others you want as we go. But it was great to talk to you all yesterday, I am doing great and hope you all have a good week! thanks again for everything!
Love,
Elder Wheeler
Hey fam,
So how are all of you? So I am a very excited and worried all at the same time. Because they told us this week that we can use skype. So I am trying to figure it all out. Maybe we can use both, but we will see. If it turns out that we can only use one it will be the phone call. But ya we will figure that out. So I attached some photos, of the family of the kids we baptized, then of our asado that we had because elder benitez is headed home as we speak. So that was really fun.
I am really blessed to have all the people I do around me. I know that everyone in my path has been put there for a reason and that it is all up to our Heavenly Father. So this week is transfers. I am getting another gringo dang it! No just kidding I am happy with whatever I need to do. Just want to have a latino companion. I hear that the kid I will be with is really cool and very funny. So we will see. Just before christmas we have been invited to the other wards bishop's house to spend christmas eve night or party or whatever there. Because here, they have a really late dinner and party and stuff on christmas eve. So we have permission to stay out until like midnight. And their bishop is going to pick us up and take us back in a car so we won´t be out in the streets at night. Which is very cool. He is like the coolest guy and I am really excited to be able to spend some time celebrating with them.
So I am going to try and film myself opening my present. I have been a good little boy like my mommy taught me and not opened the thing that is rolled up and says that I can´t open it until christmas. I have only gotten one package so far. And I think you said that you sent more so if you did then I will get them like two days after christmas because we have the mission christmas party on the 27th so we will be in mendoza and I can get them. But the one I did get made it all in tact wasn´t opened, and didn´t cost me anything. So that was good. I think the ones that cost are just because whoever sends it doesn´t pay for all of it on their end or something. Also I hear that the envelopes are better because they don´t usually open them, and they are free. So it might just be the boxes that you have to pay for. So the way you sent the one was perfect.
I talked to josh simmons today over email, and he informed me that he and cade and cory are doing a gift exchange for christmas. And that I was invited to join. We are all going to send each other something cool from our mission, so I thought that was a really cool idea. I am really thankful for the opportunity I have had to have such good friends. I am so blessed to be able to have them as friends.
So I was going to tell you because I know it will make you jealous haha. Just kidding but in the back yard of our house. There is tree full of peaches. And I go out and eat them every morning for breakfast. I have never been able to walk outside and pull some fruit off of the tree. It is so cool. It is the perfect season for all of the fruit. There are apricot trees all over in the streets, and tons of apricots all over the roads. I really like being able to see fruit, because when you live in utah it is pretty rare to see fruit on the trees. I just wanted to let you know that I am eating fruit from the back yard in december. Weird i know right?
Anyway, it has been a very quick twelve weeks. I already have five months in my mission. Notice I didn´t say in "the" mission. Because everyone says that and I am not a big fan. But anyway the time is just flying by, I will have six months next week and already be a fourth done. So that is crazy. But I am really excited for something different, because I am officially out of training. So yay I am not a newbie haha. But I love you all and hope that all is well at home. We will be talking very soon and I can´t wait. If we can skype it will be very good to see all of you. Sorry for the short notice i got the same. I hope we can work it out. But if not we will atleast be able to talk. So you have the number and rach has my contact info for skype. I am praying that it will all work out and that you all have a wonderful week. I hope you enjoy the pics and the letter. I am so blessed to have a wonderful family like you guys, I know that I wouldn´t be here without you guys. So thank you so much for all that you do for me. It is much appreciated.
Love,
Elder Wheeler
p.s. Em you said you have my present but I can´t have it til I get home. What is that bunk? haha just kidding. I would like to see a picture of it or something so I can know what it is. And on the food things, any candy from the states would be awesome. But if not don´t worry about it. Also there should be a surprise in the mail hopefully soon for ben. I hope you like it beejer! If not give it to the gee-bear. Just kidding you should like it. I wasn´t going to say anything and have it be a complete surprise, but I want you guys to be looking for it in the next few weeks. I don´t know how long it will take to get there, but hopefully it will be there soon. So keep your eyes out for a little package from me. It only has ben´s present because it is pretty pricey to send stuff. So if there is something you want let me know and I can send it, but when I don´t know if your going to like it, I don´t want to waste the time and money to send it. So please if there is something you want let me know.
Hey Everybody,
So it sounds like you got everything picked up after the big storm. And it sounds like all is well except for the trees in the front yard. Isn´t that a good thing, because now you can kill all of the little ones that go throughout the yard right? Anyway everything here is going good. Nothing new this week. And this computer wont let me send photos right now. So this week it doesn´t look like I will be able to send any. But next week for sure.
Is it just me or are the weeks just flying by. It doesn´t feel like it should be christmas in two weeks. Not at all. But that might be because it is still a hundred degrees outside, not sure. I am not used to it at all. It is definitley christmas in july. But the work goes on like always. The time flies faster and faster. I am only a week away from being the trainee and on to being something else. I can´t wait. I mean it isn´t that I don´t like my companion, we get along just fine, but we have nothing in common, so it is hard to come up with conversations to have. But I will be happy to have a different challenge in the next few weeks. So I still have not gotten any packages, and that might be because nobody has gone to the offices but I am not sure. So I don´t know if I will be getting them before christmas or not. I hope so, but ya never know. And if not it´s all good, I´ll get them soon.
So my bud Elder Benitez is headed home right before christmas. It is weird to see people going home when I am just getting here. But that´s ok, I am not worried about it. I still have a lot of time to be able to work, and I don´t want to waste any of the time that I have been given. So I don´t think about the end, just about what I need to be doing right now. It is really good to have the other elder´s and learn from their experience. Because they have good techniques that I can use, but at the same time they also have bad techniques haha. But that´s okay you just have to learn from everyones experiences right?
