One-eyed-monsters!

Hey fam,

How is everyone? I am doing awesome here still. I am enjoying it all and the time is just flying by. I am almost to six months is that not crazy. That will be a fourth of my mission done already. I can´t believe it. It is going by too fast. So do you want to hear how small this world is. Ya pretty small. So one of the elders from chile that lives with us, Elder Pizarro, was saying that he knew an elder that served where he lives, and he was saying that he had my same name. I was like I doubt that I am going to know him. But he pulled out his pictures and guess who it was. Not quite the same name. But there was a picture of Chase Weller. Ya that was weird. This world is way to small. Anyway just thought that was crazy and that you might enjoy that. 

So guess what I got one of the packages this week. It had two ben sherman ties in it that are awesome. I have already worn them both. And a real salt lake shirt that I am wearing right now. And some spices and candy too. It was great. Only the only thing is is that everything smelled and tasted like the spices. I tried to let everything air out for a few days, but it still smelled pretty strongly. So I washed my shirt and got just about all of the smell out of it. But the ties I can´t wash obviously, and there is still some smell lingering. So if you have any ideas on how to get the smell out of those that would be cool. Also I wouldn´t recommend chicken flavored skittles. That first taste is not great. After that they were good, but that first bite in, Whoo!! strong. Anyway thank you so much for the package it was awesome to get. I should be getting the other one soon I assume, the next trip someone takes to mendoza I should get it. 


So I also have a little bit of sad news. Not really sad more just that stinks kind of news. I got mud all over my pac12 shirt because we were playing football. So I put it into my thing to have washed. But when it came back, there are some white spots all over it. Because bleach or something got spilled on it. So my brand new shirt now looks quite old in fact. So I was just wondering if you know of any tricks to get rid of that. Like something I could use to die it back. I was thinking of a sharpie, but it is too dark and would be just as noticable as the white. But anyway I still love it and use it. Just has a bunch of white stains on it that I was wondering if anybody knew how to fix. Anyway that is the crappy news that I have.
 
So my companion and I get along really well, but there is one slight problem. He doesn´t like to work. I am beginning to realize how real setting apart´s are. Because everything that I have written down from my setting apart has happened or is happening. But ya he likes to sleep in which is something that everyone would like to do. But no we don´t because there is a reason we are here on this mission. And it has nothing to do with us. So I have a hard time with people not wanting to do stuff. Because it makes it harder for me to do stuff. And then when it comes time to plan for the day, somehow he always dissappears. Ya so that kind of stinks. But luckily I know the area really well, and can plan the stuff because I have been here for a while. I know that we go through things for a reason. But in the moment it is hard to see the reason. So I am just trying to lead by example and do everything that I can. Because I am not going to sit around and do nothing. I couldn´t have something like that on my mind. I know that this is a mission for my Heavenly Father and Savior and I am trying to treat it that way. So it makes it hard for me when others don´t feel like it is that important to work hard. 

Anyway don´t worry I am not getting discouraged, I am just going to keep going to work hard. And if he wants to follow cool, if not I will just have to drag him along until he does. Patience? is one of those things that you have to learn very quickly on your mission. It is for sure one of those christ like attributes, that everyone needs!

Anyway all is well here. We had an asado today for fun. Because it is p-day and ya when you marinade the meat in pop. Mainly sprite is what I have been using, I would use mtn. Dew if I had it but not here. Anyway it makes it taste so good, and everyone else loves it too. 

Oh ya dad, your gonna love this one. I got up one day this week and was really hungry. So I looked at what I had to eat. And there was bread and eggs. You know what that means, One-eyed-monsters! Haha. They were pretty dang good. I made some for the others as well and they all loved them too. It´s a great meal to know how to cook.haha. I also made some french toast this week. But there is no such thing as maple syrup, so I just made the batter really sweet and you didn´t really need much else. They were pretty good.


Mom speaking of cooking, I don´t know what to use those spices you sent me for. I have never used them before in my meals so I don´t know what I can use them for. SO I need some recipes. Oh ya another story. The lady that stained my shirt haha, no she´s good she didn´t mean to. But anyway we made some sweet beef tacos. Because pork here is somewhat expensive, so we used my recipe from what I could remember of it and made tacos with it. I had to shred three huge roasts of it haha. It took forever. Luckily she cooked it all. We just had to prepare some of it a little when we got there. Also the tortillas that my comp makes were very simple. Just flour water and butter. With a ton of salt. Nothing special. But it was pretty easy to do that. Anyway they loved the tacos. So that was fun. We now have to come up with ideas for her to make haha. Anyway that´s all I have for this week. No pictures this week. Nothing new on my camera to send ya. But thanks for everything. I loved that package. It is nice to know that christmas is spread out. Then I have something to look forward still. I love you all. I will talk to ya next week.


love,
Elder Wheeler