So I have some information for the phone call. .. This is the cell phone that we have and you guys are supposed to call me. This the full number that you guys should need. And I am not sure what time you should call because I don´t have my new companion and we have to coordinate times so I am giving you this now so that you can be ready. So I will give you an update when I know more, but this is the info. that I already have, so there you go.
I am trying to think of more things to tell you guys, but nothing really happened this week. It was elder benitez´s birthday on sunday so I bought some stuff to make pizzas saturday night and we had a little party for him on sunday night. I had stuff for three of them so it was good. I am enjoying my time here, and also working hard and trying to stay focused. But all is well and I hope that all is well at home. Sorry for the short letter, I don´t have any good stories this week, but I will for next week.
So I love you all and hope that everything is well with you all. If there is anything you need from me let me know. But I will talk to you all next week. Have a good week.
love,Elder Wheeler
Hey Everybody,
So it has been a good week. I mean everything comes with it´s challenges, but it all depends on how your outlook is to how it will work out. I am just trying to be happy and have a good outlook on everything so that it will be good.
A quick explanation of the pics. The first one I believe is of our pup. He sleeps outside the apartment or house whatever you want to call it. And whenever he sees us in the street he follows us around for a minute and then finds something else to do. But he doesn´t stay all day in front of the house he goes out and plays and then waits for a little pet from all of us and then goes back to sleep. His name is Aliberto. Well that is his name from us I don´t know if he had a different one. But that is his name now.
Then the other one is of the four of us eating pizza. There is a member in our ward that has a rotiseria. And so we order our food from them when we are hungry at night. It is really good. The other elder in the pic that you probably haven´t seen before is the other zone leader now. He is a really cool kid. His name is Elder Benitez. We have gone on splits a few times and we have a really good time together, and get a lot of things done. He knows some english so he throws some english words in while we are talking to people, and only the two of us know what he is saying. But ya it is a lot of fun.
He played professional soccer before the mission. So he made some good money haha. But he doesn´t act like it which is the best part. He wants to come play for RealSalt Lake after he finishes. So we´ll see haha. He is finished this transfer. He lives in Buenas Aires so he has an hour plain ride and he is home. How would it be to only have to travel one hour...Ya, I have no idea. But that is his story and it is so awesome how you can not know each other, and a week later you are best friends. It is a really cool thing.
Then the next pics drum roll please .............Yay! We had another baptism. This is the lady that I told the story about when we went through the rain to find her. She was just open to everything and was prepared to receive the gospel. And the other is of her and the relief society and the member that she lives with. The member is the one with the two little twins that are going through the "terrible twos" for sure. So that was a very nice way to end the week.
So what is all this talk about a huge storm? Did you say it was wednesday? Because we had one on saturday that was right before the baptism which was bad.. people down here are afraid of the weather. If it is a little cold they don´t want to leave especially when it is down pouring with a ton of wind. But right before the storm it was like ninety degrees so I was thankful, because we were in the church watching the font anyway. The weather was perfect for the baptism because it all cleared up and was good. I was thankful for the cool down because it has been boiling hot for a few weeks now.
All went well for the baptism. Well almost all went well. The ward mission leader is an 82 year old man, so as you can imagine he is a little hard of hearing and doesn´t understand how to read the program. So everytime he sat down he would ask us about what was next and it was not an inside voice he was using. More times than not it was during somebodies talk it was so hard to not laugh. And then his wife is in her seventies I think but she acts like a teenager. And it just so happens that her ringtone to her cell phone is homer simpson and how he needs a drink or something like that. Ya it went off during the old bishops talk. It was a classic baptism. Like one of those that everything goes wrong but then the lady loved it and told us how perfect it was, so I was thankful that she didn´t notice the things that I did.
Then we had some refreshments and after that we had to mop out the last couple inches of water in the font, the pump isn´t able to suck that out. We were there all day in the church. It was one of the longest days I have had, because I wasn't able to go out and work. I already realized that working hard makes the time go by fast, but that just made it more apparent that when you can´t work the time drags, and that is when it gets hard. But other than that it has all been really good.
Today we went to the church and played some soccer with all of the elders. It was really fun, but also very hot. It is nice to be able to just get out and run around and let some of the energy that you have been storing up all week. I mean your tired all week, but that is more mentally tired than anything. We had a good time there. I was on Elder Benitez´s team, and hey who isn´t going to win when you have a professional soccer player on your team haha.
Today we went and weighed ourselves. Elder Benitez and I. Because he needed something to eat and we walked by a pharmacy. There is a scale in every pharmacy. So ya um I have lost a little weight since being here. I feel like I eat ten times more though. The members make you eat like ten plates of food. It´s not like I don´t like it or anything like that, they just think that I can eat a ton because I am tall. Ya I don´t eat like other elders. Our family just doesn´t eat. I know I eat more than the girls but still not what they want me to eat. So I have been eating a ton, but I have lost more than twenty pounds so far to be exact. But everything is good. I am doing well. Not sick or anything just losing weight I guess.
I hope that everyone at home is doing well. It sounds like you were all safe from the storm that´s good. I love you all and let me know if you need anything from me.
Mom thanks for checking the bank, and no I have not seen any of the packages yet. They might have made it to the offices, but we are three hours away from the offices and they only get here if someone goes to the offices. So I will get them eventually but I don´t have any yet.
Anyway I love you all and hope you enjoy the letters and pictures. If anybody wants a letter or something let me know. Thanks for everything.
Love,Elder Wheeler
